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Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

UK government met 137 businesses over AI datacentres – but no environmental groups

OH HAI LABOUR ARE YOU WATCHING?

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

We can rewild, we can plant trees, we can protect areas But fundamentally, to help nature to recover we need to free up more land And the easiest & most effective single approach is to reduce meat eating Saving vast areas of land from being use to grow livestock feed

Flashback to just 15 months ago... Andy Burnham endorsing the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty www.carbonbrief.org/28-quotes-fr...

The Govt claiming we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

Government support for drilling at #Jackdaw takes a wrecking ball to any pretence of UK climate leadership & pours fuel on an overheating world - and for what? It’s equivalent to just 2 months of UK gas demand, creates just 27 direct jobs & has *no* impact on energy bills🧵1/4

The IPCC is pretty clear that if we want a safe climate there can be no new oil and gas. But every country thinks it has some special reason for why it should be the exception

When Healey was appointed as Chancellor a veteran campaigner got in touch to say how they’d lobbied him as a Minister in the Blair/Brown governments and found him to be remarkably dismissive/borderline hostile to environmental arguments. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh.

Seriously. Stop enabling Musk for absolute fucks sake

Guardian last month: "Scrap windfall tax on oil and gas firms early, North Sea industry urges" FT this week: "How will Big Oil spend its $32bn Iran war windfall?"

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

OpenAI projected to bring in $20bn less in revenue than expected

My thoughts on tomorrow's conference motion 'Zionism is Racism’

Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵

Good to see Foreign Secretary presenting the findings of the suppressed Joint Intelligence Report on ecosystem collapse to other governments. But when is it going to be shared with the rest of us? We can’t prepare for what we don’t know - it should be published in full

Why is it that the *opinion* of a billionaire tax dodger who hates his country of birth is deemed worthy of a full-length feature on the website of the public broadcaster?

As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.

A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inaction

Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne has now matched Ben Delo's record-breaking £36m donation to Reform, months after Nigel Farage's party promised to slash crypto sales taxes in half Reform UK is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the crypto industry www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-uk-...

I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.

You might have to turn up for the results of this one, Nige.

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

This is of course not enough and it comes much too late, but it is still a significant step in the right direction. He's not at all perfect, but imagine how much better the UK's situation might be if the nation hadn't lost its mind over how this man ate a bacon sandwich one time.

Camp Miasma was amazing! Not at all what I expected but completely brilliant.

In the UK, blackshirts can get away with almost anything while elderly nuns get arrested for opposing the Gaza genocide

"No arrests made" One rule for fascists, another for the rest If this had been a peaceful climate or Palestinian protest, they would have been dragged off to jail in no time Disgusting double standards www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

As per @financialtimes.com, Eldridge Capital Management Services (UK), majority shareholder: Chelsea FC chairman Todd Boehly, made a £75,000 donation to Reform UK in May of this year. Boehly has also donated at least $2 million to Donald Trump and MAGA Inc.

Why is environmental protest necessary? Because Government won’t listen to the science Exploitation of the Jackdaw gasfield by overseas businesses will provide a handful of jobs & will not help energy security But it will push us further into climate catastrophe www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year

RIP to all the managers who will now starve to death, sobbing 'what do I want to eat?' at an uncaring phone

THE most impactful thing you can do as an individual, right now, to help stop the mass nature die-off humanity is driving? Reduce or stop consumption of beef and other animal-based foods.

"Keir Starmer Is Why Everyone Hates Politicians" The former PM misled his way to the top and now he’s walking away from politics altogether. His decision to quit Parliament so quickly is a reminder he was only ever interested in power. From Zeteo UK:

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

Wild beaver kits born in Norfolk for first time in more than 500 years

EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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