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Very nice work @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social / @ghostpanther.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJyQ...

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.

«Neither ‹The Times› nor any of the other publications which amplified its inaccurate reporting have corrected their false claims, or acknowledged that, out of a total of four formal investigations into Arday, not one has substantiated the charges of plagiarism against him.»

Actual Cancel Culture of a significant cultural figure [unlike where far right extremists engage in hate speech & are held accountable]. It’s extremism like this, & the disinterest of the current UK Labour govt in stopping the shift to the far right, that’s deeply worrying.

Transition Templates AI & Digital at #RSD15. ecolabsblog.com/2026/10/08/t...

The 1990s adoption of neoliberalism by the centre left really ought to be seen for what it is: the successful capture of liberal politics by what is straightforwardly a eugenicist, far-right ideology. It's just that almost no one did the reading.

Could it be that one thing these times are showing us is that the way to a flourishing future refuses to come through slight course corrections of systems that are founded on extraction, othering, and domination?

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

All of what @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com said. Plus the devastating ecological impact of all this pointless computing power. I hate it I hate it I hate AI too

[professor Farnsworth from Futurama voice] Good news, everyone!

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Great job everyone

Let's do a roundup of all the letters from different professional sectors objecting to the supreme court ruling & the EHRC's bathroom ban, and promising to defend trans people in their spaces! For anyone feeling alone in this, look at how many people will stand with us:

"Liberal parties have failed and we need a real democratic socialist alternative that can advance the interests of working-class communities, environmentalists and other progressive forces with a shared vision for a better world." nowthenmagazine.com/articles/jas...

Nothing is over, that is the only certainty. The other certainty is that everything ends, even this. —Joshua Clover Goodbye, friend. You made me want to do better

This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.

Two extremely powerful executive branch officials—Vice President Vance and uhh idk Grand Vizier Musk—demanded that a reporter be fired over story about a member of Musk’s staff that no one disputes is entirely true. The guy resigned over it, it’s so true.

Digital futures of education are often defined by the edtech investment industry in terms of market value forecasts made with predictive technologies Our new paper on edtech venture capital just out for a forthcoming special issue on assets and rents in education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Everyone needs to know that these fires were made possible by global heating, which is caused by the fossil fuel industry, which has lied and blocked action for half a century. And that this will all get much, much, much worse until we end the fossil fuel industry

I had a great time collaborating with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social on this video looking at advertisers returning to Twitter/X to gain the favor of Musk because of his close ties to Trump.

You can't clean the lake whilst it's still being polluted. Similarly, individual behaviours aren't going to solve climate change whilst fossil fuel companies are allowed to pollute our planet. There are good ideas here but remember who is primarily responsible www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

one of my favorite stories I did at Vox was about Jimmy Carter and his role in energy efficiency standards at the DOE. Truly underappreciated legacy that tangibly improved everyday life www.vox.com/climate/2023...

This would be a much stronger article if it did not contaminate Jimmy Carter’s legacy with an unnecessarily positive and frankly dishonest appraisal of Biden And Obama ‘s environmental legacy.

This will happen due to GHG emissions associated with AI if we let it.

There are some brilliant people in this team!

My New Year’s Resolution. What’s yours?

‘Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods. It is a spectacle of slaughter. All unfolding in plain sight, livestreamed and posted by Palestinian citizens and journalists, witnessed by outsiders, and described by Israelis themselves.’

If we were *really* serious about tackling nature collapse in Ireland (a very big if, I know), what would we be doing? A thread...🧵

Especially as the FBI goes full fascist, we should all familiarize ourselves with the living legacy of COINTELPRO and understand that: 1. The program never ended, 2. Digital surveillance is way more advanced today www.thenation.com/article/acti...

This is becoming the mainstream, consensus position in the global humanitarian / human rights community. It should be recognised and treated as such. Not just in the general discourse, but by policymakers above all. They have a specific obligation to prevent genocide. Active facilitation is criminal

"The PM’s allies on the right are ideologically opposed to any economic agenda that could see off the threat from Reform" Excellent piece by @owenjones.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Really time to wake up that the idealised version of liberal democracy as innately opposed to the far right does not match the reality Without liberal democracy's enabling of the far right to protect certain interests, we would not be where we are This is not a bug in a well oiled machine

Hard to read Alice Munro again after reading how she chose her paedophile partner over her daughter - and sublimated that silence, secret and shame into her stories #literature #AliceMunro *gift article www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/m...

So, are we going to talk about 2024 being the year of whistleblower assassination or nah apple.news/Adi-Cxm90QK6...

This is nasty and @marcwatkins.bsky.social was so spot on: “When you reduce education to a transactional relationship and start treating learning as a commodity, you risk turning education into a customer-service problem for AI to solve instead of a public good for society.”

Nine design principles for 'common good housing missions': Retrofitting first Moving second Adapting third Circular biomaterials Definancialised markets Legible systems Convivial infrastructures Open buildings Systemic governance From Modern Housing, by me and Mazzucato medium.com/dark-matter-...