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Looks like the ‘AI productivity gains will help create growth and jobs to offset the jobs it destroys’ hypothesis is going to be tested pretty quickly.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

🔴 NEW Mod-Backed Drone Maker Bought by US Group Is Now Developing Attack Drones for Israel By @nafeez.bsky.social Read below. ↓

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Private equity buys UK fertility clinics. PE already controls social care, hospitals, GP surgeries, dentistry, child fostering. Usual business model. High debt, quality of care declines, prices increase, high profits. When things go wrong, NHS has to step in, PE doesn't pay.

NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

Brazil and Serbia, defying rise the tide of autocracy. This is how we do it, everywhere. 🌈

Politicians should look at the UK economy as a CEO would, says Lloyds Bank CEO From a bank that hasn't investigated HBOS frauds. No thank you. Companies enrich shareholders. Countries have entirely different purpose, governance, accountability. Must not be treated as corporations. archive.ph/lj45s

@theguardian.com seems to fallen apart in the last few years - Burnham actually does something positive in my home city of Manchester. So why do they always look for holes in success? UAE may not be perfect - but get your own country clean bf charging others 👎 www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

This week, scientific publisher Taylor & Francis concluded an investigation which cleared Jason Arday, the former Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, of plagiarism. The Guardian hasn't commented.

NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: Even on 100% gas power, heat pumps cut emissions by ~48% and EVs by about half. The authors of an “electrification doesn’t cut emissions” paper made a series of compounding mistakes and used misleading assumptions. Here's why. janrosenow.substack.com/p/heat-pumps...

This new electoral vídeo from Pedro Sánchez is quite something. Standing in front of Guernica defending the anti-war stance of his government, limiting military expenditure, denouncing the atrocity of Gaza. English subtitles.

Here's how private equity killed your local mall.

Beware of finance industry lobbying. It hired PwC (the firm that delivers dud audits) to produce a report, claiming that UK banks face highest rates of tax. The report included taxes not borne by banks. Omitted countries that levy higher rates of taxes. Integrity never gets in the way of profits.

Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feeder. He wants to prosecute anyone who saves lives of people that he doesn't like. Desperate Farage diverts attention from investigations by pledging laws that can't work. archive.ph/5UYnG/

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

When a worker wears an Amazon vest, drives an Amazon van and delivers on an Amazon-controlled route, but Amazon denies they work for the company — that's exploitation.

18 days - UK gas storage capacity, measured against average annual demand 106 days - EU average storage capacity, measured the same way Lack of storage means more exposure to price volatility. Why didn't the UK plan better?

#FOTW Daily Post 20 As well as the atmosphere and oceans, a changing climate can wake the solid Earth When ice melted after the last ice age, the pressure release triggered quakes and eruptions. The ground responds to what we do to the sky Pls share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld

Depressing to hear the BBC propagating the non-story started by the Tories about the possibility of power cuts because of renewables A classic fossil fuel lie being given credibility by our public service broadcaster #BBCR4Today

Still ageing like milk

The government didn’t just approve Jackdaw, they also reiterated their support for so-called tiebacks - a dodge to allow yet more new drilling without new licenses. This deserves almost as much scrutiny as Jackdaw and has got barely any of it, so I raised it in the Chamber.

Meeting on Financialization of Society in the Houses of Parliament. Private equity has hollowed out the UK town centres. PE now controls infrastructure, social care, hospitals, dentistry, housing, vets and more. What next? A Panel of experts will explain. Get your free ticket here.

#FOTW Daily Post 19 1.5°C equates to key tipping points such as the loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet that, once crossed, won't reverse on any human timescale. 1.5°C isn't a slogan. It's a set of one-way doors to a different world And it's now shut behind us Pls share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld

Manchester United tracing its loss to Como back to Manchester City.

When I see articles in the Telegraph etc ranting about solar panels in the countryside, I think of what the era of fossil energy inflicted on communities in Wales and beyond. I know which I would choose. youtu.be/wzQggqG2zcI?...

UK Chancellor announces £2bn Energy Wealth Fund after Jackdaw gas project. PR gesture. UK squandered North Sea wealth in tax cuts for corporations and the rich. Norway didn't, has $2.4 trillion sovereign fund. UK govts fight class wars, long-term neglected.

Runaway AI poses a threat to us all. How humanity stays in control should be a priority for everyone Projection location: Slough, UK Narrated by @gavinesler.bsky.social

BREAKING: Two of what are supposed to be the better water companies have syphoned out £700 million EACH in dividends in the last 2 years Enough is enough. Bring them into public ownership, starting with Thames Water. Demand Andy Burnham block the Thames Water bailout: vist.ly/5pbs8

Plenty of utter BS from the government and FF supporters being used to justify this monstrous decision Every tonne of CO2 we don't emit counts - and every tonne we do takes 400,000 years to completely remove from the atmosphere Politically inept too www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Some early morning reading for the Energy Minister #Jackdaw #Rosebank👇

The problem is not really Jackdaw, which is pretty small. The problem is the UK's plan to transition away from fossil fuels is still not ambitious and detailed enough. The problem is if Rosebank follows. The problem is if every country develops one last fossil fuel project we're all screwed.

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.

“Hope is a discipline and despair is a luxury… And the best antidote to despair is repair” A privilege to hear @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social give the first of his Reith Lectures tonight - on the human superiority complex, and how we become interdependent with the rest of nature again

🛩 The only growth a new Heathrow runway will deliver is growth in emissions. 🚨 No airport expansion in a climate emergency.

And he eats goals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner 😋

Electricity costs put UK steelmakers in worst position against EU rivals. Govt subsidising energy cost of 10,000 businesses via public purse. Others suffer too. Govt not attending to real causes - faulty pricing formula based on cost of gas, profiteering by energy companies. Nationalise energy.

Fairly open racism and far right talking points from someone who is, last time I checked, a Conservative peer.

The internet is changing, and the consequences for democracy could be profound says @mariaressa.bsky.social in conversation with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Ressa’s new book, The Fight Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Standing Up to Dictators, is out now.

#FOTW Daily Post 17 At peak ice age, so much water was locked up in the ice sheets that a land area bigger than India, Canada and the US combined was exposed — its name Aquaterra The sea redrew the world map before. It's about to do so again Pls share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld #DeepTime

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BREAKING 🚨: 10 trade unions, representing millions of workers, have jointly warned Burnham to "do the right thing by the planet, UK communities and workers" and reject the controversial Rosebank oil field

Very strangely the 10 trade unions calling on the government not to approve the Rosebank oil field are getting a lot less coverage today than the one trade union calling on the government to green light more fossil fuel projects. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537337...

Allowing this dead-company-walking to be bailed out again, instead of taking it into Special Administration and then permanent public ownership, would be a disgrace and a betrayal by the Andy Burnham government Enough is enough.

Isn’t it strange how, when you start being paid by private companies instead of elected by the public, the people become the “mob”? Palantir’s record deserves scrutiny – from politicians and the public. https://bit.ly/47avtHW