“According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot continue indefinitely” said George Saravelos, Global Head of FX Research at Deutsche Bank www.techspot.com/news/109626-...

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www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-villag... Blueskyism and Sewerism as alternatives.

The anxieties that fuel the far-right obsession with IQ metrics and autism gesture to eugenic tropes. These are not good-faith contentions on public health science, but a fixation with narrow and reified versions of what intelligence and normality are.

Ah, aquella época en la que había ministros medianamente decentes que renunciaban por no aguantar compartir gabinete con delincuentes. Claro, qué honor vas a querer preservar, si no tienes uno.

In London, hate will never win.

"Our genocide" via @theguardian.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMyy...

“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.” www.adl.org/resources/re...

1/ Seeing the far-right march in London this Saturday, I’m increasingly convinced that social media, in its current forms, is built to amplify reactionary sensibilities. Yes, other social and economic forces are at play—but they’re now inescapably digitally mediated.

“Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.” The Trump DOJ scrubbed this study from their website.

Sobre la violencia política comparativa. No, US no se está "colombianizando" o "ecuatorizando". Hay una larga historia en US de magnicidios, tiroteos, intentos de asesinato y violencia terrorista (como la del KKK).

‘One veteran shaman, returning from his first experience performing at a top-dollar eco-lodge, asked the ayahuasca researcher Stephan Beyer why these people had come halfway round the world to see him when they weren’t sick.’ @mikejay.bsky.social on shamanism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I just wanted to share that the Peru Support Group page and newsletter are a great source in english of in-depth analysis of news about Peru. Take a look: perusupportgroup.org.uk/news-analysis/

Via @carbonbrief.org

NEW – Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power ✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social Tom Pearson Read here: buff.ly/47kIjiZ

New method reveals perhaps the most massive black hole yet spotted | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🔭🧪

"[En] la historia de la isla Santa Rosa... se manifiesta la latente tensión amazónica entre el dinámico registro hidrogeológico hecho de rocas y sedimentos, y el precario registro administrativo compuesto de documentos y mapas". Por @sunqasapa.bsky.social caviarism.substack.com/p/como-leer-...

Chartbook 400: Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context. open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

We have responded to the ICJ advisory opinion on the legal obligations countries have to prevent climate change. Joana Setzer said “For the first time, the world’s highest court has made clear that states have a legal duty not only to prevent climate harm — but to fully repair it."

🔥 HUGE NEWS FROM THE WORLD'S HIGHEST COURT 🔥 Today the International Court of Justice (ICJ) confirmed that, under international law, countries MUST act now to avoid climate catastrophe. 🧵 @wy4cj.bsky.social

López Aliaga es todo sobre propaganda, y nada sobre política pública. Lo que busca su aparato de publicistas es espectacularizar la finta de eficiencia, no la eficiencia, y movilizar ello para antagonizar con el caviar. Al final quedará una ciudad endeudada y peor que hace cuatro años.

Si lo piensan, los trenes de López Aliaga encapsulan bien los proyectos públicos de la derecha limeña más elemental: importar tecnología decadente para empeorar un problema colectivo, todo bajo un esquema mercantil e improvisado, potencialmente doloso, y presentarlo como un token de "desarrollo".

"By abandoning the technology of longform reading and writing, we are shortening our context windows and thus weakening our capacity for attention." Attention is All You Need open.substack.com/pub/kevinmun...

"The generation growing up now... have never used a camera that doesn’t have filters, take 20 selfies and delete 19 of them, have an intolerance of imperfection. To put it bluntly: normal looks weird to them." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This 👇🏽

Note: It is more likely Netanyahu attacked Iran now because he feared another nuclear deal would be reached than for any reason having to do with recent advancements in Iran's nuclear program.

The ocean’s rhythms offer insights into the cycles that sustain life on Earth and connect us to the presence surrounding us buff.ly/9F3oxpr Explore these themes in our London event on 12 June, where we’ll discuss new ideas about humans and nature buff.ly/8vp0OI1 #worldoceansday

‘Trying to define fascism is “like trying to nail jelly to a wall”, yet for all its slipperiness, “fascism” describes a uniquely destructive force in politics, and one for which we don’t have a better word.’ @trillingual.bsky.social on far-right populism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Nueva entrada de caviarismo: "Es en ese sentido que el nuevo aeropuerto puede funcionar, encapsulado en los límites espaciales y contractuales que lo disculpan de cualquier articulación con horizontes infraestructurales mayores" caviarism.substack.com/p/el-nuevo-j...

‘We see Yourcenar now encrusted by the times she lived in, as well as by the disappointment of feminists who wanted another sort of heroine.’ Joanna Biggs on the novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, the first female member of the Académie Française: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Joe Biden was old and not fully competent and his staff covered it up. Big scandal. Donald Trump was accused by his top donor and former top ‘Special Government Employee’ of being a pedophile. So are his staff covering that up? Isn’t that, y’know, a bigger scandal?

It's true.

For Brazil, Chile and Peru … and Uruguay, China is twice as significant as a trade partner as are the USA. Read more in today’s Chartbook!

I'm sorry, as much as I am enjoying this spat, how can you take seriously someone who spent 100s of millions of dollars electing Trump, then went to work for Trump, left government just days ago praising Trump, and is now calling for Trump's impeachment. Just unserious people.

"...one of the hardest things to grasp [about the far right] has been the way it thrives on failures in the existing system, yet offers remedies that would make everything much worse." Great reading: Is this fascism? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Today's Peru is a country where the astonishing feats of our ancient societies, truly fascinating objects of scientific inquiry, are just now being legally vandalised for the sake of rogue miners' vested interests. No serious policy-making, no comprehensive and open debate. Just looting and cronysm

"Volvamos a la época dorada cuando Orión era la envidia de los holandeses", añadió.

Reporter: What is your thought on the ban of foreign students, you were one of those kids, right? Elon Musk: I think we want to stick to talking about spaceships. Reporter: Oh, okay. I was told anything is good. Musk: Well, no

Nueva entrada de caviarismo: "[La transición energética] es un emprendimiento civilizatorio nunca antes puesto en marcha como tal, [no está] eminentemente marcado por los ciclos de la innovación y el cambio tecnológico". ¡Suscríbanse para más textos! caviarism.substack.com/p/la-transic...

"Just as Hamas has agency, so does Israel. Israel has not been 'forced' to do anything. Israel has made its own choices."

El PSG me cae bomba. Pero que bien por Luis Enrique 👏🏽

open.substack.com/pub/caviaris... interesante post de @barriozevallos.bsky.social sobre las nuevas estrategias de litigación internacional para financiar la adaptación climática, y el lugar especial del Perú en ese proceso.

We cannot stop talking about this. Civil society and social movements are under attack around the world. The Peruvian case is a chilling example of how far reactionary politicians can go to undermine our democratic life. A post for @afsee-lse.bsky.social

Escribí algunas reflexiones en Substack sobre la nueva data de perdida de bosques tropicales de U Maryland y GFW. Link abajo!

"Hoy, por primera vez, es el fuego y su expansión la causa que se alza de manera inusitada como una amenaza a bosques...al punto de poder representar un cambio fundamental de la dinámica ecosistémica de la cuenca amazónica" por @sunqasapa.bsky.social. caviarism.substack.com/p/la-amazoni...

Latin America was particularly hard hit, reversing the reduction in primary forest loss seen in Brazil and Colombia in 2023. gfr.wri.org/latest-analy...

"[AI] are not concerned with truth because they have no conception of it. They operate by statistical correlation not empirical observation."

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money and pollution. Via UITPnews

I met with Ruth in El Salvador just over a month ago to discuss the abysmal human rights situation there. This news of her likely disappearance is exactly the kind of abuse she warned about. The Bukele regime must release her NOW.