"I guess what shocked me the most is the deliberate way that they built this world that we live in. They understood the impact, the consequences, and they saw the profit that it offered and that overrode everything else.” #plastics #oil #climate #environment #pollution #economics #marketing #science

'The environmental group’s global website says it is a “decentralised, international and politically non-partisan movement using non-violent direct action and civil disobedience to persuade governments to act justly” on the climate emergency.' #ER #environment #climate #ecology #protest #FBI #law

'The researchers found they could store 4.84TB of data in a 12 sq cm piece of fused silica glass, 2mm deep – about the same amount of information that is held in 2m printed books, an accompanying article by researchers in China notes.' #data #storage #archives #technology #AI #computers #information

'Quentin Deranque, 23, died on Saturday after sustaining a severe brain injury. The Lyon prosecutor, Thierry Dran, said he had been “thrown to the ground and beaten by at least six individuals” during an incident last week.' #france #LFI #némésis #RN #macron #antifascism #Lyon #protest #activism

'The executive order led 79 countries – including Canada, Brazil, Denmark, Mexico and Nigeria – to come together in support of the court. The sanctions, they said in a joint letter, “increase the risk of impunity for the most serious crimes and threaten to erode the international rule of law”.' #ICC

'From rifling through my purse for a pen or taking in the smell of an old book, to seeing my own handwriting and spending time rewinding cassette tapes, interacting so intimately with the things we enjoy just feels good.' #analog #film #cameras #cassettes #vinyl #journaling #books #media #oldskool

'We are building the infrastructure in this campaign so that if we’re elected, if we win, the party will use it in the next election. We are building the organizing culture, the political infrastructure, and the actual hard organizing infrastructure that can be deployed immediately.' #ndp #socialism

'In March 2025 Canadian officials met in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss Canada’s track record on disability. They were asked to justify how the expansion of MAiD differs from “state-sponsored eugenics.”' #MAiD #canada #medicine #science #health #care #poverty #disabilities #age #UN #CBD #government

'Today, we need democratic uprisings that are bold enough to confront the scale of the crisis we now face and strategic enough to outmaneuver the systems that created it. For this reason, looking at lessons from the field of civil resistance is vital.' #protest #organizing #minneapolis #democracy

'AI holds an irresistible promise for capitalist elites: to be able to automatically direct most of the instructions that guide human activity, reducing the power of social classes other than the owners of the algorithms.' #AI #tech #algorithms #surveillance #labour #capitalism #politics #hegemony

“... what has happened in Gaza, what continues to happen, is a genocide of the Palestinian people by the state of Israel. ... If the greatest film-makers and artists of our time cannot stand up and say so, they should know that history will judge them.” #palestine #gaza #genocide #berlinale #film

“When Gramsci wrote the Prison Notebooks [...] the key concept to emerge from that thought process is his theory of hegemony: that the ruling class can rule not only through coercion, but also through the intersection of popular and high culture, through intellectual and civil society.” #gramsci

“Banning Palestine Action was always about appeasing pro-Israel lobby groups and weapons manufacturers, and nothing to do with terrorism … Today’s landmark ruling is a victory for freedom for all ....” #law #UK #palestine #protest #government #justice #terrorism #israel #censorship #democracy

'Human ingenuity has bequeathed us splendid technologies and capacities. But, like a cruel divinity, capital not only prevents us from using them for our collective good, but in fact coerces us to deploy them towards our collective doom.' #capitalism #socialism #economy #trade #markets #climate

'Tipping may already be happening in Greenland and west Antarctica, with permafrost, mountain glaciers and the Amazon rainforest appearing to be on the verge, the scientists said.' #climate #heat #science #environment #weather #ecology #oceans #glaciers #forests #oil #carbon #industry #politics

'Trump’s disdain for Housing First didn’t appear from nowhere. Project 2025 called for an end to Housing First policies, as have conservative commentators since the first Trump administration.' #homelessness #housing #usa #EU #addiction #government #policy #politics #prejudice #ideology #medicine

'It is plain to see that the British public do not want their citizens to be scapegoated for this Labour government’s political aims, they do not want to be criminalised for supporting a people’s inalienable right to freedom, to dignity, and to self-determination.' #palestineaction #justice #jury

'Members of the council have lobbied for oil, gas, and mining companies, Big Tech, telecommunications giants, pharmaceutical associations, and the financial sector. Several newly-elected council members are also aligned with the anti-abortion Christian fundamentalist movement.' #canada #conservative

“Her work invites us to imagine new ways of living together as an ecosystem, to reframe our relationship with nature, the city, with each other and ourselves. Homes are not machines for living in – but gentle, human, individual spaces.” #architecture #france #communism #ecology #housing #philosophy

'In 1965, African Americans filled 31% of ground combat battalions in Vietnam, while the percentage of African Americans as a minority in the general population was 12% … Dr Martin Luther King Jr referred to the Vietnam war as a white man’s war, a Black man’s fight.”' #vietnam #racism #military #usa

'According to its communications lead, Sara Mahdi, [Rethinking Economics]s aim is to make economics education “plural, critical, decolonised and historically grounded” rather than “dominated by a single framework presented as ‘neutral’ or ‘objective’”.' #economics #climate #inequality #ethics #war

Jason Hickel: “The dominance of GDP is not an accident, it occurs because GDP measures what is valuable to capital. It is the structure of capitalism that ultimately must be overcome.” #degrowth #steady-state #doughnut #wellbeing #GDP #economics #UN #climate #carbon #environment #ecology #renewables

“I think today we are living in a complicated world, where life is more like a shattered mirror. It reflects the reality, but the reality can be a broken reality.” #art #design #culture #media #socialmedia #censorship #democracy #China #Germany #UK #power #AI #information #law #institutions #writing

'Within two hours of subscribing to NatSocToday for the purposes of this investigation, the Substack algorithm directed the Guardian’s account to 21 other profiles featuring similar content. ... Many have thousands of followers.' #nazism #substack #publishing #racism #antisemitism #media #propaganda

Originally written in the summer of 1993, I published scans of this original manuscript in March 2019. I'm reposting it now to share the comedic 'routine' involving Adolph Hitler, Albert Speer and Hermann Goerring plotting world domination in 1940. Remind you of anyone? #writing #satire #fascism

'If the body supplies the sensations, feelings, cravings and dislikes that give rise to subjective experience, then chip-based computers are never going to get there.' #pollan #consciousness #science #literature #art #psychedelics #animals #plants #nature #emotion #desire #psychology #AI #language

'Lawyer Jeffrey Rath, part of the delegation that met secretly with state department officials, said last year he and others wanted to “petition” for Alberta to gain US statehood.' #separatism #alberta #quebec #canada #usa #trump #referendum #election #politics #influence #interference #democracy

'What happens when democratic states adopt the methods of the regimes they once condemned? Terror is not only masked men and arbitrary detention. It also operates through fear.' #ICE #netanyahu #trump #authoritarianism #security #violence #coercion #assassination #incarceration #torture #politics

"This place, not quite a place, but a space occupying memory, a space measured by the length of my hand, by the few minutes it takes to recall it." #autofiction #writing #depression #vancouver #winter #rain #obsession #memory #culture #creativity

'As many have been pointing out on social media and elsewhere, if we think of the US Black American population as an internally colonized population, then you can see what is happening on the streets of Minneapolis as a manifestation of the imperial boomerang thesis.' #fascism #racism #immigrants

“It should be a stark warning that applied toxicities are still increasing in many regions, particularly for species groups that serve vital ecological functions.” #pesticides #ecology #wildlife #farming #food #science #environment #UN #pesticides #biodiversity #ecotoxicology #insects #soil #fish

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“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.” #climate #economics #catastrophes

'Barghouti is a member of the Fatah party, a rival of Hamas, and has long advocated a two-state solution. Many argue that Israel’s refusal to release him is driven by concern that he could emerge as a powerful voice for the Palestinian cause.' #barghouti #palestine #fatah #israel #politics #prison

'The concentration of digital power is an ocean away, wielded by companies whose bosses are, at best, quietly complicit in Donald Trump’s assault on the US constitution and, in the case of X’s Elon Musk and Palantir’s Peter Thiel, vigorous advocates and enablers of the new US despotism.' #musk #tech

'The unbearable heat, the noise of the burning vegetation, the suffocating smoke, all covered by an orange light, is a scene I will never forget. Pure apocalypse.' #wildfires #climate #brazil #photography #culture #environment #amazon #forest #wildlife #ecology #land #landscape #science #drought

“The best way to proceed is to ignore it,” Chomsky wrote [...] “That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder.” #chomsky #philosophy #politics #epstein #law #pedophiles

'“A search is under way by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office, the national police cyber unit and Europol,” the Paris prosecutors’ office said in a post on X on Tuesday, adding that it would no longer be publishing on the network.' #france #interpol #cybercrime #deepfake #X #musk

'This is what victory in a culture war looks like: Democrats accept the cultural framings enforced by the other side, even though polls would suggest that the liberals’ positions are often more popular ...).' #democrats #republicans #culturewars #woke #lgbtqa+ #race #politics #authoritarianism #USA

'Grassy Narrows First Nation, a northwestern Ontario community, has faced decades of mercury contamination. The poisoning has impacted an estimated 90 per cent of the population of Grassy Narrows, also known as Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek.' #indigenous #ontario #grassy #mercury #industry

'These articles make the case that a military build-up is necessary to ward off a U.S. invasion. The reality is that Carney has boosted military spending to kowtow to Trump, and major military spending hikes have long been on the wish-list of the corporate elite and defence lobby.' #canada #military

'It is the second summit on the matter within a month and involves about 20 countries including the G7 members – the UK, US, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, and Canada – along with India and South Korea and Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and possibly Argentina.' #mining #china #tariffs #economy

'Rubaya produces about 15% of the world’s coltan ... that is in high demand by makers of mobile phones, computers, aerospace components and gas turbines. The site, where local people dig manually for a few dollars a day, has been under the control of the M23 rebel group since 2024.' #congo #mining

'It tells us that “ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair).”' #climate #ecology #environment #UK #security #labour #starmer #politics #policy #green #monbiot #government #legislation

“There are so many examples within modern literature of men laying it all bare, but as soon as you do something overtly personal as a woman, it’s less serious. We’ve just been fully X-ed out of modernism in the canon. ... You have to be Virginia Woolf to be considered a good writer.” #film #lit #art

'First Nations rejecting oil tankers in their waters are not hindering the national economy, but arguing for a different balance of priorities. There’s more than one way to build an economy.' #environment #climate #indigenous #oil #mining #tourism #ecology #wildlife #economics #carney #Heiltsuk

“Here is the reality that people like this ugly man don’t understand, is that we are Minnesota strong,” the congresswoman said. “I learned at a young age that you don’t give into threats.” #democrats #minnesota #assault #maga #ICE #omar #somali #immigration #racism #threats #intimidation #government

“He answers to capital and nothing else,” Justin Chen, president of AFGE Council 238, which represents EPA employees, said of Zeldin. “The EPA isn’t fulfilling it’s mission and won’t be able to again until the boot is taken off the neck of dedicated civil servants to do their job.” #EPA #USA #Trump

'The powerful storm brought relentless rain and waves as high as 9 metres, wreaking havoc in Sicily, Calabria and Sardinia as it destroyed roads and coastal defences, sweeping away beach resorts.' #climate #cyclone #rain #landslide #italy #environment #ecology #disaster #floods #politics #EU

'The multipronged invasion would rely on ground forces, amphibious landing and then mass internments. According to the architects of the plan, the attack would be short-lived and the besieged country would fall within days.' #homer-dixon #canada #usa #annexation #war #trump #MAGA #alberta #military