The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Die heute veröffentlichte Studie von FIAN Deutschland deckt gravierende Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch den Berliner Agrarinvestor Amatheon auf. 📘 Die Studie „Amatheon in Sambia: Gewalt und Vertreibung bei einem deutschen Agrarinvestor" ist unter dem Link verfügbar: www.fian.de/wp-content/u...

A tale of resistance.

Ihara Saikaku fue el gran cronista de la vida popular en el Japón de la época Edo. Ya tenemos 'Este mundo astuto', con 20 historias satírica sobre mercaderes y sus esposas, actores, monjes prostitutas, ronin... Todos ellos removerán cielo y tierra para saldar sus deudas antes de que acabe el año.

Like humans, every trees has its own microbiome. Fascinating!

US-Lawfare. Since President Xiomara Castro took office in #Honduras, the country has faced 16 investor lawsuits totalling $13.5 billion. These lawsuits are a response to the government's decision to reverse a US-backed initiative which aimed to turn Honduran territory into private corporate domains.

Botanical Resistance: In Mexico City, people fight to save one of their oldest neighbours in the barrio, the tree "Laureano", who is at risk because of an housing development.

Survey maps published last month have revealed more than SIX MILLION animals moving through an unmonitored area of South Sudan and Ethiopia in the greatest migration of mammals ever seen in the world.

#ForgottenStories: In 1804: Zhen Yisao 鄭一嫂, a female pirate, takes command of the largest pirate fleet in history, comprising around 200 ocean-going junks and 70,000 fighters.

El olor de una multitud. Cuando las plantas de maíz están muy juntas, liberan una sustancia volátil que induce a las plantas vecinas a producir compuestos que frenan su crecimiento, pero activan sus defensas contra las plagas. Se susurran mensajes para defenderse de sus enemigos.

Indigenous knowledge has existed for thousands of years, teaching generations how to live in balance with the Earth. So why can't science finally learn from it?

Westliches, rationales Denken steht einem mitfühlenden Bezug zur Welt im Weg. Von den Weisheitstraditionen ortsgebundener Gemeinschaften könnten wir in Europa hingegen lernen, eine Ökologie der Gegenseitigkeit auszubilden. Mein Essay für Culturescapes. » culturescapes.ch/de/magazine/...

#ForgottenStories: Year 1260: The birth of Khutulun. The Mongolian princess reportedly insisted that any man who wanted to marry her had to beat her at wrestling. Those who lost had to give her a horse, and it is said that she acquired 10,000 horses in this way.

#ForgottenStories: Year 859: Fātima al-Fihrīya founds the University of al-Qarawīyīn in Fès, the oldest university that still exists today.

Economic sanctions are often presented as a more humanitarian alternative to armed conflict. However, a new Lancet study finds that sanctions have a death toll similar to that of wars. Between 1971 and 2021, sanctions contributed to 38 million deaths.

"Within every binary, are worlds in their becoming." #BayoAkomolafe and Andrea Hiott are having a conversation about radical incompleteness, love and holding paradoxes. Very moving!

"Hot" in the sense that it will heat up the planet? Coming off the back of a devastating impact in Ecuador, Chevron is heading to Guyana.

In Jamaica, only 1% of beaches are accessible to everyday Jamaicans, a new @theguardian.com story finds. This is one of the suffocating repercussions of colonialism acting as a biopolitical force. Allowing only a few to experience freedom of recreation and beauty.

Otan Aza Cananis neues Album #DieDemokratie verbreitet Witz und Wehmut im "Papierkramland". Yine muhteşem.

La noche nunca llega. La contaminación lumínica roba el sueño a los vecinos de Ciudad de México, expulsados de los barrios céntricos por los turistas.

Despite global gains on combatting child labour, sub-Saharan Africa still has the highest number of underage workers. Approximately 63% - 87 million children - of the world's child laborers are in sub-Saharan Africa 1/2 www.dw.com/en/world-fai...

With cicadas emerging in a 17-year cycle in places like Georgia and Ohio, I recommend this article from @emergencemagazine.bsky.social.

Die AfD behauptet jetzt, das BfV würde die Hochstufung zurücknehmen. Doch die „Stillhaltezusage“ bei Gericht dient dazu, das Eilverfahren zu beschleunigen. Solange nennt das BfV die AfD nicht „gesichert rechtsetxrem“ und behandelt sie bei den ND-Mitteln wieder wie einen Verdachtsfall. Mehr nicht.

"If 80% of new buildings were built with wood instead of concrete and steel, this would help to offset half of the emissions from the construction industry in Europe", this study found: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

"Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when the person is there (or when we think about the person). Every being cries out silently to be read differently." A reflection on justice by Simon Weil from her book "Gravity & Grace".

German media I beg you one day just please go just one day without being obsessed with migration. One day. I promise it won’t kill you. You have lakes and mountains and good football and good healthcare and asparagus. You’ll be fine.

Elements of a more ecological god: Beyond words, but also deeply connected with everything around us. Intercarnated, born in everything. (Catherine Keller)

Elements of a more ecological god: God is emergence. The constant instigation and invitation for the world not to congeal too easily to a fixed and absolute value. (Bayo Akomolafe)

From 'living from a river' as a resource to 'living as a river' as part of us: how different worldviews and knowledge systems influence the way people interact with and value nature. A fascinating infographic by @ipbes.net

As Wendell Berry says: "The impeded stream is the one that sings". Wonderful study of the freedom of movement of rivers.

Meta saugt Millionen von Bücher & Studien aus illegalen Schattenbibliotheken - ohne Menschen, die schreiben, mit einem Cent zu entschädigen. Schluss mit der Maskerade: Eine KI wird nicht "trainiert", Menschen werden beraubt. Eine KI "halluziniert" nicht, sie produziert algorithmischen Müll. #LBM25

The Republic of Užupis (heretics say: it belongs to Vilnius) has an embassy of wind and poetry, grants the adjacent river the right to "flow by anyone" as the river pleases, and was the first constitution in the world to mention an article on artificial intelligence (no. π). Have a look!

In contrast to Trump's transactional "diplomacy". There was a time when the Brazilian Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, jammed with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan at the General Assembly. People danced, the world dreamed of housing many worlds.

"Cognition is a relational property between the organism and its environment," says Paco Calvo. Why there is something catastrophically wrong with the way we understand intelligence itself is the subject of this brilliant article in @noemamag.com.

A misogynist US president and alleged sexual predator is protecting the 'rights' of the Tates, who are accused of trafficking, raping, grooming or abusing at least 48 alleged victims. In solidarity with all women who have to go through this.

#Moore sind Lebenslandschaften. In ihnen liegt ein Schlüssel für den Klimawandel, für eine ökologische Form des Bauens und der Landwirtschaft. Ein Einstieg🧵

The house with playful doors. The Habitat Centre is an example of #BioclimaticArchitecture in Namibia. A way of building with the local climate and context. 🛖 Architecture: Nina Maritz Architects 🎵 Music: Matemai #Mbira - Gomo Ramutare

Die Möglichkeiten durch KI sind riesig. Ihr Energiehunger jedoch auch: Eine Anfrage an ChatGPT benötigt 30 Mal mehr Energie als eine Google-Suche. Ein handfester Grund, den KI-Chat nicht als bessere Suchmaschine zu nutzen. www.ingenieur.de/technik/fach...

Brazil Blocks X After Musk Ignores Court Orders. What Musk also blocked out is his upbringing in an apartheid regime.

The architecture of German colonialism and South African apartheid persists in the capital of Namibia, one of Africa’s youngest democracies. My essay for #TheArchitecturalReview www.architectural-review.com/essays/trace...

Der US-amerikanische Ölkonzern Texaco, später Chevron, löste in den Siebziger- und Achtzigerjahren in Ecuador eine der größten Umweltkatastrophen weltweit aus. Die Bilanz nach 30 Jahren Rechtsstreitigkeiten.

Für @spiegelmagazin.bsky.social habe ich dann Fall in Ecuador von den Anfängen bis heute dargestellt.

Bauen mit Hanf und Stroh, selbstheilender Beton mit Bakterien, der Faktor Nutzungsdauer - ein erhellendes Gespräch mit Bioökonom Jan Grossarth.

The architecture of German colonialism and South African apartheid persists in the capital of Namibia, one of Africa’s youngest democracies. My essay for #TheArchitecturalReview www.architectural-review.com/essays/trace...

Alianza Ceibo ist ein Bündnis ortsgebundener Gemeinschaften im Amazonasgebiet. Für das Energiewende-Magazin von @ewsschoenau.bsky.social habe ich ihren Kampf gegen Ölkonzerne und Regierungen porträtiert. www.ews-schoenau.de/energiewende...

Für @spiegelmagazin.bsky.social habe ich dann Fall in Ecuador von den Anfängen bis heute dargestellt.

Together with the Brazilian writer Ailton Krenak, I had the opportunity to write an essay for the Culturescapes Festival, Amazon edition, on the divide between nature and culture. The text has inspired fruitful discussions, so I have recorded and visualized it anew. www.instagram.com/reel/C3lH5IU...

The Nigerian philosopher Bayo Akomolafe: »Falling might very well be flying – without the tyranny of coordinates.«