Right now Palantir has a £330m contract to run our NHS health records, but this spy-tech firm shouldn't be anywhere near our health service. Email your local hospital today and ask them to say no to Palantir goodlaw.social/668d1d

Pratchett's politics burn blazingly bright. He was a man who cared *fiercely*, despised injustice, and refused to confuse politeness with goodness. Indeed, I can summarize his politics in one sentence: “Sin, young man, is when you treat people as things.”

Sometimes as an NYT books columnist you find yourself quoted in the Atlantic by Helen Lewis, who believes two odd things: 1. That nobody is reading Pratchett anymore (instead of all the time, as they should), and 2. That Pratchett’s politics are hard to pin down, and Reg Shoe is not a fucking hero.

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

”I Sverige saknas fortfarande ett heltäckande förbud mot omvändelseförsök, trots att barn och unga vittnar om hur de försöks förändras mot sin vilja.”

"AI is a fossil fuel-based technology." — @tante.cc "Elon Musk’s data center company, xAI, has more than doubled the number of unchecked natural gas generators at its Southaven facility since coming to Mississippi last summer. xAI now has 46 “temporary-mobile” turbines at its Mississippi facility"

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

SpaceX is going to spend $2.8 billion on new fossil fuel power stations for its data centres www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/spac...

Känner ett sånt förakt för alla som medverkat till att driva igenom den här politiken. Ni sliter sönder vårt land och jag hoppas ni aldrig mer får förtroende. Må Bader och alla andra tonåringar få stanna, ta studenten, fira, jobba, chilla, hitta kärleken, vara trygga.

- Hands cash to fossil fuel companies (they raise their prices and pocket the difference) - Wealthiest drive the most, and so benefit the most - Tends to stick, even when labelled 'temporary' - Least-wealthy suffer worse pollution impacts from more 🚗 Direct $$ for low-income ppl is way better

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A statement from a member of the party that just banned trans people from using appropriate bathrooms across the UK, including in private businesses. According to her, living with dignity involves being sent out back tto the gender neutral porta potty, just like in South Carolina.

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400 miljoner för att sänka flygbiljetterna med FYRTIOSEX kronor?! De är sannerligen inte kloka.

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The "batteries are just as bad as fossil fuels" stuff is so fucking stupid, so easy to refute with just a minute or two of rational thought, so *obviously* a piece of propaganda, that I just have no sympathy at all for people who fall for it. Gonna block everyone who drags it into my feed.

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

This is an excellent point. Everyone's done their absolute best to destroy the functionality of the web. It's a graveyard by design at this point.

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CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Socialdemokraterna vill minska Sveriges oljeberoende. Men säger samtidigt ja till regeringens nya förslag om att sänka skatten på bensin och diesel.

I found the full clip of this, starts at 2:13. Even with the audio coming from Schmidt's podium mic the booing is deafening and constant. He's condescending and saccharine and throws in a little hint at climate denial while also promising AI will solve climate www.youtube.com/live/b1eM3jv...

My campus just had to make across-the-board 7% budget cuts (after making cuts last year as well) yet UMS found $1.39 million for a 2-year contract with OpenAI.

The (ahem) Environmental Protection Agency refuses to allow Hawaii to close two *oil-fired power plants*.

I’m old enough to remember when this was just called malware

What on earth do they think the purpose of citing is? Honestly, bring back shame.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

It’s weird that Helen of Troy being played by a black actress is a problem, but most of the rest of the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish characters being played by incredibly fair and blond haired people of British, Irish and Scandinavian descent isn’t. And by weird, I mean entirely predictable.

Medan det är fiskestopp för torsk och lax i Östersjön, så fortsätter det storskaliga fisket efter sill och skarpsill. Detta är inte bara dåligt för fiskbestånden och ekosystemen, utan olönsamt samhällsekonomiskt sett.

Regeringen lägger över sju miljarder kronor på att ytterligare sänka bensin- och dieselpriserna i ett nytt krispaket. En effekt är att de förnybara alternativen nu relativt ett blir ännu dyrare.

Att vara patriot och sann Sverigevän innebär att inte fly från våra stora beting inför klimatomställningen, och tro på vår styrka, skriver Mattias Goldmann i sin helgkrönika.

På SCAs stämma i våras ställde vi följande krav tillsammans med en rad andra organisationer, inkl @greenpeace.se: -Skydda kvarvarande natur- och kontinuitetsskogar -Avveckla contortaplantagerna -Respektera urfolksrättigheter i Sápmi #forestSCAndal

Ingen kan vara förvånad.

We keep hearing folks rejecting the warning bells about the trans genocide, saying “it’s not like there’s gas chambers & ovens”. Aside from the reality that the Holocaust didn’t start w/ gas chambers & ovens, this comes from an ignorant understanding of what a genocide is. Let’s talk about it. 1/15

crustaceans or whatever those lobsters are called are tearing their community apart over LLMs, I guess? hmmm, hope they find a way to make this work

Have you seen the anti-AI zines by Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com ? padlet.com/laurenUU/ant...

Love to see colleagues called out who are bringing disrepute to my university with their behaviour...

I don't care how much you like Good Omens or Sandman or Coraline or whatever - do not support this fucking horror of a man's works.