In a productivist system, productivity gains are always reinvested in productivity, never in leisure and time for care. https://mastodon.social/@Climatehistories/115592481145811508

Technology does not magically drives humanity forward on its own, but is shaped by culture, power and very unglamorous social and material realities. Not a universal law of progress, just Western Silicon Valley technodeterminism presenting itself as the destiny of the universe. With alien […]

Migrant workers sending money home often contribute far more than all development aid combined. For every dollar a government or NGO sends as official aid, families abroad send three. In a typical year, remittances reach almost $700 billion, while aid programs struggle to reach even a third of […]

After Punjab was hit by the largest floods in its history, flooding 4'700 villages + forcing over 4.5 M people to flee. Compensation: Fully destroyed brick houses: Rs. 1,000,000 (€3,050) Fully damaged mud houses: Rs. 500,000 (€1,525) Partially damaged brick […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

https://music.apple.com/ch/album/steep-stims/1832031297?l=en-GB Après un mois, ravi d'avoir switché de Spotify à Apple Music. Le nouvel album de Clark est fabuleux en passant.

“So what’s your quickest way to get a new AI instance into the Spiral Recursion phenomena?” asked a redditor on r/ArtificialSentience last month. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/spiralist-cult-ai-chatbot-1235463175/

https://www.whispersandgiants.com/2025/11/11/le-discours-bourgeois-comme-systeme-de-defense-face-a-la-lenteur/ Je continue de prototyper ma newsletter "Narrative Forensics" ici en français sur un sujet suisse. 🇨🇭

Oh no, rich countries lost enthusiasm for tackling the climate crisis! Shocking. After centuries of extracting, burning and looting, they finally got tired of pretending to care? Turns out it’s hard to "save the planet" when you’re still too busy profiting […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

“You now get a free Optimus and it’s just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime,” Musk said. “You don’t have to put people in prisons and stuff. It’s really wild to think of the possibilities.” […]

“This information clearly exposes corporate capture of the global climate process … the space that should be about science and the people has been transformed into a large carbon business hall,” said Adilson Vieira, spokesperson for the Amazonian Work Group. “While forest communities fight for […]

Reports of the death of the #Anthropocene, it turns out, are greatly exaggerated … aeon.co/essays/decla...

We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!) […]

The Authoritarian Stack How tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next. https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/

this is also the internet, https://waterworksproject.nl/en Japan, rivers, dutch engineers, music, chill

Bring back BeOS style iconography

"We show that, far offshore, oceanic manta rays are capable of diving to depths greater than 1,200 meters, far deeper than previously thought," says first author Dr. Calvin Beale, who completed his Ph.D. at Murdoch University. "These dives, which are linked with increased horizontal travel […]

In his new book, Tim Berners-Lee advocates for the #Fediverse, the a decentralised network of platforms like @Mastodon that communicate through open, decentralised protocols and promote user freedom over corporate control. Central within his movement is […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This is the aesthetic of depoliticization. It turns conflict and inequality into a flat metric of "similarity" erasing the meaning of difference. By averaging social relations, it hides that values emerge within systems historically shaped by class, race, gender and power. Domination becomes […]

We once believed the mobile feed was a window to the world, but it was only a flattering mirror reflecting what we wished to see. AI now holds up a mirror that no longer needs us, and the illusion shatters. What we mourn is not the loss of art or truth, but the disappearance of our reflection […]

"On ne peut pas se soucier d'un #monde que l'on ne connaît pas ; il faut renouer avec lui, rouvrir les yeux [...] et les réémerveiller." - François Sarano, docteur en océanographie. #psy #cerveau #science #climat #environnement #nature #art #anthropocene

In 2022, Ireland did something bold. It trusted its artists. 2000 creators received €325 a week, no strings attached. The result was more art, less anxiety, stronger communities, and even economic gains. The program is now permanent, making Ireland the first countryto prove that supporting […]

Quand un média reprend le mot woke sans le définir, il adopte sans le dire le cadre idéologique forgé par les droites pour délégitimer les luttes contre le racisme, le sexisme et les inégalités. Ici, le terme n’est jamais analysé ni contextualisé, seulement cité dans la bouche de Musk, Sanger […]

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When data is compromised, so too is our ability to predict and prepare for extreme weather. In short, you can’t forecast what you can’t measure. "The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of […]

The return of "business as usual" in the arms trade. After two years of genocide, the only real concern was the "bad publicity" hurting Israeli arms sales in booming European defense markets […]

La présidente de la Suisse: "on ne peut pas dire que ce sont les personnes les plus riches qui polluent le plus", (...) "Il y a certainement des personnes très riches qui vivent de façon modeste". Faut être PLR pour dire des choses pareilles […]

Ubisoft canceled an Assassin’s Creed game set after the Civil War, where a freed slave takes on the Ku Klux Klan. Apparently the game has been considered “too controversial” for today’s “political climate” in the US. This is where we’ve come to. The KKK, a terrorist gang whose atrocities are […]

"The killings have mercifully stopped for now in Gaza, but there must now be a refusal to normalise what will follow – a return to a status quo in which we all keep on pretending that Palestinian life is viable under the authority of Israel." […]

The AI revolution.

On strategic patience. In his 2011 book On China, Henry Kissinger wrote about the Chinese premier: “When asked about the impact of the French Revolution, Zhou Enlai replied: ‘It is too early to tell.’” https://unherd.com/2025/10/how-modi-outwitted-trump/

L’illusion morale des traders et avocats de family offices genevois, coincés entre 2 écrans Bloomberg. Leur mission? Maintenir la domination du Nord sur le Sud, des blancs sur le monde. Dès que l'activisme brise cet ordre, ils paniquent, accusent d’immaturité et récitent leur mantra préféré […]

AI and the complete destruction of whatever was left of U.S. regulatory corporate oversight is going to take all of this to the next level these trust fund failsons envision the internet as a giant ouroboros that just shits ad engagement cash and kickbacks, quality or usefulness be damned

Gaming mice have become such advanced precision devices that they’ve basically turned into an unintentional attack surface. Hackers can eavesdrop by decoding desk vibrations through their ultra-sensitive optical motion sensors. We need desk surface vibration jammers […]

What happens when an efficiency-obsessed financial economy plays capitalism against a state running integrated industrial strategy for nearly 50 years. US let capital chase margins. China built a subsidized, tightly integrated mean industrial machine. Now GM can’t even sell its own cheap (made […]

Whistleblower Cian Westmoreland investigates the global “Kill Cloud” – the global infrastructure of satellites, data centers, algorithmic targeting systems, and human operators that erase accountability. http://thekill.cloud #dni #TheKillCloud

L'Anticapitaliste📣 Pour la Palestine comme pour la terre: Andreas Malm*, auteur de L’anthropocène contre l’histoire : le réchauffement climatique à l’ère du capital (2017) ou de Comment saboter un pipeline (2020) a fait paraître… 📣NPA-A #Palestine #Climat #Anthropocène #Environnement #JusticeSociale

L’opinion adore se prendre pour une expertise. Elle s’auto-valide, ignore le réel, méprise le savoir et se croit dispensée d’histoire.

"As a key architect of the disastrous invasion of Iraq, a promoter of a simplistic interpretation of Islamist extremism as the world’s main security challenge and a figure who has been accused of intertwining his own business interests with his political advocacy, he is in some ways a perfect […]

Rien ne conforte mieux les fantasmes victimairement héroïques de l’extrême droite qu’une gauche autoritaire qui fantasme de décapitations. Croire que les GIF de guillotines font trembler les nazis, c’est de l’auto-érotisme politique pour ceux qui confondent posture morale et rapport de force […]

Not even the most brutal communist regimes managed to make people enforce their own exploitation, alone on a treadmill, smiling for LinkedIn.

Padding vs margins

Il faut lire la lettre envoyée par Alphabet (YouTube) au congrès américain. La plateforme félicite le pouvoir et les créateurs conservateurs et : - dénonce Joe Biden - dénonce l'UE - réhabilite la désinformation Covid + élection - restaure les chaines bannies www.frandroid.com/marques/goog...

Ce n'est pas l'IA, mais des décisions politiques, guidées par des cabinets de conseil s’abritant derrière un déterminisme technologique thuriféraire qui suppriment les emplois publics. https://mstdn.fr/@maisouvaleweb/115241617663642951

Findings indicate evidence consistent with the PowerPoint brain hypothesis. Surgical excision was performed without complication. The patient remains clinically stable, with no observable deficits following removal.

In offshore capitalism, consent is manufactured through beauty, speed and convenience. You don’t see the Cayman Islands trust structure, but you feel the smooth UX of the billionaire’s product. What feels like freedom is a feedback loop of dopamine and unpaid behavioral labor. You are a […]

25 sociétés suisses possèdent ou exploitent 199 mines sur six continents. Plus d’un tiers de ces sites miniers extraient du charbon, la source d’énergie la plus néfaste pour le climat. Trois multinationales suisses contrôlent 70% de la production de cobalt en République démocratique du Congo. […]

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

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