One of the insane things I don't understand about governments, whether Kier Starmer or local municipalities, trying to woo data center construction is that there are literally no onsite jobs besides some security guys. Confusing data mining with ore mining??? restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...

From the archive w/Trishant Simlai! How is surveillance of wildlife affecting communities in a tiger reserve? Why conservation has colonial origins, how camera traps are used to uphold the patriarchy, & when workplace surveillance literally lead to tiger attacks. open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...

‼️ "Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. …Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt."

From the archive w/Trishant Simlai! How is surveillance of wildlife affecting communities in a tiger reserve? Why conservation has colonial origins, how camera traps are used to uphold the patriarchy, & when workplace surveillance literally lead to tiger attacks. open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...

One of the insane things I don't understand about governments, whether Kier Starmer or local municipalities, trying to woo data center construction is that there are literally no onsite jobs besides some security guys. Confusing data mining with ore mining??? restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...

"Although young trans people were most frequently and viciously targeted by Trump, the report found that “transgender youth under 20 were quoted in just 6% of articles. Who did msm corporate media turn to? Trump, a member of his administration, or other Republicans were quoted in 50% of articles"

“What ChatGPT says about politics — or anything — is ultimately what the people who created it say it should say, or allow it to say; more specifically, human beings at OpenAI are deciding what neutral answers to those 500 prompts might look like and instructing their model to follow their lead.”

With Elon Musk’s recent musings about donating as much as $100 million to Reform, we urgently need to reform the UK’s rules on political spending and donations, argue politics academics Logan De La Torre, Kevin Fahey and Iain McMenamin. Digested version: politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/do-we-n...

From the same guy trying to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon

This *should* act as a warning to further experiments with automating consequential decisions. Should.

You name it, this story has it all: environmental destruction, executing protesters, sycophants too scared to contradict an autocrat, consultants happy to separate a rich guy from his money, idiotic urban living concepts.

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Had a great time chatting with Connor O’Brien about little known financial tool called debt for nature swaps, the colonial history of sovereign debt and finance systems, and why finance guys are trying to offshore the planet. open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...

Yay! Out now!! Thanks to @lmesseri.bsky.social @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, Alexandra Ganser, Stefanie Dunning, Natalie Treviño, Matt Harvey and Frédéric Boone for their wonderful contributions and afterwords!

Had a great time chatting with Connor O’Brien about little known financial tool called debt for nature swaps, the colonial history of sovereign debt and finance systems, and why finance guys are trying to offshore the planet. open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around. Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them. After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer." www.calonews.com/featured-top...

As Ring announces increased partnership with Flock and law enforcement, do not be fooled by reassurances that you can 'opt out.' Here's evidence that ICE tapped flock from local agencies sometimes without consent: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

This is a really great article about how digital services & corporations reinforce the nuclear family, enabling domestic abuse and coercion. Reminds me of feminist approaches to cybersecurity problematizing the "external hacker" paradigm www.wired.com/story/apples...

Wow, this is really significant reporting about state-cloud contracts with global corporations www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In the run up to COP30, the Anti-Dystopians will be posting series of eps about climate catastrophe. First up, one of my all-time favorite episodes from the archive “Nationalize Gmail!: Climate Change, Critical Infrastructure, and the USPS” with @jlappen1.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

Really remarkable article. I kept highlighting things to screenshot but every line is good. Highly recommend a read (incl. Americans trying to understand what is the monarchy and why it’s more than a tourist trap in the UK) www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

It's fun and restorative and empowering to think big with friends about the futures we want to see!

In the run up to COP30, the Anti-Dystopians will be posting series of eps about climate catastrophe. First up, one of my all-time favorite episodes from the archive “Nationalize Gmail!: Climate Change, Critical Infrastructure, and the USPS” with @jlappen1.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

She’s a queen 😍

Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss. ------------------------------------------------ "In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.' Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.' In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"

When we said we don't intend to be concerned or disappointed by the Labour Government - we intend to replace them, we meant it. Yougov have Labours lowest poll ever and Greens highest ever. Keep going everybody. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The sheer volume of people showing signs of mania, psychosis, and suicidal ideation each and every week on ChatGPT is staggering, alarming, awful, all of it. from @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

Interesting piece on Larry Ellison, one of the Silicon Valley guys who goes under the radar (but owns 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai, about to get a huge stake in TikTok and big friend of Tony Blair Institute) www.wired.com/story/larry-...

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.' We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them. Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse. Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Businessmen are political actors www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Good quick piece on how firing people for AI leads to loss of historical institutional knowledge and can, you know, crash the internet futurism.com/artificial-i...

Had a great time chatting about Silicon Valley and outer space colonization on the Curious Geographer, a fab programme aimed at secondary school students interested in geography, politics and international studies! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRA...

New Yorkers deserve change they can measure in their own lives. Our new Affordability Calculator shows exactly how much our plans would save your family on childcare, rent, and bus fare. Check your savings → zohranfornyc.com/calculator

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

Breaking: over 3,000 people joined @greenparty.org.uk over conference weekend. Membership now stands at over 86,000. We’re just getting started. join.greenparty.org.uk

I'd actually forgotten how extraordinary it is that when I won the leadership - I wasn't interviewed as it was too close to our party conference interviewed. And then refused a second time! Part of the antidote to all of this is creating our own media platforms. Hey @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👋🏼

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

First day of term at Cambridge tomorrow. Here's an excellent book to inspire the teachers of the world for this academic year.

This is brilliant stuff from @zackpolanski.bsky.social What a breath of fresh air! youtu.be/jTV4wLmmF5s?...

This whole section really.

This this this. And it’s not even that we *allowed* them in. It’s that our feckless, collaborationist leaders and some of our colleagues sent them engraved invitations, then chased them down the block and dragged them inside

We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

The platformization and datafication of early childhood is going great for data extractive startups and hackers "The software is widely used by other nurseries and childcare organisations, and it says on its website it is used by more than one million 'owners, managers, practitioners and families'"

Here's what the new co-owner of TikTok US and existing co-owner of the Tony Blair Institute (the 'let's do digital ID' guys) had to say this time last year. This is who's dictating and planning to profit from mandatory government digital ID, starting with immigrants and expanding to everyone else.

But the AI Opportunities Action Plan said the AI would report and monitor the potholes? Was that… a lie?!?!?!?

does anyone have favorite photos of fossil and clean energy juxtaposed? I always go looking for a picture of Chevron's solar thermal demonstration plant in Coalinga, but the available photos are pretty obscure - I'd like something pithy and well-composed!

Very interesting piece fortune.com/2025/09/23/a...