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“Many discussions still approach AI primarily as a digital technology, but in many of these countries, AI is becoming visible through the infrastructures that sustain it: data centers, mineral extraction, energy demand, water-intensive cooling systems, and digital labor chains…”

Digital justice movements and platform workers challenge Big Tech’s power around the world. The food sovereignty movement is also active on digital issues. To fight back Big Tech we also need to build alliances with those confronting digital trade. grain.org/e/7380

How are those 'Sustainable' Limited Edition coffee capsules sourced? Machine learning models trained over surveilled satellite imagery, predicting remote growing areas unknown. Surveyor sent out to validate predicted GPS coordinates. Will he get lucky? New CO2 polygon captured + locked in.

White Supremacy, Ableism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Homophobia, Eugenics, Colonialism, Extractivism… These projects (and more) are all bound up at the roots, branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits. Never forget that.

"Either war is obsolete or men are." Fuller - 1966

Ontological unrest.

Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow. Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty. grist.org/food-and-agr... #PR #Disaster #PuertoRico #Food #Farms #Farming

Tongzhi (同志), the all-encompassing term for queer people in China also means 'comrade'.

Even as they fight colonialism, it is still deeply embedded in the culture.

“People doubted the Internet, too” no we doubted NFTs and the metaverse and other such bullshit these snake oil peddlers tried to hustle shut up

On this day 80 years ago, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam's independence - freedom from Japanese occupation, as well as an end to French colonialism. He and his ideals were ostracised by reinforced French control, aided by British and American support.

“Those who own land would be offered “a digital token” by the trust in exchange for rights to redevelop their property, to be used to finance a new life elsewhere.” 2025: Genocide and ethnic cleansing in the name of electronic tokens, colonialism, digital enclosure and towers of stone and steel. 💔

'The ores extracted from holes in the ground were sold to create the stories in the air. The deeper the extractions went, the higher the great towers of office work stretched into the sky' - Kate Crawford, Atlas of A.I. The wound and the polished facade.

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This is what solidarity against USAI-funded murder looks like! Saoirse don Phailistín 🇵🇸🇮🇪 Solidarity!

Cultural spaces are lifelines for communities, not just for 'fun and decadence'. Dancefloors are sites of resistance and togetherness.

"Perhaps we lose sight of wisdom when we try to see the world from a godlike perspective." - one of 'masculine maximalism'.

It called those who see behind the mystification & the illusions 'woke' because it fears the people's awareness. It fears others waking up to the fact that we are all oppressed. We are all colonized. It is the ontology of colonization itself and it replicates like a virus inside the host until seen.

All of our struggles are interconnected. All of them.

Humanitarian groups say that 'Israel' has blocked fruits with pits or seeds that could be planted, such as olives or dates, from being sent to Gaza. truthout.org/articles/tho...

This, by @jasonhickel.bsky.social, is the clearest explanation I have yet read of why the US and UK governments continue to support the Israeli government, regardless of its great crimes against humanity. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...

IMF-backed land consolidation by large agribusinesses. "It cannot be ruled out that giant agricultural holdings will make attempts to illegally purchase land through a network of their subsidiaries or bribed natural persons (so-called frontmen)."

Buffer Zone: Surrounding the core zone, the buffer zone allows for limited human activities that do not threaten conservation goals. Core Zone: This is the innermost area where human activities are strictly prohibited.

And the 'cutest branding' prize goess to my mango 🥭🐥

"He imposes his own contours on the vanquished who internalise this shape and become ambiguous beings 'housing' another."

An entity's role is whatever it needs to be in order to bring more life into the system

Recently posted to our events board: 💻 Rooted in Justice: Global Voices on Indigenous Food Sovereignty 📔 Hosted by @futureoffood.bsky.social 🗓️ 2 Sept 2025 from 14:30 - 16:00 BST 🌍 Online ➡️

Food sovereignty is true sovereignty. #AlohaAina #kawaiola #environmentaljustice #waterprotectors #indigenouswisdom #sustainability #NationofHawai`i youtu.be/24uCCr3KjCI?...

AI reproduces the oppressors methods of domination -it instills a command and control ontology which cultivates the oppressor housed within - guiding, ordering and commanding.

Earlier this year, I went to Zambia's Copperbelt region to report on environmental damage caused by China's Belt and Road Initiative. A Chinese state-owned mining company's waste pit, known as a tailings dam, had spewed millions of gallons of acidic and toxic sludge into communities and rivers. 🧵

"Many boomers, especially white heterosexual men... have felt disoriented as their world has shifted and changed around them. The clean energy transition symbolizes part of this change."

Is this the seat at the table you wanted?

During a fit of fascistic authoritarianism - under the smoke and screen of legacy holographic left/right-isms - it pivoted to techno-eyeball-scanning-cryptocorporate-feudalism, all while preaching safety and liberation through algorithmic governance. 🧵...

One of the most impactful and harrowingly beautiful documentaries I've ever seen - I still think about it. The opening scene gave me shivers. I wonder how those workers are doing today.

In collective action, we create a space for different knowledge forms to thrive. "Meitheal is the Irish expression of the ancient & universal appliance of cooperation to social need.” #speirgorm

Complex, beautiful & with no discernible beginning or end, the Celtic knot embodies the cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth. These digital versions also reminds us of our intricate dance with technology - bound up together in a continuous cycle.

"Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future ... in the "here and now," which constitutes the situation within which they are submerged, from which they emerge, and in which they intervene."

Often, people simply want to trade 'facts' and call this connection - claiming arbitrage of the truth whilst reinforcing a dynamic. Right/wrong conditioning ignores the beautifully intricate, contradictory interdependence of reality. Strange loops, indeed.

A system built on dehumanization.

A Three Body Problem: [ Feudalism 2.0, Enlightenment 2.0, Romanticism 2.0 ]

Mindfulness reminder to self: Every bite carries a system of care and control. To eat mindfully is to taste that paradox.

"It’s an attempt to create a local food system and is like microdosing socialism" - Hell’s Kitchen Farm Project Volunteer, New York

"It’s still uncertain how to solve the terrible maths of food’s climate problem... we need to keep trying things until there is some tangible progress." This looks like an interesting read. Thank you for the heads-up @irishrainforest.bsky.social

In Vietnam, they say 'về để đi' - to return, in order, to go. Just like the Sankofa bird in the image, I'll look back to move forward. Next week, I'll be sharing lessons from some past projects that still resonate today in the hopes that they might spark some insights and further explorations.

Walked past a ‘Rebuild Ukraine’ pitch in Berlin's Factory back in 2023 and popped in out of curiosity. This image was on the screen, presented by a Ukrainian mining official. The map tells the story, no? Ukraine has around five per cent of the world’s total mineral resources.

Every now and again, I think about the 'endangered elements' table from my material science lectures. Some of these are in your phone right now. Funny how we were taught to design engineer for linear mass production while staring at a chart screaming: 'We’re running out.'. #TechWaste #RightToRepair

if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything

In the past my teammates picked up military-related projects that I was able to turn down because management knew someone else would do it. This, unfortunately, does not surprise.