"Humans are not without agency; as a species we decide, consciously or not, what we carry into the future." - Isaac Asimov Will humanity decide to have a future I wonder?

"Humans are not without agency; as a species we decide, consciously or not, what we carry into the future." Nina Beguš on how Isaac Asimov’s work has influenced AI’s development: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/asimov-robotics-laws-claude-chatbots-consciousness-human-interaction/

Toto is Ithumba's new team leader. Most evenings now, it's Toto out in front, walking the herd back to the stockades. In April, he graduated from Kaluku to Ithumba alongside Mwinzi and Natibu, taking the next step back to the wild. Read their story: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates...

New York City just had a flash flood through the Canadian wildfire smoke blotting out our skies. This is the future sellout politicians like Kathy Hochul have in store for us. It is unacceptable . Any politician who accepts fossil fuel and data center money should expect disruption.

Recently updated on our site: Grief and loss books for children. 📚👍🏼 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/grief... #kidlit Grief and loss themed books for children and teens with titles by Britta Teckentrup, Samuel Langley-Swain, Judith Kerr, Harry Woodgate, Laur...

Someone was arrested in Scotland yesterday for reading the poem "Don't mention the children" by Michael Rosen, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social The West really doesn't want us to mention the children of Gaza that Israel has murdered and continues to murder. #poetry #Scotland #Gaza

“This is the precursor to socialists, academics, journalists, artists and unionists ending up in concentration camps. Understand what is happening and protect yourself and your community. America is sick, and its sickness will spread.” - David Milner, Journalist

As Northwestern Ontario fires rage, First Nations leaders whose support is instrumental for developing the proposed Ring of Fire mines say they feel burned by poor communication and inaction. ricochet.media/indigenous/a... My latest for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social

#Poetry #Painting #Maine lie gently and wide to the light-year stars, lie back, and the sea will hold you. - Philip Booth 🎨 Peter Poskas

Amboseli's elephants have been studied for decades – so when researchers watched a seven-month-old bull's mother vanish in 2012, they knew exactly who he was. Today Faraja is 14, roaming the Chyulu Hills. Read Faraja's rescue story: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans/faraja

It feels like the English team is offended by the concept of France

This video is not from Iran, not from Yemen, not from Saudi Arabia, not from Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE, and not from Qatar. This is Gaza, last night. The inferno continues, but now in total and complete silence!

The Ontario government budgeted less for wildfire management across the entire province in 2026 ($150M) than it plans on spending on a Toronto parking garage ($200M).

Israel dumps some of its most toxic waste on Palestinian land in the West Bank. In places like Hebron, families living near electronic waste dumps face serious health repercussions, with no relief in sight. mondoweiss.net/2026/07/isra...

Once in a while an article comes along that blows you away. This is one of those pieces. Western liberals repress the reality of the Palestinian catastrophe "not because they know nothing, but because they know too much – and what they know, if inhabited fully, would cost them their world.”

Fundraiser for victims of genocide makes the supporters of genocide feel uncomfortable, says Europe's pro-genocide tsar

Residents of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins, see footage of the aftermath of their community that has been destroyed by wildfires.

Canada is not as nice as people think.

New data examining respectful maternity care has revealed Indigenous people in Canada are experiencing widespread mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth. Tiar Wheatle shares with us a woman from Hollow Water First Nation who has studied this data.

Not only should we not draw cartoons that people disagree with (and they are free to do so in a democracy) - we should be punished for it. I wonder what kind of punishment they have in mind.

“But here I was, on an unfinished exit ramp and a 50-foot drop into a man-made canyon of nothing.” Read Susan Daitch's "Advice from a Stunt Double," our latest digital release from the new issue: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/susan-daitch-fiction-traffic-advice-from-a-stunt-double/

Liberals talk a good game but in the end they always side with money over humanity. Liberals are the worst of hypocrites and Canadians need to wake up. Mark Carney and his party are no different from Doug Ford and his conservatives. Funneling money to the ruling class is all they're interested in.

Myanmar’s Citizenship Law excludes the Rohingya from the country’s officially recognised ethnic groups, rendering them stateless and undocumented. They cannot get citizenship. They cannot move freely or legally work. They exist in a permanent legal vacuum—biologically alive, politically dead.

Americans must really hate how much China is influencing their elections…

OTTAWA – A small Ontario First Nations community that was burned to the ground by a raging wildfire on Monday is being deprived of the help it needs because the federal government doesn’t recognize it as a First Nation, the community’s lawyer said.

3/ In the meantime, please give what you can. bsky.app/profile/anis...

2/ The federal government must recognize Namaygoosisagagun’s status, reimburse them for the services they should have provided and give them the resources they need to recover from this disaster.

1/ Outrageous and unacceptable. The Namaygoosisagagun First Nation wasn’t warned of the blaze that burned their community to the ground and were not given supports to evacuate.

This is exactly what I would expect from Doug Ford, that or another useless highway. Anything that will make his friends money. thebeaverton.com

Oil companies profit from pollution. We pay for the wildfires. They're making billions. We're breathing smoke.

"You shouldn't get a medal for being victimized. You shouldn't be getting a medal for being robbed by your own government." Betty Brown, 92, the oldest surviving victim of the UK Post Office scam. "We want compensation, and prison sentences, not worthless medals." #UK #PostOfficeScandal

She had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health," and that "he was abusive in their relationship." So they knew they were sending a crazy violent man with a gun out to fill their jail quota.

14 Palestinian mourners were killed today by Israel at a funeral procession. Is this Trump's idea of a ceasefire? Is this Kushner & Witkoff's idea of peace? Is this Trump ending a 3,000-year-old war? 73,260 Palestinians are now dead! Does this mess warrant Trump getting the Nobel Peace Prize?

Aww. It looks like someone's Hollywood star needs a chain link fence, scaffolding, a stripey curtain-tarp, and two or three National Guard soldiers protecting it.

More lawsuits for Kevin!

This looks like a volcano eruption but it's the sky over Thunder Bay, Ontario. Pilot Scott Hatton shot this view from his cockpit ✈️ The fires have created their own weather. Instead of rain these clouds generate lightning & violent winds, sparking new blazes. C: Jeo Albant, Natural Sciences Analyst

Stolen goods. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Discarded. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social

Leaderlike. My @smh cartoon.

Staggeringly brilliant essay! Israeli propaganda is often visibly shoddy because its mission isn't credibility, it's to find something as quickly as possible that will introduce a trace of doubt, or give to those who wish to look away a reason to do so. And the West is desperately eager to look away

An undercover investigation reveals how western donors evade charity law to support illegal Israeli settlements. Western nations claim to oppose Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. However, Al Jazeera exposes how donors based in some Western countries fund the expansion of illegal settlements.

"In this episode, the crime is not only murder, it is also language—language that refuses to behave, language that has been assigned criminal intent." Huda Fakhreddine on campus activism in "Law and Order": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/law-order-racist-dick-wolf-middle-eastern-studies/

“It’s worth repeating that the entire reason this government was elected was because people wanted and expected it to stand up to the Trump administration.” - Luke Savage, Canadian journalist

Malaysia will immediately deport any Israeli citizens found in the country, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Wednesday. www.jpost.com/internationa...

"Verify your age" On my first domestic airplane flight, there was no non-smoking section.

Incredible though it may seem now here's how virtually no-one at Paramount had faith in THE GODFATHER (1972), Coppola, Brando, Pacino, it being set in the 1940's or even New York as the location. Thank god the non-Creative bean counters lost out.

New from @EmpirePodUK Algeria: Repression, Torture, Freedom linktr.ee/empirepoduk

First poster for the ‘Hershey’ biopic, in theatres on Nov. 25 Do you think they’ll include the child slavery story angle?

By failing to address the state-backed nature of the settler crimes, international condemnations create a false distinction between settlers and the government. This just enables more attacks.