La médaille franco-australienne rappelle le rôle essentiel du Premier Ministre australien Bob Hawke et du Premier Ministre français Michel Rocard qui ont fait de l'Antarctique un continent dédié à la paix et à la science et préservé de l'extraction sauvage des ressources. Bravo à Clara Péron !

Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle@mnhn.fr · 4mo ago

🏅👏 Félicitations à Clara Péron, spécialiste de la biologie marine en Antarctique au Muséum, distinguée par la médaille Hawke-Rocard ! Cette reconnaissance souligne l’excellence des travaux menés par les équipes @borea.mnhn.fr sur les écosystèmes marins subantarctiques et antarctiques. 🇦🇶🌊

Félicitations Clara !

Félicitations à Clara Péron @borea.mnhn.fr @mnhn.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr lauréate de la médaille Hawke-Rocard, remise ce mardi 9 juin 2026, première distinction conjointe franco-australienne dédiée à l’Antarctique, en reconnaissance de son engagement et de son parcours scientifique !

🏅👏 Félicitations à Clara Péron, spécialiste de la biologie marine en Antarctique au Muséum, distinguée par la médaille Hawke-Rocard ! Cette reconnaissance souligne l’excellence des travaux menés par les équipes @borea.mnhn.fr sur les écosystèmes marins subantarctiques et antarctiques. 🇦🇶🌊

BOREA@borea.mnhn.fr · 4mo ago

Félicitations à Clara Péron @borea.mnhn.fr @mnhn.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr lauréate de la médaille Hawke-Rocard, remise ce mardi 9 juin 2026, première distinction conjointe franco-australienne dédiée à l’Antarctique, en reconnaissance de son engagement et de son parcours scientifique !

Great intervention from Quinn Slobodian on the pros/cons of “imperialism" to describe the digital terrain. My only dissent is that the tech fraction of capital is part of the crisis of accumulation feeling the actually-imperialist statecraft proliferating www.theideasletter.org/essay/digita...

Digital Bandung - The Ideas Letter

The recent turn to the language of “digital empire” and “data colonialism” captures aspects of the concentration of technological power, but often mistakes polemic for analysis. Slobodian revisits the...

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🚀Just launched: THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF FOOD💥 Food prices & hunger are rising. Crisis after crisis exposes how fragile our global food systems have become. But governments have tools to stabilise markets & reduce vulnerability. We call it resilient self-reliance. 📘 ipes-food.org/report/the-n...

Beneath one of the harshest landscapes on Earth, archaeologists uncovered evidence of a forgotten world — and the scale of it is staggering. theconversation.com/we-found-hun... #ScienceAndTech

We found hundreds of huge ancient mass graves hidden in the Sahara desert

The circular mass graves were filled with the bones of people and animals, often carefully arranged around a key person at the centre.

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" @volteuropa.org : « Nous avons besoin d’une vie politique européenne »", une tribune de @svenfranck.bsky.social à lire sur le site de Sauvons l'Europe : www.sauvonsleurope.eu/volt-europa-...

Volt Europa : "Nous avons besoin d’une vie politique européenne" - Sauvons l'Europe

Sven Franck, figure reconnue du mouvement politique citoyen Volt Europa, nous a fait sa part de sa candidature en interne à la coprésidence de ce parti transeuropéen  qui colle aux valeurs de Sauvons ...

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“The techniques perfected during the War on Terror were limited by scope and capacity—fascist targeting of certain types of brown-and-bearded people, but not everyone. Targeting everyone wasn’t even possible. Gorka + AI have solved that problem” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/no-youre-t...

No, You’re The Terrorist, You Terrorist!

Sebastian Gorka was counter-terrorism czar during the first year of Trump 1.0, but got shitcanned as swiftly as he had been hired.

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“K” is both the shape of immiseration and the permanent war economy. open.substack.com/pub/undiplom...

Why Illegal Wars Make Markets High

“K” is both the shape of immiseration and the permanent war economy.

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I loved Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton when it came out, but it’s way more cringe and politically problematic than I remember! Hilarious convo w/ comedian @hiremeimfunny.bsky.social on the latest episode www.bangbangpod.com/p/hamilton-a...

“Insofar as distant regions appear stable...US strategy credits itself... But such a claim is one of faith, not necessarily proof, and its promise of security gives way time and again to a widening scarcity of security, even for the dominant power.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Geopolitical sacrifice zones in US strategic thought: erasure, the frontier and the Blue Pacific

Bridging the critical concepts of the spatial frontier and sacrifice zones with strategic thought, this article argues that Washington’s recent geopolitical ‘rediscovery’ of the Pacific primarily r...

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An estimated two-thirds of the world’s gold in the late Middle Ages may have come from West Africa. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-gold-t...

The Gold Trade and Currency of Medieval West Africa (1000-1900 CE)

An estimated two-thirds of the world’s gold in the late Middle Ages may have come from West Africa.

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3,000 people have read our @environmentalpol.bsky.social article in its 1st month online The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest - a repertoire of repression With @crossdale.bsky.social, C Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social & T Franco Brotto

The Iran conflict sends a dangerous signal: that security lies in acquiring nuclear weapons. In their recent statement, Elders outlined the war’s escalating nuclear risks. Read in full: theelders.org/news/war-ira...

This piece on Palantir death-tech and the kill chain is breathtakingly good www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

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Attac appelle dans le cadre de La Digue contre l'extrême droite à la mobilisation citoyenne du 28 mars pour une résistance démocratique Rdv 11h Bastille où je prendrai la parole avec LDH Syndicat de la magistrature FSU Solidaires Amnesty international... www.humanite.fr/en-debat/dro...

Ensemble, faisons digue contre l’extrême droite - L'Humanité

Nous publions cet appel signé par des associations et des syndicats en soutien à la mobilisation citoyenne du 28 mars pour une résistance démocratique. ...

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When geopolitical “heavyweights” dominate vaccine production, access becomes more fragile. William Savedoff argues middle powers must collaborate to overcome access barriers. Read more: https://www.cgdev.org/blog/global-vaccine-security-still-needs-international-cooperation-are-middle-powers-key

Global Vaccine Security Still Needs International Cooperation: Are Middle Powers the Key?

“International relations” seems like an oxymoron these days, with diplomacy faint and bombs exploding. Countries that once relied on alliances and negotiation only a decade ago are disregarding the be...

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The fact that Zelensky has not told so many people to fuck off who more than deserved it over the years it is a testament to his character, patience and leadership. He never gives up trying to placate and persuade people no matter how ignorant & insufferable they are. I could never do it. Few could.

A South African lawyer who helped shape the country’s democratic transition went on to broker peace in global conflict zones – leaving a legacy rooted in justice and reconciliation. theconversation.com/fink-haysom-... #Politics

Fink Haysom fought tirelessly for justice and reconciliation – in South Africa and on the global stage

The qualities forged by his intense involvement in the struggle for democratic practices shaped his approach to conflict and strife, wherever it occurred.

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I watched the Louis Theroux documentary on the Manosphere (it’s really good - do watch it). I saw it with my 18-year-old daughter. Five things I learned from viewing it with her:

Des personnes ont arrêté de nous soutenir financièrement car nous sommes "trop politiques" chez Bon Pote. Nous y répondons.

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis

The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

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"The share of national income going to the bottom 90% of earners has decreased dramatically since the 1970s. This shift is stark: if the distribution of income had not changed from 1975 to 2023, workers would have earned an additional $79 trillion over that period.” labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Viewpoint: Why Oligarchs Want a Recession

A recession is looming. Trump himself recently affirmed that his economic plans would induce a recession in the near term. He remarked when asked as much by an interviewer, “There is a period of trans...

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Without nuclear safeguards, risks multiply. With no treaty limiting US and Russian nuclear arsenals, decades of restraint give way to uncertainty, competition and greater danger for all.

"We have the means to detect outbreaks immediately, sequence pathogens in days, develop new vaccines in months. Yet pandemics are coming faster, threatening more lives and livelihoods... @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @michaelmarmot.bsky.social Monica Geingos www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

Inequality Will Make the Next Pandemic Worse

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Monica Geingos and Michael Marmot explain why preparations for the next global health crisis must address socioeconomic disparities.

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With Monica Geingos and @michaelmarmot.bsky.social a piece for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social Inequality isn't just about economics it's about global health. The Covid-19 pandemic was a nightmare. The next one could be worse if we don't take necessary steps www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

Inequality Will Make the Next Pandemic Worse

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Monica Geingos and Michael Marmot explain why preparations for the next global health crisis must address socioeconomic disparities.

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A privilege to work with Joe Stiglitz, Monica Geingos and Michael Marmot on the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS & Pandemics. Please read & amplify their call to action in Project Syndicate, to get world leaders to tackle inequality to keep us all safe. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

The full clip, including McKellen's setup of the scene, is here, along with info about the riots (Evil May Day) and the text of the speech itself. kottke.org/26/02/the-st...

The Strangers’ Case

I don’t normally say this, but if you watch one thing on kottke.org today, this week, this month, make it this speech written by Shakespeare and performed by

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue