As rivers dry up in soaring heat, most governments are massively expanding data centres which *dry up rivers*. The levels of absurdity & death cult are incredible. Now is the time to make investment unattractive, stop the worst. The rivers are ours, water is life. ethicalgeo.org/the-cloud-is...

The Cloud is Drying our Rivers: Water Usage of AI Data Centers  | EthicalGEO

Cloud computing is drying out our rivers, lakes, and oceans. The average 100-megawatt data center consumes about 2 million liters of water a day, equivalent to the water consumption of 6,500 American ...

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World! The video playlist from our 'Knowledge is our Sweet Power' programme is online! Catch up on co-research for socioecological justice, agrarian knowledge strategies and struggles, legal and investigative tactics to fight extractivism, racism and imperialism, and much more.

Knowledge is our Sweet Power - YouTube

Skilling-up for alliance, leverage and literacy!Knowledge is a weapon, a tool, even better: our sweet power. This year more than ever, we need skills and str...

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The rivers are literally drying up and the're building river-fed data centres like crazy all over. This is going to explode, as people notice who steals their water. Some maps of ongoing and emerging struggles: lenuageetaitsousnospieds.org (FR) + aufstaendederallmende.org/index.php/at... (CH)

In Austria too, more&bigger datacenters so that national energy consumption can double and triple. So we too can burn in hell with dried up rivers and failing crops, drowning in digital trash. We'll be eating and drinking AI. awareness and resistance are growing orf.at/stories/3364186/

Leopoldsdorf bekommt 2027 Rechenzentrum

Ein Google-Rechenzentrum, das in Kronstorf (Oberösterreich) gebaut wird, hat zuletzt für Aufsehen gesorgt. Es ist aber nicht das einzige Großprojekt, das in den nächsten Jahren ans Stromnetz gehen sol...

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Just out. Might have another longer episode with Morgan Ody coming too - it was a huge pleasure to talk and learn with her. Feminist leadership at its best, of an organization representing 200 mio peasants... So much resonance and alignment, food for thought indeed!

The Earthcare Fieldcast@earthcareradio.bsky.social · 2w ago

World! Listen to Morgan Ody, global coordinator of La Via Campesina, talk about what her coordinating role and solidarity building mean in this vast movement, and why earthcare and peoplecare are central to viable horizons for transformation - seeds for your summer! soundcloud.com/earthcarefie...

In Germany, the theater of a high-security trial is being used to paint Palestine solidarity activists as terrorists and criminals. The Ulm Five case shows how the German state and media are demonizing opponents of Israel’s crimes.

No Regrets for Being on the Right Side of History

Daniel Tatlow-Devally is one of five activists on trial in Germany over a direct action targeting Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems. In an interview from jail, he explains why he doesn’t regret it, and how the case has highlighted complicity with Israel.

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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

The plot is on fire indeed! Pure joy

- "Smarte Brillen" sammeln permanent Daten und scannen die Umgebung. - Palantir sammelt diese Daten aus dem Netz. - Sicherheitsbehörden kaufen die verknüpften Daten von Palantir. Erich Mielkes (Chef der DDR-Staatssicherheit) feuchte Träume werden wahr und die Leute findens "smart".

Nach Druck von Tech-Firmen auf EU: Letzte Hürde für Smart Glasses in Europa fällt

Eine Batterieverordnung der EU erschwerte die Markteinführung neuer Wearables in der europäischen Union stark. Nun erliess das Parlament eine Sonderregelung.

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Slovenian friends! This turned out quite nicely I think (except for the title picture maybe lol), just out today in case you fancy some summer reading :) www.rtvslo.si/okolje/ranlj...

"Ranljivosti in medsebojne odvisnosti nikoli ne bo mogoče odpraviti"

"Če pogledamo s feministične ali ekološke perspektive, ugotovimo, da je naš obstoj utemeljen na medsebojni odvisnosti. Pravzaprav sta ranljivost in medsebojna odvisnost vir naše moči," je prepričana r...

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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Der Protest gegen Rheinmetall in Berlin in den letzten Tagen ist genau das, was es an allen Standorten dieser Firma des Todes braucht. Ihre Produktion muss jeden Tag blockiert werden, ihr aus genozid und Krieg gespeister Profit muss gestoppt werden.

For those aurally inclined and noting that the plot is increasingly on fire: a conversation recorded during the first heat wave of my summer, London/May 2026/33ºC. Food for thought, in the wonderful company of @maxhaiven.bsky.social and other friends and complices - soundcloud.com/earthcarefie...

19. The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy

As myths of progress and modernisation collapse in the relentless polycrisis of our time, how do we strengthen other plots—in community, practice and struggle? How do we come together as movements for

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World! We're back with some burning new episodes! 🔥 First up: @maxhaiven.bsky.social in conversation with @manuelaz.bsky.social about the latter's new book: The Plot is on Fire. A book in fierce metabolism with this podcast! ❤️‍🔥 Tune in, enjoy, get reading and plotting soundcloud.com/earthcarefie...

19. The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy

As myths of progress and modernisation collapse in the relentless polycrisis of our time, how do we strengthen other plots—in community, practice and struggle? How do we come together as movements for

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Pink thing that travels and makes me travel, season #1 with gratitude to all the lovely friends and comrades along the way

Yesterday I workshopped future visions and transformations with fifty 14-year old kids and I'm glad to say they all know AI is their enemy

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🐴 European hobby horse championship comes to Prague Ready, set, hobby horse! Athletes holding stick horses compete in various events at the European hobby horse championship in Prague, Czech Republic. The one-day event brought together 243 competitors from 11 countries.

Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%

In a few hours!

Common Ecologies@commonecologies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us tomorrow! 4.30-5.30pm CET: Strategic Litigation Crash Course with Federico Alagna (COSMOS) and 6-7pm CET: Law at the Service of Movements and International Solidarity (Palestine) with Camille Barbagallo (European Legal Support Center). Online. Register: commonecologies.net/events/knowl...

Am 12.06.26 tritt das „Gemeinsame Europäische Asylsystem“ (#GEAS) in Kraft. Das System der Abschreckung, Freiheitsbeschränkung und Entrechtung wurde bereits an den EU-Außengrenzen erprobt. Weil es die humanitäre Lage Geflüchteter verschlimmert, veröffentlicht medico dazu eine kritische Handreichung.

I just finished Hannah Proctor’s ‘Burnout - The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat’. Next on my reading list for soothing troubling thoughts while remoting between cities is this book by @manuelaz.bsky.social 📚🚃

Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, which spoke with the doctors

What the wounds are telling us - European Press Prize

To view the full article in English in its original layout, including all images and graphics, please follow this link. Please note: the original publication contains explicit and disturbing images an...

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El coste físico de la inteligencia artificial: un informe de la ONU pone cifras a la huella ecológica de la IA e insta a los gobiernos a planificar el impacto de los centros de datos y a la industria a garantizar la transparencia y la justicia ambiental en todo el mundo. https://acortar.link/5Tv4BG

Very much looking forward to this. Join us

Common Ecologies@commonecologies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On 10 June we have two important sessions coming up, about how we use the law strategically to fight repression, racism, imperialism, etc. Join us for 1) a crash course on strategic litigation and 2) a conversation about the law and international solidarity. Talking alliances, literacy, leverage. ⬇️

Mossad got the Austrian secret services to grant asylum to a high ranking security official of the Assad regime syriaaccountability.org/justice-and-... the criminal is now on trial, but what about the criminal collaboration between Israel and Austria?

Justice and Accountability drowned in “Operation White Milk”

In mid-November, Austrian [https://kurier.at/chronik/oesterreich/bvt-skandal-die-dubiose-flucht-des-stasi-generals/401097168] media shed light on a scandal involving Austrian authorities and the Isra...

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profil@profil.at · 2mo ago

Das erste Mal verfolgt Österreichs Justiz mutmaßliche Handlanger des syrischen Assad-Regimes. profil war dabei.

Yesterday at Mayday Rooms was rich in conversation, tonight will be great too with @maxhaiven.bsky.social at Housmans bookshop - bests of London! Join us!

Very much looking forward to this conversation with Max and other London comrades, join us!

Pluto Press@plutopress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Plot is on Fire | @manuelaz.bsky.social w/ @maxhaiven.bsky.social | London | May 27 | @housmansbookshop.bsky.social housmans.com/event/book-l...

Join us for some agriculture and data extractivism mapping, along a presentation of my new book!

Pluto Press@plutopress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Plot is on Fire | @manuelaz.bsky.social | London | May 26 | MayDay Rooms maydayrooms.org/event/the-pl...

London, Dublin! Find me, with The Plot is on Fire, at Mayday Rooms on 26May events.maydayrooms.org/e/89/the-plo... at Housmans on the 27th housmans.com/events/ and the Dublin Rupture bookfair on the 30th (+/- 3pm) rupture.ie/bookfair

The Plot is on Fire with MayDay Rooms and Manuela Zechner

Many of the materials from our ecological holdings offer examples of organised attempts to confront ecological crisis through insurgent, ground-level...

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