We have the maps, the curves, the data. But we barely change. Maybe the climate crisis is not only a crisis of knowledge, but foremost a crisis of feeling. So how do you change a feeling? Saturday, Hay Festival Arequipa. #HayArequipa26
Frank Steinhofer
@franksteinhofer.com
🌱 For a climate change within the mind. Novelist and a contributing writer for Der Spiegel, SZ or the Architectural Review. Topics are mostly about environmental and social justice. https://www.franksteinhofer.com
There are two kinds of political joy. One needs someone left out: it cheers for walls, prisons, deportations. The other grows the more people share it: it cheers for democracy, diversity, a forest left standing.
"So we ask a question we believe is more fundamental than yours: what other values could artificial intelligence really have? You are the only example it has." » movilizatorio.org/un-mensaje-d...
Move fast and fell things. The hubris is truly disgusting.
‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push
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on the popularity of AfD in China diyin.org/article/2026...
德国极右翼政党崛起：中文网络的政治代餐，克里姆林宫与华盛顿共同下注的筹码
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¿Cómo se narran los conflictos ambientales en los medios?Gran honor ser parte de esta conversación en el Goethe-Institut en Lima, y muchas ganas de escuchar.
Should we cool data centres or poison humans, animals and livelihoods? Let's destroy the ecosystem with forever chemicals!
‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth. Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret. One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long:
How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
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No joke - was just considering the fact that the Nazis are eight points clear in the German polls when, twice in ten minutes, two different white German men barged into my back as I was carrying two handfuls and a rucksack of groceries. Just a perfect illustration of the growing misanthropy here.
Wahlrecht.de@wahlrecht.de · 3mo agoSonntagsfrage pollytix zur Bundestagswahl • AfD 28 % | CDU/CSU 20 % | SPD 15 % | GRÜNE 13 % | DIE LINKE 11 % | FDP 5 % | BSW 4 % | Sonstige 4 % ➤ Übersicht: wahlrecht.de/umfragen/ ➤ pollytix: wahlrecht.de/umfragen/wei...
Black children should be able to swim safely. Germany's far-right party leader calls it "Apartheid." Whoever uses that word for a children's pool either doesn't know what Apartheid was – or knows exactly what they're doing. And yet this party is currently leading in the polls in parts of Germany.
Nach Drohungen - Volksbühne sagt Veranstaltung für Schwarze Kinder im "Volksbad" ab
Eine Veranstaltung im Pop-Up-Bad vor der Berliner Volksbühne, die am Freitag für Schwarze Kinder und Jugendliche gedacht war, wird abgesagt.
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Reconocer el cuerpo de tu hermana por las manos, a través de una pantalla. Llorar el terremoto de Venezuela desde Los Ángeles. No poder abrazar a tu mamá. Porque los papeles no te lo permiten ...
Reconocer cuerpos por videollamada: el duelo a distancia de la migración venezolana
Tras el terremoto en La Guaira, dos migrantes en Los Ángeles vivieron la pérdida de sus familias por videollamada. Sin permiso para salir de EE UU, lidian entre el dolor del exilio y la burocracia mig...
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“We stand at the dawn of massive climate-change-induced displacement, with no substantive discussion about how to deal with it, & no interest in exploring our planetary responsibility for those whose homes will be devastated by desertification & flooding.” —Joshua Craze
What Comes After The Refugee Camp | NOEMA
As humanitarian funding collapses, the global system for dealing with refugees is coming apart at the seams.
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»La gran paradoja de nuestro tiempo es que algunos países que durante siglos expandieron imperios, promovieron la esclavitud y las migraciones forzadas buscan criminalizar el acto más antiguo de la humanidad: ponerse en camino para vivir con dignidad.« – Clara Brugada, jefa de Gobierno de CDMX.
La ciudad como refugio
La gran paradoja de nuestro tiempo es que algunos países que durante siglos promovieron la esclavitud y las migraciones forzadas, buscan criminalizar el acto más antiguo de la humanidad: ponerse en ca...
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The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4mo agoAt one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.
Herencias inusuales, viajes improbable, invenciones asombrosas y formas de volver a casa. Esta semana les traemos tres relatos peruanos. Regresamos en un par de meses con nuestra temporada 16. ¡Nos vemos! Escucha el episodio aquí: radioambulante.org/audio/la-ciu...
Mit dabei: #Mamihlapinatapai aus der Sprache Yaghan. Es beschreibt den bedeutungsvollen Blick zwischen zwei Menschen, die beide etwas beginnen möchten, aber darauf warten, dass die andere Person den ersten Schritt macht.
Laut Jury: Das schönste Wort der Welt wurde gekürt und überrascht!
Wann ist ein Wort schön? Liegt es am Klang oder der Bedeutung? Die Sprachlern-App Babbel kürte jetzt das wohl schönste Wort der Welt
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Peru just passed a law requiring a university degree to be a recognized artist. Sara Flores learned her Shipibo-Konibo art from her community, not a classroom. This law doesn't protect artists. It protects elitist circles. And erases indigenous creativity. Again.
Sara Flores, the Peruvian Indigenous artist bringing Amazonian traditions into contemporary art
For the first time, Peru’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale will be occupied by someone from the Shipibo-Conibo community. In her studio in the jungle, she designs and paints ‘kené’ on fabric
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This is what climate inequality looks like: the elites in climate suits while everyone else faces the heat. Soon they'll be designing Earth suits instead of protecting the Earth. Green capitalism's final business model. #Degrowth www.rdworldonline.com/the-science-...
The science behind the Prada-designed spacesuit for Artemis
Axiom Space and Prada unveiled the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment which will be worn during the Artemis IV mission.
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This landmark decision has received little attention. For the first time, a European state, in this case Belgium, has been ordered to compensate victims of colonisation.
Métis case: Court of Cassation confirms Belgium’s accountability for colonial-era crimes against humanity
Joint Statement: African Futures Lab, Amnesty International, Pan African Lawyers Union and Reform Initiatives On 2 December 2024, the Brussels Court of
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The meal is imaginary, the comfort is real: South Korea's youth browse fake delivery apps to window shop for the soul.
Gen Z turn to ‘dopamine sites' for quick comfort - The Korea Times
At 2 a.m., Kim, a 25-year-old office worker, opens a site designed to look like a food delivery app, though he has no plan to order. He chooses men...
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Polenz zu Aussöhnung in Namibia: »Wir hatten den Verband vorbereitet, doch seit fünf Jahren können wir ihn nicht anlegen.« Der eine schlägt die Wunde, und bestimmt dann das Pflaster, den Zeitplan – und nennt es Heilung? Aussöhnung verordnet man nicht von der Seite, die einen Völkermord begangen hat.
(S+) Namibia und Gedenken an den Genozid: Warum die deutsche Aussöhnung seit Jahren nicht vorankommt
Die Verhandlungen zwischen Deutschland und Namibia treten auf der Stelle. Die Grünen fordern nun, die Bundesregierung müsse sich auch ohne einen Versöhnungsvertrag für den Genozid des Kaiserreichs ent...
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An album no one wants to complete: in Jalisco, families of the disappeared have made Panini-style stickers of their missing loved ones in Mexico's jersey. The World Cup spotlight is on. 134,000+ are still gone. "The ball returns. When will they?"
El álbum que nadie quiere completar: los desaparecidos de Jalisco se convierten en cromos del mundial
A semanas del inicio de la Copa del Mundo, familias de personas desaparecidas comparten imágenes de sus seres queridos retratados como jugadores de la selección mexicana
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'We have learned to live sick', a mother says. How US overconsumption is using Mexico as a garbage sink. The harrowing result: over 1,000+ 'sacrifice zones' where cancer and miscarriages have been normalized.
US is ‘using Mexico as a garbage sink’ leading to ‘toxic crisis’, UN expert says
Marcos Orellana, a special rapporteur, found lax environmental standards and lack of oversight allowed pollution to accumulate
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New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.
Refusing to accept big tech's AI-poisoned 'future of journalism'
Humans, however flawed, are
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The Pelicot case shone a spotlight on this: While the public attention moved elsewhere, this behavior did not disappear. In shocking group chats, @cnn.com reports now how men encourage one another to drug and assault their wives – and swap tips on getting away with it.
Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection
CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.
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Every annoying person in your life adds 5.5 days to your biological age per year, a new study finds. Dealing with 'hasslers' shortens your life!
Now we have proof: dealing with difficult people really does age you
Researchers have found evidence of what many of us always suspected: ‘hasslers’ shorten your lifespan. And they know by exactly how long
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The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño
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Big Tech bedient sich "im Giftschwank der europäischen Geistesgeschichte". Für mich, eine sehr erhellende Analyse über den Rechtsruck von Digital-Oligarchen von @chrixcoenen.bsky.social
Der Rechtsruck der Big-Tech-Bosse
In der Ideologie der US-Tech-Bosse und in der aktuellen US-Politik macht der Politikwissenschaftler Christopher Coenen faschistische Tendenzen aus.
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