My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

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A company that would experiment on its own users like this, and obfuscated what it was doing, is not one that will abide by any "duty to act responsibly." @ntusikov.bsky.social and I lay out exactly why not in this Policy Options piece. policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/07/bill...

Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech

Bill C-34 puts too much faith in Big Tech. Canada should regulate the algorithms, data practices and business models that drive online harm.

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Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 21h ago

BOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A very worrisome study showing just how prevalent multi-drug resistant E. coli bacteria are around the world! E. coli is one of the most common bacteria to cause human infections especially urinary tract, abdominal and blood stream infections (sepsis). Limited treatment options. Not good!

Molecular Epidemiology and Drug Resistance of Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli Bloodstream Isolates From Adults Worldwide (2011–2023)

AbstractBackground. Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) can colonize and infect body sites outside the intestines, which can lead to invasi

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"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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The biggest cost Trump is imposing on us is the cost of doing nothing about three worsening crises that threaten the very survival of America and the world: climate change, AI, and widening inequality.

The Biggest Cost of Trump

It goes far beyond guns vs. butter

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One of the most fascinating facts about the ocean, is that there are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written. Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old. Original post

update: they still haven't retracted their wildly misleading X posts

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 3d ago

Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"By now, limiting warming to ~1.7C requires the same transformational change that limiting warming to 1.5C would have required in 2018-2020"

Overshoot: challenges and choices after we exceed 1.5°C

YouTube video by CMCC Channel

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Geopolitics and Security Studies Center analyst Dionis Cenusa on the Ceuta crisis: “Ceuta is a geopolitical node that today involves the traditional interests of Spain and the emerging interests of the US and Israel related to Iran and the Middle East. 1/

A few weeks ago, the world crossed a major solar milestone: 3 terawatt installed. Why did no one notice? 0.1 TW to 1 TW: 120 months 1 TW to 2 TW: 29 months 2 TW to 3 TW: 19 months Gift link to the story 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

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“Western Europe is on fire. From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea, blazes are burning in France, Spain, Greece and Türkiye. Authorities are already calling it the worst fire season in modern history.” The worst so far. #ClimateCrisis

Europe pays the price in a summer where heat went off the charts

Stefan Rahmstorf was holidaying in southern France when he came face to face with the climate future he has tried to fight.

abc.net.au

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

“Europe is ground zero when it comes to impacts” from climate change… “2026 is just the beginning,” Professor Rockström added. “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse to the point where, I’m afraid, we’ll be passing the limits of adaptation.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/w...

Europe’s Summer of Reckoning Is ‘Just the Beginning’ (Gift Article)

The continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and “it will get worse,” one climate expert said.

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What if we did city planning as if well paying jobs everywhere in the city was just as important for affordability as affordable housing is?

Hi @cathmckenna.bsky.social - given your calls for a windfall tax on excess oil profits, thought you’d find this latest news from Portugal of interest!

Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism!@betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 5d ago

UPDATE: Portugal has now approved a windfall tax on oil profits!!! Hi @mark-carney.bsky.social - how about 🇨🇦 copies 🇵🇹? It would be a great way to generate some $$ for Building Canada Strong - social programs, climate action, infrastructure, civil defence… (the fossil firms will be fine, promise)

A coal mine expansion!?!?!? Ummmm……Canada is on fire and the government permits a coal mine expansion?!?!?! I have no words….

Plans for sprawling coal mine expansion forge ahead in Alberta despite opposition | CBC News

A sprawling expansion of a massive thermal coal mine near Hinton, Alta., has been approved by Alberta’s provincial regulator, clearing the way for the operator to extend the life of the project well i...

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The most important change of the past 50 years has been the ascendancy of knowledge as a commodity, ripped from context. It started with IP’s centralization in the global economy and continued with the datafication of everything.

Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our relationship to visual evidence is being profoundly disrupted by GenAI tools, which will impact how we know, what we can know, and what we think can be known about the world. A massive epistemological shift is upon us.

Whales are not simply animals of the sea. They are apart of a system that stabilizes climate by supporting phytoplankton growth and carbon capture. When their populations decline, the ripple spreads outward.

Worth reading ⬇️ Canada should ban surveillance pricing

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 6d ago

With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/

New research suggests data centers have an alarming and overlooked environmental impact: heat pollution. CNN's Laura Paddison reports.

Our burning of fossil fuels is making the world burn.

Human-caused climate change made Spanish, French fires much more likely, scientists calculate

Two new studies reveal climate change's fingerprints over extreme fire weather-triggering infernos in Spain and France.

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Canada, USA, Europe, and Africa are all burning. Oil and gas are prime cause of climate change which is responsible for the record breaking wildfires. No more subsidies/tax breaks to oil giants. Amp up funding for renewables

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 5d ago

Wildfires in Europe are “very worrying”, says Shell boss, as oil giant cashed in on high prices to make bumper Q 2profits of almost $10bn. "My heart goes out to the many who are suffering from it” Sawan abandoned many green investments made by his predecessor www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Weather forecasting is a good example of why @ntusikov.bsky.social argues that the US evisceration of its regulatory and scientific agencies means Canada needs more, not less, government to pick up the slack. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Whither the weather balloons? U.S. changes leave Canada with less notice of storms, experts say

American stations have strayed from regular launch times observed around the globe as part of co-ordinated scientific effort

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Trump announced yesterday he will repurpose huge chunks of federal lands to host AI data centers. This massive giveaway to Big Tech comes despite surging public opposition to data centers— including among Trump's own voters.

Please read..... #BookSky

What happened to elbows up?

Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦@kaicable.bsky.social · 5d ago

More U.S. military integration. General Dynamics is a U.S. defence contractor. Canadians also need to understand that these are not 'dumb' vehicles, but have U.S. integrated smart systems in place. #cdnpoli #canada www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Shell profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion, second-highest on record, as Iran war lifts prices

Shell's ​net profit more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by ‌higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle Eas...

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Doug keeps calling us his friends 🤷‍♀️. Why doesn’t he listen to us?! 😡

The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 6d ago

SCOOP: The Doug Ford government received 98.98% opposition to its plan to replace Ontario’s Endangered Species Act with weaker legislation, according to an internal analysis viewed by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social. The bill passed anyway. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...