Nathan Cofnas and the US Ambassador to Belgium say that the University of Ghent have now lifted his suspension, thanking the US government for supporting him (with threats of retaliation). The Ambassador says that Cofnas will be able to complete his one year appointment to March 2027.
"Data center expansion is entirely unnecessary for advanced AI...models can be over 100,000 times smaller than ChatGPT. Some require no more resources to train or serve than...a webpage." Minimal resource use, maximal privacy. Why isn't* Big Tech doing this? *yeah, we know why not.
The AI we want without the data centers we don't: It's possible | Op-Ed
We don’t need to burn our climate commitments or pave over fields and ranches to realize the benefits of artificial intelligence.
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Coming climate shockwaves over the next two decades are likely to kill between 2 and 4 billion people, research shows. What has been the response of corporate media invested in the very activities fuelling those deaths? Silence, of course. Media Lens explain: medialens.substack.com/p/4-billion-...
4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’
If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050...
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Piers Morgan “Mohammed, do you condemn the Hamas attacks on October the 7th?” Mohammed Hijab “Yes, I do. Do you condemn Israel killing over 1000 kids?” Piers Morgan “I believe Israel has a right to defend themselves” That answer should be on the tombstone of his career.
the good news is that, for at least the foreseeable future, these humanoid robots can be easily defeated by utilizing any number of foiling tactics demonstrated in your run-of-the-mill looney tunes cartoon.
Hahaha. We need so much more of this Private Eye style ridicule when it comes to Farage. No one should be taking him seriously any more.
Every single journalist in Britain should read this searing essay by Will Self
Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media
After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest.
willself1.substack.com
It's been 10 months since a ceasefire was declared in Gaza, but Palestinians are still being killed on a daily basis. Graça Machel, Deputy Chair of The Elders, warns that diplomatic talks cannot be an excuse for inaction
“The way that political issues have become reframed as matters of security, to create ‘a world in which fellow civilians are the principal threat, and where military and surveillance technologies are deployed to “fight’ them’.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...
From CCTV to digital data, states are policing problems t...
The migrant breach in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta reveals how increased securitisation by governments inevitably leads to a paranoia ‘doom loop’
observer.co.uk
Capitalism Trains Us To Blame Each Other For Systemic Abuses Our minds have been carefully groomed to accept the imperial status quo as normal and healthy, and to see every failure of the system as a failure of the individual. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/capitalism...
Capitalism Trains Us To Blame Each Other For Systemic Abuses
Reading by Tim Foley:
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we are seeing the same behaviours they did after caroline flack as well bloody hypocritical bastards
The answer to the question "Why is that terrible thing happening?" is usually "Because it makes some rich white guys wealthier" or "Because it helps shore up US planetary domination" or "Because Israel wants it," and it's usually some combination of all three.
Glad to have added my name to a letter from 50 green groups urging PM to be clear that #climate breakdown is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. The public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces & offers a robust plan to tackle them
Green groups urge Andy Burnham to break silence on climate crisis
More than 50 organisations say PM urgently needs to show leadership and prepare British people for scale of change needed as UK struggles through another heatwave
theguardian.com
My LinkedIn is full of an endless stream of UK diplomats announcing they’ve left govt service. This due to extreme cuts to foreign aid and diplomacy (much of it spearheaded by Olly Robbins). It’s hard to look at the world today and think “this is a good time to be losing experienced diplomats.”
The role of the media, from the BBC to Fox, is to so clog up our minds with propaganda extolling iPhones and jeans that we choose to continue worshipping at the altar of capitalism, even as the walls of the temple visibly crack and crumble. My latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-dying-we...
A dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can't imagine life without capitalism
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us. It's time to find value in something more than a new iPhone or pair of jeans
jonathancook.substack.com
It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.
I’ve written for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social about the media’s language in reporting the riots in Thetford. www.thenewworld.co.uk/mic-wright-t...
The media calls the Thetford mob ‘protestors’. That’s letting rioters off the hook
Language matters in reporting. From “legitimate concerns” to “angry, frustrated locals”, our press is downplaying racism and violence
thenewworld.co.uk
A broken economic model is driving humanity to a climate catastrophe; the World Inequality Lab (WIL) has a solution we should all consider | Bob Copeland
Review: Global Justice Report 2026: A plan for equality & prosperity within planetary boundaries
A broken economic model is driving humanity to a climate catastrophe; the World Inequality Lab (WIL) has a solution we should all consider
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This was one of the bleakest articles I've ever had to write. For as bad as this year's weather has been, El Niño will ensure that next year is worse. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
Call this a hot summer? This phenomenon explains why next year may be worse
El Niño is yet to peak, bringing more heat to an already burning planet
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Israel murdered another journalist. Nobody will even mention it.
The experience of being chased by a murderous kamikaze drone, a flying machine that behaves as if it were alive, is not one that humans are equipped to understand: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Dystopian Future Dawns in Kherson
Putin’s human safari in Ukraine is the beginning of a grim new normal.
theatlantic.com
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
They don't give a toss about the world burning because they are dreaming about how much they can charge you for AC, food and water.
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
WATCH: ProPublica & @drilledmedia.bsky.social found that oil and gas companies have been funding climate research at prestigious US universities for 30+ years. This research fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels: propub.li/3TTgAGp
I went to look for Stephen Collins' Michael Gove cartoon because I was going to ask if any of Collins' colleagues at the Guardian realised it was about them too, and found this excellent piece on columnist creep by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social: brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/i-have-a-c...
I have a child! Of course, I should be Education Secretary
Columnist mission creep has given us a monster as Prime Minister and a media stuffed with unuseful idiots.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Even though the Government can move fast enough to restructure a whole department for AI in a day, somehow it can't manage to ask us before building a data centre next door. Sign this: the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...
No AI data centres built until local communities are consulted!
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