There is nothing capitalists won't destroy in order to remake the world in their image.

The Tyee@thetyee.ca · last mo.

A Canadian deep-sea mining company may become the first to commercially mine the international seabed under a controversial U.S. executive order that bypasses United Nations regulations. A recent legal analysis suggests that this could place Canada in violation of international law.

"republicans worship jesus as an essentially pagan god of violence and money" is a post from I think here that struck me as really insightful

if you happen to be in the hague today around lunch 🤓

social trust evaporated when dewalt and home depot convinced every person in the world they needed to own their own drill instead of go next door and ask to borrow their neighbors or go to the community shed and borrow one.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Ferguson: "Just this weekend, I was shopping at a big home improvement store to buy a drill. I had to hit a call button and wait 15 minutes for an associate to unlock a padlock. Social trust has evaporated and people are taking advantage of it, and the same is true of our federal benefit programs."

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Tech hype isn't just marketing and PR—it's also alarm, paranoia, and propaganda. Fabian Muniesa argues today's hype matches what scholars Adorno and Horkheimer called reason's collapse into fascist madness.

Hype, Paranoia, and the Fascist Propensity in Tech

Tech hype quite visibly matches the traits once identified as the disease of modern reason and its collapse into fascist madness, writes Fabian Muniesa.

techpolicy.press

MUSTS colloquium 'Mobilizing for #sustainable #agriculture? Coalition-building cycles among #environmental and #rural movements in #Denmark, 1960s-today' by Anders Blok. 📅3 June, 15:30-17:00 📍GG80-82, 3.002 @ccmmody.bsky.social sky.social @matthewarcher.bsky.social

Anyway, I am side-eyeing this, which I feel begins in an interesting enough way and then dies by a thousand charts giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... and draws some very conservative conclusions, driven by correlation, that worry me as a feminist sociotechnical researcher

Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once

Homes and phones are part of the reason for the demographic shift changing our world

giftarticle.ft.com

totally unformed thought, but this seems part of a bigger trend of local politicians drinking the national politician koolaid and feeling like they are just totally unaccountable to their constituents. it's like the utah city council the other day who unanimously voted to approve a huge data center.

404 Media@404media.co · 3mo ago

The cameras accessed by Flock have included surveillance tech in a children’s gymnastics room, a playground, a school, a Jewish community center, and a pool. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social has more. Watch now: youtu.be/1Z4k_vDovbY?...

Members of the crowd react as the Box Elder County Commission votes unanimously to approve Kevin O'Leary's 9 gigawatt data center campus. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)

I had a great conversation last week with the editors and contributors of Media Rurality, a new book from @dukepress.bsky.social. Listen and read for important interventions into the often narrowly urban focus of our field.

just because there are conflicting definitions of a concept or debates about the definition of a concept doesn't mean there's "no meaningful definition" of that concept. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There is no meaningful definition of Ultra Processed Foods.

people arguing with a straight face that loose leaf tea is an ultra processed food. this is what i get for logging back on to this stupid website.

like....this is absolutely nonsensical. it's like saying a sprig of mint pulled out of your back garden and steeped in boiling water yields something that is 'ultra processed'. just baffling that this would even cross someone's mind.

Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At the final point of preparation you're just extracting a load of chemicals from the leaves using a convenient solvent. It's about at processed as you can get - you don't even consume the leaves, for heavens sake. That you boil the kettle yourself is neither here nor there, really.

it absolutely is not lol, at least no more than some slavic granny making pickles in her outhouse is producing UPFs. like do none of these people read?

Jo Michell@jomichell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Soy sauce is a good example of a UPF.

that is not what "ultra processed" means like wtaf is going on in these comments

Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My favourite thing in the "Ultra-Processed Food" debate is that people always ignore the two foodstuffs that genuinely are ultra-processed (tea and coffee), the existence of which demonstrates how utterly pointless it is as a definition.

sure there is a wellness-to-fascism pipeline (old news at this point, tbh), but ultra processed foods are objectively bad and it is very weird to try and equate antiUPF with antivax. the evidence is very clear that high UPF exposure is horrible for your health, that UPFs are bad for the environment,

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 3mo ago

Hot take into the void: "ultra-processed food" is basically the antivaxx conspiracy theory for people who think they're far too well informed to get hooked into anything like antivaxx.

A timely and critical collective essay on 'the state of the state', written by five members of our Editorial Board @will-davies.bsky.social @andrew-barry.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social Linsey McGoey and Samantha Ashenden www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The state of the state

Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...

tandfonline.com

Paper alert: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Our researcher, Pablo Fernandez Velasco, together with Virginia De Biasio, connects the experience of ecological grief to place attachment and incommensurable losses.

Place, Climate Change and the Experience of Loss

When places deteriorate due to climate change, people's connections to them (attachment) are also affected. The loss of the life possibilities sustained by places as a result of climate change is at ....

wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972–2022)

The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972–2022)

On a seemingly daily basis, we see attacks against the intellectual culture of the academic humanities, which, since the 1960s, have opened up spaces for leftists to develop critical theories of all k...

openculture.com

Grappig hoe Vlaamse media nooit deze frame zullen kiezen

NOS@nieuws.nos.nl · 5mo ago

Belgische premier krabbelt terug na uitspraken over deal met Rusland

great thread on paul erlich, his legacy, and alternatives

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93. The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵

11/ Commoner opened The Closing Circle with four laws of ecology: - Everything is connected; - Everything must go somewhere; - Nature knows best; - There's no free lunch. Each one is a rebuke to the linear thinking that produced the crisis in the first place.

5/ Ehrlich reduced human society to population biology. Commoner brought ecology to political economy. Where Ehrlich saw carrying capacity, Commoner saw feedback loops between capital, technology and nature. The difference in method produced the difference in politics.

2/ His instinct, that ecologists had a duty to speak publicly, that ecology deserved a central place in public policy, was right and important. But Ehrlich carried his training in insect population biology directly onto human societies. Humans aren't butterflies.

"A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles." /3

ok deleting this infernal portal from my phone, but before that some advice: drink more tea, support local artists, 读毛主席的书

«To collect photographs is to collect the world,» Susan Sontag once wrote. Where photography appropriated the world, generative AI exploits what has already been appropriated. To generate synthetic images is to let the world disappear behind the dominant patterns derived from already existing images

enough doomscrolling for the day/week, but: if you’re targeting water infrastructure you’re evil, and if you support this, at all, you’re also evil.