The billionaire class seeks to control us. They are few - we are the many. Remember that.
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The UK Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld a landmark ruling that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism and constitutes a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260804-ant...
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling
The UK Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld a landmark ruling that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism and constitutes a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. The judgmen…
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Absolutely nuts: Google Earth now has a feature that lets you convincingly fabricate satellite imagery www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...
was it *really* a "civilization of millions" or are they actually ancient data centers? 👽
Sarah Primate@langurlover.bsky.social · last wk.
I could barely afford vibranium as it was
Asperas Bompar@asperasbompar.bsky.social · 7d agoWakanda tariffs going to get doubled now
“global temperatures are on a trajectory which may even see 2027 nearing 2C warming above pre-industrial levels for the first time.” Not in 2100, not in 2050, but in freaking 2027. #climatecrisis www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Record-smashing El Niño points to spring of drought and fires
Despite El Niño being months away from peaking, it could potentially trigger Australia's hottest spring on record.
abc.net.au
Dystopia alert - a subgroup of humanity is destroying our shared heritage - read and weep: “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.” novaramedia.com/2026/07/29/a...
AI Firms Are Buying up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them
The world’s biggest AI companies are buying antiquarian books en masse so they can be scanned to train their large language models (LLMs) before being destroyed.
novaramedia.com
This is one of the best things I've read in a while about the psychology of car supremacy, and how those of us who even *question* it are viewed as heretics. Thanks to @pflax1.bsky.social for sending this my way.
We Don’t Have a Culture of Convenience in North America. We Have a CULT of Convenience.
And you can tell the difference by what happens when you question it.
medium.com
Current household debate: Who bullshits more - GenAI or politicians?
The world is not prepared to admit to where we increasingly live. #disinformation #ai #security
Turned this rant into a blog post. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...
The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.
I have a
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Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · last wk.I'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...
This is such a great visualization of the carbon cycle and of how humanity has completely altered it within a geological instant. Visualization by @rarohde.bsky.social. 1/
see also wrt to previous decades of lead additives bsky.app/profile/part...
partwave∴@partickle.bsky.social · last wk.the reality of metals unfortunately via : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2... ( this is the only bit worth reading tbh) "Medical analyses of the role of lead exposure in the brain note increases in impulsive actions and social aggression as well as the possibility of developing.... adhd!🥳"
Folks if you're writing on climate please always state clearly that the climate crisis is caused by burning fossil fuels. Unless you state this and keep repeating it it won't stick in the public mind. Many of you have been hoodwinked into the silly notion that we shouldn't mention fossil fuels.
Wrote two lines of Javascript to make news websites actually look like what they *feel* like to me
I was sentenced as a terrorist. Now my barrister is on trial for defending me https://www.opendemocracy.net/palestine-action-filton-24-charlotte-head-rajiv-menon-kc-contempt-of-court-judge-johnson/
"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said “if your $500K engineer isn’t burning $250K in tokens, something is wrong.” Facebook parent Meta had an internal competition rewarding token usage." Really astounding how managers fell for this as long as they did... 🙄
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.A corporate fad of “tokenmaxxing” on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity.
Google’s troubles in EU are entering a costly new phase. After losing a case under the EU’s new digital competition rules, the company is now facing a wave of private lawsuits from smaller rivals seeking up to $10B in damages, on top of the billions in EU fines it’s already paid
see also ( ftr found via rob-newman-total-eclipse-of-descartes @ soundcloud.com/user-3056710... ) this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_B... for an example of the history of the people who put other in "intelligence" based categories and of the out right fabrications they use to justify their BS!
Cyril Burt - Wikipedia
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the reality of metals unfortunately via : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2... ( this is the only bit worth reading tbh) "Medical analyses of the role of lead exposure in the brain note increases in impulsive actions and social aggression as well as the possibility of developing.... adhd!🥳"
Lead–crime hypothesis - Wikipedia
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Oh great, British education policy since 1944 has been organised around the Myth of the Metals.
