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What's a poster you had in your room growing up? (note: this one is a bit later, at university and just after – although I was very much still "growing up." If I had posters on my wall earlier, I don't remember them...)

It's an open secret that US garment factories are staffed with undocumented workers. After decades of toiling for low pay, I've yet to see a single fashion brand speak up on about the raids on LA's garment district. In 2016, Robert Geller at least made an "Immigrant" t-shirt to raise funds.

🚨 1/ IN COURT: The sentencing for Patrick Macdonald, better known as the Dark Foreigner, and a propagandist for the terrorist group Atomwaffen, has begun. Follow along here for important updates. Read our coverage of Macdonald’s trial where he was found guilty here:

This seems a completely unnecessary and potentially dangerous way to deal with sinus issues. We really seem to have reached the stage of peak pointless solutionism in almost every field right now. #automation #nanotech #robotics

This merger would be a disaster for our planet. Bigger, more powerful fossil fuel companies are the opposite of what we need. #climatecrisis

This is great from @attackerman.bsky.social on how Zohran’s opponents tried to use the politics of 9/11 against him - and it didn’t work. www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...

Now that all the llm companies have successfully stolen literally everything ever written, they're all pivoting hard to "let us surveill you 24/7 here put this camera on your face and wrist c'mon enter the panopticon"

Me thinking "There's no way I could hate AI(LLMs) any more than I already do" AI: "Hold my poorly generated beer"

"This isn't just a celebration of two people getting married, it's a display of a lifestyle that's simply unsustainable. The richest live in excess, while others endure the consequences of a climate emergency they didn't create." www.bbc.com/news/article...

doing surveillance to the surveillance state www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...

What is the argument that this isn’t driving up energy use again? Enough to power a million homes. Millions of gallons of water used per year. All for one company, Anthropic. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/t...

Fact-checking the right-wing and climate denialist claims that #renewables caused Spain's massive electricity outage a while back... tl;dr: they didn't.

The BMA said NO to Palantir today!

#Trump seems genuinely surprised and angry that #Israel is ignoring his #ceasefire. He really is very, very stupid.

#Fasttech is major source of #e-waste And while, sure, #capitalism is at fault here, why do people keep buying this stuff? There's no excuse, really... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

PM Mark Carney has described developing fossil fuel infrastructure as “pragmatic.” But it’s unclear how a country grappling with abysmal air quality due to wildfires fuelled by global warming will benefit from further fossil fuel development. Deborah de Lange writes.

Trump said on Saturday that Iran’s nuke enrichment facilities were “completely and totally obliterated.” That doesn’t appear true. But satellite imagery tells us a lot about the extent of the damage and the strategy behind the attack. www.wired.com/story/iran-f...

They are all the worst people in the world. There are no ethical platform capitalists.

👇 And watch this if you want to know more: coup53.com

Dissent is treated as terrorism, while terrorism is just state policy. #PalestineAction

For all his nationalist bravado during the elections, unsurprisingly Mark #Carney is as weak and spineless as Keir #Starmer when it comes to confronting the illegal military aggression of #Israel and the #USA.

📣 Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter for June 2025 is out!

I think that smartphone recordings by citizens is an important part of resistance and love to see writing on it, but I would also like to know more about ICE's use of smartphones to document forms of resistance and how THAT data is being used and where it is going. bsky.app/profile/chad...

«I know it's AI but tells a true story» – this deeply cynical statement highlights a fundamental aspect of AI #slopaganda. Videos like this aren't just for spreading misinformation. They're reinforcing existing beliefs by creating a synthetic reality that people perceive and feel to be «true» 1/

Most of what Mark #Carney is doing so far (as opposed to what he is saying) is more reminiscent of Stephen Harper than any kind of progressive government. It's only because the Conservatives have shifted even further to the right that the Liberals don't seem as regressive. #Canada

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

This statement is an embarrassment to the #EuropeanUnion. 1. You should condemn the illegal aggressive military actions of #Israel and #USA. 2. The idea that #Iran is responsible for ending this is absurd: - #USA destroyed the 2015 EU-backed JCPOA in 2018; - Iran was in active negotiations.

Hans Blix: 'I knew the truth on WMDs in Iraq – now I fear a repeat in #Iran.' inews.co.uk/news/world/h...

Of course he was going to bomb Iran. Is there an antiwar party in the U.S.?

not really news today, but still crazy that Canada's idea of export promotion is to lend to Canadian public pension fund to 'invest' in - read privatise - a British public good that's now so badly run it discharged 300,000 hours of raw sewage into our rivers last year www.ft.com/content/418f...

Trump's bombing of Iran serves no larger political or security purpose. He just didn't want to look like a loser as he was goaded by the war criminal Netanyahu. Canada must separate ourselves from the reckless violence of the gangster regime in Washington.

Biden was repeatedly bombing Yemen without Congressional approval last year just in case we've memory holed that already too. This ain't a new and uniquely Trump development.

IMPORTANT REMINDER: “Researchers at Microsoft & Carnegie Mellon University find that as humans increasingly rely on genAI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can ‘result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.’” www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

#Starmer is spineless and unprincipled, and perhaps more surprisingly for an ex- #humanrights lawyer, apparently entirely ignorant of international law.

If the #USA wanted to make it so that the Iranian regime felt it has nothing to lose and could now do anything and everything to respond, this was the best way to do it – and the absolute worst way to calm things down and save lives. Utterly irresponsible, stupid and escalatory. #Iran

Yesterday was a historic day in New York history (indeed, in US history): Mahmoud Khalil was released from ICE and returned to New York City, and Zohran Kwame Mamdani walked the length of Manhattan. Both brave men have me thinking about the powerful politics of being vulnerable.

We really need some laws to make sure that if you’re wearing glasses that record video everyone knows it. Legally mandate that if you’re wearing smart glasses you also have to wear a cap with a propeller on it

I prefer the company of people that don't snitch my business.

When someone starts using phrases like ‘rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge’, it’s time for an intervention.

What shameless, cowardly, bullying behaviour. "The home secretary will move to proscribe Palestine Action in the coming weeks, effectively branding them as a terrorist organisation". Solidarity with everyone who speaks out against tyranny and genocide. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

le sigh www.cbc.ca/news/politic...