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You know you’re a patriot not when you’re proud of your country but when you’re ashamed of it (to paraphrase Carlo Ginzburg) www.bbc.com/news/article...

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In the 2000s it focused on public space and civic pride. Now it’s green corridors. Medellín continues to be inspiring when it comes to urban strategies www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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What the six year old learned in school: “Humanists believe the world is made of science. Hindus believe the world was made by Christians.” 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Big fan of trams www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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“By 2030, carbon dioxide emissions from AI datacentres will be six times the 2023 level” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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wrote about HouseEurope! which is a very compelling legislative effort to keep carbon in the ground by forcing developers to reuse existing buildings www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Forensic Architecture have a tracker on the Madleen so you can follow her journey to Gaza. Here’s hoping everyone on board gets there safely freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/

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"According to new projections published by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in December, by 2028 more than half of the electricity going to data centers will be used for AI. At that point, AI alone could consume as much electricity annually as 22% of all US households." Fucking fuck

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Always up for reading Hito Steyerl on ‘artificial stupidity’ and the shift from image-making to ‘da/mage-making’ artreview.com/hito-steyerl...

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135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing.

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“Our analysis is clear: even in the ideal world, we cannot solve the triple planetary crisis by mere recycling. The much-needed systemic change requires fundamental change.”

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A “sustained presence” - ie occupation. Is the world going to let this happen? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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« ‘Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy »

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Still stupid after all these years. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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“Wood has a clear advantage because it comes from a natural cycle…What’s important is that we use wood for long-lived products as much as possible. If we store carbon in buildings for 100 or 200 years, we delay emissions significantly – that’s a major effect.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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It’s bizarre that the BBC deems heat pumps too political for one of its presenters to engage with. They’re only political if you accept the Right’s attempts to politicise the climate crisis www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

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Brilliant breaking news: this year’s Goldman Prize—the Nobel of environmentalism—is won by activist Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari for her work defending the rights & life of Peru’s Marañon River. “For us, the river isn’t just a body of water. It’s fundamental.” insideclimatenews.org/news/2104202...

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Huge, if true

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"A new study reveals that isolated patches of fruit trees and berry bushes in the region's hemlock and cedar forests were deliberately planted by Indigenous peoples in and around their settlements (in the Pacific Northwest) more than 150 years ago."

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He suffered extra attacks because of his Oscar. But without the Oscar I wonder if he’d be free (or alive) today www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Good morning to everyone, and especially the Bloomberg crew who just did the deep dive on transformers I’ve been waiting 3 years for someone to write. And you should read every word of it. 🔌💡 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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"The Coast is not a Line, It’s a Zone". Feifei Zhou is one of the research fellows for our forthcoming More than Human exhibition. Here she talks about her research into vernacular fishing and wetland ecologies in West Timor futureobservatory.org/news/the-coa...

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In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza. There are no words.

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BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!

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Some badass early Pulitzer contenders out of Turkey

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Actually… KitKat, Smarties, Aero, Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and Pantene shampoo www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Politics was simpler then

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Unbelievable

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Just discovered that some of my publications have also been used to train Meta’s AI… @alcs.co.uk

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“Land and the way it is worked is the most important factor in an alternative ecological society” [The Commune Form is such a clear and concise work of theory]

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Jones has been an admirable counterpoint to the general cowardice of the media and establishment, both deeply out of step with public opinion www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"Who are your rivers?" César Rodriguez-Garavito gives a sneak preview of the mural that he and the MOTH collective are creating for the Design Museum's forthcoming More than Human exhibition futureobservatory.org/news/more-th...

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Have you seen 'The Brutalist'? If so, you might enjoy "Re-wilding the Bauhaus: what its foundation course should be like today" thackara.com/natureconnec...

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"Who are your rivers?" César Rodriguez-Garavito gives a sneak preview of the mural that he and the MOTH collective are creating for the Design Museum's forthcoming More than Human exhibition futureobservatory.org/news/more-th...

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I learned today that the collective noun for parakeets is a pandemonium of parakeets. Epic nouning

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“Repair vouchers, which give people 50% off the cost of repairing broken electrical items, will be available from next month in a trial across north London.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Interesting and provocative little piece in the Guardian about our forthcoming More than Human exhibition at the Design Museum www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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A recent experience with Chat GPT tells me it will literally make shit up rather than say “I don’t know”. This includes making up a quote from a book and putting it in actual quotation marks… As Hito Steyerl said: Artificial Stupidity

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It’s becoming clear that the Amazon is so fertile and biodiverse in part because of its ancient human inhabitants, not inspite of them. The ‘virgin forest’ is a myth www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Patricia Lockwood to Simon Critchley: Oh you want to write about mystics? Try this

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