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LLM: Large Lies and Misinformation "Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was malfunctioning on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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A Trump order to permit deep-sea mining bypasses an international agreement aimed at protecting marine life. By moving unilaterally, says Jeff Watters of the Ocean Conservancy, the U.S. has set a troubling precedent.

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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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A truly frightening, long must-read. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The New Barbarism is here. Palestinians used for target practice by Israeli weapon and military software manufacturers. Deportations that are run like ‘Amazon Prime for humans'. Foreign aid replaced by tariffs on the poor. Etc. etc. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Turns out that the poor old US has been "looted, pillaged, raped and plundered" by Cambodia, Lesotho and Madagascar.

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open.substack.com/pub/calirock... With Musk announcing his “departure” from “DOGE” next month & as we get further into what is happening to our country - reposting so we can be prepared for whatever they throw at us next. Time for some deep thinking and planning.

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Israel has destroyed the ceasefire and massacred some 400 people in a single day, one of the bloodiest days of this genocide. The brutality and duplicity of the Israeli regime is just staggering.

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Let this sink in—the head of the EPA has now labeled climate science as “religion”, and reframed the purpose of the EPA to “lower the cost of buying a car… and running a business”—the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY! That’s where we are now. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...

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How Russia mastered "political technology", culminating in Agent Orange

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Could it be that the destruction of the habitable planet is not just an accidental outcome of Trump's policies, but is in fact the policy? My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Dude literally got this from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie

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heated.world/p/trump-ener... “It’s total antiscientific nonsense in service of a fossil fuel industry-driven administrative agenda.” @michaelemann.bsky.social

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Scientists sound alarm after collecting unprecedented data from world's oceans: 'The broken records ... have become a broken record' by Leslie Sattler for The Cool Down. Read more here: www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/war...

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February 22, 2025

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Europe posts record year for clean energy use (47% renewables) as Trump pushes U.S. toward fossil fuels www.latimes.com/world-nation... @ember-energy.org

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1. There have been plenty of debates about whether or not Trump and his circle are fascists. In this column, I argue that the debate solves nothing. What we’re seeing is a reversion to the default state of politics in centralised societies: autocratic tyranny. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Fact-checking is not censorship. Requesting evidence is not censorship. Refuting falsehoods is not censorship. Stopping a lie from travelling halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on is not censorship. But Zuckerberg's grovelling to Trump will sure as hell lead to censorship.

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Germany's support for Israel's genocide against Palestinians is all the more sickening when you understand the striking parallels with Germany's first genocide, against the Herero and Nama people in Namibia.

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"Trump team takes aim at crown jewel of US climate research" by @scottpwaldman.bsky.social for #EENews: www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

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Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2024, on unequal exchange, ecosocialism, and post-capitalist transformation. As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵

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“The assessment, the second by the expert panel this week, says overconsumption in richer countries, a concentration of wealth and power, and a society increasingly disconnected from nature were driving ecological destruction.” phys.org/news/2024-12...

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This introduction on Sustainable Aviation Fuel from the National Farmers Union goes hard: “any plan to fuel a doubling of air travel from the planet’s oversubscribed land reveals an ignorance of the magnitude by which we have already transgressed planetary boundaries” www.nfu.ca/publications...

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