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The seismic echoes of capsizing icebergs falling from Thwaites Glacier have been detected for the first time.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/hundred...

Visualising Extractive Capitalism From the formation of the plantation slave economy to the modern-day climate crisis, we map how empire and extractive capitalism shaped Barbados, Britain and the wider world.

Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago.

We continue to live with their consequences.

Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.

🧵 This is how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.

visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org

The human cost of AI: the real people, hired as "data labellers" and other euphemisms (after signing non-disclosure agreements) paid a pittance, and enduring immense harm in the process.

A devastating anatomy of how tech companies exploit, dehumanize, and ultimately replace human beings.
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Eight more UK universities cut recruitment ties with fossil fuel industry Eight more UK universities cut recruitment ties with fossil fuel industry: Manchester Metropolitan University again wins top spot for climate and social justice in league table More universities have severed ties with fossil fuel companies, banning them from recruitment fairs and refusin...

Eight more UK universities cut recruitment ties with fossil fuel industry: Manchester Metropolitan University again wins top spot for climate and social justice in league table More universities have severed ties with fossil fuel companies, banning them from recruitment fairs and refusin...

Now we are talking...

Fun fact: we have no idea how this system can mutually amplify extreme events as in the past we thought warming makes extremes more extreme while we now discover extremer extremes allow downstream events to go off charts...

#climate #earth

Whenever I see this article I’m going to share it, because everyone connected to higher ed needs to read this for a great if chilling overview of the bone deep infection that gAI has become in the system.

BLUE TALK with Léo Heller now online
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Drinking Water and Sanitation, he is currently Leading Researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil, and visiting professor at King’s College London.
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“The largest #COVID19 study to date, covering nearly four years of data and 29 million people”

23 million were vaccinated and 6 million were not. Among the vaccinated, the risk of dying from COVID was 74% lower, with ZERO increase in deaths from any other cause.”

#vaccines #health

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First they came for the migrants, and said nothing, cos I was a tourist, then they came for the tourists...

#Trump #SocialMedia #tourism #fascism #auspol

Ditto in Australia… 🙄

Across Latin America populist regimes challenge nature conservation goals The election of populist politicians seldom bodes well for the people of the Amazon or the conservation of its biodiversity and ecosystem services. Most are just stylistic versions of the generic…

Across Latin America, leaders often campaign on conservation but pivot once in office, weakening protections & backing extractive industries.

From Bolsonaro’s rollback of Brazil’s safeguards to pushes for farming & drilling in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, Indigenous rights & forests remain at risk.

In Chocó, river defenders say race for energy transition threatens lifelines “People bathe in the river, they eat from the river — they live, dance and sing there,” says Dora Agudelo Vázquez. “Their whole lives are bound to the river.” Agudelo Vazquez, one of the guardians of…

As Colombia pushes its energy transition, activists in Chocó say El Roble — the country’s only active copper mine — threatens the Atrato River and local communities.

They cite pollution risks and outdated oversight. The company denies this, saying it follows regulations and supports local jobs.

Earthworm Invaders Little-known secret: Almost every earthworm in most of the U.S. came from somewhere else. Native earthworms all but disappeared more than 10,000 years ago, when glaciers from a Pleistocene ice age …

“Little-known secret: Almost every earthworm in most of the U.S. came from somewhere else. Native earthworms all but disappeared more than 10,000 years ago, when glaciers from a Pleistocene ice age wiped them out.” ecosystemsontheedge.org/earthworm-in...

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

🌡️ November 2025 was the third-warmest November on record globally, keeping 2025 on track to be the second- or third-warmest year recorded. The global three-year average temperature for 2023–2025 will likely exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. 

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It’s been like this for thousands of years. And particularly the last 500.

The richest believe that ruling is their birthright.

Just look at a map of the U.S.A. or Africa or Australia…

Those straight lined borders are the result of carved up land “deals” made by the rich and powerful of the day.

And don’t even get me started on the price of buying a Christmas tree this year 🌲

#FascistFluffers in #Media continually fail to disclose the known links of these 'Think Tanks'.

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What are Trump’s “party guests” Gina and Pauline… and boozer boy Barnaby cooking up for Australia?

Foreign interference!

Don’t let them win!

#auspol

It is, explicitly, political interference. This administration's policy towards Europe is essentially the same as Russia's. And it is hostile.

🌍 #EcocideLaw is developing rapidly around the world.

With your help, we can accelerate this progress!

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Gluttons For Punishment: Oil Industry Doubles Down Against Reality The world is facing a multi-year oil glut where the oil producers will be pumping more oil out of the ground than the world is using. This will keep oil prices at low levels – likely well below the le...

My piece with some other details beyond trucking as well.

powering-the-planet.ghost.io/gluttons-for...

Bupa fined $35m for duping patients, hospitals Australia's second biggest health insurer has been ordered to pay $35 million for misleading customers about benefits they were entitled to.

Fines are the cost of doing business and do not deter corporations from being shit-cunts. Individuals need to be held responsible to deter this sort of behaviour.

Bupa fined $35m for duping patients, hospitals via AAP News aapnews.aap.com.au/a/YZNVMSRoq

We need global binding rules for energy-transition mineral extraction As the energy transition gets underway, we need a new set of rules for mineral extraction to protect nature and human rights

“ #Mining is destroying our homes: We need global binding rules for mineral extraction
Amid a rush for minerals needed for the #energytransition, voluntary safeguards and corporate goodwill are insufficient to protect nature and #humanrights”
#extractivism
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/12/08/w...

‘The whole thing disgusts me’: Australians ditch US travel as new rules require social media to be declared Visitors will have to reveal at the border all social media activity over the past five years

'But the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said the US was a “sovereign nation” which had “a right to set the rules”.'

Thanks, Mr Bleeding Obvious. No one disputes that. But it is, you know, just a touch fascistic...

#Auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Wat doen 15.000 VS-militairen en acht oorlogsschepen in de Caraïben? Het Zuid-Amerikaanse antwoord: ‘It’s the oil, stupid’

US senator calls for insider trading inquiry over Trump donors buying $12m worth of shares Co-chairs of LNG firm, who bought stock worth almost $12m each after meeting with Trump officials, deny wrongdoing

US senator calls for insider trading inquiry over Trump donors

Pender and Sabel bought $12 m worth of shares just days after meeting with Chris Wright, the energy secretary, who days later granted the company an export license essential for its expansion plans

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

‘The whole thing disgusts me’: Australians ditch US travel plans as new rules require social media to be declared Visitors will have to reveal at the border all social media activity over the past five years * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australians are abandoning travel to the US, and boycotting World Cup matches there next year, as the Trump administration flags new rules that will soon require visitors to hand over their social media history when applying to enter the country. In a notice published on Tuesday, the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) said tourists to the US from 42 countries including Australia would have to reveal all of their social media activity over the past five years under the new rules, which are up for a 60-day review before coming into effect. It would be a part of the application for a visa waiver under the ESTA application process. Continue reading...

‘The whole thing disgusts me’: Australians ditch US travel plans as new rules require social media to be declared

December 11, 1895 - Arrhenius reads his "Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air" paper to Swedish Academy of Science... - All Our Yesterdays On this day, December 11 in 1895,  Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius read his would-eventually-be-’famous’ paper On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground  at th...

December 11, 1895 – Svante Arrhenius reads his “Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air” paper to the Swedish Academy of Science…

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