Christopher Wright

A marvellous article - I set it as a core reading in my climate change class a few years back - so relevant to our current derangement!

YouTube video by Channel 4 News Collapse of this Atlantic current could change Europe's climate forever

Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring.
"Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening."
@noc.ac.uk
youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...

‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3C of global heating Advisory board member says adapting is ‘not rocket science’ but Europe already paying price for lack of preparation

3C is pushing the limits of adaptation and social stability - however corporate and political elites seem fine with this dystopian fossil fuels forever future! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump is a raging psychopath that rapes young children. Not a good person in anyone's book.

How about this example?

Oh dear. Sadly there’s never any grant money in just saying we should stop mining fossil carbon and care for country.

The Washington Post 2 topp @washingtonpost Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents. Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkesMMA This country has endless funds for doing stuff TO people. It's when you want us to do anything FOR people that we're suddenly strapped for cash. Fred Wellman @FPWellman I want to wrap your head around that number. $38.3 BILLION to warehouse humans. While millions are losing healthcare. While billionaires party. This isn't "fiscal conservative" it's a mass terror operation.

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

This is hands-down the best thing I’ve read on Epstein‘s worldview and those of his fellow tech, finance, and academic elite. It’s a rough read, but at least every paragraph is a banger. 🔥🔥🔥😭

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech.

She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.

They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

"among those wielding the darkest power, chaos and collapse is not something they fear but rather aim to create. Brexit debate, Trump, the Voice referendum, climate change, Israel’s genocide, and many other events involve one side which actively desires collapse – and is ready to profit from it."

No kidding.

The First Casualty of Trump’s Climate Action Repeal: The U.S. EV Transition - Inside Climate News Tailpipe standards meant to hasten adoption of electric vehicles were slashed alongside the scientific basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. That will come at a cost.

The First Casualty of Trump’s Climate Action Repeal: The U.S. EV Transition insideclimatenews.org/news/1302202...

The newly Albo govt-approved Middlemount Coal Mine is jointly owned by Peabody & Yancoal

Not to be confused with Glencore's Hail Creek Coal Mine which is also applying for an extension, & that will also kill koalas (probably more, 👀 next post)

There're 42 Coal mines in the pipeline

The real leader of the Liberal Party is unchanged. #auspol

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Why I don’t use generative AI 1. It’s based on stolen materials and I am not a plagiarist. 2. I do not want to outsource thinking to a machine. Thinking (which includes research, writing, editing) is a skill and will atrophy without use. Why would I inflict that upon myself willingly? 3. Thinking is a pleasure and privilege, and not worth giving up for marginal or nonexistent productivity gains. 4. My voice makes me who I am as a writer and person. Why would I want to substitute that with a generic, pale imitation that sounds like it could be anyone, or no one? 5. It’s not trustworthy. It will hallucinate. It might be biased in ways I can’t identify. Checking AI output is more work than just doing it yourself in the first place. 6. I wouldn’t want to become dependent on a tool that WILL become more expensive, either by capitalizing on my eyeballs through advertising or skyrocketing subscription costs. They are operating on the Uber model, and I don’t trust it. 7. Using AI for companionship or conversation has never appealed to me, but even if it did, it is a poor and feeble substitute for human connection. I don’t want to go down the crazy-making rabbit hole. 8. Nothing AI generates can be art. Making art is a pleasure and privilege. If you are not inclined to learn or practice art but you still want to possess art, pay an artist. 9. Environmental/energy reasons. 10. Slop sucks.

working on my personal no-ai manifesto. what did i forget?

C'est ce qui nous attend si les fachos gardent le pouvoir

One major rule anchored U.S. climate policy. The EPA just threw it out The Trump administration rescinded the 2009 “endangerment finding,” ending regulation of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks

🤯🤯🤯 Full-on denial of reality.
State capture by the fossil fuel lobby.
The US descends into a banana republic. It would almost be funny if the consequences wouldn’t be so dire for billions of humans, if the courts don’t stop this folly soon.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-...

Nice analysis by Prof Dirk Matten exploring the rise of fascism as a management philosophy under techbros like Thiel, Zuckerberg et al: rdcu.be/e2MzS

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate: www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

“The world knows Israel possesses and uses these prohibited weapons,” Buttu said. “The question is why are they allowed to remain outside the system of accountability.”

It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon Police charged at people who could not flee due to being kettled. As always police say that is not what happened

No more protesting thanks, that's it wrap it up it's not cohesive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nothing says cohesion like a punch in the head: Violence of Minns' goons exposes the lie of 'social cohesion' NSW Police's actions against protesters in in Sydney was about the powerful dictating the terms of free speech — through state-sanctioned violence if necessary.

"Social cohesion is a scam, a strategy employed by the powerful to delegitimise and suppress the voices of the less powerful... If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official."

BOOM! 💥

Wtf did they think was going to happen when they invited a war criminal who signed bombs destined to annihilate children…a member of a govt already dividing Australians.

It’s the govt people are protesting…not the people.

…and we should always be able to protest governments no matter which ones.

He’s not wrong.

Palestine & climate are true litmus tests of democratic governance. Countries like Australia, UK, Germany & of course the US (remember the attacks on student camps at universities under Biden?) fail miserably. Drilled has a whole series on repression of climate protest drilled.media/investigatio...

Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation

The worst people in the world doing evil and stupid things.

Nazi concentration camp prisoner population by year

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

In just 9 months, Mark Zuckerberg has cruised in his superyacht so much that the $300 million vessel has burned 2 million liters of diesel and spewed 5,300 tons of CO₂. The Facebook co-founder has now...

In just 9 months, Mark Zuckerberg has cruised in his superyacht so much the $300 million vessel has burned 2 million liters of diesel & spewed 5,300 tons of CO₂. Zuckerberg has now sent his yacht to the La Ciotat shipyard in France for repairs and upkeep. share.google/5vpPWCPEwoDW...