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Hey world, this is 100,000 Australians marching in yesterday's rain against starvation and genocide.

The dark cruelty of a contrarian small press that has pledged to print history "as is" defending its decision to remove the secret code this guy used to document his murders from his diaries as "unprintable", and so censoring the destruction of a people by editing history, is just next level.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

"People are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites."

Global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished. But disaster is not inevitable: every one of us has agency. USE IT.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Concerns protest could ‘impede Sydney drivers’ solved by getting basically the whole city at the protest

"Turns out roughly a hundred thousand people wanted to cross the bridge at the time of the march" said one organiser

Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...

Paper is here (open access): www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The anti-genocide movement has been driven by below: activists rather than bureaucrats, people rather than NGOs, students rather than professors, etc. Almost without exception, the top echelons of society have tried to stop the protests, not the genocide.

Climate group files complaint against advert claiming NSW coal is “needed for energy security” New South Wales Mining has come under fire for running an ad which claims the state’s “high quality” coal is “needed for energy security … for many years to come.&#822…

NSW Mining is under fire for an advert a climate group says spread misinformation about renewable energy and the future of coal. The ACCC complaint comes amid a broader push to crackdown on greenwashing and climate misinformation.

New from me in @reneweconomy.com.au:

"Snyder called on the government to introduce regulations to treat oil, gas and coal advertising like tobacco advertising, pointing to recent calls by a United Nations expert to criminalise climate change disinformation."

Ban fossil fuel influence on everything, everywhere, all at once

It’s climate blogging Groundhog Day.

There are many horrific aspects to these cases, but one of the most unusual is that severe persecution happens to Americans criticizing the military of a *foreign country*, not the US. We can criticize the US with much greater freedom. What does that tell you about power and authority.

Climate change is a permanent inflationary pressure that can’t be solved with monetary policy.

Farmers consider abandoning drought-hit region in central Hungary Farmers in southern Hungary's key agricultural area are grappling with increasingly severe drought as climate change cuts crop yields and reduces groundwater levels, with some considering relocating or alternative employment.

"In 2022, a droughtcaused 1000 billion forints ($2.86 billion) of losses for the agricultural sector and contributed to a rise in Hungarian inflation to two-decade highs"

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

I remember growing up thinking who were all these people that were quiet and complicit through the Nazi Holocaust? I hadn't met people like that. People were different here and now, surely. And yeah, totally wrong, turns out it's just the same assholes that ignore everything else

Hansard Display Hansard Display

The National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) and National adaptation Plan (NAP) must now be released before 9:30am 25 August, as voted 40:24 according to Hansard.
Tad embarrassing - don’t recall a senate vote forcing the Woodside north west shelf gas licence extension..
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Climate target malpractice As the Albanese government prepares to announce Australia’s 2035 climate target, pressure is mounting to show greater ambition. A cut in greenhouse gas emissions of at least 75 per cent below 2005 lev...

“Nearly a fifth of our domestic emissions now come from digging up gas and coal for export industries that contribute little to the public good or broader economy.“

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

Tesla is being hit with $329m in damages for a crash in which the human driver says he knew Autopilot wasn't self-driving. This is super important, because it shows that Autopilot's design and marketing can induce inattention even when drivers consciously know they are supposed to pay attention.

Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash case A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk’s car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and must pay the victims more than $240 mi...

AP - Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash case

“This will open the floodgates,” said Miguel Custodio, a car crash lawyer not involved in the Tesla case. “It will embolden a lot of people to come to court.”

#Tesla

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Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 crash involving its Autopilot technology.

UPDATE - added jury verdict form to story & clarified details on the amount Tesla will pay out to survivor and bereft family of the fatal crash victim... www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/t...

Radioactive wasp nest discovered at nuclear waste storage site in South Carolina Wasp nest was destroyed and disposed of after discovery near tanks used to store liquid nuclear waste

Radioactive wasps !
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Gardeners unite to save 'spectacular' grevillea in Snowy Mountains There are fewer than 1,000 in the wild, but it is hoped a group of green thumbs can help save the Tumut grevillea from extinction.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

The disastrous dismantling of the humanities in Australia’s universities has begun A crisis is unfolding for the humanities and social sciences at universities across the country.

Opinion | Labor was scathing of the Morrison government's "Job-ready Graduates" scheme when it was in opposition. So why hasn't it rolled the changes back?

Beijing officials say 31 older people trapped in a senior center died in floods The facility sat on low-lying ground near a river that had flooded after the unusually intense rains. It housed 69 residents, including 55 who were disabled in some capacity.

Unbearably awful

An urgent reminder to all authorities to revisit and revise emergency and evacuation plans

“For a long time, this senior center was in the town’s center and was safe, and such was not included in the preparedness plans. This means that our prepared plans had holes”

Wildfire burns through northern suburb of Athens as residents told to evacuate People in Kryoneri, north-east of the Greek capital, receive SMS messages telling them to get to safe areas A wildfire burned through a northern suburb of the Greek capital of Athens on Saturday and some residents were ordered to evacuate, the country’s fire service reported. Residents of the town of Kryoneri, 12.5 miles (20km) north-east of Athens, received three SMS messages to evacuate to safe areas, fire service spokesperson Vassilis Vathrakoyannis told reporters. Continue reading...

Wildfire burns through northern suburb of Athens as residents told to evacuate

Public Service Commissioner cleared after lid lifted on secret investigations Complaints arose after public service robodebt inquiries.

Australian Public Service Commission Gordon de Brouwer was subject to two complaints and two investigations over his handling of the Robodebt referrals, he has now been cleared of any wrongdoing. Gee I wonder who made those complaints! www.canberratimes.com.au/story/903018...

A satirical pop art piece styled like an IKEA instruction manual. The title reads “MK-84 BÖMB - Proudly supplying non-lethal bits.” Below it, a cartoon character resembling Penny Wong wears a blue IKEA-style uniform, smiling and holding a tiny hammer and instruction sheet. A large speech bubble says, “Just parts. Nothing lethal in nature. Parts!! :)” Below, an exploded diagram of a bomb is shown, with each part labeled “non-lethal”,including the guidance fins, bomb body, laser detector, and wing assembly. A sarcastic disclaimer reads: “Outcomes may vary - and are absolutely not our responsibility. All refund requests will be honoured with one (1) Deep Concern™.” The overall tone mimics cheerful retail branding to expose the absurdity of justifying war crimes through technicalities.

Nothing Lethal in Nature™

How will Australia’s social media ban work? Ask a teenager | Fiona Katauskas There seems to be a generation gap

Generation gap- my #socialmedia #auspol cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If only the sources of inflation impacts behaved smoothly on 12-month timescales.

(They don’t)

bsky.app/profile/clim...

Power infrastructure efficiency starts to rapidly deplete at 50 degrees and over

Here is the link

www.themandarin.com.au/296644-lambi...