As I mentioned at the @uniondemcomm.bsky.social conference, Bukele was disturbingly sadistic and relentless in promoting his gulagβlive-streaming human rights abuses for the world to see. Fascist!
07.08.2025 01:55 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@peterjhowson.bsky.social
Technology, environment & development researcher. Latest book: Let Them Eat Crypto https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348216/let-them-eat-crypto/
As I mentioned at the @uniondemcomm.bsky.social conference, Bukele was disturbingly sadistic and relentless in promoting his gulagβlive-streaming human rights abuses for the world to see. Fascist!
07.08.2025 01:55 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Doing a thread on my publications which I draw on for this episode on "The Problem of Disinfo".
1) "Platform Imperialism and Disinfo in NZ" with my pal @islates.bsky.social on how Disinfo research shaped NZ politics and media journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
When I published Driverless Finance in 2022, I got some pushback for suggesting that crypto was trying to merge with traditional finance, not disrupt it.
I take no pleasure in having been proven right.
www.ft.com/content/efc8...
As the UK sets out ambitions to become a leading provider of small satellite commercial launches by 2030, Dr @peterjhowson.bsky.social is carrying out important research to understand more about the impact spaceports have on people, wildlife and the environment.
www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/northumbr...
POLLEN 2026 is happening in Barcelona π
The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st.
See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j
Spread the word.
Why are fossil fuel lobbyists still allowed into UN climate meetings?
After more than 30 years of talks there is still no conflict of interest policy at the UNFCCC.
This really is not a big ask - Kick Big Polluters Out of COP30!
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/kick-big-p...
Newsletter: Trumpβs crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdaniβs mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat.
www.citationneeded.news/issue-87/
Welcome to Britain 2025: where a musician's words cause more outrage than the murder and horror in Gaza | Owen Jones
01.07.2025 13:36 β π 531 π 184 π¬ 21 π 14This looks great. Deadline for abstracts extended till end of July... #NewSpace #SpaceX #PoliticalEcology
liu.se/en/article/k...
This is a useful take on the whole thing. youtu.be/IOk4kP8bxXM?...
01.07.2025 06:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sorry. Fixed now.
30.06.2025 18:14 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0For context, childminder Lucy Connolly tweeted "Set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the [refugee] b*stards." While Vylan said, "Free Palestine".
30.06.2025 13:59 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1Bolivians conned into crypto. With thoughts from me.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Get your copy of Let Them Eat #Crypto for just 2 real money pounds.
Offer ends in 2 real Earth days!
www.plutobooks.com/978074534821... @PlutoPress
All the rich people's body bits lost βΉοΈ
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
Remains of 150 dead rich people will orbit the Earth 2 or 3 times today π before reentering the atmosphere and "splashing down" in the Pacific.ποΈ #NewSpace
www.youtube.com/live/C6jjF7M...
Latest from me looking at #SpaceX, #STEMwashing and the #NewSpace industry's jazz hands 'immersion' tactics used to pinch stuff from poor people.
All free today!
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Latest from me looking at #SpaceX, #STEMwashing and the #NewSpace industry's jazz hands 'immersion' tactics used to pinch stuff from poor people.
All free today!
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
#Bitcoin's still a thing somewhere, says The Telegraph, with thoughts from me! @plutopress.bsky.social #LetThemEatCrypto
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
#Bradford is the real #BitcoinCity
www.bbc.com/news/article...
just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/whi...
My thoughts for JustTech
Is this still a thing!?
01.05.2025 07:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Deploying data centres on the moon "could be more eco-friendly".
More eco-friendly than what, exactly?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scale of market manipulation in crypto is mind-blowing. $3.2 trillion in fake trades from handful of a*holes on Telegram.
www.fastcompany.com/91303193/few...
Really appreciate this review of #LetThemEatCrypto from Mayday Books.
maydaybookstore.blogspot.com/2025/01/magi...
#ElSalvador 's #BitcoinCity is ploughing ahead. And making a mess.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
And if the first US govt blockchain experiments are on the vulnerable communities that HUD serves, then that echoes what @peterjhowson.bsky.social has found re exploitative blockchain experiments all around the world. The most vulnerable are the guinea pigs.
www.plutobooks.com/978074534823...
Those Carribbeans have been informed the stuff "raining down" on them includes cancer causing neurotoxins like hydrazine presumably...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
jacobin.com/2024/02/spac...
#Firefly #BlueGhost