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If I may be millennial and cringe for a moment, my organization @fightforthefuture.org has been running campaigns trying to strike down US government surveillance and corporate data harvesting for years.

like ... since before anyone had ever heard of Edward Snowden or Cambridge Analytica ;-)

New chunes in the weekly bro

Saknar ord inför det svek svenska medier gör sig skyldiga till genom att inte sätta klimatkrisen i centrum för sin rapportering.

Från Sveriges största parti hörs inte ett ljud DEBATT. Valåret 2026 inleddes med en rasande vinterstorm efter en snöfri jul i stora delar av landet. Svenska skogar föll som plockepinn och tusentals människor

220 rebellmammor uppmanar Sveriges största parti att axla ledarskapet för en rättvis och framåtblickande politik som tar klimat- och naturkrisen på allvar. Ni måste våga utmana de politiska och ekonomiska drivkrafter som leder oss mot kollaps, och stå upp för vanligt folk.

This is AWFUL. If you have any spare £, this poor lass is going through a dreadful time.

Yorkshire Water receives fresh funding despite sewage fines and pay row Private equity group EQT to take 42% stake as supplier faces scrutiny over environmental record and CEO’s pay

Swedish private equity group takes 42% stake in Yorkshire Water.

Thames Water, Northumbrian Water, Southern Water, South West Water and Wessex Water gutted by PE.

All have criminal convictions, dump sewage in rivers, profiteer. 90% of England's water is foreign owned.

Expect more looting.

historical oil demand vs secnarios

On the second fossil fuel crisis of this decade (and likely to be worse than the last, fair to say), a few small thoughts

First: global oil demand would be so much lower without climate delay, fossil corruption, oversized SUVs, western overconsumption. Everyone who pushed these holds responsibility

Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI Acknowledging that AI systems are advancing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts, says Eryk Salvaggio.

"Systems that don’t work would pose no threat to labor; systems nobody uses would pose no threat to the environment, and systems propped up by a failing industry will collapse — all we have to do is wait"

"That’s not a principled or rigorous ground for critique; it’s passivity"

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Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

En bra dag, vecka, månad, år, liv att frigöra sig från fossila bränslen

This is what ecocide looks like.

It's vaguely fascinating and jarring that Claude gets sold as the responsible, narrow, work-focused non-sycophantic chatbot while at the same time Anthropic also seems to have convinced a stunningly massive number of formerly normal people that Claude is a living thing trapped inside the computer

Footage reviewed and geolocated by Bellingcat confirms US tomahawk missiles hit the girls’ primary school in southern Iran that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Researcher Trevor Ball notes Israel does not possess Tomahawk missiles. United States does.

“We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of” www.ru.nl/en/research/... @olivia.science

Nej, Sverige skall inte ha kärnvapen, men ett internationellt fredsarbete. Det råder inte fred i Sverige, sa statsminister Ulf Kristersson på Folk och Försvar tidigare i år. Mn tillade att det inte betydde att vi var i krig. Det kändes ju betryggande. Inte. Jag växte upp …

Nej vi skall inte ha svenska kärnvapen men vi skall ha ett fredsarbete värt namnet. vanstrastranden.blog/2026/03/08/n...

For the cheap seats, in the back: any policy that is supported by the American Petroleum Institute is not a climate policy.

oh wow that is very windy

how windy is it?

I would argue they knew exactly what they were doing, which was deliberately sabotaging needed public works programs by offering snake oil they never had any intention of delivering.

four to six deer close to a combined pedestrian and bicycle path

went for a walk, encountered some deer, decided on a different route (for everybody's sake)

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth

None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...

a sheep wears a yellow bucket on its head Alt: a sheep walking around with a yellow bucket over its head

good morning leon

FEB 25: Anthropic & Hegseth dispute AWS - autonomous AI weapons systems - that can identify & kill targets with no human

FEB 28: U.S. attacks Iran & aims for a girl’s school - killing 168 innocents

FUTURE: The U.S. WILL BE the first country to commit war crimes with AI

They’re preparing for it.

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

BP’s new boss will take home at least £11.7m this year, more than double her predecessor Meg O’Neill will be first woman to serve as CEO of 117-year-oil firm when joining from Woodside Energy in April

BP’s new CEO to take home £11.7m this year, more than double her predecessor.

Daily pay > annual median pay of UK employee.

CEO pay at one company is a benchmark for another. Others will want more.

Govts, BOE, CBI and other neoliberals talk about wage inflation, but silence on fat-cattery.

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anthropic: I have made AI

tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

A sequence of shots from the TV series MASH. Three surgeons are operating in a mobile army surgical theater, and are masked in cotton masks, wearing cotton caps to cover hair, and aprons. Bright lights are visible in their backgrounds. The first, panel shows Frank Burns (an absolute jerk character but Larry Linville, his actor, was not) saying, “Everybody knows war is Hell”. The second panel shows BJ Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) saying (sarcastically) “ remember, you heard it here last.” The third and fourth panels show Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) saying, “War isn’t Hell. War is war and Hell is hell and of the two, war is a lot worse.“ 5th panel shows Father Mulcahey, the chaplain (William Christopher) saying, “How do you figure that, Hawkeye?” 6th is back to Hawkeye, saying “ Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?” 7th is Fr Mulcahey saying “ Sinners, I believe.” The last three panels are all Hawkeye, saying, “ Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. But war is chock full of them. Little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for a few of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.”

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Agree that I hate this is still relevant.

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."