Brian e Noble, PhD, dark & light in living relation

‘It’s missing something’: AGI, superintelligence and a race for the future As US and Chinese tech giants chase artificial general intelligence, experts warn the hype may be outrunning the science

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“…nearing the finish line..”

Then what?

Autonomous Political Intelligence?

Rule of super-intelligence?

And the next finish line after that?

Despite Trump’s peace calls, Russian attacks on Ukraine double since inauguration Missile and drone attacks on Ukraine are now higher than at any other point of the war, according to Ukrainian data.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
“I’ll end the war on my first day in office”

LNG Project Comes with Financial Risks for First Nations: Report | The Tyee Drawbacks for the Prince Rupert initiative outweigh benefits for environment and investor, says Yellowhead Institute.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

This can be read as a tale of capitalist economic assimilation… fraught with risks, and accelerating rather than slowing loss of sovereign authority & community belonging by capitulation to the lure of state loan guarantees

& fuelling climate collapse in the same breath

"I’m shocked by this announcement, bluntly, given my research group has been working with tangata whenua, iwi, hapū, rūnanga, and trusts around the motu for over 10 years, and there is very little support for de-extinction of New Zealand species for many reasons"- Nic Rawlence

This has been available for two years, but now officially published by @culturalstudies.bsky.social Exploring settler colonialism in Aotearoa: the fab @fmcc.bsky.social , Priya Kurian, Rolande Paekau, Cayathri Divakalala & Sharayne Bennett
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"And while some may see the draping of flags and the placing of patu on desks as defiant acts, many rangatahi saw them for what they truly were: a peaceful but firm reminder that Māori and Pasefika voices will not be sidelined."

HAPA: Hawai'i Alliance for Progressive Action HAPA's mission is to catalyze community empowerment and systemic change towards valuing people and environment ahead of corporate profits. We do so through the candidates training program and by coali...

www.hapahi.org
HAPA is modelling strong grassroots action, to advance people’s democratic engagement, partnering between settler & Kanaka Maoli, the Indigenous peoples of Hawai’i

@russdiabo.bsky.social re Carney Plan in ramming through C-5:

Domesticate Indigenous Ppls into State Political Economic Apparatus by subordinating their ‘Self-Government’ practices under the still-colonial presumptions of Terra nullius & Doctrine of Discovery, buying out to extinguish rights

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The repugnant smugness of ethno-supremacist self-entitlement

The core self-righteous disposition needed to commit genocide with impunity

@nolore.bsky.social @avilewis.bsky.social @pampalmater.com @naomiaklein.bsky.social

Australia condemns Israel for ‘indefensible’ Gaza deaths as it joins coalition of countries denouncing Israel Australia and 27 other countries said it was ‘horrifying’ that over 800 Palestinians were killed while seeking aid

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Netanyahu’s Israel is unforgivable
There needs to be a decisive turning point

Good riddance.

Meet Savannah Ridley, The Narwhal's Indigenous editorial fellow | The Narwhal The Toronto Metropolitan University student and up-and-coming journalist is following in her grandmother’s footsteps and telling Indigenous stories

Meet Savannah Ridley: Seneca journalist, @torontomet.bsky.social student, owner of a perfect dog named Charlie and our very-first Indigenous editorial fellow! thenarwhal.ca/savannah-rid...

Two UK charities donate millions to Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank Charity Commission criticised for endorsing transfer of about £5.7m to high school in illegal village of Susya

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Complicit

The $1 Trillion Pentagon Budget Will Make Its Emissions Higher Than the Entire Country of Ethiopia By Patrick Bigger and Lorah Steichen

climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/1-trillion...

Political moves Bringing on Catastrophes

European missile group MBDA selling parts for bombs that have killed children in Gaza Exclusive: Britain has paused some weapons sales to Israel, but a Guardian investigation shows revenues from the GBU-39 bomb generated by the US arm of MBDA flow through the UK

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Following the money…. Economic complicity in Genocide

Far-right conspiracy theories spread online in aftermath of the Texas floods Some social media users falsely claimed that the extreme weather was being controlled by the US government

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

MAGA micro-managing the administration

Mayor Andy Fillmore says he 'didn’t fully understand the barriers' to the job until he got it - Halifax Examiner Council will debate Sam Austin's motion on strong mayor powers on Thursday, but Fillmore had his say Tuesday.

Mayor Andy Fillmore says he ‘didn’t fully understand the barriers’ to the job until he got it
By @suzannerent.bsky.social

Climate breakdown tripled death toll in Europe’s June heatwave, study finds Heat caused 2,300 deaths across 12 cities, of which 1,500 were down to climate crisis, scientists say

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“One particular aspect that is quite concerning … is this repeat emergence of heat stress. If you repeat the heat stress over time, the vulnerability of these specific ecosystems increases.”

Trump is bullying Canada over ‘digital taxes’ and Canada caved | Joseph Stiglitz The question now: will countries cave in to these threats or stick together and collect the billions they are rightly owed?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump is bullying Canada over ‘digital taxes’ and Canada caved | Joseph Stiglitz

Stiglitz is not wrong.

Recall he received Nobel Prize in Economics, so has at least some modest chops to weigh in

Carney.
Is a banker.

‘How Zionism Turns Trauma Into an Ethnic Supremacist Weapon’: Mehdi and Naomi Live in Toronto 'Unshocked' in front of a live audience in Canada, with Naomi and Mehdi taking questions on everything from Trump’s fascism, to Zionism, to new Canadian prime minister Mark Carney.

zeteo.com/p/how-zionis...

“How is it possible that a people who suffered a genocide could be committing a genocide?”
Naomi asks.

“I can't answer that question without understanding…that Zionism is the ideology that turned trauma into a supremacist weapon.”

Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom?

US reportedly moving B-2 bombers to Guam as Trump considers Iran strikes Officials tell Reuters bombers moving to Pacific Island but unclear whether deployment tied to Middle East tensions

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Not new
US Imperialism in Pacific Islands ramped up 140 yrs ago. “Guam” is Indigenous Territory of the Chamorro People & the Marianas Islands

Fr 1890s McKinley, Trump latest of 2 dozen Presidents to colonize & militarize Pacific Lands for US global domination
#B2

Margaret Atwood says she cannot remember another time ‘when words themselves have felt under such threat’ The Handmaid’s Tale author spoke out as she accepted the freedom to publish prize at the British Book awards

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

“Political and religious polarisation, which appeared to be on the wane for parts of the 20th century, has increased alarmingly in the past decade,” she added. “The world feels to me more like the 1930s and 40s at present than it has in the intervening 80 years.”

Woody Guthrie is ever relevant, Art via @justseeds.bsky.social

Part of an ongoing series of linocut Lotería cards. La Máscara is a closeup of Subcomandante Marcos' eyes, with his balaclava. A new print from Fernando Martí!
justseeds.org/product/la-m...

Solstice week gifts… one of several

Solstice week gifts… one of several