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Likewise!!!! Energy historians – get on it!

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In it, they take us from the fields of western France, as activists battle against the building of a mégabassine, to the new ideology that says: “these extreme weather events are now a fact of life, but they can be managed if powerful enough technologies are put in place"

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"Ever since the shift to steam power, society has been bidding a long farewell to climate..."

New on the website: Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on “muscular adaptationism”, the ruling ideology of contemporary climate capitalism.

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Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk and the Claremonsters Meet the philosophical cabal remaking America

good piece on the heritage of leo strauss and the claremont institute. made me think about how the concept of straussian eso/exoteric readings and hidden truths fits (in a degenerate fashion) online meme culture www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

What an electrifying read. I followed the inspiring ZAD movement in the 2010s but didn't know about its sequel at Sainte-Soline.

Thank you, Wim!!

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Anything written on what seems to be an increasingly global series of major cyber attacks?

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It outlines the ruling climate ideology of the present, what they call "muscular adaptationism"

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Then Where Will We Live In Indonesia, nickel mining is booming as global demand for batteries surges. Its impacts—on workers, on communities and on nature—are deeply felt.

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Photojournalist Garry Lotulung documents the exlosion of nickel mining, largely for batteries, in Halmahera, Indonesia—speaking with workers, locals & members of the island's Indigenous community

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All of the above would, however, cost money. Why do that when you can do some racist dog whistling instead?

Thing is, it'd be easy for Labour to change the tone on immigration: three month max processing for all asylum applications; close the hotels; stop people traffickers sending people to die in the channel; safe and legal routes for those crossing.

Instead, they do this Reform-tailing nonsense

Always very fun to speak to John about dark and grim topics regarding the ascendance of Britains far right. But there’s also a brief chat about Alcopops and Dark Fruits which might be what is needed to restore some semblance of normalcy to today’s politics

This is something i've also been trying to sketch out with my stuff on decline – how the "affective infrastructure" of the right is formed and attached to particular (real) problems

Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...

This is superb, giving lie to the idea that the rise of the far right is simply a problem of bad/mis-information.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...

I’ve been struck by how the British far right is using deepfake technology — less to deceive about specific events, more to tap into fascistic affects & desires. This is really frightening.

My dispatch from grim corners of the Internet, for @lrb.co.uk online.

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Worth reading alongside Claire Wilmot’s new piece, ‘Fascistic Dream Machines’, on the far right’s use of AI video:

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I also spent a long time talking about my new obsession: the youtube "auditors", vloggers who gain hundreds of thousands of views and subs bothering security guards at asylum hotels and filming anti-migrant protests