The Collective Social Network has been an effort within social media to utilize this infrastructure to support populist grassroots campaigns to save 🌎 INFP
Chicago has the most local elected officials with their local school councils but they have not been made the force for change that they can be. Community safety starts at such a tribunal table of decision making, not threats of more cop guns in our schools. War is not new in Chi
As stated in the first sentence of the signatory page, there are many “important and urgent risks from AI,” not just the risk of extinction; for example, systemic bias, misinformation, malicious use, cyberattacks, and weaponization. These are all important risks that need to be addressed.
Societies can manage multiple risks at once; it’s not “either/or” but “yes/and.” From a risk management perspective, just as it would be reckless to exclusively prioritize present harms, it would also be reckless to ignore them as well.
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Manuel Teran, AKA Tort, was murdered by police yesterday. They were camping in a public park to defend the Weelaunee Forest. They are the first environmental protester we know to be killed by US police.
This is a big thread of submissions to love and mourn Manuel.
Police killed a forest defender today, someone who loved the forest, someone who fought to protect the earth & its inhabitants.
This is why we organize to stop Cop City. And we will. In honor of their life, and the lives of everyone killed and imprisoned by the police.
Chicago is, and long has been, a welcoming city — but it’s not enough to just welcome people here, we need to build a city that encourages people to stay here. Let’s do that work together.
The CTA puts out system maps, and ridership data. But until now, no one (as far as we know) has created a map that combines the two in an interactive format. Check out Daniel Cruz's new interactive CTA ridership map.
https://t.co/2eab53yOIg
Burning fossil fuels is increasing atmospheric CO2 at 10x the rate of any time in the last 66 million years, causing ecosystem turmoil and weather chaos, while plastic rains from the sky and infiltrates placentas as oceans acidify at an unseen pace. Is this headline news today?
Lightfoot: This morning, a police officer died by suicide.
"This is a tough time this season for everyone," especially struggling with mental health.
When someone is having struggles, reach out; don't ignore it.
It’s interesting that Ghana is largely in its situation due to the fact that it gorged on private sector debt from European and American capital markets, not due to bilateral debt from China.
No one will call this a debt trap though.
most mainstream coverage of the forest fight casts it as some kind of retrograde "tree-huggers vs the planning dept" when actually it's the frontline of this century's struggle—entire ecosystems vs corporatized, militarized, nationalized police https://t.co/EnBk9KhGfI