Das linke Bild habe ich am Sonntag aufgenommen, das rechte Bild heute, Freitag morgen. Heute um 17 Uhr 39 Grad. Blätter und Ähre verbrennen regelrecht. Diese Entwicklung ist nicht umkehrbar. Das Wachstum ist damit beendet.
An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍
Wet-bulb temperature events are coming. The point where your body can no longer cool itself and you die in the shade, doing nothing. This will be the biggest news story in human history and almost nobody is talking about it.
In the 1980s, the Colombian left, including guerrillas who had put down their arms, attempted an electoral experiment called the Patriotic Union. After decent election results the right with the help of Israeli intelligence officers and mercs literally exterminated the party
I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
This the quintessential story of how sports reflects the state of the world. Thousands of fans have waited for Game 3 their whole lives and now they’re priced out of entering the game and can’t even celebrate outside because one billionaire gets to attend the game for free.
Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
Death threats against me. A subpoena from Congress. Interviews cancelled and censored. A source indicted. Witnesses killed. Read the book that the corrupt national security state and criminal actors within it have fought tooth and nail to suppress. Now available in paperback.
University administrators will suspend faculty for mentioning the word Palestine, then lie that they're committed to "learning environments in which ideas are freely exchanged." Shame on SAIC for fueling this insane McCarthyism and repressive climate on campuses.
It is very hard to navigate what we should do about AI on a basic level because it’s dominated by a bunch of private firms whose fundamental interests have nothing to do with what you or I want. They’re terraforming our planet and every market on it to yield to their structural desire(s), even if individuals & groups within have other ideas. But the need for more capital than exists is the opportunity here! A moratorium, a stock tax, nationalization, financial repression, all of these should be understood as tools we cling to only so long as they advance the cause of abandoning the path we are locked on. We need anything that can give us as much space and time to figure out an alternative that is not simply a gentler form of what the firms have already proposed for their own sake!
The NSF just eliminated geoscience postdocs, is trying to destroy NCAR, and is now dismantling the world's best array of ocean observatories for no reason, just uncomprehending childlike spite towards anyone who wants to learn anything about this planet https://t.co/lkJaeAMkb6