Want to Know Why Monopolies Took Over the World?
How enormous wealth and power were concentrated in very few hands?
And how equality and a fair distribution of resources were outlawed?
More sense from Zack Polanski on taxing the fossil fuel companies destroying our climate, & taking water back into public ownership.
Join and support the Green Party of England and Wales!See this Instagram post by @thegreenparty https://t.co/jMTj4CY6Ut
100s of tons of raw sewage is killing children & wildlife, causing chronic illness to 1000s of swimmers. Since 2021, 10 privatised water firms have got away with 1.8 million sewage spills. Tell Burnham: renationalise water! signhttps://water-rip-off.goodlawproject.org/s/B01sWx
Strip away the theatre and Reform UK is a billionaire-backed project to dismantle the public realm, shred regulatory protections and hand what remains of state power to capital.
It’s plain to see – just follow the money.
Farage accepted a £5 million “gift” from a Thailand-based crypto billionaire, then went on to champion a light-touch approach to cryptocurrency regulation.
It’s clear we need a stronger firewall around our democracy.
That’s why I’ve backed @stellacreasy's amendment to the Representation of the People Bill to cap political donations at £100,000.
This would be a vital safeguard against billionaire capture of our politics and a important step towards rebuilding trust in our democracy.
The M.o.D. just launched a Universities Defence Alliance: government funding for 35 universities to “strengthen defence research, build critical skills & support the UK's future defence capability.” Take action against the UK WAR MACHINE by signing here: https://t.co/LXKeOdypXG
Incontrovertible evidence that our planet is being destroyed. Our politicians and leaders respond by continuing to build more pipelines, approving more data centers, and bombing people in tents
https://t.co/Dxj2xN03V1
Andy Burnham is pitching new nuclear subs and weapons as reindustrialisation for England.
The reality is they're a danger to the world, "unusable" by global consensus, and don't protect us from security threats we face right now.
Terrible decision - Tower Hamlets has one of largest number of data centres of any London borough, to the point that planning officers warn housing being delayed by 10 years due to a lack of grid connections
Labour & Burnham are politically exposed on the issue across the UK.
While the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene.
https://t.co/XMZiIFxpX6
If there is one thing that we all agree on, it is that privatisation of water has been a colossal failure
The solution is simple: take our water into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP: https://t.co/f4cV8v9LG3
In a time of droughts and wildfires, running our water for profit is offensive
🚨 ANGELA RAYNER OVERRIDES LOCAL COUNCIL TO FORCE THROUGH DATA CENTRE INSTEAD OF SOCIAL HOUSING!
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has just overridden local objections to bulldoze the historic Truman Brewery in east London to build an AI data centre.
There are currently 28,000 local people on the social housing waiting list in that borough alone.
Yet out of 44 flats being built on the site, Angela Rayner approved a plan that provides just SIX social homes! 🤡
Andy Burnham and Angela Rayner constantly promise a massive council house building drive for working class people. 💷
Yet the moment developers show up with 500 million pounds, Labour happily crushes local democracy to build tech data facilities instead of homes for British families!!
When wildfire destroys human houses, the whole world watches.
News cameras arrive.
Losses are counted.
Families are interviewed.
Help is demanded.
But just beyond those homes, an entire forest is burning.
Deer are running with their young.
Birds are fleeing through smoke.
Animals are losing their nests, food, shelter—and sometimes their lives.
For humans, a burned house is a tragedy.
For wildlife, the burned forest was not just a house.
It was their entire world.
They cannot speak to reporters.
They cannot ask for compensation.
They cannot rebuild somewhere else.
Wildfires are not only human disasters. Wildlife suffers silently, often without attention, rescue, or headlines.
When we protect forests, we are not only saving trees.
We are protecting millions of homes that have no walls, no insurance, and no voice.
Their home matters too.
#Wildfire #Wildlife #ForestFire #SaveWildlife #ProtectForests #ClimateCrisis #AnimalLivesMatter #EnvironmentalAwareness #ThePlanetVoice
The drought is exposing a weakness in nuclear power. Lack of water in the Danube has closed two reactors in Romania and one in Hungary. Similar problems have shut three in France. At least eight others in Europe are having to operate on reduced power.
https://t.co/Z1RjLmqIh0
“We need to stop burning fossil fuels. Because as long as we keep burning fossil fuels, temperatures will increase globally."
– Friederike Otto, Imperial College of London
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
https://t.co/YgniblArmn
AI companies are buying large volumes of used, rare, and out-of-print books, scanning them for training data, and in many cases destroying the physical copies afterward.
This practice has accelerated as labs seek high-quality, pre-2022 human-written text free of AI-generated content that now saturates much of the open web.
The most documented example is Anthropic’s internal effort known as Project Panama. Court filings from copyright litigation revealed that the company acquired millions of physical books from used-book sellers and wholesalers such as Better World Books. Workers used hydraulic cutting machines to slice off the spines, fed the loose pages into industrial high-speed scanners, and then discarded or pulped the remains. An internal planning document described the goal as an effort to destructively scan books at massive scale. A federal judge later ruled that purchasing the books, creating internal digital copies this way, and destroying the originals constituted transformative fair use under U.S. copyright law, relying in part on the first-sale doctrine.
Similar activity is now widespread. Specialized brokers, including ISBNdb, openly market bulk acquisition services to AI labs, offering orders ranging from thousands to as many as one million titles. They emphasize older printed books as “structurally clean” training data.
Booksellers in the United States and Europe have reported sudden surges in bulk orders for mixed, random selections that include rare and out-of-print volumes. Some of these titles may represent among the last readily available physical copies. While a substantial portion of the books involved would otherwise have been remaindered, recycled, or sent to landfills, the inclusion of uncommon editions has drawn criticism from archivists, collectors, and rare-book dealers who note that gentler, non-destructive scanning methods exist yet are slower and more expensive.
The process remains largely quiet because the intermediary services promise anonymity to their AI clients. Public attention has grown mainly through litigation disclosures and reporting by outlets that examined the court records and interviewed booksellers.
The practice highlights a practical tension in large-scale AI development: the demand for vast quantities of reliable human text collides with the finite physical supply of older printed works and the cultural value of preserving rare copies.
This is what a broken healthcare system looks like:
More uninsured patients are showing up in emergency rooms.
More people are unable to pay their hospital bills.
More Americans are delaying surgeries they cannot afford.
Healthcare is a human right. We need Medicare for All.
Next week is the anniversary of Hiroshima.
Today, the Prime Minister has announced more investment in weapons of mass destruction.
The UK spends £12,000 every minute on nuclear weapons. Imagine if we spent that money on social care, schools and the NHS instead.