Cry for the Earth

The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children.

The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war.

Priorities.

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

'... the dystopian possibility that the college experience may soon be reduced to AIs grading AI-generated homework – “a conversation between two robots”.'

#AI #RobotizationOfHumanity

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

'... when it comes to its impact on students, early studies point to potentially catastrophic effects on cognitive abilities and critical thinking skills.'
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

#AI #RobotizationOfHumanity

All thanks to the Roberts Court.

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.

Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency released a draft for a new permit that would allow data centers across the state to release untreated wastewater and stormwater dire…

AI is better than humans because AI doesn’t get cancer. So let’s build data centers that we know will cause humans to get cancer. It’s a win all around.
www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

Reporter seeking freedom of speech in the US arrested for exercising freedom of speech in the US

Advies wordt geheid overgenomen. Is bijna altijd zo en zeker als het geld bespaart.

Gezondheidsraad: leeftijdsgrens coronaprik mag van 60 naar 70-plus Het aantal ziekenhuisopnames en sterfgevallen is de afgelopen jaren afgenomen, maar de ziektelast van coronabesmettingen is nog altijd hoger dan griep.

Neehee. Niet doen.

De impact van covid is hoger dan die van griep maar toch prikken we griep vanaf 60 jaar en covid pas vanaf 70? Wat is daar de logica achter?

Gezondheidsraad: leeftijdsgrens coronaprik mag van 60 naar 70-plus https://nos.nl/l/2605766

Aha...
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The Latest Republican Efforts to Make It Harder to Vote in the Midterms Donald Trump is pushing the SAVE America Act, but there are other measures to undermine the electoral system.

From the always on-point Sue Halpern, a good catalogue of GOP efforts to disenfranchise voters. It's what they've got left.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Gezondheidsraad: leeftijdsgrens coronaprik mag van 60 naar 70-plus Het aantal ziekenhuisopnames en sterfgevallen is de afgelopen jaren afgenomen, maar de ziektelast van coronabesmettingen is nog altijd hoger dan griep.

Dat noemt zich "Gezondheidsraad", stelletje necrofiele cententellers.
nos.nl/artikel/2605...

#COVID19 #COVID19NL #necropolitiek

EU must back homes for people, not profit - Greenpeace European Unit The European Parliament’s plan to tackle the housing crisis risks loosening rules for property developers and speculators, at the expense of housing standards and nature, Greenpeace has warned.

The EU Parliament's vote on housing today failed to back enshrining housing as a human right, and also left the door open to cutting housing standards and nature protections to benefit developers and speculators

Housing policy must prioritise homes for people, not property as an investment

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions

'"A sobering preview": extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions'

#ClimateEmergency #heatwaves #PublicHealth

Alaska’s glacial lakes are expanding, increasing the risk of destructive outburst floods Scientists mapped the evolution of 140 glacial lakes in Alaska and found a way to tell how much larger and destructive they can get as their glaciers melt.

'Alaska’s glacial lakes are expanding, increasing the risk of destructive outburst flood'
theconversation.com/alaskas-glac...

#ClimateEmergency #unknowns #PublicSafety #floods #OutburstFloods

“…an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail.”

The Broligarchy's First World War? AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict

'Dominique Pelicot and Andrew Tate and Jeffrey Epstein are only symptoms. They are the doorway through which we can understand the forces behind not just another catastrophic Gulf War but a global power structure ...'
broligarchy.substack.com/p/is-this-th...

The Broligarchy's First World War? AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict

NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

‘Charismatic and extremely confident’: how to recognise – and handle – a psychopath Psychologist Leanne ten Brinke has spent decades studying toxic personality traits. What are the red flags to look out for among workmates, politicians and potential partners?

'Ten Brinke describes as a “dark spiral”. At times of uncertainty and conflict, “we look for a ‘strong’ leader. Then, in position, they can create more chaos, more instability, which actually makes us more likely to vote, again, for someone with these traits.'
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A Trump Order Protected a Weedkiller. And Also a Weapon of War.

Trump signed an EO benefitting Bayer, the makers of cancer-linked weedkiller Roundup and deadly munitions component white phosphorus.

It came after Bayer hired top Trumpworld lobbyist Brian Ballard and spent over $9M last year on federal lobbying.

"Drain the swamp."

I wasn't intending to turn this into a thread, but it seems to have happened anyway.
It's about the great plague on our lives: the extreme wealth of a tiny number of people.
And what to do about it.

The EU plan for ICE-style agents to deport illegal immigrants YouTube video by Roundtable

#EU #EPP #ECR #NeoFascism

youtu.be/7RsrVaYO_pE

‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan Experts argue sensor and satellite data reveal targeted attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on farming communities were intended to prevent villages producing food

'"Extraordinary cruelty": images show longterm "starvation strategy" in Sudan'
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Pipeline of new drugs to fight superbugs is ‘worryingly thin’, experts warn UK’s GSK is leading the way in research but AstraZeneca is not involved in the area, report finds

'One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections were resistant to antibiotic treatments in 2023'
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

'... the annual number of deaths linked to drug-resistant infections globally will double to 8 million by 2050.'

#PublicHealth #bacteria #bugs #ResistantBugs

Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn Monitors admit they are struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from widening war

'Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn'
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

#Trump #GOP #Iran #war #pollution #PublicHealth

Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’ Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’

'Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on "phantom investments"'
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#AI #bubble #speculation #risks

Nothing to see here. Just the leader of 'the free world' talking about cancelling the next elections (for the fifth time this year.)

Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones.

We’re barely a week into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in.

Everything is for sale.

treated image of Tony Blair, Larry Ellison, Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch and Benjamin Netanyahu with the caption: "As Tony Blair criticises Starmer for not joining Trump’s war, read Carole Cadwalladr on Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection"

As the right wing press praises Tony Blair for his "rebuke" of Keir Starmer for not supporting Donald Trump's war on Iran ("We should have backed America from the very beginning."), time to re-up @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's investigation into the Tony Blair Institute

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Dan nog zou ik het interessant vinden een grafiek te zien van de jaarlijkse hoeveelheid fossiele energie in de totale economie minus de elektriciteitssector. Om in beeld te krijgen of de afname daarvan stagneert bijvoorbeeld omdat laag hangend fruit al is geplukt.