While Elon Musk struggles to get his AI to stop calling itself Mecha Hitler, the less techy wing of the elites are up to old tricks … Simon and Andy discuss the UK government’s shift to juryless trials and what it means for activism, wildfires and heatwave death toll creep, Grok channelling Goebbels, the Filton
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Personally, I would settle for a lot less than paradise. For me, paradigm shift would work, a condition where people simply behave in their own best interests which means living within the boundaries of the natural world and cooperating with each other for the common good. That would look a lot like Kailash Ecovillage.
The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism will not participate in the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit Stocktake +4 at the end of July, or its preparatory processes these legitimize an agro-industrial system, and the financial interests of a few, to the detriment of peoples’ rights.
How long will this race run, who will win out, and what will the vast majority of New Zealanders pay in money, pollution, extreme weather events, sea level rise, land degradation and loss of fellow life forms to subsidize the continuing exploitation of Papatuanuku ?
From Penguin Press to the Royal Festival Hall, British modernism was co-created by artists and intellectuals fleeing fascism in the 1930s. Juliet Jacques speaks to Owen Hatherley, author of a new collective biography of some of the movement's most important figures.
Peruvian scientists have identified three new-to-science frog species in the Andes, highlighting the mountains’ wealth of biodiversity, according to a recent study. The three species have been named Pristimantis chinguelas, P. nunezcortezi and P. yonke.
SAMARINDA, Indonesia — The prosecution of a former head of mining in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province could reveal wider misuse of environmental restoration funds across the country’s coal heartland, a prominent environmental lawyer said in June.
Knowledge workers, whose jobs involve handling information rather than producing goods, were supposed to be the beneficiaries of neoliberalism and globalization. But generative AI and a hypercompetitive employment market is immiserating them too.