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.
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.
Observing media coverage of the bombing of Iran, you could be forgiven for thinking you were watching a rerun of Iraq two decades ago. Mainstream outlets were all too happy to parrot the Trump and Netanyahu administrations’ line.
A study conducted in the Brazilian Amazon has found that community-based volunteer patrolling efforts in two protected areas were associated with an 80% reduction in recorded environmental crimes from 2003-13.