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I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – Europe liveExplosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plantwww.theguardian.com

It's an utter indictment of whatever passes for the Left that so many are opposed to, imho, a baseline of working class politics.

there is a skill to asking tough questions in a friendly way and we'd all be better off if it were more widely distributed

God, it’s all just so fucking exhausting

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

"By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism.

Meanwhile, in this universe... In the middle of a deadly heatwave, the European Commission proposed giving polluting industries more free CO₂ allowances. That proposal was ready on time...

More than 10,000 people have died in Europe's heatwaves. This is what the first 48 hours would have looked like if Europe had treated extreme heat like the emergency it is.🧵

this post is the entire intellectual framework of the American right

Child throws caution on the Santa story but sees promise in Tooth Fairy

more serious Odyssey opinion: leaning into the religious significance of the Trojan horse strategy (and the hospitality as central to civilization theme) was a good choice by Nolan and friends artistically and politically. strongest condemnation of our present era I'd expect from a mass market film

And, of course, for both fascists and generative AI, there is ultimately no significant difference between history and myth

Since 1996, the business models of Silicon Valley are largely based on legally protected unaccountability, enforced world-wide through US dominance. Generative AI is both a product and an escalation of this model: It's unaccountability as a service

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Nordhaus's lifelong ideological project to defend climate polluters from meaningful regulation has been well dissected. But it remains the bedrock of practically all mainstream climate policy (whose academic leadership, surprise surprise, are drenched in fossil-fuel-industry money)

William Nordhaus: A disputable Nobel [Prize]? Externalities, climate change, and governmental actionIn 2018 William Nordhaus was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contributions to the macroeconomics of climate change. Nevertheless, Nordhaus since the early 1970s was engaged in an acade...www.tandfonline.com

Four recent books of new Marx/ist scholarship on nature, politics, power and energy from the 2020s. All very good! Seems like a new wave, we can finally stop saying “Since 2008 global financial crisis” and start saying “Since 2020s total planetary chaos…”

“i fucking love science” wannabe NDTs love doing the “actually space doesn’t look like what you’ve seen in pictures” thing. WRONG. the correct answer is that it ALSO looks like that. there is no medium-neutral way of seeing *anything* in deep space you dork ass losers.

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you