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UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time
Carbon Brief has analysed editorials – articles considered the newspaper’s formal “voice” – since 2011 and this is the first year opposition to climate action has exceeded support.
Criticism of net-zero policies, including renewable-energy expansion, came entirely from right-leaning newspapers, particularly the Sun, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph.
In addition, there were 112 editorials – more than two a week – that included attacks on Ed Miliband, continuing a highly personal campaign by some newspapers against the Labour energy secretary.
These editorials, nearly all of which were in right-leaning titles, typically characterised him as a “zealot”, driving through a “costly” net-zero “agenda”.
#ClimateCrisis
#RigthWingNews
#Propaganda
#Capitalism
#Climate
#ClimateAction
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The annual MLK Jr. Day is a reminder that we've been in this shared fight for a long time now.
"Again, we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of Black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor both Black and white, both here and abroad."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sT9Hjh0cHM
#MLK #MLKJr #MLKJrDay #solidarity #ClassStruggle #capitalism
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Lecture indispensable : le toujours excellent Cory Doctorow aka @pluralistic dans son article récent du Gardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
C'est sans doute le point essentiel pour comprendre le cauchemar vers lequel tout le délire ai nous entraîne :
Le capitalisme nous vends des machines qui doivent nous assister. Mais ce sont les humains qui vont devenir les assistants des machines. Et qui recevront le blâme en cas d'erreur.
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![But AI can’t do your job. It can help you do your job, but that does not mean it is going to save anyone money.
[...]
. The market’s bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: “Look, you fire nine out of 10 of your radiologists, saving $20m a year. You give us $10m a year, and you net $10m a year, and the remaining radiologists’ job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed – and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it’s catastrophically wrong.
“And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist’s fault, because they are the ‘human in the loop’. It’s their signature on the diagnosis.”
This is a reverse centaur, and it is a specific kind of reverse centaur: it is what Dan Davies calls an “accountability sink”. The radiologist’s job is not really to oversee the AI’s work, it is to take the blame for the AI’s mistakes.
This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can’t do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can’t do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble.](https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/115/921/082/922/740/034/original/d932ee8f0c7bdac3.png)
UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time
Carbon Brief has analysed editorials – articles considered the newspaper’s formal “voice” – since 2011 and this is the first year opposition to climate action has exceeded support.
Criticism of net-zero policies, including renewable-energy expansion, came entirely from right-leaning newspapers, particularly the Sun, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph.
In addition, there were 112 editorials – more than two a week – that included attacks on Ed Miliband, continuing a highly personal campaign by some newspapers against the Labour energy secretary.
These editorials, nearly all of which were in right-leaning titles, typically characterised him as a “zealot”, driving through a “costly” net-zero “agenda”.
#ClimateCrisis
#RigthWingNews
#Propaganda
#Capitalism
#Climate
#ClimateAction
The annual MLK Jr. Day is a reminder that we've been in this shared fight for a long time now.
"Again, we have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifice. The fact is that capitalism was built on the exploitation and suffering of Black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor both Black and white, both here and abroad."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sT9Hjh0cHM
#MLK #MLKJr #MLKJrDay #solidarity #ClassStruggle #capitalism
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building A Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
🔗 https://www.authoritarian-stack.info
#postdemocratic #usa #europe #stack #uspol #eupol #billionaires #authoritarian #politics #capitalism #us
Lecture indispensable : le toujours excellent Cory Doctorow aka @pluralistic dans son article récent du Gardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
C'est sans doute le point essentiel pour comprendre le cauchemar vers lequel tout le délire ai nous entraîne :
Le capitalisme nous vends des machines qui doivent nous assister. Mais ce sont les humains qui vont devenir les assistants des machines. Et qui recevront le blâme en cas d'erreur.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace/115915165479780248
Taxing does not help. They will find a way to circumvent that. We need better, more creative solutions. You know what I mean.
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> The A in AGI stands for Ads! It's all ads!! Ads that you can't even block because they are BAKED into the streamed probabilistic word selector purposefully skewed to output the highest bidder's marketing copy.
Ossama Chaib, "The A in AGI stands for Ads"
This is another huge reason I refuse to "build skills" around LLMs. The models everyone points to as being worthwhile are either not public or prohibitively expensive to run locally, so incorporating them into my workflow means I'd be making my core thought processes very vulnerable to enshittification.
> The A in AGI stands for Ads! It's all ads!! Ads that you can't even block because they are BAKED into the streamed probabilistic word selector purposefully skewed to output the highest bidder's marketing copy.
Ossama Chaib, "The A in AGI stands for Ads"
This is another huge reason I refuse to "build skills" around LLMs. The models everyone points to as being worthwhile are either not public or prohibitively expensive to run locally, so incorporating them into my workflow means I'd be making my core thought processes very vulnerable to enshittification.
Alexis Bushnell
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Creativity is like a muscle. If you want to become more creative, you have to exercise it.
When I was in art school (years ago), we exercised every day to become more creative. Artists have to train to get there too. It's not magic or "talent," it's hard work.
When you use AI to give you "inspiration," you are doing the opposite of that. You are atrophying your creativity muscle.
If you want to become a creator, and become more creative, you should stop using AI entirely. Instead, start training your own genuine creativity. Otherwise, it will eventually dry off completely.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/115911460059386124
Not to mention that there already studies showing the impact of using LLMs to your cognition.
We see how data centers impact the environment, the coalition between State and Capital to introduce new ways of (techno)surveillance, or how the Global South is paying all of the above.
It's also important to link all that to the acceleration that the economic system deploys in every aspect of our lives, producing for the sake of it, velocity for no tangible reason.
Capital subsumes every pore of existence to its axiomatic, and AI is just another reason to garden a slower way of being and living.
Creativity is like a muscle. If you want to become more creative, you have to exercise it.
When I was in art school (years ago), we exercised every day to become more creative. Artists have to train to get there too. It's not magic or "talent," it's hard work.
When you use AI to give you "inspiration," you are doing the opposite of that. You are atrophying your creativity muscle.
If you want to become a creator, and become more creative, you should stop using AI entirely. Instead, start training your own genuine creativity. Otherwise, it will eventually dry off completely.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/115911460059386124
Not to mention that there already studies showing the impact of using LLMs to your cognition.
We see how data centers impact the environment, the coalition between State and Capital to introduce new ways of (techno)surveillance, or how the Global South is paying all of the above.
It's also important to link all that to the acceleration that the economic system deploys in every aspect of our lives, producing for the sake of it, velocity for no tangible reason.
Capital subsumes every pore of existence to its axiomatic, and AI is just another reason to garden a slower way of being and living.
To this day we white Americans, have never reckoned with these fundamental truths of US history. And the #fascism we see unfolding now is the chickens coming home to roost.
#ICE is the brutal, violent TRUTH of 500 years of American #Colonialism.
If you don't see it then you're not looking hard enough and you are still deep in your practice of #whitesupremacy.
We don't get to pretend these truths away because they are inconvenient or uncomfortable. Our lives are built on them.
All the nice homes of suburban America, the plush carpets, the two car garages filled with cars, extra fridges, boxes of too much stuff, the green lawns and strip malls, this is the bribe of comfort, the "reward" and goal of a life of playing by the rules, working hard, etc that white middle class America has been told is the point of life here, the expression of "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
It is also the lie that we benefit from #capitalism or that it is natural.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115911622720100646
Agreed 100%. ICE is not the problem. The problem is the latent #fascism that was always lurking behind the facade of democracy.
#Democracy in the US has always been a fucking lie, an illusion put in front of the brutal #capitalist machine built on #genocide, #landtheft, #colonialism and subjugation. The white middle class insistence that democracy was real is an expression of privilege and #whitesupremacy.
250 years of #shame, that is the #US. I encourage you to read Zinn's People's History.
Something that is not really acknowledged in the #US is that the white middle class has long been a beneficiary of #WhiteSupremacy which also means it serves as a protector of that system. The #Democrats, especially the establishment of that party, know this perfectly well. They are protectors of #neoliberalism and #capitalism and, ultimately #fascism. They will continue to be useless in this fight.
The deep fight, the real #resistance will have to tap into the real #struggle of #ClassWar.
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❝ OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/openai-could-reportedly-run-out-of-cash-by-mid-2027-nyt-analyst-paints-grim-picture-after-examining-companys-finances
«The circular economy might spiral into Sam Altman's garrote.»
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“circular economy” is to #capitalism what inbred, incestuous marriages are to Hapsburg-wannabe monarchies
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@pluralistic points out that
"a manufacturer can sell you a device and then mandatorily update it at a later date to take away its functionality, and then sell that functionality back to you as a “subscription”
And then gives example after example after example, etc of how this keeps happening.
@pluralistic points out that
"a manufacturer can sell you a device and then mandatorily update it at a later date to take away its functionality, and then sell that functionality back to you as a “subscription”
And then gives example after example after example, etc of how this keeps happening.
Cory Doctorow
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Pargin is right - this should be illegal. In fact it ABSOLUTELY would be, except for the @pluralistic rule: "It's not a crime if we're using an app".
They're literally breaking & into your house & destroying your stuff. No amount of obfuscating legalese would let you or me get away with doing that.
It's fucking insane.
https://www.techspot.com/news/110848-onedrive-backup-feature-making-users-local-files-seemingly.html
