MERCENARIES is a video and poster campaign to counter ICE recruitment.
The distribution model for this campaign is both decentralized and autonomous.
They ask, "Please help us circulate these everywhere that people are at risk."
https://crimethinc.com/zines/8-things-
Americans express fear and negativity toward AI, often relying on bad arguments like water usage, a stark contrast with Asia and Europe's relative positivity (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/i-love-ai-why-doesnt-everyone
Denmark's electricity stats 2025 are in.
Total domestic supply (incl. grid losses) was 40.5 TWh, of which:
47.2% wind (onshore 24.3% offshore 22.9%)
11.1% solar PV
23.4% thermal power plants (central decentral industrial, incl. bio)
18.3% net imports from Sweden and Norway (mostly hydro)
Wake up all you citizens, hear your country's call,
Not to arms and violence, But peace for one and all.
Crush out hate and prejudice, fear and greed and sin,
Help bring back her dignity, restore her faith again.
Work hard for a common cause, don't let our country fall.
Make her proud and strong again, democracy for all.
Yes, make our country strong again, keep our flag unfurled.
Make our country well again, respected by the world.
Make her w…
william burroughs's "a thanksgiving prayer" (1986), as rendered in mondo 2000 #3. https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991/page/n9/mode/2up
Very decent year-end reading recommendations, featuring the contradictions of capitalism and whodunnits: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-12-30/capitalism-and-crime-books-that-got-me-through-the-year
#NewGuineans and #Aboriginal #Australians descend from two groups who arrived 60,000 years ago, research suggests
"When did empathy become something exceptional?"
Contrast with Starmer's Reform-aping UK Labour.
Pedro Sšnchez, Spanish PM defends plans to regularise half a million undocumented migrants | Spain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2…
@… In my mind the competition is with the big global centralized platforms… and so any decentralized systems are welcome! Different communities will form on different platforms. And if this brings some of the enthusiasm from BlueSky and gets people using decentralized systems (assuming they do make it more decentralized), then in the big picture, …
What we learned around the NHL in January: Consistency is king, but don't discount rebounds https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7014748/2026/02/02/nhl-what-we-learned-january-schneider-lightning-marner-nelson/