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Big drama over Discord warning a no-code platform called BotGhost that it will be kicked off unless it finds a new way to operate, due to a security vulnerability that has now been fixed.
https://update.botghost.com/#tldr-what-s-happening-with-botghost-and-discord…

Discord is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost: The Enshittification of Discord.
Discord has issued BotGhost with a formal breach warning and given us an ultimatum: find a completely new way to operate without using bot tokens by July 14, 2025, or the platform will be shut down. The catch? That alternative does not exist, and Discord has offered no guidance, no support, and no path forward.

Two new #degrowth articles:
Neither of the two main British left alternatives (Greens and the proto- Your Party) appears to be sufficiently facing up to the fundamental issue of ecological overshoot.

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

Amazon degradation increases by 163% in two years, while deforestation falls by 54% in the same period https://phys.org/news/2025-07-amazon-degradation-years-deforestation-falls.html

Amazon degradation increases by 163% in two years, while deforestation falls by 54% in the same period
The accelerated degradation of the Brazilian Amazon, primarily due to fires, has overshadowed the significant reduction in deforestation from 2022 to 2024. This "negative balance" in protecting the biome jeopardizes the international goals for combating the climate crisis that have been assumed by the country, which is hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) this year.

My new piece.
'As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?'
The problem is that neither of the two main British left alternatives (#GreenParty and nascent #YourParty) appears to be sufficiently facing up to the fundamental issue of

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

Degradation-Aware All-in-One Image Restoration via Latent Prior Encoding
S M A Sharif, Abdur Rehman, Fayaz Ali Dharejo, Radu Timofte, Rizwan Ali Naqvi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17792

Degradation-Aware All-in-One Image Restoration via Latent Prior Encoding
Real-world images often suffer from spatially diverse degradations such as haze, rain, snow, and low-light, significantly impacting visual quality and downstream vision tasks. Existing all-in-one restoration (AIR) approaches either depend on external text prompts or embed hand-crafted architectural priors (e.g., frequency heuristics); both impose discrete, brittle assumptions that weaken generalization to unseen or mixed degradations. To address this limitation, we propose to reframe AIR as lea…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Desert Storm:
🎵 Scoraig 93
#DesertStorm
https://shop.mentalgroove.ch/track/desert-storm-scoraig-93
https://open.spotify.com/track/0RDyOZ9BdWySDmoewJpE91

Our piece now available at resilience.org too:
The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there… - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-09-22/the-macavity-of-degrowth-waste-the-empire-that-isnt-there/

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
If a theoretical economy relies on the exchange of intended things, a profitable economy relies on the waste produced by the production, distribution and sale of those things.

Two new #degrowth articles:
Neither of the two main British left alternatives (Greens and the proto- Your Party) appears to be sufficiently facing up to the fundamental issue of ecological overshoot.

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

International #degrowth conference starts in #Oslo later today, til Friday.
You can watch plenaries on the #livestream. Looks like Gustavo Petro will not now be giving the inaugural address but Irene Vélez…

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failure to address the real issues facing people and planet. On the one hand we have seen the continuing rise of the far right Reform UK party…

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…