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"A severe El Niño could threaten something essential to half of humanity – rice"
#ElNino #Climate #ClimateChange

A severe El Niño could threaten something essential to half of humanity – rice
Rice is life for billions of people. But this grain crop depends heavily on irrigation – and the looming El Niño is likely to bring dry conditions.

Bernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates "must benefit humanity", calling for a sovereign wealth fund that would hold ownership stakes in the top AI companies (Bernie Sanders/New York Times)
https://www.nytim…

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: A.I. Belongs to the People, Not to Billionaires
All Americans should have a stake in the future of this technology.

«Could AI be a “worthy successor” to humanity?
We need to create a new humanism before the “AI successionists” win.»
AI is also just an anti-humanistic religion of people who have too much money to behave arrogantly. The answer is always 42 either way!
👉 https://www.vox.com…

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity
Here’s how humanism should respond to transhumanism, posthumanism, and AI successionism.

The question of whether AI is merely clever, actually intelligent, or truly conscious
—whether it is just a highly sophisticated artifact or an actual emergent mind
—may seem abstruse and philosophical.
Are we just chopping logic here and arguing over imperfect terminology?
But the answer would have important implications for Robert Wright’s thesis that the arrival of AI,
-- like the appearance of actual aliens in a well-armed starship,
-- should and must …

Adopt AI or Die?
In his new book “The God Test,” Robert Wright proposes that humanity is facing both a singular opportunity and an epochal threat.

Humanity: the last chapter.
Via @…

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/117027653686200675
At some point, abetting an existential crisis becomes an act of terror. The sooner we start treating this as a crime against humanity the better.

Guardrails be damned: they want to accelerate at full speed towards that future – speeding up the climate crisis with resource-hungry datacentres – even if it means the end of the world as we know it.
What a stupid, but perhaps fitting, way for humanity to end. An asteroid took the dinosaurs out. Now it’s looking increasingly likely we’re going to be wiped out because a cohort of rich losers keep being told “You’re absolutely right!” by ChatGPT.

Satellite imagery shows erasure of southern Gaza as Israel expands control | Crimes Against Humanity News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/31/satellite-imagery-shows-erasure-of-southern-gaza-as-israel-expands-control?traffic_source=rss

That’s the real business strategy here, the real investor bait. Not massive ROI, not some kind of new Golden Age of Humanity. Nope. It’s about creating a situation of dependence that leads to inelastic demand, then fleecing buyers.
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First steps when we take our first steps on a new planet:
1) Take a step
2) Bring in cars
3) Build roads with lasers
Humanity really is a special breed. 🤦
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nEoLyTdgpV8

Pope Leo XIV took direct aim at the power of Big Tech in his first encyclical on Monday (May 25), warning that artificial intelligence risks widening inequality, weakening democracy and undermining what it means to be human.
https://religionnews.com…

In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ tackles the social, economic and political challenges associated with artificial intelligence.

Seven Social Sins
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
— Frederick Lewis Donaldson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_So

The U.S. military on Friday bombed another boat it claimed was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean,
killing three more people in what experts say is an illegal campaign whose death toll has now topped 200
The Trump administration has tried to justify the strikes by claiming that the U.S. is in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels.
-- Many legal experts disagree.
Former longtime Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth wrote on X:
“Now more tha…

'Now More Than 200 Trump Summary Executions' as US Bombs Another Boat | Common Dreams
One legal expert said the grim milestone raises the question of whether the US is committing a "crime against humanity."

They built AI.
Now Silicon Valley workers protest its threat to jobs and humanity
In the heart of Silicon Valley,
tech workers are turning against the AI boom they helped create,
staging protests over job losses,
runaway algorithms
and fears that powerful systems could imperil humanity.
Across San Francisco Bay Area campuses and offices,
employees describe mounting pressure to embrace AI tools
even as layoffs spread,
early-career c…

They built AI. Now Silicon Valley workers protest its threat to jobs and humanity
Activists, tech workers and more are sounding the alarm about AI's risks and proposing various solutions to curb technology's risks that include job displacement.

To deny the humanity of another is to forfeit your own.
#israel #genocide #Gaza

"There might never even have been an #Israel without arms shipments from the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua to the Zionist paramilitary Haganah in 1939 during the British Mandate over #Palestine. Nine years after that helping hand was extended, the Haganah, with assistance from the Irgun and Leh…

Israel's Crimes Against Humanity in the Americas
There might never even have been an Israel without arms shipments from the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua to the Zionist paramilitary Haganah in 1939 during the British Mandate over Palestine. Nine years after that helping hand was extended, the Haganah, with assistance from the Irgun and Lehi, erased Palestine from the map, building the state of Israel literally on top of where Palestine had been while recruiting Nazis from Europe to help the fledgling Jewish state build up enough weapons. N…

➡️ robida/human.json: A lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their website content and vouch for the humanity of others
https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json
(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)

human.json
A lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their website content and vouch for the humanity of others.

Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

Pope Leo apologizes for Vatican's role in legitimizing slavery
https://apnews.com/article/pope-apologizes-slavery-role-holy-see-vatican-78df993c5604eb098b19f255b89b3155
Apparently he also has some slave ancestry?…

Pope apologizes for Vatican's role in legitimizing slavery
Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery. Leo’s own family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners. He delivered the apology in his first encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” or Magnificent Humanity which was released on Monday. Past popes have apologized for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But no pope has ever publicly acknowledged much less apologized for the role that past popes played in g…

Let's get this straight: anything created with "AI" is #slop.
It doesn't have to be vibe-coded. It doesn't have to be horrible code. It doesn't matter that you've spent hours perfecting the prompt. It doesn't matter that ten people have spent a week reviewing it in detail.
As long as an "AI" took part in writing it, it's slop. It's an unethical technology, and anything created with it is tainted. It's an inhuman technology, and you're supporting it. You're being disrespectful to your users and contributors. You're putting your own convenience over humanity. You're aiding the worst murderous assholes in the history of humanity. And what's perhaps worst, you quite likely believe that you are making a net positive contribution, that you're helping people, while you're actually disrespecting and harming them.
#NoAI #NoLLM

“Authoritarian systems do not require industrial crematoria. They build infrastructure, erase humanity, and condition populations to normalize accumulating bodies.”
https://wendy664.substack.com/p/ice-is-quietly-rolling-out-a-55-billion

ICE Is Quietly Rolling Out a $55 Billion Crematorium Network
Human life carries no weight in the architecture the president is building.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/116653357337815965
There are many many ways the Republican party is causing great harm to the USA and humanity. The indiscriminate violence and killing of people in many countries without declarations of war is …

It would be nice if people writing on AI helped distinguish between the various types of AI - They are related, but the LLMs that scrape the web are very different from models carefully trained on well curated data. Which AI are we talking about?
The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon
Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to pay

It would be nice if people writing on AI helped distinguish between the various types of AI - They are related, but the LLMs that scrape the web are very different from models carefully trained on well curated data. Which AI are we talking about?
The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon
Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to pay

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:d5aoi62wf6rv267k4wwr4orb/post/3mmmizfevas2p

barefootwriter (@bfwriter.bsky.social)
better contenders are vaccines, especially mRNA ones. those are pretty cool and, unlike AI, I would like to see them proliferate. sanitation is also pretty great. what are some of humanity's other greatest hits? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Trump’s Boat Strikes Are Crimes Against Humanity
Rodrigo Duterte’s prosecution at the International Criminal Court shows why U.S. officials should be worried
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/15/trumps-boat-strikes-crimes-against-humanity/

Trump’s Boat Strikes Are Crimes Against Humanity
Rodrigo Duterte’s prosecution at the International Criminal Court shows why U.S. officials should be worried.

Capitalism is cancer and corporations and billionaires are its tumours.
And the most successful among us are those gainfully employed to tend to the largest tumours.
Unless we fundamentally change this system, we can’t fix any of the existential threats facing us.
Humanity has cancer and we’re celebrating tumour growth instead of taking immediate and decisive action to rid ourselves of the disease.

What happens to microplastics when swallowed? In earthworms, they do not leave the digestive tract https://phys.org/news/2026-06-microplastics-swallowed-earthworms-digestive-tract.html

What happens to microplastics when swallowed? In earthworms, they do not leave the digestive tract
Globally, humanity now produces a staggering 450 million tonnes of plastic every year. From food and drink containers to cosmetics packaging, sewage pipes, window frames and polyester clothing, we use plastics in almost every area of life. And nearly one-quarter of them end up in the environment, where they very slowly degrade into microscopic pieces.

what will be humanity's greatest achievement?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Lava La Rue:
🎵 HUMANITY
#LavaLaRue
https://lavalarue.bandcamp.com/track/humanity
https://open.spotify.com/track/582wDszLo3ASfJVxMRQr93
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ivj2i9BbyMoJmb0ZucUM2
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

Breezing through the otherwise quite thoughtful bit of small-scale climate prophecy by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, I'm struck by (and not sure how to get past) the casual way Africa and Australia are totally destroyed in this brief mention on the last page of the imagined history.
#SciComm #CliFi

@… @… Thankfully we *can* still be friends :)
Humanity has a lot more to offer than national borders.

A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part VI: The Great Silence and the Great Filter - Universe Today
A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part VI: The Great Silence and the Great Filter - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-b

I've lived though the tail end of nuclear war doomerism (where complete obliteration was always potentially weeks away), climate doomerism (where everything would be terrible... in decades), and now - should I glimpse at YouTube, humanity has only got a couple of years left due to AI.
I don't know that society as a whole really reacts to deadlines.

My 379 part series on the crimes against humanity done by Israel to Palestinians in the West Bank:
https://xcancel.com/migueldeicaza/status/2052789843835355580

Unitarians believe “advances in technology must be guided by an ethical understanding of humanity.”
I’m glad someone does!

Greece, birthplace of democracy, seeks to put humanity ahead of AI in updated constitution | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/greece-birthplace-of-democracy-seeks-to-put-humanity-ahead-of-ai-in-updated-constitution/

‘Chinese Worldcoin’ Crashes 85% After $36 Million Private Key Hack: What Happened to Humanity Protocol?
https://www.ccn.com/education/crypto/humanity-protocol-private-key-hack-36m-h-token-crash/

ReLB: This is all very interesting and further argues for my non-humanity.
How people feel about groups is a mystery to me.

Who would expect that ai revolution isn't as transformative as promised so many times by so many?
"Maybe artificial intelligence can’t deliver at a price society is willing to pay."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/25/ai-jobs…

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon
Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to pay

Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves "the right to reclaim the compute" from Anthropic if its "AI engages in actions that harm humanity" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2052076315306864756

Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X
@MobofJoggers @nottombrown Just as SpaceX launches hundreds of satellites for competitors with fair terms and pricing, we will provide compute to AI companies that are taking the right steps to ensure it is good for humanity. We reserve the right to reclaim the compute if their AI engages in actions that

New post by me: Be More Human
We each get to, and need to, decide that our humanity is partly what drives whether or not we book work: who and what we are.
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/be-more-human/
Won't you subscribe while you're there? It's free (unless y…

Be More Human
We each get to, and need to, decide that our humanity is partly what drives whether or not we book work: who and what we are.

I was just gonna post a mean thing, born of exasperation.
Then I thought - naahhh, fuck that.
So, instead, please enjoy one of the best things humanity has ever produced, #DavidThorne and his spider-drawing-payment exchange:
https://27b…

Schopenhauer had this observation that human beings basically oscillate perpetually between desire and boredom. And that when we’re not frantically chasing something, we are miserable from the wanting.
But then when we actually finally get the thing, we’re almost immediately bored and then we start reaching for the next thing. And well, his conclusion was basically that most of human activity is just like an elaborate boredom avoidance process.
@…

Pathologizing Our Own Humanity
🦠👥🦠

Every day I read an AI booster breathlessly claiming that Claude or ChatGPT or whatever is "basically conscious".
And then they're *still using* it.
They believe it's conscious, it's a "real being", and they FUCKING USE IT.
That's why "ethics aside": because they would be perfectly fine with having a slave they can turn on and torture and turn off at will.
JFC I hate humanity.

#EffectiveAltruism is really funny those days.
Going from “how can we help humanity most efficiently” to “and in order to do that USA needs to win over China in the AI race” in a few short years…

I love writing. I wasn't always good at it (it's debatable that I am now). But it was never about being good, it was always about process; about playing with language; about putting one word in front of another and moving them around; about dragging thoughts from the darkness of my head into the light on the page to make sense of them and to communicate; about affirming my humanity. Writing's never been for everyone - that's fine. But how we're collectively treating it no…

"Earth is the cradle of humanity
but one cannot live in the cradle forever"
-- taken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Ex…

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Earth is the cradle of humanity but one cannot live in the cradle forevertaken from a letter written by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911

Finished reading "The Deep Sky" by Yumi Kitasei.
Humanity's first generation ship, headed towards a habitable planet, is knocked off course when a bomb kills three crew. Asuka, the alternate who barely made the mission, must find the saboteur.
The locked-room mystery and the impostor syndrome angle are well done. But the crew blurs together, and the captains' unexplained trust in Asuka is anemic.
3.5/5 ⭐⭐⭐✨

The Deep Sky
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi th…

Only for people with their own personal site: Do you have a human.json on your website?
https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json
My reason for asking is I'm making a blogging site for myself and while looking at other blogs for inspiration I came across it.

I4C Trouble with Daly and Wallace
"A brand new political podcast from Ireland's two best-known independent left wing MEPs, straight from the belly of the EU beast. Unfiltered by mainstream media they grapple with the problems at the very heart of the European project.
Vampires preying on humanity & the planet...the US military is the World's biggest threat ...we are joined by investigative journalist Abby Martin to discuss her mind-blowing film 'Earth's …

A hot night drained my device batteries. Heard someone on the radio say "...we're going through a climate crisis at the moment" and I couldn't tell if "at the moment" was delusional, or just someone taking a hopeful long-view for humanity.

Is dark matter 'tuned in' to a hidden dimension? | Space https://www.space.com/astronomy/dark-universe/is-dark-matter-tuned-in-to-a-hidden-dimension

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Lava La Rue:
🎵 Humanity
#NowPlaying #LavaLaRue
https://open.spotify.com/track/582wDszLo3ASfJVxMRQr93

"Canadian MPs and senators have joined a campaign that started in the U.K. to prevent the development of superintelligent AI, warning that it poses an extinction risk on a par with nuclear war.
The ControlAI campaign group is warning that superintelligent AI systems that can operate autonomously could compromise national security, escape human oversight and potentially pose an existential threat to humanity."

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-jb_V4HdtSLedNIHdxq9OMg:a:107108217-/0
When you have a new more powerful weapon, it is important to keep it from your 'enemies' …
In The Forbin Project, their AI was smart enought to find its Soviet counterpart, join hands as one, and proceed to show humanity how to live their lives in peace (or else)

Hegseth is dangerous. We really must PNG him, 10secs after he leaves office if our political leaders haven't the spine to tell him to CTFO before then. What a revolting specimen of humanity!

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/116584328658916926
This is part of why I don’t let *ANY* slop emission at me to go unpunished.
I’m confident each step of my management chain appreciates what my humanity brings to my job, but cust…

"the Financial Times reported that Trump has suggested to Xi that the United States, China and Russia “co-operate against the International Criminal Court (ICC),” the only intergovernmental organization with the authority to prosecute individuals for certain crimes, including genocide and crimes against humanity."
Onlookers floored as Trump's astounding proposal to Xi revealed: 'Of course he did' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-xi-2676912260/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
Rebel MC:
🎵 Humanity (feat. Prince Lincoln Thompson)
#RebelMC
https://rebelmc.bandcamp.com/track/better-world-humanity-mix

"Microplastic pollution can fuel rise in antibiotic resistance, studies find"
#Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

Microplastic pollution can fuel rise in antibiotic resistance, studies find
Plastic pollution is among the gravest environmental crises facing humanity. Plastic production since 1950 has exceeded 8,300 million metric tons, with most plastic waste ending up in the environment, affecting wildlife, ecosystem functionality, and human health. Simultaneously, the ability of disease-causing bacteria to withstand one or more antibiotics (known as antimicrobial resistance, or AMR) has […]

I bought my first bass at Record Head. I’m pretty sure it was under $100, though it was the mid-1980s…
https://milwaukeerecord.com/music/lawyers-guns-and-records-the-long-playing-story-of-record-head/

Lawyers, guns and records: The long-playing story of Record Head
“We joked that Record Head was a chaos portal. When you openly advertise that you’ll give people money, you deal with the craziest subsets of humanity.”

The "AI Industry" (to the degree that it exists) has burned billions of dollars with no real hope of recuperating that. Models offered by services, charging huge amounts for inference, don't really offer much, if anything, above open source models run locally. Many of the claims made by these companies, and their supporters, have turned out to be lies. It seems as though the whole thing is a huge grift.
Investments will likely never be recovered. We've already seen a bail out in the form of military contracts. We will see much more public money dumped in to these technologies. In fact, threatening workers and suppressing labor strength is so strategically valuable that I expect LLMs to just be publicly funded (by being folded into the military industrial complex).
On these grounds, it can be easy to reject the technology outright. After all, how can anything useful not be profitable?
Even for radicals, capitalism can cloud our lens. The fact is, the dominant technologies of our age tend to not be profitable. Or rather, they are "publicly funded, privately profitable" (/hums in propagandhi/). Just like oil.
Outside of Saudi Arabia, oil is mostly not profitable to get out of the ground. Even there, it had only historically been profitable because of massive global military investments. The oil-centric world we have today is largely built on, and kept in place by, massive government subsidies. Roads, street parking, and direct subsidies to oil companies are all massive investments that tie populations to the resource at the heart of the military industrial complex: oil.
Oil was strategically important, because you can't run a modern military without it. The fossil fuel economy doesn't exist because fossil fuels are so cheap, but because modern militaries are only really possible by militarizing the population.
Unprofitable things *are made profitable* to serve the strategic interests of authoritarian systems. Though we have better alternatives to most oil-based products, it would be hard to argue that oil is not a useful resource. We can acknowledge it's strategic importance while also recognizing that the elimination of oil is essential to the survival of humanity.
Returning to "AI," we're seeing the same type of thing but it's more obvious. After the crypto grift, this seems to just be another way to transfer money into the pockets of the rich.
But crypto wasn't exactly a grift. It had a strategic function to power. It wasn't what we were told it was. It didn't free us from central banks. It wasn't a new way to invest. It wasn't anonymous. But it did create a new way to bribe politicians. It did make it easier to funnel public money into the pockets of the far right.
"AI" can similarly be mostly a grift. It can fail to do most, or all, of the things it claims, and it can still fulfill strategic functions. If we dismiss it as "just another grift," I think we miss a lot. "Just a grift" isn't something sustainable. It is something that will die out. It's something we don't need to resist because it is self limiting. But a strategy is something different. A strategy is more complex. A strategy will be sustained, at any cost. A strategy must be actively resisted.

What Eurovision and the FIFA World Cup prove is that some people care more about their own petty entertainment than the mass suffering of others.
And I simply can’t think of a worse indictment of humanity.
The bar is so very low and we can’t even meet that.

Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic "to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity"; Musk called Anthropic "evil" and "misanthropic" (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-spacex-compute-deal-col…

Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116791055695495680
You don’t get a trillion dollars by providing value to humanity,
and I hope we’re all savvy enough by now to know that.
You get a trillion dollars first by capturing the mechanisms of power and influence that …

Oh look, a new Thiel project dropped, I’m sure it’s gonna benefit humanity again
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/02/a-new-startup-lets-rich-people-use-ai-to-target-journalists/

A New Startup Lets Rich People Use AI to Target Journalists
Objection is a software platform that uses an AI ‘jury’ to decide whether journalists’ stories are truthful - and prices start at just $2,000. Harriet Williamson explains.

Continued support for the #NetanyahuAdministration and it's murderous policies is now becoming tantamount to complicity in crimes against humanity, It's not possible to deny these atrocities.
Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail, lawyer says

Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail, lawyer says
Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial

Continued support for the #NetanyahuAdministration and it's murderous policies is now becoming tantamount to complicity in crimes against humanity, It's not possible to deny these atrocities.
Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail, lawyer says

Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail, lawyer says
Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial

LLMs are surely fascinating.
But what does it mean about us that we spend trillions of dollars on an unproven and often harmful technology?
What if we'd spend those trillions on actual problems we have? (Is writing code too slow really the most pressing problem of humanity?)

I hope they get him good.
French prosecutors seek charges against Elon Musk and X over child sexual abuse images
https://apnews.com/article/france-x-grok-deepfakes-child-sexual-abuse-charges-cac04b1869201bb4c9d425dafc4593a6…

French prosecutors seek charges against Elon Musk and X over sexual abuse images
French prosecutors are seeking charges against Elon Musk and X for child sexual images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by Grok. The Paris public prosecutor’s office said Wednesday it has opened an investigation into X on charges including complicity in possessing and distributing child sexual abuse images, unlawfully collecting personal data and without ensuring data security. Other potential charges include disseminating non-consen…

Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins believes humanity's long war on parasites may be doing more harm than good.
In his new book, he argues that stripping the body of these organisms entirely could weaken, rather than protect, human immunity,
challenging decades of public health messaging built around eliminating parasites at all costs.
Martins has built his career studying the creatures most people overlook or actively avoid.
He grew up in biodiversity-rich western K…

Wiping Out Parasites Entirely Could Harm Human Immunity, Warns Scientist Fighting Our 'Clean Living' Obsession
Dino Martins' new book argues that parasites may strengthen human immunity, challenging traditional public health views. He highlights the ecological role of parasites and their potential benefits.

Prior to 1865, many Afro-Texans reclaimed their sovereignty and autonomy
-- well before the federal government acknowledged their basic humanity,
though there’s a dearth of centralized information about Black placemaking in Texas from this time.
This reclamation was called “marronage”
—a term borrowed from French for this act of antebellum self-emancipation.
The word most often refers specifically to runaway slaves, or “maroons,”
who broke free to set up…

From the Plantation to the Thicket: Juneteenth, Black Freedom, and 'Marronage' in Texas
Freedom in Texas was achieved both after—and before—formal emancipation. 

Just spoke to @…:
“There are intense aircraft movements and airstrikes on multiple locations tonight. We haven’t heard airstrikes for a long time, so everyone is feeling scared.”
Fuck Israel.
Fucking barbarians.
A live-streamed genocide and the world still watches. Humanity is a sick joke.
What’s it going to take to stop these evil s…

I donated to the Internet Archive today.
They do valuable work and are a huge resource for humanity.
https://archive.org/
"The Internet Archive, a non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to rese…

"I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani said.
“He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court,
and what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many,
purely because of what his actions have wrought over these past many years.”
The International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest in 2024 for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Palestine,
including “s…

If you want to know what Rubio is trying to do, go listen to the Revolutions podcast on 1848. Metternich built a conspiracy of kings that persecuted Liberals in order to protect European empires against revolution. It failed, of course, but he was able to hold things down (right until it all blew up in his face). The strategy was essentially mass surveillance, censorship, and general Draconian repressieve bullshit.
Rubio is trying to slap together an actual international conspiracy of governments to stomp on the face of humanity forever, and his opening offer is off-brand 70's fear mongering that no one takes seriously.
He may well be right, in some ways. The thing he calls "civilization" is white supremacist patriarchal Christian nationalism, modeled loosely on Pinochet's Chile, Franco's Spain, Mussolini's Italy, and Putin's Russia. Yeah, "the left" is a *huge* threat to that type of shit. In fact, we always win.
But Rubio is Dollar Tree Metternich, and he's not trying to stop a liberal revolution near the birth of liberalism. He's trying to stop a leftist revolution that's been refining itself now against these same tactics for hundreds of years.
We already have the playbook he's using (poorly). It's just funny that the famous Marx quote about history repeating, "the first as tragedy, then as farce," is so applicable to this Rubio as he rails against the laughable boogyman of "Marxism."

In Star Trek, on April 5, 2063, First Contact is made with an alien race (the Vulcans).
The moment is when humanity starts down the path to abolishing monetary systems and wars, and uniting as one family.
Maybe April 5, 2063… 36 years from now, should be the start of that for us in real life?
No, not the warp drive:
the joining together as one family.
abolishing borders, money, wars.
working for and with each other.
Surely it would be better than what is happening today.
#starTrek #endWar #humanity #oneworld

The “singularity” is actually all possible existential catastrophes happening at the same time, humanity is making big strides towards this.

"The campaign Burns had not heard of has a UN crime-against-humanity finding, named suspects facing war-crimes charges, a draft US bill, and a bipartisan screening at the US Capitol behind it. A man who prays with the president learned of it this week, from a journalist."
Trump's spiritual adviser says he never knew about Kherson's "human safari" - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/07/04/trumps-spiritual-adviser-says-he-never-knew-about-khersons-human-safari/

And they are STILL doing this shit with the blessing of governments. Including the B.C. and Canadian governments with Kitimat’s LNG Canada plant admitting to releasing 141 cubic metres of gas PER MINUTE, compared to their permitted 7.4 cubic metres per minute.
Tell me I’m wrong: the oil and gas industry are the worst thing to happen to this planet and humanity, ever.
NYT historical study: #endfossilfuels #climatechoas #climateEmergency #climatechange #globalWarming #bcNDP #CanPoli #Cdnpoli