🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Muun Bato:
🎵 Sunken Silver City
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https://muunbato.bandcamp.com/track/sunken-silver-city
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ObSrZvNLQWzkrCsgkcNxG
Amid Backlash, Massive Porn Platform ManyVids Doubles Down on Bizarre, AI-Generated Posts https://www.404media.co/manyvids-ai-generated-posts-bella-french-porn-site/
"This is the metric by which you can tell who in politics are your allies and who are your enemies: whether they support or oppose the extreme concentration of wealth. In fact, the matter should be definitional." — George Monbiot
#Kleptocracy
Money Talks – George Monbiot
Rowspace, which builds AI tools for PE firms and hedge funds to organize unstructured data for decision-making, launches with $50M in seed and Series A funding (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/25/rowspace-sequ…
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/27/uk-government-report-ecosystem-collapse-foi-national-security
"To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we must bring the ultra-rich to heel, cutting their fortunes until they can no longer bludgeon us."
#Kleptocracy
Money Talks – George Monbiot
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Aliens and Angel Numbers: Creators Worry Porn Platform ManyVids Is Falling Into ‘AI Psychosis’ https://www.404media.co/manyvids-porn-platform-ai-psychosis-bella-french-bio/
"The second excuse is that the uber-rich will flee the country. There are three possible responses to this claim. The first is that there’s no evidence to support it. The second is, if true, good riddance: they do us more harm than good. The third is to say: then the obvious solution is a global tax-avoidance measure."
#Kleptocracy
Money Talks – George Monbiot
"These vulnerabilities are exacerbated by the use of just-in-time supply chains and the funnelling of much of the world’s trade through a number of chokepoints. Some people have long warned that the strait of #Hormuz, alongside the Suez canal, Turkish straits, Panama canal and straits of Malacca, are critical chokepoints, whose obstruction would threaten the flow of
"Polling across 36 nations by the Pew Research Center found that 84% see economic inequality as a big problem, and 86% see the political influence of the rich as a major cause of it. In 33 of these nations, a majority believe their country’s economic system needs either “major changes” or “complete reform”. In the UK, a YouGov poll revealed, 75% support a wealth tax on fortunes above £10m, while only 13% oppose it."