#DRM isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @endDRM
“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2026/aug/04/revealed-major-oil-firms-make-93bn-profits-amid-war-and-climate-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
One of the aspects of my life with the greatest gap between what I thought I'd achieve and what I have achieved is culinary skills.
Wage slavery & fussy kids with medical issues have meant decades of just about finding time to knock something up that everyone can eat. I lowkey dread cooking for the family most of the time.
"L'Europa è in crisi, è un nemico, va abolita" dicono quelli che confondono l'Europa con i poteri europei, i furbacchioni antieuropei, gli eurosfascisti che lucrano sul malcontento e chi preferisce il teatrino politico alla realtà dei fatti e dei dati.
We continue to support civil society in raising concerns with the NHS partnership with Palantir highlighting its dubious human rights record and consequences for patient privacy which is essential for delivering healthcare. https://www.medact.org/2026/resources/briefings/briefing-palantir-fdp/
@jmcrookston
Hehe went to follow you and enjoyed the way the signal indicator on my phone lined up in your header image
Reporting by El Pais (Spanish) and the bot net used to amplify the message.
https://elpais.com/espana/2026-08-02/la-frontera-esta-abierta-y-se-puede-pasar-sin-papeles.html
Daddy had sex with so many women, writing about each in his journal, that when Mommy found and read it she killed herself.
(pic: Haiyun Jiang/NYT)
Just realised I can simply explain to colleagues why I tend to be a bit abrupt and to the point in Teams chats and then they understand better. Why did this not occur to me before.
Good morning #Nimbin
"After years of hype, and trillions of dollars, the AI boom will leave us with a captured economy, a corrupted democracy, and a devastated environment. We’ll be told that this is just how markets work – sometimes they go up, sometimes they go down. But this narrative obscures how decisions are really made in capitalist economies"
Chilling read on the AI boom from Grace Blakeley.
#AI #AIBubble #Capitalism #Data #Technology
https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/data-centres-and-democracy
« #SouverainetéNumérique : les « paranoïaques » avaient donc raison. »
Très intéressantes réflexions et analyses dans ce long article, en particulier à propos de la commande publique en matière de numérique.
Ou l'on voit pourquoi l'omniprésence des acteurs américains n'est pas une fatalité et que même dans le cadre contraint des marchés publics, il y a moyen de changer des choses.
https://www.informatiquenews.fr/souverainete-numerique-les-paranoiaques-avaient-donc-raison-112731
Difficult conversation with Mr. 15 (who has never read a book school didn't force him to, unless you count my shelf of graphic novels).
His position is "that's just my generation, books are boring, I tried a few, hated them all, I'm not interested".
In the past five weeks, the #Korean stock market has collapsed, shedding almost 40%, threatening the livelihood of millions of South Koreans. (Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-03/korean-markets-threatening-upset-tech-boom/106981956 )
Could we see something similar on a global scale when (not if) the #GenAISlop financial bubble finally crashes?
Just came across Cam Wilson's reporting guide for folks that want to raise stories, particularly leaks about how AI stuff is going on at companies.
https://cameronwilson.com.au/guide-to-my-reporting/
A lot of folks send me stories, and I don't publish them because I don't have the bandwidth or network to do so while keeping you safe. Cam does! Send them his way instead.
(He's also highly regarded by several of my friends and is on Mastodon, which probably tells you a lot about his stance on source safety.)
"By Paul Weimer: I am here just to talk about Mythago Wood, and I think that is all right. It’s old enough now that it is slipping out of direct reference in the genre conversation, but it is and was seminal and I can see its influences today. More on that in a bit.
Robert Holdstock
Mythago Wood and its sequels center around Ryhope Wood, a fragment of ancient forest in England. It’s strange and mysterious, it is exactly the sort of place, back in Little, Big, that Crowley would describe as “the further you go in, the bigger it gets”. It’s a place where myths can coalesce into substantial beings, and if you dare to go into the woods, interact with them. The Mythago Wood cycle is mainly the story of the Huxley family, and their encounters, violent, dangerous and passionate, with the Mythagos. The Mythagos generally are born out of Celtic myth or Celtic influenced myth, and there can be and often are multiple versions of a mythago running around in the wood at the same time. I remember at least four versions of Guiwenneth of the Green, for example, only one of them being Guinevere of Arthurian myth and legend. And they need to be treated very carefully and differently. They are not human, they are born out of the myths of humanity. …"
https://file770.com/pixel-scroll-8-2-26-on-the-planet-077-elif/
RT: @Jonathan_K_Cook The West was incensed when the Taliban blew up the Buddhist Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan.
Crickets as Israel blows up a UNESCO heritage site in Lebanon.