The threat of imminent ecological system failures now acknowledged by the UK’s intelligence agencies! Rupert Read and Caroline Lucas discuss this new report. www.resilience.org/stories/2026...

Ed Zitron on the Enshittifinancial Crisis-explaining how the flawed business model for AI chips, datacentres, and products is fuelling an investment bubble that will burst.
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On the topic of being informed: Groc, said: “I tailor my information since I know who you are. I'm going to use more foreign sources than I do for the average person”. But that means it is biasing! Groc replied; “yes, but that's how I'm programmed.”

A brilliant pillorying of the ineffectual governance of The Labour Party, still in thrall to the technocratic neoliberalism that has hollowed out the country and triggered reactionary populism. Decisive but non fascist governance required!

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When you have to pinch yourself because you never thought you would have to censor yourself, live in fear, and strategise your safety in the face of a government that could threaten your liberty at any moment…

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Latest episode-what happens when you let an AI Agent onboard a human into your company? As perverse and amusing as the rest of Evan Ratliff’s attempts to run a company with AI agents.
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“my most consistent fascination is where humanity is heading, to be alive at a time when the world is dying, and AI is on the cusp of becoming indispensable to life, and so will soon control the destiny of man, is just incredible.”- Gary Numan

On the demise of journalists in the Pentagon press corps, replaced by sycophantic influencers happy to operate under constraint, not to question, not to investigate, and instead just to cheerlead childishly. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Stewart Lee is on top form. When reality has become this ridiculous, his acerbic wits cuts through the bullshit better than the mainstream news, and gives you a giggle too.

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Cory Doctorow, who developed the idea of enshittification, argues that the shifting geopolitical situation offers a sliver of opportunity to liberate ourselves from the tyranny of US digital tech.

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Excellent post considering how left-brain conceptual abstraction and material extraction have propelled modern civilization toward global ecological crisis, socio-political chaos, and existential confusion. open.substack.com/pub/thehones...

Explores Capitalism as an emergent thermodynamic behaviour- the collective expression of the maximum power principle, which states that systems organise themselves to capture and use energy to do work as fast as possible, without concern for sustaining that capture. pod.link/1604218333/e...