we found love in a hopeless place (slrpnk.net)
The Coming Entropy Of Our World Order | NOEMA (www.noemamag.com)
The War On Weeds | NOEMA (www.noemamag.com)
Tldr: instead of disposing of toxic industrial waste products, Dow Chemical thought “our toxic waste kills plants, if we convince farmers and suburbanites they need to kill plants, they’ll dump our toxic waste on their land and pay us for it!” The rest is the history of ecocide.
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A (sort of a) manifesto for the #justcollapse left (steadyhq.com)
Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference (www.propublica.org)
A paper that I'm planning to read: The City of London, the Alternative Investment Market and oil in frontiers in Africa. (www.researchgate.net)
OpenAI partners with Reddit to enhance ChatGPT using real-time user-generated content (alternativeto.net)
Death by 1000 cuts
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? (interview with Peter Watts) (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
Tyson Foods is poisoning our water – Liberation News (www.liberationnews.org)
‘Our culture is dying’: vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites (www.theguardian.com)
A Look at Apocalyptic Desire: The Wish to Remake the World (www.unsustainablemagazine.com)
What is cloud seeding and did it cause Dubai flooding? - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
"The majority of children born today will never see the Milky Way" (www.noemamag.com)
Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees? | (Probably, and it's bad news - farmers get tax benefits for beehives, and all the invasive honeybees are starving out native bees) | WaPo (www.washingtonpost.com)
I try very hard to stay hopeful for the future. But it’s hard to stay optimistic when even the good news is actually bad news.
suffer for our profits, peon (slrpnk.net)
Collapse related because when the rich tell the poor “the solution to inflation is tighten your belts” it means your country is fucked. Austerity, y’all.
Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now | Humanity has a narrow chance to stop a technological revolution whose unintended negative consequences will vastly outweigh any short-term benefits (www.resilience.org)
In the early 20th century, people (notably in the United States) could conceivably have stopped the proliferation of automobiles by focusing on improving public transit, thereby saving enormous amounts of energy, avoiding billions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions, and preventing the loss of more than 40,000 lives in car...
Mainstream Climate Science: The New Denialism? (www.jonathonporritt.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/7967232...
Global incidence of early-onset cancer increased by 79.1% and the number of early-onset cancer deaths increased by 27.7% between 1990 and 2019. (bmjoncology.bmj.com)
Remember to get screened next time you’re at the doctor 🙃
Amazon Tells Warehouse Workers to Close Their Eyes and Think Happy Thoughts (www.404media.co)
"Savoring,” the screen says, in a black font over a green block of color. “Close your eyes and think about something that makes you happy.”
or "how to prepare for when rolling blackouts become routine". because the us power grid is fucked, everyone knows it and nobody's doing anything (slrpnk.net)
US 'prepper' culture diversifies amid fear of disaster and political unrest (www.reuters.com)
Used to be “prepping” as a lifestyle was linked to right wing and conspiracy theory ideologies. But as the economy and the ecology crumble, more and more people of all political views are making plans to withdraw from society and protect their own.
Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power | AI and manufacturing booms are pushing the US power grid to the brink and utilities can't keep up (www.washingtonpost.com)
The future of power in America is obvious. State governments will make corrupt deals with data centers and factories to keep their electricity costs low, and raise prices on residential users to compensate until poor families are priced out....