EcoLabs
@ecolabs.bsky.social
Regenerative, systemic, feminist design ecologies and just (anti-fascist) transitions. https://ecolabsblog.com/
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The 1990s adoption of neoliberalism by the centre left really ought to be seen for what it is: the successful capture of liberal politics by what is straightforwardly a eugenicist, far-right ideology. It's just that almost no one did the reading.
One thing I’ve been anecdotally seeing amongst a lot of left-of-centre parties internationally is the lack of a genuine alternate economic vision at all, and chasing the same neoliberal agendas of the right-of-centre parties, shifting continuously rightward.
thekaka.substack.com/p/bernards-s...
thekaka.substack.com/p/bernards-s...
Labour commits to same debt & surplus targets as National
Greens eye $88b of wealth distribution
thekaka.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The 1990s adoption of neoliberalism by the centre left really ought to be seen for what it is: the successful capture of liberal politics by what is straightforwardly a eugenicist, far-right ideology. It's just that almost no one did the reading.
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Could it be that one thing these times are showing us is that the way to a flourishing future refuses to come through slight course corrections of systems that are founded on extraction, othering, and domination?
May 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Could it be that one thing these times are showing us is that the way to a flourishing future refuses to come through slight course corrections of systems that are founded on extraction, othering, and domination?
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This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.
from @404media.co
www.404media.co/republicans-...
from @404media.co
www.404media.co/republicans-...
May 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.
from @404media.co
www.404media.co/republicans-...
from @404media.co
www.404media.co/republicans-...
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All of what @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com said.
Plus the devastating ecological impact of all this pointless computing power.
I hate it I hate it I hate AI too
Plus the devastating ecological impact of all this pointless computing power.
I hate it I hate it I hate AI too
it's published! finally! in this week's newsletter: my attempt to go through every single reason why I both dislike and distrust generative AI: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/11-things-... [free to read!]
May 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
All of what @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com said.
Plus the devastating ecological impact of all this pointless computing power.
I hate it I hate it I hate AI too
Plus the devastating ecological impact of all this pointless computing power.
I hate it I hate it I hate AI too
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[professor Farnsworth from Futurama voice] Good news, everyone!
NOAA Will Stop Tracking Billion-Dollar Disasters, Thereby Ending Them Entirely
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
[professor Farnsworth from Futurama voice] Good news, everyone!
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The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
Another record year for the Green Party 👏
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales
Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales
Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
May 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
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Great job everyone
May 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Great job everyone
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Let's do a roundup of all the letters from different professional sectors objecting to the supreme court ruling & the EHRC's bathroom ban, and promising to defend trans people in their spaces!
For anyone feeling alone in this, look at how many people will stand with us:
For anyone feeling alone in this, look at how many people will stand with us:
May 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Let's do a roundup of all the letters from different professional sectors objecting to the supreme court ruling & the EHRC's bathroom ban, and promising to defend trans people in their spaces!
For anyone feeling alone in this, look at how many people will stand with us:
For anyone feeling alone in this, look at how many people will stand with us:
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"Liberal parties have failed and we need a real democratic socialist alternative that can advance the interests of working-class communities, environmentalists and other progressive forces with a shared vision for a better world."
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/jas...
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/jas...
Jason Hickel - "We need a real progressive alternative – a democratic ecosocialist movement"
In the run-up to his event at this year's Festival of Debate, economic anthropologist Jason Hickel speaks to Alice Flanagan about degrowth and his hopes for mass mobilisation across the globe.
nowthenmagazine.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
"Liberal parties have failed and we need a real democratic socialist alternative that can advance the interests of working-class communities, environmentalists and other progressive forces with a shared vision for a better world."
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/jas...
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/jas...
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Nothing is over, that is the only certainty.
The other certainty is that everything ends, even this.
—Joshua Clover
Goodbye, friend. You made me want to do better
The other certainty is that everything ends, even this.
—Joshua Clover
Goodbye, friend. You made me want to do better
April 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Nothing is over, that is the only certainty.
The other certainty is that everything ends, even this.
—Joshua Clover
Goodbye, friend. You made me want to do better
The other certainty is that everything ends, even this.
—Joshua Clover
Goodbye, friend. You made me want to do better
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This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.
Protecting American Energy From State Overreach
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.
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I am hiring a part time postdoctoral research assistant for a six-months fixed-term contract. bathspa.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...
Part Time Postdoctoral Research Assistant In Design for Transition (Fixed Term)
Job Opening: Part Time Postdoctoral Research Assistant In Design for Transition (Fixed Term) at Bath Spa University in Bath, Somerset - Locksbrook Campus.
bathspa.pinpointhq.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I am hiring a part time postdoctoral research assistant for a six-months fixed-term contract. bathspa.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...
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“Mapping Ecologies of Mind: No.1 Epistemoloigcal Error” storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c90f...
#1 Epistemological Error
Part One. Mapping Gregory Bateson's Ecologies of Mind
storymaps.arcgis.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“Mapping Ecologies of Mind: No.1 Epistemoloigcal Error” storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c90f...
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Two extremely powerful executive branch officials—Vice President Vance and uhh idk Grand Vizier Musk—demanded that a reporter be fired over story about a member of Musk’s staff that no one disputes is entirely true. The guy resigned over it, it’s so true.
February 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Two extremely powerful executive branch officials—Vice President Vance and uhh idk Grand Vizier Musk—demanded that a reporter be fired over story about a member of Musk’s staff that no one disputes is entirely true. The guy resigned over it, it’s so true.
“The declared intention of the most aggressive Nazi Liberals, like Javier Milei, or like Steve Bannon and Elon Musk, is the definitive demolition of public structures (healthcare, education, transportation, etc.) that made social survival possible." Bifo
Introduction to the Twenty-First century - Freedom News
Agents of chaos and agents of the automaton in the horizon of mutation ~ Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi ~ A South African racist named Elon Musk, whom newspapers call the richest man in the world, recently ear...
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January 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“The declared intention of the most aggressive Nazi Liberals, like Javier Milei, or like Steve Bannon and Elon Musk, is the definitive demolition of public structures (healthcare, education, transportation, etc.) that made social survival possible." Bifo
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Digital futures of education are often defined by the edtech investment industry in terms of market value forecasts made with predictive technologies
Our new paper on edtech venture capital just out for a forthcoming special issue on assets and rents in education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our new paper on edtech venture capital just out for a forthcoming special issue on assets and rents in education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Algorithmic futuring: predictive infrastructures of valuation and investment in the assetization of edtech
Futures of education are increasingly defined through predictive technologies and methods. We conceptualize ‘algorithmic futuring’ as the use of data-driven digital methods and predictive infrastru...
www.tandfonline.com
December 5, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Digital futures of education are often defined by the edtech investment industry in terms of market value forecasts made with predictive technologies
Our new paper on edtech venture capital just out for a forthcoming special issue on assets and rents in education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our new paper on edtech venture capital just out for a forthcoming special issue on assets and rents in education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Everyone needs to know that these fires were made possible by global heating, which is caused by the fossil fuel industry, which has lied and blocked action for half a century. And that this will all get much, much, much worse until we end the fossil fuel industry
January 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Everyone needs to know that these fires were made possible by global heating, which is caused by the fossil fuel industry, which has lied and blocked action for half a century. And that this will all get much, much, much worse until we end the fossil fuel industry
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I had a great time collaborating with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social on this video looking at advertisers returning to Twitter/X to gain the favor of Musk because of his close ties to Trump.
NEW: Disney, Comcast, and other advertisers are returning to X after a year-long boycott.
It’s not just because they want to reach users.
They want to buy influence with Trump’s shadow president Elon Musk. youtu.be/l9_I4UYMl8s
It’s not just because they want to reach users.
They want to buy influence with Trump’s shadow president Elon Musk. youtu.be/l9_I4UYMl8s
How Corporations Are Courting Trump's Shadow President
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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January 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I had a great time collaborating with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social on this video looking at advertisers returning to Twitter/X to gain the favor of Musk because of his close ties to Trump.
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Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy
The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.
hyperallergic.com
December 28, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States.
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
“I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”
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You can't clean the lake whilst it's still being polluted.
Similarly, individual behaviours aren't going to solve climate change whilst fossil fuel companies are allowed to pollute our planet.
There are good ideas here but remember who is primarily responsible
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Similarly, individual behaviours aren't going to solve climate change whilst fossil fuel companies are allowed to pollute our planet.
There are good ideas here but remember who is primarily responsible
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Here are 12 climate resolutions to take with you into the new year
These small but meaningful changes can have a big impact when it comes to reducing your carbon footprint in 2025
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2024 at 1:30 PM
You can't clean the lake whilst it's still being polluted.
Similarly, individual behaviours aren't going to solve climate change whilst fossil fuel companies are allowed to pollute our planet.
There are good ideas here but remember who is primarily responsible
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Similarly, individual behaviours aren't going to solve climate change whilst fossil fuel companies are allowed to pollute our planet.
There are good ideas here but remember who is primarily responsible
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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one of my favorite stories I did at Vox was about Jimmy Carter and his role in energy efficiency standards at the DOE. Truly underappreciated legacy that tangibly improved everyday life www.vox.com/climate/2023...
Refrigerators have gotten really freaking good. Thanks, Jimmy Carter.
The underrated way energy efficiency has made life better, and climate progress possible.
www.vox.com
December 30, 2024 at 6:52 PM
one of my favorite stories I did at Vox was about Jimmy Carter and his role in energy efficiency standards at the DOE. Truly underappreciated legacy that tangibly improved everyday life www.vox.com/climate/2023...
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Several elderly veterans were arrested in Syracuse earlier this month for digging a grave in the lawn of the local federal building to symbolize the graves of children killed in Gaza with U.S. weapons
Several people arrested after Syracuse Veterans for Peace protested war in Gaza (photo of the week)
The veterans dug a symbolic grave for children who have died during the war in Gaza.
centralcurrent.org
December 31, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Several elderly veterans were arrested in Syracuse earlier this month for digging a grave in the lawn of the local federal building to symbolize the graves of children killed in Gaza with U.S. weapons
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