RationalMan
@rationalman.bsky.social
Anti fascist/racist/capitalism
Lover of science and technology
20 year skeptic
Lover of science and technology
20 year skeptic
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#overheid
#palestine
#genocide
#nederland
#degoedezaak
#overheid
#palestine
#genocide
#nederland
#degoedezaak
Nederland: Sluit de genocide geldkraan!
Nederland draagt bij aan de Israëlische genocide in Gaza. Als 's werelds grootste investeerder in Israël pompen bedrijven vanuit ons land miljarden in de Israëlische oorlogsmachine waarmee Palestijnen...
campagnes.degoedezaak.org
July 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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It was such a pleasure to speak with @aaronjbastani.bsky.social for @novaramedia.com about my book Empire of AI. Really thoughtful and thorough questions that explored the many human stories I highlight in my book.
Order the book here: empireofai.com.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...
Order the book here: empireofai.com.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...
Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult Like AI Companies | Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao
YouTube video by Novara Media
www.youtube.com
June 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It was such a pleasure to speak with @aaronjbastani.bsky.social for @novaramedia.com about my book Empire of AI. Really thoughtful and thorough questions that explored the many human stories I highlight in my book.
Order the book here: empireofai.com.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...
Order the book here: empireofai.com.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...
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🇨🇱 In Chile, where AI data centers threaten the country’s precious water resources, Karen Hao makes the case that AI firms are building their wealth off resource extraction and labor exploitation reut.rs/3GmhZPy
Karen Hao on how the AI boom became a new imperial frontier
The author of “Empire of AI” traces how OpenAI’s global reach is reshaping labor, energy and power — and why she sees echoes of empire in its rise.
reut.rs
July 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🇨🇱 In Chile, where AI data centers threaten the country’s precious water resources, Karen Hao makes the case that AI firms are building their wealth off resource extraction and labor exploitation reut.rs/3GmhZPy
www.democracynow.org/2025/7/4/emp...
#ai
#chatgpt
#democracynow
#environment
#globalwarming
@karenhao.bsky.social great interview exposing the true costs to both our environment and our democracy. Must watch!🔥🔥🔥🔥
#ai
#chatgpt
#democracynow
#environment
#globalwarming
@karenhao.bsky.social great interview exposing the true costs to both our environment and our democracy. Must watch!🔥🔥🔥🔥
“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World
In our July Fourth special broadcast, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the new book Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power...
www.democracynow.org
July 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
www.democracynow.org/2025/7/4/emp...
#ai
#chatgpt
#democracynow
#environment
#globalwarming
@karenhao.bsky.social great interview exposing the true costs to both our environment and our democracy. Must watch!🔥🔥🔥🔥
#ai
#chatgpt
#democracynow
#environment
#globalwarming
@karenhao.bsky.social great interview exposing the true costs to both our environment and our democracy. Must watch!🔥🔥🔥🔥
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The world has come out to celebrate Pride month ✊
These Pride protests show people coming together to fight for the rights of LGBTI people, but not everyone can. In other places, Pride is actively shut down by governments and law enforcement agencies.
#ProtectTheProtest
These Pride protests show people coming together to fight for the rights of LGBTI people, but not everyone can. In other places, Pride is actively shut down by governments and law enforcement agencies.
#ProtectTheProtest
June 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The world has come out to celebrate Pride month ✊
These Pride protests show people coming together to fight for the rights of LGBTI people, but not everyone can. In other places, Pride is actively shut down by governments and law enforcement agencies.
#ProtectTheProtest
These Pride protests show people coming together to fight for the rights of LGBTI people, but not everyone can. In other places, Pride is actively shut down by governments and law enforcement agencies.
#ProtectTheProtest
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NASA is asking the public to help with studying this phenomena.
Noctilucent clouds form high in the atmosphere and may hold clues about climate and upper air changes. You can contribute with just your camera.
#CitizenScience
#NoctilucentClouds
#Atmosphere
📷🧪⚒️
science.nasa.gov/get-involved...
Noctilucent clouds form high in the atmosphere and may hold clues about climate and upper air changes. You can contribute with just your camera.
#CitizenScience
#NoctilucentClouds
#Atmosphere
📷🧪⚒️
science.nasa.gov/get-involved...
Space Cloud Watch Needs Your Photos of Night-Shining Clouds - NASA Science
Noctilucent or night-shining clouds are rare, high-altitude clouds that glow with a blue silvery hue at dusk or dawn when the Sun shines on them from below
science.nasa.gov
May 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
NASA is asking the public to help with studying this phenomena.
Noctilucent clouds form high in the atmosphere and may hold clues about climate and upper air changes. You can contribute with just your camera.
#CitizenScience
#NoctilucentClouds
#Atmosphere
📷🧪⚒️
science.nasa.gov/get-involved...
Noctilucent clouds form high in the atmosphere and may hold clues about climate and upper air changes. You can contribute with just your camera.
#CitizenScience
#NoctilucentClouds
#Atmosphere
📷🧪⚒️
science.nasa.gov/get-involved...
Fifteen Years After Largest U.S. Offshore Oil Spill, Researchers Reveal Most-Polluting Rigs insideclimatenews.org/news/1605202...
Fifteen Years After Largest U.S. Offshore Oil Spill, Researchers Reveal Most-Polluting Rigs - Inside Climate News
Satellite imagery shows the worst sites worldwide for oil slicks and methane emissions. Report authors expect pollution will only increase as the Trump administration opens more waters to drilling.
insideclimatenews.org
May 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Fifteen Years After Largest U.S. Offshore Oil Spill, Researchers Reveal Most-Polluting Rigs insideclimatenews.org/news/1605202...
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“The Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948 was the first major systemic campaign of violence carried out by [Zionists] to dispossess and … displace Palestinians from Historic Palestine. With the … complicity of the Global North, this ethnic cleansing and mass expulsion campaign is now 77 years strong”
The Nakba, 77 Years of International Humanitarian Law Violations: Terror, Slaughter, and Systemic Ethnic Cleansing
The Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948 was the first major systemic campaign of violence carried out by the Zionist movement to dispossess and forcibly displace Palestinians from Historic Palestine. With...
www.hindrajabfoundation.org
May 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
“The Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948 was the first major systemic campaign of violence carried out by [Zionists] to dispossess and … displace Palestinians from Historic Palestine. With the … complicity of the Global North, this ethnic cleansing and mass expulsion campaign is now 77 years strong”
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If you often say "wow I relate to developers" then I have the perfect job for you
Developer Relations role just listed! There's also a bunch of other recent additions on the jobs page bsky.social/about/join
Developer Relations role just listed! There's also a bunch of other recent additions on the jobs page bsky.social/about/join
Jobs - Bluesky
View open positions at Bluesky PBC
bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If you often say "wow I relate to developers" then I have the perfect job for you
Developer Relations role just listed! There's also a bunch of other recent additions on the jobs page bsky.social/about/join
Developer Relations role just listed! There's also a bunch of other recent additions on the jobs page bsky.social/about/join
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ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.
The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.
nyer.cm
April 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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Politicians in the 'West' have been quiet. Imagine if Russia would have done this in Ukraine.
"On 23 March contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza. A week later their bodies were recovered from a mass grave."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
"On 23 March contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza. A week later their bodies were recovered from a mass grave."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline
A week after contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza, their bodies were found in a mass grave
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Politicians in the 'West' have been quiet. Imagine if Russia would have done this in Ukraine.
"On 23 March contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza. A week later their bodies were recovered from a mass grave."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
"On 23 March contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza. A week later their bodies were recovered from a mass grave."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
@tweakers.net heel leuk om te zien dat jullie hier op Blue Sky zijn 🎊🎊❤️❤️
April 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
@tweakers.net heel leuk om te zien dat jullie hier op Blue Sky zijn 🎊🎊❤️❤️
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The OECD released a report last year, Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity, detailing some of the education responses to this issue, which helps give us some guidance on a way forward www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity
Rising disinformation has far-reaching consequences in many policy areas ranging from public health to national security. It can cast doubt on factual evidence, jeopardise the implementation of public...
www.oecd.org
March 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The OECD released a report last year, Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity, detailing some of the education responses to this issue, which helps give us some guidance on a way forward www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
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It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.
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We're thrilled to share that our new film The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism will be screening at the Sedona International Film Festival next week on Feb. 24th & 26th!
Learn more about the film here: bit.ly/4b8MEL0
@peterhutchison.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Learn more about the film here: bit.ly/4b8MEL0
@peterhutchison.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We're thrilled to share that our new film The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism will be screening at the Sedona International Film Festival next week on Feb. 24th & 26th!
Learn more about the film here: bit.ly/4b8MEL0
@peterhutchison.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Learn more about the film here: bit.ly/4b8MEL0
@peterhutchison.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. European and UK ministers are still talking as if their biggest potential security problem is a withdrawal of US support. But that is not their biggest potential security problem. It’s that, under ...
skywriter.blue
February 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/george...
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They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.
February 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.
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What if working within the system no longer works? Here’s a call not for revolution but for new creative forms of collective self defense. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
The Shriek of the Fox
In the February darkness, a glimpse into a terrifying moment unlike any other in our history...
open.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
What if working within the system no longer works? Here’s a call not for revolution but for new creative forms of collective self defense. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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There's a piece today from @brockm.bsky.social that comes to similar conclusions to my own. It threads the ideology of the Silicon Valley folks involved and how it's evolved over the past 20 years. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...
The Plot Against America
How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America
www.notesfromthecircus.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
There's a piece today from @brockm.bsky.social that comes to similar conclusions to my own. It threads the ideology of the Silicon Valley folks involved and how it's evolved over the past 20 years. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...
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ICYMI from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social, in the months between November 5 and January 20, at least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE. @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army
At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
ICYMI from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social, in the months between November 5 and January 20, at least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE. @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...