Genocide in Gaza, 46C in Europe - and the Labour government's response is to criminalise non-violent protest groups Palestine Action and Just Stop Oil

"The only part of the so-called national wealth that actually enters into the collective possession of a modern nation--is the national debt." Karl Marx, Capital: Volume One

i firmly believe one of the main messages we should be telling our students about this whole thing is that generative ‘AI’ by definition will *never* have an original idea,
and if you use it, neither will *you*

Machine learning tools are fundamentally perfect for states trying to enact genocide+ethnic cleansing. They spout indiscriminate, meaningless outputs, but have a sheen of trust and authority.

If your plan is to massacre teenage girls, Microsoft wants to help you do that.

apnews.com/article/isra...

The government was right to welcome Ukrainian refugees fleeing war.

There is only one reason that people in Gaza, displaced by a genocide that our government abetted, are treated differently.

That reason is anti-Palestinian racism.

The head of Bezos's philanthropic 'Earth Fund' saying the not-so-quiet part out loud: A core aim of their funding for eNGOs is to co-opt or otherwise neuter anti-capitalist tendencies in the climate movement

'This is a tale of two countrysides. One was featured prominently on Saturday by broadcasters[...]A smaller protest staged a day earlier outside the Home Office received almost no attention.'

Also a few comments from me at the end re. farm Inheritance tax

www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

"Every collapse brings with it intellectual and moral disorder. We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror and who do not become excited about every little thing. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will."

Antonio Gramsci

New report from land workers trade union SALT released at ORFC.

It's essential reading for anyone in the world of agroecology and organic farming. Some of its findings are truly shocking.

E.g. Report found ave wage of a trainee on an agroecological farm is £1.41 per hour. 🧵

This is the lash photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh, taken as he walks, unflinching, towards the Israeli tanks. An absolutely harrowing image.

Look. It's fascism. It's trans-national, systematic, networked, fascism. They mean it.They're not joking. What are you going to do?

I’ll add to the pile on here:

#foodstudies

'Food systems in common'
@kaiheron.bsky.social
@bertrussell.bsky.social
@kmilb.bsky.social
@abundance-org.bsky.social
www.in-abundance.org/reports/food...

'Luigi Mangione shoots himself'
'Netanyahu arrested'

These are in many ways even worse than the Google Overview AI screwups — Apple's AI is not only making up world news events, it's attributing its headlines to media orgs, eroding trust and accountability. Seems like a disaster.