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Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

Sane governments, be it local or national, should not want to do business with Palantir.
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Réseaux sociaux : « L’attention humaine n’est pas une ressource industrielle comme une autre » L’être humain n’est pas fait pour une stimulation continue, rappellent, dans une tribune au « Monde », plusieurs spécialistes, insistant sur la nécessité de mettre en place une protection renforcée des mineurs.

Réseaux sociaux : « L’attention humaine n’est pas une ressource industrielle comme une autre »

There is no connection but human: Why it is vital to value human creativity in the age of AI Generative AI does not write, design or paint: it generates statistically closest patterns; these are probabilistic automation systems, which make them fundamentally different from human cognition or ...

Journalists and media need to stop repeating tech companies’ marketing pitches, and policymakers must stop prioritizing the imagined urgency over safety and human rights.
#GVSpotlight

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Sam Neill says New Zealand goldmine supporters have threatened him with violence Actor says his opposition to South Island development near his farm has led to personal abuse

Supporters of New Zealand goldmine threaten Sam Neill with violence

Our efforts to halt global forest loss aren’t working: new research

In the past 11 years, we’ve lost roughly 300 million hectares of forest. Three ecologists explain why our current conservation strategies aren’t working.

You paying attention, @albomp.bsky.social & @jimchalmers.bsky.social. Many get it, do you? Will you act for Australians or international investors?

Sense of community and adaptive capacity: Insights from the 2019/2020 Australian ‘Black Summer’ bushfires The escalating threat of climate-related disasters is challenging vulnerable communities to adapt across the world. This study examined the relationship between people's sense of community (as assessed by perceived cohesion and identification) and their perceptions of adaptive capacity, along with the role that their willingness to include all stakeholders may play in moderating this relationship. Geo-targeted surveys were used to collect data from 363 participants affected by the 2019/2020 ‘Black Summer’ Bushfires in Australia. We found that increased community cohesion and identification were linked to greater perceived adaptive capacity, along with evidence that these relationships may depend upon attitudes towards accommodating diverse stakeholder interests, such that more positive attitudes strengthened some of these associations while less positive attitudes attenuated them. These findings highlight the fundamental social underpinnings of collective adaptative capacity for communities responding to the threat of future climate-related disasters.

Analysis of people affected by the 2019/2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires in Australia finds that a stronger sense of community cohesion and identification is linked to greater perceived adaptive capacity to engage in responses that reduce risks and maximise recovery.

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🌱 "The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." —Gertrude Jekyll

Galahs are cockatoos found all over Australia, except in areas of dense forest. They're not keen on bathing in standing water, usually conditioning their feathers with fine, white, talcum-like powder from specialized feathers, but they really enjoy taking a shower! #birds #birdwatching #WildOz

A leather-gloved hands holds a bat with nein-orange fur and a pink, wrinkled naked face, looking into the camera

It's #BatAppreciationDay.
Bats are an incredibly diverse group (around 1500 species - the second largest group of #mammals), performing incredibly important roles in their ecosystems. 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
Plus, some of them are bright orange. 🧡
#OrangeLeafNosedBat #bats #fieldwork #WildOz #MammalWatching

Looking forward to discuss my book "Slow Down or Die. The Economics of Degrowth" (2025) with Andrea Carboni at the Senate House Library, the central library for the University of London. Join us online on April 30th at 15h00! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/slow-down-...

Stranded and dying, the German whale is a parable of our troubled relationship with these sea giants Even as we empathise with these intelligent animals, our relentless push for resources kills them in their thousands, just as whalers once hunted them to the brink of extinction

Stranded and dying, the German whale is a parable of our troubled relationship with these sea giants

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
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‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

“These deaths are incomprehensible, given there is environmental water sitting in the dam. This could save the turtles, but WaterNSW is just not allowing its release,"

- Prof Deb Bower

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Changing the Future Starts with How You Think | Frankly 138 YouTube video by Nate Hagens

In this week's Frankly, Nate introduces the idea of “scenario thinking” as a practical strategy to reflect on and prepare for several versions of the future.

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The Fantasy of Space Colonization: The Spaceship We're Already On - The Great Simplification In this episode, Nate welcomes back astrophysicist Tom Murphy and eco-interventionist DJ White, two longtime friends with deep roots in both space science and ecological reality, to examine the surgin...

Full episode:
www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/real...

If the most brilliant minds drawn to space exploration redirected that energy toward the living systems collapsing around us right now, what might become possible?

Australia declares mainland alpine ash forests endangered The Australian government recently listed the iconic alpine ash forests of mainland Australia as an endangered ecological community, citing ongoing threats from increasingly severe, frequent…

Australia has listed its mainland alpine ash forests as endangered.

While the geographic area remains mostly intact, experts warn that frequent bushfires are killing trees before they reach reproductive maturity and call for stricter protections.

Megan Strauss reports for #Mongabay.

Coral reefs are nearing extinction. 2026 must mark a turning point | Jason Momoa At 1.5C of global warming, up to 90% of coral reefs could be lost. The next few months could be a defining moment

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10 forces that could reshape the future of the world’s forests The forces shaping forests in the coming decade extend beyond any single driver. Shifts in politics, finance and technology are unfolding at once, often in ways that reinforce each other. The result…

[Founder's Briefs - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]
The next decade of forest conservation faces 10 emerging pressures.

While advances in AI improve monitoring, rising demand for minerals and shifting trade rules are fragmenting forests. We must navigate these forces to protect these ecosystems.

Gabriel García Márquez’s Formative Reading List: 24 Books That Shaped One of Humanity’s Greatest Writers “Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.”

“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.”

Remembering Gabriel García Márquez, who left us 12 years ago today, with the formative reading list of 24 books that shaped his visionary mind: www.themarginalian.org/2015/04/06/m...

Join the Vega Symposium 2026: “Navigating Humanity’s Future on Earth”.

Hear Vega medallist Johan Rockström’s keynote on the state of the planet, alongside other distinguished speakers.

📅 11 May 2026
⏰ 08:30–12:30
📍 KVA, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm

Learn more: ssag.se

This story isn’t as flashy as war, but it’s (arguably) more consequential. The collapse of the AMOC would radically transform Earth—and not to our benefit.

Indonesia braces for possible ‘Godzilla El Niño’ as fire season escalates early JAKARTA — Indonesia is entering the 2026 fire season with early signs of escalation, as burned area surges even before the dry season peak and forecasts raise the possibility of a so-called…

Global forecasts warn of a powerful El Niño in 2026, raising risks for Indonesia’s forests. By February, burned areas reached 32,637 hectares, 20 times more than last year.

As a "Godzilla El Niño" threatens drought, monitoring shows hotspots around timber and palm oil concessions.

Learn more! 👇️

More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project Exclusive: Experts say scheme will help repair damaged marine ecosystems while sequestering large amounts of carbon

More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project

- Experts say scheme will help repair damaged marine ecosystems while sequestering large amounts of carbon

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🚨BREAKING NEWS! Pacific nations just made history with a landmark declaration for a Fossil Fuel Free Pacific! ✊🌊

Read the Tassiriki Call for a Fossil Fuel Free Pacific 👉 fossilfueltreaty.org/tassiriki-call

Thanks to Shamikh Badra and the Guardian for this excellent column. The NSW Supreme Court ruling is crucial: “It is a direct rejection of a political logic that sought to redefine protest from a democratic right into a risk to be managed.”
#auspol
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Global leftist leaders gather in Spain to mobilise against far right Spain's Pedro Sanchez and Brazil's ​Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will spearhead gatherings of the global left in Barcelona ‌on Friday and Saturday, in a bid to defend multilateralism and mobilise left-wing movements against the far right.

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