Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Something to be said about politicians and pundits taking AI developers' apocalypse preaching more seriously than decades of very good climate science
wait until he finds out economics was built on the assumption that people are wrong
If the Iranians really want to fuck with us they should offer to open the straights in return for Trump’s resignation.
Wish I’d had this video when I taught Marx earlier this afternoon
There are 214 House Democrats. Let's see how many go on record for removal.
every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy
corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor
that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Interesting from @javierblas.bsky.social on Odd Lots that "East of Suez" and "West of Suez" is still the clearest way to think of world petroleum markets. Long shadow of empire.
Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya on how UK teachers are resisting the repression of Palestine solidarity in classrooms.
Last year, Entergy received approval to build three natural gas plants that will generate about 2.3 gigawatts of electricity for Meta’s data center in Louisiana. The utility also applied to connect even more gas generation to the power grid in Louisiana to meet increasing demand. Hyperion will have about 5 gigawatts of computing power, with the remaining gigawatts used to power the broader campus, according to a Meta spokesperson. The seven new gas plants will need to be approved by state regulators. The agreement between the companies includes a Meta commitment to help fund up to 2.5 gigawatts of new renewable resources as well as a memorandum of understanding to explore future development and use of nuclear power. Read More: Entergy Aims to Build More Gas in Wake of Meta’s Big Data Center — With assistance from Edwin Chan
It's really difficult to properly express how nuts this is. Meta's 2.2 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel plant was already world-leading bad. Now they're adding 5.2 EXTRA gigawatts on top. So SEVEN NEW FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS for one data centre.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now
A quote by Rick Owens. It reads: "Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead."
The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work.
Let's talk about it. 🧵
An extremely urgent edition of: to keep functioning, society must discourage baldface lying, especially by authorities
How can this go on for another 3 years?
Pretty amazing to hear the Environment Secretary, Emma Reynolds, launching the Land Use Framework, say:
“A thousand years ago William the Conqueror commissioned the Domesday survey… understanding our land is the first step towards better managing it.”
Nice mention of geographer Dudley Stamp too!
The first-ever Land Use Framework for England has been published.
I think it is the most far-sighted plan for England's land since the Second World War.
Here's my thoughts on what it does (& doesn't) do: 1/
www.gov.uk/government/p...
thanks for this coverage fiona. do we yet know what information will be opened up, and what will remain behind the paywall?
![Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of
"highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat" while increasing the power of working-class men.
"This technology disrupts humanities-trained-largely Democratic-voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters," Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. "And so these […]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:25ftfiiwwkcc4s4geuui45af/bafkreici5zfo477gspm3dyy4bze5iamdunki7ccu3hlxaftopbtsetw4ra)
Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of "highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat" while increasing the power of working-class men. "This technology disrupts humanities-trained-largely Democratic-voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters," Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. "And so these […]
and because they think that there is nothing and nobody stopping them from creating that future they now even dare saying the quiet part out loud
and by that i mean the way common thieves were treated in england in the 18th century
@TheChiefNerd SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price
electricity water clean air knowledge
you name it
they should be treated like the common thieves they are
Really necessary set of essay about this moment:
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192
NEW
Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence
What a close reading of public domain documents tells us about two concerning contract awards
Detailed post by me, following-up on my FT column
emptycity.substack.com/p/land-and-e...
This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
in 2023, @samburgum.bsky.social and i worked with @leedsgate.bsky.social to directly hear from community members on the "chilling effect" of the police act. you can find some of their testimonies in our evidence submission, including legal alternatives: drive.google.com/file/d/1YXpd...
some good news today! if the amendment passes on feb 25th, it would help halt the most severe forms of criminalisation of roadside ways of life practiced by gypsy-traveller and roma communities, as is custom. thanks to @fft.bsky.social @libertyhq.bsky.social @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social for your work
