Hello eugenics ... ? slate.com/technology/202… via @slate

1. Tesla is a publicly traded company, not Elon Musk's personal piggybank

But Musk has constructed a board of directors, including his brother and many of his closest friends, who are willing to do whatever he wants

And now Musk is using X to convince shareholders to…

Neom: Forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

On the day a hard right Tory MP defects to Labour more worryingly Lab have according to Unite gutted their 'New Deal for Workers' caving into business & r/w Labour figs such as Peter Mandelson. New laws have been replaced by codes of conduct & consultation. A tragic U-turn by Lab

'Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals, including of women and children, with many reportedly showing signs of torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive.' ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

There’s a weird tension in modernist thought between its pursuit of new technologies that could very well disrupt society, and its critique of anti-modernists who call for human behavioural changes as these require disruptions in human behaviour…

Palantir CEO Alex Karp presents the Palestine solidarity campus protest movement as an existential threat to American empire: 'If we lose the intellectual battle, we will not be able to deploy any army in the West, ever.'

Wherever you stand on the debates around 'green growth' and 'degrowth' and ecological economics and climate politics, you should read this Andrew Ahern piece. It well clarifies the terms of these debates with a perspective too often lost or dismissed.

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'The Royal Society’s decision not to call out the industry was described as “moral cowardice” by James Dyke, earth system science professor at Exeter university.' I said I had other words, all of them unprintable (at least by the esteemed FT).
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‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair | Climate crisis | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/ng…

This fraud would be comical if it weren't horrific: Shell sold non-existent carbon credits based on non-existent carbon capture technologies at buy-one-get-one-free prices authorised by Alberta government:

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Rep. Mike Collins 3. It's important to note that Rep. Mike Collins: 1. Did not apologize, 2. Has not removed the post where he glorifies the monkey-imitating counterprotesters.

Will this be good enough for Coca-Cola and the other corporations?

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STUDY: “Pretty remarkable.”
A new study found that e-bike rebates led to a surge in ownership, with 60% of purchasers being entirely new to cycling. Those who took part also reduced their weekly vehicle travel by 48km on average, a decrease of 30-40%. bc.ctvnews.ca/pretty-remarka…

Holy hell, the news from militarized riot police at Dartmouth is really disturbing. And probably the beginning of the end of the college’s first woman president.

This is totally fine.

'Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to CO₂ removal that never took place to Canada’s largest oil sands companies, raising new doubts about a technology seen as crucial to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.'

At some point the question for the BBC will be - do you regret giving so much airtime to far right & extremist politicians who represent a minority view, whilst the Greens for example get hardly any prime time slots but represent significantly greater numbers of people?

For the first time in the history of the United States, billionaires had a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

Let that sink in.

Wealth tax. Now.

'Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to [carbon capture and storage] that never took place'

Selling emissions credits for reductions that never happened from a technology that doesn't work (and pocketing the profits) must be peak greenwashing

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“Mitigation bank.”
Decarbonization doesn’t have to look like this.

Hard to see how you can say you don't support SRM deployment when you become advisor to a for-profit outfit working to commercialise it.

This may also cast Pasztor's old outfit C2G in a somewhat different light to the 'honest broker' they professed to be.