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A great example of how important soil biome is when it comes to regenerating native forests. … the scientists did not expect the benefits of this experiment would still be visible in the soil today, in 2024. A paper out this week in the journal Frontiers in Microbiomes details an enduring change in the communities of fungi…
Communism is worker control of capital, and nothing else. We’ve never really tried it. https://www.ianwelsh.net/what-is-a-communist/
Forget the mid-terms… Shawn Fain synced all major union contracts to expire in May 2028 Fain led the UAW to an historic strike: the UAW took on all three of the Big Three automakers, and cleaned their clocks. UAW workers walked away with three new contracts, all set to expire in 2028. Fain then called upon every union to bargain…
We now live in a downwardly mobile society (not as bad as the US… but bad). You are an organization full of career politicians. They are so grossly of touch with reality that you’re not even in the same Venn diagram. You actively loathe the working class and elevate people who appear on the US…
That’s the Brutalist aesthetic in a nutshell. People who wax nostalgically over these ugly buildings nowadays miss the point entirely. We were never supposed to love them—that would have defeated the whole purpose in erecting them. Fear and disempowerment are the intended results. And that, my friends, is the real purpose of the Tesla Cybertruck design—…
So tech bros, instrumental in voting Trump in, are now worried that they’re wild fantasies will come true under Trump: But if it does, as another user noted in a since-deleted post on r/Singularity, Trump’s second term may well “shift the [artificial superintelligence] future into [a] dystopia, not a utopia.” https://futurism.com/ai-bros-terrified-agi-trump Tell me I should have…
The answer is the right-wing media. Today, the right-wing media—Fox News (and the entire News Corp.), Newsmax, One America News Network, the Sinclair network of radio and TV stations and newspapers, iHeart Media (formerly Clear Channel), the Bott Radio Network (Christian radio), Elon Musk’s X, the huge podcasts like Joe Rogan’s, and much more—sets the…
Fintan O’Toole has made a brilliant career watching Ireland (his home country) transform itself—its Catholic culture, its vanishing population, its frail economy—into something very modern and profoundly different. And he’s covered our country so well this year. Does he see something of a transformation that’s comparable in the United States?
A key element will be how the US managed billionaires vs how the Chinese managed billionaires.
… huh, how ’bout that? You pimp individuality over collective responsibility, allow for aggressive gentrification and the rich people will come in, enjoy it and leave nothing behind. It’s almost like removing any chance of long term sustainability removes your ability to weather shock events. https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/30/burning-man-is-desperate-for-cash/
The great German industrialists of the 1930s found Adolf Hitler crude. But they disliked democracy and taxes and regulation far more. … Those who are with Trump often reveal a harder ideological edge. Sometimes this is about the belief that Trump will be more resolute in supporting Israel. Sometimes it is openly anti-democratic. “I no…
America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-america-pac-blitz-canvassing-michigan-uhaul/ Musk’s mistreatment of workers is not a bug, it’s a feature. One can see it play…
Put more plainly: things like ChatGPT only appear to be intelligent because they’ve been designed mimic human language to a plausible enough degree. Their creators want to believe they’re creating intelligent machines, so that’s what they choose to see. https://disconnect.blog/geoffrey-hintons-misguided-views-on-ai/
… a massive win for property and contract law: Iwi from the top of Te Waipounamu are entitled to thousands of hectares of land and millions of dollars in compensation for a land deal struck in the 1830s which the government did not honour. In interim High Court findings released this afternoon, Justice Rebecca Edwards…
Elon Musk is a 97 IQ man who masquerades as 137 IQ man and all of his followers are 85 IQ so they all believe that he’s as smart
Fidelity’s latest valuation of its stake in X implies that Elon Musk’s social network is worth about 71.5 percent less than when Musk bought the company in October 2022. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/since-elon-musks-twitter-purchase-firm-reportedly-lost-72-of-its-value/ I have joked that if you wanted to know what it was like to live on a Musk Mars colony… look at Twitter. Turns out…
Time to grow into the next phase…
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