https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/world-inequality-lab-equality-academics-planetary-survival. A #utopian #fantasy, delivered by Ivory Tower left-wing #academics, like Thomas #Piketty, who don't realise there is no saving our so-called #civilisation from the #revenge of #Gaia, or the remorseless #logic of #social #entropy. They will still be saying all can saved, even as the grand edifice of #global #technological #capitalism crashes down around their ears - but see: https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/. For my response, see: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/gavz7_v1.
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival

Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions

The Guardian
#Government officials must confront the reality of their #technological dependence and, accepting that few #countries will ever host a #hyperscaler, determine what kind of relationship they want with the existing ones.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mnfqfo4xyk26
Petition!
We the people of the #UnitedStates unequivocally #oppose the #construction of #largescale and “hyperscale” #datacenters (defined as all #facilities surpassing 100 megawatts of power capacity and 10,000 square feet in area) on American Soil regardless of their #intendedpurposes. The toll that these facilities will take on the #health of #human and #nonhuman# lifeforms, the #environment, #energysources, and #watersources far outweigh any #potentialbenefits that they could possibly have on our #qualityoflife, #technological #advancement, or the #nationaleconomy.
https://c.org/xhK9PRKkjm
Well, I disagree with the #Pope. I don't think #humanity is all that magnificent - quite the reverse, in fact - & I don't think it takes AI to 'normalise' #war. War has been pretty #normal human #behaviour throughout the course of #history, ever since the #Neolithic. All we've done is develop evermore successful, & lethal, #technological means of killing one another.
“The lack of thought-through #US response to the #technological changes we are seeing …. before it embarked on the #Iran #bombing shows how smug #militaries can be—and the bigger and more powerful they think they are the more smug they tend to be.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Donald Trump’s Ego-Driven “Exc...
Donald Trump’s Ego-Driven “Excursion” Has Crashed Into Reality

Trump lost his war, bigly. Why?

Paul Krugman
“This is not a critique of all #technology, but a call to evaluate #technological systems according to how they increase or diminish our #freedom and the freedom of all living things.” crimethinc.com/2017/09/26/m...

Memento Mori: We Endlings
Memento Mori: We Endlings

A story about Toughie, the last of the Rabbs’ fringe-limbed treefrogs, who passed away one year ago today—and what he can tell us about ourselves and the future of our species.

CrimethInc.
“And as I’ve tried to show, the data show #Europe holding its own in the relative value of the goods it produces, indicating that #European #economies are doing fine when it comes to applying #technological advances.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Challenging the Narrative of E...
Challenging the Narrative of European Decline: Revised, Free Repost

I do not think that word “productivity” means what people think it means

Paul Krugman
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/18/big-tech-monopolies-democracy-mordecai-kurz; https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/18/altman-trial-victory-musk-openai; https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/18/sam-altman-trial-victory-elon-musk-openai. I have sad news for Professor Kurz: #Capitalism can't be made "more humane". It is, in any event, doomed, along with the #global #technological "civilisation" (so-called) that goes with it, & that doom is imminent - no more than 2 decades away, at most.
‘Capitalism has to become more humane’: a Stanford economist on big tech, power hoarding and democracy

Mordecai Kurz argues tech oligarchs erode democracy through monopolies – and predicts how the trend may end

The Guardian

What if the #true #value of an #activity is inversely proportional to how #convenient it is to do?
Or to the degree to which it is #mediated via specific #technological #constraints?

Or maybe this can show us how valuable activities are to us personally, à la "Would I still want to do this if it were really inconvenient?"

#wondering #time