Australian environmental standards?

Australia’s old environment laws were a box‑ticking exercise. Sadly, the new ones could be too >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-old-environment-laws-were-a-box-ticking-exercise-sadly-the-new-ones-could-be-too-283069

"We're facing a deforestation crisis here in the Territory, with the bulldozers rolling in on the world's last intact tropical savanna, while the federal government looks away."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/claravale-land-clearing-judicial-review-environment-minister/106714566
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Australia’s old environment laws were a box-ticking exercise. Sadly, the new ones could be too

These long-delayed laws took three years, a new Environment Minister and a slew of compromises to be passed.

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Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas Explained: Understanding the data center boom and debate. “Since an overhaul of energy permitting laws credited with luring more data centers was enacted last year, companies have announced plans for five such projects statewide. Two of them are already under construction. But the rapid announcements and secretive negotiations with local governments and business […]

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"Amazon is worth $2 trillion. Yet, it did not deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines. Today we are making clear that no company – no matter how large or powerful – is above the law.”
- NYC Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, May 21, 2026
You can send a video from your phone to the city, of a bus or truck idling, & if fined, you'll get 25% kickback from the city, $350!
#idling #laws #air #quality #NYC #sewer #Socialism #MayorMamdani #DEP #NewYorkCity
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Why early medieval Ireland had laws for bees.

Medieval Irish bees had a legal status because they were classified as domestic livestock.

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Why early medieval Ireland had laws for bees.

Medieval Irish bees had a legal status because they were classified as domestic livestock.

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@johntinker

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6. The Opportunity

"The cultural work wanted in these fields seems full of opportunity."

Since our current laws and ethics are failing to stop this machine, we desperately need people to do the heavy "cultural work" of exposing, analyzing, and questioning these systems.

#culture
#laws
#ethics
#philosophy
#technology

@johntinker
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They simply cannot keep pace with the raw, lightning-fast "brute power" of integrated global tech. The software evolves in weeks; our laws take years.

#culture
#laws
#ethics
#philosophy
#technology

@johntinker
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5. Culture vs. Brute Power
"The sophistication of our cultural forms seems to have been unable to keep up with the brute power of the integrated global systems..."

Our "cultural forms"—our international laws, the Geneva Conventions, our ethics, our philosophical debates, and our political checks-and-balances—are completely obsolete. They are moving too slow.

#culture
#laws
#ethics
#philosophy
#technology