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I guess that explains why Europe's Greens are so overjoyed by rearmament prospects theguardian.com/environment/20….

President Michael D. Higgins has said that there are corporations that are "deliberately" working against climate action at the same time as the world experiences record-breaking weather extremes. jrnl.ie/6718249

If I were Culture/Literature Czar for a future Left administration, the first thing I would ban is politicians' memoirs and the second is private equity ownership of publishing houses. Before AI, literature was getting enshittifi3d by mergers and acquisitions

Israeli settlements are not "widely considered" illegal under international law. They *are* illegal under international law. You don't need to say "Israel disputes that". If someone disputed the sky was blue would you report it?

Bonus take: people who say an ‘ontology of something’ nearly always just mean a conceptualisation, a typology or even an understanding of it

“Silicon Valley’s liberalism, it turns out, was a temporary phase linked to a now past maximum-liquidity, minimum-regulation period of US capitalism.” phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ameri…

It would be great if a machine crushed my subjectivity

The main driver of German support for Israel remains elite dogma. But as more and more uncompetitive industrial sites are repurposed for armament production, it is not impossible that the motives for support will become more nakedly materialist. Call it ‘genocidal Keynesianism’.

Fellas what if we ceded our surviving interiority

You don’t get how rich this woman would be if she sold out and embraced green washing. Instead she’s taking a boat to Gaza to give them aid.

”real wages in Italy are currently below the levels they were in 2000,”

The idea Russia invaded Ukraine just as part of a wider project of fighting the West is just hysteria and should be understood as emanating essentially from an arms-expenditure lobbyist bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I’m not really nostalgic for the pre-internet age but I think I am nostalgic for the sweet spot (maybe 2000s?) where the internet relieved some of the drudgery of life yet before it monetised our attention and focus hour-to-hour theguardian.com/commentisfree/…