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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Promise of theory-free inference isn't just about reducing wage-bill of programmers... [but] reducing their power... to hold bosses to account for sexual assault & power to withhold labor from lethal military projects... i.e power to thwart billionaires' desires" pluralistic.net/2026/10/06/n...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On tech bros: "These men understand completely that scrutiny is antithetical to living as your authentic self. They want to live as their authentic selves, and they want to stop us from living as our authentic selves." pluralistic.net/2026/10/05/p...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Coalition of more than 30 scientists and ocean advocates, who call themselves the Antarctic Avengers, are asking shoppers to boycott krill products to protect marine life" www.ethicalmarkets.com/scientists-u...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Post-oligarch society can provide us with even more inclusive version of post-war prosperity: we can use wages we earn by building a better world to acquire new homes, induction tops, EVs & ebikes, & beautiful heirloom computers" pluralistic.net/2026/10/03/f...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2026 report from GDAMS/Global Campaign on Military Spending links to infographics. “New SIPRI data shows new growth in military spending, reach $2.88 trillion, increase of 2.9% compared to last year, marking 11th consecutive year of growth & highest spending ever" demilitarize.org/wp-content/u...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

California is now the biggest US state, "to approve solar panels that plug into walls, giving residents a cheaper way to generate their own electricity" www.ethicalmarkets.com/california-j...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"People in the Scottish Summer Isles hold a weekend-long Maerl and Herring festival to celebrate 10 years of a ban on dredging for scallops, which has sparked a dramatic revival of marine life" www.ethicalmarkets.com/beyond-price...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Bonta just handed the American movie and TV sector to two of the most odious creeps to draw breath, surrendering without firing a shot" pluralistic.net/2026/09/22/h...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"If we extend personhood to these climate-shredding, water-chugging AI models, their personhood will demand the sacrifice of animals, the natural world, and our own wellbeing" pluralistic.net/2026/09/21/s...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cry moratorium - rather than, "allow AI companies to get govt. to bless their conspiracy in restraint of trade... investigate them for securities fraud, trafficking in child sex abuse material, election finance violations, & long list of other crimes & misdemeanors" pluralistic.net/2026/09/16/b...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"To be a senior member of the fascist coalition, you must be capable of both sincere belief while not openly dismissing your fellow senior members' contradictory sincere beliefs" pluralistic.net/2026/09/17/p...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AI is, "just trained on the things we already know, and if we knew about something, it wouldn't be a surprise anymore" pluralistic.net/2026/09/18/s...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"That Bezos needs to piss... that he commands an army of hundreds of thousands of workers who are prohibited from pissing really supports my hypothesis that billionaires don't really believe that other people are real" pluralistic.net/2026/09/15/b...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Two oil traders [Vitol and Heritage Petroleum FZCO] are helping supply the crude oil that fuels Israel’s ongoing military aggression against Palestine, despite mounting legal findings of violations of international law, including genocide" www.somo.nl/behind-the-b...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Economist's "efficiency" is indistinguishable from "brittleness" & often crosses over into "cheating." Most "efficient" companies have made an art out of locking in their customers, making it too hard to switch" pluralistic.net/2026/09/11/m...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Nicaragua accuses Germany of violating the Genocide Convention by supporting Israel amid its onslaught on Gaza. apnews.com/article/worl...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In-depth books on Europe's political, economic and social questions, from Social Europe and its partners. Read online or download — no paywalls, no barriers. ebooks.socialeurope.eu

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New Stigler paper, "Rising Customer Durability, Falling Business Dynamism,"... report on some clever research into how a monopolist could raise prices, lower quality, anger its customers, and still dominate its market" pluralistic.net/2026/09/06/h...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Carbon capture and storage has been found to be “technically uncertain and very high cost” www.ethicalmarkets.com/delay-tactic...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

1/ Security arrangements for JFK's visit to Ireland in 1963 historyireland.com/jfk-in-irela...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Past studies of coral probiotics stayed in the lab. This one tested them on wild coral in the Red Sea during an actual marine heatwave—and the microbes held up & helped coral survive" www.ethicalmarkets.com/in-a-first-p...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Far more common than spycops ever were is the police pressuring people to act as informers. Informers who spy on those they organise with. Netpol worked with the Undercover Research Group to explain how this happens and what to do" netpol.org/2026/08/19/w...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money" pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"In past 50 years... every new copyright created "to help artists" was scooped up by their bosses, who grew more powerful, able to demand more concessions from those artists, who were therefore poorer & so needed more copyrights to help them (lather, rinse, repeat)" pluralistic.net/2026/09/02/s...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"When [Trump] goes, all bets are off: America will be at mercy of warring factions who will deploy coercion & bribery that turned Big Tech into Trump's geopolitical weapon to achieve their own purposes – which might well be even stupider, crueler & more unhinged" pluralistic.net/2026/09/03/b...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Cory Doctorow is the lead draw for the Kilkenomics Festvial, mixing economics & comedy, taking place 6-8 November 2026 in Kilkenny City, Ireland kilkenomics.com

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

5/ "...And then spends the whole trial trying to match with both of you on Tinder, and who concludes the trial by banging their gavel & announcing that they've decided that family house will be awarded to…the judge!...nothing but conflicts of interest" pluralistic.net/2026/09/05/d...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

4/ "Buying or selling an ad through Google is like going to court to get a divorce, only to discover that you and your soon-to-be-ex- are both represented by the same lawyer, who promptly ascends the bench and dons a judge's wig..." pluralistic.net/2026/09/05/d...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

3/ Other 2 components of ad tech stack: '"demand-side platform" (DSP) that lets advertisers bid to show those visitors ads; & "ad exchange" – marketplace where sell-side & demand-side agents meet to collect bids, finalize sale, & exchange ads for money" pluralistic.net/2026/09/05/d...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

2/ "When you visit a website, the site fires off a piece of software called "sell-side agent" to message a server called an "ad exchange" in order to announce your visit, soliciting bids for the right to show you an ad" pluralistic.net/2026/09/05/d...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Third annual Week of Action for Peace & Climate Justice takes place 21st - 27th September; to address links between war, militarism/militarisation & social, economic & climate injustice; Divest From War – Invest In The Just Transition! climatemilitarism.org/weekofaction/ AND wri-irg.org/en

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Peer review report on global/global citizen education in Ireland was published in June by GENE, the Global Education Network Europe; outlines evolution since 1970s in, the current situation and also makes recommendations. tinyurl.com/fsdzv3j7

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Friends of the Irish Environment is an activist network founded 30 years ago to ensure European environmental law is properly implemented in Ireland. Work made ever more urgent by the deepening climate and biodiversity crises www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.org

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Regulations should, "place strong constraints around prompt loop systems, enforced with stringent liability standards for any illegal or damaging activity... OpenAI built an unreliable & dangerous system which committed a felony" calnewport.com/are-we-at-wa...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

As Algeria expands its mining sector, the Tala Hamza–Amizour zinc & lead project is pushing ahead in protected Soummam Valley... posing environmental risks, struggles over land & water, as local communities try to resist www.tni.org/en/article/a...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A whiff of astroturf? Bill Gates seems to reassure by affirming cautions about AI while continuing to promote ever greater and universal adoption www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"VCR shook up sclerotic, stagnant TV & film industry, created home video market, & opened up new distribution channels that allowed all kinds of new creative workers to reach new audiences, either directly or through fierce... competition to offer best possible deal" pluralistic.net/2026/08/25/g...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

3-part webinar series 2-16 September 7PM (CEST): Digital Fortresses Project - to understand & expose digital infrastructures that underpin & uphold imperialist/capitalist systems across different sectors and geographies, and how to collectively resist them. framaforms.org/digital-fort...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"It's not just the attacks that are foreseeable, alas. Trump can always be relied upon – to break his word. Carney repeatedly caved to Trump, and in response, Trump has hit Canada with massive new tariffs – 50%! Remember: the "art" of every Trump deal is renege" pluralistic.net/2026/08/24/e...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Historical contingency produced the AI bubble, and it is producing the conditions for that bubble to pop" pluralistic.net/2026/08/21/w...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Half a billion pastoralists draw on generations of knowledge to thrive on rangelands. They say protecting their way of life would help others prepare for a hotter, drier world" www.ethicalmarkets.com/living-with-...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ClientEarth NGO, ambitious environmental organisation, has brought legal action against some of biggest most polluting companies in the world, from fossil fuel firm Shell to agricultural company Cargill, including Hélène Duguy's Pfas pollution case www.ethicalmarkets.com/how-growing-...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Colorifix‘s approach borrows directly from nature’s own methods of producing pigment, without extracting it from plants or animals... [by bacterial fermentation]. Once harvested, biological dye... replaces synthetic chemicals typically used in dyeing process" www.ethicalmarkets.com/nature-makes...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Parliament of the World’s Religions 2015 Declaration on Climate Change on the future: “new ecological civilization & a world of peace, justice, & sustainability, with flourishing of diversity of life... built as one human family within greater Earth community” wisebrain.org/wise_bulleti...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Finite resources do have a terrible track record when it comes to supporting infinite growth…" thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/i-saw-the-...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"AI's assault on our ability to know isn't a new battle – rather, it's the latest barrage in a war that's been waged for years, as corporations grew larger & more powerful, capturing their regulators, who let them lie to us and abuse us with impunity" pluralistic.net/2026/08/20/e...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Any fit-for-purpose labor rights regime would recognize that privacy rights must extend to data that finds its way onto boss's computers... Any failure to recognize this bedrock fact gives employers free license to plunder & exploit your personal information" pluralistic.net/2026/08/18/e...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Normal technologies [as AI is] are fine. But normal technologies do not warrant massive economic & political commitments that have been bestowed upon AI: a trillion dollars in the past year alone, and the world's civil servants fired en masse and replaced with AI" pluralistic.net/2026/08/19/b...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"By covering fields w/ solar panels, farmers generate clean electricity & shade crops, reduce evaporation & mitigate heat stress.2 pilot projects in Egypt — from variety of funders & partner orgs — are testing tech in small farming communities & larger scale" www.ethicalmarkets.com/why-egyptian...

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Unsplintering.bsky.social @unsplintering.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"2026 is the fourth consecutive year that smoke from Canadian fires has caused severe air pollution in cities hundreds or even thousands of miles away. A NASA visualization tracks how wildfire smoke traveled from hundreds of fires" www.ethicalmarkets.com/this-stunnin...

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