The writer is an idiot! At no point, the topic of #climatechange is mentioned. Nor the terrifying #oil #industry and how it destroys #democracy worldwide. Nor the harm from a #car -centric lifestyle. Less cars and that too #EV would help humanity immensely. #China can manufacture all that is needed right now and sell it cheaper than the shitty alternatives.
This global snapshot highlights city climate project disclosure trends from 2020 to 2025, underscoring the importance of year-on-year, comparable reporting.
This is about the US and uses Octavia Butler's approach to projecting into the future. Rings true to me. I try to do some of these things in my writing too.
This is about the US and uses Octavia Butler's approach to projecting into the future. Rings true to me. I try to do some of these things in my writing to.
Authors: Yonatan Berman and Branko Milanovic
Institution: Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 28
Date: December 2020
Abstract:
Homoploutia describes the situation in which the same people (homo) are wealthy (ploutia) in the space of c…
"#Climatechange is compounding and multiplying the challenges faced by those who have already been #displaced, as well as their hosts, particularly in #fragile and #conflict-affected settings."
Main reason why the city of Sequoia in "A New Faith" is set in Scandinavia instead of a #refugee camp in #Africa #SouthAsia etc.
A man in Fitchburg appeared to suffer a seizure while holding his young daughter as immigration authorities tried to detain him, while bystanders pleaded for...
On Tuesday, the soaring cost of power was a key factor in several races, including those in Georgia, Virginia, and New Jersey. Democrats have a plan that can match their economic populist rhetoric.
Never really understood how #nuclear is a part of the #affordability argument when it is one of the most expensive sources of electricity even after decades of being deployed worldwide. #Clean - sure. But #cheap?
"#Just #Energy #Transition" has become the alias for "no one can EVER be even slightly inconvenienced". Everyone can use it and no one can question it. The problem is that the status quo leads to a catastrophic future for many including the ones the JET advocates are trying to shield. And as everyone starts looking out for themselves first, the collective good is thoroughly ignored. #climatechange #democracy #justice #humanrights
Obscene amounts of money in the hands of nincompoops leads to megalomania instead of actually helping the ones who need the most help. And this money is from #oil which itself is burning the #world down.
How about this deal for #AI #genai evangelists - for every percent increase in #unemployment (above the starting point of 4%), the #tax on them goes up by 5% which is used to implement a universal basic income #UBI policy.
Artificial intelligence offers the potential to improve people’s living standards. Such advances can be approximated by changes in GDP per capita over time.
This was the opportunity and mandate they had in 2008. But instead of delivering an FDR agenda, they delivered Rockefeller Republicanism. If Dems do that again in 2028, America is fully cooked.
"while more than two-thirds of Americans want stronger climate policy, less than a third of them say they see coverage of the issue in the media at least once a week"
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
"New taxes on the super-rich, #fossilfuels, financial transactions and highly polluting and carbon-intensive activities should be explored as key ways of raising the finance needed to help poor countries"
Neal Stephenson literally wrote a #scifi #book on this "Termination Shock" warning about the deadly outcomes. But just like #metaverse - these idiots seem to look at scifi as inspiration instead.
Fast eine Million New Yorker*innen packen angeblich ihre Koffer, wenn Zohran Mamdani Bürgermeister wird, weil soziale Gerechtigkeit ja bekanntermaßen eine schreckliche Zumutung ist. 🤣⬇️
The #WhiteHouse is recognized as a #nationalpark because of its historical significance as the home and office of the president, its role as a symbol of American #democracy, and its value as a #museum of American history. Destroying a U.S. federal #park is against the law, as it is considered #vandalism and destruction of government property. It can lead to severe penalties, including fines and imprisonment, and is prosecuted at the federal level. #NoKings!
One can but hope that this annihilates the #oil #gas companies all over the world. They used their cash to undermine all the opposition over the past two decades. Now they have a foe they can't bully around that easily.
Chinese EV and battery firms like BYD and CATL are expanding in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Ananya Bhattacharya reports, as Western trade barriers reshape their global strategy.
Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025 This paper combines income and wealth inequality series from the World Inequality Database (WID) and new global series on hourly productivity and human capital expenditure to …
"This reflects BMGF’s ‘narrowly conceived understanding of health as the product of technical interventions divorced from economic, social and political contexts’."
Nitwit aka Bill Gates continues to distort the #health
Introduction The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has been the World Health Organization’s (WHO) second biggest source of funding in recent years, contributing 9.5% of WHO’s revenues between 2010 and 2023 through voluntary contributions.
US-Präsident Donald Trump unterzieht sich regelmäßig einfachen kognitiven Tests und lobt sich selbst dann für einen angeblich hohen IQ. Dieses Mal ging er mit dem Prahlen noch einen Schritt weiter.
This will radicalize right leaning people and is therefore a huge strategic blunder in saving the democracy.
Because right wing people think already that "woke" comments are stupid because of lack of facts and argument depth. They have already the prejudice that the argument will fall apart when pressed.
Behavior like this strengthens their prejudice against leftist arguments, making it harder to be listened to when we come around with actual facts.
Worth reading... #China #US #EU and how it is forcing a reckoning of major ideas of the last 3-4 decades. "Imitation is best form of flattery" - well, the US is doing the best imitation of China (#government and @business are in all-out cahoots with each other, free #markets and #liberalism be damned).
A proposed 2026 California ballot measure would tax billionaires’ fortunes to fund imperiled health access for 15 million state Medicaid recipients. The spillover effects of its presence on the midterm-election ballot should be considerable.
#Genai #ai is increasingly a source of #news and it is NOT accurate. #openai released a new browser where there is no place to type the URL and every query NECESSARILY goes through #chatgpt which is already being used by 100s of millions. The damn thing will probably produce fake (but very real-looking) videos on the fly as it makes up stuff!
"the world can no longer depend solely on disaster relief to pick up the pieces when extreme weather hits. Instead, move from an ad hoc humanitarian approach to protecting people in poverty from climate disasters, towards establishing, strengthening and financing rights-based social protection."
"...growing distrust towards institutions feeds the rise of far-right populism, which thrives on economic insecurity and fear of status loss... far-right populism sows division, exploiting the discontent towards the incumbent elites as a pretext for dismantling welfare, thus serving the interests of the privileged..."
