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  1. Reminder: Last year, the ICJ found that states had a legal obligation to act on climate change.

    Next week, every UN member state (including Canada) will have to go on record: acknowledge our legal responsibility to cut greenhouse gas emissions & fossil fuel use, or open ourselves up to legal action from across the world.

    None of this is compatible with Mark Carney's push for more pipelines.

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange #PolyCrisis #NoPipelines

  2. "You've got more people that are living in poverty already and if you get a reduction in crop yields because of drought or flooding [from El Niño] then that drives prices even higher. So we're looking at potentially quite huge humanitarian impacts this year, especially if the crisis in the Middle East continues".

    #Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #Wildfires #Drought #NoPipelines #CostOfLivingCrisis #Polycrisis

  3. 'The proportion of electricity used by vast warehouses stacked with microchips to power AI and the internet has risen 15% worldwide in the past two years as annual global investment in datacentres approaches $1tn (£740bn) – nearly 1% of the global economy, according to the International Data Center Authority'

    #climateEmergency #polycrisis #coporateRaiders #enclosureOfTheCommons #genAI

    theguardian.com/technology/202

  4. The Rise of Bullshittery

    An excerpt from the piece:

    "The unspoken contract behind most professional life used to be as simple as learning how to do something, doing it well and gradually developing a reputation among people who could tell the difference. Over time, that reputation would then translate into work, money, and a degree of stability. It was a slow process, that sometimes was unfair, and that was never as meritocratic as its proponents claimed, but at least the basic shape of it made sense. Doing a good job was, on average, an advantage."

    "That contract, however, has been broken in ways that are hard to comprehend, let alone ignore these days. The dominant mechanism for distributing professional opportunity is no longer slow reputation, it is _algorithmic visibility_. The algorithm, howeveer, does not particularly care whether you are good at your job, it only cares whether your message is engaging enough to spread fast and far."

    xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-rise-of-

    (You can add this site to your RSS reader. The author writes things worth reading.)

    #experts #fakes #polycrisis

  5. The Rise of Bullshittery

    An excerpt from the piece:

    "The unspoken contract behind most professional life used to be as simple as learning how to do something, doing it well and gradually developing a reputation among people who could tell the difference. Over time, that reputation would then translate into work, money, and a degree of stability. It was a slow process, that sometimes was unfair, and that was never as meritocratic as its proponents claimed, but at least the basic shape of it made sense. Doing a good job was, on average, an advantage."

    "That contract, however, has been broken in ways that are hard to comprehend, let alone ignore these days. The dominant mechanism for distributing professional opportunity is no longer slow reputation, it is _algorithmic visibility_. The algorithm, howeveer, does not particularly care whether you are good at your job, it only cares whether your message is engaging enough to spread fast and far."

    xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-rise-of-

    (You can add this site to your RSS reader. The author writes things worth reading.)

    #experts #fakes #polycrisis

  6. The Rise of Bullshittery

    An excerpt from the piece:

    "The unspoken contract behind most professional life used to be as simple as learning how to do something, doing it well and gradually developing a reputation among people who could tell the difference. Over time, that reputation would then translate into work, money, and a degree of stability. It was a slow process, that sometimes was unfair, and that was never as meritocratic as its proponents claimed, but at least the basic shape of it made sense. Doing a good job was, on average, an advantage."

    "That contract, however, has been broken in ways that are hard to comprehend, let alone ignore these days. The dominant mechanism for distributing professional opportunity is no longer slow reputation, it is _algorithmic visibility_. The algorithm, howeveer, does not particularly care whether you are good at your job, it only cares whether your message is engaging enough to spread fast and far."

    xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-rise-of-

    (You can add this site to your RSS reader. The author writes things worth reading.)

    #experts #fakes #polycrisis

  7. The Rise of Bullshittery

    An excerpt from the piece:

    "The unspoken contract behind most professional life used to be as simple as learning how to do something, doing it well and gradually developing a reputation among people who could tell the difference. Over time, that reputation would then translate into work, money, and a degree of stability. It was a slow process, that sometimes was unfair, and that was never as meritocratic as its proponents claimed, but at least the basic shape of it made sense. Doing a good job was, on average, an advantage."

    "That contract, however, has been broken in ways that are hard to comprehend, let alone ignore these days. The dominant mechanism for distributing professional opportunity is no longer slow reputation, it is _algorithmic visibility_. The algorithm, howeveer, does not particularly care whether you are good at your job, it only cares whether your message is engaging enough to spread fast and far."

    xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-rise-of-

    (You can add this site to your RSS reader. The author writes things worth reading.)

    #experts #fakes #polycrisis

  8. The Rise of Bullshittery

    An excerpt from the piece:

    "The unspoken contract behind most professional life used to be as simple as learning how to do something, doing it well and gradually developing a reputation among people who could tell the difference. Over time, that reputation would then translate into work, money, and a degree of stability. It was a slow process, that sometimes was unfair, and that was never as meritocratic as its proponents claimed, but at least the basic shape of it made sense. Doing a good job was, on average, an advantage."

    "That contract, however, has been broken in ways that are hard to comprehend, let alone ignore these days. The dominant mechanism for distributing professional opportunity is no longer slow reputation, it is _algorithmic visibility_. The algorithm, howeveer, does not particularly care whether you are good at your job, it only cares whether your message is engaging enough to spread fast and far."

    xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-rise-of-

    (You can add this site to your RSS reader. The author writes things worth reading.)

    #experts #fakes #polycrisis

  9. "What we have seen is a slow almost sleepwalk into increasing dangers over the last decade. And we see these problems growing", thanks to the "complete failure in leadership" in the US and other countries, which are doing little to address global, catastrophic threats, even as they feed into one another:

    theguardian.com/science/2026/m

    #Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateBreakdown #NoPipelines #Polycrisis #USPoli