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  Lovely work from @Bonfire for jacobin.de Really nice case write up too https://bonfirenetworks.org/case-studies/jacobin/

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  A source has disclosed that Elon Musk is to name his next space vehicle Ark Fleet Ship B, in honour of the Golgafrinchans. A key feature of its design, powered by the secret Nihilism Drive, rumoured to be similar to Gen AI, is that it is capable of going relentlessly round in circles until it disappears up its own arse and turns into nothing. Bon voyage, Elon. The sooner the better.

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  Three weeks in the Welsh Borders. My Italian partner says: How strange and perverse, that medieval buildings should have been reduced to ruins! In Italy they all are perfectly preserved. But the policing of a Roman/Saxon/Norman boundary, and the Tudor decimation of establishments of the Church of Rome... plus the C20 under-development of rural Wales ... Thus bees, butterflies, house martins and buzzards all seem to be well, and hazels are cropping heavily.

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  General secretary of the UK's Public Services trade union, on the British war economy, new Prime Minister and all. Just need to put this out there, it's kind-of, duh, same-old same-old. And worsening. https://www.stopwar.org.uk/article/against-the-warfare-state

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  Buddhism and AI Initiative Anthropomorphic AI https://buddhismai.substack.com/p/a-season-for-repurposing-ai-alignment

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  UK government national wildfire alert, across mobile phone networks.

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  Google data centre politics in Uraguay. Stealing the people's water. https://logicmag.io/land/exposing-googles-seizure-of-water-in-drought-impacted-uruguay-a-conversation/

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  @Wtebbens Mesh networks in Russia https://theins.press/en/society/293619

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  Nope, actually it's real intelligence. Can you tell the difference? Same global-marginal people who do contract work training LLMs? Or different ones? https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/14/kenya-shadow-scholars-paid-to-write-essays-for-uk-students There is a secret industry that generates billions of dollars a year. Its workers are bright, industrious and completely anonymous. Their job is writing essays to order for students – in the UK and elsewhere – to help them get good...

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  MayFirst on the internal US significance of the federal administration declaring Italian Autistici/Inventati a terrorist organisation https://mayfirst.coop/posts/2026/autistici-statement/ And here's a story of A/I from then until now, with a call to defence in the next three weeks https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25/

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  Alongside the terrible flood event in Nepal, arising from melting permafrost and thawing glaciers https://theconversation.com/when-a-mountain-falls-how-ice-and-rock-triggered-nepals-catastrophic-flood-and-why-climate-change-is-raising-the-risks-290779 here's a report on climate migration in the second largest city of Bangladesh https://theclimatewatch.com/climate-migrants-comprise-30-40-of-chattogram-slum-population-study/

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  Uneven datafication Azadeh Akbari https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29768640261439961 This is quite chewy but pretty interesting I think. Uneven development is an important, strategically significant frame for global struggle, and uneven datafication extends it usefully, within a politics of decoloniality and resistance to Big Tech? > it is vital to emphasise historicity, plural temporalities, epistemic violence and coloniality in analyses of datafication.

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  **Decentralism** Without (I think) a single reference to The Digital, here's more than a hundred interesting clips on Decentralism. https://centerforneweconomics.org/envision/library/decentralism-file/ Curated by the Schumacher Center. Thus a US bias? But Kautsky & Kropotkin are there for example; also Lao-Tse and Aristotle 🤫

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  Open Collective have ceased using Persona. 🙏 Here's part of their rather full response https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/on-kyc-checks-and-persona > Finally, we will halt the use of Persona for identity verification until we are able to implement the alternative arrangements described above. > Thank you to everyone in our community who shared their perspective. We hear you, and we are grateful to be a part of a community that cares so deeply about transparency and accoun...

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  The Free Knowledge Institute now has a fediverse presence @fkinstitute Worth following? FKI is beginning to expand scope, with a focus on resistance in European cities and regions to 'the digital coup' that has been globally enacted by stealth, the last 25 years, in internet space. Contra-infrastructure(ing) & federating. In the commons. Of course the fediverse is an aspect of this. @dvdjaco @Wtebbens @mike_hales are at work here; meet.coop is our shared background. Mo...

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  Here's a deep dive into the politics of protocols - including the ActivityPub protocol that Mastodon instantiates https://connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-of-protocols/ Funded by NLnet. It says the protocol design community > has developed exceptional sophistication about technical architecture and individual rights while remaining largely inarticulate about collective governance. It notes > ActivityPub delegates governance to the instance level and assumes that loca...

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  Hey @opencollective What this business with Persona? I'm in four collectives that use OpenCollective for funding. We want absolutely nothing to do with Peter Thiel/Palantir/Persona. Will you please post some clarification of relationships and intentions, soon. Thanks 🙏

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  March against the machines https://pulltheplug.uk/ Saturday, February 28, 2026, 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm Start at the Open AI office York House, Fora, 221 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9UZ > Let People Control AI > We call on the UK government to fund binding Citizens’ Assemblies on AI and implement their decisions. > We all know best what role we want AI to play in our lives. By bringing together juries of ordinary people, informed by experts, to make binding decisions about AI, w...