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Gina Hinojosa Flips Off Corporate Democrats
The surging Texas gubernatorial candidate is explicitly campaigning against Corporate Democrats’ old formula and its useless labels.
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In Suriname’s Amazon, the Wayana community struggling to keep gold miners at bay
KAWEMHAKAN, Suriname — Beneath thousands of square kilometers of rainforest here lie vast deposits of gold and other minerals. Around a million ounces are extracted legally every year, but much more remains buried throughout the Amazon. In…
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Brazil’s victory for the planet and democracy: seven lessons from Lula’s win
The trouncing of the far right provides a playbook for social and environmental movements in other countries facing elections, including the US, Spain and France Thank you, Brazil, for demonstrating how the far right can be trounced while…
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The Debt-Driven AI Bubble
AI data centers are unpopular for good reason, writes Alexis Goldstein. They are also a financial crisis in slow motion. By Alexis Goldstein Truthout AI data centers are unpopular for good reason: they drive up utility costs for…
How the Far-Right Uses Climate Disasters to Build Political Power
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World is critical reading for anyone seeking to understand and push back against the far-right coalitions wielding considerable state and corporate power around…
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Prediction Markets Are Shaping Elections — And Getting Them Wrong
Do Kalshi’s odds favor the establishment?
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Tech Tips for Parents this Digital Parenting Week
In today’s digital world, the internet is an essential resource for young people to access information, explore community, and find themselves. But we know that this often comes alongside fears of experiencing online harms like doxxing…
Reps. Casar, Waters Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech, Commit to Protecting American People Instead
Today, Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Chair Rep. Greg Casar (TX-35) and House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-43) co-led the introduction of a resolution warning of the economic risks posed by an…
Between revered and hunted: The journey of human-otter coexistence in the Amazon
On a warm, humid morning, along the Içana River in Brazil’s upper Rio Negro Basin, researchers saw a group of Baniwa men heading to the river to check the fishing traps they left in shallow, fast-moving waters. Slightly further downstream…
China’s record-breaking exports of clean tech are making a big dent in emissions, report says
BANGKOK (AP) — China is exporting a record amount of clean energy technology and that is making a dent in global emissions. Interest in renewables has surged due to the energy crisis from the Iran war. A report released Thursday shows that…
Is There Life After AI? Cory Doctorow Thinks So.
Cory Doctorow talks to us about the internet, whether machines are conscious, why copyright maximalism won’t save us from ChatGPT, and why workers still have a chance to shape what comes next.
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Economist Dean Baker explains why AI Bubble is starting to POP! And why we might pay for it…
As mounting debt and questionable returns raise fears of an AI investment bubble, economist Dean Baker examines the warning signs that the industry's financial boom may be faltering… if not destined for a bust!
‘Already feeling it’: Northern Amazon waterfall season ends early, hurting livelihoods
BOA VISTA, Roraima — “For those who live off the river, water isn’t just scenery: It is also a road, work and income.” That is how tour guide Fredson Guedes, known as “Tarzan,” learned to view the natural world around him over the course…
AI Is Class Warfare. Workers Are Fighting Back.
“AI is leveraged as a cudgel against the working class,” says writer and sociologist Alex Hanna.
Early tech warning hopes to give Sumatra’s peat community a head start on fires
MUARO JAMBI, Indonesia — Pineapples rattled around in the basket on the back of Tahang’s motorcycle as he drove through the cracked and dried out peatland in eastern Sumatra’s Muaro Jambi district. Tahang later pulled up beside local…
Meet AI Engineer Who Resigned from DeepMind over "Google's Complicity in the Gaza Genocide"
Several tech workers at Google’s AI unit DeepMind have resigned in protest over the tech giant’s work with the U.S. and Israeli militaries. Last week, DeepMind research engineer Sofia Liguori announced her resignation in a letter to her…
Security Council LIVE: Can new technology keep the world’s sea lanes safe?
Cheap drones, autonomous vessels and cyberattacks are changing the threats to the world’s shipping lanes – and the tools to counter them. At an open debate on Thursday, the Security Council is weighing how emerging technologies could both…
AI is changing the way we think. The question is whether we’ll notice in time
Artificial intelligence promises to make life easier. With a few keystrokes, it can write emails, summarize reports, generate ideas and answer complex questions in seconds. For many people, it feels like a technological leap on par with…
Canada’s ‘Responsible’ Data Centre Principles Have a Credibility Problem
Would you trust a detox facility that offers a minibar in every room? How about a climate course sponsored by ExxonMobil? If not, you might direct the same incredulity towards Canada’s recently unveiled Responsible Data Centre Development…
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AI Tried to Buy the Midterms — Then the Lobby Learned Everyone Hates AI
Facing bipartisan backlash and a decaying reputation, AI super PACs are changing tactics. We tracked their election spending so far. The post AI Tried to Buy the Midterms — Then the Lobby Learned Everyone Hates AI appeared first on The…
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Ofcom outlines age check methods ahead of social media ban for under-16s
Ofcom says photo and digital ID, banking checks or facial age estimation can help prove someone is 16 or over.
Top U.S. Health Official Backed a Medication Policy Shift That Benefited a Company She Has Stock In
The post Top U.S. Health Official Backed a Medication Policy Shift That Benefited a Company She Has Stock In appeared first on ProPublica.
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Details of thousands of US immigration agents leaked in major hack
A group called the Department of Peace released information on more than 41,000 DHS staff.
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Microsoft profits soar days after announcing thousands of layoffs
The week, the Windows developer said it would offer buyouts to 60,000 workers as it looks to curb costs.