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Volewica
@Nigel_Purchase@mstdn.social
mastodon 4.7.2Former fund manager and economist. Deeply alarmed by the climate crisis. Neo-liberalism has been catastrophic for our civilisation. I mostly follow back.
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Joined February 16, 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/01/how-misinformation-ai-hallucinations-infiltrating-australian-parliament
Ai is an abomination.
UK emissions fall to 1872 level
https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/03/uk-emissions-fall-to-1872-level.html
My son was telling me that three different modes of doing research were tested.
✅ Using pen and paper only
✅ Using the internet
✅ Using AI
It won't surprise you that the researchers' brains lighted up the least with AI. It might surprise you, though, that their brains lighted up the most with pen and paper.
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Consensus seems to be that this is AI. Apologies.
The problem is, how does one tell? Sometimes it's obvious, but it never crossed my mind that it was AI.
What a shitty world.
‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance.
Christian Brothers sold real estate worth millions for $1. Now it claims in court it lacks money to pay abuse survivors
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/27/christian-brothers-real-estate-sales-catholic-group-failed-to-pay-abuse-survivors-ntwnfb
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/21/australian-ski-resorts-smash-july-climate-records-with-temperatures-12c-above-average
[Reminder: It's winter in Australia. Goddess help us if *summer* temperatures are so much above the average]
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/23/australia-politician-claims-northern-territory-water-could-flip-earths-magnetic-poles
That's the Right for you. Innumerate.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/03/july-driest-month-southern-england-since-records-began
But no, ask any rabid right supporter: climate change isn't happening.
Israeli army chief says West Bank troops ‘killing like we haven’t killed since 1967’
Sever all ties with Israel.
His father had just been buried. Then West Bank settlers forced him to dig up the body
And this is just the beginning.
‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands
For all the gab, gab, gab about the #environment, they actually couldn't care less.
Just finished watching Department Q on Netflix. Gosh, it was good. It's based on a book by the Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen, but is set in Scotland.
Netflix does make a lot of rubbsih but this was different.
Oil prices surge past $100 per barrel.
Deep recession, here we come.
Chart from Trading Economics
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@benno
It's a massive defeat for fascists. So of course they won't say anything.
What's more, Trump's and Vance's intervention prolly made the result worse.
The Guardian view on the Iran war and international law: it’s worse than a mistake; it’s a crime
Trump derangement syndrome
By Nick Anderson
https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/01/trump-derangement-syndrome.html
Trump Just Demolished 80 Years of Global Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vaY7ZIDEoc
A superb and trenchant analysis
Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/guilty-until-proven-innocent-shoppers-falsely-identified-by-facial-recognition-struggle-to-clear-their-name
Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank
Exclusive: Tender posted for construction of 3,401 homes in settlement designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/06/israel-vast-illegal-settlement-west-bank
Doctors warned Andrea could die without safe housing, then discharged her to sleep on the streets
This, in one of the richest nations on Earth.
Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’
Max Chandler-Mather says Greens can use ‘progressive populism’ to win voters deserting major parties for One Nation
‘Doesn’t make sense to hold onto a combustion engine’: used EV prices rise as Australia’s fuel crisis hits.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/06/secondhand-ev-prices-rise-fuel-crisis-australia
I Found Myself in 1970s San Francisco
Greens CRUSH Labour And Reform In Gorton And Denton - Political TSUNAMI
Greens CRUSH Labour And Reform In Gorton And Denton - Political TSUNAMI
Is it constitutionally valid to prevent Australian citizens from entering Australia?
Is it constitutionally valid to prevent Australian citizens from entering Australia?
A festering carcass
By Oliver Kornetzke
https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-festering-carcass.html
Family of New Zealand woman detained by ICE pleads for government help to secure her release
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/30/new-zealand-woman-detained-ice
*Don't* go to the USA. Don't visit. Keep away. It's not safe. The US is now a shithole country.