I totally recognise this. I found when doing my BBC prog on AI x-risk that the AGI myth fits a worldview that sees 'intelligence' as one dimensional, with some smart people able to see further, followed by the rest of us 1/3 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

UAW 4811 members have voted by a super majority to authorize a strike.

🚨Global land concentration:

The world's farmland is owned by the few! 1% largest farms control 70% of farmland worldwide. In Latin America it's worse.

Extreme land inequality obstructs sustainable #foodsystems .

Data from our new #LandSqueeze report
➡️ipes-food.org/report/land-sq…

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The knowledge factory and the accumulation of capital.

Well I think this PhD topic sounds fascinating

“Poor environmental regulation is down to the stranglehold industrial agriculture has on politics – at every level. It’s about political capture.” Nina Lakhani shares a blockbuster report from Union of Concerned Scientists Omanjana Goswami, PhD ucsusa.org/resources/wast…
theguardian.com/environment/20…

If we are really concerned that open source AI models will allow anyone to develop bioweapons the answer isn’t to ban open source models but ban such models altogether? Why on earth would, say, a middle manager at Google get access to bioweapon making abilities over anyone else

After 4 years, Iowa organic farmer Patti Naylor fulfilled her mandate as the North American focal point to CSIPM - dedicating hundreds of hours sharing the concerns of food producers throughout North America. Thank you, Patti! nffc.net/patti-naylor-c…

The House has voted to approve unconstitutional, warrantless searches of Americans' communications.

Now the Senate has too—late on Friday, after the media had gone home.

Only the President can stop it from becoming law, and he won't—because he's the one that asked for it. 🦅🇺🇸

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Already using this wonderful material by Estampa: Cartography of Generative AI cartography-of-generative-ai.net Below some graphics on the minerals used by AI 👇

'If anyone knows the true value of land, it is the peasant and Indigenous communities that have ensured its survival across borders and generations.'

5 Things to Know About the Global Land Rush and How to Stop It commondreams.org/opinion/5-thin…

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Seeking students to join our learning community this fall!

Course 1 - Participatory Action Research and Agroecology (I'm teaching)
Course 2 - on Transformative Agroecology (also fully online) taught by Martha Caswell

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The Spring 2024 Logic(s) Speakers Series, a ten part series of virtual public events running every Wednesday from April 3rd to June 5th, this series will center transnational voices and perspectives essential to thinking critically about technology.

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BREAKING—This morning TIME confirmed that Google lied to its own workers, consumers & the press for years, and is in fact providing direct cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Israeli Occupation Forces time.com/6966102/google…