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Blaming Ordinary People for the Ecocidal Consequences of AI, and Other Notes, by Caitlin Johnstone

I just saw an article in The Conversation titled β€œYour AI habit is wasting precious resources. Here’s how to use it responsibly,” and it pisses me off because you can already see where this is going. Neoliberalism is already doing that thing where they shift all the blame for the environmental consequences of ecocidal capitalism...
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The Polite Kind of Racism, by Caitlin Johnstone

There are two types of racism in the west: the kind that’s considered acceptable in polite liberal society, and the kind that’s widely frowned upon. The acceptable type of racism is the kind which considers it fine and normal to drop bombs on Muslim families overseas. The kind which sees starvation sanctions as a minor...
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True Spirituality Confronts the Abuses of the Empire, by Caitlin Johnstone

A spirituality that is uninterested in ending war, genocide, poverty and injustice is a dead spirituality. If you hold your time on the meditation cushion as something separate from the weeping mother clutching a small body in Lebanon, you’re wasting your time. Sometimes I get asked why I only occasionally write about β€œspiritual” matters like...
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