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Thomas Barrio

From Productivist Work to the Megamachine: Alienation, Instrumental Rationality, and Systemic Domination

💼⚙️ From the Taylorist factory to the #Plantationocene: how has #InstrumentalRationality transformed #work, bodies, and #society? #Alienation, #speed, #control, #extractivism, and self-destruction—critical insights with #Fromm, #Jappe, #Virilio, #Foucault, #Weber, #Adorno, #Ferdinand, and #Merchant. #philosophy #sociology #ecology From Productivist Work to the…

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NSW.Biodiversity

Blasting Aboriginal heritage sites

"Half a decade on from the blasting of Juukan Gorge by mining giant Rio Tinto, the laws that allowed the destruction to go ahead remain largely in place."

"We have been living with these types of Juukan Gorge-like incidents on everyone's country since the establishment of mining on our country, and it's not going to go away."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-05-24/fiv
#IndigenousHeritage #IndigenousPeoples #law #extractivism #destruction #JuukanGeorge #iconoclasm #Australia

ABC News · Traditional owners still angry five years after Juukan Gorge destructionBy Mietta Adams
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penworks

When you hear someone say that "AI is the future of search" as if it is a great thing, and a foregone conclusion, what they are actually saying is that the doors to any individual blog or website or resources are closing. The digital waypaths to finding sourced content directly are being shuttered and boarded up. That human search via multiple methods utilising various recommender systems is being removed. In favour of a single gateway to pre delivered materials all owned by private monopoly companies. And we are expected to react as if this is a good thing, the "future".

A screenshot taken by someone from a Facebook group called AI and You... It describes what is happening to the Internet and search. Last year chat GPT was the 15th most visited site in the world. Now it's the 5th. It goes on to describe that knowledge and search traffic is being quietly gobbled up by chatgpt .
#ai#ChatGPT#GenAI
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BellingenNSW

Queensland government cuts Environmental Defenders Office funding despite pre-election promise for support

"The service that we provide is sometimes inconvenient for powerful vested interests...There were countless examples of free legal advice the EDO had provided to individuals, landholders, First Nations groups and community groups to help them combat the interests of developers, mining companies and governments."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-05-15/env
#environment #conservation #law #EDO #ToondahHarbour #PurlingBrookFalls #BottledWater #Santos #extractivism #VestedInterest

ABC News · Queensland government cuts Environmental Defenders Office funding despite pre-election promise for supportBy Will Murray
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BellingenNSW

National Environmental Standards

Create new, legally enforceable national environmental standards to deliver better environmental protection or continue with the big quarry model this term?

"Nature doesn’t negotiate. Nature is a system of systems, and if we take too much from it those systems begin to break down – usually irreversibly."
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theconversation.com/its-a-hard

Samuel Review
dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc
#EPBCAct #BiodiversityCrisis #Biodiversity #Ecosystems #FirstNations #restoration #nature #extractivism #harm #LoggingImpacts #mining #water #extraction #FossilFuels #ClimateDisruption #destruction #governance

The ConversationIt’s a hard job being environment minister. Here’s an insider’s view of the key challenges facing Murray WattLabor’s whopping majority doesn’t mean environmental reform will be any easier. When economy and environment clash, the economy usually wins.
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Climate Camp Scotland

Today our friends in the National Anti-Mining Front in #ecuador and CONAIE have launched the “People’s Against Extractivism” initiative which we are proud to have signed on to. Predatory extractive industries exploit people and the planet all over the world and requires an international response against each stage of this system.

More information is available in the link here antiextractivismo.org/

#climate#mining#extractivism
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BellingenNSW

NSW forestry agency should be shut down for repeatedly breaking law, critics argue

"Professor David Heilpern, a former court magistrate, claims the NSW Forestry Corporation is no longer fit for purpose and should be disbanded. A former magistrate and one of Australia’s most experienced scientists have launched an extraordinary attack on the New South Wales government’s logging agency, describing it as effectively a “criminal organisation” that should be shut down after a string of court convictions."

"The corporation has been convicted of more than a dozen environmental offences, including a judgment in the land and environment court last year that found the agency was likely to reoffend and had poor prospects of rehabilitation.They get caught, investigated, prosecuted, a criminal conviction, a fine – which the public pays – and they carry on and do it all again."

“There is just no integrity, accountability or justice in this model of operation.”

“For the Forestry Corporation, breaking the law and harming the environment and wildlife has become like a game of charades played under the protection of the state."
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theguardian.com/australia-news
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #crime #harm #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #governance #accountability #extractivism

The Guardian · NSW forestry agency should be shut down for repeatedly breaking law, critics argueBy Lisa Cox
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BellingenNSW

Koalas face death, attacks and mass starvation from monoculture plantations
Cost-effective management techniques for Australian wildlife

"...Displaced animals were sometimes still up in trees that were felled and ended up with broken bones, or were orphaned babies left behind. Others were attacked by cows or dogs."

"A 2023 study of reported wild koala deaths in south-east Queensland found vehicles were responsible for about half (1,431) of all fatalities."
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theguardian.com/environment/20
#biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #harm #pets #Livestock #roads #vehicles #RoadTrauma #KillingZones #plantations #monoculture #extractivism #governance #Australia #extinction

The Guardian · Koalas face death, attacks and starvation as blue gums chopped down in VictoriaBy Petra Stock
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BellingenNSW

Remember the Urunga wetlands waste tailings rich in antimony, arsenic, lead and cyanide?

"For five years in the 1960s and 1970s, antimony and other heavy metals leached from an ore processing plant into the melaleuca wetlands. The wetlands used to open up into a moonscape of light grey sand with not a single bit of vegetation."
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crownland.nsw.gov.au/sites/def
majorprojects.planningportal.n

Now they want to go for Wild Cattle Creek 'high-grade and high-tonnage' antimony-gold mining >>
listcorp.com/asx/tmg/trigg-min

A Clarence Catchment Alliance community meeting

is being hosted by the Bellingen Environment Centre,
with Blicks River Guardians and Lock the Gate Nambucca,
from 2pm on Friday May 31 at 16 Cudgery St, Dorrigo.
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clarencevalleynews.com.au/clar
#NSW #Dorrigo #Urunga #remediation #CoffsHarbour #mining #antimony #gold #extractivism #harm #WildCattleCreek #WCC #water #contamination #wetlands #rivers #waterways #freshwater #MarineWater #platypus #biodiversity #BellingenShire

ANTIMONY Mining, NSW, contaminated wetland/ water, ChatGPT
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Recently, the notion of artificial intelligence for development (AI4D) has been mobilized by various actors in the global South and North. We identify five analytical categories to help us understand the different and often contested perspectives on AI4D. They are (a) a developmentalist framework that emphasizes discourses around modernity and progress through a technoliberal lens of ‘catching up’; (b) an economic development framework taken up by African states, private sector and civil society, highlighting a positive and more future-looking outlook on AI's potential for development; (c) an international policy framework tied to globally agreed on policies such as the Sustainable Development Goals; (d) a colonial and extractivist framework that articulates how AI4D reinforces old processes of oppression in new ways; and (e) decolonial AI discourses grounded in Latin American, African and Indigenous approaches. Our critical review of literature on AI4D and related expressions shows that while the notion applies broadly to the global South, the majority of publications use the term in reference to AI development on the African continent. This commentary enriches our understanding of the plurality of meanings, where they come from, what they do, and what they leave unaddressed."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

#AI#AI4D#GlobalSouth
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BellingenNSW

Mass aerial culling of koalas
The mindset of culling everything in this country is a colonial mentality.

"In the weeks leading up to the 2025 Federal Election, the Victorian Labor Government's approval of a barbaric slaughter by helicopter shooters, which killed 1,100 koalas, was comprehensively ignored. Mainstream media failed to report the killing, raising major censorship issues, which need to be addressed."

"I went to one small area of a cleared plantation, with about 30 eucalypts left and around 20 koalas clinging to the branches. This is the scene after harvesting, koalas trying to survive in little pockets of trees."

"There’s no excuse for Australia not to get it right. You can’t treat the environment like this. The mindset of culling everything in this country is a colonial mentality. Wildlife is suffering from our neglect. We have given nothing back to wildlife for all the good things they have done for us."

"Experts have suggested retaining 30% of the plantation blue gums, ensuring corridors for koala movement. The extent of current laws, plans and guidelines in place to protect koalas in Victoria can best be described as completely ineffective, whether they are forests, plantations or urban development habitats."
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independentaustralia.net/polit
#biodiversity #wildlife #extractivism #plantations #LoggingImpacts #harm #EPBCAct #koalas

Independent AustraliaLabor's election win hopefully a turning point for environmentFollowing a landslide victory, Labor will have to answer to 96% of Australians, who say more action is needed to protect the environment and native wildlife.
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