39 Governance Technical Report

This report investigates Australia's governance risk in relation to climate change impacts and explores the risk of maladaptation by considering the interplay between adaptation, risk and governance.

3,400 deaths in a day: India's extreme heat days are deadlier than we imagined

Official counts of "heatstroke deaths" are often low, sometimes just a few hundred in a bad season, because many heat-related deaths are not labelled as such. This implies that the toll could be much higher.

The Elite Death Project: Why Capitalism Is Choosing Collapse

Capitalism is choosing collapse. This is not failure — it is the death wish made systemic.

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears

Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

saphid/frame-control

Frame Control: a free, open-source app for Valve Steam Frame on macOS, Windows, Linux and iPhone. View the headset, install games and apps, transfer files, and manage your Frame.

TaiKeid/steam-frame-full-keyboard

Contribute to TaiKeid/steam-frame-full-keyboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

Michael I. Jordan on AI: “Superintelligence is science fiction”

Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles. The book popularized the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.

Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn

People succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll

Tech's right turn : the rise of reactionary politics in Silicon Valley and online

This dissertation shows how a group of conservative activists helped shape Silicon Valley and its digital technologies in the 1980s and 1990s. Operating primarily within a loose network of think ta...

'End Times Fascism' and the billionaires gambling with humanity's future

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor expose how fascism, religious extremism and billionaire tech elites are pushing humanity towards catastrophe in their chilling new book, 'End Times Fascism'.

20 Theses For Liberation

Twenty Theses For Liberation Welcome! This is a place for all who strive for the wellbeing of people & planet to come together around a unifying &