There's wealth in the NE. It's just distributed more unequally than anywhere in the country bar London. One thing we don't talk about enough is the way the landlords enclosed the land then stole the coal / mineral wealth underneath it too. www.resilience.org/stories/2022...
I gave up worrying about the concept of weeds and pests in gardens years ago when I realised they weren’t the problem they were made out to be. Problems? Pff. Throw those thoughts away. Gone! Poof! www.wildway.info/p/lean-into-...
‘The impact was hardest for households on lower incomes. Anyone who was on social welfare during these years paid an extra €209 between 2021 and 2023, the equivalent of a week’s income, to service this data centre price effect.’
Trump: "Oman will behave just like everyone else, or we'll have to blow them up"
Workhouses never went away, they just became a policy instead of a place
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"More than 20 medics have been killed during whats meant to be a truce. The Lebanese health ministry says they're being deliberately killed"
Alex Crawford reports on the paramedics in Lebanon.
Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly.
www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...
Enclosures continue today, strengthening an ever-richer ruling class and an ever-larger global working class.
“It’s the British class system with a climate-crisis spin: the more someone requires air conditioning to survive heatwaves, the less likely they are to be able to afford it.”
My col. in today’s paper. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nobody should.
We are told about all the benefits of our FDI-led model, reliant on US tech multinationals.
Research shows that between 2015-2023, households paid an estimated €360 additional in electricity bills because of data centre growth.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Labour's jobs tsar claims work can be a cure for young people's mental distress.
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The murder charge brought against 36-year-old Billy Allison has placed renewed scrutiny on the increasingly controversial far-right network surrounding the group “Raise the Colours” and the atmosphere...
It’s inequality with a climate-crisis spin: some are more at risk, and they are rarely the people able to afford in-built AC, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Report draws criticism from representative body Digital Infrastructure Ireland, which says data centres ‘vital’
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The former Labour minister commissioned to investigate why so many younger people are not in jobs, training or education has told MPs that he believes work can be a cure for the “tsunami of distres…
