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AI ABOLITION NETWORK & STRATEGY MEETING For the third time on ...

2026-06-08T14:35:55Z

AI ABOLITION NETWORK & STRATEGY MEETING

For the third time on a monthly basis, we again invite all AI critical and AI abolitionist groups/activists/individuals to our joint networking + strategy meeting in Copenhagen. Newcomers welcome!

Our aims for the meeting: keep building our network; work towards strategic alignment; expand our magic circles (fka working groups) for concrete actions.

Our aims beyond the meeting: conscientiously objecting, rejecting, resisting and dismantling AI. If you are reading this message, you're invited to come!

There will be drinks, snacks, and humans.

https://dukop.dk/en/event/ai-abolition-network-strategy-meetingGTIHCSGGS2/10044/

#AI #Resistance #Abolition #Activism #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #ArtifiicialIntelligence #Revolution

𝐇𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 ...

2026-04-09T14:22:43Z

𝐇𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐥 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬: "𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝"

If you're into science or medicine, you may have heard of journals like Cell or The Lancet. You might also be familiar with their parent company Elsevier / RELX, and their predatory practices: sometimes charging more than 10,000 dollars for publications whose running costs don't reach a tenth of that amount.

What you might not know is that beyond pocketing public research money, Elsevier is also contributing to climate breakdown, pouring millions into tools and journals providing information about areas yet to be exploited for oil and gas extraction, as well as new technologies needed to dig up oil more efficiently in the Arctic and the Canadian tar sands. The motto of one of their online tools, Geofacets, used to be that, thanks to it, “exploration has never been more seamless.”

But that's the tip of the iceberg. For years, RELX's political action committee REPAC has been providing support to climate denialist politicians in the US, preventing carbon mitigation bills from reaching a vote in Congress.

I document this and other complicities of big academic publishers in my new book Science in Resistance, where I interview Kip Lyall, a former employee of the journal Cell, who was fired after asking too many questions about the company's fossil fuel ties.

Excerpt below. 👇

#Science #OpenScience #Fossilfuels #Climate #Climate #Activism #Journal

"𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 ...

2025-11-25T08:51:36Z

"𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠."

These words struck me. I was talking to IPCC author Wolfgang Cramer (npub194d…35f2) as part of the train tour promoting my book Science in Resistance.

After we sang the Dies Irae together at SR's concert by the Eiffel Tower, commemorating yet another failure of global #climate politics at #COP30, we both traveled south to Marseille, where I presented my book Science in Resistance.

Wolfgang told me how, back in 2022, he and 11 other #IPCC and #IPBES authors met with President #Macron. After sitting with him for two hours, alerting him about climate and societal breakdown, and the need to urgently transform our economies away from infinite growth, they achieved nothing. No change in mind. No change in policy. Nothing.

This, to me, perfectly illustrates why appealing to power is no longer something we should be doing as scientists, as academics and generally as change-makers.

As I explain in my book, we need to build #power instead - In both the streets and inside our work and living places, democratizing them, decolonizing them and making them fit for social and ecological change. And crucially, pushing them towards exnovation - dismantling all the fossil structures keeping us depressed, isolated, profitable, and in chains.

You can get my book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/science-in-resistance/paper

To learn more about fossil exnovation, you can check our NSU study circle on the topic, and sign up for our upcoming winter session: https://www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-degrowth-and-exnovation/

They forgot to add "World Economic Forum" to their own ...

2025-01-16T18:36:21Z

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They forgot to add "World Economic Forum" to their own list.

*A conversation on strategy, social movements and degrowth ...

2024-09-27T08:34:48Z

*A conversation on strategy, social movements and degrowth futures*

Last weekend, I was invited to a public conversation with Dr. Ekaterina Chertkovskaya (Lund University) during the #Degrowth Festival in Copenhagen, organized by the Syndicate of Creatures.

We talked about a lot of things...

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