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🌍 Cartography of generative AI

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The popularisation of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation and mystification. At a time when these technologies seem to be consolidating, it is pertinent to map their connections with human activities and more than human territories. What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?

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Extractivist elites have mobilized the governments of #Canada, both federal and provincial, to adopt legislation and policy in favour of #mining, #FossilFuel and #forestry interests - in the name of nation-building and 'standing up' to #Trump.

Believe it at your peril. #FirstNations, #Climate and #environmental activists are not duped.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Canada said it would stand up to Trump. Instead, it’s taking cues from himPar Guardian staff reporter

On a tour of the #Africa Museum outside #Brussels -- one of the sites which administered the ultimate #colonial #extractivism and resonant today:

'Tshibwabwa’s masks and body costumes, assembled as ‘The Hidden Face of Coltan’, are a parody of early modern plate armour. Their martial character reminds us that the coltan in our phones is a blood mineral, which fuels the wars in the eastern DRC. As visitors reach for their phones to post photos of Tonga, the mask looks back sceptically.'
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'Tervuren was conceived as a showcase for the splendours of Leopold’s vast annex in Africa, but by the 1900s an international movement for ‘Congo reform’ was spreading word of European atrocities, especially those committed against the families of rubber tappers who fell short of their quotas.'
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'But Congolese researchers who would like to explore the archives for themselves … are held back from entry to the EU by stringent visa regimes. Digitisation … remains a slow project. How can a museum be decolonised if the descendants of colonised Congolese can’t gain access to its archives?’

#Congo

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/je

London Review of Books · Jeremy Harding · Paths to Restitution: Leopold’s LegacyThe Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo became the Royal Museum of Central Africa after Brussels choked back its fury and...

Then: Plundering and polluting for profit on stolen land regardless of the human, social and environmental consequences.
Nowadays: BloodyHugeProfits, FMG, Gina Mineheart, RioStinko, Woodside

abc.net.au/news/2025-06-01/gho

ABC News · Ghost towns that were once bustling gold mining, farming, railway hubsPar Gavin McGrath

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
edo.org.au/the-latest/
#environment #conservation #law #EDO #ToondahHarbour #PurlingBrookFalls #water #BottledWater #Santos #extractivism #VestedInterest

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

"The experiment begun in 1492 was accompanied by a new relationship with the world and with each other, based on the novel idea that the prosperity of human societies lay in the submission of a wild and free nature to the rational act of exploitation. From then on, the entire living world was put to work, and in this first planetary empire, people, plants and animals became commodities circulating from one corner of the hemisphere to the other."

wrote Sylvie Laurent in her book "Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne"

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