In September 2024, banks from the US to Asia signed a joint declaration regarding their support for the construction of nuclear power plants. The signatories included Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, …
The live extension of the machine
Russian biotechnologists are proud because (they claim that) they achieved something unique so far: they connected the brain of a laboratory mouse with an “artificial intelligence” device, forcing the rodent …
the defense of nature: resisting the financialization of the Earth
The following text can be read as a continuation of the one titled “life at the butcher’s counter“. With a different focus, they show the same thing: how the so-called …
Recruitment of everything
… We want the family of the Greek soldier to have the best protection. This means kindergarten for his child, special school with children with special needs. Let me give …
engineering of everything: artificial wombs, super babies…
In a historical era when capitalist norms are expanding, sometimes “consensually” and sometimes violently, to control natural and social reproduction, with biotechnologies and governance in all their combinations, it would …
Scissors in the drawer
It has been hailed as the “elixir of life” for genetic engineering. It is touted as the “ultimate surgery” on a cellular scale. It is the legendary CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing method, …
the eugenic dystopia of “artificial intelligence”
A few days ago, a relatively small Chinese company announced a new “large language model” (the official technical term for what is commonly referred to as “artificial intelligence”), which overturned …
Cop with a low center of gravity
If you think that this tractor-like-rubber object among the (Chinese) policemen has been arrested, you are mistaken. It is their newest tech-colleague! The police robot (built by Zhejiang University) was …
life at the butcher’s counter
After years of confrontations and interstate disagreements, the majority of member states of the “assembly” of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (Convention on Biodiversity / COB) adopted [last November] …
Hunting cloned sheep and other postmodern biotechnological absurdities
Sheep have been domesticated for about 12,000 years. Sheep have also been cloned since 1996 – Dolly was the first mammal to undergo this procedure. But this news appeared in …
the devil’s deal: usa, japan and biological warfare weapons
The Soviet Union had publicized the fact that Japan’s microbial warfare unit in World War II, Unit 731, had used American prisoners of war as experimental subjects. But the United …
Symmetrical life
Those who worship modern technology, the most capitalist kind, will increasingly struggle to keep up with it; yet they will only consume its dust. One of the most recent “achievements” …
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