It’s Revolution or DeathPart 3: Reclaiming the World Wherever We Stand

The third and final installment of the series seeks to bring the lessons learned in the first two episodes home. This segment features an interview with Peter Gelderloos in which he describes his experience working to build transformative infrastructure in Catalunya.

Not all of us are so lucky to live near a large and organized movement like those described in part two, and that’s ok. For us to be truly organized as a global community, we need do work wherever we are. As Neto reminds us in part two, “We need to start from where we’re standing and from a reality that we recognize.” There are no answers, only strategies. This video seeks to provide guidance to anarchists just getting started organizing around the climate crisis. Different strategies work in different locales, social conditions and contexts.

Peter shares three urgent suggestions for those looking to organize around these issues:

Urgent Suggestion #1: A complete and Total Rejection of All the Institutions Responsible for This Disaster

Relying on those responsible for this crisis to save us is the worst thing we can do. It’s time to act collectively outside of the state and capital’s stranglehold over our lives to try to carve out spaces and networks that will give us the best possible chances of survival. Relying on nonprofits, elections, or authoritarian left movements has failed time and time again. We cannot afford to continue to misplace our trust in institutions that will not save us.

Urgent Suggestion #2: Pick a Project of Transformative Survival

The hour is seriously late. The sooner we get involved in organizing for survival, the better. If people in the territories you reside in are already working towards similar goals, it may be better to join them than to try and build a movement from the ground up. Sometimes we need to create new projects where there is a need for them and people willing to get them going. Building our collective autonomy may not appear to be directly related to our chances at surviving the climate crises, but it is! Any time we build our collective power outside of the state and capital we build power that is combative to the institutions that created this disaster, and that gives us the means to survive it.

Urgent Suggestion #3: Connect your project to a revolutionary web of solidarity

The climate crisis is a worldwide issue. We need to have a global response. Networks of people organizing around these issues exist all over around the world. We need to build an international web of solidarity and the more connections a web has, the stronger it will be.

Mark Boyle: The Butlerian Jihad

Over pints of Guinness in Mark Boyle’s self-built off-grid cabin, we discuss technological creep, FOMO, FOBI, living without money or electricity, screen life versus intimacy, and precisely where we sit on the Uncle Ted Spectrum.

Paul Kingsnorth’s book ‘Against the Machine’ is published on 23rd September 2025. Pre-order details and special offers here: https://www.paulkingsnorth.net/agains…

More on Mark’s books can be found here: / 903838.mark_boyle

‘Astounding:’ Alaska researchers make alarming discovery in Arctic rivers

‘No place is spared’

According to a September 2025 research paper, an iconic Arctic watershed in Alaska’s Brooks Range has recently turned a dark, murky orange color, alarming scientists throughout California and Alaska. Taylor Rhoades
According to a September 2025 research paper, an iconic Arctic watershed in Alaska’s Brooks Range has recently turned a dark, murky orange color, alarming scientists throughout California and Alaska.
Taylor Rhoades

When John McPhee and his ragtag crew first kayaked into the pristine Alaskan wilderness in 1975, they were awestruck.

The author, who chronicled his reconnaissance trip in the literary classic “Coming into the Country,” was surrounded by an abundance of untouched flora and fauna. Beneath them, Arctic grayling, chum salmon and Dolly Varden swam in “the clearest, purest water” they had ever seen.

LINK: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/pristine-arctic-rivers-orange-scientists-worried-21039210.php

Karen Hao on AI tech bosses: ‘Many choose not to have children because they don’t think the world is going to be around much longer’

The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good

Karen Hao on AI tech bosses: ‘Many choose not to have children because they don’t think the world is going to be around much longer’
Author Karen Hao’s book tells the story of OpenAI and the company’s founder Sam Altman. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

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Zombie Time

Zombie Time Modern day addictions — drugs and screens

Modern day addictions — drugs and screens

Many people seem to be mesmerized by small, portable screens and can’t take their eyes from them for long. Yesterday, in less than a two-block radius from where I live, I saw three bodies, still breathing, but pretty obvious ODs. Out cold, each missing a shoe, lying in the street.

LINK: https://eugeneweekly.com/2025/08/07/zombie-time/

Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind

“OpenAI is currently sitting on both sides of the table in a closed boardroom, making a deal on humanity’s behalf…”

Image by Chip Somodevilla via Getty / Futurism
Image by Chip Somodevilla via Getty / Futurism

In a scathing open letter, luminaries from the AI industry and beyond are calling on OpenAI to prove that it hasn’t betrayed humanity in favor of profits.

LINK: https://futurism.com/openai-open-letter-experts-humankind

Mexico makes biometric identifier mandatory for all citizens

Mexico makes biometric identifier mandatory for all citizens

Mexico has officially introduced a digital identification system by signing a law that turned the previously optional biometric-based citizen code into a mandatory document for all citizens.

Last month, legislators approved amendments to a law related to the 18-character personal identifier, known as Unique Population Registry Code (Clave Única de Registro de Población – CURP), with the change formalized on Wednesday through a decree.

The mandatory CURP will contain personal and biometric information, including a photograph and a QR code containing biometric fingerprint and iris data. The identifier is expected to be introduced gradually to all Mexicans by February 2026.

The government has also allowed the consolidation of the citizen codes into a single identity platform that will be connected to other state databases and administrative records. According to the decree, the Ministry of the Interior and the Digital Transformation Agency must create a Unified Identity Platform within 90 days, while public and private institutions will be required to update their system to recognize the identifier.

The country also plans to kick-start a national program to collect biometric data from children and adolescents within 120 days, according to news outlet Mexico Business.

READ MORE: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202507/mexico-makes-biometric-identifier-mandatory-for-all-citizens

Is AI Apocalypse Inevitable? – Tristan Harris

In this episode, Tristan Harris explores the 2 most probable paths that AI will follow, one leading to chaos and the other to dystopia. He explains how we can pursue a narrow path between these 2 undesirable outcomes. Tristan Harris is a prominent technology ethicist known for his influential critique of the attention economy and persuasive design in tech. Tristan is Co-Founder of the Center for Humane Technology (CHT), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to align technology with humanity’s best interests. He regularly briefs heads of state, technology CEOs, and US Congress members, in addition to mobilizing millions of people around the world through mainstream media. Tristan has explored the influences that hijack human attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs, from his childhood as a magician to his coursework in Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab to his leadership as a Design Ethicist at Google. Today, he studies how major technology platforms wield dangerous power over our ability to make sense of the world and leads the call for systemic change. In 2020, Tristan was featured in the two-time Emmy-winning Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma. The film unveiled how social media is dangerously reprogramming our brains and human civilization. It reached over 100 million people in 190 countries across 30 languages. As a co-host of the top-rated technology podcast, Your Undivided Attention, he explores the drivers behind social media’s race for attention, its destabilization of society, and potential solutions. Learn more about Tristan’s research at https://www.humanetech.com/