Friday 19 January 2024
Brazil: Football, Coffee, Inequality
Brazil is huge and known worldwide for football/aka soccer. . It is also the world’s major coffee producer and one of the most unequal countries in the world with thousands working in poor conditions to.produce leisure consumables for the better-off. Want to do something about it? Contact corporate critic SOMO - info@sSOMO.nl. To learn more about Inequality in Brazil visit Oxfam.org
Saturday 13 January 2024
2024 Environmentalism in a nutshell/ nickel mine
From Power Nickel’s recent marketing campaign: “ we need 72 new nickel mines to meet projected 2040 EV demand. That’s great news for Power Nickel”. And for Canada’s fossil fuel targets? Maybe not so. No need to explain the dilemma that clearly does not exist for some companies…
Monday 4 December 2023
Enough Gaza bloodshed!
Friday 13 October 2023
Beyond bloodshed and dvision
At a time when the world is again riven with prejudice and its blood brother injustice it is more important than ever to work for openness, equality and preservation of our natiral world. TorontotheBetter calls on all to renew our justice campaign with whatever economic and communicattions weapons we have. We also servc to struggle for a better world who buy or donate.
TorontotheBetter hanks BlackOwnedToronto and welcomes Freedom Market enterprises
Wednesday 27 September 2023
AI: good and bad
Media have recently been full of the laetest news about artificial humanoid capacities like natural (better called natural seeming) language.Yes AI can do some things like humans and sometimes bettter than. But there is a social upside to the dangers: if machines canb do it there is nothing so remarkable about human intellectual skills which have often been the basis for aggression and injusstice. These skills can be analysed and programmed in to "dead" matter.If machines can do it, psople shouldn't be so superior about it. So, surprise, surprise, AI can make us more humble and contribute to a world based on human humility and solidarity.
Social media challenge state powers but the Better can still prevail on the Web
Generating revenue when each of the potential billion clicks could generate at least $1 in advertising revenue is not so difficult. The result is that unaccoutable actors like Meta (formerly Facebook) generate enotmous wealth and the assocaited power to challenge increasingly anxious mid-sized economies like Canada's,. For anybody to pose this as a choice between "meta" and the availability of news about Canada plays in to the ambitions of entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg (who never outgrew his bigger is better adolescence).That good things can and do happpen on Facebook should remind us that progressive values can domesticate the Web just as well as bad actors. After all, that was the original vision of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.Time for progressive actors to take back the Web as nature's instrument for acatching bothersome insects. Check this link for late World Widw Web news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay7GSLX9tHM