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The Next Shocks Will Hit Wealthy Countries Hardest. Here’s Why

The notion that the Global South is affected ‘first and worst’ by global shocks they didn’t cause, namely climate change, is one of the cornerstones of leftist thought. But what if it’s not entirely true? What if, contrary to this tenet, it’s wealthy Western nations who have over-developed and lost their resilience in the process? This is the argument made by John Rapley in his latest book ‘Icarus Economics’. ​In conversation with Aaron Bastani, Rapley discusses how the West’s growth has reached certain limits, most notably those imposed by the natural world in which we are all embedded. Has a focus on the wrong kind of growth in the West reduced resilience to shocks from the natural world? Are the majority of us already in a recession, despite what GDP figures tell us? And what can the Global North learn from the Global South?


https://novaramedia.com/2026/03/01/the-next-shocks-will-hit-wealthy-countries-hardest-heres-why/
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Retro computing fans, there are Mastodon apps for many classic systems:

:apple_old_logo: Apple II
colino.net/wordpress/mastodon-

:apple_old_logo: Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X)
github.com/smallsco/macstodon

:commodore: Commodore 64
github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon

:amiga: Commodore Amiga
github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon

:ms_dos: MS-DOS
github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

:IBM: MVS
github.com/mainframed/BREXXTOD

:Palm_OS: Palm OS
github.com/knickish/heffalump

:windows95: Windows 95
github.com/meyskens/mastodon-f
github.com/sdomi/awsom

#RetroComputing

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Greens THRASH Labour and Reform in HISTORIC By-Election Win

Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton by-election by more than 4000 votes, with Labour coming in third behind Reform.

Plus: Why the mainstream media are repeating claims of “sectarian campaigning” and “family voting”.

With Michael Walker & Aaron Bastani.


https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/27/greens-thrash-labour-and-reform-in-historic-by-election-win/
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@kde@floss.social
The logo of the "Keep Android Open" campaign is an Android robot dressed as Darth Vader. Across the top it says "I AM ALTERING THE DEAL" in all caps, and below the robot it says "Pray I don't alter it further". This is a reference to how Android acquired a massive catalog of apps be making access open to the platform back in the day, and Google assuring it would remain open, as opposed to the iOS platform which was (and still is) very restricted. And, of course, Star Wars.

KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

keepandroidopen.org/

Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.

KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen.

keepandroidopen.org/open-lette

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