#capitalist extraction

A Brave New AI World The 21st century is witnessing a convergence of crises unprecedented in both scale and complexity. At the forefront is the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI), a technology whose development and deployment have become emblematic of broader shifts in global power, economic extraction, and environmental destabilization. AI’s rise is not occurring in a vacuum; it…

We came into a world already sold, the air itself was portioned, priced, and spent, our futures pawned before we had grown old— we never asked where all the winters went. Our mothers said the warming had no name, our fathers traced the shoreline, raised the wall, the elders passed their silence down like blame— we grew up learning not to ask at all. We married under skies the color of rust, had…