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!





At times like the present when more blood is again being spilled in Gaza those at a distance who wish to have some influence on events can take economic action, as was done in the past in racially segregated South Africa. Those who choose to boycott can find information at bdsmovement.net while supporters of those victimized can purchase olive oil from Palestine at the Toronto stores listed at Zatoun.com. 





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



Thanks to BlackOwned Torontoo for the 2023 Freedom Market at Fort York. At TorontotheBetter we are dedicated to a better Toronto through sharing and inclusion and events like the annual Freedom Market helps us inform more of more opportunities to diversify and distribute Toronto's wealth.
  

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









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