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Kevin Schultz

@acousticalchaos.bsky.social
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I teach physics and sustainability at a small liberal arts college and am working to close the equity gap in science at my institution

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
A THREAD on how disaster donations can be extremely harmful instead of helpful to communities experiencing a disaster. I'll be using the movie Clueless to illustrate this issue but there is also decades of disaster research about this and plenty of first-hand accounts. #GreySky
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Byron Tau @byrontau.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Another piece and great commentary by my friend @sby10.bsky.social.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 24/12/2024
This year is no different. No family gathering. No Christmas meal. No gifts from my loved ones. No visits.
truthout.org
I’ve Spent 26 Christmases in Prison, and Not One Has Been Merry
This year is no different. No family gathering. No Christmas meal. No gifts from my loved ones. No visits.
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Important new paper to add to the literature that direct action works. Maybe some big shot climate scientists that have blocked people for pointing this out will take another look.
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Combine the rapidity of deploying solar and the news I’ve been seeing on storage capacity and nuclear (fission) is becoming even less compelling.
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
A wonderful interview between two very thoughtful and intelligent people dissecting the way forward. The answer is unclear, except for the need to organize and build relationships with each other.
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Cassie Whiteside @cassiewhiteside.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Letter from a UK jail~
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‘You won’t find the real criminals here’: a Just Stop Oil activist in jail at Christmas
Protester Anna Holland says their shock at being behind bars was quickly followed by a stronger feeling of power
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Solidarity!
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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Biden's LNG studies coming tomorrow. Key findings appear to be that LNG: -- displaces more renewables than coal -- increases emissions in all scenarios -- increases wholesale energy costs by 30% -- increases pollution burdens for communities www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/c...
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‘Unfettered’ Gas Exports Would Harm U.S. Economy, Energy Secretary Warns
Jennifer Granholm said a new analysis showed that the continued pace of exports was “neither sustainable nor advisable.”
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🧪 ⚛️ 🧮 Not my paper, but from my wonderful colleague at Holy Cross, Prof. Alo Basu. This is her first-person account of finding herself back in the intro science classroom as a student, in an effort to generate new ideas for retaining STEM students www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
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camwing @camw.ing · 05/12/2024
In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.
A screenshot of PayPal's terms of service. Big wall of legalese text, which I will be pasting in below. You don't need to read it, here's the important part: 

"The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop."


Here's the whole paragraph: 

We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we’ll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 03/12/2024
In a new interdisciplinary Nature Climate Change Perspective paper, led by me, @lisgilmore and Rachael Shwom, we offer a critical perspective on #climate and social “tipping points.” 🎁: rdcu.be/d2gBC 🧵
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‘Tipping points’ confuse and can distract from urgent climate action
Nature Climate Change - The tipping points framing is widely used in climate discussions but receives mixed feedback. This Perspective critiques it for oversimplifying the complexities of natural...
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Very close to getting matching funds for a very important cause
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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
Bar chart shows the % of global fossil fuel emissions occurring in a lifetime with bars of different length for ages from 5 to 100 years. More emissions happen over a longer lifetime. During the life of an 85 year old, 90% of all  emissions happened. For someone age of 30 the rate is already 50%
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Done!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/12/2024
NEW: Formaldehyde poses a threat to public health that’s unlikely to be managed any time soon. In a new analysis, ProPublica found that no matter where you live, you’re exposed to levels of the chemical that put you at elevated risk of developing cancer. propub.li/4gjHPA5
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Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant. Little Is Being Done to Curb the Risk.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s attempts to reckon with formaldehyde have been repeatedly thwarted by the companies that rely on it. If the past is any guide, even modest steps toward reform are all but guaranteed to hit a dead end under Trump.
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
A very interesting podcast episode (with transcripts!) that looks into the recent ruling on Shell’s #climate responsibilities. The ruling appears to not be as big of a win for Shell as it has been made out to be
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This will certainly go into a few of my courses.
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Sweet potatoes are a #Thanksgiving staple. Farm workers near Merced CA start their day at 4am. While this machine digs up the sweet potatoes, it also digs up dirt and debris. Workers will spend 8 hours on their feet sorting the vegetables. It’s hard dirty work. #WeFeedYou
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Pileus Media @pileusmedia.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
When you buy #Thanksgiving wine make it a union wine. Noemi's a #UFW member & works for CK Mondavi who contributes towards her families medical, dental & vision plan. Find more products produced by workers under UFW contract @ ufw.org/ul #WeFeedYou
A worker harvesting wine grapes in a vineyard
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is how those fresh and fragrant bundled herbs like parsley get to your grocery store. Workers spend 8 hours a day on their knees harvesting this crop that is used in our #Thanksgiving stuffing. #WeFeedYou
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Beautiful. Got to love a good direct action
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Tara Houska @zhaabowekwe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“[Elites] created “wokeness” in their own image and…a fictional reality in which this patrician class fought valiantly for it & it failed because it’s…not what the people want. [But] what the people want was never…advocated for w/any leadership, consistency and conviction. The fight never started.”
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A solid list of rules for resisting.
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Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A stellar new investigation from @rebeccajohn.bsky.social has uncovered the first known time the oil industry was warned about rising CO2 from fossil fuels, 1954, incredibly via their own front group.
“the possible consequences of a changing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere with reference to climate” may “ultimately prove of considerable significance to civilization.”
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
Talking about these tactics with some famous climate folk will get you blocked in a heart beat
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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul just signed into law a bill banning captive audience meetings. As of today, bosses in NYS cannot make employees attend meetings with those high-paid consultants who come and tell you how scary unions are 👻 Go attend your union meeting instead 😉
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
If you haven’t seen this yet (I hadn’t), you really should. So much great material!
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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
Good breakdown of what's currently happening in Maui re: control of water: "Environmental groups & Native Hawaiian advocates say the landowners are using the destruction of Lahaina as an excuse to bank water they don’t need for fire safety — a continuation of plantation water hoarding."
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The Lahaina Blaze Is Rekindling An Old Debate Over Using Water To Fight Fires
Supreme Court Justices last week upbraided a lawyer who accused a lower court judge of failing to ensure there was adequate water to fight the blazes.
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
A very helpful resource!
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
A really interesting history of Black Power unionism, which was a strong response to the failures of unions to look out for minoritized workers.
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
For those creating syllabi on environmental/climate justice, we have a database centering Black, Indigenous, Asian, and/or Latinx authors! Also, if you have new articles to add to the database let me know! The lab is updating the syllabus this week. www.just-environments.org/the-sylla…
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Kevin Schultz @acousticalchaos.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
Walgreens was low-key crazy today. Random dude: "All the soda's are hot" Me: "Yeah, it seems like the coolers are actually working in reverse" RD: "Nothing wants to work anymore" Me: [Uncomfortable] "Not even the machines I guess." 1/2
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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
Fantastic thread of awesome social scientists, useful for scientists interested in multidisciplinary themes (eg environmental social justice) to follow and learn from 👇👇 🧪⚒️
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