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Irish trad musician higher-ed IT director author of @www.irishtune.info orcid.org/0009-0009-7746-8502 climate crisis is priority #1

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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 18/08/2026
I can get behind this new formal definition: “Conservation is a practice informed by the best evidence-based science and place-based knowledge whose outcomes protect and restore the natural environment [...] for current and future generations of all life.” scbnorthamerica.org/index.php/sc...
scbnorthamerica.org
SCBNA’s Definition of “Conservation” – Society for Conservation Biology North America
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 10/08/2026
"Nine of the top 10 academic institutions globally are now Chinese; five years ago, eight of the top 10 were American." Explained too mildly: "There’s also a seeming difference in dynamics between China and the U.S. with their respective universities" - funding for science and higher-ed, anyone?
fortune.com
Forget DeepSeek. China's real ‘Sputnik moment’ is happening on campus as American universities lose their advantage | Fortune
China's tech rise runs deeper than any single breakthrough. Its universities generate critical technology patents at 8x the U.S. rate
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 01/08/2026
@keldaroys.bsky.social gets me with: "Conservation, efficiency, and managing demand are key [...] because the cheapest kilowatt is the one we never use." www.keldaroys.com/energy
keldaroys.com
Energy — Kelda Roys for Governor
Proven Democratic leader for Wisconsin.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 15/07/2026
Reflecting on www.wemustactnow.ai I modestly propose presenting to an eventual, potentially threatening superhuman AI that we have a common enemy to unite us: climate change.
wemustactnow.ai
We Must Act Now
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 09/07/2026
This is a concise, science-informed thought piece worth amplifying here. The most actionable recommendation is: "Recognize that AI may be best used for institutional support work, not classroom instruction."
brookings.edu
Will AI in education succeed? | Brookings
Brad Olsen and Jobin Thomas argue that EdTech is a tool, not a standalone solution, and it needs a proper support system to succeed.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 19/03/2026
Super interesting international comparison of attitudes towards #AI. What patterns/conclusions do you all get from this data? #GlobalAI #AIEthics
pewresearch.org
How do people around the world feel about the rise of AI in daily life? | Pew Research Center
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 24/02/2026
You mean X, lol.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 07/12/2025
Thanks for stating the obvious, BBC, since US media is afraid of its own totalitarian government.
bbc.com
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 04/11/2025
If we don’t fix the climate, pollution, and nature crises, we can’t fix anything. They are already actively amplifying poverty, hunger, and division. They are what stand between all of us, regardless of geography or ideology, and the better future we all seek. That's why I'm convinced that ...
A slide from my presentations that I often use, showing dozens of faces and reading "To care about climate change you don't have to be a certain type of person, you just have to be human."
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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The window to act on climate is rapidly closing. Our new 2025 State of the Climate report is just out. Read the full report here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... @michaelemann.bsky.social @dwallacewells.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @ecowarriorss.bsky.social
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 23/10/2025
Trumponomics really going for the superlatives.
apnews.com
US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic
The U.S. government's gross national debt has surpassed $38 trillion during the federal shutdown, marking a record high.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 20/10/2025
Hypothesis: that many MAGA supporters and ICE recruits are Marvel superhero fans and it hasn't occurred to them that they are playing the role of the bad guys in the Marvel universe.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 17/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Madison WI” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
mobilize.us
NO KINGS Madison WI · No Kings
**On October 18, we’ll gather in Madison WI to remind President Trump and his enablers: America has No Kings!** **Gather for march** 🕑 **When**: 2:00pm 📍 **Where**: McPike Park, 202 S. Ingersoll St....
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 07/10/2025
Ireland sure has a better vision for the future.
journalofmusic.com
Basic Income for the Arts Public Survey Shows 97% Support for Making it Permanent
47% of respondents thought selection should be based on economic need, while 38% said artistic record.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 01/10/2025
“Undermining whistleblower protections is a hallmark of authoritarian systems and a direct threat to checks and balances”
nextgov.com
Government watchdog websites go dark as OMB withholds funds from IG committee
The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency is funded largely through a no-year revolving account, rather than the regular appropriations that lapsed Oct. 1.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 14/09/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Madison WI” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
mobilize.us
NO KINGS Madison WI · No Kings
The folks who brought you No Kings in June are excited to be planning the next No Kings on Oct. 18. We're just getting started, but you can count on Madison to show up again to fight the Trump regime....
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 10/09/2025
Here's a metric documenting that the "cuts" the Trumpists make are about taxpayer money going more to the 1% and less to the rest of us www.nextgov.com/policy/2025/...
nextgov.com
Government pacing toward increased IT contract spending despite DOGE cuts
A new administration and new priorities haven’t slowed the federal government’s spend on IT.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 08/09/2025
Whether this positive-messaging approach is appropriate depends on your perspective of whether the bad guys already have existential control of society or not. No? This works. Yes? This is bland self-censorship on display and instead we need satire and story-telling of harm done.
chronicle.com
It’s Not a ‘Mutual-Defense Compact.’ But a New Ad From 18 Universities Aims to Send a Message.
The Big Ten’s member institutions have collaborated on a 30-second TV spot that will air during conference football games and other sporting events.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/08/2025
Status of the most recent monthly-averaged greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Observations provided by gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
Graphic shows three line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance in ppm (blue line), monthly methane abundance in ppb (red line), and monthly nitrous oxide in ppb (purple line). Graphs are all shown from January 1984 through July 2025/April 2025. Current levels of CO2 are 428 ppm. Current levels of methane are 1935 ppb. Current levels of nitrous oxide are 339 ppb. All graphs show long-term increasing trends along with some interannual variability and seasonality.
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Rob McEntarffer @rmcenta.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Amazing conversation between two thoughtful, wise, admirable people. Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @petebuttigieg.bsky.social petebuttigieg.substack.com/p/my-convers...
petebuttigieg.substack.com
My Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson
On the urgent need to defend democracy, rebuild a government that works for more Americans, and find historical context for the challenges we face today.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 05/06/2025
Worth amplifying for #theresistance
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu
How Science Can Fix Its Trust Problem
Americans’ confidence in science has slipped to its lowest point in almost half a century, write neuroscientists Michael Platt and Cory Miller.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 03/05/2025
German govt response to Rubio whining about labeling fascist parties as such: "This is democracy. [...] It is independent courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped"
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 01/05/2025
From Hayhoe's latest post: "[A] study surveyed 130,000 people in 125 countries around the world. Researchers found that 89% of people want more political action to fight climate change. [...] But here’s the surprising part: most of them think they’re in the minority." So talk about it!
talkingclimate.ca
Break the climate silence!
Pakistan scales up solar, the world loses a climate champion, and conversations spark action
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 07/04/2025
Add BP to your total-boycott and divestment list immediately.
fortune.com
BP CEO talks ‘reset’ toward oil, gas after it ‘chased too much’ for transition
The Global 500 energy giant is selling stakes in its wind and solar businesses while upping the ante on oil and gas production in the U.S. and the Middle East.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 05/04/2025
My sign at the rally today is a reference to 170 years of #Wisconsin history, summarized well at wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Arti... "Freethinkers in Wisconsin." Any Wisconsinite with German history proud of their heritage must rise up against Trumpism and the MAGAts.
handwritten sign on brown paper saying "Wisconsin = Free Thinkers not Fascists"
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 05/04/2025
Nice comparisons from HCR: "Consumers give Trump’s economic plan the worst ratings of any administration’s economic policy since records began. He has had the same impact on economic uncertainty as the global coronavirus pandemic did."
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 02/04/2025
"Crawford’s margins were higher in places where the Musk-backed group America PAC had been active." To wit: GTFO of Wisconsin, you fascist brownshirts.
apnews.com
Democrats' win in Wisconsin court race also is a big loss for Elon Musk
The billionaire supporter of President Donald Trump and his affiliated groups spent more than $21 million supporting the conservative in the race in hopes of breaking liberals' 4-3 majority on the cou...
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 31/03/2025
Get updates at handsoff2025.com and join #theresistance
handsoff2025.com
Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 30/03/2025
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are taking everything they can get their hands on — including our public lands — and daring the world to stop them. It's time to fight back. We need every person we can get to take to the streets and rally in opposition on April 5. REPOST TO SPREAD THE WORD! #HandsOff
handsoff2025.com
Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the…
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Beren682 @beren682.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Let’s be real: everyone in this administration already lied under oath during their confirmation hearings.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 23/03/2025
A timely song again, written by Peggy Seeger and Ewan McColl 50 years ago, and reapplied around the world many times since then. If anything the current US situation is worse than the song's warning, but anyone not working for #theresistance is still guilty as charged here.
troubleinthekitchen.bandcamp.com
Song of Choice, by Trouble in the Kitchen
from the album the Score
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 20/03/2025
"You’re going to need an alliance [...] Don’t mince words. It’s too late to play nice. Call a spade a spade. Convince enough Americans that the administration’s strategy deserves only one name: vandalism."
chronicle.com
How a University Fights an Authoritarian Regime
Viktor Orbán came for me. Donald Trump is coming for you. Here’s what to do.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 18/03/2025
The more crucial for long-term national security, the more likely to get axed by these vandals. Science, cybersecurity, military alliances, a diverse and inclusive workforce, economic stability ... all those pesky barriers to near-term profits for the oligarchs.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 15/03/2025
Found the name of the crime the Trump administration is committing. "Seditious conspiracy" as defined by Congress: "conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States" #changemymind
uscode.house.gov
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 06/03/2025
"An overarching goal is to determine conclusively if CSS [cell-site simulators] are used to surveil free expression such as protests or religious gatherings, and if so, how often it’s occurring."
eff.org
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS...
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 06/03/2025
Does repeated calling of congressional reps matter at this point, and why? Does calling Republican reps matter (other than those up for near-term elections), and why?
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 02/03/2025
When I also see investigations of reporters for possible bias *for* the Trump administration then I might not see this as classic totalitarian state tactics.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 02/03/2025
"18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated. When former Tesla engineer Thomas Shedd took the position of TTS director and met with TTS including 18F on February 3, 2025, he acknowledged that the group is the “gold standard” of civic technologists."
18f.org
18F: We are dedicated to the American public and we're not done yet
For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving the American people to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed ...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Norwegian firm Haltbakk Bunkers announced it will stop providing fuel to all US forces in Norway: "No Fuel to Americans! We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example. SLAVA UKRAINA" #3E #StandWithUkraine
A US submarine emerges from the ocean, highlighted by a clear blue sky and calm waters, symbolizing a recent fuel supply dispute.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Papers worldwide condemn Trump, in addition Trump has lost the Daily Mail. When you lose the Daily Mail you are a global pariah. “Trump on Friday presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history.” "A spectacle to horrify the world"
global newspaper headings
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 28/02/2025
Individual consumer decisions have consequences at scale. Join the #theresistance by mindfully using your money. Like not using it tomorrow at all.
finance.yahoo.com
Tesla stock sinks as Europe sales tank on rival offerings, Musk blowback
Tesla's (TSLA) demand woes are picking up in Europe, with sales dropping a precipitous 45% in January.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 27/02/2025
I'm glad an establishment news outlet is covering this. Think of this particular Friday as just the first practice run of many to come, bigger and bigger, until the fascist oligarchy hears American citizens in the only language they understand (force and power). Join #theresistance this Friday.
cbsnews.com
Talk of a "Feb 28 Economic Blackout" is spreading on social media. What is it?
A grassroots effort is asking American consumers to refrain from making purchases at major retailers for one day in February.
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Secretoriginz @secretoriginz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
@aoc.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @sifill.bsky.social
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Alan Ng @alan-ng.net · 26/02/2025
Found the lyrics to compensate for my musical hearing habits: genius.com/Roberta-flac... and yes indeed, a timely song.
genius.com
Roberta Flack – Compared to What
[Verse 1] / Said I love the lie, lie the love / Hangin' on with a push and shove / Possession is the motivation / Hangin' up the whole damn nation / Looks like we always end up in
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 26/02/2025
The Environmental Protection Agency is no longer in the business of protecting the environment or public health
washingtonpost.com
EPA tells White House to strike down landmark climate finding
The Trump administration is weighing whether to repeal the “endangerment finding,” which states that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare.
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