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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 8h

You have to not anguish about ethical uses of an unethical product. This is DDT. It’s poison, the people selling it know it and are pushing back hard against people trying to call it what it is. We did that, though.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 8h

“We can’t stop AI! We can’t stop progress!” My dudes, ladies, and genderqueer buddies: we have stopped using a lot of things. Especially shitty things that harm us. Remember how station wagons had backwards facing seats until they realized that’s begging for injuries in an accident?

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 8h

Oh no, we can’t uninvent the backwards seat oh wait we did. Anybody still using hairspray that kills the ozone layer? Incandescent bulbs? Anybody laying down a sweet layer of DDT? My mom remembers kids chasing the DDT spraying trucks. You still doing that?

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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 8h

Victorianists! The CFP for NVSA 2027 on “Trash” has been extended one week to Thursday, October 22! Please share and submit!!

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 6h

"Men can generally be bad dept citizens as long as their research is valued, but women can’t." "Meritocracy is really just a way [to support] the status quo of a dominant white, male envrnmnt…I thought that if I worked hard enough, my work wld be recognized. But [that's] not how the system works."

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Devaluation underlies gendered US faculty departures across disciplines and institutions

Abstract. Women faculty experience academia differently from men in many ways, which can lead them to consider leaving their positions. Using a large-scale

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Katie Spoon @kspoon.bsky.social · 10h

Although formal DEI practices and programs in the US have largely been dismantled, your interactions with your colleagues still matter, and our paper suggests they may matter a lot more than you may think.

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Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social · 7h

Our research doesn’t involve purchasing data sets. ;) Seriously though humanities research takes forever and articles are almost always single-authored. I don’t find it surprising at all.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 13h

My doctor asked me if I minded his use of AI to summarize summary my appt yesterday, so first I told him why I mind and then I consented because I wanted to see the summary it generated. It listed a medication I don't take and have never taken on my list of current meds, so here we are.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11h

London Reform councillor Dean Miller 'claimed King Charles was Muslim' and called black children ‘animals’, TV report alleges.. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

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London Reform councillor 'claimed King was a Muslim'

Bromley councillor Dean Miller has resigned from Reform UK, according to the party

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 13h

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

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Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social · 16h

We could all use a little hope right now, amirite? Join the Climate Justice Universities Union North American branch THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 9-10am PT/12-1pm ET for a session on Climate GE Success Stories! climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/climate-ge-s... ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Climate GE Success Stories: this coming Friday, Oct 16 at 12 pm Eastern Time!

Dear colleagues, CJUU's North American branch invites EVERYONE to join us Friday Oct 16 for a ground-breaking one-hour flash panel discussing pathways to campus-wide climate literacy requirements ("cl...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"A 2025 study proposed combining rice husk ash, wood ash and rice straw to make a low-cost, carbon-negative material that could eliminate the need for cement [which accounts for ~1/12 of global emissions]."

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 12/10/2026

"The spike in arrests here has happened with such little fanfare that people from other parts of Pennsylvania are stunned when their immigrant neighbors are arrested and detained on a long-distance trip that passed through York County and its police checkpoints."

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Dirty brown water flows to Oulujoki river from the 330 hectare forest clear-cuts in Google’s data centre construction site. Nothing unusual in Finland, but I hope we get a little upset now when it is done by a foreign tech giant. #Google #DataCentres www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/a/11...

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Kirkasvetisessä purossa Muhoksella virtaa nyt Googlen työmaan kura: ”Homma on ikään kuin leviämässä käsistä”

Talouselämä vieraili Muhoksella katsomassa datakeskustyömaata, jonka ympärillä metsässä virtaa Googlen kura. Samalla löytyi myös harmistunut kunnanjohtaja, villinä pyörivä huhumylly, hämmentyneitä kun...

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Shocking abuse of power from a fascist regime flailing in the lead up to an electoral wipeout. Accountability can't come soon enough.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

To start with, this is happening because the president has targeted a member of Congress as part of a broader explicitly racist hate campaign against Americans of a particular ethnic origin. There's no other way to put it.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Cracking @drilledmedia.bsky.social read from @roycerk2.bsky.social on @commsdeclare.bsky.social report, From Cradle to Career, which maps Australian Oil, Gas & Coal companies' multimillion dollar, decades-long efforts to shape what kids learn about the fossil fuel industry & climate change

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026

If you are wondering why Anthropic aren't coming out and opposing statements like this, it's because they very genuinely do not care about climate responsibility and will burn absolutely whatever they can get their hands on to keep the grift going. www.capitalbrief.com/article/anth...

Anthropic’s $32b Queensland data centre to run on coal and gas power until renewables are built

I frontier lab Anthropic’s first Australian data centre at Zerra DC’s proposed $32 billion project in regional Queensland will be powered by coal and gas as a bridge until renewables to support the facility are built.

Wambo Cattle Company managing director Max Winders, the owner of the land Zerra plans to build on, told Capital Brief he expects fossil fuels to power the massive project for the foreseeable future.

“I think we’ll be using fossil fuels for quite a long time in Queensland, anyhow, certainly enough to be able to get the power to drive the data centres,” he said.

Winders said that he believed that the concessions Queensland Premier David Crisafulli negotiated “at National Cabinet was critical” for ensuring the Western Downs development has the best chance of being built.

“In all likelihood, they’ll just link up to the grid, sign a contract with the state energy provider, and then, likely draw the power from the coal plants that are already there.”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

David Brooks pearl-clutching over John Ossoff calling a white nationalist a “white nationalist,” as if the problem with violent white nationalism is people objecting to it, illustrates this point as well as humanly possible.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Got asked this all over again in February, replied: We are facing such horrific brutality. Politeness is not really the problem. I think we got into this situation in part by a lot of people in the mainstream thinking it was more important to be polite than to call things by their true names.

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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

The writer and activist on how political change happens and taking the long view.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?

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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway

When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …

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Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Join us at the Climate Justice Universities Union! Climate Literacy Requirement ("Climate GE") Success Stories with University of California-San Diego's Adam Aron, University of California-Davis's Mark Huising, and San Francisco State University's Autumn Thoyre FRI OCT 16, 9-10am PT/12-1pm ET

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Upcoming Events * Climate Literacy Requirement ("Climate GE") Success Stories – Fri 16 Oct – with University of California, San Diego's Adam Aron, University of California, Davis's Mark Huising, and...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"The counseling office checks graduation requirements. Wash U has been working to get software to do the same job. System cost the school $99M to implement. At that price, the school could have hired 20 work-study students for well over a century." globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...

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College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators

Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Texas is using LLMs to cancel university courses—and the bot made shit up, because THAT IS WHAT THEY DO

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

But the reason cars are easier and faster is not because cars are INHERENTLY easier and faster as a form of transportation. It is because we have built this place for cars. We can unbuild it, and step ONE in unbuilding it is imagining hard infrastructure that you can build around.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

Here is my pitch for anyone who has worries about rail: I think that building out rail is a necessary (but not sufficient) step in transforming American cities from totally car dependent to slightly walkable, in a way that no other form of transit is.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

#Sufficiency is clean, affordable infrastructure for all so that the lower-income people are not forced to burn, and the elite status competes on other 'merits' than energy and material overconsumption. The best motivation for behaviour change is where you belong physically and socially.

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Dr Martin Walsh FRHistS @tmartinwalsh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Delighted to be part of this publication. I really enjoyed working on this article with @caitbeaumont.bsky.social @susiedeedigan.bsky.social The article seeks to reappraise Anglo-Irish relationships in the twentieth century through female activism.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights

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Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA

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Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anyone talking about new rules for being nice to the software, please read this ⬇️

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I will point out, however, that serious scientists are cautious with their claims. Furthermore, as we wrote in 2021 (in "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?🦜"), p.616: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... >>

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This can seem counter-intuitive given the
increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we
have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language
text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own
linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether
or not they do [89, 140].

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it.

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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Help us make this a turning point! The European Parliament is getting ready to vote on the Pesticide Omnibus. We have a few weeks to make sure our representatives in the European Parliament choose our health over the industry’s profits. Help us put pressure on them with a few simple clicks ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Say no to forever pesticides, reject the omnibus project!

The European Commission wants to loosen our protections against pesticides, putting people and nature at serious risk. Under their proposal, most pesticides would receive lifetime approval, ending the...

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Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just when you think you can’t be shocked…they shock you. And that’s clearly the point.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A sign of things to come the next 8+ months, I bet: NOAA said "Record-high temperatures encompassed 16.7% of the Earth’s land and ocean surfaces—the largest spatial footprint for any month since records began in January 1951. This value surpassed the previous record of 14.2%, set back in May 2024."

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September 2026: 2nd-hottest September for Earth, hottest for the U.S. » Yale Climate Connections

Record-high temperatures in September encompassed the largest area of the globe for any month since records began.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

and ossoff isnt an innocent in this. he's done some really stupid bipartisan stuff. but it is refreshing to hear from a democrat: this man is bad. he supports bad things. he must be stopped. this is unambigous. it should be the bog standard for the party. but they have not done it.

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