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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 13h

For the Monday morning crowd! I wrote about DTF St Louis and the wonderfully strange TV Steven Conrad has made over the years (Patriot! Perpetual Grace LTD!), and why all that textual idiosyncrasy hits so good right now lareviewofbooks.org/article/dtf-...

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Nonpredictive Texts | Los Angeles Review of Books

Exploring ‘DTF St. Louis’ and the anti-algorithmic worlds of Steven Conrad.

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 14h

This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 16h

Today, the Supreme Court will begin the fall session by hearing the case about climate accountability and if localities can sue Big Oil. It’s the first case and begins at 10am ET. Streaming should be here: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hypocrisy is a virtue to fascists.

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GovTrack.us @govtrack.us · 02/10/2026

The bill name specifies Flock, but the text covers automated license plate readers regardless of brand.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026

When you compare how much right-wing funding is going into their version of the humanities in higher ed ("civil discourse," "civic thought," "intellectual freedom") vs how little public or private funding there is for peer-reviewed humanities scholarship & teaching, it really makes you think.

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Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A colleague of mine has started their next PhD data collection on climate action. Consider taking part and/or sharing! Also available in German and Dutch! aice.uva.nl/research/res...

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Resilient Activism - Amsterdam Interdisciplinary Centre for Emotion (AICE)

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026

Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Corporate libertarian donors worked to capture US universities. Donor networks bypassed faculty oversight. Federal funding weaponized after corporate capture. Climate research targeted bc threatens fossil fuel. Faculty collective action critical counterforce. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But I need to smile more.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The visions that SV techbros have for is honestly so dark, so bleak, so isolated and isolating; one where any and all community and connection is pushed aside in this perverse forceful push to transcend our bodies, born of their terror of disability and death. These people decide our futures, my god

itself. Our physical bodies would be discarded, and in their place would rise robotic übermenschen. Our minds, so tragically prone to decline as we age, would be transferred to flawless, immortal code. Machines were about to mature “from the simple devices they still are, to entities as complex as ourselves, to something transcending everything we know, in whom we can take pride when they refer to themselves as our descendants,” Moravec wrote.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 23/09/2026

Here's a listing of all the right-wing humanities academic jobs that have been advertised so far this 2026-2027 hiring season. Suffice to say, conservative investment in the university humanities is not being matched by the peer-reviewed humanities community: asheeshksi.substack.com/p/tracking-c...

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Tracking Civic Thought Hiring in the 2026-2027 Academic Job Cycle

I wanted to put together a post that tracks how right-wing civic thought programs have rapidly been taking over the academic hiring space in the humanities, especially in fields like history (mostly A...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

IPCC spokesperson: we can't tell you about the obviously inadequate conflicts of interest reviews but you can wait for the assessments themselves to come out in a couple years to judge whether the obviously conflicted senior authors had any influence on them

They said details of the review of conflict of interest declarations were confidential due to data protection legislation. “The public can judge whether relevant interests have been adequately assessed and managed [by the] assessment reports themselves, which go through robust, multistage reviews which are [publicly] documented.”

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As a long, long, long, long, long time Converse buyer, I will never buy a Converse product ever again. I am sick of the virtue signalling to racists. I see this and I see a man hanged, a white robe that could be a klansman's robe and light shaped like a KKK hat. What the actual hell!?!

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Reacher (book) kills white supremacists (fictional), but Reacher (streaming) hasn't yet despite Alan Ritchson (Reacher (streaming)) wanting to because of studio fear of white supremacists (actual, government).

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bonus content: Of course the rationalist AI doomer sex/death cult also has a porn-based connection to Jeffrey Epstein

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.

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Oregon Capital Chronicle @oregoncapitalchronicle.com · 17/09/2026

Our closest sister outlet, the @washingtonstatestandard.com, is looking for a new editor! The right person will oversee a stellar crew from Olympia to keep Washingtonians informed on what their elected officials are doing. More info: statesnewsroom.com/staff-openin...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.

News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

How EXCELLENT is this - so good to see a new anti-fossil-fuel disinfo project. I just subscribed and you should too pointsourcenews.org

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Point Source News

Tracing fossil fuel disinformation.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"snow angel" or the "angel of death," is the rare imprint left by an owl as it swooped down to catch prey

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Now that’s a lotta trees!”

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Alito and Thomas are actively working to dismantle the republic and Democrats ought to act like they know it

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/09/2026

It's official: The EPA has repealed a rule that would have directly saved thousands of lives by limiting fossil fuel emissions from power plants. Industry lobbyists successfully pushed for this repeal using surging demand from data centers as justification. The government chose AI over human lives.

EPA Finalizes Repeal of 2024 Power Plant Regulations, Delivering $300+ Billion in Savings, Proposes Repeal of All Remaining Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Power Plants

Trump EPA delivers reliable and affordable energy in the largest power sector deregulatory action in U.S. history

September 14, 2026

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the background

black and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Finally making my way through the UNEP report and surprise! It pisses me off. I'm so fucking sick of people telling us all these ideas that are terrible for humanity are "inevitable." Overshoot, AI, CCS/CDR...we could just as easily decide that energy transition and socialism are "inevitable"

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What is false and what is missing from publications about US higher education. Pithy, quotable, and correct:

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 12/09/2026

It would behoove us as a faculty to stop imagining that what those in charge do insofar as “getting out ahead” or otherwise trying to deflect criticism from the federal government is some 4D chess Machiavellian shit and simply accept it on its surface for what it is, and respond accordingly.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pause talk coming from the tech barons (which is not new, they've played this tune before) sounds to me like hedging for a shift in power after the midterms more than anything else. We should regulate them, but they should not be rehabilitated.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm glad folks keep noting the egregiously stark contrast in legal regard for GenAI companies vs Aaron Swartz

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026

lol. It turns out people have thought of this before and that's why it's now illegal

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

maybe I'm biased (by teaching climatology last semester) but it's so weird seeing people arguing about the dangers of AI in a "robots kill you, singularity!" sci-fi sense, some sort of future possible danger and not this immediate threat to our livable planet

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

This shit makes my eyes hurt like sitting under fluorescent lights too long

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Breach Collective @breachcollectiv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today, six Portland City Councilors voted down an amendment to grant community members the ability to bring legal action to enforce I Squared's franchise agreement if it's transferred from Zenith Energy. These elected officials chose to sabotage Portlanders' ability to hold polluters accountable.

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026

Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I feel so confident saying the native intelligence of this generation is not the problem. The looting & wholesale sabotage of their educational infrastructure is.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ANTHROPIC EXEC: “.. I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/09/2026

The alarms are all flashing red.

Screenshot of a thread on X by user Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) detailing his resignation from Anthropic.
The first post reads: "I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below."
The second post reads: "Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing."
The third post reads: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger."

Screenshot continuing the thread on X by Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess).
The first post reads: "A common response is 'if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?' At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk."
The second post reads: "Accepting this race and entering the 'endgame' is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company's Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available."
The third post reads: "I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Face attack have made pacing agreements between U.S. labs more viable. I don’t feel like we’re on track to prevent a global race, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on improving model capabilities."
The fourth post reads: "If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because 'it’s happening anyway' - or take this moment to call for different conditions?"

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