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Dr. Arthur R. Obst @arthurobst.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For any Chicago area followers… come check out this Climate Action Museum event on environmental ethics! Should be a great discussion. More info: givebutter.com/environmenta...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

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Because we get asked a lot. by @PalantirTech(Palantir) | Twitter Thread Reader

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affir...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Dr. Arthur R. Obst @arthurobst.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Another publication! Steve Gardiner and I wrote a paper defending his 2018 “Tollgate Principles” (proposed with Augustin Fragnière). In our latest piece, “Beware the Toll Dodgers,” we clarify the point of governance principles and respond to some objections. Check it out: doi.org/10.1007/s105...

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Beware the Toll Dodgers: defending the Tollgate Principles for governing solar geoengineering - Climatic Change

Climatic Change - The Tollgate Principles (‘TGPs’) aim to represent ‘the price that must be paid’ by anyone claiming to be ethically serious about pursuing solar...

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C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

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Dr. Arthur R. Obst @arthurobst.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I had the pleasure of reviewing Roy Scranton's Impasse for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Within, I discuss the concept of civilizational impasse, the possibility of a politics without progress, and the alleged virtues of pessimism. Check it out here: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/impa...

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Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress

In the decade since publishing Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, witnessing the steady march of rising global carbon emissions only disrupted te...

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Dr. Arthur R. Obst @arthurobst.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I welcome the new year with a new publication in the journal Climatic Change! I ask: What would Aldo Leopold think about Geoengineering? In reply, I contend that from his vantage both success and failure in geoengineering should deeply trouble us. Check it out open access here: rdcu.be/eYFAC

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Client Challenge

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Fred Furnari @bassbar.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

So it’s Biden’s fault that Trump is a fascist? Is it also Biden’s fault that the NYT is becoming a Trump propaganda tool too? Because to me it looks like a choice.

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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

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headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get
sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight
by yasmin tayag

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/10/2025

Sci-fi has consistently portrayed this being done by angry Asian states but the reality is American corporations helmed by Israeli government scientists are going to be the ones to do this without any oversight or standards Also see: janky tech bros spectrum.ieee.org/solar-geoeng...

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Is This Climate Tech Start-Up Going Rogue?

Make Sunsets' sulfur dioxide strategy has academics and NGOs fuming

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Chicago - no kings

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 19/09/2025

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

whatever historians say about these years of lead they can't say we didn't have a laugh or two

screenshot of a tweet from "Governor Needing Press Office", text saying:

"DONALD TRUMP, THE LOWEST POLLING PRESIDENT IN RECENT HISTORY, THIS IS YOUR SECOND-TO-LAST WARNING!!! (THE NEXT ONE IS THE LAST ONE!). STAND DOWN NOW OR CALIFORNIA WILL COUNTER-STRIKE (LEGALLY!) TO DESTROY YOUR ILLEGAL CROOKED MAPS IN RED STATES. PRESS CONFERENCE COMING — HOSTED BY AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR, GAVIN NEWSOM. FINAL WARNING NEXT. YOU WON’T LIKE IT!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER."

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

"Advisory opinions are technically non-binding but are considered authoritative because they summarise existing law...They are expected to be used in future litigation and to bolster political negotiations." After a long campaign spearheaded by Pacific Islanders www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Healthy environment a human right, UN court says in landmark climate ruling

Court’s decision expected to be used in future litigation and to support political negotiations by vulnerable states

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What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com · 21/06/2025

Kids this age have a remarkable sense of wonder, which they sadly lose... For instance, he said after his birthday party “Today was the best day ever. I hope I will remember it. I don't remember my previous birthday”... Helen De Cruz (1978-2025) www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com/helen-de-cruz

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Can't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed

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Dr. Arthur R. Obst @arthurobst.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

*Cop stun guns a protestor* MTG: “This is a peaceful town hall.” [simultaneously] Dystopian.

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."

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When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

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LSE announces new centre to study animal sentience

The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE will develop new approaches to studying the feelings of other animals scientifically.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free." - For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza. 23 and he knew to leave a death note.

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This is Hossam's team, and we are sharing his final message :
"If you're reading this, it means I have been killed
-most likely targeted-by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old-a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents
-anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people's side.
By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest-something I haven't known in the past 18 months. I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.
I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza.
Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free."
- For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

not by any stretch the first person to say this but: it is darkly funny how nakedly imperialist Trump turned out to be given the lengths to which some professional opinion havers went to take his "isolationism" intellectually seriously

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This is why the line, "the energy transition is unstoppable because renewables are cheaper than fossils," drives me insane. It sounds smart, like Econ-Speak, but it is wrong. It ignores that politics trumps (ahem) economics, and we're now being ruled by fossil-fuel interests.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/03/2025

President Trump has directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up logging across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands.

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Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests

The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 28/02/2025

i think the economic boycott has had further reach because the poster is so cute. okay bunny i will listen to you.

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ECONOMIC BOYCOTT
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FRIDAY FEB 28
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SMALL BUSINESS
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is disgusting. Democrats like Hochul are validating the Right’s playbook: dictating the terms of higher education decisions and destroying academia in the process.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/02/2025

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Dr. Arthur R. Obst @arthurobst.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I will be presenting “Revisiting the Wilderness Debate” today during session three of “Rethinking Wild Europe”, starting at 13:45 Central European Time, 7:45 Eastern Standard Time. Zoom link here: univienna.zoom.us/j/7473152282...

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Dr. Arthur R. Obst @arthurobst.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hey y’all. I’m excited to share that a paper I co-authored went live last week: “Wilderness Values in Rewilding: Transatlantic Perspectives” In short, we map the philosophical heritage of ecological rewilding and defend one view for how it can be decolonized. DM for pdf ✌️ shorturl.at/4TK7b

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Wilderness values in rewilding: Transatlantic perspectives - Linde De Vroey, Arthur R. Obst, 2025

This article re-investigates the underlying values driving the rapidly growing rewilding movement in Europe and North America. In doing so, we respond to a comm...

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

is trying to avoid those futures no longer on the table

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 26/12/2024

I keep warning you that generative "AI" is a threat to the processes of making & certifying knowledge & consensus reality, thus leading us to the verge of an epistemic & heuristic collapse of just catastrophic proportions but y'all keep slathering it on yourselves like it's butter & you're corncobs

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Judith Butler is 100% correct. The word "woke" is pure reactionary bullshit. Its contemporary meaning also distorts history by making it seem as if every positive cultural change of the past 200 years has happened naturally, without agitation by people considered, at the time, dangerously "woke."

Q. Does the election result mean that woke is broke?
A. I don't even know what the woke is. It's just a slur that the right wing uses.

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

hey bluesky, in case anyone's interested, I wrote this for my students about why I don't want them to use anything AI in my classes. It interrupts the course calendar part of the syllabus, coming immediately after the first day there's a writing assignment assigned. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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A note on AI usage

A note on AI usage I genuinely want you to succeed in this class. One of my very favorite things about my job as a professor is when students are succeeding and I feel like I helped. I want you to suc...

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

💯 As I tell my students, having AI write your philosophy paper is like sending a robot to the gym for you and expecting to reap the health benefits.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

'In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved—and is taking back his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet.' civileats.com/2024/12/10/b...

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Black Earth: A Family's Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Fourth-generation farmer Patrick Brown purchased a North Carolina plantation as an act of reclamation for his family, his community's health, and the soil beneath his feet.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"Though many politicians believe that halting existing or new fossil fuel production is politically unpopular, there is surprisingly limited data to back this claim...we conducted a nationally representative survey." guess what @cplusc.bsky.social found? climateandcommunity.org/research/vot...

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Voters Support Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Extraction - Climate & Community Institute

Preventing catastrophic climate change impacts requires ending the extraction of fossil fuels, but the United States is on track to do the opposite. The US is …

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