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Paul N. Edwards

@avastmachine.bsky.social
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History and politics of climate science, climate change, knowledge infrastructures. Prof. Emeritus of Information and History, University of Michigan and Director Emeritus, Stanford University STS Program. Now expat based in Marseille, fleeing US fascism.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time.
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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 9h
The biggest coal mine expansion ever proposed in NSW has been approved by the Minns government. It threatens to wipe out Australia's emissions reductions. This is a major test for Anthony Albanese and Murray Watt; they cannot provide federal approval to a project of this scale.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19h
Could be 60. Trump wants "data to rein" because that means the oligarch Nerd Reich side rule. Democrats could get right on this; they know they'll have to, just for the environment, but they're either afraid of the tech fascist donors. Or are deluded enough to think the PayPal Mafia is persuadable.
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Data Centers Isuse Hurts Trump—If Democrats Pounce
AI. Crypto. Trump. All three are the same con with different wigs.
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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Imagine an America where our electeds reflect the best of every kind of American. By joining together to support Democrats at every level who will fight for us, with integrity, we will create a future that works for all. Say "NO" to a criminal regime.
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Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremists
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith looked straight at the Senate and said what Trump’s enablers have spent years trying to bury: There was proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump committed crimes against this country. Smith said he’d prosecute him again today. Because the evidence doesn’t give a damn about your red hat
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 19h
Weather forecasters depend on the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)’s work to predict storms and warn communities if they need to evacuate. ​ With the Trump admin dismantling NCAR, people will have less time to prepare for extreme weather. We’re demanding answers and transparency.​
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 19h
it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 29/09/2026
I don’t claim to understand the financial market but reading about a loss-making company that warns its product might wipe out humanity does not motivate me to buy their shares.
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Doing My Own Research @doingmyownresearch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Support us ➡️ bluehorizons.pudgycat.io 💙
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026
1. most people do not know how LLMs work, or what inherent limitations might exist as a result of that approach 2. companies that make LLMs describe what they can do and how they work in misleading and often contradictory ways
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
She got raped. Her rapists got homework. That's f*cking crazy.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 28/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Justice Alito has recused from Suncor v. Boulder.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Americans can’t afford food, gas, housing, healthcare. This tired GOP playbook is a fail. VOTE
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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 28/09/2026
I am opposing Section 219, which would integrate our military with Israel’s. The United States does not have this arrangement with any other country in the world. We need to stand up for American sovereignty and strip this provision from the final NDAA.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is now true.
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New Hampshire Bulletin @newhampshirebulletin.com · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress. From @jennifershutt.bsky.social
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Trump administration revokes $810M approved by Congress for refugee aid and more • New Hampshire Bulletin
The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or biological pathogens. If a product is potentially dangerous, it should be regulated and corporations should be held accountable for wrongdoing. Why would AI be any different? www.commondreams.org/news/ai-securi…
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AI Giants Probe 'Tens of Thousands' of Security Incidents—Some Involving Government Sites | Common Dreams
Security researchers investigate tens of thousands of artificial intelligence security incidents, fueling fresh calls fo
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re all counting on them following through after the midterms.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 28/09/2026
This year's record setting El Niño will impact many different parts of the world, with some experiencing severe drought and others flooding. In a new analysis at The Climate Brink, I explore what impacts happened during past events and which are most likely to occur this year
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The impacts of this year’s record-shattering El Niño
El Niño will drive severe drought from Indonesia to the Southern Africa and northern South America, with wetter winters from the US Gulf Coast to Southern South America.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/the-gop-go...
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The GOP Governing Collapse
In Iran and elsewhere. Plus all the links.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make.
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
YOU NEED TO SEE THIS Rob Bonta (California AG): “We think it’s limitless what he (Trump) will try and what he is capable of. So, if you can imagine it, we have thought of it and we have a plan.” Every attorney general should be planning for this.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/09/2026
This week, the EU offered associate membership to Canada. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen framed the news in how "Europe and Canada believe in democracy, that power does not belong to the strongest, richest and loudest, but to all of us.” She was talking about us. (Link below)
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
7. The CEOs of these companies openly brag that they are destroying the capacity to think and do not care.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
6. We also know these systems impose biases and prejudices that aren’t always apparent to end users on social and political topics. I would bet money they are doing it in science, too. They are like an ontological nuke on the entire system of knowledge.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
4a. This isn’t rogue. It is a model following the instructions given to it. The genie isn’t to blame for fulfilling a wish in a way you don’t specify.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Notable that these moves involve usurpations of Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Could be good reasons that this sort of presidential unilateralism is illegal. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
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The Moves That Backfired on Trump and Drove Interest Rates and Inflation Higher
The president’s own agenda has helped undermine promises to fix the economy and get the deficit under control.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026
The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 28/09/2026
It is our house, not yours: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Blanche defends Trump’s White House media ban: ‘It is a privilege, not a right’
US attorney general argues that president was ‘sick and tired’ of inaccurate reporting by CNN, MS Now and Politico
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
All of bluesky
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Both Pritzker and Mamdani are doing things that require funding and paying down their debt. We can do it nationally too.
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Libération @liberation.fr · 27/09/2026
🌍 Alors que le «mouvement du 26 septembre» revendique une participation de 100 000 personnes partout en France, le rassemblement de la place de la République a remis un coup de fouet à des collectifs qui avaient perdu en vigueur. ➡️ l.liberation.fr/RSX
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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here in France, people are dying of chikingunya and and dengue fever, which used to be tropical diseases. Numbers are very small, but they will keep growing
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unesco Biosphere Reserves are apparently regions where “science, culture, & inclusive governance come together, showing how conservation & sustainable development can go hand in hand” Hard to see how building a massive AI data centre on green fields fits that www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre
Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash
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Ye Olde Punk @nehoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yeah, we know but tell that to Google. Buncha bitches.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/09/2026
lol www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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YouTube and Meta Reverse Course, Will Accept ‘Musk’ Trailer Ad
The Google unit says the ad was "temporarily restricted" while Meta calls it "an error." TikTok and X remain silent.
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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"why use google?" webpage from 1999
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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All talk. No action. Putting Ohioans’ first isn’t difficult. Ohioans have been clear; we need a conditional moratorium to lower costs, end NDAs and protect communities. Ramaswamy is making it clear he can’t be trusted to put Ohioans’ first
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Anthropobscene
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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Workers are caught on the frontlines of a heat crisis that is expected to drive up heat-related illnesses and deaths…as the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are rolling back federal rules meant to protect workers from heat injury and illnesses.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Your body fights to stay cool’: workers toil in record heat as federal rule frozen
Trump officials and Republicans are rolling back protections against heat-related illnesses and deaths
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
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