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Stephen "Kip" Tobin

@kiptobin.bsky.social
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Assoc Adj Prof(e) of Mexican and Latin American literature and film, specializing in sci-fi, cli-fi, and posthumanism. Lover of song, animality, pranayama, narrative, and theory, infographics and mind-maps. Also digs felines and affect.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
<<There is one type of rare, gargantuan, towering lie that makes all the other mass lies throughout human history seem like frightened, scurrying, little adorable fibs: "when it comes to climate change... we have more time.”>> www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Here is the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin calling for the abolition of J6ICE.
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Excited to be part of this double panel on the body in Latin American Science Fiction at LASA in San Fran.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In a climate first, this ad will appear on the Super Bowl vimeo.com/1054574072 #LaterisTooLate #ProtectWhatYouLove
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By The Time
Climate change is taking the places we love. Later is too late to act.
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
"Waymo robotaxis have logged 33 million miles... Compared with cars driven by humans, Waymo vehicles have been involved in 62 percent fewer police-reported crashes, 78 percent fewer crashes that resulted in injury and 81 percent fewer crashes severe enough to deploy the air bags." t.ly/mLa0x
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Opinion | Your robot chauffeur is on its way. Welcome it.
Self-driving cars appear to be safer than those with human drivers. Bring them on.
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Author Steve Roth: "And here’s what’s even more egregious: that concentrated wealth is strangling our economy, our economic growth, our national prosperity. Wealth concentration drives a vicious, downward cycle, throttling the very engine of wealth creation itself." t.ly/uL4Ua
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Thomas Rackow 🧊 @trackow.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We have a new paper out in @science.org today, led by Helge Goessling from #AWI: The recent global temperature surge in 2023 was intensified by a record-low planetary #albedo 👉 doi.org/10.1126/scie... @thomasjung.bsky.social @ecmwf.bsky.social This is what we found (🧵1/8)
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Recent global temperature surge intensified by record-low planetary albedo
In 2023, the global mean temperature soared to almost 1.5K above the pre-industrial level, surpassing the previous record by about 0.17K. Previous best-guess estimates of known drivers including anthr...
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
@annakornbluh.bsky.social A non-academic friend sent me the following post on x. My reply was "too late capitalism," and then sent him a screenshot of your book.
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
"As far as global environmental concerns go, the US has an irretrievably split personality. Far from organising the world, it will be the world that has to adjust to the disorganising impact of America’s polarised and depressingly unintelligent democracy." www.ft.com/content/fe39...
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Only China can now lead the world on climate
As far as global environmental concerns go, the US has an irretrievably split personality
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Si los mexicanos son aproximadamente la mitad de la población indocumentada, entonces deportar a todo mexicano sin papeles resultará en un desplome de entre 500 mil millones-un billón de dólares, lo que representa entre 2 y 3 por ciento del PIB de Estados Unidos. www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024...
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Sin los migrantes mexicanos, caerá 3% el PIB de EU
Equivale a 800 mil millones de dólares.
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"Es un libro muy bueno pero no es novela. Sí tiene una historia pero no es historiografía, más bien literatura, pero no es ficción. Ofrece una narrativa pero no es tradicional. También hay polifonía, intertextualidad, (neo-)extractivismo y una crítica mordaz." -Django sobre La compañía de Gerber
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Post a movie GIF from the year you were born.
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a blurry image of a person sitting on a bed
ALT: a blurry image of a person sitting on a bed
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/03/2024
just saw alex garland’s civil war movie (private press screening) and it is the most harrowing and stress-inducing thing i have seen in awhile
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Leading geologists say no to "Anthropocene." www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/o...
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Opinion | Scientists Just Gave Humanity an Overdue Reality Check. The World Will Be Better for It.
Geologists just rejected a label for our troubled times. Good.
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
The answer is yes and yes. “Given the extreme lethality of the[ir] conduct and the awareness of the catastrophic risk on the part of fossil fuel companies, should they be charged with homicide? Could they be convicted?” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil For Climate Deaths
Prosecutors regularly bring homicide charges against individuals and corporations whose reckless or negligent acts or omissions cause unintentional deaths, as w
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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
The lucky 13th volume of the Critical Mexican Studies is out is a major one: Carlos Monsiváis's Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist, edited and translated by Norma Klahn and Ilana Dann Luna, with a preface by Marta Lamas. 30% at Vanderbilt University Press with the code 15FRIENDS
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
Con ganas de conseguir este libro del historiador y economista Diego Castañeda. Desiguales: Una historia de la desigualdad en México.
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
"Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer…the first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won’t be eradicated for another 229 years." tiny.cc/1gt6wz
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Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer in "decade of divis...
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
"Time and attention are not something we can replenish. They are what our life is. When we offer our time and attention, we are not merely spending and paying, we are giving out lives." Marc Schulz and Robert Waldinger news.uchicago.edu/scientific-s...
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The scientific secret to a happy life, with Marc Schulz (Ep. 107)
‘The Good Life’ co-author discusses the world’s longest study on happiness
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
Provocative, high-level discussion about the Metacrisis with Daniel Schmachtenberger from Oct 23. A.I., the climate emergency, species extinction, global capitalism, and what, if anything, can be done individually and collectively about these colossal, interlinked problems. t.ly/VHQd5
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beccadagoo @silly.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
im so tired of the argument that "oh ya the world isn't getting worse it's just social media making everything seem bad." bro the world is on fire
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Congreso de Estéticas de Ciencia Ficción: Mundos que colapsan y ecosistemas que resisten: Estéticas cienciaficcionales ante la emergencia climática De 29 nov. a 1 de dic. Registrar su asistencia en t.ly/iUNps Consulta el programa en t.ly/K71iM La transmición en vivo del evento: t.ly/IUe1V
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Exposing the Big “Free Market” Myth with Author Naomi Oreskes, science historian and co-author Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (2010). www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJV7...
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Exposing the Big “Free Market” Myth with Author Naomi Oreskes
CASI discussion examines the consequences of businesses pushing “free market” ideology and the changes needed for markets to serve rather than impede democra...
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Upcoming talk: "Vulnerability,the Racial Capitalocene and the Climate Emergency Narrative" by Johan Höglund. November 20, 2023 5 PM - 6 PM (local time in India?) meet.google.com/gur-zank-mjr
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
“To reduce plastic pollution efficiently and economically, policy should prioritize regulating and reducing upstream production rather than downstream pollution cleanup.” 🧪🦑
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Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup techn...
Plastic removal technologies can temporarily mitigate plastic accumulation at local scales, but evidence-based criteria are needed in policies to ensure that they are feasible and that ecological bene...
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
A fin de mes en CDMX participaré en un congreso mexicano sobre la ciencia ficción y la emergencía climática. Edmundo Paz Soldán dará la conferencia magistral. Todo será emitido en vivo/línea en YouTube y Facebook.
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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
The six forthcoming books in the Critical Mexican Studies series at Vanderbilt University Press
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Feliz por haber conseguido este número especial de Mamut, sobre ecoficción, de 2018.
Especial ecoficción
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
"Qualities of Heat”…my best-of contemporary-music playlist composed of the best songs I heard released between July-Sept, 2023. link HERE: t.ly/Tk2Sm *Title was taken from an interview I heard with Jeff Goodell, the author of the book "The Heat Will Kill You First."
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
"Since its release in 2020, Mr. Saito’s book “Capital in the Anthropocene” has sold more than 500,000 copies. [This] philosophy professor has tapped into what he describes as a growing disillusionment in Japan with capitalism’s ability to solve the problems people see around them." t.ly/7G2kY
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Can Shrinking Be Good for Japan? A Marxist Best Seller Makes the Case.
Kohei Saito says the country should seize this moment of demographic and economic challenge to reinvent itself through “degrowth communism.”
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
Good piece. “Two Myths Fueling the Conservative Right’s Dangerous Transphobia… An anthropologist attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—ground zero for the current onslaught of anti-trans rhetoric and legislation in the U.S.” www.sapiens.org/culture/transphobia…
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
At some point in the not-too-distant future, I believe--and fear--that the majority of all literature will be climate literature: literature that is primarily about the climate emergency and catastrophic environmental breakdown. The same for cultural production more broadly. I truly hope I'm wrong.
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 30/07/2023
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 28/07/2023
Este libro "tentacular" y posthumano, editado por Azucena Castro, saldrá en algún momento este verano en la editorial Bartlebooth . "Futuros Multiespecie. Prácticas vinculantes para un planeta en emergencia" bartlebooth.org
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 27/07/2023
My first complaint about Bluesky: users cannot edit a post? The only way to do so is to delete the post and rewrite it with the correction? Who could possibly have thought this would be an acceptable design element?
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 27/07/2023
“Hay una necesidad de esa palabra que se usa ahora que es ‘contenido’, algo que excede la capacidad humana de consumo y de reflexión....entonces estamos produciendo imágenes y sonido para un vacío incomprensible”. -Lucrecia Martel t.ly/01GyC
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 26/07/2023
IX Congreso Internacional de Narrativa Fantástica «Reconfiguraciones del canon fantástico (moderno y contemporáneo) y Tributo a Gonzalo Portals Zubiate» Lima, Perú 2, 3 y 4 de noviembre de 2023 Modalidad híbrida (presencial y virtual) t.ly/20XgU
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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 24/07/2023
"Thanks to the advent of AI-powered image generators like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, some are now fabricating entire feeds of internet personalities that don't actually exist [such as 'Milla Sofia,' pictured here]." futurism.com/ai-generated-influence…
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