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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

PACER? That sucks, an amazing run. It's annoying when one loses because there are four different possible words with one letter variable, and you don't choose the right word. And it's annoying x 1275 with a streak like that.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Reminds me a recent piece by Emmelheinz: "AI is driving us to automate judgment at breakneck speed. And if we automate judgment, we lose our agency in political and aesthetic decision-making—which is what defines us as human beings (for better or for worse)." cultura.nexos.com.mx/ay-periodista/

cultura.nexos.com.mx

¡Ay, periodista!

No se trata sólo de un libro escrito con ayuda de inteligencia artificial (Charlas imposibles (y urgentes) en el siglo XXI: Voces del pasado, preguntas del presente, salvavidas del futuro), sino de un...

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"laughing in the face of calamity" is one of three essential rules for middle-aged happiness, according ro some article somewhere. my guess is this will be a baseline requirement to survive the Anthro-/Capitalo-cene writ large.

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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...

currentaffairs.org

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 · 13/08/2026

The Rip gets the job done. Fun fact: Damon said during filming for this Netflix film they had behind-the-scenes discussions about having to reiterate “the plot three or four times in the dialogue” to account for people being on their phones.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If only it was illegalized in politics, especially campaigning and for the upcoming midterms.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In Spanish we call that a "pregoncia", a pregunta that turns out to be a ponencia (paper).

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

At this point it's sunk cost fallacy, and also (negative) freedom. See Oreske's and Conway's The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market (2023).

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

George: "........................" aka *crickets*

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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 · 12/01/2026

I liked it, too. It struck me how little we've seen masking as a theme in any films post-covid, as if a trauma too raw to represent. Eddington also pairs well with One Battle... There's a good analysis of both films at The Baffler. thebaffler.com/latest/ameri...

thebaffler.com

American Psychos | Aaron Timms

When the extremism is already on screen, what place is left for the cinematic representation of political terror?

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Pretty solid trip-hop madrugada mash. My non-AI generated "goes well with" recommendations would be "Love Me Sweet" by Kid Loco and "Ethnic Majority" by Nightmares on Wax.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Also: "Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out." By DAVID S. GLOSSER www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

politico.com

Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.

If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Thanks for the recommendation and inside info.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Wow, very cool. And I'm heartened to hear legacy /physical media is still going strong enough to put out / sell out new re-releases. Modifying Marx, not everything solid melts into air - at least not yet.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

some solid sci-fi there. surprised to see New Rose Hotel.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The cinematography is quite interesting, often opting for long shots with a single camera and foregoing shot-reverse shots for dialogue. It turns up the immersive / engaging quality (for me at least).

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Stating "strong evidence" while not offering any evidence at all. Well played, sir.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Thank Noah Hawley, who has proven to be a master at taking great films / film franchises and reworking them into excellent television narratives. At this point, he has my unconditional support.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Years ago Duck Duck Go was presented by the right as al alternative to Google, so this is no surprise. Ad Fontes Media remains the best way to determine media bias, reliability, and fact-based reporting. Stay within the green/yellow rectangle.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I believe this is what they call a "bubble." See Gizmodo's "Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist" by Luc Olinga, published July 17, 2025

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

so climate change is a hoax then? (joking...sorry, although some people do think like this)

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Congrats on the contract! I remember your mentioning it during UC Mexicanistas this past spring, so I'm very happy to hear it become official. I wanted to be the first one to congratulate here in bsky, hence no comment over there. This way, it feels more valuable or impactful.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

@fafnirjournal.bsky.social Thanks so much for the review! I appreciated reading a careful consideration of my first monograph byMichael Pitts.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Incredible that this quote was created over 30 years ago.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Not to mention this irony of ironies.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Ad hominem attack. An argumentatively (very) weak retort to a serious accusation, but also par for the course in these post-truth times.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

What a great resource, Thanks for sharing.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I've noticed a lot lately - that the news reports on extreme weather but makes no link to anthropogenic global warming and its major contributors. No wonder there's such a disconnect and no action, and why I feel like we're frogs in a pot water with the heat turned high.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I've rewatched the whole series out of sequence to prep for pt 8, and really been enjoying them. With some overall misses, it really is the best action franchise (next to Bond) in a market diluted with mediocre-to-bad films.

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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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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I wholeheartedly agree that Trump + enablers are destroying the US and world post-haste. But to be fair, on CNN the world has been ending since at least 9-11-01, if not before. Maybe a screenshot of their front page is not the best proof of the Trumpapocalypse.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

To be clear, it's just one university, and at that, it's the richest in the world.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

One of those rare, excellent sequels, especially considering decades passed since the original one. Still, it's not as good as the first.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Agreed, though it remains to be seen whether the WH will comply, which would bad, very bad, constitutional-crisis bad. Probably inevitable anyway.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This sucks, then again, no expectation to converse. If the price comes down, I'd definitely take one every now and again. Wait - CAN we even choose to take one if these? If do, that's news to me. This must be a trial run.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We loved pretty much all of it, with the minor exception of the animation of the dog. For some reason the golden lab looked more two-dimensional, as if cardboard, than all the other animals.

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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

washingtonpost.com

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 · 29/01/2025

Nice! In a dialogistic gesture, here is one of mine, a favorite from the past 25 years, which is completely different to yours in its sonics but at the same time semantically related. Also just a heartbreaking love long. www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Yr...

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Tom Waits - "Fish And Bird"

YouTube video by Tom Waits

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Nice! They have a neo-psychedlic tinge that may not sit in your wheelhouse, although most of their music is very mellow. Another one in Spanish from here in LA is Angélica García, whose album Gemelo is quite good deserves more exposure.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Seeing as you are an oceanographer who studies climate, you might enjoy the novel Playground, by Richard Powers (2024). One of the main characters spends most of the novel underwater describing the ocean in great detail and with a sense of wonder. She's based on Sylvia Earle's life and work.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Thanks for sharing. The only album not your list that bears mentioning (in case it did not come on your radar) is Khruangbin's A LA SALA. It's hybrid all over, straddling the English-Spanish divide while donning an impressive array of musical styles from around the world.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

By all accounts, it has been effective. Many incorporated technological fixes, but the most difficult ones to imagine seem to be the social, political, and economic transformations needed to stop killing the biosphere (and ourselves and other nonhumans) in the process.

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Stephen "Kip" Tobin @kiptobin.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It's why I study science fiction. In my Mexican climate fiction course that just ended, the final project was that student's had to write a letter to themselves from the future in 2074 (time travel conceit). And, in essence, they had to imagine a better world than this one, a utopia.

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