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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄

@mediacology.bsky.social
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Ph.D., writer, and media/ecomedia studies prof. Graduated from School of Punk Rock. Author of Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education. Connecting ecojustice with #medialiteracy. linktr.ee/ecomedialiteracy

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 14/01/2026
The Grid and the Scam.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A contrarian tech critical guide by @parismarx.com for what not to buy this xmas disconnect.blog/a-tech-criti...
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A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Dear Media Literacy and Climate Peeps, please submit articles and share our call for a special issue of Journal of Media Literacy Education dedicated to climate. Remember folks, climate emergency is also a media education emergency. digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/call_fo...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/11/2025
This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
a drawing of a boat heating torwads an iceberg - lower temps still collide with ice but not as badly.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Imagine you are the richest man in the word and you finance and construct a massive, goballly influential technology to flatter yourself. Dude, buy a big mirror and hire a therapist. www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...
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Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Anyone remember how "care" was the buzzword in academia and corporate messaging? Curious to know when people stopped to "care."
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I am a huge fan of the concept of public media, but federal funding has been a cudgel used to bash NPR. This has made them scared of Republican critics, which in my opinion, diminished the quality of NPR. This new environment might get them to take the gloves off.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
My latest in my fight against the Washington Post. I’ve filed a grievance against the Post through the WaPo Guild— and have sent a letter to Washington Post challenging my firing. Proud to have @normeisen.bsky.social + @katiephang.bsky.social in my corner. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
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The Washington Post Accused Me of “Gross Misconduct.” Here's My Response.
This fight isn’t just about my job — it’s about who gets punished for telling the truth, and who gets protected for spreading hate and violence.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"Google DeepMind has debuted AlphaEarth Foundations, an AI model that treats Earth like a living dataset.." How about treating earth as a living being? spectrum.ieee.org/google-deepm...
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AlphaEarth AI Model Tracks Earth’s Dynamic Changes
How does AlphaEarth's AI model make Earth's data more accessible and insightful for scientists and planners worldwide?
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info-activism.bsky.social @info-activism.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🫶 Special thanks to all of our contributors and their organisations, including: @samshepedwards.bsky.social, @eliothiggins.bsky.social, @joeygrostern.bsky.social, @guypporter.bsky.social, adierussell.bsky.social, @mediacology.bsky.social, @anicanaca.bsky.social, @wmmna.bsky.social.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Out now today: The Replaybook: A Fieldguide to the Climate and Information Crisis available from Tactical Tech. You can read my tactic and many others by following this link and downloading the book for free: tacticaltech.org/replaybook/
Quote and an announcement for the book: Replaybook: A Fieldguide to the Climate and Information Crisis available for free from Tactical Tech.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Fascinating historical comparison over time of the world's most dominant companies
An infographic describing the world's biggest companies over time.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 02/09/2025
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
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On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
So now a cup of coffee in the US is $5? Also, got two smoothies, a burrito and veggie burger for $60!
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Pull quote: Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more
Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Anyone know how they're going to power this titanic gigawatt supercluster? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Zuckerberg says Meta will build data center the size of Manhattan in latest AI push
CEO says company plans to spend hundreds of billions on developing artificial intelligence products
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Destroying the thermometer doesn't stop the fever theconversation.com/mauna-loa-ob...
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Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down
Cutting data climate collection – as the Trump administration is now trying to do – is like breaking a thermometer to avoid knowing you’ve got a fever.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
New climate media literacy lesson from Project Look Sharp: "Bias in Charts: Temperature and Climate Change" www.projectlooksharp.org/front_end_re...
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Project Look Sharp
Project Look Sharp provides lesson plans, materials, training and support to help teachers integrate media literacy into their classroom curricula.
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a black xborg • theory without practice ain't shit @rpaulint.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
For all zinemakers and zinelovers, a call for contributions for this amazing book proposal ! shorturl.at/OtaYf #zine #AcademicSky #creativemethods #pedagogies #feminism
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The incomparable Ruha Benjamin youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE?...
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Tanner Lecture One with Ruha Benjamin
YouTube video by Mahindra Humanities Center
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The incomparable Ruha Benjamin youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE?...
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Tanner Lecture One with Ruha Benjamin
YouTube video by Mahindra Humanities Center
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I cannot believe I have to explain this but just FYI, Indian muslims are not arabs
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I've written a very short intro to ecomedia literacy. If you're not familiar with it, please have a look. media-and-learning.eu/subject/medi...
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Ecomedia Literacy: Greening media and technology education
by Antonio López, John Cabot University, Italy For more than 20 years I have been a dedicated advocate for media literacy and environmental justice. Through developing ecomedia literacy…
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is in my media lit wheelhouse. Been shouting this for years. Please folks, gotta focus on climate disinformation. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report
False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This makes me so mad. Los Doyers could do better.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
if white Americans didn’t want Mexicans in California maybe they should not have conquered California from Mexico and then spent 150 years building up an economy entirely dependent on the flow of people and goods across the border just a thought
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/06/2025
Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. The next phase will double the gas turbines. A short vid on a dataset I found showing the scale of this problem Part 1 below, or full on YT here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrQC...
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I'm an Angeleno and I approve this message
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Now this is getting interesting... California investigating Paramount for bribery scheme. www.semafor.com/article/05/3...
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California opens inquiry into Paramount and Trump
The California Senate’s move follows a letter from three US senators to the embattled media company.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Interesting story about how the climate crisis impacts rum production in Cuba www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Over a barrel: lack of sugar throws Cuba’s rum industry into crisis
This year’s tiny harvest casts doubt on the spirit’s recent resurgence, once a bright spot in the island’s economy
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/05/2025
"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way" "chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:
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A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation
Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to ...
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Sadly I'm convinced social security funds will be converted to crypto and then they'll do a massive rug pull. It will be the greatest heist in world history.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I said a thing (only 9 minutes) “If you trash the environment, you're actually trashing yourself.”�🌿 This week on EAVI Conversations, Prof. Antonio López shares why tech, policy, and mindset shifts are all part of the solution. youtu.be/flFNJt0iVYc?...
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Prof. Antonio López | EAVI Conversations 3
YouTube video by EAVI - Media Literacy for Citizenship
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The linked article has a good, nuanced discussion of the term "global south," which i have struggled with in my own writing.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The Silvio Berlusconi model: turn government into a reality tv show
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
For some context on that particular look of the cybertruck... slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Pam Bondi lobbied for Qatar & a private prison company, got paid $115K/month, then failed to disclose it during her AG confirmation. Now she’s gutted foreign lobbying enforcement under FARA and signed off on $400m planes. The corruption isn’t even subtle anymore.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
As a Dodgers fan I've always been bothered by fossil fuel sponsorship. Good for @sammyroth.bsky.social for covering this.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I had similar thoughts when I saw the interview
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"...these two massive reports discover that the one group on campus — whether we are talking about faculty, students, or staff — that most consistently feels nervous about expressing its views and most consistently feels physically unsafe on campus are … Muslims."
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How the New York Times Distorts the Antisemitism Debate on College Campuses
Harvard released dueling reports on antisemitism and anti-Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim bias. Guess which one the Times emphasized?
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A fresh approach to environmental music www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Lupe Fiasco on his new art project and looking at rap ‘in a deep academic way’
Rapper turned MIT professor is unveiling a project of ‘en plein air rapping’, which is about outdoors-inspired music
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Did Trump write this post? WTF is going on with NOAA
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is next level AI fuckary www.404media.co/this-college...
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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Sadism is the point. Shame on all the "light workers" endorsing Trump. Christians who support this don't get a pass either. Or anyone else for that matter. www.yahoo.com/news/why-tru...
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The Sickening Reason Trump’s Team Treats ICE Raids Like Reality TV
This isn’t only about entertainment for sadists. Kristi Noem’s right-wing content creation allows the administration to terrorize more people than they can logistically deport.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The proposal will facilitate an operation that would handle the logistics of gathering “100,000 of the worst criminal offenders” from U.S. prisons, holding them at a 10,000-person detention camp and flying them to El Salvador. What could possibly go wrong?
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Anyone here old enough to remember the US' role in supporting and training Salvadoran death squads in the 1980s? Seems like that's been memory holed.
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Antonio Lopez 🥄🥄🥄 @mediacology.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Can't wait to see how "freedom" cities full of sociopathic libertarians turn out. Good luck with that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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