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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

In the midst of a brutal heat wave, NYC chooses between Andrew Cuomo, who lied about causing vulnerable seniors to die in nursing homes, and Zohran Mamdani, who’s dedicated to to making NYC affordable and green for everyone. This is what 21st century climate elections actually look like.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Same for books in humanities 👇

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025

the classic burger king chicken sandwich — the long boy — is underrated in the fast food chicken sandwich game

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Ben Carlson @bencarlson007.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The bond market:

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"I hear the jury's still out on science" @robgioielli.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I guess we have to pay attention to the bond market now, because global financial collapse (again)?

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"I hear the jury's still out on science" @robgioielli.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

If you are in Pittsburgh for #aseh2025 join us Thursday for a discussion of "Beauty, Health and Permanence." An excellent line up! Keith Woodhouse, Sara Fingal, Elizabeth Browning, David Grinnell and Jon Klosinski, @paulsabin.bsky.social and @parhee.bsky.social yours truly. @aseh.bsky.social

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"I hear the jury's still out on science" @robgioielli.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Lets all say it together now kids: "deflationary spiral"

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Imagine explaining this to anyone in 2004

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Ethemcan Turhan @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Good to hear that there's some money available for researchers @eppobruins.bsky.social, because we just had a strike due to your government imposing budget cuts on us. It's just that we're not coming from the US, we are already here.

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"I hear the jury's still out on science" @robgioielli.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It's never going to end unless people, esp. faculty and leadership, step the frick up.

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Finns vad jag vet inga planer just nu för en svensk utgåva men det går att beställa boken via akademibokhandeln i Sverige www.akademibokhandeln.se/bok/drifting...

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Drifting North

Past and future collide in this engaging journey through climate change, fossil capitalism and the struggle for a sustainable world. Scotlands history and future are entangled with climate change and...

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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to be making a point I've often thought about, which is that the founders did not have today's assault rifles in mind when they wrote the 2A.

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"I hear the jury's still out on science" @robgioielli.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I would encourage all historians, and anyone interested in how we can give proper voice to the marginalised, to read Thavolia Glymph's excellent AHA presidential address. It's open access! academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

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Paper Tracings in the Spectacularly Boisterous Archive of Slavery

Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

1. Humanities never had anywhere near as much to lose 2. STEM vs humanities was a costly and stupid sideshow 3. STEM as a template for humanities research was a bad idea, and if humanities research survives this regime, it will do so precisely to the extent that STEM models failed to take hold

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17/03/2025

for today's DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS, i talked with someone working in the DoD who highlighted that so much of what's being done now will not reduce fraud, or waste, or abuse, it will just mean we're going to spend more money for less productive work.

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Doing Less with Less

If there were massive waste, we’d see it, and we’d know it.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

More of this please

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Ethemcan Turhan @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

📢 New publication on #socialinfrastructures against #housing #commodification in #Groningen is just out! We trace the narratives of urban artists building physical and discursive spaces outside the creative city imaginaries. #openaccess @frw-rug.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The Smut Of The Americas @smut-one.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

All my projects at Harvard Medical School are on hold, so all the people that work on them aren't being paid. Who needs a new treatment for cancer anyway?

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency. via Brett Murphy: The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If you’re a professor in a classroom today & you don’t mention this, I believe you’re doing your students a profound disservice. This is targeted 1st at international students, but it’s deliberately broad enough to lay groundwork for a scene Trump & Hegseth have fantasized: troops on campus.

A truth from Trump that reads “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter”

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/02/2025

This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it. This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

Alt text: A tweet from Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) posted at 5:00 PM on February 25, 2025. The tweet states that Tulsi Gabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify employees who participated in the NSA’s "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms. The memo also calls for terminating their employment and revoking their security clearances, with a deadline set for Friday. The tweet has 254.7K views, 397 replies, 3K retweets, 12K likes, and 335 bookmarks.

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"I hear the jury's still out on science" @robgioielli.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We are soft relaunching our podcast for the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory. Starting with a great talk with Timothy Mitchell, who was in town last December for the Archipelago Lecture.

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Prof. Timothy Mitchell on capitalism, colonialism and Carbon Democracy

Podcast Episode · Intervention - a podcast from the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory · 02/25/2025 · 51m

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Shea Jordan Smith @sheajordansmith.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Reporter: If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say? Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Fuck off.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I finally got what's bugged me about all these stories on the crippling of the US govt: all of them speak of "cuts" when, in fact, only Congress can 'cut' funding, and it has done nothing of the sort. The story describes illegal & unconstitutional impoundment, BUT SAYS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT IT

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HUD cuts expected to worsen America’s housing crisis, staffers say

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to be slashed in half, according to an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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"I hear the jury's still out on science" @robgioielli.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

So are we watching the end (or destruction) of the modern civil rights era, 1964-2025?

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"I hear the jury's still out on science" @robgioielli.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

"Hegseth bashed the military justice system repeatedly for years on behalf of his mythical belief in the 'warfighter.' He has railed against the military justice system nearly constantly in books, on TV, and on podcasts."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

“AOC responded by saying Homan has nothing on her and the Fourth Amendment provides a lawful basis for her efforts to make sure people know their rights. ‘This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.’” www.thebulwark.com/p/when-dhs-s...

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When DHS Sends Your Son to Gitmo

The mother of a young Venezuelan man sent to Guantánamo discusses her son’s case. It heralds an unsettling new phase in Trump’s deportation policy.

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"I hear the jury's still out on science" @robgioielli.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Are they going to shut down National Parks? Nope. It's becoming crystal clear what the goal of D*GE is: To privatise most core government functions. NPS and other agencies will be outsourced to corporate America because because the work still needs to get done.

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'Huge impact to the community': Hundreds gather to protest mass firings of RMNP park rangers

Hundreds of protestors gathered at Rocky Mountain National Park on Monday to speak out on recent firings and layoffs of park rangers.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

the idea that these tech guys are opposed to "government waste" is so completely fucking ridiculous. they feast on government waste. DOD budgets are a bloated mess. the pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. the big beneficiaries are tech companies providing defense services.

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