Big Tech wrote the EU law that hides their data centres' environmental impact. The EU wants to triple its data centre capacity in the next five years. While the full scale of their energy and water footprint is hidden from the public. Our new @investigate-europe.eu investigation reveals why.

Global data capacity is set to double by 2030, but the "hyperscaler" model is under fire as companies realize that mixing civilian and military data strips their servers of legal protections https://restofworld.org/2026/gulf-war-data-center-risks/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

🧵 Wenn dann bald wieder von #Waldbrand in #Brandenburg oder so die Rede ist, immer dran denken: 👉 Da brennt dann kein Wald, sondern eine Nadelholzplantage! 🌲🔥 Da, wo eigentlich unbrennbarer Laubwald stehen sollte. Und was da brennt ist auch nicht das Holz, sondern... /1/

[email protected] vraagt om voorbeelden van het ‘democratisch tekort’ aan Nederlandse universiteiten. Nieuw Europees onderzoek bevestigt dat beeld: Nederland kent een bestuurscultuur waarin colleges van bestuur relatief veel macht hebben en universiteitsraden weinig strategische invloed.

@vinzenzhediger.bsky.social über digitale Infrastrukturen. "Lange dachte man, durch die Digitalisierung würde die Archivierung billiger. In Wahrheit ist das Gegenteil der Fall: Der Unterhalt der digitalen Infrastrukturen ist dauerhaft und kostspielig. cinebulletin.ch/de/artikel/t...

Apollo 8, Apollo 17 and Voyager 1 all took iconic photos of Earth from outside: Earthrise, Blue Marble and Pale Blue Dot. But none of these images has led to political action which ensures the protection of Earth’s environment. Photographs aren’t going to do it. 🧪 #ArtemisII

Das Massensterben von Migranten auf See ging auch diese Woche weiter. Doch für unsere Mitmenschen dort gibt es keinen Liveticker und kein Mitleid.

The Autumn 2025 issue of NECSUS is now available online. This issue features a special section on Ageing, edited by Luis Freijo, Asja Makarević, and Belén Vidal, presenting six research articles plus an audiovisual essay and an introduction. Enjoy reading and watching: necsus-ejms.org

Micha Brumlik ist gestorben (1): Er war so vieles, u.a @taz.de Autor mit scharfem Weitenblick. Hier ein Zitat aus einem Kommentar zur Asylrechtsverschärfung 1992, dass sich die Verantwortlichen noch heute hinter die Ohren klemmen sollten. Hier der ganze Text: taz.de/Micha-Brumli...

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

I had so much fun going on Dutch late night last week during my brief stopover in Amsterdam! Thank you to the amazing host Arjen Lubach, and his wonderful team & audience, for making me feel so welcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxq4...

Die Zerstörung Gazas und dir wohl irreversible Veränderung der israelischen Gesellschaft: Assaf Bondy und Adam Raz mit einer nüchternen, erschreckenden Analyse.

Genocide as Gig-Economy geschichtedergegenwart.ch/die-zerstoer...

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

A glimpse of what life is like aboard the only undersea internet cable repair ship permanently stationed in Africa https://restofworld.org/2025/africa-internet-cable-repair-ship

An essay I’ve written that reflects on Adorno‘s famous „Education after Auschwitz“ today, esp for Germans. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

J Butler: “It is time to resist the injustice now normalized by those who capitulate to powers willing to destroy the basic principles protecting the university’s independence & who imperil the future of critical thought, dissent, and democracy itself.” www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Judith Butler the the Berkeley list: www.chronicle.com/article/when...

I'm not kidding when I say you could teach an entire ethics course with this article. Everything from character to integrity to parrhesia, from care and solidarity to the leap into faith demonstrated repeatedly by one family in the name of what's right.

"This is the latest chapter in my long education in the importance of communities of resistance, however implacable is the power we confront." "My need to resist leads me to support others doing the same: ..."

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Ja, wie eigentlich? 📱

🗣️ ISSUE NINE IS OUT! Alongside Patrick Doan’s vignettes, the heart of the ERB: stories, essays, and reviews — in our peculiar design with vivid images and un-killed darlings on 'level 2'. Take a look: europeanreviewofbooks.com/issues/issue...

This, again, because we need it: "People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider’s webs. It’s not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go."

"Die Mischung aus Kälte und Selbstgerechtigkeit – Anständigkeit im Gewand der Härte – ist exemplarisch für einen spezifisch deutschen Typus. Für Baerbock und die politische Klasse ist diese Art der Erfüllung der Staatsräson ein Ruhmesblatt deutscher Geschichte."

University Press Library Open (UPLOpen) is purely for finding and retrieving open access books. Which @oapenbooks.bsky.social does for 14 years already, and is purely open infrastructure... Why should libraries also pay for UPLOpen, which running on proprietary software? Am I missing something?

The winning article is available here. Congratulations! doi.org/10.1080/0964...

We did it again! On Wednesday, we picked up Issue Nine. We gathered the team, brought along the ERB kid (a crucial part of the ritual, of course), and held Issue Nine in our hands for the first time. She’s growing, we’re growing. Launch on 4 September.

It can be simultaneously true that individual AI prompts use minuscule amounts of energy, and also that the growth of AI in general threatens global progress on decarbonisation.

My 80-year-old aunt told me she "got tired of streaming" and is borrowing DVDs from her library again. So I checked it out and they have an amazing selection. Blu-rays too, from Criterion, Kino Lorber and other boutique labels. #PhysicalMedia #FilmSky

A very helpful curated list of materials on (against) AI:

In case you've been wondering about the moral and intellectual crisis in Holocaust studies, here's exhibit A. It also illustrates why we felt the need to found the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: www.ghscn.org/home

the opposite is true (or at least more relevant): inconvenience for degrowth.

So Elsevier / ScienceDirect is now actively and intentionally including machine-generated pseudoscience on its pages next to the work of academics @irisvanrooij.bsky.social --> irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

My article on the environmental Impact of video streaming is out in which I explore how Netflix's sustainability reports create non-knowing: journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...

Decades ago, historians of domestic technology showed how the devices that were supposedly going to save time created more work for housewives. This is absolutely the trajectory of AI in education.

This is when the internet peaked and we never should have progressed into the current era of social media and hot takes and call outs.