Those noted hippies at [checks notes] S&P estimate that Permian oil/gas production last year produced 117 MMTCO2e of greenhouse gases. That's equal to *all* emissions from the entire state of Virginia. And doesn't include the carbon content of the fuel itself. view.highspot.com/viewer/6370e...

Whither academic writing in the age of #AI? Sylvia Wenmackers reminds us that essays are trials in the search for better texts—their existence is a victory over the temptation not to try. Instead of giving in with LLMs, let's keep trying! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #philsky #AcademicSky

In his contribution to "Foodways," André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”. www.roadsides.net/articles/8580

“The highest levels were found in Irish breakfast cereal, followed by Belgian wholemeal bread, then German wholemeal bread, then French baguette. It was found across a huge range of products, from spaghetti, to cheese scones and ginger bread.” 🥖

jeff bezos could eat three meals a day at the world’s most expensive restaurant (sublimotion in ibiza, ca $2480 for dinner, so $7440 per day) and it would take him more than 90 thousand years to spend all the money he’s hoarded.

don’t forget the deadline for submitting #POLLEN2026 abstracts is 5 dec! pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/... @pollenetwork.bsky.social

hmm

hilary duff skipping rome on her 2026 tour is criminal

"Datacentre power demand in Australia could triple in five years and is forecast to exceed by 2030 the energy used by electric vehicles." Another reason to detest AI. It gobbles up power and water, and pushes up power prices for everyone. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236

a few months ago i had a great conversation with kate graber and ariana gunderson for the @economicanthro.bsky.social podcast about my dissertation research on corporate sustainability labor in the palm oil value chain. We talked about a lot of stuff! ⬇️

*channeling oprah* SWEET POTATOESSSSSS

"AI will survive, but the speculative bubble surrounding it is a sign of a deeper structural problem — the cost of which, when finally realized, will fall most heavily on the working class." interesting analysis theconversation.com/the-ai-bubbl...

i really do understand the frustration but this stance is also anti science. we have a huge multidisciplinary lit in sociology, psychology, history, anthro that deals with this. see work by eg @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, john hannigan… www.jstor.org/stable/27366...

“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“

"The historical precedent here is Flint, Michigan."

How come the policy obsession with "evidence-based" policy and technology in education of at least the last 20 years has completely evaporated with "AI"? ...

Four residents of Pari Island, near Jakarta, vowed to fight one of the most climate-damaging industries: cement. They filed a lawsuit against Hochin cement giant in Swiss www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-...

quick,

France plans to spend $150 million to rip out grape vines due to wine industry woes from increasing heat, drought, etc Yet planting rows of trees around vines can drought- & heat-proof them while keeping production up w/o irrigation I reported about this #agroforestry solution in southern France:

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Essay by Prof. Hazel V. Carby on Indigenous Futurism and photographs made by Diné artist Will Wilson and by Tewa/Hopi artist Michael Namingha, and paintings by Métis/Shoshone artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith. #ArtSky #IndigenousArt www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

interesting stuff www.carleton.edu/alumni/conne...

somebody in tupelo has a good sense of humour

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

oh

My albums of the year (probs missed a few and in no order) Pat Thomas - Bliss of Bliss patthomaskonnekt.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl... Unreal jazz piano improv by one of the contemporary greats. sad no vinyl.

"His talent is not being correct". 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Mississippi has long failed to count and report all deaths in local jails that serve the state’s 82 counties, despite a federal requirement to do so. These often dangerous facilities operate virtually free of any state oversight.

new orleans 🎺 🦞

Data centres in the Netherlands consumed ~4.5 terawatt hours. But they only disclosed 0.91 TWh worth of consumption.... leitmotiv.digital/publications...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/kam... Kamerleden bezorgd: bedrijf achter DigiD komt mogelijk in Amerikaanse handen

the omens are leaving less and less room for interpretation

Toni Morrison on racism and fascism

Environmental Sociology Now is now available for pre-order. You can order through @ucpress.bsky.social now and get 30% off the book with code UCPSAVE30. Exam copies for instructors will be available in early January. www.ucpress.edu/books/enviro...

Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively? Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7 cup.org/4hZNlcX

In 2024, we convened a group of 25 workers and organizers across the transportation supply chain. They traveled over 3 days and 600+ miles across Nevada to tour the frontlines of new lithium mining in the US. Watch our new documentary that follows their journey. climateandcommunity.org/nvfilm

this is how they’re gonna destroy public pensions btw

well maastricht university assistant professor matthew archer thinks AI is a socioecological disaster and unlike anthropic ceo dario amodei i have 1) a lot of evidence to support that claim and 2) no reason to want it to be true

and a gløgg with æbleskiver

This is what genAI "guardrails" are, and why they are inherently insufficient. genAI inherently outputs the statistically most likely sequence of words, and "guardrails" are basically just a list of words to filter from that output to the user. And they stole literally all the words to train on.

i spent less time in copenhagen than i spent on the train from maastricht, but i did have time for a hotdog.

well the new york times let peter singer write harriet mcbryde johnson's obituary, so....

The people at CBECI were kind enough to send me a copy of their updated Bitcoin power consumption data At the end of 2024, Bitcoin's total consumption for 2024 *did* end up matching that of Pakistan. 2024 saw the biggest jump in power consumption ever. Absolutely wild stuff -> ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci

In a new article for @anthropologica.bsky.social, I explore how #transport infrastructures in northern #Manitoba 🇨🇦 shape community life & #governance. It demonstrates that #infrastructure is deeply social, political & intertwined with #climate & colonial #history. doi.org/10.18357/ant...