Be Loud. Create Large Residuals.

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster. The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

The preprint of 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣, 𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚: 𝘼𝙄 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 is now available on EdArXiv. The paper presents a definitive academic critique of AI detectors. doi.org/10.35542/osf...

is this 🦋 squeeveillance (benjamin 2024)?

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

NEW An EPA report found that PFNA, a chemical in the drinking water of some 26M people, interferes with development and likely causes liver problems & male reproductive harms. The report was done in April, scientists told me. But the agency hasn't released it www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

fall fell in maastricht

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers. www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Ai companies be like “the price of tulips bulbs will rise ever higher!”

“quantum tunneling” alright then

BREAKING: The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has voted to let BlackRock buy Allete, the company that runs Minnesota Power.

Today, @lookheron.bsky.social argues that, for higher education, it's been one battle after another: how the neoliberal era laid the groundwork for the recent authoritarian turn.

"Eat less meat, and more beans, nuts and vegetables — especially if you live in the rich world. The shift could prevent about 15 million premature deaths a year globally and cut farm emissions by 15%."

a classic

Highly recommend Melissa Aronczyk's dissection of PR firms as "the glue joining carbon based industries, media orgs,& economic sectors using coalitions, campaigns & other coordinated processes to question the efficacy of science, news & political institutions engaging climate related issues" ~34:30

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spooky season

“Indigenous teenager teaches Paakantyi language to teachers at Menindee school” 👏🏼 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

something i've been thinking about a lot for years (and @fasterandworse.com captures really well youtu.be/Io-bCG32ehU) is the conflation of technologies with products i articulate it like this: a technology is an encapsulation of a capability, whereas a product is an encapsulation of a relationship

From opening grocery stores to launching online delivery services, I traveled to rural Mississippi to highlight the work of two Black women who are reimagining how their communities eat and thrive. This is part of the RNN's "Sowing Resilience" series. capitalbnews.org/black-women-...

In Europe, a major producer of soya-based foods for human consumption is Alpro; typically for such producers, none of its soya comes from Brazil: mostly from Europe, with some from Canada www.alpro.com/uk/ingredien... Globally the vast majority of soya is used as feed:

NEW✨ Does #corporate #sustainability count for anything? Evelyn Langford @manchester.ac.uk reviews Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability by Matthew Archer @nyupress.bsky.social.

A nice review of #Unsustainable in the @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social. Thanks to Evelyn Langford for a generous and engaged review! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... @nyupress.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

luigi did “very well” at the maastricht dog show yesterday.

This piece argues we’re in not one, but three AI bubbles: 1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations, 2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers, 3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises. Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.

One month until publication for _Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels_. Tom Rogers and I lay out the linked history of the US and Brazilian ethanol programs and explain why they matter for energy, climate, and politics. Pre-orders available now! www.oupress.com/978080619601...

'Something is working' (it's China)

"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale." It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability. Coincidence? I think not.

this exists it is called thinking

the most delicious white pu’er from yunnan tea from: www.hermitagetea.org/product-page... and the exquisite little teapot is from: @inclay.bsky.social

What happens when your landlord turns your home into a surveillance zone? From facial recognition cameras to automated fines, tenants are finding their daily lives policed in new ways. Hear Erin McElroy on Against the Grain unpack the rise of “landlord tech.” Full interview → kpfa.org #KPFA #BayArea

💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

In rural Georgia, residents are waking up to the massive impacts that "hyperscale" data centre projects will have on local habitats, water and air quality -- and starting to push back. buff.ly/7PyHWjc

it's less "AI drives people to kill themselves" and more that "tech companies do it, and are indifferent about it". and, bleakly, some journalists seem determined to convince you that the focal point of this story is a high point of engineering rather than a low point of humanity

these people live in a total lalaland where they think st*phen m*ller sits around all day reading nytimes opeds open to being convinced that professors are no longer the enemy.

It’s out! The Price of Gold is available NOW to order through @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social and fine retailers online. Will be frantically peeking in bookstore windows soon!

“In this position paper, we expand on why universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity.” — from: zenodo.org/records/1706...

i've written a blog post about why I think we should reject generative AI in the university: languagemechanics.neocities.org/no-gen-ai

If you want to see my PhD subject at its finest, the property's vast array of cabinets - Dutch Atlantic world ivory and ebony, Japanese nanban lacquer, hybrids of Chinese kuan cai and European japanning - will be opened for a rare yearly glimpse into their interiors in October 👇

chief economist of Triodos bank argues that the demise of the Net Zero Banking Alliance demonstrates that binding regulations are necessary: 'capital rules, binding climate obligations, fines' www.dekleurvangeld.nl/artikelen/20...

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new method for measuring forest fragmentation paints a bad picture. targeted conservation more important than ever. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨🚨 Denmark has cancelled the vote on the EU's 2040 climate target after major countries, including Germany and France, blocked progress. 🚨🚨🚨 pro.politico.eu/news/204627 (€)

it’s a great time to be teaching a course called “social and environmental impacts of the digital economy.”

play date with brother

🚨 Important paper in Nature: "Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors". www.nature.com/articles/s41...

big congrats to @stefanoponte.bsky.social whose new book Value Struggles is out *open access* with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social. an important addition to the literature on valuation studies and value chains (not least because it brings those fields together) 🤓📖🍷 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/value-str...

mark my words they will eventually turn on charles murray