social trust evaporated when dewalt and home depot convinced every person in the world they needed to own their own drill instead of go next door and ask to borrow their neighbors or go to the community shed and borrow one.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Tech hype isn't just marketing and PR—it's also alarm, paranoia, and propaganda. Fabian Muniesa argues today's hype matches what scholars Adorno and Horkheimer called reason's collapse into fascist madness.

MUSTS colloquium 'Mobilizing for #sustainable #agriculture? Coalition-building cycles among #environmental and #rural movements in #Denmark, 1960s-today' by Anders Blok. 📅3 June, 15:30-17:00 📍GG80-82, 3.002 @ccmmody.bsky.social sky.social @matthewarcher.bsky.social

Anyway, I am side-eyeing this, which I feel begins in an interesting enough way and then dies by a thousand charts giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... and draws some very conservative conclusions, driven by correlation, that worry me as a feminist sociotechnical researcher

totally unformed thought, but this seems part of a bigger trend of local politicians drinking the national politician koolaid and feeling like they are just totally unaccountable to their constituents. it's like the utah city council the other day who unanimously voted to approve a huge data center.

Members of the crowd react as the Box Elder County Commission votes unanimously to approve Kevin O'Leary's 9 gigawatt data center campus. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune)

I had a great conversation last week with the editors and contributors of Media Rurality, a new book from @dukepress.bsky.social. Listen and read for important interventions into the often narrowly urban focus of our field.

just because there are conflicting definitions of a concept or debates about the definition of a concept doesn't mean there's "no meaningful definition" of that concept. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

people arguing with a straight face that loose leaf tea is an ultra processed food. this is what i get for logging back on to this stupid website.

like....this is absolutely nonsensical. it's like saying a sprig of mint pulled out of your back garden and steeped in boiling water yields something that is 'ultra processed'. just baffling that this would even cross someone's mind.

it absolutely is not lol, at least no more than some slavic granny making pickles in her outhouse is producing UPFs. like do none of these people read?

that is not what "ultra processed" means like wtaf is going on in these comments

sure there is a wellness-to-fascism pipeline (old news at this point, tbh), but ultra processed foods are objectively bad and it is very weird to try and equate antiUPF with antivax. the evidence is very clear that high UPF exposure is horrible for your health, that UPFs are bad for the environment,

A timely and critical collective essay on 'the state of the state', written by five members of our Editorial Board @will-davies.bsky.social @andrew-barry.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social Linsey McGoey and Samantha Ashenden www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Paper alert: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Our researcher, Pablo Fernandez Velasco, together with Virginia De Biasio, connects the experience of ecological grief to place attachment and incommensurable losses.

The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972–2022)

Grappig hoe Vlaamse media nooit deze frame zullen kiezen

great thread on paul erlich, his legacy, and alternatives

11/ Commoner opened The Closing Circle with four laws of ecology: - Everything is connected; - Everything must go somewhere; - Nature knows best; - There's no free lunch. Each one is a rebuke to the linear thinking that produced the crisis in the first place.

5/ Ehrlich reduced human society to population biology. Commoner brought ecology to political economy. Where Ehrlich saw carrying capacity, Commoner saw feedback loops between capital, technology and nature. The difference in method produced the difference in politics.

2/ His instinct, that ecologists had a duty to speak publicly, that ecology deserved a central place in public policy, was right and important. But Ehrlich carried his training in insect population biology directly onto human societies. Humans aren't butterflies.

"A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles." /3

ok deleting this infernal portal from my phone, but before that some advice: drink more tea, support local artists, 读毛主席的书

«To collect photographs is to collect the world,» Susan Sontag once wrote. Where photography appropriated the world, generative AI exploits what has already been appropriated. To generate synthetic images is to let the world disappear behind the dominant patterns derived from already existing images

enough doomscrolling for the day/week, but: if you’re targeting water infrastructure you’re evil, and if you support this, at all, you’re also evil.

i saw a post recently that somehow migrated from the manosphere to whatever my digital milieu is, and it pains me to admit they’ve 1) discovered anthropology and 2) misinterpreted theories of initiation rites

I don't think I understand the outrage around Polymarket when the stock market exists. maybe im missing something

trump is married to an immigrant.

New Position: Associate or Full Professor in Cultural Studies at Maastricht University. We are looking for a senior colleague who is capable and enthusiastic to take on management roles. Please share widely. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3589...

AI slop in a mcdonald’s slop ad

new tag yourself just dropped

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“squeeveillance” essay published a year or two ago in surveillance & society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social

New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions" —reduction of work hours —consumption shift toward immaterial sectors —major change in food habits —a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment

New CAST report on "Hairdressers as ‘everyday influencers’ on climate change and sustainability", by Dr Briony Latter (@brionylatter.bsky.social) & Dr Sam Hampton (@samhampton.bsky.social). 📣💇 Read the report: cast.ac.uk/wp-content/u... Key messages thread 🧵

"surprisingly little attention has been paid to land in relation to pesticides—to the point of dismissiveness" Exploring the Pesticide-Land Nexus onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

imo everyone should read the essay from Salvage in the tweet below and also read this longer essay about opposition to war: www.academia.edu/64028197/Int... I totally understand the impulse to point to elite illegality but Rob lays out why that isn't as effective as it feels like it is/should be.

can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart. www.chronicle.com/article/insi... via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @mzahneis.bsky.social

Now online: 'A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979)' trans. Roberto Mozzachiodi.

what i love (read: don’t love) about duke press books is that you can read the title and subtitle and still have no clue what the book is about ♥️

belgian foreign minister: this is a clear violation of international law also belgian foreign minister: but who cares lol www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1999...

150+ countries admit what we already know: endless GDP growth and sustainable biodiversity cannot coexist. GDP growth = more extraction, more land use, more pollution. Death by GDP is a choice. We need a Wellbeing Economy! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads! www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...

we need a universally accepted gif response for when your first impulse on social media is totally wrong and someone corrects you and they’re absolutely right, something that’s friendly and not performative and not super cloying or apologetic

I wrote this essay last year, and it has just been published. Its publication comes at a moment of barbarism: yesterday, more than 100 children were killed in Iran as a result of a barbaric and unlawful attack by Israel and the United States.