Must-read piece on the top non-negotiable priority of the Trump administration: a ceaseless assault on American liberties, due process rights, and the rule of law. Also, WTF:

It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

This sounds lovely. If you do not know: Palestinian food is some of the most delicious and healthiest there is. And if you would like to learn Arabic, the Levantine dialect is one of the easiest and most beautiful dialects... so a good place to broaden your horizon

Anyone who evangelized the deeply racist French novel The Camp of the Saints is a deeply evil person. Though that is obvious.

🍉🇵🇸🍉I've been taking Arabic classes with Ahmed, and his Tabbouleh Language School, for over a year now. It's been wonderful. Ahmed and his wife Bianca are in Nablus, Palestine, and are offering a variety of Arabic and cooking classes. They have asked me to share this flyer 👇 www.tlsarabic.com

Hoy, 12 de diciembre, se cumplen 10 AÑOS de la adopción del Acuerdo de París. He querido preguntar (como hice en 2022) a 8 especialistas qué piensan del objetivo de 1,5 ºC y las COP, dos elementos claves del pacto que guía la acción climática global. Esto dicen: climatica.coop/10-anos-del-...

Sending this email response more and more. "Dear XXX, your email reads (and is detected) as generated entirely or mostly by chatgpt or other AI. As a real human, I don't want to spend any of my real brain on reading or responding to computer-generated spam. Warm wishes, Julia"

Hi! Waves 👋. Over the past year, I have come to terms with ADHD diagnosis, started treatment, and tried to organise my life better. I have learned a lot. This document summarises 99% of it - I wish I had had this ages ago. drive.google.com/file/d/1Os9E...

The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest. In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵 scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...

Hi! Waves 👋. Over the past year, I have come to terms with ADHD diagnosis, started treatment, and tried to organise my life better. I have learned a lot. This document summarises 99% of it - I wish I had had this ages ago. drive.google.com/file/d/1Os9E...

“I’ve been amazed by the groundswell of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to this....everyone is affected by this, the opposition has been across the political spectrum. A lot of people don’t see the benefits coming from AI and feel they will be paying for it"

Queensland Museum has been accused of misleading teachers and children about the root cause of the climate crisis through a multimillion-dollar misinformation partnership with one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

What 👏 The 👏 Actual 👏 Fuck 🤯 "Education program sponsored by SHELL’s Queensland GAS Company: Climate obstruction dressed up as education." #ShellToHell Queensland Museum

I live in a tri and sometimes quadri-lingual context, so I use tools like deepl and google translate quite often. Please beware, deepl has a new AI translater that just makes up crap, in my case a petition with a link that goes to a fishing website. Avoid at all costs.

"AI is just like calculators" Show me a calculator sold with the warning "outputs may be incorrect. Please check answers before using"

Closing the airspace over a foreign country is a de facto declaration of war but we’ve pushed so far into “let’s conspicuously underreact so everyone knows we’re savvy people not overreacting to Trump” that his de facto declaration of war is literally not even being reported on the news

The extent of global sea ice cover is more than 3 million square kilometers below the 1981-2010 average. This is the 2nd lowest on record for this date over the satellite-era. Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

Read this great WSJ story about how top Trump advisors think chucking Ukraine to the wolves is worth being able to do business with Vlad back-to-back with this great Guardian story about the repercussions of that judgement: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

joining the war on AI on the side of bong joon ho

The full quote if anyone was curious: "Critical pedagogies recognise the importance of mathematics and statistics as tools for understanding, interpreting, and addressing issues of power and inequity, both in the classroom and in the wider world."

A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison. Tonight he’s finally free. Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida. He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank. He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies

AI makes everything worse, and science and all of us stupid. Authored by AI, reviewed by AI, edited by AI, published by AI. Next? cited by AI.

REALLY chuffed to be invited to @parismarx.com's incredible @techwontsave.us pod to talk about not just the climate harms we face from an uncontrolled data centre expansion but the way companies enacting it seem to think they're cape-wearing climate superheroes -->>> techwontsave.us/episode/304_...

I truly cannot fathom that Eminem is mainstream. He abused his wife, sings about killing her, drove her to attempt suicide... and that's all cool? Men really are incapable of seeing women as human.

ICE is arresting husbands & wives at their final green card interviews They’re going to the immigration meeting to complete the final step in the legal process and leaving in handcuffs One man had to take his crying infant from his wife’s arms as ICE forcibly detained her This is cruel entrapment

Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”

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-...

"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals." An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.

"Thanksgiving"

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

Shabana Mahmood, has announced plans for the biggest overhaul of the UK asylum system in decades. Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, a former child refugee, has said that the home secretary is seeking to “use children as a weapon”.

"Starvation, economic collapse, civil unrest and wars are among the risks we face if we don’t take decisive action to limit further global warming and preserve nature, leading experts in #climate, food, health and security warned today in London" @nebriefing.bsky.social

I know we're all focusing on the chat gpt thing but this is an absolutely insane way for the observer and also glinner to refer to an ecofacsist who believes that trans people were invented by jews to eliminate humanity and that mass bombing campaigns should happen for the enviroment.

According to local Syrian media, the IDF which occupies all of Palestine, much of southern Lebanon, and huge swathes of southwestern Syria, attempted to arrest a Syrian civilian tonight in Beit Jinn but was met with resistance from the locals, and in turn the IDF killed two people via airstrike.

This is corporate manslaughter! Every new well that Shell sinks kills more people. Recent cutting-edge work by #climate scientists demonstrates how we can now attribute the deaths that will be caused from individual oil & gas projects... www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.

With ALT. This is legitimately terrifying. This is a MASSIVE escalation of violent anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. It’s almost as if they knew unleashing the military into American cities would lead to violence and they were already planning to use that violence to justify this.

@mark-carney.bsky.social gave Dani Smith a sweetheart pipeline deal that lets her and AB ignore environmental laws. Do you think every other Premier is going to sit silent? Or will they want similar deals that let them off the hook for following the laws of this land? #UtterCorruption

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast. She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

Debate today with a Labour MP on the economy. Also with a former advisor to George Osborne. Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system. Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼 youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...

They're going to jump onboard just as everything crashes 😅

Btw this is in no small part Trump's hissy fit over not getting the Nobel peace prize.

Trump has ordered a massive military buildup in the Caribbean. After months of lethal strikes at sea, Trump is threatening to expand this illegal unauthorized war to Venezuela. We don’t need another war. We need health care for all.

Eerily similar to the Bill Gates talking points

“The neoliberal thinkers provided the ideas, the fossil fuel industry provided the money to spread those ideas all over the world. & now, we live in the monstrous offspring of this marriage of conviction & convenience.” - @jksteinberger.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/daringin...

"No hay victoria posible en la lucha climática en este contexto de desinformación", repite @jksteinberger.bsky.social Lo + importante de la COP30 hasta hoy: una alianza de países para que los algoritmos dejen de premiar los bulos Lo cuento en @lavanguardia.com www.lavanguardia.com/natural/camb...

I still stand by these, even as universities around the world, including my own, brainlessly capitulate to AI.