"AI's cruel summer". I so appreciate how Nelson's piece contextualizes AI in a long history of technology & society. The hype makes it sound inevitable and final, instead of a critical moment to fund good participatory research & use our experience to do things better. #interdisciplinary #ethics

@kateriga.bsky.social Good to have you back on the air. Please take care of yourself❤️

What Solnit says!✊ www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-not-surre...

No surprises here, but sharing to help us all track the border bs. www.kjzz.org/fronteras-de...

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"Trautmann and the team won a grant from the National Science Foundation to research how their sand could help with coastal erosion. They learned that they could use biodegradable sandbags and plant native grasses to build back the marshes." sure was cool having an NSF

A dark day for America. People will die from losing food assistance and health care so that billionaires can get a tax cut. Shame on all those who played a role in turning this bill into law.

Who was MN Rep. Melissa Hortman in the MN Legislature? READ about her consequential leadership in this THREAD by @taniel.bsky.social. Take the time.

via Benedicto.Uribe on TikTok

On the three-year anniversary of the verdict in Depp v. Heard, I wrote about realizing the terrible truth that she was, in fact, the victim—and seeing the DARVO playbook weaponized against endless women online and in the courts ever since. spitfirenews.com/p/what-we-di...

if it takes years, has to be consequences for all these people, and even more for those who gave the orders.

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right. It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

This is the kind of work that helps us see the US-Mexico borderlands as a beautiful lively cultural homeplace to be cherished not just a menacing black line on a map to be armed to the hilt. No wonder they defund.

I’m leading over 175 Members of Congress to fight for the government’s free, easy-to-use tax filing service. Trump and Musk want to kill Direct File. Instead of caving to the billionaire tax prep industry, how about standing up for working Americans?

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

one of my favorites from yesterday

The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest.   It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.

Save the shrimp! 🦐 The Illinois gov makes this move even as T rump Admin shovels out more subsidies propping up maximum commodity crop production, #soilhealth be damned). www.25newsnow.com/2025/03/31/p...

LONG LIVE THE ACA. Happy 15th BIRTHDAY! EVERY ONE HAS A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION.🙏💜

So cool — Paris’s pedestrian streets are already some of its greatest joys and I can’t wait to see it with more www.reuters.com/world/europe...

again sheer naked ambition should be sending more Dems in the AOC / Crockett / Sanders / Frost etc direction

I have a short piece, "Arts-Based Environmental Research," in this nifty new & open access Field Guide to Mixing Social and Biophysical Methods in Environmental Research"-- over 40 contributions to inspire all kinds of researchers to mix it up! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #greensky

No prairie too small! Madison parks and engineering landcare on Starkweather Creek path includes managed burning to clear detritus, nourish soil, and support fire-loving pollinator friendly plants 🔥❤️🐝🦋🐦‍⬛🌼

"...comes on the heels of the U.S. Department of Defense deleting websites about the Navajo Code Talkers who were instrumental to America’s victory in the Pacific Theater in World War II." www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.

that's some cruel infrastructure right there

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE CANADA. Canceling $100M Starlink contract is a big FU to Elon Musk. BRAVO! betakit.com/its-done-its...

2 lies I hear from the right about the federal government: "The federal government has gotten so bloated!" The federal government is the same size it was when Kennedy was president. "Reagan was the last president to cut the federal government!" There were MORE fed employees when he left office.

"Trump has instructed the US Forest Service & Bureau of Land Management to increase logging targets and for officials to circumvent the US’s Endangered Species Act by using unspecified emergency powers to ignore protections placed upon vulnerable creatures’ habitats." Unspecified emergency powers.

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

I haven't really started to join any of the public protests yet. Thought I'd wait just another week or two til doge cuts my nonprofit federally supported job promoting good agriculture -- I'll have so much more time!

Terrifying headline and one more reason for all of us who believe in public/shared/inclusive/representative space (including spaces for public discourse) need to gird for battle. Because SWFs *can* be used for good: "Keep public lands in public hands," www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

the alacrity of obedience going on all around just overwhelms

Scientists on the front line of permafrost thaw describe changes in the Arctic @michaelemann.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

President Sheinbaum put this out several days ago, but it's so good, and such a sweet antidote to lack of resistance elsewhere, I had to post it here for anyone who hasn't heard the whole thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqA...

how do I already know that Oxford's word of the year for 2025 is fuckery?

Submit to the Wisconsin Writers Awards by Feb 7! Open to any writers in Wisconsin—or who lived here a good while -- and who published work in 2024. Book length work ($1000) short-form in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry ($500) plus more! #booksky #poetrysky artlitlab.org/programs/wwa

For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts. Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent

This is Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll. Last Friday he refused Justice Department order to identify & assist in firing all agents involved in Jan. 6 riot cases, He is said to have pushed back forcefully. Thank you Brian Driscoll!🇺🇸

vimeo.com/190614417. Not a new video by Ale Damiani, but timely

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o... i appreciated this good read amid the chaos of things, offering the long view, interesting statistics, and a powerful focus on the 'fire of human aspiration'

Right on www.channel3000.com/video/dane-c...

have a powerful day y'all

The Navajo Nation has received proposals for hotels, gondolas, etc. in the heart of the longest contiguous wilderness in the U.S., with most profit going off-reservation to non-indigenous companies. Now, members have a proposal to permanently protect the confluence as sacred. May it succeed!

*sigh* this just about sums it all up right now...

I haven't finished this book yet, but so far it's fitting company for this dark moment. Nayler's world is an appropriately dystopian one, especially its imagining of corporate AI off the rails, but his creative mind-expanding writing on our top-down, mind-body divide is the perfect antidote.🐙