Environmental and Indigenous activists were being labeled terrorists years before Trump took office. We tried to warn you, then… Have you heard of Jessica Reznicek? (from the vault: 2023: youtu.be/1ZDXJjFa7Gw)

Clearly the author of this column has never read Shakespeare. Or Mary Shelley. Or spoken to any Indigenous person.

Once again: See Plur1bus episode 2. I’m only two episodes in so maybe I’m late to the game but so far it seems to be pretty clearly an allegory about genAI

Good thread

This is Pluribus episode 2

This is true. Also strategists refuse to admit how progressive the core actually is

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, pearl jam, sounds garden, or Alice in Chains

AI and Race Science: How plans for “racial hierarchy”, “genetic optimisation” and “population culling” are circulating inside the billionaire Epstein and Big Tech networks

Jingle Jangle is criminally underrated

Why in the world does the media report breathlessly on every utterance out of tech billionaires’ mouths as if they’re the Oracle at fucking Delphi? Oh right because billionaires own the media.

Their explicit policy platform is to keep as many of us poor and dependent on bad wages as possible.

They’re fishing for a bribe

The entitlement and lack of self awareness in these quotes from Dems facing challenges is …. exactly why they are facing challenges

Trump’s tariffs are a bad idea Abundance is a bad idea There. Pretty easy. This is a discursive trick from Yglesias, a form of poisoning the well. “So and so is wrong about A so they are wrong about B.” It’s also hasty generalization: trying to cast any criticism of abundance in this light.

The subordination of the fundamental to the contingent is the most problematic habit of the modern worldview. In this case that all new “technology” exists as an inherent unquestionable good to which humans must adapt. People should listen more to anthropologists.

LAN party? I’m old enough to remember LapLink parties

I just finished a draft chapter on the "Green Revolution" in my new manuscript, and let me tell you it GOES HARD.

The deployment of “ai” is not a case study in diffusion of innovation or adoption of new technology. It is a case study in coerced implementation, it is social engineering by the elite class and it’s bad for people and bad for the planet

Omg MS WORD is now prompting me to chat with copilot every time I open a document PLEASE MAKE IT STOP

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Wait is it possible that the Cali redistricting push has given Kiley some incentive to actually work for his job? Huh....

As heartbreaking and catastrophic for science and society as the NCAR news is, despite being predictable, its just more evidence that all these people know how to do is tear things down. They will never build anything good. And that strategy has a bottom. conservechange.medium.com/the-opposite...

Omg

The original definition of academic freedom came from the American Association of University Professors--the union for professors--in response to suppression against professors for being "too left" & it focused a LOT on universities not being beholden to corporate funders or wealthy benefactors...🧵

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

There is a non-zero chance of an AI-related mass suicide in the next couple of years

Serious question: Why even litigate this? Just ignore it. Make them litigate it. If CO brings it to court they are starting a process that could let this Supreme Court create (another) power the presidency doesn’t have.

It looks like a Minion.

These people lack any self awareness. It would only take the tiniest bit for them to think, “wait, hey maybe it’s me”

Is there a Christmas song on “The Chipmunks Christmas” that isn’t among the top 3 renditions of that song?

Supergirl trailer looks dope.

The Trump administration plans to require all foreign tourists to provide their social media histories from the last five years to enter the country. Yes, I said TOURISTS — not immigrants. This is insane. It will DECIMATE the U.S. tourism industry.

Loved Slice as a kid. Love the new spin on it. Can't wait to try it.

This is huge news in science 🧪 and in the food world! The 25 year old junk study on which the "safety" of glyphosate (RoundUp) has been based in US and Canada was finally retracted by the journal. www.science.org/content/arti...

Every accusation is an admission

The fact that “hostile takeovers” are even a thing should tell us all we need to know about our brand of capitalism

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is convincing people that life is supposed to be hard.

I really didn't think techno-optimism could get any worse and then we got LLMs.

What I want to know is what happens to all the “houses” www.cnbc.com/2022/02/01/m...

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cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

Early stage capitalism builds great things for profit. Late stage capitalism destroys them for profit.

Appreciate the senator’s concern here, but a whole lot would have to change to make AI as we currently know it a benefit to all people and the planet medium.com/age-of-aware...

#Fisheries are a key contributor to global food security. @brianpentz.bsky.social & @philiploring.com ask what are the impacts of democratic decline on marine fisheries, eg, on governance, & policy & suggest democratic decline is a major challenge to fisheries #sustainability doi.org/10.1111/faf....

My general philosophy on this and all other sorts of social support is that it is more important to not let someone needing help go without than to catch someone taking advantage. In my experience teaching, the cheaters were still bad students so this never really helped them anyway.

Capitalism has been giving us things we don’t actually want for so long the strategy is now threadbare and skill-less.

🧪Democratic regression is happening in key fishing and fisheries dependent states. It also has the potential to disrupt global fisheries governance. New paper with @brianpentz.bsky.social explores the trends, their ramifications, and sets out a research agenda onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mark Kelly for president

Wouldn’t dispute this in principle. But Christmas Chronicles has edged ahead of it in my own personal list of faves

🧪Democratic regression is happening in key fishing and fisheries dependent states. It also has the potential to disrupt global fisheries governance. New paper with @brianpentz.bsky.social explores the trends, their ramifications, and sets out a research agenda onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...