In "Heat Is a Power Relation: Standards, Standpoints, and the Intimacies of Comfort," Sasha Crawford-Holland analyzes how media distribute thermal dis/comfort, arguing that heat is not only a physical relation, but a power relation. @sashach.bsky.social Read for free now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Please read my interview with Métis archaeologist Dr Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social! We discuss the role of media technologies in documenting histories of colonial genocide at residential institutions in Canada. worldrecordsjournal.org/the-end-of-a...

"Just Evidence," the World Records volume that I edited with @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social and LaCharles Ward @blurrdblue.bsky.social, launches today! It asks: What does accountability look (and sound and feel) like? Read the intro here: worldrecordsjournal.org/just-evidence/

Wrote a column thenarwhal.ca/seasonal-dep... and talked to CBC's Allie Jaynes www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb... about how wildfires, smoke, extreme heat and other effects of climate change are making summer a bummer, and why I'm trying to push past my sadness about it to tap into my anger, and love.

Our new issue of the London Review of International Law is out with articles by Tanja Aalberts, @ingovenzke.bsky.social, Gavin Sullivan, Wouter Werner, Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, Andrew Williams, and the Medellín Group. academic.oup.com/lril/issue/1...

Excited to be presenting some work at UCSB next week! Hope to see you there

Over the course of the summer, pieces from the forthcoming issue of World Records, titled "Just Evidence," co-edited by LaCharles Ward, Sasha Crawford-Holland, and myself, will be released. The full issue with introduction will be available late summer! worldrecordsjournal.org/category/vol...

A new co-authored piece that critically examines open-source investigation’s increasing reliance on—and deference to—the law. Written with Sasha Crawford-Holland and Andrew Williams. doi.org/10.1093/lril...

Forensic techniques have become a dominant form of artist-activist media practice. Running across the festival, Just Evidence, organised with World Records Journal, features screenings & events asking how these forensic practices can be reconciled to radical ends. opencitylondon.com/2025-festiva...

London pals-- hope to see you at these exciting events with @opencitydocs.bsky.social, where we ask: What does accountability look like?

Looking forward to learning from these brilliant people !

The tech world is pushing AI into everything and telling us it's both the way of the future and inevitable. Meanwhile, in the tech world:

This is exactly what they're trying to achieve by destroying government services that benefit the public. A VC-backed startup intervenes to gather data that the National Weather Service was previously collecting, and before we know it, we will be paying them for what was once funded by our taxes.

My latest: The mass firings at NOAA can feel abstract. Here's what was lost at one research center -- the birthplace of climate modeling. Fired staff became U.S. citizens to pursue these dream jobs, only to have their dreams upended.

even if you don't like the idea of the state on principle you will really not like what's left of it after the right hacks at it www.bostonreview.net/product/what...

trees are woke

This cover is a great example of why we need the 'A' in #STEAM. The A is for Arts, signifying the importance of incorporating creative thinking & design skills alongside #STEM allowing for a more holistic approach to problem-solving, innovation, and critically, communication, in education.

@urbaninstitute.bsky.social and @rwjf.bsky.social are collaborating on the Local Data for Equitable Communities grant program to fund 30 nonprofits $50,000 each to use data to improve local conditions that help residents live their healthiest lives. Learn more! localdataforequitablecommunities.org

As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network. All 2469 miles of it. Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.

This week, looking forward to teaching Fred Turner's defense of bureaucratic institutions against Silicon Valley's ethos of moving fast and breaking things. Somehow seems relevant? 🤷 🙃 harpers.org/archive/2019...

In 2018, Google introduced policies that excluded applying AI to weapons, surveillance, and technologies that “cause or are likely to cause overall harm.” Now that promise is gone. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

As Trump scrubs federal websites of important information, remember that non-profit organizations have been archiving a lot of this information. Internet Archive federal end-of-term crawl: blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e... Environmental Data and Governance Initiative: envirodatagov.org

🪨 A snow forecast is not chiseled in stone one time delivered by an old man descending a mountain. 🌳 It’s a living, breathing document constantly ingesting new data and making amendments.

"This paper discusses the design and implications of a study that explored the potential for archives and library special collections to serve as historical environmental proxy data to support the reconstruction of the spatiotemporal spread of the American chestnut blight in Tennessee"

Some of my favourite Indigenous films available on NFB are: - You Are On Indian Land (1969) - Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993) - Qallunaat! Why White People are Funny (2006) - Ever Deadly (2022) Share yours!