still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Like, I cannot believe that capital took at look at climate breakdown and said, “yeah no, we’re not going to decarbonize; we’re going to build tens of thousands of huge conglomerates of machines that use a shit ton of water and methane instead.”

New study: most climate models underestimate the decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC. The AMOC is on course to slow by more than 50% by the end of the century. 🌊 Very likely the AMOC will then be past the tipping point for full shutdown. 😨 us.cnn.com/2026/04/16/c...

This is how disciplines die. Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

This is completely outside of the realm of anything remotely normal for abnormal weather.

The best time to have invested in renewables, walkable cities and transit to avoid the oil crisis shock was twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

Fossil capital throwing its weight behind authoritarians is a reaction to the democratic power of the global climate movement 2017-2022. Remember: over those years everyone discovered that carbon-dioxide removal is hard, so for fossil capital global decarbonization would have been apocalyptic. 1/2

“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯 - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

The case for gender studies programs has never been stronger.

The science bros. (Add in Pinker and Trivers to the list at the end of the articles) This is the world I inhabited as a working scientist. No wonder I always felt out of place and blamed my own personality failings. www.science.org/content/arti...

“Technologieoffen” = auf ewig gefangen in der Straße von Hormus. www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

Interesting Interview on many levels.

Der Emissionshandel sollte die marktwirtschaftliche Lösung der Klimakrise sein - und sie funktioniert. Nun soll Lobbydruck all die Firmen bestrafen, die entsprechend investiert haben, und die Versager belohnen. Das darf nicht wahr sein 🤯! www.taz.de/!6151799

Das ist ein hörenswertes Gespräch u.a. zu den aktuellen Epstein-Files - und welche Netzwerke sie offen legen, wie sich bestimmte Menschen einfach alles nehmen und alles machen können, ohne Konsequenzen. Super Wortmeldungen dabei. www.zdf.de/play/talk/au...

Die Epstein-Files belegen: Extreme Vermögenskonzentration schafft unantastbare Parallelgesellschaften, die den Rechtsstaat zersetzen. Eine progressive Vermögenssteuer ist daher nicht nur legitim, sondern die demokratische Notwehr gegen eine zersetzende Parasitokratie.

Cannot reccomend this strongly enough. For me personally so many elements of fascism whenever it emerges in the world seem to have a seed in the fossil fuel economy, the outrageous lies of climate denial. Fighting against fossil fuels = fighting against the tools of fascism.

Kolumne (wirkt fast nebensächlich heute, aber es hängt eng mit dem zusammen, was in den USA gerade passiert): Das sind die Leute, die tatsächlich hinter Trumps #Grönland-Obsession stecken. Die wahren Geschichten sind so grotesk wie furchteinflößend.Es ist aber alles belegt.

10/ Politicians igored them because warnings alone do not compel action in the face of organised vested interests. Fossil capital. Extractive industries. Short-term political incentives. Institutional inertia. These were always the real obstacles, not a lack of credibility.

Was wir 2025 normalisiert haben und bereuen werden: LLM beruhen auf dem größten Raub von geistigem Eigentum in der Geschichte der Menschheit. LLM produziert eine Generation ohne analytische Denkfähigkeiten. LLM brummt als globale anti-demokratische Manipulationsmaschinerie.

Aus der Reihe: Männer, die die Welt verbrennen. #thisisfine

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

So, jetzt mal Reposts hochjazzen ... HALLO BUCHVERLOSUNG! "Zeiten haben" für umme. Wo gibt's das schon?! Zwei Hauptgewinne in der Lostrommel! Alle Reposts nehmen teil, die bis 4. Juli 2025, 21.00 Uhr MEZ eingehen. Und - ich muss bekloppt sein - es gibt noch einen formschönen Recycling-Kuli dazu!

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"Die Menschheit hat beschlossen, ungebremst in die ökologische Katastrophe zu gehen – dieser Satz trifft im Großen und Ganzen leider zu." Nicht als bewusste kollektive Entscheidung aber als Summe vieler Teile. Danke fürs nicht mehr so tun als wäre es anders oder noch offen, @derbernd.bsky.social

An excellent text why the "constructive" use of AI in university courses is more than limited. And another "funny" thing I just realized is that LLMs do everything and worse that poststructuralist thinking has been falsly accused for decades: establish a disconnect between language and materiality.

Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?" My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.) The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope? Because Greta is right ..

Vorerst gescheitert? Was die Klimabewegung falsch gemacht hat – und was sich daraus lernen lässt. Auch für @_FriedrichMerz #Klima www.zeit.de/2025/47/klim...

Die Zahlen des Tages: - 1 Billion US-Dollar könnte Elon Musk in den nächsten 10 Jahren verdienen - 7 Milliarden US-Dollar Schaden hat Hurricane Melissa allein in Jamaika angerichtet - nur 800 Millionen US-Dollar haben die reichen Staaten für einen Fonds zur Kompensation von Klimaschäden mobilisiert

Exactly. So called identity politics and class politics go hand in hand. A good life for the many can only be created by acknowledging and embracing their empirical entanglement.

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

I was recently invited to present my thoughts on the role of universities in the #climate crisis Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice. Long 🧵😊

So No Kings 2 protests were: 75x as big as initial Tea Party rally in Philly About 200x in DC 200x in Boston 20x in Austin 7x in Houston

I think I understand the many reasons why people believe it's not worth it to phase out fossil fuels, but I also feel exhausted and vaguely insane living my life knowing that while the world seems normal on the surface, the fossil-fuel economy is, right now, breaking the world forever.

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

Examining our own behavior may also reveal the structural barriers to low-carbon living: inadequate public transport, meat-heavy food systems, fossil fuel subsidies, and norms that promote consumption. Recognizing those barriers is the first step toward dismantling them.

Das ist der beste Kommentar, den ich je zur deutschen Auto Industrie gehört habe.

Wie immer absolute Empfehlung 👇 Abonniert den Newsletter von @mspr0.de. Widerständig gegen die Verrohung, den Menschen und ihrer unteilbaren Würde zugewandt.

tapping the sign

Der Energiekonzern Eon sieht großes Einsparpotenzial durch bidirektionales Laden von E‑Fahrzeugen. Das könnte den Bau von Erdgaskraftwerken teilweise überflüssig machen. www.klimareporter.de/verkehr/auto...

In view of the recent dismissals of university staff commenting on Kirk Christie, it becomes all the more apparent that we need transparent, rule-based procedures in organizations that handle such exclusion decisions, and work independently from conventional organizational hierarchies.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material. Administrators caving to this is terrifying.

Update: The President of Texas A&M, the largest public university in the US, removed the Dean of the College and Chair of the English Dept just hours after coming under right-wing political pressure because a student recorded herself interrupting a lecture’s class that included topics on gender.

I keep coming back to this New Yorker cartoon:

Are you part of the Torment Nexus?

Wenn Ihr die komplette Erklärung von Prof. Dr. Brosius-Gersdorf lesen möchtet, hier ist die: Ich kann Euch das nur empfehlen. Sie ist aufschlussreich, auch dazu, wer alles sich bei ihr gemeldet hat & wer halt nicht. www.lto.de/recht/nachri...

Concrete is responsible for between 5 and 10% of global carbon emissions. Now Northwestern University have made a game changing break through and created carbon negative concrete electrek.co/2025/03/25/f...

“Das Klimasystem beginnt zusammenzubrechen” Nix einfach Bäume pflanzen. Wer das noch immer glaubt ist wirklich naiv. Wälder werden immer häufiger zu CO2-Quellen, EU-Länder tun so als seien es Senken. Unrealistische Annahmen. #Klimakrise Artikel: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...