Not only are the highly addictive, truth-agnostic output generators polluting our information ecosystems and degrading our knowledge practices, they're also materially exacerbating the ongoing effects of climate change in order to accomplish the above at scale. Heck of a job.

Episode 12 of Law at the End of the World is out, featuring the fabulous @emilyjones.bsky.social Bouncing off Liz’s chat with Emily, @prof-mac.bsky.social and I talk about how academics can contribute to positive transformative change, especially within environmental law.

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🗓️ 2-3 February 2026 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating) Deadline: 14th November Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

HELIOTROPE CfP: "We invite a wide range of submissions from anyone who studies topics at the intersection of culture, media, technology, and the environment. We consider “the environment” to be everything – from the molecular to outer space — i.e. not just the wilderness!"

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Pressing piece by my friend Adi Mansour. Do read! voelkerrechtsblog.org/epistemic-ap...

🚨 ONLINE EVENT Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social 📅 16 Oct 6PM BST 🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

Coming this year: Hegel 13/13 a multi-year project that explores the historical confrontations with G.W.F. Hegel’s thought, from 19th century to the present, with the aim of developing new critical perspectives and practices for today’s times of crisis. I am building the website now, stay tuned...

Looking forward to this (assuming they let me in)! constellations2025.weebly.com

Tomorrow at the n+1 office in Brooklyn! Join Alyssa Battistoni for a conversation about her new book, FREE GIFTS, with n+1 senior editor @cgvanderburg.bsky.social. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Do statehood and sovereignty persist when a state sinks? AURELIO CORNEO and JUDITH SCHERER examine what the ICJ says on this question in its climate advisory opinion and explore the issues of territory, population, and government in times of climate crisis. verfassungsblog.de/montevideo-c...

As always, important insights by Adam Shatz. Equally important to be aware of the initiatives organizing against repression and anticipatory obedience, including @krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social krisol-wissenschaft.org/en/ pja-verein.de @spore-initiative.bsky.social spore-initiative.org/en/

Wonderful paper by Evan Boyle: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"In the last 30yrs,... more [Carrara] marble has been removed from the ⛰️ than during the previous 2000... The finest white variety has been entirely depleted; the rest of the quarries could be emptied within 50yrs." In Carrara, marble "has come to be seen as a curse."

“Some don’t speak,” she told me. “They stare, sometimes scream. Most cry for hours, unblinkingly.” Children have asked Jarada if they could go back to school, as if normal were still hiding somewhere nearby. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

"A Right Foundational to Humanity’s Existence" 🌱 DAVID R. BOYD (@drdavidboyd.bsky.social‬), former UN Special Rapporteur, on the role of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment in the ICJ's advisory opinion on climate change. verfassungsblog.de/icj-climate-...

A gallery of shadow astronauts Part I 'The bodies are distorted, and also cyborg: in the shadow, flesh and camera meld into one amorphous shape.'

The richest 1% emit 100x the greenhouse gas emissions of those in the world’s bottom 50%, notes @profkepickett.bsky.social. “Inequalities of income, wealth and political power sit at the heart of the environmental crisis” @equalitytrust.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog 🔗

Oh cool! Quantum AI - which is totally a real thing you guys - is going to solve climate change for us. No need to worry any more. Thanks Aramco!

…Featuring a couple explainers about transoceanic communication cables!

🚨🚨 CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!! LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization. lawandpoliticaleconomy.org 🚨🚨

"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

Can't help thinking of @shannonmattern.bsky.social classic placesjournal.org/article/miss...

Tonight!

🌍 BREAKING: The UN #HRC just passed a #Climate & #HumanRights resolution, but without naming #FossilFuels. 💬 “We deeply regret the continued failure of the Council’s members to explicitly call for an equitable phase-out of fossil fuels, the root cause of the crisis.” - Sébastien Duyck, CIEL. ⬇️

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New podcast with me on AI, history, science, and the imagination on.soundcloud.com/WlEH1X8r3hhE...

One way of thinking about it is, why wouldn’t *I* use ChatGPT to write a paper? 1. It’s a matter of self-respect. 2. I believe my writing says something basic about who I am. 3. I believe research and writing are valuable activities. +

It's out and available open access! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pathology...

Where in the world is Europe? Next week Tuesday 10 June, around 15:00, I will present my essay on how Chapter 6 of Ben Judah’s book 'This Is Europe' challenges the conventional answers EU law provides to that question. Do join us! www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

The Call for Abstracts to our conference „The Land Question/Die Bodenfrage" just went online. The conference asks what it would mean to socialize land today, to democratize land ownership and reorient land use to fulfill social needs and ecological demands. criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...

Very excited to announce the first drop of a Special Issue Alain Pottage ‪@sciencespo.bsky.social‬ and I edit for ‪@theoryculturesociety.org‬ on “Planetary Property". Together with our brilliant contributors we seek to advance ecological critiques of property. journals.sagepub.com/toc/TCS/0/0

📍Episode 2 is live. Soon after Trump took office, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture purged vital climate-focused information from its web pages. @cristianfarias.com & @stephaniekrent.bsky.social discuss how our lawsuit with @earthjustice.org helped restore it. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

great piece by Jed Purdy: publicseminar.org/2025/05/ecol...

Please check it out in case you have ⏱️. Some friends already did & I can't say how grateful I am for your feedback. Academia is a communal project! @alonso-gd.bsky.social @deconinckjoyce.bsky.social @julianascrv.bsky.social @sjorspolm.bsky.social @timozandstra.bsky.social @judithbauder.bsky.social

'[H]e who controls the data infrastructure holds the keys to the government' - great piece by @salome.bsky.social @lpeblog.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/the-rig...

Worrisome for all of us who rely on EIA data: "More than 100 of the EIA’s 350 staff have left as a result of firings or resignations, in the wake of 'Fork in the Road' buyout offers from Elon Musk’s DOGE." www.propublica.org/article/the-... by @peterelkind.bsky.social 🔌💡

Happy May Day!! 😍🌹 youtu.be/15Nht-_smm8?...

Looking forward to presenting my paper 'Modeling Planetary Futures' at the @eui-eu.bsky.social infrastructure studies workshop on May 5th! Registration is open now: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

This collection looks absolutely fabulous if you're interested in international organizations, global governance, critical approaches to international law. With contributions from @dimitrivdm.bsky.social @riclements.bsky.social @littozmonnet.bsky.social

"We’re building a biomatter-powered low-cost webserver... This design will focus on low-carbon approaches to webdesign, reducing computational load, bypassing data center architectures, and experimenting with new graphical formats and protocols to create a form of web design minimalism..."

Now out and #openaccess: The Introduction to the Special Issue on Border Agnotologies: Power, Technology, Resistance by Claudia Aradau & Lucrezia Canzutti @cearadau.bsky.social @lucreziac.bsky.social Download and read for free: