Watch a new documentary about photography, memory and disappearance in Argentina by Piotr Cieplak.

Billions of people, possibly including you reading this, are alive today because you can run natural gas into a reactor and spit out ammonia (Haber Bosch). A large % of the installed base for that process is shut in or exploded. It’s northern hemisphere spring.

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Upside down, by the ankles, and then treat him like a piñata.

I can’t believe this needs to be said, but here we are. I truly don’t understand why ppl do this. If you don’t wanna do the work, just turn it down! It’s not like you get paid for reviewing. Or credit that counts towards your career development. Just say no and move on.

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Paul Conroy — a brilliant photojournalist who documented wars & human chaos for decades — has passed away. He was injured in the same attack in Homs that killed Marie Colvin & he just carried on travelling to conflict zones. May he rest in peace.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Israel has now killed more journalists than any other government since the Committee to Project Journalists began collecting records in 1992. The Israel-Gaza war is the deadliest conflict on record for journalists, the CPJ found. https://wapo.st/4aJGqBm

Greetings from Kyiv. Today, I came to visit them. To say thank you – our fallen Heroes 💔

It is a failure of imagination and morality to act as though the highest and only aim of human communication were the market-based accumulation of an audience.

"How dare you say shit about our fair city and our single child, when you won’t even help your own" clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

Honestly, I thought this was a pic of Duke Nukem.

This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.

How to be a journalist, by one of the best. Carlos Hernández died this week. @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gun violence is not just a security issue. It is a public health crisis shaped by inequality, gender norms, and the global gun market. Our new report argues prevention must move beyond policing towards health, equity and evidence. aoav.org.uk/2026/the-pol...

If anyone is interested in an AI haters cocktail meet up at #ICA2026, please let me know. I think it'd be cathartic.

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit

Written version available here: open.substack.com/pub/louisear...

Nothing happened, except that they killed one of the journalists involved in the investigation, Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia.

1-- Epstein was funding white nationalist stuff (see next post) 2- How is he making these many typos 3- I don’t even know what to say about Chomsky anymore

Yeah, don't give it back, it's past it's use by date. Honestly, if you can, buy him a new one.

Wow. Just wow. bit.ly/4rcswOY the future begins in a Petri dish

GAI in academia is such a disheartening lesson in how many people - when they think they won't get caught - will readily deceive their colleagues.

Amen! Amen! Can we have an “Amen”?

I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school. Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.

Langston Hughes on Patrice Lumumba on this the 65th anniversary of his assassination.

This is one of those stories that feels implausible, but not *quite* as implausible as you want it to be. Like I'm sure back then if you paid a guy who knew a guy you could essentially do anything there. And we know better than ever that most of the truly rich simply have no ethics. So... 🤷🏽‍♂️

This article is excellent: "...why study atrocities in Africa but not in Gaza? And it would raise a question that now haunts us: Was our work just a prop for advancing Western hegemony? Was conflict studies, even if inadvertently, an imperial science?"

One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Celebrating three #ICA26 rejections and counting. I'd like to dedicate these decisions to God, my enemies, and geopolitics.

Please consider passing this along: If you are a scholar interested in journalism and how it's coping with increasingly violent targeting and repression (see Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, even the US), please consider sending in an abstract. There are even bursaries available for early career folk.

Folks getting in the weeds about licensing agreements but this research study engaged me in research, by creating a bespoke dataset about me, before I agreed to participate. They already made the dataset before I was invited to participated. That's not how informed consent works

This was an excellent kick in the pants. I miss that blog era.

Libya and Iraq. “Those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it. Those who learn from history are bound to watch others repeat it”.

Compiling some reading recommendations i see on here on the situation in Venezuela, feel free to add your own bsky.app/profile/alda...

"Not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing all your people made them feel sad." - Frankie Boyle

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!

Less pettily, there's just so much in this amazing world to wonder about that it seems so sad to abdicate doing that.

My personal 2c on the AI in academia discourse is that if I discover you have used AI to replace your reading or writing, you are going on a literal list. I am that petty. I don't want to deal with people who don't actually understand their areas.

Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.

It’s absolutely disgraceful but it’s also been a very useful tool to assess who is worth listening to in my academic circles—the ones who are uncritical about gAI have lost me entirely. I distrust your judgement, your research skills, everything.

*I blame the speculative science fiction of AI-exuberant CEOs youtu.be/xiIKyTFCQik?...

Recalling Fanon's observation that perhaps we aren't mad, society is. For no particular reason. 🙃

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.