The claim that “emissions have come down” in this @nytimes.com @sominisengupta.bsky.social article on where we are ten years post-Paris is FALSE. Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024. As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

egregious consent manufacturing bothsidesism from @theguardian.com 'some experts say' extrajudicial killings? so are some other credible people saying that they were judicially ordered? do some other legal experts say that if someone is a 'known drug trafficker' they can be murdered at will?

Une recension d'Un taylorisme augmenté par François Jarrige dans La vie des idées.

just normal germany things

Nancy Pelosi’s trades over the years have been so good that a startup was created to allow investors to directly mirror her portfolio.

Look, Exxon isn't stupid. Malevolent, sure, but not stupid. If they could make the type of money they could off of renewables they would jump, but they can't and they know it and we need to be honest about this.

Fascinating. The bluffers guide to the railway bubble vs the actual historians. And why Britain has such a lousy railway system.

I am sorry WTAF are we doing and why are we allowing them to do it??? NO COUNTRY PLANS TO REDUCE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS

on the occasion of my seeing zamrock legends WITCH live in Berlin ft. their original lead singer from the 70s crowdsurfing, inviting people up on stage and snacking on various fruits while singing, I am once again asking if any jacobin subscribers can send me this article jacobin.com/2025/06/heav...

to quote el hotzo

Enjoying the irony of Norway's oil investment fund having "ethics rules". An oil fund! It's like a serial killer having ethics rules about where he can and can't bury the bodies.

He is proposing five municipal grocery stores

Il faut cesser avec ces idées fausses qui ont pour but de présenter l'IA comme inévitable ou comme nécessaire, tout en écartant les effets réels de cette technologie : surveillance de masse, destruction de l'environnement, exploitation des travailleurs, etc.

on the occasion of my seeing zamrock legends WITCH live in Berlin ft. their original lead singer from the 70s crowdsurfing, inviting people up on stage and snacking on various fruits while singing, I am once again asking if any jacobin subscribers can send me this article jacobin.com/2025/06/heav...

NEW: The latest climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have driven only a slight fall in predicted global temperature rise over the course of this century. The UN Emissions Gap Report finds that implementing current policies would lead to up to 2.8°C of warming, down from 3.1°C. 🧵

Solange die Energiewende dem Markt überlassen bleibt, wird sie nicht stattfinden. Jeder Zuwachs an Energie wird genützt, um noch mehr elektrische Weinflaschenöffner, Wegwerf-T-Shirts und Raketenwerfer zu produzieren. Der Gesamtenergieverbrauch muss sinken, das geht nur mit Regulierung.

This @oilchange.bsky.social report into how Aus, Norway, the US and Canada are going hell-for-leather on oil and gas is pretty incredible. This graphic stood out to me: oilchange.org/publications...

My always reminder that all men in academia and the arts should read this: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/ess...

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

UNRWA says October 'on track to be the most violent month' since it began tracking settler violence in 2013.

It's not often that a students of yours publishes a book while they are still doing their PhD... 🎉

it's very cool how now when you get the train from paris to berlin, the train stops while men with guns get on and check everyone's papers. feels retro, like being in the grand budapest hotel, or a stefan zweig story

La population de la bande de Gaza a cru en la fin de la guerre génocidaire. Ces espoirs, douchés par les attaques israéliennes dans la nuit du mardi 28 au mercredi 29 octobre, aggravent le traumatisme dont elle souffre. Entretien avec Fadel Afana, psychiatre gazaoui. Par Gwenaelle Lenoir

I find this hard to forget. The world’s new climate plans achieve less than one-sixth of the emissions cuts needed by 2035 to stay below 1.5 °C How is this not headline news everywhere? www.theguardian.com/environment/...?

Scaling up AI relies on an extremely concentrated supply chain, unprecedented levels of investment, and the support of world governments — it's not a law of nature, it’s an immense project that only proceeds through deliberate effort. Again, AI is not inevitable. 8/n

This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...

There is probably plenty going on inside Bill Gates' head, but I reckon one of the most parsimonious explanations of why he's sagely pronouncing that climate groups need to stop worrying about short-term emissions targets can be found in the sustainability reports of the company he founded.

”Since that 2015 global deal, the world’s richest 1% have burned through more than twice as much of the remaining carbon budget as the poorest half of humanity combined, says the report.” Isn’t it odd that Gates thinks mitigation is pointless? #Inequality www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)! If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!

I’m thrilled to share that my new article, “Platforms, Digital Single Market, and the Hope of Trust: Online Platform Imaginaries of the European Commission,” has now been published in @transnationallt.bsky.social. 💫 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📖 I am excited to share the publication of my article "International human rights law in content moderation and the risks of ‘misdiagnosing’ its limits" on Transnational Legal Theory Journal! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/

The world is deeply unserious about dealing with climate change. We need to reduce emissions by 50% in 5 years and we're nowhere near that.

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Trump has never been supportive of green technologies, but in his second term he has made a concerted effort to wreck climate policies. The world now has a carbon bully, as one expert put it. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.03% of global CO₂ emissions but faces almost unimaginable loss and damage in coming days at the hands of wealthy nations. It's heartbreaking and utterly damning.

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

Public service decline → more far-right support: I summarize evidence from several coauthored studies in a new post for the @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social series on Fascism and Liberalism.

German “hate speech” laws are already troubling, but their enforcement has become alarmingly disproportionate, unconstitutional, and incompatible with a free society. When investigation becomes punishment, the rule of law itself is at risk. Check out my latest blog post at @futurefreespeech.org

My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 PhD Vacancy – Generative AI in the Media 🚨 Exciting opportunity to join us on the @algosoc.org project, working with @jpquintais.bsky.social, @cgoanta.bsky.social & @natalihelberger.bsky.social. 📅 Closing date: 31 October 2025. 🔗 More info: http://bit.ly/47flgcR @ivir-uva.bsky.social

6 years of joint work with so many colleagues and students 700 pages deconstructing the EU apparatus of power from Z to A 500 officials individuals identified in office b/w 2014 and 2020 122 allegedly implicated in ICC crimes Next: the 2021-2025 suspects www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

eigentlich hätte er auch gleich "doitsche! wärrrt oich! därrr donkelhoitige wäll oire töchter mässbrauchen!" sagen können.