What does it say about human intelligence that it takes so much time for humanity to realize the intelligence of other sentient beings? www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

“Parents are being forced to stay home, students held out of school, fearing for their lives, all while the employer class remains silent...It’s time for every single Minnesotan who loves this state and the notion of truth and freedom to raise their voices...” paydayreport.com/minneapolis-...

The ecological costs of #overshoot: "Wildfires now destroy twice as much tree cover per year as two decades ago – a crisis fuelled by #climatechange." #ClimateSky www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

There's a scene in Man in the high Castle that shows this. Students start contesting readings and reporting teachers they don't like. New teachers arrive and we can only assume where the old ones went. The classroom scenes are a visceral visualization of this phenomenon. youtu.be/2ij6mO-IOog?...

Students were encouraged to inform on their teachers... in the Soviet Union. "A growing threat to #academicfreedom: Students who act as informants and police their classes and professors for signs of political incorrectness." #AcademicSky theconversation.com/theres-an-in...

"Chinese universities surge in global rankings as U.S. schools slip. Harvard... fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers." #AcademicSky www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

"Silicon Valley..began with the..promise of democratizing information and forging..human connections..That utopian mask has slipped, and now Big Tech is almost purely extractive..siphoning our attention, our data, and our..cognitive life force to power their bottom lines" jacobin.com/2026/01/john...

An important read by a renowned Italian journalist and writer, Paolo Rumiz: “Cara Polonia, pensaci tu a salvare l’onore della nostra Europa” www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

The ecological costs of #overshoot: "Wildfires now destroy twice as much tree cover per year as two decades ago – a crisis fuelled by #climatechange." #ClimateSky www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

#AI is a tool that previous totalitarian rulers could have only dreamt about. "AI isn’t just imitating creativity, it’s homogenizing thinking... Generative tools may be flattening creativity, innovation, and even self-understanding." #AcademicSky designobserver.com/suddenly-eve...

"Chinese scientists have detected plastic particle clouds hovering in the air over two large cities, indicating that these potentially toxic particles are far more abundant than previously thought." www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

"Now, Americans will no longer be told to vaccinate their children for hepatitis A, influenza, meningitis, and rotavirus... Falling vaccination rates, public health experts warn, could usher in more cases of diseases Americans haven’t worried about in decades." www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

"Alaskan wolf had the highest levels of mercury ever recorded in a wolf... the consumption of sea otters had rapidly increased mercury levels in the wolves... mercury has moved up the food chain, becoming concentrated in sea otters before ending up in wolves." www.outdoorhub.com/news/2026/01...

"As the planet warms, animals' traditional habitats change... Many animals have had to leave their homes to survive... Some animals become more scared and aggressive when forced out of their longtime homes, making them more likely to attack humans." #ClimateSky www.yahoo.com/news/article...

"Tiny plastic particles floating in our oceans may be making our rising temperatures worse... Microscopic..organisms called phytoplankton, which pull carbon from the air through photosynthesis, struggle to function when plastic particles block the sun." #ClimateSky www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Economic, political, and social #collapse will long precede the environmental collapse. There is more #resilience in nature as a whole than in human-made systems. OECD: "Everything from government budgets to home values could be on the line." #CimateSky finance.yahoo.com/news/experts...

"A nation does not renew itself by force. It renews itself when enough people decide that moral exile is unacceptable — and that dignity, once reclaimed, must be defended in public." www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

"The world has...crossed 6 of the 9 'Planetary Boundaries', namely the scientifically defined limits for Earth systems that keep the planet habitable.. 150 years ago, wild mammals accounted for..half of all [mammal] biomass. Today, they account for a vanishing 5%" blogs.worldbank.org/en/climatech...

"Students and teachers are staggering under the weight of endless classes and continuous assignments, and it is clear that the point is to stop students and teachers from having any time to do any critical thinking." #AcademicSky frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/j...

After Hitler came to power, Max Horkheimer was forced to leave academia. Soon after, he left Germany. "Those who are too weak to make a stand against reality have no choice but to obliterate themselves by identifying with it." 13/n

James Franck's message to the scientists working today on developing AI.

After Hitler came to power, James Franck, in protest, resigned from his professorship. "In the past, scientists could disclaim..responsibility for the use to which mankind had put their disinterested discoveries. We cannot take the same attitude now"- Franck Report #academicfreedom 9/n

One year after Hitler came to power, Karl Jaspers took an oath of loyalty to Hitler. He later wrote: "I deluded myself. I think back on it shamefully. I had not yet even considered the most extreme consequences, but still believed that a quick transformation of the nonsense.. was possible.." 8/n

After Hitler came to power, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was a Lutheran theologian and pastor, became an anti-Nazi dissident. The Nazis hanged him in 1945. "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil." #AcademicFreedom 7/n

After Hitler came to power, Erich Fromm left Germany. “When Fascism came into power, most people were unprepared... They were unable to believe that man could exhibit such propensities for evil, such lust for power..or such yearning for submission.” - Erich Fromm #AcademicFreedom 6/n

After Hitler came to power, Edith Stein, another of Husserl's students, was forced to quit her teaching position. She became a Carmelite nun and perished in Auschwitz. “Those who remain silent are responsible.” - Edith Stein #AcademicFreedom 5/n

One of Husserl's students, Hannah Arendt, was jailed by the Gestapo for her research on antisemitism prohibited by the Nazis and on her release, fled Germany. “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”- Hannah Arendt #AcademicFreedom 3/n

"Hitler's ambition, as I..judge..today, had only one aim: At any price to go down in history as a great man. Hitler achieved this goal 100 percent: He went down in history as one of the greatest tyrants" -Kurt Blome, a Nazi scientist who experimented on camp inmates, during the #NurembergTrials 19/n

"..The anti-Semitism found in Party and State laws was still to be considered in time of war as an emergency defense measure" - Ernest Kaltenbrunner, a lawyer, politician, and the leader of the Austrian SS, explains "an emergency defense measure" in the Third Reich during the #NurembergTrials 18/n

"People were arrested and taken into protective custody, who had not yet committed any crime, but who could be expected to do so if they remained free." - Hermann Göring, one of the leading Nazi politicians, explains "protective custody" in the Third Reich during the #NurembergTrials 17/n

"People can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger” - Hermann Göring, Nazi military commander during the #NurembergTrials 16/n

"I believed that I, as a simple citizen, did not have the right to criticize the measures of the State, particularly not at a time in which our country..was engaged in a struggle for life and death" -Fritz Fischer, a Nazi physician, who experimented on camp inmates, during the #NurembergTrials 15/n

"And now I probably still owe an explanation regarding my attitude to Adolf Hitler... To me, he remains the man who made Greater Germany a fact in German history." - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, a Nazi politician and lawyer during the #NurembergTrials 9/n

"Hitler's... was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development...Through technical devices such as radio and loudspeakers, 80 million people were deprived of independent thought." - Albert Speer, a Nazi official during the #NurembergTrials. 2/n

"Earlier dictators..needed..men who could think & act independently..Means of communication alone make it possible to mechanize the subordinate leadership. As a result of this..arises a new type: the uncritical recipient of orders" -Albert Speer, a Nazi official during the #NurembergTrials 3/n

"Hitler created a system in which all individualism, all sentiment of freedom, all personal opinion..was nipped in the bud and turned into slavery. He succeeded in this with the aid of a very small circle of closest associates" - Kurt Blome, a Nazi scientist during the #NurembergTrials 4/n

What Next? Next is the fall of the civilization that censors Plato. Sentencing Socrates to death did not save Athenian democracy. It accelerated its decline and ultimate fall. pen.org/press-releas...

"What we intended was to look after our elementary necessities of life, in the same way, that.. the US brought an entire continent, and Russia brought the largest inland territory of the world under their hegemony" - Joachim von Ribbentropm, a Nazi Foreign Minister, during the #NurembergTrials 6/n

How #democracy transforms to #autocracy: lessons from the #NurembergTrials. The transcripts from the Nuremberg Trials and the defendants' statements help us understand how the democratic Weimar Republic transformed into a totalitarian Third Reich. Below is a thread with selected excerpts. 1/n

"Silicon Valley..began with the..promise of democratizing information and forging..human connections..That utopian mask has slipped, and now Big Tech is almost purely extractive..siphoning our attention, our data, and our..cognitive life force to power their bottom lines" jacobin.com/2026/01/john...

After Hitler came to power, Adorno's right to teach was revoked. Soon after, he was forced into exile. “Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.” - Theodor W. Adorno. 12/n

When Hitler came to power, von Braun was a doctoral student. He joined the Nazi rocket development program and the Nazi party. After WWII, he developed rocket technology in the U.S. He wrote SF novel about a man Elon colonizing Mars "Science does not have a moral dimension"- Wernher von Braun 11/n

"When these places are lost it changes us at our core... But if each of us dwells in nihilism and despair then we cannot do anything... If we cannot use anger to fuel us but in a way that is driven by love and compassion, then what are we here for?" #ClimateSky

"When these places are lost it changes us at our core... But if each of us dwells in nihilism and despair then we cannot do anything... If we cannot use anger to fuel us but in a way that is driven by love and compassion, then what are we here for?" #ClimateSky

"Epistemia: a structural situation in which linguistic plausibility substitutes for epistemic evaluation, producing the feeling of knowing without the labor of judgment." osf.io/preprints/ps...

"We should admit that widely-mandated climate optimism has been actively harmful to the needful acknowledgement of reality – and to the active collective self-protection that we now desperately need to get serious about making happen." #ClimateSky www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

Amazon Is Shifting Into a 'Hypertropical' State Unseen For Millions of Years "If we're just going to emit greenhouse gases as much as we want, without any control, then we're going to create this hypertropical climate sooner." www.sciencealert.com/amazon-is-sh...

"We’re...living through...the planet’s sixth mass extinction. Unlike earlier events triggered by natural catastrophes, today’s accelerating losses are overwhelmingly driven by human activities... With every extinction, we lose not just a species but a treasure..." theconversation.com/with-every-e...

“My children have no memories of the winter I grew up with.” “I can handle it being hot. But when you can’t get water, that’s something else completely.” “We can’t plant in the fall like we used to. The plants dry up and die.” “I do feel a sense of loss...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Wildfire smoke is a national crisis, and it’s worse than you think. "Emissions of greenhouse gases and airborne particles from wildfires globally may be 70% higher than once believed.. Canada’s wildfires in 2023 significantly worsened childhood asthma across the border" grist.org/health/wildf...