Hard to overstate how transformative Jane Goodall was as a scientist. She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.

Learned a new word today - „globalcentrism“ - and by Jove can you please just call it capitalism

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

Quite amazing to go ahead and just argue that the people who are being subjected to a genocide have to be deradicalized This is, btw, a population management counterpart to Trump’s Gaza peace plan. One steeped in colonial practices from decades/ages past

This is very, very bad.

There has been a global mobilization of the younger generation in the South that has gone almost entirely unreported in the West, experiencing it's own shock at the speed of fascism's return. still if the "Arab Spring" foreshadowed OWS… www.lemonde.fr?preferred_la...

The onus is on the party committing genocide to stop committing genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to sign agreements in the hope of saving themselves from the genocide. This is obvious to anyone who isn't a psychopath.

tapping the sign

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

„It’s not fascism unless the military is used against the population.“ Well.

"What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline." Love this line by Adorno, as quoted in this truly brilliant essay by Jacob Blumenfeld: curedquail.com/Managing-Dec...

My Lai 2: This Time It’s Livestreamed is pretty much inevitable, isn’t it? Those IDF TikTok videos of kicking around civvies and looting their shit are our future.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

There are no words for the level of sheer disgust I feel looking at this. Adorno was right, there is no such thing as actual humanity yet.

If we go with the analogy of brakes having been 'slammed', then global emissions would be decreasing 📉 Instead, they have increased since the Paris Agreement was signed 📈 We've "slightly taken our foot off the gas." We don't do ourselves any favours by pretending otherwise.

Finally watched Eddington last night (very good, hot takes have the point flying over their head as usual, ending was glorious) and going to see OBAA today. Looking forward to seeing them both in this double feature-ish way, injecting 2020s insanity straight into my veins

every single person claiming to yearn for this would kill themselves if they were subjected to the tyranny of the 56k modem for one hour

In a new think piece for the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Marek Maj discusses how, before the Soviet Union's détente with the West, Polish scientists attempted to render intellectual labor more efficient by adapting and revising the Western managerial turn to motivation.

the more i read bernard stiegler the more completely it seems he called it. these people have spent the whole time connecting their desire/eros to the capitalist system, and now they are yearning for a story of it that produces a feeling for them despite having fried their "circuits of desire"

Things I had not expected to see today: Deutsche Bank making a numbers based argument that "AI" is a bubble and won't last https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Environmental damage is putting European way of life at risk, says report. But why are Europeans not doing much about it? Because it's the "European way of life" that's creating the environmental damage. So the point is not to save it, but to change it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

yes

Turns out the idea that went round at one point saying that classic denialism is losing force/gone mistook the particularity of its moment for the general state of affairs huh

It does not seem to have clicked for anyone that there are also ostensibly pro-climate energy analytics organisations doing something pretty similar to this in how they're approaching communications and advocacy......

Unironically I think this should be illegal. We should have the right to be dead.

This is exactly what was horrific about Ezra Klein saying Charlie Kirk did politics "in the right way." Read the whole @nytimes.com essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

Posting is a Faustian bargain where in exchange for degrading your mental health you intermittently get access to a far smarter meta-brain.

Danke Berlin! #AllEyesOnGaza

I feel ill.

I think one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made in academia over the last few years was treating tenure and academic freedom as a guaranteed right and not a labor relation. Had more understood it as the latter perhaps we would have been better prepared to protect it

News --> Steve Bannon tells me he fully expects Trump to use the Texas ICE office shooting as the hook to unleash law enforcement on liberal immigration groups by connecting political violence to anti-ICE rhetoric. This is going to get ugly. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2009...

“Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire (or the material conditions that shape desire)” Claire Wilmot @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The UK’s failure to hold this war criminal accountable means that he gets to continue plaguing this world. Trump wants to give Tony Blair “supreme political and legal authority” over Gaza for five years. “Supreme authority” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Everyone, please read this book immediately. I am serious.

Historians: you cannot learn from the past, this is not what history is about Also Historians: NO WTF ARE YOU DOING THIS IS LITERALLY WHY SHIT HIT THE FAN THE LAST TIME

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

since a lot of ppl are discussing the ICE camp shooter's apparent lack of ideology, i would like to posit that online irony blackpill is absolutely an ideology with coherent tenets - the reason it appears incoherent is because this an ideology primarily defined by faithlessness, negative space

MAJOR UPDATE: Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification also in the danger zone. Read the new Planetary Healthcheck 2025 report here: www.planetaryhealthcheck.org

Again, this is a broad coalition of people across the ideological spectrum whose top concern is making sure everyone rues and laments the “Woke Times” forever. It’s very much akin to the myths around “Negro misrule” in Reconstruction, which justified Jim Crow.

ICE *detainees* were the ones shot.

"He's an incredibly inspiring man who gets me going in the morning with his speeches being like, 'Let's start the day, I'm going to defeat the left,'" she shared.” Man, like, where do you even begin

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Academia.edu has always been a scam to gamify & monetize the psychic damage of twilight-phase academic neoliberalism: this person looked you up, that person mentioned you, your work matters. Intellectual as individual brand-builder. The rights stuff is awful but the basic concept is bad enough