This starts a litte slow, but picks up pretty well. criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podc...

I had fun writing this piece for the summer issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social about Moby-Dick, Star Trek, and #scicomm! ‘Viewers are forced to reckon with the possibility, vocalized by Spock, that “only human arrogance would assume [an alien] signal must be meant for mankind.”‘ 🐳🐋🧪

Det mest slående (ikke overraskende, og med noen unntak selvsagt) med kritikken av Ørjasæter er den manglende evnen til å se denne sosialdarwinismen i sammenheng med pandemien. Ørjasæter er en klovn som er lett å kritisere, men vi har et naboland hvis flokk-immunitetstrateger hylles med...

"In other words, if the fossil fuel industry does not fight tooth and nail against a phaseout policy, it might well be because it is already defanged from the outset. Ironically, perhaps the saving grace of fossil fuelled leadership is to sharpen the contradictions inherent in the fossil fuel...

Loons Protect the Owls Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 2002

We are so cooked! Climate change denial and data center water-guzzling are a dangerous combo. One ignores the crisis, the other is making it worse.

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

Hybrid in form, cumulative in effect, and total in reach, today’s imperial warfare does not stop at the battlefield, but extends into the bank, the port, the refinery, the hospital, the household, and the payment system. The two-step process remains remarkably consistent: strangulate, then destroy.

Når manifest (og den podcastende venstresida) til slutt lager en episode om MAHA, er den ikke overraskende (med obligatorisk unntak for Charter Svein) ribbet for analyse om den skandinaviske koblingen og det libertarianske anti-folkehelse-miljøet som har vokst til maktposisjoner under Trump 2.0

FHI har gått hardt ut mot forskning som viser at COVID kan øke risikoen for hjerte- og karsykdommer, f.eks. ble Arne Søraas anklaget for å bedrive propaganda på dax18. Når det kommer en norsk studie de ikke kan avvise enkelt, er den "interessant", men er det "vedvarende eller forbigående"...

And quite the hero to more than one Scandinavian public health top official. Social darwinism is not exclusively a MAHA phenomenon.

The same waters that Norway are hellbent on extracting oil&gass well beyond 2C° oceanographicmagazine.com/news/arctic-... "The study, published in Communications Earth & Environment, suggests the Arctic passed a critical ecological tipping point in 2009. The resulting nutrient famine is...

Interesting listen, not at least the insistence on emergency as a physical problem (deteriorating climate+time running out) and less emphasis on what an emergency framing means in a broader scientific and societal context (e.g. the irony of emergency laws/specially enacted legislation used 1/3

Anthropic’s response and influence on the encyclical is most evident in the claim that “even its creators don’t understand how it works.” In June, I wrote about what that actually means & why Anthropic says it. (Written while I was in Rome, FWIW). www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...

White porcupine

Årsakene er selvfølgelig mange, men symptomatisk at dette ikke engasjerer i den brede debatten hverken her eller i offentligheten generelt, i tråd med folkehelsepolitisk konsensus om at pandemien er vi ferdig med, Long COVID er et marginalt, biopsykososialt problem, og COVID er helt ufarlig for barn

3/ 🥜 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥: the adoption of this resolution is about signalling diplomatic support for the legal findings contained in the landmark climate ruling delivered unanimously by the International Court of Justice in July 2025 regarding the scope of States' existing obligation re: climate action...

Brilliant story on RFK's push for an unethical study that withholds vaccines from 7000 children in Guinea-Bissau, based on a "house of cards." Guinea-Bissau says they never approved of this. And yet HHS calls it an "opportunity." By Arthur Allen @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/a-dani...

Et tu, Norway?

You can add (parts of) Scandinavian Public Health to this necropolitical web. Former director of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health recently came out in defense of Tegnell, calling the critique of him unreasonable, claiming we didn't know what was the best way to handle a pandemic. 🧵

Bad actors seeking more power begin to call for cultural erasure. That's where we're at now. Demonization of trans folks has been steady already, so we need to push back. Eventually the targeted group is labeled too dangerous to exist in society, which is followed by detention. HOWEVER... [2/3]

Sier som Anders Skyrud, det er nok fryktelig tungt å leve med senfølger, men hvor mange saker skal en liten krets norske fagpersoner få i NRK (og noen svenske da, og amerikanere)? La oss heller fokusere på den virkelige trusselen mot folkehelsen, sånn som Irans hemmelige Tran$ plan og Imane Khelif.

Oji Cree Healing Flower Tree Christian Morriseau ~ Anishinaabe n.d.

"If the process initiated in Santa Marta represents a rare opportunity to reorient climate politics, its radical potential is already under threat." Reflections from @wimcarton.bsky.social and Joel Wainwright on the wins and weaknesses of Santa Marta www.break-down.org/santa-marta-...

Or you can live in Scandinavia, where broad parts of the Swedish left loyally supported the social darwinian early 2020 response, or in the Nordics in general, where you'd see a shooting star more regularly than a leftist (or anyone) with a mask.

Finnes det noe mindre maktkritisk i sykefraværdebatten enn "har politikerne noen gang hatt en ordentlig jobb"-argumentasjonen? Vi vet fra NAVs statistikk og forskere at mye av det økte langtidsfraværet kan kobles til diagnoser knyttet til senfølger. Vi vet at regjeringens "leve med COVID-stategi"..

“Today, it’s no longer about class struggle between capital & labor but about an economy that either serves life or death.” - Gustavo Petro We need an “economia para la vida”. In the energy crisis this means a multilateral oil buyers’ club instead of Darwinian markets.

Uansett hvor mye/lite av sykefraværet som skyldes senfølger, er det viktig å forstå at offisiell politikk er at majoriteten av befolkningen skal opprettholde immunitet gjennom gjentatte infeksjoner. Faktisk råder FHI at færre infeksjoner kan føre til verre sykdom. Andre perspektiver skal ties ihjel

Do many people know that the ICC judges, once sanctioned by the US, almost immediately lost access to credit cards, google, amazon & microsoft cloud, etc. www.ft.com/content/4c3a...

Hardly a coincidence that among some influential people in Scandinavian public health, support for the current NHI-regime overlaps with vile transphobia. Apparently fighting fascism in Norway means obsessing over America while simultaneously being oblivious to the ONLY part of MAGA/MAHA...

If you're curious about what happened at the first-ever international convening on transitioning away from fossil fuels, please read @ninalakhani.bsky.social's excellent analysis.

"They are using the same playbook as Project 2025...Anytime we see something come out of the Heritage Foundation now, we should take it seriously, because this administration is basing their policies off of their playbook.”

Because of the long incubation period, it will actually be some time before we can have a formal 'all clear' and be sure this is over. The most likely sceneraio by far is that this fizzles out quickly, and most onward infections happen within quarantine, and only close contacts are affected. However

Concerning. Policy Exchange is a major think tank for Westminster, rated "highly opaque" abt its funders by Transparify. Their Project 2029 Team includes anti-trans Kishwer Falkner & Iain Mansfield, anti-BLM Charles Moore, anti-EHCR Conor Casey, anti-left Trevor Phillips & more Some of P29's aims ⬇️

Skyrud har en ganske nyttig funksjon på norsk bluesky som indikator på folks grunnleggende (online) leseferdigheter.

In a world of fossil price shocks and Chinese cleantech dominance, carbon shock therapy emerges as the default stance of states unwilling, or unable, to support their industries through a green transformation. New with @danielagabor.bsky.social on green macrofinancial regimes in the Hormuz crisis.

The new Copernicus state-of-climate report is out! It shows that Europe is the continent warming strongest. And it also shows the northern Atlantic 'cold blob'. These two things may well be related, as this study argued 10 years ago and more studies since: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1.... 🌊 1/2

FHI ved Preben Aavitsland, som deler transfobiske konspirasjonsteorier og åpnet sympatiserer med anti-folkehelse-miljøet under RFK jr., mener at en av verdens ledende immunologer driver med uansvarlig skremsel og ville spekulasjoner med bakgrunn i forskningspengemotiver. Han har tidligere (dax18)..

The strongest El Niño in 150 years? That’s not hype, it’s the actual median forecast right now for the developing event later this year. It could rival — or even surpass — the legendary 1877 El Niño, the strongest on record, which was linked to widespread drought, monsoon failure, and food crises 1/

Forsker og lege Judith Bruchfeld om #LongCovid: - ...om man är van vid långtidscovid så känner man snabbt igen tillståndet. Det är en klinisk diagnos, och det finns både typiska fynd och funktionella tester som gör att vi kommer fram till diagnosen. www.mabra.com/halsa/har-ar...

"The short-term heat we’re about to experience (due to El Niño), and the havoc it will wreak on our agriculture, are just a taste of what’s to come on our current path. We should take them as a warning"...

Er du er helsefagarbeider, sykepleier, servicearbeider, barnehagelærer, bussjåfør osv. er du først og fremst en liten lus. frifagbevegelse.no/nyheter/apmi...

Addendum: www.nrk.no/vestland/nho...

The #AMOC by 2100 will thus be so weak (~8 Sv) that it is very likely on the way to full shutdown, as our study last year showed: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... In my view, this now makes a full #AMOC shutdown more likely than not. Definitely not a low likelihood risk, as we used to think.

Selvfølgelig pisker jeg en død hest her, likevel dypt fascinerende at 4 akademikere, inkl en pandemi-professor og en medisin og vitenskapshistoriker, kan diskutere pandemien uten på noe tidspunkt reflektere over (eller forstå?) at vi har vært gjennom et epistemisk skifte fra dråpesmitte til aerosol.

Her ble det treigt svar, er ikke alltid like flittig på å følge med på Bluesky. Et litt komplisert spørsmål, dette, og det er en del forsyningskjeder jeg ikke har oversikt over og det er vel også en del jeg ikke tar på husken. Men skal prøve å ta det punktvis:

As people say, is this bad?

Med fare for å gjenta meg selv, det er umulig å ta en liberal/bluesky/generell offentlig diskurs seriøst når den kun evner å se karakterer som Schevig eller Charter-Svein, men i det store og hele er/var totalt ok med at Aavitsland, kanskje det nærmeste en offentlig talsmann for FHI 1/4

USD 200 a barril is the kind of carbon shock therapy that will have devastating social and economic effects across the world. Yes over long run it may shift us faster to public renewable but till then there's a lot of short term pain bsky.app/profile/bloo...

Et dette riktig @zweizz.bsky.social? I et krise/selvforsyningsperspektiv er vi relativt sett isolert for mangel på kunstgjødsel og diesel, da yara har avtale om prioritere norsk landbruk og Mongstad raffinerer. Men, med en selvforsyningsgrad under 50% vil uansett inflasjon på importert mat...