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i saw a toot recently about how democrats/liberals think public opinion is something to inform policy while republicans/fascists (correctly) see public opinion as easily shaped so they can enact their deranged policies, and it really explains a lot.

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if economists are doing phrenology now does that mean they’ll have an ontological turn in a hundred years?

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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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I recently re-read Heart of Darkness out of curiosity and its fascinating how much of the end of the book is about the difficulty of finding a home for Kurtz's paperwork. An unknowing analogy for the troubled place of the archive of empire in British public life. First the barbarism, then paperwork.

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The modern condition of waking up to horrible news from all over the world and just having to shove that all back down and get on with your silly little job 😞

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I’m giving a talk in Copenhagen on June 3. Free and open to the public! @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social

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Super proud to share the research Casey lead on how climate change is shifting the co-existence of agriculture and artisanal gold mining in rural Colombia! @sthv.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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"I just use AI to bounce ideas off of." I bounce ideas off of friends and it doesn't wreck the environment or give money to fascists.

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«I often hear that different forms of AI are possible. But if they were possible in this world, we would have them. Right now, the form of AI our world has made is based on data extraction, surveillance, and the concentration of power – because that is what our current system incentivizes.»

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"It has been shown that the amount of straw needed for the renovation of the whole EU building stock would consume a maximum of 10% of the wheat straw that can be sustainably removed from the land" 1/3

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Join me at the HBK Braunschweig, Germany next Wednesday June 4 to discuss caring about data and technical collectives. ✊

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i guess "greater than zero" is a safe counterfactual estimate, which is already an unacceptable number.

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luigi was very happy to see his cousin lily in maastricht today

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Private equity

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We wrote an article about the rise of AI slop and the 'enshittification' of the internet for @theconversation.com with the brilliant @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social One of these days, these bots are gonna walk all over you! theconversation.com/what-is-ai-s...

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Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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first person dominates in the anglo novel in the 21st century, a radical change from the previous 300 years of the novel form. for an explanation of this historical mutation and the ideology around it, check out chapter 3! (happy to send a copy to anyone) www.versobooks.com/products/303...

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they gave a nobel prize to an economist who said vineyards and apple orchards in norway will offset the impacts of this.

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they'll cite this as evidence that the environmental impact of deep sea mining is (now) low.

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i can’t stop thinking about habermas doing dyson ads

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This report 'Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon' is 4 years old, yet I don't think I've ever heard this headline finding: "Indigenous resistance has stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions."

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degenerative AI 😻

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hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

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The more people who are denied care and left to die, the more profitable it is for health insurance companies. Your reminder that for-profit healthcare isn't healthcare. It's an exploitation of sick people and transfer of wealth from the working class to the mega-rich.

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I believe this is the point. newatlas.com/ai-humanoids...

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'A science of stereotypes: paranoiac-critical forays within the medium of information' @distinktionjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1600...

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PHOTO - On an early spring afternoon in Shuangliu ancient town, Sichuan province, China, five people in their 80s sit together. Photographie : Xiaoling Li / World Food Photography Awards. Source : The Guardian 🔗 urls.fr/RsBSmx #photography #geography

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nice editorial by @ashtonpittman.bsky.social about a working class danish migrant to rural north mississippi (whose in-laws almost certainly voted for trump), the depravity of (social) media, and why it's important to resist this inclination to nastiness www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...

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We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance. More info: edu.nl/9admd Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)

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unless you're in the third camp, which seems to be inhabited almost exclusively by anthropologists, where titles are alliterations that don't tell you what the paper is about or make you laugh

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A must listen for everyone in higher ed!! SO so good

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"levels of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) have decreased 55 percent since 2005, while nitrogen dioxide levels have fallen 50 percent. It attributed this to “regulations and public policies,” including steps to limit traffic and ban the most polluting vehicles" #AirPollution #Paris

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Here’s the talk I gave at the Jau de Paume today, about noise and constraint in AI systems — this is the French version shared ahead of time with the audience, I’ll share the English version soon. www.cyberneticforests.com/bruite

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The fearless Professor Ruha Benjamin's brilliant & beautiful Tanner Lecture #2 Dystopia, Utopia, or UStopia? From Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYIi...

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so does the president of the united states 👐

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This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio... Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Tom in @trouw.nl

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Taking back control of your digital life: How to get the most out of tech while freeing yourself from the lunatics in Silicon Valley iandunt.substack.com/p/taking-bac...

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Interview Pepsi’s CEO next and ask him what he thinks the best drink in the world is

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Very pleased that our online course about how to learn and thrive in an online world (thebullshitmachines.com) is mentioned in @johnthornhill.bsky.social's latest Financial Times piece.

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if i were a judge and a lawyer submitted AI slop to me i would simply disbar that lawyer

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They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

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nothing will save antarctica from climate change except immediate reductions of greenhouse gas emissions

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"Generative AI presents a number of immediate threats to learners’ rights, amplifying the known threats from so-called predictive AI" Fantastic piece on AI eroding students' rights to education by @helenbeetham.bsky.social ht @audreywatters.bsky.social helenbeetham.substack.com/p/how-the-ri...

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🔥Open Access: Wind of change: shifting narratives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Duisburg and Germany Johanna Fellbrich, Franziska Sielker, Nicholas Phelps, Peter Dannenberg doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #Megaprojects

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when in copenhagen

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