Adam Welz
@adamwelz.bsky.social
Author THE END OF EDEN: WILD NATURE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE BREAKDOWN (Bloomsbury) - avail. globally Writer, conservationist, naturalist. Takes photos Posts mainly wildlife conservation, climate change, civil liberties & nature photos Cape Town, S Africa
“X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” www.404media.co/xs-algorithm...
X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.
404media.co
My latest article for the Revelator is about an emerging ocean conservation nightmare that the experts I spoke to compared to the early days of the shark fin trade. We have a chance to nip it in the bud. Please read and share! therevelator.org/fish-maw-con... @therevelator.org 🧪🌍🦑🐟
Fish Maw: An Emerging Ocean Conservation Nightmare • The Revelator
Like the early days of the shark fin trade, the mostly unregulated market for dried fish swim bladders has exploded in popularity, devastating species around the world.
therevelator.org
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
RESEARCH ARTICLE A Simple Stomatal Model That Unifies the Metabolic and Hydraulic Control of Carbon and Water Flux 🔗 buff.ly/knSdtvl
“It’s just devastating. They’re bulldozing a brand new road through the most beloved stretch of the park.” www.publicdomain.media/p/bulldozers...
Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park As Trump’s Border Work Surges Ahead
Video footage shows heavy machinery operating in the famous Santa Elena Canyon amid outcry over new border infrastructure in Texas's most beloved park.
publicdomain.media
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
404media.co
Sickening crash in Brazil caused by pilots ignoring warnings from their aircraft Plane had numerous monitoring & warning systems (which worked!) but the pilots repeatedly reset & disabled them Reminds me of how most decisionmakers "deal with" #climate breakdown www.youtube.com/watch?v=AorI...
The Pilot MISTAKES in Brazil ATR Crash. It's Not American Eagle 4184.
YouTube video by Taking Off
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Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
propublica.org
We can’t begin the Nuremberg-style trials quickly enough.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d agoWow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
I know you've probably lost interest by now but Russia's invasion of Ukraine is going to collapse the food chain www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/w...
Russian Strikes on Dozens of Grain Ships Threaten Global Food Supplies
The deadly strikes are part of a long-running maritime battle with Ukraine and echo battles over other key shipping routes around the world.
nytimes.com
Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com
Page One in Arizona: the shrinking Colorado River 😞
Imagine when most of Ireland looked something like this. Now consider that only around 1% remains, almost all wrecked. Few – if any – other places on Earth are in such dire need of rewilding.
How on earth is the framing for this about dopamine and not the expansion of mining for behavioral data to those who cannot afford to buy the things they want? restofworld.org/2026/south-k...
The online shopping trend where you buy nothing
On South Korea’s “dopamine sites,” the pleasure comes from aspirational shopping rituals like browsing, curating, and tracking — not from a delivery.
restofworld.org
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
this is the THING! "plagiarism" is actually socially constructed, and who gets to steal from whom is deeply political
This hits me hard. It hits Texans hard. Big Bend is our Eden. These fuckers.
🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀@onefussyone.bsky.social · last wk.Mike Davidson, a tour guide in Big Bend, told Newsweek; "They might as well send a bulldozer through the graveyard where my parents are buried or something like that. It hits me very strongly." Soulless, wretched people are responsible for this. They have to go. www.newsweek.com/bulldozers-p...
if there's a writer you like, and you'd like to keep reading that writer's work, *you need to pay for their work*
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 6d agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
Repeated dawn raids by the police on peaceful, decent people who have made social media posts supportive of Palestine Action. They are being treated as if they were building bombs. Tell me this isn't authoritarianism. www.middleeasteye.net/news/this-is...
'This isn't the Britain I grew up in': The activists raided by police over Palestine Action videos
Activists say police searched their entire homes, confiscating personal devices and items bearing the Palestinian flag, even rifling through personal diaries
middleeasteye.net
COINTELPRO never ended; it just became the modern surveillance state.
Jake Laperruque@jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 5d agoA jaw-dropping report of weaponized political surveillance. The government grabbed years of sensitive records from major progressive groups and unions, baselessly claiming they were needed to address threats of "domestic terrorism" It's a near perfect mirror of the J Edgar Hoover COINTELPRO abuse
It'll be pretty embarrassing if the dinosaurs went out with more dignity than us. They can't say they knew about the meteor for decades, knew exactly what to do about it, had all the technology and resources to stop it but didn't so five of them could own everything
And I wish more U.S. journos would follow the money in these cases rather than simply being outraged
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 6d agoTrump is destroying the beautiful, untouched land of the Big Bend region in Texas to build a completely unnecessary border wall. One of the contractors, who has received $2B in federal contracts for the project, just so happens to be a major Trump donor. There’s always a grift.
Trump is destroying the beautiful, untouched land of the Big Bend region in Texas to build a completely unnecessary border wall. One of the contractors, who has received $2B in federal contracts for the project, just so happens to be a major Trump donor. There’s always a grift.
does bluesky's trending algorithm have a crystal ball or are the votes secretly rigged because the election hasn't finished yet. the polls literally just opened.
“We kind of knew it was coming, but always thought it was a problem our children would probably have to deal with,” he said. “It’s happened much, much faster.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... „Europe’s farmers move to the night shift to beat the heat“
Europe’s farmers move to the night shift to beat the heat
Floodlights, headlamps, cooling sheds and later feeding times for animals are helping the sector cope with extreme weather
giftarticle.ft.com
Harrowing account of a now long-shifted baseline as the Rev Gerard Smith poetically laments biodiversity loss in England in a preface to the 'Ferns of Derbyshire' published on June 11, 1861 🌍 @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
aiddata.org
