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“The news media should tell its audience true things, in proportion to their importance, with no concern for how anyone feels about it.” I’ve never seen a media defender address this critique directly. Something like “one of the most important things happening today is two Dan Sullivans because __”
Jamison Foser@jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 6d agoI wrote about the New York Times’ multimedia full-court press on the dumb Alaska story — a dozen print, video, audio, and newsletter reports at last count — and the news media’s responsibility to cover things in proportion to their importance. www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york...
US oil companies have made $130B in extra profit since the start of the Iran war. But that's less than the ~$150B Americans have paid in extra gas and diesel costs. And I bet oil companies will look back on the war as the moment the world got serious about getting off oil, which they won't like.
How victory over the Death Star could cripple the rebel alliance, and end the dream of a new Republic By Sah Vee
NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6d agoThere it is baby. The good stuff.
... is that we have pretty good psychological & sociological & political evidence that when people enter this zero-sum, scarcity mindset, they become more conservative. Literally. They become less generous, draw clearer lines & higher walls between in-groups & out-groups, grown less trustful ...
A lot of the world's friction was load bearing, it seems.
To continue the recognition even further sooner, seeing that others are in a group doubles as an experience of being in our own groups , and if all groups have to be some amount of a cult, then we can recognize that as well , and that causes a little more room and recognition in more directions,
Jordan Uhl@jordanuhl.com · last wk."There's not like seeing a cult right up front man."
The starkest thing about TNG compared to most space opera today is how much it presents the eruption of violence as a total catastrophe, rather than something awesome bsky.app/profile/norm...
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · last wk.Same. There was something that felt really radical about having a TV hero whose superpower was not just intelligence but thoughtfulness, and a kind of moral seriousness. Who showed from that first episode that you “win” by seeking to understand what seems like a threat.
🌱 "Sometimes you need to repot yourself in a better environment so that you can finally grow." —Billy Chapata #regenerativegardening #organicgardening #soilhealth
Bluesky a band: "I actually enjoy Traffic most of the time, especially later Traffic."
John Holbo@jholbo.bsky.social · last wk.Bluesky a band: Oh You're Just Noticing the Widespread Panic?
Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear
After defying projections, solar's dramatic growth means it is overtaking nuclear as a global power source. Here are seven reasons for solar's success, and where it might go from here.
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Increased boundaries in cases of explicit harm 👍
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!
But we unify in the right way: not by embracing bad policies in the name of "bipartisanship," or abandoning the most vulnerable among us like the trans community. Powerful love is how we win. Not by returning hate for hate.
Important to name the patterns that have gotten loose in society and in people's affinity groups. Stopping the harm to self, other, and environment is the first thing the parent does when intervening.
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2w ago& in that unease, he's shown he doesn't understand what he allied with fascism is mot a reaction—it's an active movement that wants to hit the family in public, that thinks that's good, & will burn down the world over that www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
Today in history is a time for the different areas of familiarity, domains of expertise, to start giving each other more fresh turns and cross-pollinating , and so arrive together at new pattern experiences that are in violation of the established expertise of each of the domains! That's good!
Explanation is that the motive and logic and coherence is all based in an older paradigm world , that's been established long before there were modern laws and institutions. And why that's returning now is something we can discover,
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is 👀 “Kushner’s counsel, however, said Kushner did not make any agreements or arrangements with leaders or officials in foreign countries that were not agreed to by the President of the United States and in the best interests of the United States.”
A lot that can be attributed to malice or conscious malfeasance is covered by them being inside of a paradigm without knowing that they are. This describes most of Legacy Media. Whereas on the outside we can see what they're not seeing.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2w agoThey repeatedly covered Trump's appealing promises that he had no way to enact as if they were real and Trump's unappealing promises that he would have the direct authority over as if they were fake - even writing stories farcically confirming Trump's attempts to distance himself from Project2025
The planetary emergency is already here. “This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present.” The 2026 State of the Climate report finds 7 of 16 planetary vital signs at record extremes. When will the damage be enough for us ti change?
The 2026 state of the climate report: challenges and opportunities
Abstract. Earth’s climate system is moving deeper into uncharted territory. We present the 2026 update of planetary vital signs that track the state of Ear
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Pointing that out is triggering to liberals and centrists, to the point that it can even code as right wing! But it's actually really freeing and inspiring , and links all domains to each other in ways that we are actually longing for.
This goes hand in hand with how the assumptions underlying our institutions are now out of date, and how this is a time for new versions of everything in society that are based in what we now know, about how life actually works in its nesting patterns of self similar organization.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w agoFor obvious reasons "desperate triage/harm reduction" is not a popular or particularly inspiring pursuit. It's not going to fire people up or activate them. It's not going to get normies out to vote or whatever. So I don't talk about it much. But for me at least, it's always there in the background.
Definitely helping conservative people with their many fears is important. Most of them have very little actual understanding of progressive viewpoints. But you help them not be scared by talking to them and with them. Not by enabling reactionaries and plutocrats. That only makes the fear worse.
corals can heal each other surely we can try to do the same
Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira@mausellmoli.bsky.social · 3w ago"Each pair had a bleached and a healthy fragment. He set up five pairs so that their fragments touched each other, and five with their fragments separated by a few millimetres. In the touching pairs, the bleached coral recovered within eight weeks."
