Charity Edwards
@charityedwards.bsky.social
architect : lecturer : phd candidate | urban x ocean x space research | my views, not those I work for | she/her ✨🏢✨🌊✨🛰️✨ 👉 https://www.instagram.com/charityedwards/
I’d like to make it clear for all the people following me what the sheer gravity of the news is. Without this facility we can’t ensure constant communication with spacecraft beyond Earth orbit. If this facility is off-line, the Artemis program cannot send a crew to the Moon.
Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila
The Staunch prize, launched by the writer Bridget Lawless, set out to reward thrillers in which “no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered”. But it was met with fury from authors within the genre. [nuanced article — I find so much of 'popular culture' alien and disturbing]
Arthur Snell@snellarthur.bsky.social · 3w agoDepressing www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Never not reading Rebecca Solnit www.meditationsinanemergency.com/pod-save-pat...
Pod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)
For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the working class or the white working class which often means the wh...
meditationsinanemergency.com
Murderers in Agatha Christie novels 🤝 USA goalies Having your life ruined by a Belgian
Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · last mo.Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Kenny Baker and Anthony Daniels didn't wear plastic suits of armor in the middle of a desert so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Sigourney Weaver didn't sink a half-court basketball shot over her shoulder in Alien Resurrection so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Jim Henson didn't crawl in a bubble & puppeteer Kermit in a swamp so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable"
Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
🧵“What she did…was to make me think why capitalism is not only efficient and practical, but also moral” - Alan Greenspan, speaking about his guru Ayn Rand in 1974. It's worth understanding the role that this partnership played in unleashing the savageries of the modern market.
Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.
“So, I told him, why not just sign your treaty here, at Versailles? “It’ll be unprecedented….”😂😂😂😂
A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually
It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.
It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.
Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.
How do the Dems not see how good this is???
Skye@simplyskye.bsky.social · 3mo agoMamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"
me: I promise I won't get political. Also me when a friend or acquaintance starts talking about how they use AI:
Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier@smittermeier.bsky.social · 3mo agoAlso friendly reminder that the Luddites weren‘t anti-tech they were pro workers rights and safety and anti-capitalist so you know, feel free to call me that.
THIS WHOLE THREAD AND ALL OF THE COMMENTS
Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social · 3mo agoI'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails it, as usual
AI as the new avatar of American capitalism
Why "AI populism" is just "populism"
bloodinthemachine.com
Starting to vaguely suspect that students aren’t completely in love with being ground zero for mass data harvesting and punitive surveillance culture with egregiously reduced rights to speech and protest, but I could be wrong
we should get a refund for the last generation or two’s worth of public intellectuals
Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 3mo agoIn totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9
