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MikeCrang

@crangma.bsky.social

Geographer, mostly posting about work. @geogdurham.bsky.social

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Nils Gilman@nilsgilman.bsky.social · 3d ago

“When U.S. labs ingest the world’s writing without permission, it’s hailed as transformative innovation. When Chinese labs do the exact same thing to U.S. models, it’s a ‘malicious and targeted’ campaign ‘to extract proprietary functionality & reasoning capabilities.’” There is no defensible moat….

Feena van@feenavan2099.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

gadgetreview.com

Iain Soutar@isoutar.bsky.social · 2w ago

Since the announcement of redundancies at the start of summer, we lost 10 staff from 20 from our Centre for Geography and Environmental Science. Let's hope things improve at Exeter...

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm glad folks keep noting the egregiously stark contrast in legal regard for GenAI companies vs Aaron Swartz

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3y ago

These fair use justifications for AI’s exploitation of copyrighted material: such a stretch, esp in light of SCOTUS’s restrictive interpretation of “transformative” use in the Warhol case. And to think that I wasted 2yrs battling a copyright troll over fair use of one photo in a class lesson 🙄

A Demon Named Sam Kurd@samkurd.bsky.social · last mo.

Meanwhile, this was an arrest for planning to stop traffic in protest: www.theguardian.com/environment/... When the fash spread their propaganda about a two-tier justice system, the ironic thing is that they're right, it's just not set up in the way they say it is.

Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25

Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance

theguardian.com

Tomas Hirst@tomashirstecon.bsky.social · last mo.

Sure, seems totally fine for a bunch of masked men to stop traffic around a port

Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun@eaterofsun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

According to official statistics, If you include the emissions associated with everything consumed in the UK, no matter where it is made, the total in 2023 (most recent year for which figures are available) is 699 Mt CO2e. That is a 24% reduction since 1990. www.ons.gov.uk/economy/envi...

Measuring UK greenhouse gas emissions - Office for National Statistics

Outline of the three measures of UK greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: territorial, residence and footprint, used for policies, including domestic and international targets.

ons.gov.uk