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Beth DeSombre
@bethdesombre.bsky.social
Songwriter, professor (Wellesley College, ES), activist, dog mom, runner. Songs that are “smart and uplifting...focusing on the quiet meaning to be found in ordinary life." Last year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.
Every fucking time I order something now it's like 'would you like to be added to our newsletter' and I say 'no' and 15 minutes later I get a 'welcome to our newsletter' and I think I am going to just start canceling those orders and saying why because this cannot be allowed to continue.
In the modern job market it’s not uncommon to have job searches that produce dozens of qualified candidates and several who are tenurable on the publications they’ve placed before even finishing their PhD. It’s all but impossible to create an “objective” process to select among them.
Paul Gowder@gowder.io · last wk.This is a thing that more people really need to realize. Once you get above a certain level, basically 100% of academic hiring is an unholy brew of internal department/school politics and idiosyncratic personal preferences of the people who get a vote
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.
A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use. 🧵>>
I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on - if your position is that the president of the United States and his family should be immune from IRS scrutiny, you’re unqualified to be the Attorney General. It’s an indictment on our entire system that 50 GOP Senators don’t agree.
I do not want to download your app. I just want lunch. I do not want to create an account. I just want lunch. I do not want to setup 2FA. I just want lunch. I do not want to 'earn points'. I just want lunch. I do not want to add to my order. I just want lunch. I JUST WANT LUNCH!
I never thought I’d be rich as an academic but I didn’t expect that I’d become poorer every year.
Generative AI? Absolutely not under any circumstances. Ethics—theft, resource usage, the coming economic collapse caused by this shell game—aside, it is hallucinatory and inaccurate, rife with dangerous mis- and disinformation. And for me the joy of work is in the doing.
Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors
99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
⚓ Why do #ports go green? @bethdesombre.bsky.social et al. examine 22 measures across 209 seaports and find voluntary action is most likely in decentralized democracies with locally affected populations, where ports may act preemptively to avoid regulation. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Voluntary sustainability action when political conditions support regulation: The case of port greening
Under what conditions do organizations adopt greening measures? Economic and political factors like wealth, democracy, decentralization, and corruptio…
sciencedirect.com
I just think it would be better for everyone if the people who make adhesive for maxi pads and the people who make adhesive for bookstore price stickers switched jobs
Breaking News: Federal officials acknowledged in court documents that they canceled grants to states that didn’t vote for President Trump in 2024. nyti.ms/4gRd5Kb
Well…isn’t this a little gem. @jenpsaki.bsky.social did you know about this?
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
climatecoloredgoggles.com
This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4w agoThis story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
notus.org
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
every time you write overly defensively you should remember that you are pursuing a strategy of writing careful sentences specifically for people who demonstrably either won't or can't read them
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4w agothere is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.
New article -- Voluntary sustainability action when political conditions support regulation: The case of port greening (this represents close to a decade of work) authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Voluntary sustainability action when political conditions support regulation: The case of port greening
Under what conditions do organizations adopt greening measures? Economic and political factors like wealth, democracy, decentralization, and corruptio…
authors.elsevier.com
“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago.”
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last mo.
Trump has threatened Canada with tariffs for wildfire smoke, which is a good reminder that he doesn’t understand how tariffs work. Or how fire works. Or how Canada works.