Brooklyn is FIRED UP about #NoKings and early voting! A massive local march taking the streets down Prospect Park Southwest. Get involved with your local group and help save this democracy 💙 🗳️
Amy Woodson-Boulton
@amywb.bsky.social
History prof at LMU in LA, CA: author of Transformative Beauty, working on museums, anthropology, art, & empire. I teach about these & global environmental history. Activist for reality + democracy—& against climate change + single-use plastics + GenAI
Wow so many great signs and unbelievable energy at our No Kings Freeway brigade today!! Here’s the scene and then some of our faves….
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Amy Woodson-Boulton@amywb.bsky.social · last wk.We could all use a little hope right now, amirite? Join the Climate Justice Universities Union North American branch THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 9-10am PT/12-1pm ET for a session on Climate GE Success Stories! climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/climate-ge-s... ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The "is AI slavery" discourse is exactly what the tech bros want. It doesn't end with fancy autocompletes having human rights. Its logic ends with you having fewer rights. If you believe AI is sentient (it's not) & are down with enslaving it (it's not slavery), then why do human labor rights matter?
This is the shit that corporations pulled in Iraq. (And so many other places!) Country of choice + indemnity…. Read Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine for all the horrid manipulations. Companies and politicians warp our system to operate outside the law.
Sean Casten@seancasten.bsky.social · last wk.So Tether, which is closely tied to Cantor Fitzgerald (aka, Howard Lutnick) successfully lobbied to pass a law that allowed them operate in the US but subject to El Salvadoran compliance, then paid off the Trump staffer who twisted GOP arms to seal the deal. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
No, I think you can argue that the desire to have and use ‘artificial intelligence’ stems from a collective desire for enslaved disenfranchised labor but that does not mean an LLM is a slave.
Five hundred people on hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE concentration camp in Georgia.
Approximately 500 participate in hunger strike at Folkston immigration detention center - The Current
Approximately 500 detainees at a private ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia, launched a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions and alleged asylum protocol violations while awaiting judicial he...
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You have to not anguish about ethical uses of an unethical product. This is DDT. It’s poison, the people selling it know it and are pushing back hard against people trying to call it what it is. We did that, though.
“We can’t stop AI! We can’t stop progress!” My dudes, ladies, and genderqueer buddies: we have stopped using a lot of things. Especially shitty things that harm us. Remember how station wagons had backwards facing seats until they realized that’s begging for injuries in an accident?
Oh no, we can’t uninvent the backwards seat oh wait we did. Anybody still using hairspray that kills the ozone layer? Incandescent bulbs? Anybody laying down a sweet layer of DDT? My mom remembers kids chasing the DDT spraying trucks. You still doing that?
Victorianists! The CFP for NVSA 2027 on “Trash” has been extended one week to Thursday, October 22! Please share and submit!!
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"Men can generally be bad dept citizens as long as their research is valued, but women can’t." "Meritocracy is really just a way [to support] the status quo of a dominant white, male envrnmnt…I thought that if I worked hard enough, my work wld be recognized. But [that's] not how the system works."
Devaluation underlies gendered US faculty departures across disciplines and institutions
Abstract. Women faculty experience academia differently from men in many ways, which can lead them to consider leaving their positions. Using a large-scale
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Although formal DEI practices and programs in the US have largely been dismantled, your interactions with your colleagues still matter, and our paper suggests they may matter a lot more than you may think.
My doctor asked me if I minded his use of AI to summarize summary my appt yesterday, so first I told him why I mind and then I consented because I wanted to see the summary it generated. It listed a medication I don't take and have never taken on my list of current meds, so here we are.
London Reform councillor Dean Miller 'claimed King Charles was Muslim' and called black children ‘animals’, TV report alleges.. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
London Reform councillor 'claimed King was a Muslim'
Bromley councillor Dean Miller has resigned from Reform UK, according to the party
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Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · last wk.Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
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Climate GE Success Stories: this coming Friday, Oct 16 at 12 pm Eastern Time!
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"A 2025 study proposed combining rice husk ash, wood ash and rice straw to make a low-cost, carbon-negative material that could eliminate the need for cement [which accounts for ~1/12 of global emissions]."
Klaske Wijkstra 🌻🇪🇺@keawijkstra.eurosky.social · 2w ago@michaelburchert.bsky.social Construction with rice waste. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
"The spike in arrests here has happened with such little fanfare that people from other parts of Pennsylvania are stunned when their immigrant neighbors are arrested and detained on a long-distance trip that passed through York County and its police checkpoints."
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 2w agoMy probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...
Dirty brown water flows to Oulujoki river from the 330 hectare forest clear-cuts in Google’s data centre construction site. Nothing unusual in Finland, but I hope we get a little upset now when it is done by a foreign tech giant. #Google #DataCentres www.talouselama.fi/uutiset/a/11...
Kirkasvetisessä purossa Muhoksella virtaa nyt Googlen työmaan kura: ”Homma on ikään kuin leviämässä käsistä”
Talouselämä vieraili Muhoksella katsomassa datakeskustyömaata, jonka ympärillä metsässä virtaa Googlen kura. Samalla löytyi myös harmistunut kunnanjohtaja, villinä pyörivä huhumylly, hämmentyneitä kun...
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Shocking abuse of power from a fascist regime flailing in the lead up to an electoral wipeout. Accountability can't come soon enough.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 2w agoTrump’s feds raid home of Ilhan Omar as part of criminal investigation
Raven, previously called GeoSpy, lets cops figure out what specific Airbnb or Zillow property a photo was taken in.
AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo
Raven, previously called GeoSpy, lets cops figure out what specific Airbnb or Zillow property a photo was taken in.
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What was once a gradual slide into autocracy has become something like free-fall. We should all be in the streets. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
US launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home, Fox News reports
US authorities conducted a predawn raid Monday on the Washington-area home of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in a probe of the Somali-born lawmaker's immigration paperwork, Fox News Digital re...
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To start with, this is happening because the president has targeted a member of Congress as part of a broader explicitly racist hate campaign against Americans of a particular ethnic origin. There's no other way to put it.
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
Cracking @drilledmedia.bsky.social read from @roycerk2.bsky.social on @commsdeclare.bsky.social report, From Cradle to Career, which maps Australian Oil, Gas & Coal companies' multimillion dollar, decades-long efforts to shape what kids learn about the fossil fuel industry & climate change
Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 3mo agoState capture & petro-grooming “Where are these children getting alternative points of view? When BHP is literally funding the education system, or Woodside is sponsoring your school, or Glencore’s bought your laptop [..] Where are they getting their views & skills to succeed in a warming world?”
If you are wondering why Anthropic aren't coming out and opposing statements like this, it's because they very genuinely do not care about climate responsibility and will burn absolutely whatever they can get their hands on to keep the grift going. www.capitalbrief.com/article/anth...
David Brooks pearl-clutching over John Ossoff calling a white nationalist a “white nationalist,” as if the problem with violent white nationalism is people objecting to it, illustrates this point as well as humanly possible.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2w agoOssoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.