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@timothyaschuler.bsky.social
Freelance writer and environmental journalist. Critic-in-residence @placesjournal.bsky.social. Editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine. Fifth-generation Kansan. He/him.
From the Archive this month: Nora Wendl, on the legacies of the Manhattan Project and the nuclear-industrial complex; Lucy Sante, on the plunder of upstate New York to deliver water to NYC; and @timothyaschuler.bsky.social, on the the last stand of tallgrass prairie in America.
From the Archive: Fallout, Reservoir, Everywhere
This month's recommendations from the Editors.
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Extremely surprised by where Texas falls on this
skáld@danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 4mo agonew political axis just dropped
One man getting “carried away” should not be able to destroy federal agencies and pull life-saving funding from thousands and thousands of people.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo ago‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit
I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.
Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.
Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.
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Another killing by ICE, this time in Maine. That’s twice in one week. How can America keep asking immigrant workers to work as usual if they are being shot dead on their way to work? Stop killing us.
4yo runs outside to tell me there’s a song on he thinks I’ll like. I come inside. It’s “Reckoner.” I bask in that strange parental feeling where your kid shows some aptitude for something you appreciate. He immediately starts singing “Who Let the Dogs Out.”
“Everybody who believes in freedom and democracy…should be working toward the destruction of the United States’ capacity to project power—to end the strange hold it has over the world so we can all move on. So far, no one is helping more than the United States itself.”
In rape culture, everything a woman says means yes and nothing she says means no. This seems to assert that though she said not to come over, said no repeatedly, struggled against Platner, an ambiguous prior comment constituted irrevocable consent. Not a shocking breach not to include it.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4mo ago"she asked for it"
"Several who have tried it say the technology fails key variety and quality tests, and because it cannot create – it can only derive and imitate – it's unavoidably behind in a creative industry where it's already hard to stand out" www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...
Why so many game developers don't want to use generative AI
With credits ranging from Dispatch and Marvel Rivals to Uncharted and Dragon Age, over 30 devs share their thoughts on gen AI
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Bracing for the millions of architecture reels that are going to be scored by Kim Petras’ Brutalist song this summer
Katie Phang visits the Donald J. Trump Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, an exhibition that displays the 3,437 volumes of The Epstein Files. “Each of them weighs about 5 lb. … 3.5 million files bound into 800-page volumes. Altogether, it weighs about 17,000 lb.”
That cities are still just taking this man at his word is almost as criminal as Musk himself
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6mo ago"Musk pledged two years ago to build a state-of-the-art water recycling plant in Memphis to guarantee that his xAI servers wouldn’t deplete the city’s groundwater" "Now that Musk’s first data center is up and running, construction on the recycling facility has come to an abrupt halt"
I really wonder what the fallout is going to be because the sanitized version of history they’ve sold for a long time is “Jim Crow was a shameful moment in history but we defeated it and came out the other side a better country” and now it’s just… back it’s the end of a myth in the starkest terms
Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 6mo agoBreaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
Shell reported a 24% increase in adjusted profit to $6.92 billion for the first quarter of 2026, driven by the illegal US war on Iran. Cool.
Shell Reports Nearly $7 Billion Profit Amid ‘Unprecedented Disruption’
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Nothing can prepare you for who's singing this National Anthem (via lpaulfranklin / TT)
“Are we bein’ pricks” is gonna stick in my head forever
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is an amazing video.
fwiw because of course you were wondering the examples they provide include: digestive: falstaff cerebral: napoleon, jefferson, wilson muscular: babe ruth respiratory: lincoln, washington, john marshall also the only women mentioned are the mona lisa and venus de milo bc women aren't real
@schiff.senate.gov, please directly address the reports that LLMs have encouraged kids to kill themselves and shoot up their schools AND that "A.i." decreases cognitive abilities AND the companies are run by right wing billionaires AND the environmental and economic damage the industry causes.
Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 6mo agoAI is reshaping industries and our economy, and it’s crucial that young people and our workforce are equipped to succeed in this landscape. Proud to introduce a bipartisan bill with Sen. Rounds to ensure students and educators have the resources they need to harness the power of AI.
It is wild. Every conversation I have with educators is how to deal with AI, and every conversation with students ranges from indifference to distaste. Yet administrators and policymakers are shoehorning it in everywhere, no doubt lobbied hard by AI companies. With a helping from techno-optimism.
Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 6mo agoAI is reshaping industries and our economy, and it’s crucial that young people and our workforce are equipped to succeed in this landscape. Proud to introduce a bipartisan bill with Sen. Rounds to ensure students and educators have the resources they need to harness the power of AI.
Map of All Countries That Have Ever Gained Independence From The United Kingdom "Independence from Britain is celebrated somewhere in the world, on average, one in every seven days." Full list: brilliantmaps.com/gained-in...
My Threads feed is full of Black folks absolutely gutted and despairing over today’s Voting Rights Act ruling. I love Bluesky for so much, but today is one of those historical moments where it is stark that we really live in two different Americas.
Question for the chat that I am 100% sure chatgpt could answer instantly but i'll receive more social satisfaction from crowdsourcing, and it's killing me that I can't remember, help:
Catholics are suddenly the cool Christians and I can't handle it.
Category 4 Super Typhoon Sinlaku is making landfall now over Saipan in the US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands. Sustained winds of 150mph and 50ft waves. Folks in Saipan are US citizens and they need our help.
