Dr Joanna Boehnert
@ecocene.bsky.social
Author of Design, Ecology, Politics: Towards the Ecocene (Bloomsbury). Working in design & energy & ecological transitions. Canadian in the UK. Speak up against genocide and white supremacy while you can. https://ecolabsblog.com
Coming on the heels of the reporting about lobbying the pope to say models could be conscious, it’s clear they are determined to impose their cultish worldview on everyone.
The Verge@theverge.com · 3d agoAnthropic wrote that the new policy update “is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose. It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.”
I presented the “AI Futures Beyond Net Zero” paper online at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD15) conference today ecolabsblog.com/2026/10/08/t...
Transition Templates AI & Digital at #RSD15
presented the “AI Futures Beyond Net Zero” paper online at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD15) conference today, Thursday 8 October 2026. The paper describes insights from …
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I just saw a film about the AI-enabled apocalypse. Only it's not science fiction. It's not even in the future. It's in the present. The film is called NAZA. See it. @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com youtu.be/98xLCdc7t7E
Apocalypse is here
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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"Land availability in Europe for a radical shift toward bio-based construction": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Land availability in Europe for a radical shift toward bio-based construction
The renovation and construction of buildings presents an opportunity for climate change mitigation in urban environments. Bio-based construction is pa…
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The fury of people who think that racist policies, aggression, assault, torture, rape, murder, war, ethnic cleansing, and genocide should not be called “racist” is on full display today.
The AI doom / extinction lie is coming from the exact people with an addiction to burning methane and a climate denialist worldview. I am pretty mad about it. New piece here: www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since yesterday would have been the 90th birthday of the late Jim Henson, and since today marks one month since Dolly Parton died, here they are singing a duet (with Henson voicing Kermit the Frog) on Dolly's variety show in 1987. See you around.
Dolly Parton & Kermit The Frog – “Everyday People” from 'Dolly' episode 5 (1987)
YouTube video by Jason Kottke
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The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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“The current fight over AI is also a symptom of social speciation -- a growing bifurcation between those already inhabiting an emerging world and those still interpreting life through the old world's zombie media, institutions, and political categories..." — Stephanie Wakefield
This is tragic. Also I dont know exactly what Joe was going through but I still blame the media for their horrific takes on neurodivergence.
Robin Ince@robinince.bsky.social · 3w agoI am sorry to hear about the death of naturalist and neurodivergent activist Joe Harkness www.buzzmag.co.uk/neurodiverge...
If you don't know what's killing you, you can't die, right?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 4w agoNSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.
"By accentuating differences in status and social class — for example, through the type of car someone drives, their clothing or where they live — inequality increases feelings of superiority and of inferiority." We'd solve much more than climate with #Sufficiency www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why the world cannot afford the rich
Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ...
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The invention of Jaywalking via Hannah Fry #WarOnWalking youtube.com/shorts/6W_s3...
The invention of Jaywalking
YouTube video by Hannah Fry
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Urban Truth Collective@urbantruth.bsky.social · last mo.No matter what they claim, the REAL “war” that’s been going on in our cities has been a WAR ON WALKING. And it’s been going on for a century. #UrbanTruth
just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · last mo.Masked protesters block access at Port of Dover
New article examining the incestuous connections between the TESCREAL movement and the ASI race. I guarantee you'll find this interesting--I show how these people all know each other, have hung out and partied together, and share the same eschatological vision. Check it out!
What If TESCREAL *Is* a Conspiracy?
(3,000 words.)
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Ted didn’t notice the name of the account who posted this Dolly clip he retweeted until it was much too late. He finally deleted it after he was made aware.
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
Wow. There are more names in support of Cofnas here! More than 300 academics defending the conduct of a gutter racist. johnarmstrongmaths.com/openletters/...
As academics, we are concerned that Ghent University's disciplinary proceedings against Dr Cofnas appear to constitute retaliation, at least in part, for publicizing academic misconduct that occurred in British universities.
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There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
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A key element in the mainstreaming of reactionary politics was to get mainstream actors to engage with reactionary ideas as if they were legitimate debates Mainstream actors fell for it as they generally "won" the argument but by engaging at all they legitimised the reactionary position 1/
Erin Brockovich: "If Data Centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"
Lisa Catara (official)💎@lisa-catara.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf ever a case were made to get all of your stuff and things out of the cloud and amass physical copies of everything, here is a prime example of why: PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute | PCMag share.google/mVR4o9Uk84T9...
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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