Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

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The signatories to this letter start with Stiglitz and Rodrik and go on to encompass pretty much everyone brilliant and decent in the economics field worldwide. Prof. Reddy’s scholarship is deeply grounded in human dignity and wellbeing — in the direct lineage of his teacher, the great Amartya Sen.

Open Letter Concerning Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Future of the New School

Open Letter Concerning Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Future of the New School We, the undersigned, write to express our concern regarding recent restructuring decisions at the New School, includin...

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Sarang Shah@sarangshah.com · 6h ago

An urgent and important read on the unjust circumstances regarding the dismissal of my dear colleague and friend Sanjay Reddy. I hope our takeaway, in part, is a redoubling of our efforts to protect social inquiry and academic freedom against what's coming. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...

Applications are due by end-of-day ET this Friday, August 7! Please join us — and please share!

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 4w ago

Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/

Done with the book manuscript. Took me a year, which not bad. This is not exactly the book I promised the press. Now to convince them that I'm not insane. Hopefully they won't get cold feet, and I have to spend extra time finding one that gets it.🤞🏼

I'm posting my #DH2026 talk abstract here, as they can be slightly hard to find in the huge official book of abstracts: A never-ending story: supporting access to museum and library collections (in the UK) www.miaridge.com/dh20206-pres...

ICYMI: at the current pace, ICE will have booked over 800,000 people into detention by year's end and close to 1.75 million by the end of the term. Most people released from detention are now deported. See the graphs. austinkocher.substack.com/p/over-60000...

Not cool.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 7d ago

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

A green card can be denied to someone deemed likely to rely on public benefits. That is the public charge test, and the administration could expand it to count SNAP and housing vouchers against applicants. 🧵 documentedny.com/2026/07/20/g...

Loving this part. Still haven't seen the movie, but that translation is a banger. I even had a chance to revisit it with my teenager last semester.

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

New computer prescription glasses. I never realized how crisp these retina screens really are! Yes, I've been working blurry for about a decade now. Whew.

🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 With #DH2026 in #Daejeon starting next week, please join me in applauding the local organizers for publishing the complete "Book of (extended) Abstracts" ahead of schedule! In PDF with no less than 1013 pages, and also in glorious XML versions! […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Ben Armintor is moving to Yale! This is great news. I love that guy. library.yale.edu/news/ben-arm...

I don’t talk about real life on Main but my comment requires credentialing: i was at food banks 4x times last month, trying to support etc. Food insecurity is off the charts & I just don’t see anything on the horizon to help people. It’s terrifying. I just come home and sulk and cry and dissociate.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Page One. @nytimes.com

I mean... 😂

Call Me The Brie-ze@briesmith.xyz · 2w ago

Argentina can still win this match if Mike Pence has the courage.

Good times.

Now just do your midfield magic and take this baby home. Let's gooo!!! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jessica Ray@jessicaray.bsky.social · 2w ago

For gods sake Spain just score a damn goal

Dibu is definitely keeping his job. That ball was going in.

Argentina be like, "This is not what we agreed on!!!" with the refs 😂😂😂

I swear if after all this one-sided possession Messi just strolls in with a last minute gol, I'm never watching football again.

While watching the game, I've been planning a Zotero quote matcher that uses embeddings to handle citations and paraphrases. Given a poem, novel or play, the goal is to find all the secondary literature that quotes or talks about said work.

Team former empire. ¡¡Vamos, España!! Lamine Yamal, montro! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

Ok, folks watching this on Telemundo because you can't stand the American guy. I'm here to answer your questions and translate anything that catches your attention from *the* Andrés Cantor. Yes, he did place New Jersey in New York state just now.

A very wise 9 year old… #BookSky

utterly patient response to professional misconduct Appiah DOGEd disciplines and fields about which he knows nothing, incinerating his reputation in the process "He just hasn’t done the reading."

Gabriel Hankins@gabrielh.bsky.social · 3w ago

My response to Appiah's "field report" is up: please repost www.chronicle.com/article/kwam...

Brilliant work by @gabrielh.bsky.social taking down that useful idiot Appiah. Literally laughed out loud after Gabriel ran Appiah's CV through the latter's DOGE Method for Evaluating the Humanities (D-MEH). That was gangsta. 😂 😂

Opinion | Dear Critics of Literary Studies: Do the Reading

The philosopher’s report on the state of literary studies is a shambles.

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Don’t take the bait. Whether ICE planted drugs or there were drugs DOES NOT MATTER. It’s irrelevant to the murder. Feds want us to debate drugs in a story that’s about murder. Stay focused on the murder. It’s not about the victim’s virtue or lack thereof. It’s about ICE murdering people.

Says here that... "the Society of American Archivists has awarded @dorothyjberry.bsky.social the Waldo Gifford Leland Award for her work *The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities*, published by We Here Press." ¡Montra! ¡Muy dura! 🎉🍾