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@hesitating.bsky.social
Wave matters at Humboldt in Berlin postdoc Wavematters.eu Sound architecture confusion nuisance vibration hesitate
This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”
Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives
One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.
wxyz.com
Electromagnetic otherworlds and ghosts?? www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
berghahnjournals.com
Incredibly brazen for the Prime Minister to boast about the “lasting benefits” of expanding fossil fuel production on a day like today. Record-breaking heatwaves. Toxic smoke engulfing cities and towns. Out of control wildfires forcing entire communities to evacuate. /1
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 3w agoThe world wants to do more with Canada. Our MOU with Alberta will unlock those opportunities in energy — and create lasting benefits for Canadians.
The fact that Carney is posting this today shows that he genuinely doesn't give a single solitary shit about the climate crisis that is BURNING SWATHS OF CANADA AS WE SPEAK
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 3w agoThe world wants to do more with Canada. Our MOU with Alberta will unlock those opportunities in energy — and create lasting benefits for Canadians.
I'm re-re-posting this significant article: "The open-source archive now contains more than 500,000 digitized photographs, identification papers, diaries, maps, films, and letters, many of which were collected directly from Palestinian families and might otherwise have been lost forever."
How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can’t Be Erased
Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.
wired.com
Explicit genocidal threats directed towards Iran enabled by 2.5 years of genocidal threats that continue relentlessly to be put into practice in Palestine. I feel beyond mad.
I have a new article on confusions and the sense of vibration published in @sthv.bsky.social . It’s partly about experiences that do not neatly fold into clear and distinct categories and classifications, and how to think with them.
Two or Three Confusions About Vibrations - Brett Mommersteeg, 2026
Road traffic noise is considered the largest contributor to excessive noise exposure levels in Europe. Central to this type of noise is what is called “rolling ...
journals.sagepub.com
Incredible writing in unbearable circumstances by Batool Abu Akleen, published in the UK by @commapress.bsky.social.
Comma Press@commapress.bsky.social · 8mo agoI Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It thewalrus.ca/i-was-displa...
Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 11mo agoMy rage knows no bounds
"My beloved city Gaza stands on the brink of a full military occupation by the Israeli army. Their plan is to force us all to leave our homes and move into tents... We do not know what will happen to those who resist. We may be living our last days in Gaza City" www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
In Gaza City, we are saying goodbye
Forced expulsion is looming and we know this time we may never see our homes again.
aljazeera.com
This is fantastic. Share widely.
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12mo agoteachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com
"At a moment when the language of politics is so dour and so dark, it’s important to understand that the tonic to the darkness is not imitating it, but rather to marshal the same lightness and joy that also characterizes our lives." --Mamdani, in this interview:
“The Nation” Interviews Zohran Mamdani
New York's Democratic mayoral nominee shares his views on the city's affordability crisis, the new media landscape—and how Democrats need to stand up for what they believe.
thenation.com
NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment.
“We need to be capacious and accept differences, however deep.” (Note: to be capacious —)
Judith Butler: ‘Swimming is the closest thing I have to a religion’
The philosopher, 68, tells Michael Segalov about kayaks capsizing, imitating trees, left-wing schisms and how instead of being stony-faced and serious, they like to clown around
theguardian.com
