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Vince Miller

@millervincent.bsky.social

Theologian wrestling with hope in the face of climate change and ecological destruction. Private account.

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD@ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 3d ago

And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940): August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!

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Ben Goldfarb@bengoldfarb.bsky.social · last wk.

“Sometimes you need to come up with what seems like a very extreme idea, & then it slowly socializes and becomes something that everybody starts to understand." Appreciated @magiccanoe.bsky.social on "Lake Back," letting water (& fish) reclaim their historic domain. magiccanoe.org/inspired-by-...

Inspired by Land Back, First Nations Aim for 'Lake Back' - Magic Canoe

How a lake in British Columbia, Canada, once drained for settlement, is being considered for reflooding as an act of transboundary restoration by First Nations.

magiccanoe.org

MT@madiha.bsky.social · last wk.

This is great. I also think this is a problem in some of the scholarship on "distributed agency" which disappears intention and responsibility by talking about assemblages as if they were randomly assembled constructs of vibrant energies and agencies of human & non-human. IYKYK

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · last wk.

“Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action to build it, but insist on describing it as if they are passive witnesses to an inevitable force.

👍@areyousurebruv.bsky.social · 7d ago

"Like maniacs, those occupying the seats of power are planning to destroy, indeed annihilate, whole populations, the very earth its fruitfulness, its capacity to sustain life. A total war is declared against the Creator whom we all love, honor and worship."

RNS@rns.org · 2w ago

OPINION: (RNS) — Since Pope Leo XIV spoke against the mass detention of immigrants last year, the American Catholic hierarchy has begun to move in new ways. García-Siller's new pastoral letter accelerates that shift.

How grief made Archbishop García-Siller a prophetic voice on immigration

(RNS) — Since Pope Leo XIV spoke against the mass detention of immigrants last year, the American Catholic hierarchy has begun to move in new ways. García-Siller's new pastoral letter accelerates that shift.

religionnews.com

Carausius@carausius286.bsky.social · 4w ago

This Roman ring, wishing good life to Senicianus, was found in Silchester. It’s now on display in The Vyne. Its fame derives from the archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler consulting Tolkien on it in the ‘20s. Tolkien was inspired by the idea of a lost cursed ring & the rest is literary history. 🕰️C4thAD

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Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · last mo.

Unfortunately, and as anticipated, yesterday's widespread lightning-following-heat event amid severe drought has sparked a large number of additional wildfires, expanding existing outbreak across OR, WA, & BC. Numerous heat signatures & large smoke plumes are evident. #ORwx #WAwx

Current snapshot from NOAA Wildfire Fire Portal showing dozens of large, active fires (heat signatures and smoke plumes) from Oregon into southern British Columbia
Vince Miller@millervincent.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A plea to report the meaning of "latae sententiae." In Catholic Canon Law, this means that the act itself automatically excommunicates. To consecrate a bishop w/o papal approval is to go into schism. The Vatican response was to recognize that act. (As did JPII for Lefebvre in 1988)

Science Magazine@science.org · 2mo ago

A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. https://scim.ag/4vs08dC

Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I've got to say that I'm really disappointed in the recent discourse surrounding the RCP8.5 scenario. The lack of context and understanding is something I expected from the usual suspects, but it's frustrating to see such bad takes from people and outlets who should know better.

Open Risk@openrisk.eu · 3mo ago

Cryptocurrency replaces banks about as well as an LLM replaces the human brain. A struggling simulacra of a tiny subset of very complex systems. What is shocking is how easily modern societies can fall for these blatantly false claims. Our immune system against hallucinations was tested and failed.

Sasho Todorov@sashotodorov.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Fun fact: a conclave burns black smoke to announce that no Pope has been chosen, white smoke to announce that a Pope has been chosen, and red smoke to announce to the faithful that it is time for the Butlerian Jihad.

Vince Miller@millervincent.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Amazing in so many ways: The collapse of the shiny AI vision when people--especially new college grads--get to speak back. His smug and clumsy showing of the Foucaultian cards: find a way to "say yes." Yes to what? A seat on a space ship... with a promised Snowpiercer hierarchy..

404 Media@404media.co · 3mo ago

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Justin S. Mankin@jsmankin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Rainfall intensity matters as much as how much rain falls. New in Nature: Corey Lesk and I show that daily-scale concentration of precipitation dries the land over the long-run, an effect as strong as total precipitation is climatological wetting. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More concentrated precipitation decreases terrestrial water storage - Nature

Concentration of precipitation in large events decreases land water availability, and this effect will further increase with a future warming climate.

nature.com