The average human spends nearly 4% of their lifetime being Indonesian.
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@postcolsandwich.bsky.social
Teaching sustainability, researching the political ecology of monoculture. Fake geographer, lousy sociologist. Gold medalist in mental gymnastics.
This narrative during Pride month was absolutely intentional. The corporate media is fully in for fascism and desperate for you to agree.
As Ryszard Kapuściński observed in 1982: “the concept of oil expresses perfectly the eternal human dream of wealth achieved through lucky accident, through a kiss of fortune and not by sweat, anguish, hard work. In this sense oil is a fairy tale, and like every fairy tale, a bit of a lie”.
The Price of Oil
As the Nigerian government pushes to restart oil production in Ogoniland, decades of pollution, dispossession and broken promises cast a long shadow over the future.
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Come join my Online Masterclass for @arvonfoundation.bsky.social on Writing with Grief, Fri, JULY 31, 10AM-12 BST. How to write abt grief and means of repair—capturing & honouring what has passed, &what remains—across genres, in a safe, supportive environment.🤍 www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
The Islamic Center of San Diego has a fundraiser for the families of the three heroes who died protecting the children inside. May their courage and sacrifice be remembered. goodbricks.org/campaign/ics...
ICSD Victim & Family Support Fund
Donate to support the victims of shooting at ICSD.
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What a day for AI resistance resources! 1) The AI Resist List from @karenhao.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at airesistlist.org 2) The Luddite Lab from @alexhanna.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at labor.dair-institute.org
"Compulsory Seminar: How to evaluate students' feedback with [insert GenAI]" Maybe in this meeting, I'll ask if and when GenAI would replace university administrators.
We can all try to switch browsers to maintain something like standard searching, but does anyone know of an alternative to Google Scholar? It’s been getting worse for ages 🤷♀️
Chad Briggs@chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 3mo agoGoogle Scholar is now returning results from sites like papersbyai.com/about.html ISN'T IT OBVIOUS?
long day work & tough gym session, and coming home to someone texting “You’re in my mind today” with Black Sabbath’s song attached. The chokehold of some UChicago men on me requires a study.
"We are going to have to make war their problem." Insightful, timely piece from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social. It's up to us to force those in political and financial power to realize we are actually all in this together. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...
A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
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15 people died in a train crash on the Jakarta-Bekasi route yesterday. All victims are women because the crushed car is a women-only carriage. www.reuters.com/video/watch/...
Indonesia train crash toll hits 15 with all survivors extracted
The death toll from a train collision near the Indonesian capital has risen to 15 with another 88 injured, a minister said Tuesday (April 28). Syakir Jasnee reports.
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i'm only using the term "hell" lightly here, but still seriously: I don't think there are many better examples of "living hell" than "being in a place where you can't trust anyone". it's also the flip side of committing totally to low-trust behavior, and never doing the vulnerable pro-trust stuff.
Sexually abusive messages from a group chat of male students of Universitas Indonesia's Faculty of Law were leaked. Hundreds of students attended the public trial & (not the victims) screamed at the perpetrators: "We don't need your apology." Centering victims' voices remains difficult for some.
Whenever you feel you're not tech-literate enough remember that Frederic Jameson used a mouse with two hands.
Catching up with the latest Love is Blind, and there's an assistant professor who successfully got the girl of his dreams there. I'm so ready to see you folks of my age bracket and profession on Too Hot to Handle next.
In that night of bliss and joy seen by none, in secret and quiet, with no clear vision I stepped forth with neither guide nor light save that which burned within my heart ‘Dark Night’, a poem by John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Martha Sprackland · Poem: ‘Dark Night’
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"EV sales are surging in India, Mexico and Brazil, where they now make up a higher share of the market than in Japan, according to data from Ember, a thinktank. All are buoyed up by cheap Chinese cars." www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance
Iran war should be wake-up call about costs of not going full throttle towards EVs as Chinese have done, experts say
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Lecturers from the Metropole are allowed to teach in their “offshore” campuses with Metropole $$$ because of #excellence but we can’t do the other way around because the execs leadership think these abroad campuses & their Brown talents put the ranking down. Got it. 😇
Super happy to share this new article where I explore the difficulties faced by displaced women on the Myanmar-Thai border and caring for borrowed lands along the Salween River serves as an act of re-existence that emplaces them against entangled forms of crisis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cultivating re-existence: women’s care work and political placemaking on the Myanmar-Thai river border
Across the world, conflict and capitalist dispossession inflict brutal violence on agricultural and resource-dependent populations. Drawing on ethnographic research among Indigenous Pgha k’nayaw co...
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Indonesia is (at least discursively) aiming to do the same... but particularly with palm oil (B50, in which the production is absolutely still subpar + will annoy the oil & gas & biodiesel importer oligarchs + really unpopular among smallholders [40% of Indonesia's palm oil production])
Benjamin H. Bradlow@bhbradlow.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe last time the Strait of Hormuz was closed in 1979, Brazil launched an industrial policy to support sugar cane-derived ethanol fuel production, called "Proálcool." The campaign slogan for the policy was "Whoever has it, doesn't depend on anybody."
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
404media.co
disheartening to see a business-focused (like MBA on steroids with a sprinkle of social science & liberal arts) university in a mall masquerading as a state has a more intriguing curriculum for sustainability (Inequality & Sustainability!) before a campus with a history of student radicalism
First lecture. Eight hours. Fasting. Telling folks how cool & awesome Clyde Woods’ “Development Arrested” is. Blanking during break until a student asked me, “Mmm… are you doodling palm oil?”
I cannot overstate what a massive, glaring and bright red sign of wrongdoing it is whenever a company starts doing offsetting. Whether it's for carbon, biodiversity or water, nothing marks the presence of a massive, pulsating guilty conscience blob as clearly as offsetting does.
Justin Mikulka@justinmikulka.bsky.social · 5mo agoData center will only use water for "cooling & other needs" Oh, is that all? "Amazon said it will help offset any impacts of the Louisiana facilities with a $400 million fund aimed at water infrastructure in the area and said it will only use water for cooling and other needs." @ketanjoshi.co
“Generative AI breaks long-standing correlations that society uses to infer things like effort, sincerity, authenticity, and credibility. Once these signals erode, we don’t automatically get something better.” jessicahullman.substack.com/p/zeynep-tuf...
Zeynep Tufekci on having the wrong nightmares about generative AI
I was writing a blog post where I was going to reference Zeynep Tufekci’s 2025 NeurIPS keynote, and realized there isn’t a solid synopsis online.
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