The sea surface temperature was 21.05°C on July 29, 2026, an anomaly of 0.64°C from 1991-2020. arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/double-blu...
factory workshop
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pluralist ecology better
Paxton's Modern Definition Historian Robert Paxton described fascism as selling the illusion of decline and humiliation, cured by militarism. Fascists conspire with elites. Democratic liberties are suppressed. Violence is sold as enthralling — a tool needed for governing. Sound familiar?
It's so fucking crazy that we're doing this. Persecuting hundreds of thousands of people here living and working legally because we're captive to mindless racists
Employers Fear Labor Shortage as Many Immigrants Lose Protected Status
A recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to end a humanitarian program that has allowed about one million immigrants to work legally in the U.S.
nytimes.com
"Complaints about Nolan’s “Odyssey” are mainly complaints about what counts as Western, manly, and heroic...about maintaining a highly circumscribed and prejudiced boundary of American identity downstream of a facile, vulgar conception of the ancient 'West.'” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-vand...
The New Vandals
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" offends right-wingers' notion that only white men make history.
liberalcurrents.com
Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
climatecoloredgoggles.com
politely hinting about concern is almost a joke now, saying out loud that dependency is the priority would be too challenging
NPR@npr.org · 2w agoAbout 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E
Today Finnish MPs are voting on confidence of our Prime Minister, who is swimming backstroke and gargling in the sewage of corruption without any shame; this painting has the kind of energy I'm manifesting for the vote, although it might be a fool's hope.
what should be cognitive dissonance is just a weird uncanny vapor
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w agoa really weird thing is that LinkedIn, the website where you past with your real name, face, and employer, has, by *far*, the most obvious AI slop. like the real-life identity tie does not serve as a break whatsoever, there's clearly no stigma.
I taught in public high schools for 10 years. We had military recruiters on campus at least 1 time a week for the entire school year. It was like they knew how to spot my most vulerable students. The kids that never had lunch, worked crazy hours, and felt hopeless about the future.
Molly Ploofkins@mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is 19-year-old Pvt. Isabella Gonzales. The North Texas resident was one of three U.S. service members killed in action during an Iranian retaliatory attack on a base in Jordan.
This is a very good essay that advances a broadly humanist position on AI. Liberals, conservatives, socialists, and others should all agree that we must not sacrifice our moral agency in search of a mere facsimile of human understanding. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
The AI Apocalypse Is Already Here
Americans do not care for artificial intelligence. Recent polling shows that their attitudes mostly range from ambivalence to horror.
compactmag.com
"This uncertainty about the human provenance of text is an incalculable loss"
Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 3w agoThis is a very good essay that advances a broadly humanist position on AI. Liberals, conservatives, socialists, and others should all agree that we must not sacrifice our moral agency in search of a mere facsimile of human understanding. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
Mention of Bob Hoskins on the timeline has me watching this on repeat several times again
Gift link. It’s heartbreaking. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps (Gift Article)
Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
nytimes.com
Projections for farming productivity by 2100 under mid to upper level #climate emissions scenarios expressed in terms of numbers of people fed. Detail available down to 10km² cadi.econai.org/ssp370_relat...
accountability won't happen by default—unrelenting, fierce pressure on democrats is necessary, and that work needs to start *today*
Truth Without Reconciliation
Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?
bostonreview.net
health care attached to employment creates dependency and less competitive compensation conditions for the employer, cheap productive labor and higher profit margins are the objective here
StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻@strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2w agoIf lobbyists didn't own this country, we could have nice things like the rest of the modern world, too.
If lobbyists didn't own this country, we could have nice things like the rest of the modern world, too.
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
The FDA does not yet have a single positive product test result for Cyclospora as the outbreak continues to grow.
FDA Tests That Found Cyclospora In Taco Bell Supplier’s Lettuce Were A ‘False Positive’
The FDA does not yet have a single positive product test result for Cyclospora as the outbreak continues to grow.
forbes.com
lol, no, I don't because I have spent time drawing, drafhting, penciling, shading, painting, etc. I wouldn't say I'm *good* at art, but I know what it takes. And typing prompts into the theft machine to generate images based on ripping off other artists isn't it, fellas
Travis Klempan@travisklempan.bsky.social · 2w agoAlso “You all dont think that Ai isn't real talent…” Stop stop stop
thought machines for lazy people that were never going to do the work reflecting the upper class culture of management by proclamation further entrenching the enshittification and extraction culture already burning everything, great
Dan Hon@danhon.com · 2w agoyes, in the future all these technologies of insuction, infinite scroll etc, will be regulated or banned outright
Reuters@reuters.com · 2w agoMeta faces Tennessee trial over allegations Instagram was designed to be addictive reut.rs/4wLaTIK
maybe Foucault talked about denial of butt things as the loud silence of eliding the denial that won't go away and maybe this revenge is the natural world in direct conflict with the constructed mythological imaginary world and also loud butt things
conifergirl.bsky.social@conifergirl.bsky.social · 2w ago
How one First Nation in #Quebec is reclaiming its language, one stop sign at a time www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social #Canada #firstnation #langsky
How one First Nation in Quebec is reclaiming its language, one stop sign at a time | CBC News
Bilingual stop signs in Wendake near Quebec City are being replaced to show the Wendat word säa'tatenh, in an effort to revitalize the Indigenous language.
cbc.ca
Trump’s we “destroyed their military” marketing campaign isn’t aging well.
These articles are so bizarre! It’s like the existence of LLMs is entirely disconnected from their outcomes to the point that 50% or more of articles about AI are discussing a theoretical future technology
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w agoGovernments have spent over a century relying on taxes from human labor. What happens when AI starts doing the work instead? Read more: bloom.bg/4fmzEUu 📷️: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images
