Join me and many others for important conversations on Gender and AI next week - more necessary and urgent now than ever!
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-g...
Countries around the world are rapidly adding solar and wind capacity, now cheaper and more reliable than ever, a new analysis shared with The New York Times shows. Here's a country-by-country snapshot of existing clean-energy capacity on land, and where there’s room to grow.
Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
Reminds me: must see #flow this wkend
My dad, aka Old Pirate, loved The Globe & Mail. He loved it best back in the day when it came heavy with stacks of many sections, bursting with news from around the world. He read it every day he lived in Canada. Today’s edition features my tribute to him. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS IN CASE OF ICE: CONOCE TUS DERECHOS EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE:
DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR. ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge. Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door. NO ABRAS TU PUERTA. ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta.
ASK THEM TO LEAVE. If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission. 2 PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN. Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso.
REMAIN SILENT. You have the right to remain silent. If the agents ask you questions, tell them, "I wish to remain silent." PERMANECE EN SILENCIO. Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio. Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles: "Deseo permanecer en silencio".
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
Selfie of a smiling woman holding a shiny book entitled Between Two Rivers. The bottom half of the book cover is slightly obscured by her hand. She wears a dark grey sweatshirt
advance copies have arrived and if it looks like i’m trying to hug it, that’s because i am 🥹
I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...
We are so moved to be organizing this at this moment.
Indigenous Screen Office Delegates announced for WORLDING at MIT Co-Creation Studio’s WORLDING
See more at link:
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a colourful blue, orange, red and purple chart showing a light and dar kblue history for temperatures, recent shifts upwards through orange and light red, and two futures: one of light and dark red (1.5c), and one of deep purple (3c and more)
I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:
- Things are going to get worse, no matter what
- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today
theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org
This is super interesting, and shows us how justice can/will prevail. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
If you can, consider a donation to World Central Kitchen to help feed folks in LA who need a meal.
donate.wck.org/give/654000?...
@governor.ca.gov just launched a new site to ensure the public has access to fact-based data around the Southern California wildfires.
Get the facts: californiafirefacts.com
As the effects of climate change unfold worldwide, co-creative initiatives have never been more critical.
WORLDING 2025 is an incubator where Indigenous knowledge, storytelling, and emerging XR technologies converge to imagine and inspire a just, thriving climate future. 🌱
"Facebook, Google and Amazon have destroyed the actual bulwark against autocratic leaders – local journalism – while cozying up to actual autocracy. They now control the digital ad industry." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I am thrilled to be part of this community.
APA Advisory Board:
🤖 Al is a rapidly growing technology and the legal landscape around it is changing every day. We're lucky to have extraordinary people advising us who work in documentaries, tech, ethics, standards & practices, and law.
You'll be shocked to hear I wrote a thing, and doubly shocked that it is not nice about Silicon Valley. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Congratulations to the 2024 Breakthroughs in Storytelling Award winners. digitaldozen.io
A wonderful collection of projects from around the world
Here’s a hopeful story. Wind and solar are now the cheapest energy sources on the planet, which guarantees they will eventually take over. They already make up 15% of energy production, up from just 1% ten years ago. slate.com/technology/2...
Talked with my friend Jon Wiener at the Nation/Start Making Sense podcast about the election, hope, anger, and more. www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...
An AI generated documentary based on Werner Herzog. What could go wrong? Our interview with IDFA’s opening film director for our AI+Documentary monthly column, The Synthesis.
www.documentary.org/column/synth...
