@chadmbriggs
Disaster risk & crisis management professor at AIM in Manila, hybrid warfare & disinfo researcher, purveyor of climate security and undesirable futures. RPG writer. Past lives in Alaska, Kosovo, Ukraine, Hungary, Ireland and elsewhere 🇨🇦
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.
This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.
(🎥 Vahid Online)
Last night I reported the US allowing India to buy Russian oil, due to the mid-east crisis the White House started.
Moments later they announce Russia has been providing Iran with Intel to target US forces.
The lack of foresight, planning or just ignoring intel is incredible.
❗️“Hungary has stopped exporting gasoline and diesel fuel to Ukraine, but will maintain electricity supplies” — Orbán.
"A death count on par with the Oklahoma City bombing is relegated to the back page."
Free Performance Booster Packet was the name of my high school Bananarama tribute band
Yeah, not a great strategy from here in the Philippines
I was in the middle of writing an article complimenting Carney countering Trump's cognitive warfare re Greenland, and then he falls for the Iran framing
And this won't stop with trans people. Before long, licenses and passports may be invalidated for political actions and beliefs (straight from the nazi playbook)
Oh wow. Just waiting for university lectures to be evaluated this way
Also true of region-specific apps for transit like in Taipei and Seoul. It makes getting around those cities so painless
In a world full of lies and liars, cutting through the noise is the hardest part, especially when the truth is inconvenient.
"A war foretold:
How the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Yeah, scary...
Oh, you should see what we're working on now... hopefully published soon
Just now catching up to this episode. Really excellent interview between @anneapplebaum.bsky.social and @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social. As a scientist who knew someone purged during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the parallels in intent if not (yet) in scope here/now are deeply unsettling.
Contributors include @ritafloyd.bsky.social, @chadmbriggs.bsky.social, @zimmzone.bsky.social, @annakbrinkman.bsky.social, @wgreaves.bsky.social, Duncan Depledge, Dhanasree Jayaram, Anselm Vogler, Rob Cullum, Hannah Teicher, Sofia Kabbej & others! Intro is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Kremlin-linked Matryoshka bot network launches campaign on Greenland dispute, claims Zelensky ready to send troops to fight against the U.S.
@antibot4navalny.bsky.social notes the new disinfo masks itself as content from @thestudyofwar.bsky.social and @bellingcat.com, among others.
Delete your #TikTok accounts and uninstall IMMEDIATELY
DO IT NOW
His friends are officially in the driver seat now
They will absolutely use this for TRACKING and other stuff
I associate this winter with three things: cold, darkness, and gratitude. I am not mentioning Russian missiles and drones because they strike civil infrastructure all year round. That is why we in Kyiv are sitting at minus -17 degrees without heating, electricity, water, or communication. 1/1
The worst climate and weather news you’ll see today.
Living in the Western Pacific, I can't say that many people in the Philippines or Taiwan are feeling any safer now
Thanks!
I'm glad to hear you have so much good news!
I still remember the final M*A*S*H episode
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye...
New article out (actually last month) on cognitive warfare- Anita and I have new drafts in the works focusing on the Philippines and a more direct comparison between Russian and Chinese methods. digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol18/is...
Title: ‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess. Abstract: How climate change is narrated matters. Every story that is told of climate change contains its own causes of the problem, its own solutions and its own vision of the future. This article juxtaposes two stories: the dominant story of climate change as represented by the IPCC and a counter-story of climate change as ‘imperial mess’. This language comes from Alice Te Punga Somerville and her book Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay About Captain Cook (2020). In this book, Te Punga Somerville writes about colonialism in Aotearoa and the Pacific as a story that can be told in endless different ways, with each story drawing out different elements. Number 223 of her project, ‘In Montebello Islands’, discusses the British nuclear weapons testing programme. The tests were called ‘Operation Hurricane’, and Te Punga Somerville writes that the whole imperial mess of the past five centuries could be called “Operation Hurricane”. This article takes this claim as a prompt, both methodologically and theoretically, in order to argue that climate change needs to be understood in a historically and geographically informed way, where the colonial history becomes the present, coloniality and resistance entwine and the ‘way out of the mess’ has to be found in a fight against the entirety of Operation Hurricane. The contribution of the article is twofold: First, this article contributes to literatures that understand climate change as a historical process of imperial violence, by directly addressing what this changes about an analysis of climate politics. Second, it contributes to critiques of the IPCC by showing how its approach depoliticises climate change through the way it narrates and communicates climate science as separate from historical and structural processes.
ICYMI My new article on the material politics of climate storytelling.
I use an experimental approach to juxtapose two stories of climate change in the Pacific. That of the IPCC, representing the dominant narrative, & then an anti-imperial version.
@geoopenaccess.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
"Jaguar" 2022
Paul Stowe
British Artist
Graphite on Paper
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Hell is empty and the devils are all here."
Good night from the Philippines, looking east across the Pacific toward the US
New article out (actually last month) on cognitive warfare- Anita and I have new drafts in the works focusing on the Philippines and a more direct comparison between Russian and Chinese methods. digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol18/is...
JFC this looks bad from even shaky democracies @aetiology.bsky.social
This is a stunning piece of work by Global Witness laying out how Musk's chatbot software actively helps spread climate denial and disinformation.
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
