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Historian @tulaneu.bsky.social Lab Dog is out now: www.labdogbook.com Rotten Beauty is next: www.rottenbeauty.work brad.bolman.com ~Views expressed may not reflect those of my employer~

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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

04.03.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 2295 πŸ” 1144 πŸ’¬ 73 πŸ“Œ 104
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#TheLensNolaπŸ” Because of decades of high-stress and deficient healthcare, a 59-year-old in prison has a β€˜geriatric morbidity’ that's equivalent to a 75-year-old on the outside.

✍ Bernard Smith

Full story πŸ”—: buff.ly/RNNDwgs

#geriatricmorbity #prison #aging

06.03.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iranian schools, hospital and landmarks among civilian sites hit during US-Israeli strikes A local in Tehran tell BBC Verify that the city has been turned into a

BBC Verify has analysed verified videos and satellite imagery that show severe damage to a hospital, sporting centres, a UNESCO world heritage site and two schools since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Saturday, as the number of civilian casualties grows.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

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A good opportunity for someone looking to get into the publishing/magazine world!

05.03.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜There’s no safe place any more’: inside Tehran under attack – photo essay Photojournalist Stefanie Glinski speaks to Iranian photographer Mohammad Mohsenifar, who has been documenting the attacks on the Iranian capital over the past week Iranians woke up on Thursday to a new round of explosions in Tehran, on the sixth day of war since the US and Israel launched attacks that have so far killed more than 1,200 people, including the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. The casualties include 168 children who were killed at a school in the southern province of Hormozgan; thousands more people have been injured. People mourn the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei along Enghalab street in Tehran on Sunday Continue reading...

β€˜There’s no safe place any more’: inside Tehran under attack – photo essay

05.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 6

imagine if we just had the based surge in renewable supply and not the cursed surge in data centers' energy demand

04.03.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 163 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

It applied to Marx and Engels, too

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Ten years ago, our TV debut on β€˜The Late Show with David Letterman’
Ten years ago, our TV debut on β€˜The Late Show with David Letterman’ YouTube video by Future Islands

Happy β€œIconic Letterman performance by Future Islands” day to all who celebrate youtube.com/shorts/rDr_8...

03.03.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Using Candy Crush and myfitnesspal to track people is unbelievably dark

03.03.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iran After Khamenei An interview with sociologist Asef Bayat on the U.S.-Israeli war, democratic opposition to the Islamic Republic, and the country’s uncertain future.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/ira...

Superb interview with Asef Bayat:

β€˜Iran’s leftists are also frustrated with the Western left, which they believe mischaracterizes the Islamic Republic as β€œanti-imperialist” and overlooks the real struggles of Iranians fighting for dignity and democracy.’

03.03.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Full answer at 13:15 -->>

"It's data centers and it's nothing but data centers. And the people who start trying to muddy the waters with EVs and electrification, that's not true. Absolutely not true. There's no data to support it. It's it's not true. Our data shows that it's data centers"

03.03.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

03.03.2026 04:02 πŸ‘ 464 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 5

This Celtics team has also been so much better than I expected, it’s unreal

03.03.2026 02:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

02.03.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 8044 πŸ” 2215 πŸ’¬ 122 πŸ“Œ 71

Six Americans dead, at least three others critically wounded, alongside hundreds of Iranians. As needless as it is horrific

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If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

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And record-breaking daily-to-monthly high temperatures are occurring, in even more widespread fashion, yet again today. #CAwx #AZwx #NMwx #COwx

01.03.2026 00:10 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

war is disgusting and it's a moral imperative to be disgusted by it

03.01.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

28.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 17015 πŸ” 6538 πŸ’¬ 469 πŸ“Œ 549

It’s crazy that it’s basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history

28.02.2026 12:55 πŸ‘ 5052 πŸ” 689 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 25

Saw @abbymartin0.bsky.social β€˜s new doc β€œEarth’s Greatest Enemy” yesterday about how the US military is the defining world contributor to global warming, not least because the perpetual buildup of weapons produces economic and political imperatives to use them. We need a mass peace movement again

28.02.2026 13:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So funny to call Green tactics β€œdivisive” when a key piece of the strategy seemed to be… trying to reach voters in the languages they use most and on issues they care a lot about

27.02.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

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How OrbΓ‘n systematically suffocated the Hungarian media over the past 15 years Viktor OrbΓ‘n has also pledged, in his annual address earlier this month, to β€œclear out” after the April elections media and civil society organisations deemed to threaten β€œsovereignty.” Fidesz already...

this is the very obvious game plan, and if you're reading journalism that doesn't at least hint at the possibility, you're not reading journalism at all:

26.02.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 500 πŸ” 187 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 5
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Brad Bolman, Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles Brad Bolman’s Lab Dog is a fascinating and meticulously researched history of how beagles came to be a standardised laboratory dog breed, and how these dog

My review of @brad.bolman.com 's 'Lab Dog' has just been published with Social History of Medicine. This is a truly excellent book that will be of great interest to historians of animals, lab sciences, and beyond. doi.org/10.1093/shm/...

26.02.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

This is such a thoughtful review, thank you for your generous engagement, Jules

26.02.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Raccoon City, Mon Amour

26.02.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t get how this isn’t a larger story (other than the obvious that a lot of other people and institutions have these financial ties)

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