Re: 30 years of Infinite Jest, itching to state belief - it has been a great derangement (as in Ghosh's lectures/book of same title) that Infinite Jest is still not read primarily as an ecological novel, practically a portent, an omen. Who else reads the Assassins Fateuils Rolents as eco-terrorists?
To understand modern risk, we have to grapple with emergent and novel aspects of hazard, vulnerability, exposure, and response that comprise risk.
Find out more in a new article with @danielaldrich.bsky.social and Daniel Hoyer, just out in @issuesinst.bsky.social.
issues.org/mental-model...
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
The age of enshittenment.
I read that his district was held by a Democrat until it was gerrymandered.
Will admit that I've been contemplating how imminent a catastrophic wet bulb event may be. First thought about your post is that you're some kind of bot planted by Musk and company! Can you persuade me otherwise? Haven't read "The Mars Trilogy" and can't say I plan to.
You're welcome :)
Kim Stanley Robinson: "We're all in a science fiction novel that we're co-writing together."
Five years ago, award-winning science fiction writer, Kim Stanley Robinson published his cli-fi masterpiece 'The Ministry for the Future.' On this week's episode of the podcast, I ask him if there's anything he'd change about it today. He emphasizes we are all fighting a "war of ideas'
Here it is on Youtube for reposting purposes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7SO...
How very strange that the name of Nordhaus' model formed the the acronym "DICE"...anyone else have this thought?
As I understand it 3 ferrets died for this science. Poor ferrets! All the more reason to be grateful for this research and take heed. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
H5N1 isolate from a dairy farm worker in Michigan in ferrets: airborne transmission, moderate pathogenicity, including limited extrapulmonary spread, without lethality
👉 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
“Billionaires building bunkers to survive an AI apocalypse, attempting to disrupt death through cryopreservation, scouting the planet for pop-up cities and network states — are not reliable stewards of the collective good.”
— @ruha9.bsky.social
ABSOLUTE INSANITY GOING ON
MOST EXTREME DAY IN WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY
Dozens of thousands of records are being smashed with the hugest margins ever seen in climatic history (locally >10C) allover Oceania,Asia and Africa
Tempweratures >52C
We are seeing something beyond imagination
Updates next hours
What is happening in Gaza will be a permanent stain on the world's collective conscience.
History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster.
We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.
In case you hadn't heard: before they withdrew Stefanik's nomination for UN ambassador the owner of Sticker Mule was going to run to fill her seat. They had this free MMA event in my town with Stone. saratogatodaynewspaper.com/maga-world-i...
r/t prior post, see interesting journal article: Berger, K. (2024). Reflections on decolonizing truth-telling in the writing of Behrouz Boochani. Journal of Sociology, 60(4), 704-722. doi.org/10.1177/1440... (Original work published 2024)
An interesting journal article, open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Read article about historical precedent for POTUS showing contempt of federal court order. One of three examples was Andrew Jackson's show of contempt for a federal court order when displacing the Cherokees, resulting in "the trail of tears".
Happened across this 2019 book review by J.M. Coetzee of asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani's memoir of off-shore imprisonment by Australia. Naomi Klein mentioned in recent interview that this was not new or unique to the U.S. www.nybooks.com/articles/201...
Eight of the top 10 online shows are spreading climate misinformation yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/eigh...
“Today the world is a little lonelier and more unjust"
“Pope Francis made it crystal clear…to care about #climatechange, you don’t have to be an environmentalist, you don’t have to be a scientist,”
@katharinehayhoe.com. “You don’t have to be Catholic or Protestant or Christian, you just have to be a human being.” insideclimatenews.org/news/2104202...
Two ways: Pope Francis visits a prison in Rome and, after spending time with inmates, blows them kisses. He said, "I ask myself: Why them and not me?" Rep. Moore visits a jail in El Salvador and gave a thumbs up to their suffering. Which way would Jesus, imprisoned during the Passion, prefer?
