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@joshkirshner.bsky.social

geographer/planner • political economy of energy transitions, urban climate, landscape, extraction frontiers, decarbonization-development dilemmas • known to frequent the Uni of York, UK

727 Followers  |  666 Following  |  256 Posts  |  Joined: 19.11.2024  |  2.0487

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Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025 Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology

#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

05.08.2025 13:15 — 👍 101    🔁 31    💬 12    📌 1
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Aberdeen is trapped between Starmer and Trump The city that grew rich on North Sea oil wants to transition to renewables but needs a better chance

Aberdeen is trapped between Starmer and Trump on.ft.com/4oAe6rw | opinion

05.08.2025 04:32 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 1

Ron Sexsmith has you covered in several of those categories...

02.08.2025 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After Trump Defunds Public Media Washington, D.C. — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced Friday that it will wind down operations after President Donald Trump’s successful push to eliminate its federal funding —…

Trump did what Reagan, Bush, and Gingrich couldn’t: he killed public broadcasting. CPB is shutting down. Rural stations will go dark. And Mister Rogers’ legacy? Defunded.

02.08.2025 14:00 — 👍 62    🔁 33    💬 7    📌 5
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I've started a Global Corridor newsletter on Substack providing a round up of some of the most interesting news, stories, data, opinion + academic work on global infrastructure.

Looking forward to sharing more in autumn but for now enjoy the first one

globalcorridor.substack.com/p/global-cor...

30.07.2025 11:03 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

I think it's very bad for our society that simply opposing the mass starvation of civilians is treated as a controversial stance.

29.07.2025 12:02 — 👍 1582    🔁 375    💬 26    📌 16
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Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series The Cacique Mara Little League team from Maracaibo, Venezuela, will not be able to participate in the Senior League Baseball World Series in South Carolina this year.

The Trump administration has barred a team of 15- and 16-year-olds from Venezuela from entering the United States to compete in the Little League Senior League World Series. The team from Maracaibo won the Latin America tournament to qualify for the World Series in South Carolina

wapo.st/4o8DKmS

26.07.2025 13:52 — 👍 422    🔁 255    💬 74    📌 104
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Venezuela Probes Treatment of Migrants Trump Sent to El Salvador Venezuela launched an investigation into El Salvador's president for alleged mistreatment of Venezuelan migrants whom Donald Trump sent there.

After arriving in Venezuela, some of the men that Donald Trump had deported to the El Salvador prison crossed themselves, cried and hugged one another.

25.07.2025 12:45 — 👍 94    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 2
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Enjoying some Honduran food in north Florida

25.07.2025 13:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Research funder pivots to tackle UK’s ‘five biggest challenges’ Nuffield Foundation says it wants to generate ‘viable solutions to the key social questions facing the country’ under new strategic direction

A key funder for social policy research is shifting its strategic focus to tackle what it called the UK’s five biggest social and economic challenges, backed by a £150 million investment, reports @patrickjack.bsky.social
#AcademicSky

24.07.2025 07:35 — 👍 1    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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How China Curbed Its Oil Addiction—and Blunted a U.S. Pressure Point The Chinese government is boosting domestic production and the EV industry in the name of national security. There are 14 million chargers nationwide.

China’s thirst for oil drove global demand for decades. Now a government campaign to curb that addiction is nearing a milestone, with big geopolitical implications.

22.07.2025 09:14 — 👍 18    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 1

The current administration's systematic dismantling of our research infrastructure—402 documented attacks in just 6 months—represents more than policy disagreement. It's an abandonment of the principle that knowledge should serve the common good and expand opportunity for all communities.

22.07.2025 00:09 — 👍 919    🔁 382    💬 23    📌 12
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FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response | CNN Politics The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.

Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns.
He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

22.07.2025 02:45 — 👍 9017    🔁 4108    💬 242    📌 294

enjoyed listening to this on a rainy afternoon....

19.07.2025 17:18 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them

Colbert, Keeling

Hard to say which cancellation is worse

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...

19.07.2025 02:31 — 👍 44    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 3

Good stuff, I used to have a couple of their records in my iTunes... Btw, Jake Xerxes Fussell will play a show in York, UK in September at the National Centre for Early Music - I got tickets and am looking forward to it!

18.07.2025 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm doing this too... No CBS for me.

18.07.2025 10:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert

18.07.2025 00:45 — 👍 8722    🔁 3103    💬 136    📌 115

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delayed FEMA search and rescue by 72 hours.

Approving that shouldn’t take longer than 72 seconds.

Texans deserve answers.

14.07.2025 15:40 — 👍 2810    🔁 715    💬 110    📌 21
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Looking forward to reading this (Powering the pluriverse: Possibilities and limits to decolonial energy transitions in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

14.07.2025 10:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ghana and India: Narendra Modi’s visit rekindles historical ties Narendra Modi is on a mission to grow India’s global influence.

“He’ll want to refute notions that India is a perennial underdog or a neo-colonialist in a new scramble for Africa...” theconversation.com/ghana-and-in...

14.07.2025 10:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.

11.07.2025 18:24 — 👍 4480    🔁 1119    💬 152    📌 89
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‘Elon has finally woken up’: Musk battles to save Tesla from Trump Billionaire’s political threats have not stopped the president’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ hurting the electric-car maker’s profits

A bit of schadenfreude... on.ft.com/3GtDy0w

04.07.2025 13:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Mississippi Masala (1991) starring Denzel Washington
YouTube video by TTAM GIB Mississippi Masala (1991) starring Denzel Washington

The brilliant film Mississippi Masala by Mira Nair (Zohran Mamdani's mother) tells the story of people of Indian descent forced out of Uganda during the horrific Idi Amin dictatorship. It can be watched on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQr...

04.07.2025 07:03 — 👍 51    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 1

Ever since it's been one of my favourites - esp 'Better things' - your version is great too!

03.07.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of the first records I ever bought, at a used record store in Nashville, aged maybe 9, in about 1983...

03.07.2025 11:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Haiti's gangs have 'near-total control' of the capital as violence escalates, UN says Senior U.N. officials warn that Haiti’s gangs have gained “near-total control” of the capital and authorities are unable to stop escalating violence across the impoverished Caribbean nation.

An estimated 90% of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince is now under control of criminal gangs who are expanding attacks

03.07.2025 04:47 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Another one for Canada Day RS

01.07.2025 14:03 — 👍 112    🔁 13    💬 5    📌 0
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G.O.P. Bill Adds Surprise Tax That Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further and penalizes those industries.

Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Trump’s domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry.

29.06.2025 21:30 — 👍 567    🔁 318    💬 103    📌 62
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From Cape Town’s energy sovereignty, Beira’s post-disaster reconstruction, Nairobi’s institutional innovations & accelerated planning systems to start-up cultures in Kigali and violent beautification in Addis: What is it about cities that makes them sites of experimental statecraft? #ECAS2025

29.06.2025 16:27 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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