@marchudson.bsky.social
Failing/ed academic (socio-technical transitions), climate historian, writer, video maker. Most days I think we're toast. #envhist See also allouryesterdays.info @allouryesterdays.bsky.social
There’s never enough money to forgive student loans or give people healthcare but always money to drop bombs on brown people.
"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."
That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.
Winston Churchill quite literally asked the Americans to overthrow the very popular socialist Iranian government in 1953 because Churchill wanted the UK to keep extracting Iran’s oil wealth without paying for it.
Please do be a bit more historically aware.
One thing I've been stressing is that, if Hormuz traffic remained stopped, the monumental oil supply shock will manifest as sharp price spikes in wealthy nations that sap disposable incomes
In poorer countries, the shock will manifest as outright physical shortages.
Esp @drtermagant.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social @thierryaaron.bsky.social
Everyone - you hav my permission to send me this in response to puns/jokes etc
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSA...
Insert Homer Simpson eye bleach gif etc etc
I watched about an hour of gb news last night. Indescribably terrifying
67 years ago today, march 11 1959, an audience at the Royal Society of Arts in London is warned abt sea-level rise in a warmer world…
allouryesterdays.info/2024/03/10/m...
57 years ago today - March 11, 1969 – NASA explains the need to monitor C02 build-up to politicians
allouryesterdays.info/2023/03/10/m...
The ideology that fuelled the Christchurch terrorist was built over decades of Islamophobia. Decades of Muslims being portrayed as dangerous. Decades of politicians and the media telling us that Muslims are a threat to the so-called ‘Australian way of life’.
“Smudges “ we call them. @drtermagant.bsky.social
This civilisation is so toxic that it panics at the thought of the living hell shown in this image being shut down
A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
@drtermagant.bsky.social
Almost 90 people being cut.
Canadian historian Adam Chapnick, a professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada:
“I don’t know how you justify this decision if you have any sort of commitment to history."
"To look around the corner... work with others."
Which is why they tried to not even release the report on global biodiversity and national security.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It is horrible
This is a brilliantly written piece by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social to understand:
What’s Behind Noam Chomsky’s Obituary-Marring Epstein Friendship? newrepublic.com/article/2070... via @newrepublic.com
They're going to poison a city with 17 million people
Horrifying scenes from Tehran as oil depots are on fire, poisoning the environment. As with Gaza, the goal is ecocide, to make Iran unlivable. aje.news/64yl8m?updat...
"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people.
If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.
Man who dragged Britain into an illegal war in the Middle East scolds other man for not dragging Britain into an illegal war in the Middle East.
That the destination plants many people rely on for water are on the table in both Iran and Gulf states is not good www.gdnonline.com/Details/1377...
Speaking as someone full of passionate intensity, your lack all conviction disturbs me.
That might be misattributed - "Multiple sources indicate this quote did not appear online prior to October 2020 and is not a legitimate translation from Sun Tzu’s work."
www.truthorfiction.com/sun-tzu-rule...
Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”
Yep! I know where I am in the house power list, and it is not above any of the three cats...
Cat-astrophically bad PR...