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advert from Bradshaw's August 1914 Continental Guide showing London to Paris routes, from https://archive.org/details/isbn_0715361422/page/n15/mode/2up

Today I'm planning a journey with a 1914 Bradshaw (minus the terrible clothes and politics) and archive.org/details/isbn....

“It is much easier to quantify and qualify the immediate, case-by-case impacts of a set of data centers on the ground, but grasping the full picture of data center impacts requires contending with the entangled, ever-changing, and fundamentally unseeable global flows of materials, capital and power”

Thank you for writing this, Tamara!

tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

US Critical Mineral Aggression Abroad Connected to Data Center Fights at Home We must phase out fossil fuels—not endlessly reshuffle environmental sacrifice zones around the planet, write Hannah Lipstein and Tamara Kneese.

Data center fights are hyperlocal but depend on opaque global supply chains + geopolitical resource grabs. How do data centers connect with critical minerals and electronics manufacturing, and what makes these connections palpable? Hannah Lipstein + I wrote about this @techpolicypress.bsky.social

We cite work by @miriamposner.com, @zgtcooper.bsky.social, @anavaldi.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, @chipscommunities.bsky.social, @alondra.bsky.social and more

And someone should hire Hannah ASAP! She is a fantastic researcher and collaborator

Egun on

Conducting bibliographical research exceeds instrumental as it enables us to develop our own research ideas, thus increasing our capacity for critical thinking and creativity, which have intrinsic value. Good bibliographical research situates our work and positions us within an academic tradition, which can and does affect our identity and the values and beliefs we adopt as researchers and as individuals. Doing bibliographical research is part of the process of constructing a conceptual and theoretical scaffold for our own thinking about the topics we are researching. These scaffolds, in turn, are part of dialogical agreements and disputes over vocabularies, traditions, and methods with those that preceded us. A literature review is a very sophisticated way of deliberation.

We wrote something along these lines with @javisamo.bsky.social in our AI&Society paper about “AI assistants” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Por lo que sea la una parte de la izquierda desconfía se un producto poco fiable, que se presenta como fulminador de puestos de trabajo, construido sobre la explotación de la clase baja global, promocionado por los super villanos billonarios del planeta que apoyan a la extrema derecha global (1/2)

University of Bristol asks humanities and modern languages staff to voluntarily quit This scheme comes as part of the 'managed decline' of schools deemed less profitable to the university

Things that would be interesting to know about the current contraction of UK academic staffing (and that it would actually be super helpful if REF2029 institutional SPRE statements were required to report on) include:

What's the impact on the equality and diversity of academic staffing? 1/3

Save the date! Join interdisciplinary researchers, artists and practitioners for this event, addressing the multifaceted dimensions of extraction through our past and present culture and visual media. More details 👇 @adambridgen.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | La policía británica detiene a Andrés Mountbatten-Windsor, hermano del rey Carlos, por sus vínculos con el pederasta Epstein social.elpais.com/ml7…

If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.

I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website*

I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge - Ben Bowsher, 2026 This paper responds to debates over the politics of knowledge in the Anthropocene, which often centres on affirmational and negative approaches to posthuman the...

Posting my article again in hopes of finding you! Dear reader who is interested in posthuman theories and radical politics!

If this isn’t ‘you’, please share until I find the right ‘you’.

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

Next week, 26th Feb, I am giving a lecture discussing my forthcoming book at Goldsmiths University, as part of their Visual Cultures programme. 5-7PM. Details at www.instagram.com/p/DUtQULJl63...

The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors

important commentary!!!

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

Revealed: Tony Blair’s Institute lobbied EU to work with Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza TBI pushed bloc on US plan for Palestine but internal disquiet on “taboo topic” Gaza grows

Our publication partner Democracy for Sale has a longer story including some background from within TBI about their lobbying on Gaza and the Board of Peace (HT
@lucasamin.bsky.social ) - find their excellent reporting here:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...

Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena power...

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

The Case of the Mysterious Citations Mysterious citations are routinely appearing in peer-reviewed publications throughout the scientific community. In this paper, we developed an automated pipeline and examine the proceedings of four ma...

A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.058...

#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm

Since the 1970s, the Earth — fueled by greenhouse gas emissions — has been warming at a fairly steady rate.

But 2023, 2024 and 2025 were far warmer than previous trends. A Post analysis shows the warming rate over the past decade increased by 42 percent. https://wapo.st/4qA1kZM

It's a strange thing to not disclose in the post but this research was led by Google, which has seen rising greenhouse gas emissions for years now

I know it's extremely outdated and weird to say this but it's emissions that are causing climate change + AMOC collapse etc. Sorry to mention it

“ These people came along and decided that they wanna build a machine God, and then they end up stealing data, killing the environment, exploiting labor in that process.”
- @timnitgebru.bsky.social

it reminds me of a government asking people to delete old emails and images to save water

What about the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence? While AI proficiency is becoming an important part of a well-rounded education and career-readiness, it is also important to acknowledge that current large language model AI technologies are resource intensive. Large language model AI systems require significant computing power, which can increase energy use and environmental impacts. Because CU is committed to doing our part for environmental stewardship and sustainability, we encourage our community to consider the following options for heightening our sustainable use of the tool: Optimize AI prompts: Providing AI tools with well-structured prompts can reduce unnecessary AI processing. It reduces the number of queries required, which improves efficiency and lowers computational load. Turn off unneeded AI integrations: Some software applications have AI-powered assistants running in the background. Going into the applications’ settings and disabling those assistants when not in use will lower energy consumption.

I'm also just going to leave this FAQ answer here.

"We know that for some members of our community, generative AI raises significant concerns around privacy, sustainability and ethical use. We share those concerns and are working to mitigate – where possible – the impacts."

Those em dashes are doing a lot of work.

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Thank you for writing such a relevant piece of work!