MikeCrang

We can read an advance copy of their manifesto, written a mere 300 years before the election
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A Mulching Proposal | Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

found an excuse to include one of my favourite papers of all time in my lecture on algorithmic discrimination: Keyes et al (2019): A Mulching Proposal: Analysing and Improving an Algorithmic System for Turning the Elderly into High-Nutrient Slurry. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

🌎 World Water Day 2026: Water and Gender 💧

How does gender shape water access, governance, cooperation and sustainability worldwide?

Join us online on Monday 23rd March 2026 for this special event hosted by @ihrr.bsky.social & @geogdurham.bsky.social at @durham.ac.uk. 🧵👇

@un-water.bsky.social

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One for you @diegothegeographer.bsky.social

man in bright coloured clothed perfoming dance

man with red hair performing dance

Out now, with free access till 11 April, reflecting many conversations with Feifei Hua and Xianyang Hu on how the 摇火车 ['shake the train'] square dance phenomena took off from one district in Xi'an and what it says about dentity, self-expression and place n contemporary China

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China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan Railway: What It Means for Central Asia - The Times Of Central Asia The China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway (CKU railway), also known as the Kashgar–Andijan railway line, is more than an infrastructure project. It represents a

"Once completed, the China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway will, at the very least, enhance regional connectivity.

But how important is the project for Kyrgyzstan, through which, according to recent reporting, 304 km of the line will pass?"

My latest @timesca.com 🔽

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When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology.

Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.

Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon

Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon https://theonion.com/iran-worried-u-s-might-be-building-8-500th-nuclear-wea-1819573283/

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

Sophie Calle’s Catalogue Raisonné of the Unfinished | The Brooklyn Rail This is a compendium of the most private parts of the artist’s practice—the unfinished and abandoned projects that have languished in notebooks, memories, and email drafts—presented with unsentimental...

The book is a "compendium of... the unfinished + abandoned projects that have languished in notebooks, memories + email drafts—presented with unsentimental retrospection. It’s perhaps fitting that the only formal catalogue raisonné of Calle’s work documents this negative space..."

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.

It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

Cyberfraud representing an estimated two-thirds of Laos’s GDP really underscores that deviant globalization IS “development.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Opinion | You’re Paying 90% of Trump’s Tariffs So the New York Federal Reserve says in the latest look at import prices.

Trump’s tariffs are hurting Americans, according to research from the US Federal Reserve: nearly 90 percent of the tariffs’ economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers.

This WSJ article is free to read...

www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Hands Off Nature – Defend Europe’s Forests, Rivers & Wildlife Stop the dismantling of European environmental protections. Stand up for forests, wildlife, clean air, and safe water - our nature depends on it.

Check out this quick petition to defend Europe's environmental laws against pressure from polluters. 1 minute to sign. Would really help if you shared it too! #HandsOffNature
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Kyrgyzstan faces possible EU trade restrictions over alleged sanctions circumvention even as Bishkek seeks dialogue to avoid becoming the first Central Asian state targeted https://ow.ly/S6RN50Y9rHb #Kyrgyzstan #EU #Sanctions #CentralAsia #Trade #Geopolitics

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts

Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken: The Art of Saule Suleimenova - The Times Of Central Asia “I’m a very emotional person,” says artist Saule Suleimenova with a bright, open laugh from her home studio in Almaty. Widely recognized as one of the most

Fascinating peace on critical art of Saule Suleimenova @ Times of Central Asia. She is among the era-defining artist. timesca.com/unbent-unbow...

The climatologist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.

The epidemiologist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.

The activist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.

The historian told me
that nobody
listens to historians.

Red poster with the words IT IS THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE THAT PROGRESS BEEN MADE, THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE AND THROUGH REBELLION! REBELLION! PHOTOGRAPHY | PROTEST | DAVENANT Exhibition 1 June to 31 August 2026 Newcastle City Library 33 New Bridge Street West Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AX

The first display of my Rebellion! exhibition, exploring protest as part of our cultural identity, will be at Newcastle City Library from June to August this year.
#Photography

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love

[twangy, moody lute arpeggio]

Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love

Cover of Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou by Nellie Chu. The top half of the cover is a photograph of a sewing room featuring an industrial looking space, industrial grade sewing machines, and many garments. The bottom half of the cover is a gradient from black to indigo. The title is appears here in a cream font in two different styles. The subtitle is below in a sans serif font. The author's name is below aligned left in a light blue.

"Precarious Accumulation," by Nellie Chu, tells the story of migrant entrepreneurs in China's fast fashion industry whose dreams of economic freedom are confronted by the reality of precarity, exploitation, and marginalization. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/wIreaaM

Tajikistan Is Drowning in Plastic: Inside a Waste System Under Strain - The Times Of Central Asia According to domestic sector-specific sources, more than nine million tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) are generated annually in Tajikistan, of which

Tajikistan faces a deepening plastic waste crisis as most trash goes uncollected or unrecycled with only a small fraction of plastic reentering the economy https://ow.ly/KwHM50Y1lGg #Tajikistan #PlasticWaste #Environment #CentralAsia #WasteManagement #PlasticPollution

The potential for modern-day deer forests in facilitating and maintaining net gain in the uplands of the North Pennines at Durham University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The potential for modern-day deer forests in facilitating and maintaining net gain in the uplands of the North Pennines at Durham University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Funded PhD opportunity here at @durham.ac.uk with some good people 'The potential for modern-day deer forests in facilitating and maintaining net gain in the uplands of the North Pennines' www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our new paper audits ChatGPT’s place-based judgements using 20 million pairwise comparisons. We find systematic geographic biases in how places are described and evaluated.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (authors: Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham)

Russian Philosopher Sparks Outrage by Questioning Sovereignty of Former Soviet States - The Times Of Central Asia A fresh wave of controversy has erupted in Central Asia after Russian philosopher and political theorist Alexander Dugin publicly questioned the sovereignty

Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin’s remarks questioning Central Asian sovereignty have sparked backlash in Uzbekistan and renewed concerns over imperial rhetoric from Moscow https://ow.ly/gVYA50XZMYH #CentralAsia #Uzbekistan #Russia #Geopolitics #DuginRemarks #SovereigntyDebate #ImperialRhetoric

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?'
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!'
And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'