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Martin @kameraten.bsky.social · 1d

Really worth reading the full essay.

Graeber argues that capitalism didn’t replace slavery -- it rebranded it. A key mistake of the mode-of-production model was reducing “production” to making things instead of also producing people and social relations that constitute social reproduction.

David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 1d

Modern capitalism has more in common with Feudalism and the oldstyle slave-system than most people realize.

From: davidgraeber.org/articles/tur...

"In the case of slave mode of production,
the exploiters directly own the primary
producers; in feudalism, both have complex
relations to the land, but the lords use direct
jural-political means to extract a surplus; in
capitalism, the exploiters own the means of
production and the primary producers are
thus reduced to selling their labor power.
The state, in each case, is essentially an
apparatus of coercion that backs up these
property rights by force."
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- David Graeber

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Christopher Callahan @ccallahan45.bsky.social · 1d

In the next post, Ketan says a trillion barrels of oil is 430 GtCO2. Every ton of CO2 emitted causes 0.00026 excess deaths between now and 2100.
Conclusion: unlocking an extra trillion barrels of oil kills 112 million people.

(Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread.

As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT

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How AI can unlock an extra trillion barrels of oil
And deliver the volumes needed to meet resilient demand
15 October 2025 3 minute read
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Simon Flowers
Chairman, Chief Analyst and author of The Edge

Andrew Latham
Senior Vice President, Energy Research

Orla Marnell
Principal Data Scientist, Upstream

Josh Dixon
Senior Research Analyst, Upstream
Stronger-for-longer oil demand will heap pressure on the upstream industry to deliver new supply. I asked our subsurface experts, Dr Andrew Latham, Orla Marnell and Josh Dixon how artificial intelligence can identify opportunities to meet the challenge.
Why do we need to unlock new supply?
The slow pace of the energy transition means that oil demand is likely to be far more resilient than some thought just a few years ago. Wood Mackenzie forecasts annual consumption won’t peak until the early to mid-2030s, and cumulative demand will be almost 1,000 billion barrels through 2050.
Firm demand throws the spotlight onto where new supply can be sourced. Production from assets already onstream or justified for development will gradually decline under current investment plans from just over 100 million b/d today to 50 million b/d 2050, cumulatively 650 billion barrels. That leaves a huge supply gap of 300 million barrels.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 1d

Web of Epeira strix, an Orb-weaving Spider, Galloway, 1915.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Bernhard Gissibl @bgissibl.bsky.social · 3d

The Humanities of Nature @mfnberlin.bsky.social continue their online lecture series on "Heritage & Justice: Unpacking legal Narratives in Natural History". Start is this Wednesday at 1pm, full program and zoom link www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/de/forschung...

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Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · 3d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/t...

Zora Neale Hurston’s Play Comes Alive for the First Time

www.nytimes.com

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 8d

On the Pedagogy of #Freedom:
I live by this and try to adapt the requirements of university education to this outlook on what it truly means to learn and to educate. I think it is possible to do so even in times of increasing market competition, decreasing funding & time constraints
#highereducation

Long text excerpt from „Transformative Learning“ on the „Pedagogy of Freedom“; from: Satish Kumar and Pavel Cenkl, 2021: 7

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 5d

"An underrated strategy of surviving an authoritarian takeover is to seem like an absolute moron who can't figure out orders well enough to follow them."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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David Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · 5d

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social as always lyrically on target:

"The first step is admitting the scope of the crisis, and proceeding from there, finding points of leverage against oligarch assault. At the same time, build your own refuge. Refuge can become subterfuge when you’re up against the soulless."

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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emma bolton @ebolton.bsky.social · 6d

This looks like a fantastic resource. Can't wait to work through it

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 15

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai

"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 6d

On Monday I'm presenting virtually at the Adaptation Futures conference, on the 'Beyond Adaptation: Loss and Damage and Justice' panel. 8am BST / 8pm NZT.

My paper is titled 'Narrating climate un/futures through Loss and Damage and Reparations'. It'll be the first time I present on this new area.

breakdown of the panel, other panellists are Luka Hamel-Serenity, Alicia N'Guetta, Emily Boyd, and Lydia Pedoth.

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Claira Turvey @clairaturvey.bsky.social · 6d

‘This database tracks legal decisions in cases where generative AI produced hallucinated content – typically fake citations, but also other types of AI-generated arguments.’

www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin

Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.

www.damiencharlotin.com

Claira Turvey @clairaturvey.bsky.social · 6d

“It was like having God up there responding to my questions,” White said after using the chatbot and an AI-powered search engine called Perplexity to help represent herself in court.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 7d

I beg you. I implore you.

DO. NOT. USE. CHATGPT. OR. AI. AS. YOUR. LAWYER. @nbcnews.com, this is unbelievably dangerous and you're going to get people seriously hurt or worse.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

People are using ChatGPT as a lawyer in court. Some are winning.

From pickleball disputes to eviction cases, litigants are using ChatGPT to fight their court battles — and they’re starting to win.

www.nbcnews.com

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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social · 7d

📢OUR NEW PODCAST discusses legal personhood of nature, also known as rights of nature or more-than-human rights.

We talk to lawyer and professor Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito, the founding director of the More-than-Human Life (MOTH) Collective. @ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

Podcast: More than Human Rights with César Rodríguez-Garavito

naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 9d

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 10d

Sorting out dad's digital legacy is proving to be a bigger task than expected for the internet footprint of an 81 year old man.
Do any of us really plan for our digital accounts after death? This is a useful resource to kick off a conversation: digitallegacyassociation.org/for-the-publ...

For the public - Digital Legacy Association

Information and tutorials to empower the general public Martin Lewis speaking about making plans for one’s digital life and using the Digital Legacy Association’s ‘Social Media Will’ Template. Eductio...

digitallegacyassociation.org

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 10d

"...the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation is working across the US border to revive centuries-old trade routes as part of a new Indigenous-governed trade corridor." - Sonal Gupta

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

www.motherjones.com

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dr nicky imrie @njimrie.bsky.social · 11d

Such a moving, thought-provoking and vibrant exhibtion @edinburghprints.bsky.social
reflecting on and exploring Asqa Arif's lived experiences of seeking asylum, housing injustice, culture/art-washing and maintaining and negotiating cultural heritage in Glasgow. Highly recommend!

Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 11d

✨Aqsa Arif: Raindrops of Rani
Until 2 November
Edinburgh Printmakers
Free to Enter

Photos by Alan Dimmick

#edartfest #edinburghartfestival #edinburghexhibition #scottishartist #contemporaryscottishart

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Brook @wombattitude.bsky.social · 12d

The most horrific thing about this is the comments suggesting there ANY possible circumstances that this could be valid.

Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 12d

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

www.science.org

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 13d

This plate of crinoids is from Crawfordsville, Indiana. The Mississippian aged Edwardsville Fm. has tremendous density and diversity. There are over 85 crinoid species found here, often tangled together.

#FossilFriday

Three crinoids tangled together on a large plate

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 13d

20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome.
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...

Flyer of Decolonial Queer Thinking. Image by Mario Patiño, artist. Image of a person of colour with a white veil and naked torso with a flower in their mouth.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 13d

"Medical professionals are also raising questions about whether families of the dead have any idea that their loved ones might be used to train soldiers. USC says it operates the programs in accordance with regulations."

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Claira Turvey @clairaturvey.bsky.social · 13d

A mind-melting and horrifying read ☹️ The implications are grave…

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14d

Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 13d

the bedtime thing rips my heart in half. i would not have a fraction of the creativity i possess without my dad not only reading us books but literally making up stories on the spot every night. cannot express how lucky i was and how sad i am for children being raised by chatbots

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14d

Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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