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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 8h

Kim Stanley Robinson's essay for McKinsey is still a great diagnosis of the persistent problem. Why would anyone 'elite,' of whatever their stated political outlook, consent? What are the conditions in which elites will consent to change?
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McKinsey & Company
Topic: Climate change
Time to end the multigenerational Ponzi scheme
By Kim Stanley Robinson
22 February 2009

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 15h

Fun harvesting yesterday in the Zaubergarten …

Pumpkins, tomatoes, chilis, beets, tomatoes, broccolinni, garlic chives laying on grass after a garden harvest.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 16h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Oliver Scheiber 🇪🇺 @oliverscheiber.eu · 1d

#zdfmagazinroyale ist Demokratiebildung.
Macht und Medien samt Österreichbezug.

Wie reiche Männer Meinung kaufen

Wir reden beim ZDF Magazin Royale über drei Männer, die aus Sorge um die deutsche Medienlandschaft kurzerhand einfach selbst Medien machen lassen.

www.zdf.de

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 1d

Fun stuff in the woods ...

closeup of translucent whitish jelly fungi on a stump.

Closeup of the underside of a polypore "shelf" fungus on a tree.

Closeup of a large orange-colored chanterelle mushroom in the palm of a hand.

A light mesh bag partly filled with veined orange chanterelle mushrooms.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 1d

caaaaaaan I interest you in Denmark’s groundbreaking national agriculture, nature, and climate policy, agreed to in 2024, with a Ministry of Green Transition established to implement it?

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 2d

Liars lie.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 2d

Had a quick look, not sure why. Now I'm waiting for Roger to re-open the tobacco science debate.

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · 2d

#nzpol

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 3d

No, th NYT deserves all the negative attention because they are absolutely incapable of any self-criticism.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

It seems there are two main reasons things haven’t gone completely to shit in the US: 1. Lawyers and the courts; 2. Journalists and the media. Most of us can’t do anything about the first, but we can support journalism. Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe to news & donate to public media.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 3d

Are national climate action plans living up to the Paris Agreement?

insideclimatenews.org/news/2409202...

Night view of the Eiffel Tower with a foggy backdrop. The tower is illuminated with golden lights and a horizonal blue text sign that says "CARE."

Night view of the Eiffel Tower with a foggy backdrop. The tower is illuminated with golden lights and a horizonal blue text sign that says "STABILIZE."

Night view of the Eiffel Tower with a foggy backdrop. The tower is illuminated with golden lights and a horizoTnal blue text sign that says "NO B PLAN."

Night view of the Eiffel Tower with a foggy backdrop. The tower is illuminated with golden lights and a horizonal blue text sign that says "ACTION NOW."

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 3d

Wakey-wake😎🌅

Billy Strings - Thunder (Robert Hunter)

YouTube video by Billy Strings

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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 3d

Get more insights 👉 climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 3d

It's an agreement that does not resolve contradictions. It formalizes their coexistence. Ambition and realism, equity and universality, national sovereignty and global coordination; a structure that survives precisely because it can never fully close.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 3d

I think a good way to understand the COP process and Paris Agreement is through a lens of deconstruction.

The city and country of Derrida, Foucault and poststructuralism, gave us an agreement that never ends.

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 4d

Wer Frust sät erntet Rechtsextremismus.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 4d

If you have a country filled with people who are proud and arrogant about their own ignorance and prejudices, and who live in some weird mythological construct of exceptionalism, there is bound to be trouble at some point ...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 5d

While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vows to erase climate change from the military agenda, new Pentagon data show the impacts of warming are shaping the National Guard’s mission.

Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard - Inside Climate News

New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission, in potential conflict with Trump’s drive to use them for law enforcement.

insideclimatenews.org

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 5d

Cold freshwater pouring off Greenland's melting ice cap and glaciers is messing with key ocean currents that help modulate the entire global climate ... Scientists say it's not a good thing.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...

Aerial view of part of the coast of Greenland, showing glaciers flowing through mountains and into a blue sea flecked with big and small icebergs.

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 5d

We'll always have Paris ...

It's been nearly 10 years since the Paris Agreement at COP21. So how are we doing?

insideclimatenews.org/news/0610202...

Looking straight up the illuminated Eiffel Tower from its base at night.

A screenshot of Humphrey Bogart telling Lauren Bacall that "We'll always have Paris."

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 5d

10 years after the Paris Agreement, a new report says the global climate policy glass is half-empty or half-full, depending how you look at it.

New Report Marks a Decade of Progress, Challenges on Global Decarbonization - Inside Climate News

Extreme shifts in federal climate policy will make it hard for the U.S. to reach the Paris Agreement targets, but action by states, cities and businesses could still deliver significant emissions cuts...

insideclimatenews.org

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 5d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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