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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 2d

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3d

Tooze 10 yr predictions (& terrible soup metaphor):
1 Europe continues to decline
2 America punch above its weight because of $ & tech despite trumpism
3 Centre of world economy gravity shifts ever more to asia
4 Mercantilism & nationalists dominate econ policy
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Chartbook 413 The future of the world economy beyond globalization - or, thinking with soup.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of 1945.

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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 3d

This is truly an amazing opportunity.

Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Jun 27

Some news: In 2026-27, I'll be visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, leading the theme seminar on

‘𝘌𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺‘

There's no place quite like the IAS to think, together, about big questions. Please share—applications are open 𝚗̲̲𝚘̲̲𝚠̲.

Screenshot of this document: https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/SSS%20Call%20for%20Applications%202026-27%20.pdf

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 6d

Quarry Farm Symposium, my favorite event on our annual calendar, kicks off tonight with a discussion of everyday ecofascism with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alexander Menrisky.

This year’s theme is Energy Studies, co-organized with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social.

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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 7d

From the pulpit to the picket line: For many miners, religion and labor rights have long been connected in coal country religionnews.com/2025/10/09/f...

From the pulpit to the picket line: For many miners, religion and labor rights have long been connected in coal country

(The Conversation) — The retirement of United Mine Workers of America’s longtime president is a reminder that labor and religion have always been entangled in coal country.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · 8d

The strategy does not develop linearly, it is adaptive and multifaceted. A summary of what we know about the fossil fuel industry and climate obstruction. Me, @kertdavies.bsky.social and @geoffdembicki.bsky.social in conversation with the great @amywestervelt.bsky.social

S14, Ep5 | How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Sam Amidon @samamidon.bsky.social · 9d

Read about my father, Peter Amidon, who has passed on: aosa.org/peter-amidon...

Peter Amidon, Beloved Folk Singer, Storyteller, Music Educator, AOSA Advocate – American Orff-Schulwerk Association

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 9d

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress | The Narwhal

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the EV mandate, Mark Carney’s government is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 9d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 9d

CfP for the 2026 Tensions of Europe Conference is out!

Theme: The meaning of the past in sustainable futures
When: 8-10 July 2026
Where: Eindhoven, NL

Deadline: 4 January 2026

#histstm #historyoftechnology #envhist

Entire call and information ⤵

www.tensionsofeurope.eu/2025/10/02/c...

Call for Papers: The 12th Tensions of Europe Conference, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 8-10 July, 2026

» Call for Papers: The 12th Tensions of Europe Conference, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 8-10 July, 2026 | Research network on history, technology and Europe

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Justin Chandler (he/him) @justinchandler.work · 10d

“It’s no wonder we’re seeing homelessness numbers explode like they never have before in this community.”
www.thespec.com/news/hamilto... #HamOnt

Hamiltonians need to work nearly two minimum wage jobs to afford rent: report

Residents need to earn $29.16 per hour to comfortably rent a one-bedroom unit in the city.

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Rob Majteles @robmajteles.bsky.social · 11d

I spend some time with investors who tell me they are ‘finance focused’ and ‘don’t do impact’. Then, we look at their portfolios and climate risks are everywhere, and ignored, in their supposedly rigorous financial analysis.

You might not ‘do impact’, but impact is doing you.

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 12d

Disappointed by The Life of a Showgirl? Doug Paisley would never let you down like that.

Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 14d

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No One But You

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 16d

"It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing" - @elizkolbert.bsky.social

‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal

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Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time @deindustrialpol.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 For folks in the Toronto area looking for something to do this Sunday 🚨
Hot Docs and DePOT partner UNIFOR are hosting a free 40th anniversary screening of "Final Offer" with a discussion on Canadian Sovereignty in the Time of Trade Wars - get your tickets in advance!

Ticket | Hot Docs

Watch the world’s best documentaries at the annual Hot Docs Festival each spring, and year-round at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.

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Trade and Investment Research Project @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social · 13d

People (like Gerald Butts in this story) flatter Carney and delude themselves by claiming some great compromise on oil-climate is possible. Taxing oil and gas exports (in part to support domestic value-add) is a smarter policy than expanding either. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Mark Carney’s Shift From Climate-Change Warrior to Fossil-Fuel Cheerleader

Canada’s prime minister has scrapped green policies and pledged to transform the country ”into an energy superpower.”

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 13d

...And in South Korea, new humanities enrolments are up strongly."

Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 13d

Respect the Humanities: "3. The humanities are on a roll. In Belarus, the humanities are so feared that the country has just declared the European Humanities University – which left the country and set up in neighbouring Lithuania about 20 years ago – an “extremist organization”...

Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 13d

The Fifteen is out! Trump's "compact" came out after deadline, but other than that, every big story in world higher education right now is in here: get the latest from Argentina, Australia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Peru, Belarus, Venezuela, South Korea and more!

The Fifteen: October 3, 2025 | HESA

Welcome to The Fifteen, a global round-up of the stories animating higher education institutions and systems around the globe. Let’s get … Continued

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 14d

Absolutely staggering how much energy data centers consume. To add another LA to the grid by 2030 is unreal, and all for bullshit machines. It's hard to think of worse investments humans could be making right now

Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 14d

NEW INVESTIGATION

California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030

A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants

Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 14d

I somehow missed the whole Anthropic buying and destroying millions of books to train their Claude AI thing. Major orc vibes... arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 14d

Pope Leo calls for 'true ecological conversion' from words to action on environment www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...

Pope Leo calls for 'true ecological conversion' from words to action on environment

The pope spoke Oct. 1 at the start of a conference marking the 10-year anniversary of Laudato Si', Pope Francis' landmark document that encapsulated church teaching on the environment.

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 14d

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No One But You

YouTube video by Doug Paisley - Topic

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