Benjamin Detenber
@detenber.bsky.social
University professor in Singapore studying media and public opinion.
The fossil fuel conglomerates knew the impact their products would have just like big tobacco. Take these people to account.
#OtD 28 Nov 1985 a Shell report showed they knew that global heating was real, caused by fossil fuels, and that global temp and sea levels were rising and would rise further. Shell covered it up and began sponsoring fake studies to deny climate change stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1004...
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The fossil fuel conglomerates knew the impact their products would have just like big tobacco. Take these people to account.
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
This is a tragedy of epic proportions. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Rescue efforts end at Hong Kong tower block fire as death toll reaches 128
Firefighters comb through high-rises with as many as 200 people still missing, according to officials
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is a tragedy of epic proportions. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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It's Thanksgiving! Are you getting your eels ready? It's tradition!
The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5
🗃️🧪
The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5
🗃️🧪
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's Thanksgiving! Are you getting your eels ready? It's tradition!
The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5
🗃️🧪
The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5
🗃️🧪
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They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
Happy Thanksgiving from The Ad Council!
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from The Ad Council!
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Aside from the high seas murder spree, an order to court martial a sitting senator for 100% legal political speech, and to do so under blatant unlawful command influence, would probably be the clearest case yet of an order so manifestly unlawful there is a duty for anybody in uniform to refuse it.
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Aside from the high seas murder spree, an order to court martial a sitting senator for 100% legal political speech, and to do so under blatant unlawful command influence, would probably be the clearest case yet of an order so manifestly unlawful there is a duty for anybody in uniform to refuse it.
May your Thanksgiving be not like this.
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
May your Thanksgiving be not like this.
I saw The Harder They Come at a midnight screening at the Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge, Massachusetts when I was 17. It played there for years and changed a lot of people's views on Caribbean music and the world, including mine. www.grammy.com/news/the-har...
How 'The Harder They Come' Brought Reggae To The World: A Song By Song Soundtrack Breakdown | GRAMMY.com
Fifty years after the breakthrough Jamaican film was released in the U.S., GRAMMY.com breaks down the impact of its star-studded soundtrack — including songs by Jimmy Cliff, the Melodians and Toots an...
www.grammy.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I saw The Harder They Come at a midnight screening at the Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge, Massachusetts when I was 17. It played there for years and changed a lot of people's views on Caribbean music and the world, including mine. www.grammy.com/news/the-har...
The choices we make...
China has brought millions out of poverty. The US has not – by choice
Despite the US’s economic success, income inequality remains breathtaking. But this is no glitch – it’s the system
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The choices we make...
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Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
So maybe the guy who dismantled USAid thought this could offset the devastating impact of its gutting. Cool, bro.
I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
So maybe the guy who dismantled USAid thought this could offset the devastating impact of its gutting. Cool, bro.
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Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
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I’ve never seen a clip of this man speaking that didn’t make me want to throw things.
Snide, condescending and deeply dishonest. Feels like a villain from a bad 80s teen comedy.
Snide, condescending and deeply dishonest. Feels like a villain from a bad 80s teen comedy.
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I’ve never seen a clip of this man speaking that didn’t make me want to throw things.
Snide, condescending and deeply dishonest. Feels like a villain from a bad 80s teen comedy.
Snide, condescending and deeply dishonest. Feels like a villain from a bad 80s teen comedy.
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
The current regime in the US is such a weird mix of hardcore white Christian nationalists and amoral transactionalists and grifters. I cannot see how the coalition will last. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Christian converts are among the Iranians being sent home from US
Iranians who have converted to Christianity and had their asylum claims rejected speak to the BBC.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The current regime in the US is such a weird mix of hardcore white Christian nationalists and amoral transactionalists and grifters. I cannot see how the coalition will last. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
Crazy framing, both literally and academically.
For the journalism schools:
Making a conspiratorial dimwit sound like a maverick hero in a just battle of wills against the negatively valenced "scientific" orthodoxy.
That is not even performative neutrality any more, that is taking sides
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
Making a conspiratorial dimwit sound like a maverick hero in a just battle of wills against the negatively valenced "scientific" orthodoxy.
That is not even performative neutrality any more, that is taking sides
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Crazy framing, both literally and academically.
The level of corruption that is passed by as seemingly acceptable is astonishing. I am deeply concerned that when I eventually repatriate, I will not know the country I came from nearly 30 years ago.
Surprisingly, Donald Trump appears to pay a puny political price for his self-dealing, or the loosening of rules that accompanies it
Welcome to Anything Goes America
Where the loosening of rules and tolerance of corruption will lead
econ.st
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The level of corruption that is passed by as seemingly acceptable is astonishing. I am deeply concerned that when I eventually repatriate, I will not know the country I came from nearly 30 years ago.
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Envious
"’Brazil's democracy has reached sufficient maturity to steer away and prosecute pathetic illegal initiatives to defend the criminal organization that is responsible for a coup d'etat attempt in Brazil,’ he added.”
"’Brazil's democracy has reached sufficient maturity to steer away and prosecute pathetic illegal initiatives to defend the criminal organization that is responsible for a coup d'etat attempt in Brazil,’ he added.”
Brazil's Bolsonaro arrested for allegedly plotting escape ahead of prison term
Brazil's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Jair Bolsonaro, with a judge claiming the former president was intent on escaping as he was set to begin his prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.
www.npr.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Envious
"’Brazil's democracy has reached sufficient maturity to steer away and prosecute pathetic illegal initiatives to defend the criminal organization that is responsible for a coup d'etat attempt in Brazil,’ he added.”
"’Brazil's democracy has reached sufficient maturity to steer away and prosecute pathetic illegal initiatives to defend the criminal organization that is responsible for a coup d'etat attempt in Brazil,’ he added.”
I would like to go to Galway next July, and I have a couple of ideas for papers. Anyone else going to #IAMCR2026 ? iamcr.org/galway2026/cfp
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I would like to go to Galway next July, and I have a couple of ideas for papers. Anyone else going to #IAMCR2026 ? iamcr.org/galway2026/cfp
Cities in CA and other places need to get ahead of the "builder's remedy" and plan for higher density housing in a meaningful way. Otherwise, the developers will exploit opportunities to reap greater profits wherever they can, and it will lead to less than optimal urbanization.
The Housing Strategy That Has California NIMBYs in a Corner
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Cities in CA and other places need to get ahead of the "builder's remedy" and plan for higher density housing in a meaningful way. Otherwise, the developers will exploit opportunities to reap greater profits wherever they can, and it will lead to less than optimal urbanization.