@lorecrystal.bsky.social
Student of equitable lifestyle and environment design for all. Permaculture and Solarpunk fan. Book-Dragon
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Tonight’s #UrbanismBookClub book tackles better city-making from the communications, branding, & public relations spheres. “Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Undermines Our Health & Environment” by my friend @grantennis.bsky.social is a HUGELY important book today. Every urbanist should read it.
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Tonight’s #UrbanismBookClub book tackles better city-making from the communications, branding, & public relations spheres. “Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Undermines Our Health & Environment” by my friend @grantennis.bsky.social is a HUGELY important book today. Every urbanist should read it.
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Effective Altruism inevitably operates as a kind of fascist cult: it is a mode of thinking that liberates its followers from any direct moral responsibility for their actions.
New article inspired by the recent hoopla surrounding Karen Hao's book (re: water use). I argue that "no one should look to the EA community as exemplifying good habits of epistemic and moral conduct." Here's why: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/how-effect...
How Effective Altruists Use Threats and Harassment to Silence Their Critics
How does the Effective Altruist community respond to critics? With threats and harassment. Even people who still call themselves "Effective Altruists" are afraid to openly criticize the community.
www.realtimetechpocalypse.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Effective Altruism inevitably operates as a kind of fascist cult: it is a mode of thinking that liberates its followers from any direct moral responsibility for their actions.
Please remember that every time you outsource your thinking to a machine, you destroy jobs for people and make yourself stupider.
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What Is Agentic A.I., and Would You Trust It to Book a Flight?
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Please remember that every time you outsource your thinking to a machine, you destroy jobs for people and make yourself stupider.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/t...
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This and that (from @thelincoln.bsky.social) on how booksellers cope with the volume of new titles and select books for their book shops: countercraft.substack.com/p/interview-...
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This and that (from @thelincoln.bsky.social) on how booksellers cope with the volume of new titles and select books for their book shops: countercraft.substack.com/p/interview-...
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In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual designed to equip rank and file soldiers with the tools to spot and combat incipient fascism were it to emerge in post-war America. Those lessons are just as American as Miller's illiberal bigotry, and worth remembering today. bsky.app/profile/seth...
The first fascistic tactic to look out for is a hate campaign against a particular religious, racial, or ethnic group. Like, for example, let's say a candidate emerges who calls all people of one nationality "rapists" and "criminals," while promising to ban immigrants from only one religious group.
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual designed to equip rank and file soldiers with the tools to spot and combat incipient fascism were it to emerge in post-war America. Those lessons are just as American as Miller's illiberal bigotry, and worth remembering today. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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I Want to Dance with You
Resistance, Community, and Solidarity in the Work of Contemporary Mexican Women Artists www.ucpress.edu/books/i-want...
Resistance, Community, and Solidarity in the Work of Contemporary Mexican Women Artists www.ucpress.edu/books/i-want...
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I Want to Dance with You
Resistance, Community, and Solidarity in the Work of Contemporary Mexican Women Artists www.ucpress.edu/books/i-want...
Resistance, Community, and Solidarity in the Work of Contemporary Mexican Women Artists www.ucpress.edu/books/i-want...
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📰The 5th #VALERECO Newsletter is out!
#LivingLabs insights, #agroecology exchanges, and updates from key events, all highlighting the role of legumes in #sustainablefarming.
🔗Read: tinyurl.com/3cp7jwd9
🔔Subscribe: bit.ly/47iIwbA
#HorizonEU #EcosystemServices
#LivingLabs insights, #agroecology exchanges, and updates from key events, all highlighting the role of legumes in #sustainablefarming.
🔗Read: tinyurl.com/3cp7jwd9
🔔Subscribe: bit.ly/47iIwbA
#HorizonEU #EcosystemServices
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
📰The 5th #VALERECO Newsletter is out!
#LivingLabs insights, #agroecology exchanges, and updates from key events, all highlighting the role of legumes in #sustainablefarming.
🔗Read: tinyurl.com/3cp7jwd9
🔔Subscribe: bit.ly/47iIwbA
#HorizonEU #EcosystemServices
#LivingLabs insights, #agroecology exchanges, and updates from key events, all highlighting the role of legumes in #sustainablefarming.
🔗Read: tinyurl.com/3cp7jwd9
🔔Subscribe: bit.ly/47iIwbA
#HorizonEU #EcosystemServices
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
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Since there’s no Alt for the DoE I’ll share this info as someone with multiple higher degrees I wouldn’t be able to afford with these changes in place
Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Since there’s no Alt for the DoE I’ll share this info as someone with multiple higher degrees I wouldn’t be able to afford with these changes in place
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It’s time! Blackout Friday!
Please join unions 💪 & organizers 🤝 worldwide and BUY NOTHING 💸🙅from big chains this weekend! Instead support small & local businesses 💵 🙌 while sending the message:
the People Will Not Tolerate Corporate Complicity With Authoritarianism & Worker Oppression!
Please join unions 💪 & organizers 🤝 worldwide and BUY NOTHING 💸🙅from big chains this weekend! Instead support small & local businesses 💵 🙌 while sending the message:
the People Will Not Tolerate Corporate Complicity With Authoritarianism & Worker Oppression!
Black Friday sales are tempting, but remember unions are calling for a mass shopping strike for national chains, esp. Amazon, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Starbucks, & Apple. If you shop between now & Dec 2, please support small & local businesses & avoid crossing the picket line 💪
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It’s time! Blackout Friday!
Please join unions 💪 & organizers 🤝 worldwide and BUY NOTHING 💸🙅from big chains this weekend! Instead support small & local businesses 💵 🙌 while sending the message:
the People Will Not Tolerate Corporate Complicity With Authoritarianism & Worker Oppression!
Please join unions 💪 & organizers 🤝 worldwide and BUY NOTHING 💸🙅from big chains this weekend! Instead support small & local businesses 💵 🙌 while sending the message:
the People Will Not Tolerate Corporate Complicity With Authoritarianism & Worker Oppression!
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shit. OpenReview hacked and identities of reviewers, authors, and AC leaked for all conferences hosted on OpenReview
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
shit. OpenReview hacked and identities of reviewers, authors, and AC leaked for all conferences hosted on OpenReview
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#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars - a new type of star.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars - a new type of star.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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Being part of a Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice Wong co-edited with @freeblackgirl.bsky.social was really special, even more so now. My piece was republished in the @theflytrapmedia.com today (with some updates to make the piece more current). the-flytrap.ghost.io/complex-futu...
The Complex Future of Post-Pandemic Work
The COVID-19 pandemic showed that remote work is possible for many industries, but it’s still unclear what the future of remote work is five years later.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Being part of a Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice Wong co-edited with @freeblackgirl.bsky.social was really special, even more so now. My piece was republished in the @theflytrapmedia.com today (with some updates to make the piece more current). the-flytrap.ghost.io/complex-futu...
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As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
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I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found:
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year for this.weekinsecurity.com, and found:
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.
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Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. buff.ly/zQvktxJ
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Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History
Early humans crafted the same tools for hundreds of thousands of years, offering an unprecedented glimpse of a continuous tradition that may push back the origins of technology.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. buff.ly/zQvktxJ
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Countries strengthen the systems that keep the water flowing. The World Bank reports a quiet but significant global shift: countries are rebuilding their water systems to reach more people and to survive changes in climate. buff.ly/l9GjCz8
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The Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership (GWSP) 2025 Annual Report
Between June 2024 and July 2025, the GWSP informed $12.46 billion in new World Bank lending, supported 303 activities in 90 countries, and advanced innovations that make water work for people, food…
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November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Countries strengthen the systems that keep the water flowing. The World Bank reports a quiet but significant global shift: countries are rebuilding their water systems to reach more people and to survive changes in climate. buff.ly/l9GjCz8
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Native and Indigenous peoples have always been at the forefront of our struggle for dignity, justice, and workers’ rights. We win more and win better when we're united. Happy Native American Heritage Day!
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Native and Indigenous peoples have always been at the forefront of our struggle for dignity, justice, and workers’ rights. We win more and win better when we're united. Happy Native American Heritage Day!
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statistically a lot of you won’t know about ocellated turkeys, so, here you go
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
statistically a lot of you won’t know about ocellated turkeys, so, here you go
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"But when you think of it for a moment, the biological definition of metamorphosis is arbitrary: how “radical” does change have to be to be considered “metamorphic”, and who gets to decide?"
What Our Continual Desire For Transformation Reveals About Ourselves
“How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form?” the Roman poet Ovid asked two thousand years ago. He couldn’t have known the full extent of the truth. That crea…
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November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"But when you think of it for a moment, the biological definition of metamorphosis is arbitrary: how “radical” does change have to be to be considered “metamorphic”, and who gets to decide?"
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Shut out of COP30, Indigenous climate leaders create new independent advisory council
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Shut out of COP30, Indigenous climate leaders create new independent advisory council
At the recent summit in Brazil, Indigenous leaders launch global council to centre Indigenous solutions and knowledge in addressing the crisis
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November 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Shut out of COP30, Indigenous climate leaders create new independent advisory council
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