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Matthew Archer
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anthropologist in maastricht interested in intersections of tech and sustainability in food and mineral supply chains

book! https://nyupress.org/9781479822027/unsustainable/
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Matthew Archer @matthewarcher.bsky.social · Aug 13
BOOK THREAD

in february, i published my book UNSUSTAINABLE: MEASUREMENT, REPORTING, AND THE LIMITS OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY with #NYUPress @capacademicbooks.bsky.social

#greensky #anthrosky #geosky #newbook #sustainability #politicalecology

nyupress.org/978147982201...
Unsustainable
A behind-the-scenes look at how corporate and financial actors enforce a business-friendly approach to global sustainabilityIn recent years, companies have f...
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Four residents of Pari Island, near Jakarta, vowed to fight one of the most climate-damaging industries: cement. They filed a lawsuit against Hochin cement giant in Swiss www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-...
Four Indonesian islanders take on Swiss cement giant Holcim
A report from Pulau Pari, Indonesia, where four residents have vowed to fight a major Swiss company in one of the world's most polluting industries.
www.swissinfo.ch
November 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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quick,
everyone get more anti AI now!!!!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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erikhoffner.bsky.social
France plans to spend $150 million to rip out grape vines due to wine industry woes from increasing heat, drought, etc

Yet planting rows of trees around vines can drought- & heat-proof them while keeping production up w/o irrigation

I reported about this #agroforestry solution in southern France:
Better wines among the pines: Agroforestry can climate-proof grapes, French researchers show
MONTPELLIER, France — As the world warms due to climate change, winemakers are struggling to maintain the quality of their product. But in the home of wine, agroforestry researchers are showing that g...
news.mongabay.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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vulture.com
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
Essay by Prof. Hazel V. Carby on Indigenous Futurism and photographs made by Diné artist Will Wilson and by Tewa/Hopi artist Michael Namingha, and paintings by Métis/Shoshone artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith. #ArtSky #IndigenousArt

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Hazel V. Carby · Remembering the Future
I am reminded of the first maps I saw as a child, hanging on the walls of British classrooms. Of course, the colour that...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/podcast-su...
PODCAST: 'Survival of the Greenest' with Amir Lebdioui
Adrienne Buller speaks to Amir Lebdioui about development economics, tariff wars and what we could be learning from China.
breakdownjournal.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
matthewarcher.bsky.social
interesting stuff www.carleton.edu/alumni/conne...
Carleton Connects: Kathleen Ryor and botanical culture in premodern China - Carleton College
Flowers, plants, and botanical knowledge were fundamental to the culture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China, as paintings, poetry, medicine, and manuals for elegant living all attest. Join ar...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
matthewarcher.bsky.social
somebody in tupelo has a good sense of humour
klein and thompsons book “abundance” in the fiction section
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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emorwee.bsky.social
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.

What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.

And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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lorak.bsky.social
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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* Announcement Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now. A new Mississippi law requires us to implement age verification for all users before they can access Bluesky. We think this law creates challenges that go beyond its child safety goals, and creates significant barriers that limit free speech and disproportionately harm smaller platforms and emerging technologies. As a small team, we cannot justify building the expensive infrastructure this requirement demands while legal challenges to this law are pending. For now, we have made the difficult decision to block access to Bluesky in the state of Mississippi. To learn more, read our blog post.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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faisalhamadah.bsky.social
My albums of the year (probs missed a few and in no order)

Pat Thomas - Bliss of Bliss

patthomaskonnekt.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...

Unreal jazz piano improv by one of the contemporary greats. sad no vinyl.
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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mitochondriamuppet.bsky.social
"His talent is not being correct". 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Mississippi has long failed to count and report all deaths in local jails that serve the state’s 82 counties, despite a federal requirement to do so. These often dangerous facilities operate virtually free of any state oversight.
Why No One Knows How Many People Die in Mississippi’s Jails
Mississippi has long failed to count and report all deaths in local jails that serve the state’s 82 counties, despite a federal requirement to do so.
buff.ly
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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new orleans 🎺 🦞
a large white church with three black steeples in a park fried dough covered with powdered sugar and a cup of milky coffee
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Data centres in the Netherlands consumed ~4.5 terawatt hours.

But they only disclosed 0.91 TWh worth of consumption....

leitmotiv.digital/publications...
A significant share of facilities is withholding information on environmental impact and energy consumption A second conclusion from our initial research in the Netherlands is that many reporting data centers have withheld essential information on their environmental impact when reporting to the Dutch authorities. According to the EED reports the Dutch authorities have received, data centers consumed "only" 0.9 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in 2024, even though Statistics Netherlands (CBS) already estimated data center electricity consumption at 3.7 TWh for 2021. By our own calculations, data center electricity consumption in 2024 was closer to 4.5 TWh. In short: there is quite a gap between what is being reported to the Dutch authorities and the actual impact of the facilities.
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/kam...

Kamerleden bezorgd: bedrijf achter DigiD komt mogelijk in Amerikaanse handen
Kamerleden bezorgd: bedrijf achter DigiD komt mogelijk in Amerikaanse handen
De Tweede Kamer maakt zich zorgen over de overname van een Nederlands techbedrijf door Amerikanen of Chinezen. De verkoop van Solvinity geeft de VS de macht om het dataverkeer van de Nederlandse overh...
www.volkskrant.nl
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
matthewarcher.bsky.social
the omens are leaving less and less room for interpretation
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
Toni Morrison on racism and fascism
(1) Construct an internal enemy, as both focus and diversion. (2) Isolate and demonize that enemy by unleashing and protecting the utterance of overt and coded name-calling and verbal abuse. Employ ad hominem attacks as legitimate charges against that enemy.
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Environmental Sociology Now is now available for pre-order. You can order through @ucpress.bsky.social now and get 30% off the book with code UCPSAVE30. Exam copies for instructors will be available in early January.

www.ucpress.edu/books/enviro...
The cover of the book Environmental Sociology Now. Edited by Jordan Fox, Ian Carrillo, JP Sapinski, and Diana Stuart.
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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sylvainmaechler.bsky.social
Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?

Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7

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Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions
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November 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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cplusc.bsky.social
In 2024, we convened a group of 25 workers and organizers across the transportation supply chain. They traveled over 3 days and 600+ miles across Nevada to tour the frontlines of new lithium mining in the US. Watch our new documentary that follows their journey. climateandcommunity.org/nvfilm
Supply Chain Solidarity: Lessons from the Lithium Frontlines - Climate and Community Institute
Workers and organizers, representing different parts of the transportation supply chain, journey across Nevada to learn first-hand about the impacts of lithium mining for electric vehicle batteries.
climateandcommunity.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
matthewarcher.bsky.social
this is how they’re gonna destroy public pensions btw
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
matthewarcher.bsky.social
well maastricht university assistant professor matthew archer thinks AI is a socioecological disaster and unlike anthropic ceo dario amodei i have 1) a lot of evidence to support that claim and 2) no reason to want it to be true
60minutes.bsky.social 60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 11d
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM