History prof at LMU in LA, CA: author of Transformative Beauty, working on museums, anthropology, art, & empire. I teach about these & global environmental history. Activist for reality + democracy—& against climate change + single-use plastics. LFG
Amy Woodson-Boulton
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This attitude is especially common among university administrators who were in actual classrooms sometimes decades ago and now want to show how they’ve instituted the latest Bright Shiny Thing™️
Amy Woodson-Boulton
Trump has truly returned America to a golden age, when we had measles epidemics and screwworm problems and who knows what else?
"The cost of a typical utility-scale battery installation has fallen by well over half since 2022, and by 27 per cent last year alone" www.ft.com/content/b5c5...
Kevin M. Kruse
Falling battery costs drive the economics of round-the-clock renewables
Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.
like white rural america, white britons have only themselves to blame for their immiseration
ryan cooper
Again: bipartisan issue. Push the elected officials you agree with to catch up with what everyone knows.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/n...
Did Zionism take a wrong turn or was it always destined to be a "racist" and "genocidal" ideology animating the state of Israel? Historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy debate.
We have @jonathansjones.bsky.social joining us for an Ask Me Anything on his recent @uncpress.bsky.social book Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opiod Crisis. Come check it out!
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Reposting this research on how AI creates more--not less--work for employees:
Asking myself why this is so satisfying, I'm realizing some of the anger I have about AI mania is having worked for people like this, who thoughtlessly inhale the latest BS, present it as deep thought, and then use it to impose extra work on employees for their own resumes and self-aggrandizement.
The US will almost certainly lose its measles-elimination status this year or next www.wired.com/story/anguis...
ElieNYC
ben chambers 🏴
We speak to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism. Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown Univ...
Seattle would join more than 70 cities and counties around the nation that have temporary or permanent bans on new data centers.
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Award-winning Somali referee, Omar Abdulkadir Artan, has been removed from the World Cup roster after being denied entry to the US despite holding a valid visa.
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