Join this upcoming book talk at UC Berkeley on Thursday, featuring environmental justice scholar Julie Sze and scientist-activist Greg Sponer: events.berkeley.edu/ib/event/322... If you're not in the area, feel free to DM me and I'll share a Zoom link!
I haven't seen a documentary that summarizes the fascist, racist and extractivist logics behind degenerative intelligence as well as Ghost in the Machine. If you watch one documentary about "AI", make it this one: kinema.com/films/ghost-...
Academic journal corps like Elsevier are not just funneling away public research money. They are pouring it into fossil fuels 💸
I document the complicity of academic publishing in Science in Resistance where I interview an employee of Cell fired after digging into its ties to Big 🛢️
Excerpt below 👇
This week in May 1965 was the biggest teach-in during the Vietnam war, driving 30,000 people to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's campus. Next week 28/5 I'll give a talk at Berkeley on the topic of teach-ins & the challenges of organizing academia for socio-ecological liberation. Come one, come all!
"Speaking out of place" is probably one of the most important things we need to be doing now, so I was very happy to be invited to @palumboliu.bsky.social's podcast to discuss my book Science in Resistance and paths to liberating and democratizing education institutions @ucpress.bsky.social
Applications Open! LowTech, Luddism and Liberation: join us in beautiful Saulkrasti, Latvia, July 24-31 for a week-long study retreat on regaining control of technology, nurturing low-tech & dismantling techno-fascism, as part of the family-friendly NSU summer session: www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-deg...
Today Nordea voted to continue financing new oil from the Arctic.
Nordea's claim to be a sustainability leader has watered down - they not only continue to be the biggest investor in fossil fuel companies in Finland but also retracted from their climate pledges.
Our polar coalition is not happy.
we are conditioned to trust AI to know what kinds of lives we should prefer and the choices we should make. Véliz argues instead we should embrace the uncertain to build resilience, to prepare for contingency but not be determined by what we cannot see, and to foster curiosity and imagination.
Join author Fernando Racimo for a discussion of his book Science in Resistance, a first-person account of the Scientist Rebellion, a global movement of scientists and scholars rising in collective resistance for climate and social justice. Learn more and register: regnet.anu.edu.au/event/scienc...
Last month, a handful of us went and delivered a couple of oversized cards and a bouquet of flowers (above) to the EPA offices. youtube.com/shorts/dbm0W...
Join us April 14th for a larger vigil, mourning the loss of the Endangerment Finding. actionnetwork.org/events/vigil...
Scientist Rebellion Finland
Video
ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet)
David Palumbo-Liu
Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island (US/Canada)
YouTube video by Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island
We talk about the connection between power and knowledge, between ecocide and genocide, and the need to democratize education and research if we are going to have the kind of world we want to both live in, and to pass on to other generation
