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Minnesotans carrying the Stolen Neighbors Quilt in the MN State Capitol 💔 💛
each square represents a person ICE took
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kFmbaxZ_GOE
#uspol #ICEprotests #MNastodon
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hometown 4.6.8+hometown-1.3.0gloomy scholar of technoscience. quotidian dross documentarian. (see pinned posts)
here: muttering/hollering, books/reading, typos, boosts (you can hide em). i don't cw uspol news but i #. 🧿😷
#ToxicLA #CriticalLogistics #asstodon #flosstodon #PolicingTheCampus #HigherEdWorkersUnite ✊🏻
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this looked VERY Where The Wild Things Are IRL
"It wasn’t always like this, said Safford. The Forest Service’s replanting efforts mostly kept pace with wildfires until around 2006.
“And then,” Safford said, “it just falls to shit.”"
https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2026/07/wildfires-california-forest-reforestation-seed/
#California #ecology #ClimateDiary
#AAUP and #AFT have today released a public letter addressing the Dept of Ed regarding the coercion of colleges & universities
too much for a pull quote but read, share, & bring to your campuses!
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-and-aft-respond-trumps-compact-20
#HigherEd #Academia #education #uspol #PolicingTheCampus
weekend #asstodon statuary in the sunshine
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There are at least five #HungerStrike actions going on at different #ICE facilities across the US right now. Thank you to LA Taco for connecting the dots between #Adelanto #DelaneyHall and more
https://lataco.com/huger-strike-dhs-detention
#USpol #ICEprotests
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science: political? who can say!
"Police removed five doctors and researchers Friday from an American Diabetes Association conference in New Orleans after they said they had handed out copies of an editorial critical of President Donald Trump"
https://www.nola.com/news/doctors-diabetes-trump-new-orleans-removed/article_e569bcf6-d6e2-4d1c-9c47-bdbf8686c567.html
#uspol #medicine
my colleagues' votes on whether to form a union are being counted today. last night the university administration ran to the Trump administration asking them to "review the legality" of the situation, meaning, they're scared of losing the vote so asked for a favor in which the feds declare the union in formation null and void
evil shit, with implications for workers everywhere: https://www.provost.usc.edu/an-important-update-on-the-rtpc-faculty-unionization-process/
#unions #higherEd #academia #HigherEdWorkersUnite #USC
"A tenured professor who was fired last year over her pro-Palestinian activism has won her job back and is suing her university over the termination"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/california-professor-gaza-protest-reinstated
#HigherEd #academia #GazaProtests #uspol
"Over time, we simply stirred the virus in with all the other forms of disorder and dysfunction we live with — problems that appear to be acceptable because they merely inconvenience some large portion of people, even as they devastate others"
still one of the best pieces of writing about the pandemic (Jon Mooallem in 2023)
https://web.archive.org/web/20230302191258/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/22/magazine/covid-pandemic-oral-history.html
real bummer of a read. and many such stories: species that got “saved” in an earlier era of “conservation” are now backsliding again due to other stresses
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/ospreys-chesapeake-bay-are-starving-death-disastrous-rates-what-will-it-take-save-them
#conservation #ecology #ospreys
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RE: https://journa.host/@bolts/116620048481796126
we have not been hearing as much about Memphis as we did about Minneapolis, Chicago, LA, and DC; and that's not fair to the folks in Memphis
#Tennessee #uspol #ICE #Memphis
Don't Let It Happen To You, especially not on #WorldDonkeyDay#asstodon
"several Jewish faculty members filed claims to say they had experienced harassment as Jews on campus – but probably not on grounds Trump’s EEOC intended.
...they argued that the hostility they faced stemmed from their support for Palestinian rights and student protests..."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/columbia-jewish-faculty-protests-settlement-fund
#uspol #PolicingTheCampus #GazaProtests #antisemitism #HigherEd #academia #Columbia
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Updating this today as I've had the ban-evading sock puppet troll go after me half a dozen times in the past week. He mass signs up on different instances, then burns through account after account targeting people, and does it again when mods take him down
Anyone who thinks that this place would not be improved by *some form of reply control* is not serious about preventing abuse
Having none makes users' experiences worse AND moderators' jobs harder. /fin
#Mastodon #FediMeta #JerksofMastodon
it is frightening to watch temperatures climb ever higher with absolutely no self-correction that will help anywhere on the horizon
it's also frightening that there seems to be a lot of collective denial of this reality
#climateDiary
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a pinnacle of #flosstodon if i do say so myself
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"a black presidency is a contradiction—it owes its power to a movement against racist state violence at home but seeks an office which has always practiced racist state violence abroad ... what stands out about the horrifying death toll in Gaza is how easily it slots into a history of American global power"
Ta-Nehisi Coates is pretty much the only person i want to read reflecting on Gaza and the 2024 election
edited link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260622213310/https://www.vanityfair.com/story/the-next-black-president
#uspol #racism #Gaza #antiwar #CivilRights
what do we call this aesthetic? unlike the midwest infrastructural sublime from yesterday, i hate it, but i must also acknowledge it surrounds me
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United Auto Workers Vote to Divest From Israel: Members include workers in the auto industry and in higher education, as well as a significant number of health care workers and state and government workers
https://truthout.org/articles/united-auto-workers-vote-to-divest-from-israel-in-historic-victory/
Texas Tech students held a funeral for academic freedom 🪦
https://pen.org/texas-tech-academic-freedom-funeral/
#Texas #TexasTech #DavidBowie #AcademicFreedom #HIgherEd #Academia
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"145 gray whales found dead on West Coast... Experts say at this pace, 2026 could wind up being one of the deadliest years on record"
https://www.kgw.com/article/life/animals/catastrophic-mortality-event-145-gray-whales-dead-west-coast/509-f8104f76-9267-43c3-b6d7-1e89741b6344
#climateCrisis #whales #GrayWhale #oceans
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climate change is wrecking all the species that rely on eating fish in the ocean, meaning we see more dead birds and fewer live ones at the coast
https://lbpost.com/news/climate-change/dead-birds-beach-el-nino-die-off
#climateDiary #California
"The farm workers aren’t provided with sick leave or with reliable access to medical care. Thus, they are the initial victims in this disaster, because of the conditions they are forced to work and live under. They are the proverbial “canaries” in this growing public health crisis"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2026/07/16/its-the-water-not-produce-likely-driving-cyclospora-outbreaks/
#cyclospora #PublicHealth #FoodSafety #farmworkers #immigration #diarrhea
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"No faculty member, student, or worker should face the stripping of their livelihood for protesting a genocide or speaking out against corporate and political complicity. Academic institutions must serve as sanctuaries for rigorous debate, and free expression, rather than capitulating to the financial leverage of trustees or the political pressures of congressional intimidation campaigns"
https://www.aaup.org/news/northwestern-universitys-campaign-against-free-expression
#AAUP #PolicingTheCampus #uspol #Northwestern #academia #HigherEd
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"The attacks on Black studies are not only connected to the tectonic rightward shifts we are experiencing in every terrain of public life in the United States, but fundamental to them. It is at the nexus of a project funded by a network of conservative foundations that aims to reverse generations of hard-won progress"
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-studies-freedom-democracy/
Great interview between Prof AJ Escoffery and Dr Kay Coghill, who's Community Safety and Support Steward with Blacksky Algorithms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hrPb4egyis
#Bluesky #Blacksky #SOcialMedia #AlternativeSocialMedia #Commodon #TrustAndSafety #Misogynoir #ATProto
Blacksky: The New Black Twitter/Threads?
"Firefighters have faced increasingly complex fires at large facilities amid a rapid expansion of the logistics industry... The structures often “represent a unique intersection of high-density combustible loads and complex internal geometries that challenge even the most robust fire protection systems"
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-06-22/boyle-heights-storage-fire
#LosAngeles #BoyleHeightsFire #BoyleHeights #Logistics #SupplyChain #ToxicLA
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anyone have handy a good overview of the history of regulation of chemicals in the US? bonus for comparison to europe?
*edit, most interested in post Silent Spring and EPA era
#lazyposting #STS #histSci #histodons #HistSTM
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writing help query, long shot:
looking for insight into SEO and automation, i.e. whether and how product searches using certain keywords get those keywords appended to product descriptions. i assume this is a somewhat automated process and seek insight into how that works. TIA! (boosts very welcome!)
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these developments never aren't shocking (even if they are not surprising)
it is an outrage that excellent scholars doing important work leaving the UT system is a feature, not a bug, for those pulling these fuckery moves
https://www.statesman.com/news/education/article/ut-border-surveillance-scholar-tenure-denial-22343342.php
(i think this 2nd link is nonpaywall, it does have trackers)
https://www.statesman.com/news/education/article/ut-border-surveillance-scholar-tenure-denial-22343342.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3RhdGVzbWFuLmNvbS9uZXdzL2VkdWNhdGlvbi9hcnRpY2xlL3V0LWJvcmRlci1zdXJ2ZWlsbGFuY2Utc2Nob2xhci10ZW51cmUtZGVuaWFsLTIyMzQzMzQyLnBocA%3D%3D&time=MTc4NDU0OTcxNzQ5Mw%3D%3D&rid=ZWM2ZGRlOTEtZGRkNC00MWUzLThmYTYtNTJmNWNkMmJmNWRm&sharecount=MA%3D%3D
#UT #Texas #AAUP #academia #HigherEd #borders #SurveillanceStudies
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habitat protections were already deeply insufficient in many instances:
https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/environmental-conservation-southern-california/
#conservation #ecology #shipping #logistics #wildlife #EndangeredSpecies
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this but also for many other things, inverting the hierarchy isn't doing what people think it's doing
“All 19 recognised institutions have been systematically targeted: every one of Gaza’s university campuses has been severely damaged or completely destroyed, while university colleges and intermediate colleges have sustained severe damage rendering them non-operational"
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20260617185507827
#scholasticide #Gaza #HigherEd #academia
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it is awful to be reliant on the courts for this but damn good to see the result
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@Star12Mt@masto.nyc paging monsterdon 😂
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i just stumbled upon something where a researcher gave Claude a bunch of abstracts in genetics, to which the researcher had *randomly* assigned author names, and asked Claude to find patterns re research topics and author social identity. And Claude did. E.g., "Female authors" were more likely to produce research about "DEI, Ethics, and Social Dimensions of Genomics". It looks like there's no way to use these tools w/o *imposing cultural patterns*
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normally i just snap and move on but maybe i should be collecting them for a MAHA flosser tasting party 😂
this would be double-healthy, due to the oral hygiene and the germ patina
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sorry about that. he has different tactics including replying to me so anyone reading my replies see his (they're still there even after i block), or as in today, bothering people with whom i interact
he does it to a few other people too but i'm apparently at the top of his list right now
thanks for reporting... sigh
"Last summer, Angelenos began to vanish... Families are still living under the shadows of those raids"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/08/ice-raided-their-city-thats-not-where-it-ends
#LosAngeles #ICE #immigration #uspol
"Though the government has plenty of ways to promote its own viewpoint, puppeteering every university professor in the state is not one of them"
https://www.rawstory.com/court-thrashes-red-state-s-breathtaking-attempt-to-ban-unpopular-ideas/
#HigherEd #academia #1a #Florida
