Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Another publication! Steve Gardiner and I wrote a paper defending his 2018 “Tollgate Principles” (proposed with Augustin Fragnière).
In our latest piece, “Beware the Toll Dodgers,” we clarify the point of governance principles and respond to some objections.
Check it out: doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
I had the pleasure of reviewing Roy Scranton's Impasse for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Within, I discuss the concept of civilizational impasse, the possibility of a politics without progress, and the alleged virtues of pessimism.
Check it out here: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/impa...
I welcome the new year with a new publication in the journal Climatic Change!
I ask: What would Aldo Leopold think about Geoengineering? In reply, I contend that from his vantage both success and failure in geoengineering should deeply trouble us.
Check it out open access here: rdcu.be/eYFAC
So it’s Biden’s fault that Trump is a fascist? Is it also Biden’s fault that the NYT is becoming a Trump propaganda tool too? Because to me it looks like a choice.
Temperature qua temperature does not matter. Impacts do.
atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
Sci-fi has consistently portrayed this being done by angry Asian states but the reality is American corporations helmed by Israeli government scientists are going to be the ones to do this without any oversight or standards
Also see: janky tech bros spectrum.ieee.org/solar-geoeng...
Chicago - no kings
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
I’m a published academic now. #rewilding #rewild #culturalrewilding #humanrewilding #huntergathererresearch #rewildportland #anthropology
Dutch late night TV has its take
screenshot of a tweet from "Governor Needing Press Office", text saying: "DONALD TRUMP, THE LOWEST POLLING PRESIDENT IN RECENT HISTORY, THIS IS YOUR SECOND-TO-LAST WARNING!!! (THE NEXT ONE IS THE LAST ONE!). STAND DOWN NOW OR CALIFORNIA WILL COUNTER-STRIKE (LEGALLY!) TO DESTROY YOUR ILLEGAL CROOKED MAPS IN RED STATES. PRESS CONFERENCE COMING — HOSTED BY AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR, GAVIN NEWSOM. FINAL WARNING NEXT. YOU WON’T LIKE IT!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER."
whatever historians say about these years of lead they can't say we didn't have a laugh or two
Motherfucking wind farms…
"Advisory opinions are technically non-binding but are considered authoritative because they summarise existing law...They are expected to be used in future litigation and to bolster political negotiations."
After a long campaign spearheaded by Pacific Islanders
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
BREAKING: The Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban.
Kids this age have a remarkable sense of wonder, which they sadly lose... For instance, he said after his birthday party “Today was the best day ever. I hope I will remember it. I don't remember my previous birthday”...
Helen De Cruz (1978-2025)
www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com/helen-de-cruz
You are such a beautiful person and a positive force in the world. I’ll be holding you in my thoughts.
Can't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed
Putting aside the overstated headline, I agree this is a good strategy. But there’s tension between the desire to focus on clear and concrete singular shifts and the inherently stochastic nature of climate and climatic change impacts.
Saying “how in the world” is unfriendly now? A kindergarten teacher would let that slide. But calling someone an asshole? Not so much.
Have a good one.
I should say *dismissing without argument*, specifically.
You have not cogently explained what difference you perceive between those phrases, and I argued why those statements are substantively identical.
But, sure, I agree dismissing peer-reviewed publications in top journals doesn’t make you right-wing; it’s just a favorite pastime of the right.
Sorry, where in my reply was the emotion? And where did I misunderstand you? Perhaps i don’t understand your specific position. Let’s resolve that.
Do you think Michael was dismissing the merit of the study’s claim w/o argument, or not? It seemed like you thought no. To me, it’s clearly yes.
Basically, it’s very obvious that Michael is criticizing the finding on its merits, but without argument or the expertise to asses that merit.
It’s rare for him to misfire, and yet we can still wonder why he does here. No need to reactively defend him.
And how in the world would “plucking it to put it together” be criticizable? This is true of *any* statistic or finding. Each focuses on one part of then world to describe. The only question is if that world-slice is salient, and it obviously and uncontroversially is here.
How in the world is “plucked out of nowhere” not synonymous with “made up”? If what the study says— mass death is attributable to vegetable deficiency— is airtight, causal, and valid then that is an astounding finding with vast policy implications! No “context” could override that.
