Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵:
-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc
As you fight ICE in your neighborhoods, always look for potentially positive outcomes to counterbalance your anger and despair. For me this continues to be meeting more neighbors, talking to more neighbors, and finding that others close by have also been fighting in ways I was unaware of.
50+ grassroots movements around the world are uniting for real systemic transformation. Nyéléni 2025 is people-powered and needs your help to make it happen. We’d be grateful if our network joins in supporting this important gathering! Donate here: whydonate.com/fundraising/...
Nearly half of the world’s population lives in countries that spend more on #debt repayments than on public services! Nyéléni newsletter: Resisting the threat of global finance, building #foodsovereignty. tinyurl.com/35bmtpmt Illustration: @tricontinental.bsky.social #cancelthedebt
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Over 50 grassroots movements are co-creating the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum in Sri Lanka (September 2025).
We’re working to ensure that frontline struggles lead the way—across continents and in 17+ languages.
The 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, scheduled to take place in Sri Lanka this September, will bring together 50+ social movements from 80+ countries across all continents, and promises to build a global resistance against the polycrisis confronting the world today. nyeleniglobalforum.org/2025/03/04/3...
📢 EXPOSED: Big banks and investors are pouring $ BILLIONS into the salmon farming industry, driving its enormous growth and huge profits at the expense of wild fish populations and communities around the globe.
Here are 5 key takeaways from our new report that you should know about 🧵(1/6)
NEW: AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish — and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen.
But years after breaking ground, there are no fancy fish tanks. No designer fish. No new jobs.
I have a little 💌 challenge to meet the next short goal for Akram’s survival fund for his family. We’re 127 away - it’ll take 13 matches of my 10 to get there. Let’s do it tonight & help this family get basics to survive after returning home to the north!
excited for this!
love this zine!!
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Excellent long form piece in Slate about fisheries management of forage fish like menhaden, bunker, anchovies, and sardines. Multiple examples given dramatic ecosystem effects. Article also discusses the difficulty of conserving low profile species.
Some news!
The Northwest Science Writers Association named my feature published last year in Undark: THE VICE OF SPICE as the best in journalism as part of their annual writing awards.
You can read it here!
undark.org/2023/07/19/t...
I think this On the Media episode about how little information Israeli's are getting on gaza and how the media reinforces propaganda is useful to listen to BUT there's a tenor to the interview that frames it as "in contrast to US coverage" that is wrong
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
an article called "Police spending has 'no consistent correlation' with lower crime rates, new Canadian study says". under the headline the subhead reads: “I think a lot of people simply assume that more money for the police will mean safer communities,” said co-author Akwasi Owusu-Bempah. “We’re demonstrating that that’s not the case.”. under the subhead is a photo of a street in toronto with a police cruiser blocking traffic and yellow caution tape stretched across the street
i hope you're sitting down because you are not going to believe this
www.thestar.com/news/gta/pol...
A tenured professor has been suspended at IU for holding a lecture on Palestine solidarity and antisemitism. Please sign this petition and share.
www.petitions.net/open_letter_...
Wanna know what the year ahead has in store for the skies above? I've highlighted the coolest astronomical events for 2024! Eclipses! Occultations! Equinoctes and solstices!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/sky-...
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As always, a gift link so everybody can read the article about dam removal on California's section of the Klamath River wapo.st/48l5agB
been spiraling quietly in the river valleys darkness, need urgent help making it through this month. i know the world is revealing its most base & evil self & it's mind numbing to ask for support but im again in between work & trying manage my mental & physical health. jxzzhndz.party/donate
The story at UPenn is only getting worse. Check out the list of questions that the donor spurring the resignations sent to the Board.
"While recognizing the complete academic freedom of the faculty and the freedom afforded administrators as individuals...."
www.inquirer.com/education/ma...
Watch our new short documentary “Uprooted," which examines a Black community’s decades-long battle to hold onto their land as city officials wielded eminent domain to establish and expand Christopher Newport University in Virginia:
Alaska Tribes urge protection for D-1 lands against industrial exploitation:
"Paul said with the village economy so dependent on food from the land, money from jobs cannot make up for losses of subsistence resources... The dollar amount doesn’t count.”
alaskabeacon.com/2023/12/07/a...
“We are raising our voices to honor the dead & fight for the living.” Journalists must speak out about Gaza because attacks on journalism & media are dangerous to us all.
prismreports.org/2023/12/05/j...
"But by demonstrating that catch shares — at least as they’ve been implemented so far — are a failure for fishermen, the collapse of Blue Harvest may still prove an actionable lesson for policymakers as they weigh how to best preserve both resources and communities."
"Much like with farms, once a fishing business is lost, today’s financial barriers make it nearly impossible to restart it, especially when catch shares are required to fish. That means that, for many New Bedford families, fishing has become a family legacy, not a livelihood."
"The collapse of fishing giant Blue Harvest exposes the weakness of catch share policies" - by Ryan Nebeker in FoodPrint
Catch shares became "more valuable as assets to be bought and sold than they were as a way to encourage responsible fishing..."
foodprint.org/blog/blue-ha...
A cautionary tale to consider, given that in 2020, Walmart announced new plans to brand itself as "a regenerative company."
"It seems more likely that regenerative, like sustainable, will become a word whose meaning is determined by Walmart," Van Neste writes.
Yet the impacts of the corporate greenwashing — or in this case bluewashing — have already been felt. Walmart has "moved the goalposts," declaring that MSC certification is synonymous with sustainability, harming small-scale fishers, and shifting the burden of proof.
In a 2021 interview, Teresa Ish, Walton Family Foundation’s oceans initiative lead and senior environment program officer, said: “It is kind of ironic that it all comes back to that management side, but that’s where we are now.”
"MSC and the Walton Family Foundation, both historic advocates for free-market environmentalism and limited regulation, have recently been in the position of 'asking' the governments of countries where Walmart buys fish to bolster their fishery management and regulatory efforts," says Van Neste.