Here Are the Finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards - Reactor Congratulations to all!

Congratulations to the Hugo finalists!!!

But also, and in all sincerity, congratulations to everyone who has a book out today!!!! It's TUESDAY and that is NEW BOOK DAY and I don't want everyone's book news to get lost in all the Hugo excitement!!!

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A founder of Palantir surveillance co. is Peter Thiel. JD Vance long bankrolled by Thiel. Significantly, Thiel bankrolled Curtis Yarvin of Dark Enlightenment advocating Tech-CEO Autocracy replacing Democracy. Thiel, Musk, other tech Billionaires behind Trump's coup. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...

The murders continue.

The U.S. Has Now Killed More Than 180 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All @theintercept.com

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Imagine having a party platform that says to voters, "We love GENOCIDE, but you can still support us on the other things!"

Liberals, we need you to grow up. This is fascism, and your party supports it.

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

John Roberts’ Wife Made Millions From Bribes

Roberts accepted $10 Million in bribes disguised as recruiting fees from Law firms with cases pending before the Supreme Court.

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Literally 2026. What kind of Albertan are you?

Courtesy of @arnelltf.bsky.social #abpoli #alberta

Anti-Data Center organizing is really ramping up especially in the South.

Sisters A minute-by-minute analysis of Brian De Palma's 1972 horror film, Sisters, weaving in Marxist feminist theory to foreground an appreciation of the film and bid…

Also, my baby (with its incredible cover by Freya Betts) is available through Bloomsbury for pre-order! www.bloomsbury.com/us/sisters-9...

Bell: Alberta will now be on daylight saving time year-round, says Premier Smith Alberta will now be on daylight time year-round, reveals Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in an exclusive interview.

Anyone who has celebrated this policy shift to pDST, i hope you now understand Smith is doing this to benefit big business & capital, not human health. Especially not children's health

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Quite literally Nazi propaganda.

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

TFW you look out the window and see the Earth disappear
🎥 Astronaut Reid Wiseman
📍 Artemis II from the far side of the Moon

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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The big picture: Older Republicans and white Evangelicals are the last groups to hold majority favorable views of Israel, according to recent Pew polling. For every other group, Israel's favorability has collapsed since 2022. • I Down 31 percentage points among older Democrats (ages 50+). • T Down 22 percentage points among both younger Republicans/GOP leaners and younger Dems/Dem leaners. • T Down 14 percentage points among Protestants, 23 among Catholics and 20 among the religiously unaffiliated. • T Even white Evangelical support, which was at 80% in 2022, has slid by 15 points.

How Big Tech Lobbied the EU to Hide Data Centers' Environmental Toll The European Commission has adopted industry-drafted language shielding data center emissions data from public view, report Nico Schmidt and Ella Joyner.

Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, Investigate Europe reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.

Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue.

The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points

Omaha Is Home to a Massive Superfund Site. Most Kids Living There Aren’t Tested for Lead. For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across the city’s east side. Faced with similar concerns, 13 states passed laws requiring all kids to get ...

Many states have passed laws requiring universal lead screening — but not Nebraska.

So in Omaha, where factories deposited 400 million pounds of the toxic metal, most kids haven’t been tested.

And, boy, the word "reported" is doing some heavy lifting. #abpoli #oilandgas

No reported wildlife, water affected from Imperial Oil leak in Alberta, company says

I guess they just got lucky and found the right place to dump 843,000 litres of oil. #abpoli #oilandgas #capitalism

Stand with Kali Akuno: Help a Movement Builder Heal Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot g...

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Hey #Alberta, this is where the UCP is pushing our health care.

Stand with Kali Akuno: Help a Movement Builder Heal Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot g...

Stand with Kali Akuno: Help a Movement Builder Heal chuffed.org/project/1771...

People say things like, oh we can undo the bad stuff, and idk folks.

My book Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure is getting a Korean translation next year! You can still download a free PDF Open Access version of the book here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026253904... #MITPress #infrastructure #book

Defend Palestinian Student Activists and Our Right to Protest Genocide: Charter Challenge against the University of Alberta All donations to this campaign will directly support our legal costs and the intensive labour of our legal counsel, who are working entirely pro bono. If you have the means, please consider donating.

Defend #Palestinian Student Activists and Our Right to Protest #Genocide: Charter Challenge against the University of #Alberta

#abpoli #abpse

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

Big Oil has built a new pipeline from your wallet to theirs.

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

'Earth is being slowly dehydrated by the unmitigated mining of #groundwater, which underlies vast proportions of every continent.'
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The case for looking away from suffering.

The #WallStreetJournal isn't content with capitalism's worst instincts. It wants to develop them into clearly articulated sentiments of selfish vileness.