Screenshot from Walt Unsworth's Everest: The Mountaineering History: The reporter in The daily News had feelings akin to modern conservationists: It will be a proud moment for the man who first stands on the top of the earth, but he will have the painful thought that he had queered the pitch for posterity. For my part, I should like to think that some corner of the globe would be preserved for ever inviolate. Men will never lose the sense of wonder, but they will always try to do so, and such a sanctuary would have a world wide effect. The Evening News put it stronger if less elegantly: They will climb to the peak of Everest and be warm with happiness for a moment at 29,002 ft above the sea. Some instrument in their chilled fingers may prove that the odd two feet should be three feet, and then the explorers shall glow again for thinking of what they have wrought for science. But when they shall be safe back at the mountain foot, they will not be so happy; they will know that they have done a very foolish thing Some of the last mystery of the world will pass when the last secret place in it, the naked peak of Everest shall be trodden by those trespassers.

For those of us who would like to see the Moon's environment remain pristine, it's worth seeing what some other Cassandras said about the first planned expedition to Mt Everest in the summer of 1920

Happy Earth Day!

Sensed it in the mycelium >>> Heard it through the grapevine

This is true. No one wants to admit COVID still exists or ever existed. Quite incredible. Where are the huge conferences dedicated to COVID, like there still is for HIV?

The greatest threat women face is the online spread of misogyny by predator-influencers and via algorithms - even onto blank accounts set up as those of 24yo men, as in the article below.

Boys and men are being radicalized into misogyny by white men. Trans people & immigrants are not the problem.

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"Women also know philosophy" 🇧🇷👩‍🎓

A fantastic initiative: a new database of Brazilian women philosophers! Please share this with your networks—I know many of you know brilliant scholars who belong on this list.

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...and the legal fiction of the idea of "peace, order and good government" built into the Canadian Constitutional on the backs of Indigenous genocide, the transatlantic slave trade and decades of indentured servitude.

It should surprise no one paying attention that empire has come home to roost.

It is deeply embedded in the perils and contradictions of the Anglo Loyalist Protestant work ethic that has been at the heart of the province's creation and development (first as Upper Canada)...

In some ways, these actions are all the logical consequences of something that has animated the very fabric of Toronto long before the current Conservative government came to power.

When I heard about Doug Ford's purchase of a private jet using taxpayer funds I did not flinch. Although I was shaken up, I also wasn't too surprised by his recent cuts to OSAP.

Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

All they will find is sand

Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Péter Magyar victory speech:

"We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others."

He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

This prompts me to wonder, when anti-queer folks talk about queerness as "unnatural", there is an implicit invocation of an apparent care for nature there. Yet, in the large majority of cases, anti-queer "concerns" for "naturalness" have little do with real environmental concern.

Reading this excellent article about about the potential of microplastics to queer bodies and relations from @nichecanada.bsky.social: niche-canada.org/2024/08/12/t...

What is ‘Asian’ here?
South Asian?
Because as an Indian Luddite, we absolutely should be critical about how south Asians perceive/use AI.
And tech more broadly.
There are historical and sociological reasons for our technocultism, including postcolonial developmentalism, caste, and more.

Israel got away with targeting healthcare in Gaza. It's no surprise it is doing it in Lebanon too | Seema Jilani As a doctor who has worked in a conflict zone, I’ve seen spaces that were once considered sacrosanct become fair game in war. This has to end, says Seema Jilani, a paediatric physician

with everyone focused on iran, the israeli army is doing to lebanon what it did with impunity in gaza. please read seema jilani's important comment:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

These efforts targeting Bengali Muslims are a form of ethnic cleansing and we should be able to name that clearly, despite all the legalese surrounding it.

Sorry to get transnational here given Canada’s own woes and the general state of the world, but can we talk about how in my home state in India 2.5 million voters, mostly Muslims, have been deregistered from voter rolls, backed by the BJP-allied Supreme Court, in an attempt to denationalize them?

Hello, even if LLMs were philosophically or technologically interesting from an AI perspective (I contend they aren't), there is enough evidence to completely reject their use on ethical grounds alone. Cognitive scientists cannot just carry on doing the work under these conditions. Have a nice day.

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Interesting indeed: in 2021, Gladu opposed and voted against Bill C-6, an act that would end the practice of conversion therapy in Canada. In 2023,she introduced a bill that would declare December to be Christian Heritage Month.

Well, that’s a happy headline

The racialization and the persecution (real or perceived) of those coded as white is necessary in the human resource supply chain in the continuation of empire

Something something about how empire understands oppression and its very necessary racialization.

I’d be very eager to hear your thoughts @savasavasava.myatproto.social!

Absolutely infuriating read. But worth it. This was very important work. It's a shame what happened.

Headline in Le Monde: 'The president of the United States is clearly insane': Donald Trump's escalatory rhetoric raises questions over his mental health

This should be the headline in every newspaper.

Awww! Thank you:)

Never forget that they are doing this.

Universities need to look in the F’ing mirror. It took a lot of people telling themselves “there’s nothing we can do” to let this happen.

“. . . growing divide between how much universities say they value interdisciplinary research and how poorly their internal structures are set up to reward it.”