wooden airplane and wooden watchtower, many people standing and sitting. Port Moresby, Papua (New Guinea). Still from a documentary.
How we deal with #GenAI reminds me of 20th cent millenial "Cargo Cults" in Papua/Melanesia: islanders built wooden planes, flagposts, etc to watch out for & attract (US)Gods in planes to bring them what they desired. Later, islanders reasoned that the cargo was stolen from their ancestors 1/2
Also worth noting that wind had the largest effect in cutting power prices here - a very good reminder of the importance of a diverse mix of non-fossil energy sources :)
Nevada's largest utility says it will need three times the electricity required to power Las Vegas just to handle proposed data centers — and it probably can't do that without fossil fuels.
https://to.pbs.org/4c0Eh6n
Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.
A single line in this piece just made my day:
“The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.”
Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wow. Pam Bondi is 60?
I just don’t think you need to love war crimes to be a real man.
Click thru to the pdf with a list of all the degrees now eliminates like for example women's studies and exceptional needs early childhood education and journalism and architecture and visual arts and political science and foreign language teacher ed and African & African American studies and
which is especially wild when you consider the 'cassandras' i was profiling *where right*
you'd think they'd be some interest in why & how
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/cassandras
New review article!
State capacities for decarbonization: from investable transitions to green transformations by Rosie Collington.
@rosiecollington.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2633835
"Few German socialists would ever meet a member of the Herero or Nama peoples, but they spoke out in defense of their human rights and their right to rebel."
With Tax Day coming up, here's our reminder that TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.
(Published 2019)
Regime in Serbia is in panic after barely winning “stronghold” local elections amid irregularities. Today, police raided Belgrade University Rectorate to discredit the rector whom they see as a potential leader of the opposition in the next parliamentary elections linking him to a student’s death.
“KUOW has also learned that the person detained is a pregnant woman from Venezuela. Her 10-month-old baby girl was in the car at the time of the arrest and was also taken into custody, according to friends of the detained woman.”
People who normalize this exploitation should rediscover shame
Delighted to announce a new H-Environment Roundtable Review! This one features Sureshkumar Muthukumaran's *The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean.* It's the first work of ancient #envhist reviewed in this forum! networks.h-net.org/sites/defaul...
Check out @peterhhansen.bsky.social's review of Robin Patten's "The Mountain: Journeys in High Places," published in 2025 by University of Utah Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #alpine
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
For anyone in West Virginia, here is a website that shows which counties & roads in WV are more likely to have ICE-coordination with local police (287(g) agreements). Hopefully useful for travel planning for vulnerable communities
mycountryroad.org
We've added a blog post by R. Piotrowski on 'Crisis Materials & Local Resilience: Environmental Determinants of Building Practices in Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Rural #Poland', originally an 'Environment and History' Snapshot: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/03/10/c... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhist
Colombia declares its entire Amazon biome a reserve for renewable natural resources—effectively bans any new oil exploration, hydrocarbon production, or large-scale mining.
Protected area approx 483,000 sq km—equivalent to the size of Sweden
#TropicalRainforest
#decarbonization
#envhist
I have a new article out in Environment and History on Deutsche Bank's role in reshaping the geography of water in Ottoman Anatolia. #envhist
Water’s Worth: Reconsidering Deutsche Bank’s 1907 Konya Plain Irrigation Project | Environment and History www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Why on earth is Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie rate R???? It has some swear words and one split second scene where someone gets shot and that's all. What are we doing here?
The saddest thing about Meta's incredibly large investment in AI politics and lobbying is they are also-rans in actual artificial intelligence.
Literally cannot stress enough that if I, a climate scientist, were running a scam it would be a lot more fun than this
LFG!
💚💙💚🏈🏈💚💙💚
#Hawks
“The problem is that we have accelerated into a consuming and exclusive narrative about science in the national interest.”
Some day I’ll stop sharing my v personal perspective on how devastating humanities has in fact devastated science. Not today.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Book cover for GeoHibernica: sunset above stone circle.
#Writing and #Research 2025: currently reviewing "GeoHibernica - The Irish #Landscapes, Peoples and Cultures by Paul Lyle 2025 @livunipress.bsky.social - for The Niche @britishecologicalsociety.org #booksky #envhist #Ireland #Hibernia #environment #geology #art #heritage #academicsky #library
