Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Wednesday April 15th post-film discussion with @vanderbilt.edu 's own @sashach.bsky.social!

In "Heat Is a Power Relation: Standards, Standpoints, and the Intimacies of Comfort," Sasha Crawford-Holland analyzes how media distribute thermal dis/comfort, arguing that heat is not only a physical relation, but a power relation. @sashach.bsky.social

Read for free now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

This is also the context in which the concept of ecocide gets developed/popularized

The End of Archaeology as We Know It - World Records

Please read my interview with Métis archaeologist Dr Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social! We discuss the role of media technologies in documenting histories of colonial genocide at residential institutions in Canada.
worldrecordsjournal.org/the-end-of-a...

Just Evidence - World Records

"Just Evidence," the World Records volume that I edited with @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social and LaCharles Ward @blurrdblue.bsky.social, launches today! It asks: What does accountability look (and sound and feel) like? Read the intro here:
worldrecordsjournal.org/just-evidence/

Thanks for reading & sharing!

I have seasonal depression in the summer now | The Narwhal Extreme heat, wildfires and pests — fuelled by climate change — threaten to make summer the worst season in Canada. It’s time to talk about it

Wrote a column thenarwhal.ca/seasonal-dep... and talked to CBC's Allie Jaynes www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb... about how wildfires, smoke, extreme heat and other effects of climate change are making summer a bummer, and why I'm trying to push past my sadness about it to tap into my anger, and love.

Cognitive estrangement

All the early time lapse stuff too

Démolition d'un mur [Demolition of a Wall] (Lumière, 1896) YouTube video by Cinema History

This seems pretty sci fi to me! m.youtube.com/watch?v=lfdK...

Volume 13 Issue 1 | London Review of International Law | Oxford Academic Publishes high-quality scholarship on international law from around the world. While no area of international legal interest is excluded, the journal prioritises non-doctrinal scholarship, including t...

Our new issue of the London Review of International Law is out with articles by Tanja Aalberts, @ingovenzke.bsky.social, Gavin Sullivan, Wouter Werner, Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, Andrew Williams, and the Medellín Group.

academic.oup.com/lril/issue/1...

Excited to be presenting some work at UCSB next week! Hope to see you there

Over the course of the summer, pieces from the forthcoming issue of World Records, titled "Just Evidence," co-edited by LaCharles Ward, Sasha Crawford-Holland, and myself, will be released. The full issue with introduction will be available late summer! worldrecordsjournal.org/category/vol...

Law’s capture of human rights focused open-source investigation Abstract. With new protocols emerging to regulate the field of open-source investigation, this article critiques their widespread deference to the requirem

A new co-authored piece that critically examines open-source investigation’s increasing reliance on—and deference to—the law. Written with Sasha Crawford-Holland and Andrew Williams. doi.org/10.1093/lril...

Just Evidence - Open City Documentary Festival What does accountability look like? In recent years, the answer has been overwhelmingly forensic.   From the news to true crime podcasts, and from art exhibitions to film festivals, forensic modes of ...

Forensic techniques have become a dominant form of artist-activist media practice. Running across the festival, Just Evidence, organised with World Records Journal, features screenings & events asking how these forensic practices can be reconciled to radical ends.

opencitylondon.com/2025-festiva...

Just Evidence @ Goldsmiths Join us for a discussion of the forthcoming 'Just Evidence' special issue of World Records at Goldsmiths, University of London.

We'll also be at Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social for a roundtable:

Just Evidence - Open City Documentary Festival What does accountability look like? In recent years, the answer has been overwhelmingly forensic.   From the news to true crime podcasts, and from art exhibitions to film festivals, forensic modes of ...

London pals-- hope to see you at these exciting events with @opencitydocs.bsky.social, where we ask: What does accountability look like?

Looking forward to learning from these brilliant people !

Parents in Tech Want Their Kids to Go Into the Arts Instead Hands-on jobs that demand creativity are seen as less vulnerable to artificial intelligence.

The tech world is pushing AI into everything and telling us it's both the way of the future and inevitable. Meanwhile, in the tech world:

As Staffing Cuts at NWS Lead to Suspended Weather Balloon Launches in Western Alaska, WindBorne Systems Steps Up to Fill Atmospheric Data Gaps Following the announcement from the National Weather Service (NWS) that it is suspending its weather balloon launches in Kotzebue, Alaska indefinitely

This is exactly what they're trying to achieve by destroying government services that benefit the public. A VC-backed startup intervenes to gather data that the National Weather Service was previously collecting, and before we know it, we will be paying them for what was once funded by our taxes.

NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions

My latest: The mass firings at NOAA can feel abstract. Here's what was lost at one research center -- the birthplace of climate modeling.

Fired staff became U.S. citizens to pursue these dream jobs, only to have their dreams upended.

even if you don't like the idea of the state on principle you will really not like what's left of it after the right hacks at it

www.bostonreview.net/product/what...

trees are woke

This cover is a great example of why we need the 'A' in #STEAM.
The A is for Arts, signifying the importance of incorporating creative thinking & design skills alongside #STEM allowing for a more holistic approach to problem-solving, innovation, and critically, communication, in education.

Equitable Communities

@urbaninstitute.bsky.social and @rwjf.bsky.social are collaborating on the Local Data for Equitable Communities grant program to fund 30 nonprofits $50,000 each to use data to improve local conditions that help residents live their healthiest lives.

Learn more! localdataforequitablecommunities.org

As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network.

All 2469 miles of it.

Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.

Machine Politics, by Fred Turner The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

This week, looking forward to teaching Fred Turner's defense of bureaucratic institutions against Silicon Valley's ethos of moving fast and breaking things. Somehow seems relevant? 🤷 🙃
harpers.org/archive/2019...

Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance Google changed its public AI policies to remove assertions that it would not develop AI applied to surveillance or weapons.

In 2018, Google introduced policies that excluded applying AI to weapons, surveillance, and technologies that “cause or are likely to cause overall harm.” Now that promise is gone. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...