The Grid and the Scam.

A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker

A contrarian tech critical guide by @parismarx.com for what not to buy this xmas

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Dear Media Literacy and Climate Peeps, please submit articles and share our call for a special issue of Journal of Media Literacy Education dedicated to climate. Remember folks, climate emergency is also a media education emergency. digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/call_fo...

a drawing of a boat heating torwads an iceberg - lower temps still collide with ice but not as badly.

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

Imagine you are the richest man in the word and you finance and construct a massive, goballly influential technology to flatter yourself. Dude, buy a big mirror and hire a therapist. www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

Anyone remember how "care" was the buzzword in academia and corporate messaging? Curious to know when people stopped to "care."

I am a huge fan of the concept of public media, but federal funding has been a cudgel used to bash NPR. This has made them scared of Republican critics, which in my opinion, diminished the quality of NPR. This new environment might get them to take the gloves off.

The Washington Post Accused Me of “Gross Misconduct.” Here's My Response. This fight isn’t just about my job — it’s about who gets punished for telling the truth, and who gets protected for spreading hate and violence.

My latest in my fight against the Washington Post.

I’ve filed a grievance against the Post through the WaPo Guild— and have sent a letter to Washington Post challenging my firing.

Proud to have @normeisen.bsky.social + @katiephang.bsky.social in my corner.

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AlphaEarth AI Model Tracks Earth’s Dynamic Changes How does AlphaEarth's AI model make Earth's data more accessible and insightful for scientists and planners worldwide?

"Google DeepMind has debuted AlphaEarth Foundations, an AI model that treats Earth like a living dataset.." How about treating earth as a living being?

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Quote and an announcement for the book: Replaybook: A Fieldguide to the Climate and Information Crisis available for free from Tactical Tech.

Out now today: The Replaybook: A Fieldguide to the Climate and Information Crisis available from Tactical Tech. You can read my tactic and many others by following this link and downloading the book for free: tacticaltech.org/replaybook/

An infographic describing the world's biggest companies over time.

Fascinating historical comparison over time of the world's most dominant companies

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

So now a cup of coffee in the US is $5? Also, got two smoothies, a burrito and veggie burger for $60!

Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far

Pull quote: Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far

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Zuckerberg says Meta will build data center the size of Manhattan in latest AI push CEO says company plans to spend hundreds of billions on developing artificial intelligence products

Anyone know how they're going to power this titanic gigawatt supercluster?

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Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down Cutting data climate collection – as the Trump administration is now trying to do – is like breaking a thermometer to avoid knowing you’ve got a fever.

Destroying the thermometer doesn't stop the fever

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New climate media literacy lesson from Project Look Sharp: "Bias in Charts: Temperature and Climate Change"

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For all zinemakers and zinelovers, a call for contributions for this amazing book proposal !
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Tanner Lecture One with Ruha Benjamin YouTube video by Mahindra Humanities Center

The incomparable Ruha Benjamin

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A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper

Tanner Lecture One with Ruha Benjamin YouTube video by Mahindra Humanities Center

The incomparable Ruha Benjamin

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I cannot believe I have to explain this but just FYI, Indian muslims are not arabs

Ecomedia Literacy: Greening media and technology education by Antonio López, John Cabot University, Italy For more than 20 years I have been a dedicated advocate for media literacy and environmental justice. Through developing ecomedia literacy…

I've written a very short intro to ecomedia literacy. If you're not familiar with it, please have a look.

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Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

This is in my media lit wheelhouse. Been shouting this for years. Please folks, gotta focus on climate disinformation.

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This makes me so mad. Los Doyers could do better.

if white Americans didn’t want Mexicans in California maybe they should not have conquered California from Mexico and then spent 150 years building up an economy entirely dependent on the flow of people and goods across the border just a thought

Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. The next phase will double the gas turbines.

A short vid on a dataset I found showing the scale of this problem

Part 1 below, or full on YT here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrQC...