Writer. Learning to die in the Anthropocene. Teaches @notredame. RT=schizoid howl.
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Jun 11
Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit
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Jun 5
“A habitable, equal 21st century is materially possible. What stands in the way is not technical impossibility but political choice and the hard but crucial work of building a coalition behind it.”
This kind of willfully naive denialism is even more toxic than the cynical reactionary kind.
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May monthly CO2 average breaks record again: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/annual…
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May 30
Fascinating to see people complain about New Yorker short stories being bad. Yes, that’s what makes them New Yorker stories.
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May 30
Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
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May 28
watching Indiana Jones for the first time, do archaeologists typically kill this many people?
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May 27
We often think of climate change as a gradual process, but climate-driven shifts in global ecosystems are often sudden. Many ecosystems are fairly stable until major disturbances occur--like high severity wildfire or record-breaking drought. youtu.be/2_Bp76Q2Qig?si=-ghc…
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May 20
Not convinced reading is good for you based on people who read all the time
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May 21
And it still produces less than 10% of total electrical power
May 21
Solar in 2025 grew 19x faster than experts at the International Energy Agency predicted in 2015.
Solar is now the fastest growing electricity source in human history.
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I'm being left behind by the AI revolution in the same way I was left behind when Heaven's Gate ascended to join the spaceship that was hiding behind a comet.
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May 21
The American West just saw its earliest snow meltout in the modern record (since ~1980).
In California, the average snow-monitoring site melted out 43 days earlier than normal.
A brutal year for a region already stuck in its worst megadrought in at least 1,200 years.
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May 21
A UCLA-led study by Williams et al. (2022) found 2000–2021 was the driest 22-year period in southwestern North America since at least 800 CE. Since then, the region has seen intense drought, with conditions expected to worsen dramatically this summer. nature.com/articles/s41558-0…
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May 21
lack of post glacial rebound plus so-called gravitational fingerprints from polar ice reduction means it’s the tropics (where most people live) that will endure the highest rates of sea level rise.🌊 doi.org/10.1029/2010GL044770
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thinking about tainter on diminishing returns of knowledge production under conditions of civilizational complexity, evans on third reich disinvestment in basic science, and the bitterness of former dialectics professors after the fall of communism. what if all that but this
May 16
The reactions of many researchers on finally being held responsible for having read the very paper they submitted are... something.
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May 16
Still think we’re understating the impact of AI on university degrees. A growing numbers of students don’t just lack the inclination to read but the *capacity*. Literally unable to read and absorb difficult sentences for an extended period. Same goes for writing.
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May 15
Comparing the devastating 1877 El Niño that killed millions with where we’re headed in 2026 is like comparing 2 different planets.
We should be worried.
But we should also be furious.
Decades & decades have been squandered, & now we’re on track to lose everything.
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"Here we show that extreme global climate outcomes may occur even under moderate 2 °C warming for several sectors. For droughts in global key breadbasket regions, precipitation extremes over highly populated areas and fire weather extremes across forests, global climatic impact-drivers at 2 °C of global warming may turn out to be much more extreme than model-averaged projections at 3 °C or 4 °C warming."
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