Good time to re-read Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.

speedrunning the neoliberalization of academia by criminalizing speech, expelling students, and arresting professors so we can just get on with the sports and real estate speculation.

Unpopular opinion: If a zoonotic virus emerges but its control, or even transparent information on the situation, will interfere with industrys interests, the safety of all of us will be thrown under the bus. Looking at you, wildlife traders, fur farms, meat & dairy industry

310-112. Overwhelming support. Many Ukrainian lives destroyed by a handful of morally bankrupt politicians who stalled it.

The European election campaign of Matteo Salvini's Lega party, a coalition partner in Giorgia Meloni's government, using a far-right conspiracy theory asserting the EU wants to make people eat insects.

Meat industry comms in a nutshell. A comms director for a livestock pharmaceutical company criticizes a scientist for challenging the FAO's citation of his own research by suggesting mis-citation is good science, then uses unattributed scare quotes, then tags the wrong guy.

FAO really outdoing itself in tarnishing its reputation, not just by writing poorly thought-out reports, but now by explicitly misrepresenting researchers, who 'accuse the FAO study of systematic errors, poor framing, and highly inappropriate use of source data.'

1. This week’s column is about something we badly want to believe, regardless of the evidence: that livestock farms are benign and harmonious. Why? Mostly, I think, because it chimes with books and cartoons we see as very young children. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Also: a thread

The United nations (2016) - 'intensified animal agriculture could cause viruses to mutate rapidly and cross over between species, causing a pandemic'

Ag industry (2024) - 'No one could have expected bird flu to cross over from birds to cows'

latimes.com/environment/st…

Amenra doing a US tour and only going to the West coast is a grave injustice.

You know what, The New York Times, you might as well interview me. I’m a nobody, but at least I’m honest and not a miserable, money grubbing, authoritarian grifter like this guy.

I gave up my life to come help Ukraine. This guy gets paid to pimp dictators.

Absolutely disgraceful.

Alberta councillor calls PlantBasedTreaty advocate ‘urban green nazi,’ symbolizing divide between Canadian leaders aware of climate science & eco-impact of food systems, & those who angrily dismiss it as part of some conspiracy. My latest for Toronto Star:
thestar.com/opinion/contri…

Lula, himself once brought down by a corruption scandal, backing a meat company implicated in widespread bribery of politicians in Brazil and the USA that also happens to be an environmental and climate scourge. Absolute clown show.
finance.yahoo.com/news/lula-reun…

I've spent a lot of the last six months working on this story about reports of abuse at one of the country's most-esteemed, certified-humane dairy farms. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Trying a new medium on for size.