Good to see the role of media coming up in climate policy discussions

theguardian.com/environment/ar…

My article today on why the ‘cloud’ is not fuzzy and light but carbon heavy. And why we need carbon disclosures for the supply chain of AI, and tech more generally. “The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Thrasher was the closest thing to my undergraduate advisor, helped me navigate applying to PhDs, and wrote me a rec letter that helped get me to my program. As a Jew and a scholar who has felt lost these past months, I have found him to exemplify allyship and solidarity.

Hearts and minds?

Amplifying this story. More people need to know what 3M is doing.

“…no matter how peaceful a protest or ‘encampment’ may be, it may inevitably be portrayed as ‘demonizing’ or ‘hateful’ …protesters must worry about being branded as ‘extremist’ or advocates of violence, as many of us have been obliged to defend against.” dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/0…

THIS MOM MEANS BUSINESS:

🚨🚨🚨Holy shit: A mom stood up at her school board meeting and delivered an AMAZING speech expressing frustration that conservative extremists were interfering with her child’s education.

Adrienne Martin of Granbury, Texas, boldly

I love this!

insideclimatenews.org/news/28042024/…

Israel DOES occupy the West Bank incl. east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. It does it brutally.

Israel DOES practice apartheid: e.g. it has two legal systems, civil law for Israeli settlers illegally residing in occupied territory and martial law for the Palestinians. It has used

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“As Paul Hawken likes to put it, we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP.” grist.org/business-techn…

#Venezuela is now officially glacier-free
The last remaining Humboldt Glacier is now static and reduced to an area of 2 hectares and was downgraded from glacier to ice field
Next countries poised to remain without glaciers are Indonesia,Mexico & Slovenia
Kudos in the description

Carbon polluters have violated our rights, without having to pay for that violation. If they aren’t legally required to bear the costs of mitigating and reversing climate change, then property rights are a joke.
currentaffairs.org/2019/02/if-pro…

New: Bellingcat and Scripps News followed one IDF battalion’s movements across Gaza, geolocating their social posts to highlight IDF involvement in systematic destruction of Palestinian land and livelihoods: bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

This morning I would like to lift up the statement issued by UCLA students on the night of April 30. I am haunted by this line: “The university would rather see us dead than divest.” I want to remind us all of their demands, those for which our students have risked everything.

The press is working overtime to downplay the horrific mass killing of Palestinian civilians. This is how. inthesetimes.com/article/israel…

truly devastating how fragile some of yalls staunchly held principles are. the first amendment warriors. the democracy preachers. the freedom cherishers. every moral fiber eaten alive, first by thousands of dead children in gaza then by thousands of protesting kids in the us

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Required reading