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The current world chicken population is larger than the planet-wide non-chicken bird population not just today, but at any point in the history of earth.

Judge Orders Colorado to Stop Throwing Prisoners in Solitary for Refusing to Work Years after voters amended the state’s constitution to ban forced labor in prison, a court ruling could finally make Colorado change how prison guards “compel and coerce” work.

Colorado is the first state where advocates have secured a court ruling forcing prison officials to stop using solitary confinement to compel labor from incarcerated people. “It’s exciting and it’s amazing,” says one advocate in the state.

Poster for this semester's reading group. We meet every first Wednesday at 4:15pm (CET) at Ruhr University Bochum (room NDEF04/346). If you need more information (abstract of the book, topics of the individual dates, information about the moodle course etc.), please e-mail me! vera.straetmanns[at]rub.de

This semester, we will be reading selected chapters from "Everything flows", edited by @djnicholson.bsky.social and John Dupré in our Reading Group. All interested are welcome to join us at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de (room NDEF04/346). If needed, we can also arrange hybrid meetings.
#HPBio #PhDSky

The climate impacts of fossil fuel CO₂ will last longer than nuclear waste.

It's also hard to choose the pedestrian/bicycle/public transit/density option when you may not have experienced it, it may not be available to you, it's often maligned and disparaged, and it's largely only achieved through collective effort rather than individual choice.

Fitzcarraldo

Can this be a solution?

rebecca solnit today rebecca solnit tomorrow rebecca solnit forever

<Back> to Return Previous Next Send Actions Translate News: News Story 101) *PENTAGON OFFICIALS MET WITH LAWMAKERS ON IRAN ON TUESDAY: NYT BFW 16:35 102) *NYT CITES 3 PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING ON IRAN BFW 16:33 103) *PENTAGON SAYS IRAN WAR COST MORE THAN $11B IN FIRST WEEK: NYT BFW 16:33 03/11/2026 16:31:40[NYT]  Billion By Catie Edmondson (New York Times) -- In a Capitol Hill briefing, officials gave their most comprehensive assessment of the cost of the first six days of the war, but the number omitted several aspects of the operation. Pentagon officials told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday that they estimated the cost of the war against Iran had exceeded $11.3 billion in the first six days alone, according to three people familiar with the briefing. The estimate did not include many of the costs associated with the operation, such as the buildup of military hardware and personnel ahead of the first strikes. For that reason, lawmakers expect the number to grow considerably as the Pentagon continues to calculate the costs that accumulated just in the first week. Still, it appeared to be the most comprehensive assessment Congress had received so far amid mounting questions about the objectives, scope and time frame for the war. The New York Times and The Washington Post reported earlier that defense officials had said in recent congressional briefings that the military used up $5.6 billion of munitions in the first two days of the war. That is a far larger amount and munitions burn rate than had been publicly disclosed. The Center for Strategic and International Studies had estimated that the first 100 hours of the operation cost $3.7 billion, or $891.4 million each day. The first wave of the bombardment used weapons including the AGM-154 glide bomb, which can cost from $578,000 to $836,000. The Navy …

$2bn/day, with $2.8bn/day in munitions alone over the first two days. I tend to think of myself as a Large Number Scale Understander but this is just mind-boggling amounts of money.

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

One thing I've been stressing is that, if Hormuz traffic remained stopped, the monumental oil supply shock will manifest as sharp price spikes in wealthy nations that sap disposable incomes

In poorer countries, the shock will manifest as outright physical shortages.

WATCH — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Every dollar we spend bombing people in the Middle East is one we’re not spending here at home. We’re always told we don’t have enough money for schools or healthcare or for veterans, but there’s always enough to bomb people on the other side of the world.”

I don't want to do a whole long rant on this, so I'll just say: the reason fossil fuels & other aligned incumbents don't want to transition to clean energy is that it will *damage their material interests*. And folks, they understand their own material interests. Really well!

How to Talk About Climate Change When You’d Rather Talk About Something Else

I don’t think people who aren’t regularly covering the reproductive rights beat realize how common it is for women to be incarcerated for miscarriages.

That's cool, if I even mention the existence of trans people in class a student can anonymously report me and I can get fired, but I bet it sucks to not be able to talk about AI with sufficient enthusiasm too

I am delighted that dogs are able to receive high-quality health care.

But what about humans?

In America today, 85 million are uninsured or under-insured.

Health care must be considered a human right.

We need Medicare for All, NOW.

Why are we justified marginalizing Nazis and other racist and sexist scientists?

(tl,dr: it's a paper thread: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28499/) #philsci #sts #philsky

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

Farming fed less than 2 billion people in 1900 and 76 million Americans. It feeds more than 8 billion people today and about 350 million Americans.

In the US, people spend about 10% of their incomes on food now, vs more than 40% of their incomes in 1901.

Seems better now 👍🏼

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows

"Coastal sea levels are, on average, eight inches to a foot higher than many maps and models of the world’s coastlines indicate" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...

This is what ecocide looks like.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

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CfP: Topical Collection on AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation and Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices

“If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender’” - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

I’m at a philosophy conference and it is WILD. You philosophers are fascinating people.

What rough beast is it, you ask? It’s not my job to educate you.

it’s certainly not the chief issue here, but the iran war should accelerate renewables buildouts around the world so we don’t need to be so dependent on volatile oil and gas imports

circling back on this, they did it

could be a nothing burger...but it could also be an everything bagel

Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories.

Men: What a scary time for men this is.