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OPINION: "The traditional disaster response model assumes a sequence of preparedness, response, recovery and, eventually, a return to stability.
"However, a full recovery from major flooding or a hurricane takes years," Lee Ann Rawlins Williams writes.
"However, a full recovery from major flooding or a hurricane takes years," Lee Ann Rawlins Williams writes.
Opinion | Community Disaster Fatigue is on the Rise With More Frequent Floods
Lee Ann Rawlins Williams writes about how communities are handling disaster fatigue and its effects on people.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 19, 2026 at 11:45 PM
OPINION: "The traditional disaster response model assumes a sequence of preparedness, response, recovery and, eventually, a return to stability.
"However, a full recovery from major flooding or a hurricane takes years," Lee Ann Rawlins Williams writes.
"However, a full recovery from major flooding or a hurricane takes years," Lee Ann Rawlins Williams writes.
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fuck this
'Ride or Die' Canceled By Prime Video After One Season
‘Ride or Die’ Canceled After One Season By Prime Video
The buddy spy comedy-drama is shockingly not due back at the streamer.
tvcancelnews.substack.com
September 19, 2026 at 11:54 PM
fuck this
“impose pacing”
30/ Lots of cynicism about US frontier labs & Chinese govt's stated aims to avoid recursive self-improvement & cybersecurity risks. Global coordination on a moratorium seems a nonstarter…
Matt Levine’s theory on the game theoretic dilemma
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
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Matt Levine’s theory on the game theoretic dilemma
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
September 20, 2026 at 12:40 AM
“impose pacing”
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1.5 trillion gallons of rain
Over the last three days, New Mexico has received the 2nd-highest volume of rainfall of any state in the country. An estimated 1.5 TRILLION gallons of rain have fallen across the state! #NMwx
September 19, 2026 at 11:24 AM
1.5 trillion gallons of rain
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Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.
We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks.
Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers!
boycottstarbucks.net
Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers!
boycottstarbucks.net
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS
Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!
boycottstarbucks.net
September 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.
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I would too, but this elides a central problem with Democrats and the media -- unlike the Republican Party, which is *very* happy to carpet bomb the media with a message that then directs their coverage, most prominent Democrats are reluctant to do anything like that.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
Don't have time to fully comment on this article, but I would love to see a parallel article about the much more plausible assertion that the Republican party, from the President and the VP on down, has been captured by right-wing extremists.
Don't have time to fully comment on this article, but I would love to see a parallel article about the much more plausible assertion that the Republican party, from the President and the VP on down, has been captured by right-wing extremists.
Republicans, Facing Midterm Peril, Try to Brand Democrats as Communists
Communism, in the president’s hyperbolic telling, is a graver threat to the country than the Pearl Harbor or 9/11 attacks were. Whether this midterm strategy works is an open question.
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM
I would too, but this elides a central problem with Democrats and the media -- unlike the Republican Party, which is *very* happy to carpet bomb the media with a message that then directs their coverage, most prominent Democrats are reluctant to do anything like that.
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2. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/
September 13, 2026 at 11:55 AM
2. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/
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It will be the subject of a book out this fall, edited by @glennf.com, examining it from every angle. Which reminds me I need to write the introduction about how I FEEL about it all
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...
That One Matt Bors Comic
A book about how “we should improve society somewhat” conquered the discourse
www.kickstarter.com
September 13, 2026 at 11:57 PM
It will be the subject of a book out this fall, edited by @glennf.com, examining it from every angle. Which reminds me I need to write the introduction about how I FEEL about it all
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...
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I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
September 12, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
September 12, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Meanwhile universities gutted the peace movement because they didn’t like the students who were protesting a genocide
Such monumentally, catastrophically nasty business
Such monumentally, catastrophically nasty business
25 years ago tomorrow I was emailing you about how we needed to organize an anti-war group. And here we are, our students needing to do the same 😭
September 11, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Meanwhile universities gutted the peace movement because they didn’t like the students who were protesting a genocide
Such monumentally, catastrophically nasty business
Such monumentally, catastrophically nasty business
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Finished reading "The Beginning Comes After the End" by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. A framing of the current moment as the transition from one civilization to the next, prioritizing inclusion, interconnection, & collective resistance to authoritarianism & hierarchical systems of control. Powerful.
September 11, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Finished reading "The Beginning Comes After the End" by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. A framing of the current moment as the transition from one civilization to the next, prioritizing inclusion, interconnection, & collective resistance to authoritarianism & hierarchical systems of control. Powerful.
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25 years ago today, the World Trade Center towers fell — and 2 accounts from inside them still shape how we think about emergency planning and disability.
Sharing this piece by disability self-advocate Tina Argetsinger on what that day still teaches us.
https://ow.ly/vXra50ZMN3a
Sharing this piece by disability self-advocate Tina Argetsinger on what that day still teaches us.
https://ow.ly/vXra50ZMN3a
No Way Down: How the Tragedy of 9/11 Redefined Disability Justice and Emergency Survival
When institutions failed to plan a way down, survival in the stairwells came down to individual foresight and mutual care.
ow.ly
September 12, 2026 at 2:00 AM
25 years ago today, the World Trade Center towers fell — and 2 accounts from inside them still shape how we think about emergency planning and disability.
Sharing this piece by disability self-advocate Tina Argetsinger on what that day still teaches us.
https://ow.ly/vXra50ZMN3a
Sharing this piece by disability self-advocate Tina Argetsinger on what that day still teaches us.
https://ow.ly/vXra50ZMN3a
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Timnit is being shy and not telling you guys to PREORDER HER BOOK ABOUT THIS
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...
September 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Timnit is being shy and not telling you guys to PREORDER HER BOOK ABOUT THIS
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...
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Back to school. ❤️
August 24, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Back to school. ❤️
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"Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census" comes out in one month! Please pre-order the book if you can (or ask your library for a copy). You can choose French or English, audio, e-book, or hardcover.
August 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
"Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census" comes out in one month! Please pre-order the book if you can (or ask your library for a copy). You can choose French or English, audio, e-book, or hardcover.
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I was reading an author recently talking about how we don't appreciate the way that email isn't siloed. That is, you don't have to be in gmail to talk to someone else in gmail. The norm is so powerful, it'd be unthinkable to change it. All email is interoperable. Social media could've been this way.
August 23, 2026 at 12:46 PM
I was reading an author recently talking about how we don't appreciate the way that email isn't siloed. That is, you don't have to be in gmail to talk to someone else in gmail. The norm is so powerful, it'd be unthinkable to change it. All email is interoperable. Social media could've been this way.
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Zines printed 🖨️ and getting ready to ship 📦
August 18, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Zines printed 🖨️ and getting ready to ship 📦
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For people who want to see a screen reader in action, it can be helpful to start with this demo from Hadi Rangin of the University of Washington's IT Accessibility Team. Among the things Rangin discusses are ARIA landmarks, headings, and text content.
youtu.be/7Rs3YpsnfoI
youtu.be/7Rs3YpsnfoI
Using a Screen Reader
Hadi Rangin is an expert user of screen reader software. In this video, he demonstrates the elements of a well designed web page and how they sound to someone who is blind. Issues discussed include…
youtu.be
August 17, 2026 at 11:33 PM
For people who want to see a screen reader in action, it can be helpful to start with this demo from Hadi Rangin of the University of Washington's IT Accessibility Team. Among the things Rangin discusses are ARIA landmarks, headings, and text content.
youtu.be/7Rs3YpsnfoI
youtu.be/7Rs3YpsnfoI
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Prior authorization—which allows insurers to overrule physicians and deny coverage—acts as a “corporate care veto” that drains tens of billions of dollars each year that could go toward patients. www.commondreams.org/news/corpora...
#health #insurance #medicine #Blues
#health #insurance #medicine #Blues
Advocates Call for End of Deadly Tactic Used by For-Profit Health Insurers to Deny Treatment | Common Dreams
The authors of a new report have called prior authorization---which allows insurers to overrule physicians to deny coverage---a "corporate care veto" and found it drains tens of billions of dollars ea...
www.commondreams.org
August 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Prior authorization—which allows insurers to overrule physicians and deny coverage—acts as a “corporate care veto” that drains tens of billions of dollars each year that could go toward patients. www.commondreams.org/news/corpora...
#health #insurance #medicine #Blues
#health #insurance #medicine #Blues
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Sasha Gusev has a great new blog post on faculty hiring during the DEI era. Remarkable how much backlash there has been to what was an tiny and temporary bump in hiring Black, Latino, and Native faculty of about 1 person per R1 campus
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-actua...
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-actua...
August 17, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Sasha Gusev has a great new blog post on faculty hiring during the DEI era. Remarkable how much backlash there has been to what was an tiny and temporary bump in hiring Black, Latino, and Native faculty of about 1 person per R1 campus
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-actua...
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-actua...
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Erin Brockovich: "If Data Centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"
August 17, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Erin Brockovich: "If Data Centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"
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I’m at the vigil for Jason Arday in London (Trafalgar). Very big turnout, easily thousands of us here
August 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
I’m at the vigil for Jason Arday in London (Trafalgar). Very big turnout, easily thousands of us here
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The EU is requiring “watermarking” to signal that content was made with artificial intelligence.
Big Tech is falling in line.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/arti...
Big Tech is falling in line.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/arti...
August 14, 2026 at 10:40 AM
The EU is requiring “watermarking” to signal that content was made with artificial intelligence.
Big Tech is falling in line.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/arti...
Big Tech is falling in line.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/arti...
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Two major earthquakes have struck Latin America in less than two months, killing hundreds so far in Colombia and thousands in Venezuela. They are the latest in a history of devastating earthquakes across the region.
#Infograph
#Infograph
August 12, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Two major earthquakes have struck Latin America in less than two months, killing hundreds so far in Colombia and thousands in Venezuela. They are the latest in a history of devastating earthquakes across the region.
#Infograph
#Infograph