Marc Hudson
@marchudson.bsky.social
Failing/ed academic (socio-technical transitions), climate historian, writer, video maker. Most days I think we're toast. #envhist See also allouryesterdays.info
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Marc Hudson
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· Aug 5
The politics of Tom Lehrer: Noam Chomsky with a Piano?
Tom Lehrer died, aged 97, in late July. Lehrer had written 37 (well, a few more) songs in the 1950s and 1960s, and on the basis of this is still (rightly in my opinion) regarded as one of the…
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Tom Lehrer was a gateway drug for me, I now realise, for Noam Chomsky. Anyone else have the same experience?
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And they release him saying “you’re white, it wouldn’t be any fun anyways”
Pastor: I said to this ICE agent, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The agent got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, 'Are you afraid now?' To which I said, 'I am not afraid.'
January 10, 2026 at 3:10 PM
And they release him saying “you’re white, it wouldn’t be any fun anyways”
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Smart friend: "Politics is always about counting the countless, about looking at the thing which we don't recognize, we don't listen to, and that we actively, blindly, or kind of decidedly ignore, and making that count, and saying, 'this needs to matter, this needs to be considered and looked at.'"
January 10, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Smart friend: "Politics is always about counting the countless, about looking at the thing which we don't recognize, we don't listen to, and that we actively, blindly, or kind of decidedly ignore, and making that count, and saying, 'this needs to matter, this needs to be considered and looked at.'"
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Quick update on the political situation in the US: the government is led by a billionaire pedophile who believes he can murder American citizens with impunity.
Seems bad!
Seems bad!
January 10, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Quick update on the political situation in the US: the government is led by a billionaire pedophile who believes he can murder American citizens with impunity.
Seems bad!
Seems bad!
Hello @joshuasokol.bsky.social, just read your 2019 piece www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-h...
Very nicely done indeed.
Very nicely done indeed.
The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 10, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Hello @joshuasokol.bsky.social, just read your 2019 piece www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-h...
Very nicely done indeed.
Very nicely done indeed.
This will come as a shock to women, but it turns out they've been consistently and persistently written out of history.
www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-h...
www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-h...
The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 10, 2026 at 12:13 PM
This will come as a shock to women, but it turns out they've been consistently and persistently written out of history.
www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-h...
www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-h...
To paraphrase "water, water nowhere, nor any a drop to drink."
In recent decades, an estimated 186 of 240 lakes have dried up in Turkey.
The steady decline of freshwater resources is driven not only by climate change and drought, but also by weak safeguards and mismanagement.
@woutermassink.bsky.social reports from Manisa:
www.turkeyrecap.com/p/beyond-dro...
The steady decline of freshwater resources is driven not only by climate change and drought, but also by weak safeguards and mismanagement.
@woutermassink.bsky.social reports from Manisa:
www.turkeyrecap.com/p/beyond-dro...
January 10, 2026 at 11:21 AM
To paraphrase "water, water nowhere, nor any a drop to drink."
This is a crude, offensive reductive, tabloid slur.
That everyone should get their heads around…
Because basically, “Yes, yes it is.”
That everyone should get their heads around…
Because basically, “Yes, yes it is.”
the original purpose of academia was for rich white men to come up with reasons why they actually deserved the shit they stole and would definitely get into heaven
the Enlightenment is when they thought they proved it conclusively and would therefore always be protected by the divine/natural order
the Enlightenment is when they thought they proved it conclusively and would therefore always be protected by the divine/natural order
January 9, 2026 at 9:54 PM
This is a crude, offensive reductive, tabloid slur.
That everyone should get their heads around…
Because basically, “Yes, yes it is.”
That everyone should get their heads around…
Because basically, “Yes, yes it is.”
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Guess what whites? Donald Trump did not spontaneously arise from the sea to be our evil ruler. He is the culmination of the American project to genocide the original people of this land & import Africans as an underclass to keep brutalizing.
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Guess what whites? Donald Trump did not spontaneously arise from the sea to be our evil ruler. He is the culmination of the American project to genocide the original people of this land & import Africans as an underclass to keep brutalizing.
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white men have always been a minority
the only way to make them the majority was and is to deny the humanity of everybody else
the only way to make them the majority was and is to deny the humanity of everybody else
January 8, 2026 at 3:31 PM
white men have always been a minority
the only way to make them the majority was and is to deny the humanity of everybody else
the only way to make them the majority was and is to deny the humanity of everybody else
Jesus' favourite pop group?
That's easy....
Mark 14:36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
This shortly before he met his, um, Waterloo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJB...
That's easy....
Mark 14:36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
This shortly before he met his, um, Waterloo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJB...
ABBA - Waterloo (Eurovision Song Contest 1974 First Performance)
YouTube video by AbbaVEVO
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Jesus' favourite pop group?
That's easy....
Mark 14:36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
This shortly before he met his, um, Waterloo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJB...
That's easy....
Mark 14:36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
This shortly before he met his, um, Waterloo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJB...
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On this day (Jan 9) 1957 Tribune (Australian communist paper) covers a story the mainstream media is studiously ignoring.
And so begins the Warburton Ranges controversy...
Shocking, I know, but Rupert Murdoch was a lying toe-rag...
www.indigenousrights.net.au/civil_rights...
And so begins the Warburton Ranges controversy...
Shocking, I know, but Rupert Murdoch was a lying toe-rag...
www.indigenousrights.net.au/civil_rights...
January 9, 2026 at 11:19 AM
On this day (Jan 9) 1957 Tribune (Australian communist paper) covers a story the mainstream media is studiously ignoring.
And so begins the Warburton Ranges controversy...
Shocking, I know, but Rupert Murdoch was a lying toe-rag...
www.indigenousrights.net.au/civil_rights...
And so begins the Warburton Ranges controversy...
Shocking, I know, but Rupert Murdoch was a lying toe-rag...
www.indigenousrights.net.au/civil_rights...
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Absolutely this.
Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station
January 8, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Absolutely this.
Skynet saying the quiet part out loud.
Google’s Gemini to college student. “You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.”
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google’s Gemini to college student. “You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.”
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die."
In an online conversation about aging adults, Google's Gemini AI chatbot responded with a threatening message, telling the user to "please die."
www.cbsnews.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Skynet saying the quiet part out loud.
Google’s Gemini to college student. “You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.”
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google’s Gemini to college student. “You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.”
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
"The tragedy, as Butler would later demonstrate, was not that this logic was unavailable to policymakers, but that it was ultimately subordinated to optimism, momentum, and the belief that speed and confidence could outrun structure."
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secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/george-h-b...
George H. Butler and the Limits of Being Right
The 38th Parallel Paper and the Failure of Strategic Restraint in Korea
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January 8, 2026 at 12:48 PM
"The tragedy, as Butler would later demonstrate, was not that this logic was unavailable to policymakers, but that it was ultimately subordinated to optimism, momentum, and the belief that speed and confidence could outrun structure."
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/george-h-b...
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/george-h-b...
When the tide goes out, you can see who has been swimming naked.
Well, we can see the bureaucrats behind the Adelaide Writers Festival for what they are. Everyone with eyes and the courage to use those eyes can see.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Well, we can see the bureaucrats behind the Adelaide Writers Festival for what they are. Everyone with eyes and the courage to use those eyes can see.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Adelaide festival dumps prominent academic Randa Abdel-Fattah over ‘cultural sensitivity’ concerns after Bondi attack
Abdel-Fattah accuses the board of ‘blatant and shameless’ anti-Palestinian racism and censorship, as other authors pull out in solidarity
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:38 PM
When the tide goes out, you can see who has been swimming naked.
Well, we can see the bureaucrats behind the Adelaide Writers Festival for what they are. Everyone with eyes and the courage to use those eyes can see.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Well, we can see the bureaucrats behind the Adelaide Writers Festival for what they are. Everyone with eyes and the courage to use those eyes can see.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 11:54 AM
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...
Jesus Christ and the Streisand Effect...
Mark 7:36 "And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;"
Mark 7:36 "And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;"
January 8, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Jesus Christ and the Streisand Effect...
Mark 7:36 "And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;"
Mark 7:36 "And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;"
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"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret.
But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
January 7, 2026 at 9:09 PM
"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret.
But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
November 1983. The Sivuet military were literally loading their nukes onto planes, assuming a US sneak attack was imminent. An American intelligence officer Leonard Perroots, urged his bosses not to respond…
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Able Archer: The Invisible Cuban Missile Crisis
Podcast Episode · Coming in From the Cold: Untold Stories from the Cold War · 31/08/2022 · 46m
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January 7, 2026 at 4:06 PM
November 1983. The Sivuet military were literally loading their nukes onto planes, assuming a US sneak attack was imminent. An American intelligence officer Leonard Perroots, urged his bosses not to respond…
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
So hard finding inspiration
I knew you'd find me crying
Tell those girls with rifles for minds
That their jokes don't make me laugh
They only make me feel like dying
In an unguarded moment
So long, long between mirages
I knew you'd find me drinking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osz-...
I knew you'd find me crying
Tell those girls with rifles for minds
That their jokes don't make me laugh
They only make me feel like dying
In an unguarded moment
So long, long between mirages
I knew you'd find me drinking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osz-...
THE CHURCH - The Unguarded Moment
YouTube video by stevekilbey2
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:00 PM
So hard finding inspiration
I knew you'd find me crying
Tell those girls with rifles for minds
That their jokes don't make me laugh
They only make me feel like dying
In an unguarded moment
So long, long between mirages
I knew you'd find me drinking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osz-...
I knew you'd find me crying
Tell those girls with rifles for minds
That their jokes don't make me laugh
They only make me feel like dying
In an unguarded moment
So long, long between mirages
I knew you'd find me drinking
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osz-...