@vivekgani.bsky.social
Still wayfinding. Trying to understand paths during these times of planetary change. Open to feedback. Also on @vivekgani@mastodon.social
Likes ≠ Endorsements
Likes ≠ Endorsements
A few folks I know are joining this call on Permaculture education for urban High Schoolers later today at 6pm CST:
workspace.oregonstate.edu/maximizing-i...
workspace.oregonstate.edu/maximizing-i...
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A few folks I know are joining this call on Permaculture education for urban High Schoolers later today at 6pm CST:
workspace.oregonstate.edu/maximizing-i...
workspace.oregonstate.edu/maximizing-i...
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City regions may turn to urban agriculture to solve a variety of problems. How can we ensure this action centers justice alongside production?🧪
Frontiers | The JUST GROW framework: conceptualizing how city regions can govern urban agriculture for equity and sustainability
City regions hold much potential for advancing sustainable and just food system transformations. A mosaic of models for producing more food in and around cit...
www.frontiersin.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
City regions may turn to urban agriculture to solve a variety of problems. How can we ensure this action centers justice alongside production?🧪
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We’ve got one of the most in-depth surveys on how Americans connect with neighbors online — what works, what doesn't, what they want instead.
These are essential insights for anyone thinking about local communities.
Join us 11/20 when @taliastroud.bsky.social & @eli.bsky.social share the data
These are essential insights for anyone thinking about local communities.
Join us 11/20 when @taliastroud.bsky.social & @eli.bsky.social share the data
The Local Connection Crisis: New Data on What Communities Need · Zoom · Luma
Now we know what we've long suspected: People really use and rely on their local Facebook groups, Nextdoor neighborhoods, and WhatsApp group chats, but they…
luma.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We’ve got one of the most in-depth surveys on how Americans connect with neighbors online — what works, what doesn't, what they want instead.
These are essential insights for anyone thinking about local communities.
Join us 11/20 when @taliastroud.bsky.social & @eli.bsky.social share the data
These are essential insights for anyone thinking about local communities.
Join us 11/20 when @taliastroud.bsky.social & @eli.bsky.social share the data
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My manuscript is entitled “Collectively-Conserved Land: An alternative economies approach to conservation land tenure” and is the first from my upcoming dissertation of the same name.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
My manuscript is entitled “Collectively-Conserved Land: An alternative economies approach to conservation land tenure” and is the first from my upcoming dissertation of the same name.
In 30 minutes the ecohana.org Book Club & Beyond group will be watching 'Greenwashed' by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa - youtu.be/XjWUKFUaoL4 - feel free to join us!
Seems like an interesting video revisiting topics of consumer choice advocacy, mineral energy, and the tricky topic of human population.
Seems like an interesting video revisiting topics of consumer choice advocacy, mineral energy, and the tricky topic of human population.
ecohana
A warm and welcoming place to connect with like hearts and minds, where we can share our learnings, our practices, and our projects, wherever in the world we might be, and wherever we find ourselves o...
ecohana.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
In 30 minutes the ecohana.org Book Club & Beyond group will be watching 'Greenwashed' by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa - youtu.be/XjWUKFUaoL4 - feel free to join us!
Seems like an interesting video revisiting topics of consumer choice advocacy, mineral energy, and the tricky topic of human population.
Seems like an interesting video revisiting topics of consumer choice advocacy, mineral energy, and the tricky topic of human population.
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Huh, never thought about polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in refrigerants...
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Huh, never thought about polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in refrigerants...
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Can't underscore the importance of this exhibit/panel and the lessons it offers in how to resist #authoritarianism. Proud we could help document. With @beektur.bsky.social, #Filipino American National Historical Society, & #AAPIs for Justice in San Antonio.
deceleration.news/eroding-u-s-...
deceleration.news/eroding-u-s-...
Eroding U.S. Civil Liberties Under Trump Compared to Time of Philippines Dictator Marcos Sr.'s Rise – Deceleration
What can folks in the U.S. learn from the survivors of martial law under a Philippines dictator that caused thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of illegal detentions? Plenty. For many in attenda...
deceleration.news
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Can't underscore the importance of this exhibit/panel and the lessons it offers in how to resist #authoritarianism. Proud we could help document. With @beektur.bsky.social, #Filipino American National Historical Society, & #AAPIs for Justice in San Antonio.
deceleration.news/eroding-u-s-...
deceleration.news/eroding-u-s-...
"Empathy is easy to promise during crisis, but difficult to sustain when the algorithms demand constant novelty and the news cycle moves on."
@adamlmahoney.bsky.social entered the media industry full-time in summer 2020, when newsrooms wanted frontline dispatches from the Floyd protests and nuanced Black perspectives, and wanted them now. It seemed like empathy itself had gone viral.
It didn't last.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-s...
It didn't last.
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-s...
The Summer the Internet Found Empathy — And How Quickly We Lost It
In May 2020, a nation already cracked by a pandemic convulsed further...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Empathy is easy to promise during crisis, but difficult to sustain when the algorithms demand constant novelty and the news cycle moves on."
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NEW: The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached the Texas Department of Public Safety, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.
In other words: Texas is deputizing some of its state officers to act as roving ICE agents.
www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-28...
In other words: Texas is deputizing some of its state officers to act as roving ICE agents.
www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-28...
Texas Turns Its Sprawling State Police Force Into Immigration Agents for Trump
The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.
www.texasobserver.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
NEW: The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached the Texas Department of Public Safety, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.
In other words: Texas is deputizing some of its state officers to act as roving ICE agents.
www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-28...
In other words: Texas is deputizing some of its state officers to act as roving ICE agents.
www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-28...
Interesting thread on dislike alternatives, though the dislike button could be a stepping stone to handle a cultural issue bluesky has when someone wants to go f-u-why-didnt-you-X responses to complex topics and humble mistakes.
Bsky announced it will start testing "dislikes" letting users privately signal types of content they want to see less of. Negative feedback is an important way to give people agency in shaping their feed and online experience, but the word "dislike" may inadvertently....
bsky.social/about/blog/1...
bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Progress Update: Building Healthier Social Media - Bluesky
Over the next few months, we’ll be iterating on the systems that make Bluesky a better place for healthy conversations. Some experiments will stick, others will evolve, and we’ll share what we learn a...
bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Interesting thread on dislike alternatives, though the dislike button could be a stepping stone to handle a cultural issue bluesky has when someone wants to go f-u-why-didnt-you-X responses to complex topics and humble mistakes.
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NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.
November 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.
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How about natural floating wetlands in the pools formed by woody structure in streams? #processbasedrestoration #floatingwetlands
November 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
How about natural floating wetlands in the pools formed by woody structure in streams? #processbasedrestoration #floatingwetlands
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This:
"In practical terms, Texas is poised to no longer simply cooperate with federal immigration authorities, but function as an annex of them: a state-run extension of federal enforcement built into its everyday policing, transforming state sovereignty into an instrument of national policy."
"In practical terms, Texas is poised to no longer simply cooperate with federal immigration authorities, but function as an annex of them: a state-run extension of federal enforcement built into its everyday policing, transforming state sovereignty into an instrument of national policy."
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This:
"In practical terms, Texas is poised to no longer simply cooperate with federal immigration authorities, but function as an annex of them: a state-run extension of federal enforcement built into its everyday policing, transforming state sovereignty into an instrument of national policy."
"In practical terms, Texas is poised to no longer simply cooperate with federal immigration authorities, but function as an annex of them: a state-run extension of federal enforcement built into its everyday policing, transforming state sovereignty into an instrument of national policy."
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We're witnessing in real time the convergence of Big Oil and Big Tech, two of the most dangerous forces in the world today.
In today's New York Times, our fracking powered universal paperclips apocalypse
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
We're witnessing in real time the convergence of Big Oil and Big Tech, two of the most dangerous forces in the world today.
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The Eaton/Altadena Fire, nine months later: a personal and historical thread:
Nine months after it was devastated by fire, I went back to my old neighborhood. I once lived immediately south of the mouth of Eaton Canyon, where the Altadena fire ignited on the evening of January 7th 2025.
Nine months after it was devastated by fire, I went back to my old neighborhood. I once lived immediately south of the mouth of Eaton Canyon, where the Altadena fire ignited on the evening of January 7th 2025.
October 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The Eaton/Altadena Fire, nine months later: a personal and historical thread:
Nine months after it was devastated by fire, I went back to my old neighborhood. I once lived immediately south of the mouth of Eaton Canyon, where the Altadena fire ignited on the evening of January 7th 2025.
Nine months after it was devastated by fire, I went back to my old neighborhood. I once lived immediately south of the mouth of Eaton Canyon, where the Altadena fire ignited on the evening of January 7th 2025.
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From the Central Texas Food Bank: "We are currently experiencing a 35% increase in reliance on services. Should SNAP go away, that would be a $44.5 million shortfall per month. We need community support now more than ever." Donate here:
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
From the Central Texas Food Bank: "We are currently experiencing a 35% increase in reliance on services. Should SNAP go away, that would be a $44.5 million shortfall per month. We need community support now more than ever." Donate here:
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In my latest for @columjournreview.bsky.social, I dug into Brendan Carr's efforts to deregulate the local television business. If he gets his way, one company called Nexstar — of Jimmy Kimmel boycott fame — will be able to reach over 80% of American households:
www.cjr.org/analysis/bre...
www.cjr.org/analysis/bre...
The FCC's deregulation blitz is a disaster.
The FCC chairman is clearing the way for Trump and corporate broadcasters to control the airwaves.
www.cjr.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
In my latest for @columjournreview.bsky.social, I dug into Brendan Carr's efforts to deregulate the local television business. If he gets his way, one company called Nexstar — of Jimmy Kimmel boycott fame — will be able to reach over 80% of American households:
www.cjr.org/analysis/bre...
www.cjr.org/analysis/bre...
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Imagine sophisticated social media feed algorithms - but built with users' and communities' wellbeing in mind. There's now an ambitious team trying to make that reality.
greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin...
greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin...
Introducing GreenEarth
We're building advanced open source algorithms for social media
greenearthsocial.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Imagine sophisticated social media feed algorithms - but built with users' and communities' wellbeing in mind. There's now an ambitious team trying to make that reality.
greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin...
greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin...
Today is the LAST day to signup for a vote-by-mail application in Texas if you have a situation that warrants needing it - you have to print out the form, fill it out, optionally email a copy, and put it in the mail (post office by 5pm).
Local libraries typically only have registration forms.
Local libraries typically only have registration forms.
Stop treating local elections like the junior varsity game. Your local vote doesn’t just count. It’s where the real power is, hiding in plain sight.
Your Local Ballot Actually Matters More Than the Presidential One
From school funding to property taxes, Texans’ most direct political power is the one they almost never use.
thebarbedwire.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Today is the LAST day to signup for a vote-by-mail application in Texas if you have a situation that warrants needing it - you have to print out the form, fill it out, optionally email a copy, and put it in the mail (post office by 5pm).
Local libraries typically only have registration forms.
Local libraries typically only have registration forms.
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We were told that our video of the emissions at Elon Musk's xAI facility in Memphis has been taken down at Twitter/X.
At least we can share it freely here. Please do.
More communities will be poisoned by data centers replicating this model.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWg...
At least we can share it freely here. Please do.
More communities will be poisoned by data centers replicating this model.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWg...
xAI Colossus Data Center Memphis Tennessee 05/13/2025
YouTube video by Oilfield Witness
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We were told that our video of the emissions at Elon Musk's xAI facility in Memphis has been taken down at Twitter/X.
At least we can share it freely here. Please do.
More communities will be poisoned by data centers replicating this model.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWg...
At least we can share it freely here. Please do.
More communities will be poisoned by data centers replicating this model.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWg...
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Egads, we are headed for an era of everyone polluting non-stop with on-site fossil fuel generators running 24/7 because Elon did it first :( www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Data centers turn to commercial aircraft jet engines bolted onto trailers as AI power crunch bites — cast-off turbines generate up to 48 MW of electricity apiece
With AI buildouts outpacing the grid, data centers are rolling in jet-powered turbines to keep their clusters online.
www.tomshardware.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Egads, we are headed for an era of everyone polluting non-stop with on-site fossil fuel generators running 24/7 because Elon did it first :( www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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I've been trying and trying to get people to understand that the US political crisis is the result of a decades long effort to destroy literacy for most people in America, by destroying education. The right wing played a long game, and that's what got us in this mess […]
Original post on social.circl.lu
social.circl.lu
October 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I've been trying and trying to get people to understand that the US political crisis is the result of a decades long effort to destroy literacy for most people in America, by destroying education. The right wing played a long game, and that's what got us in this mess […]
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The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 is out:
How can societies trigger positive shifts for people and planet? The technologies chapter (which I contributed to) looks at how innovation can drive these transformations. #GTP2025 #ClimateAction
global-tipping-points.org
How can societies trigger positive shifts for people and planet? The technologies chapter (which I contributed to) looks at how innovation can drive these transformations. #GTP2025 #ClimateAction
global-tipping-points.org
Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact
Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability.
global-tipping-points.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 is out:
How can societies trigger positive shifts for people and planet? The technologies chapter (which I contributed to) looks at how innovation can drive these transformations. #GTP2025 #ClimateAction
global-tipping-points.org
How can societies trigger positive shifts for people and planet? The technologies chapter (which I contributed to) looks at how innovation can drive these transformations. #GTP2025 #ClimateAction
global-tipping-points.org