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· Feb 27
Hope in a Warming World: Rereading Adorno on Progress
This article argues for the value inherent in rereading Theodor Adorno’s 1962 essay “Progress,” placing his thoughts in the context of the climate crisis and arguing for the necessity of retaining a f...
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Last year I wrote an article on Adorno's critical defense of the concept of progress, climate change, and the necessity of hope.
It's out now in the new issue of New German Critique, and it's perhaps more timely than it was at the time of writing.
doi.org/10.1215/0094...
It's out now in the new issue of New German Critique, and it's perhaps more timely than it was at the time of writing.
doi.org/10.1215/0094...
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Great way to describe standing in a deep hole I guess
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Great way to describe standing in a deep hole I guess
Insanity. Not only an utter lack of moral clarity, but also absolute heights of cowardice.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Insanity. Not only an utter lack of moral clarity, but also absolute heights of cowardice.
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Carbon budgets and future projections of greenhouse gas concentrations and therefore temperature rises and rates assume continued absorption of carbon through these environments. Changing to sources in their own right seriously impacts these projections and plans for the mitigation and adaptation.
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Carbon budgets and future projections of greenhouse gas concentrations and therefore temperature rises and rates assume continued absorption of carbon through these environments. Changing to sources in their own right seriously impacts these projections and plans for the mitigation and adaptation.
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Africa’s forests have joined the Brazilian Amazon and Australian forests in becoming carbon sources rather than sinks. Around 2010 the previous storage of our carbon emissions flipped, mainly through deforestation and degradation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #deforestation #Africa
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #deforestation #Africa
Loss of tropical moist broadleaf forest has turned Africa’s forests from a carbon sink into a source - Scientific Reports
Africa’s forests and woody savannas have historically acted as a carbon sink, removing atmospheric carbon and storing it as biomass. However, our novel analysis reveals a critical transition from a ca...
www.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Africa’s forests have joined the Brazilian Amazon and Australian forests in becoming carbon sources rather than sinks. Around 2010 the previous storage of our carbon emissions flipped, mainly through deforestation and degradation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #deforestation #Africa
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #deforestation #Africa
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
Any argument about how it is the new generations that are suffering from brainrot falls apart five minutes into listening to the contemporary right wing
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Any argument about how it is the new generations that are suffering from brainrot falls apart five minutes into listening to the contemporary right wing
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this is unequivocally a war crime
Hegseth - and the people carrying out his orders - need to be tried in The Hague for this
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
this is unequivocally a war crime
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the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
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Leaked files show Catholics among Pope candidates
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Leaked files show Catholics among Pope candidates
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It’s easier to imagine the end cows than the end of cowpitalism
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It’s easier to imagine the end cows than the end of cowpitalism
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"What makes Sudan's crisis even more alarming is its invisibility. The world is not watching closely enough"
The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced
This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n
The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced
This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n
"The cost of silence in Sudan’s civil war is too high"
As Sudan’s brutal civil war rages on, more than 12 million people have been displaced — deepening an already devastating protection and humanitarian crisis. In this episode of The Humans in Human Righ...
www.ohchr.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"What makes Sudan's crisis even more alarming is its invisibility. The world is not watching closely enough"
The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced
This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n
The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced
This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n
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I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
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Sad to see. The Holy See’s virulent anti-AI stance will hold the Church back as other religions continue to innovate. Praying the Pope adopts a grindset more compatible with the speed of the modern world
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Sad to see. The Holy See’s virulent anti-AI stance will hold the Church back as other religions continue to innovate. Praying the Pope adopts a grindset more compatible with the speed of the modern world
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Franz Neumann, Behemoth, 1942
"Totalitarianism also served the practical needs of the moment."
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Franz Neumann, Behemoth, 1942
Shooting the Polish right-wing’s hysteria over the EU court’s ruling on same-sex marriages straight into my veins, in pure bliss
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Shooting the Polish right-wing’s hysteria over the EU court’s ruling on same-sex marriages straight into my veins, in pure bliss
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My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma.
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma.
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
see now this is what I mean when I say tar and feathers for the contemporary media environment
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
see now this is what I mean when I say tar and feathers for the contemporary media environment
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November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Really not liking the fact that the Polish political discourse now has its own RFK Jr copycat who gets invited onto hearings and media shows to talk about how modified soya causes autism
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Really not liking the fact that the Polish political discourse now has its own RFK Jr copycat who gets invited onto hearings and media shows to talk about how modified soya causes autism
No bro no, it’s not the top, bro, just build faster bro
Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand
Google’s AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.
arstechnica.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
No bro no, it’s not the top, bro, just build faster bro
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So, below is EU President von der Leyen saying that the EU is "not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions."
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
So, below is EU President von der Leyen saying that the EU is "not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions."
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing.
I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.
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“One implication of the increased growth rate of GHG forcing in the last 15 years is that the goal to keep global warming under 2°C is now implausible.” open.substack.com/pub/jimehans...
Warning! This “Colorful Chart” is Censored by IPCC
James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha and Dylan Morgan
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“One implication of the increased growth rate of GHG forcing in the last 15 years is that the goal to keep global warming under 2°C is now implausible.” open.substack.com/pub/jimehans...
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As I argue in The Language of Climate Politics: we are stuck not because climate politics are polarized, but because they’re UNIFIED (across the right and center-left) on the lie that we can keep using oil and gas but still deal with climate change anyway.
Here’s a good example of that discourse.
Here’s a good example of that discourse.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.
Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions
The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.
www.politico.eu
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
As I argue in The Language of Climate Politics: we are stuck not because climate politics are polarized, but because they’re UNIFIED (across the right and center-left) on the lie that we can keep using oil and gas but still deal with climate change anyway.
Here’s a good example of that discourse.
Here’s a good example of that discourse.
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It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."