chris eaton
@greennewdad.bsky.social
digital communications and creative advocacy professional. i like social media, social movements, diversity, ecology, equality, signals, noise & revolt.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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There has never been this little sea ice in the Arctic during December.
We are in a climate emergency.
(graphic by @zacklabe.com)
We are in a climate emergency.
(graphic by @zacklabe.com)
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There has never been this little sea ice in the Arctic during December.
We are in a climate emergency.
(graphic by @zacklabe.com)
We are in a climate emergency.
(graphic by @zacklabe.com)
What’s with the super crappy AI slop ads on the @nytimes.com? You would think they have standards.
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
What’s with the super crappy AI slop ads on the @nytimes.com? You would think they have standards.
@jamesbridle.bsky.social read this and thought of your wonderful book!
Research from CETI (Cetacean Transition Institute) uses LLMs to suggest sperm whale communication is more complex than human language, vowels and all!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Research from CETI (Cetacean Transition Institute) uses LLMs to suggest sperm whale communication is more complex than human language, vowels and all!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How to Talk to Whales
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
@jamesbridle.bsky.social read this and thought of your wonderful book!
Research from CETI (Cetacean Transition Institute) uses LLMs to suggest sperm whale communication is more complex than human language, vowels and all!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Research from CETI (Cetacean Transition Institute) uses LLMs to suggest sperm whale communication is more complex than human language, vowels and all!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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‼️ ICYMI: Amazon Ring announced a partnership with the notorious surveillance tech company Flock, which was recently exposed for secretly sharing camera data w/ ICE & law enforcement investigating people who travel for abortion care.
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
‼️ ICYMI: Amazon Ring announced a partnership with the notorious surveillance tech company Flock, which was recently exposed for secretly sharing camera data w/ ICE & law enforcement investigating people who travel for abortion care.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit
It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before
I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.
It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before
I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.
From the energy community on Reddit: Big oil’s shadow network pumped millions into Charlie Kirk’s culture war machine
Explore this post and more from the energy community
www.reddit.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit
It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before
I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.
It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before
I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.
This might be the purest expression of America fascism I’ve seen. Want to pave over police violence and gentrification? Just say you’re doing a real estate!
August 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This might be the purest expression of America fascism I’ve seen. Want to pave over police violence and gentrification? Just say you’re doing a real estate!
Wednesday, August 6, marks 80 years since the bombing of #Hiroshima.
I've been updating this visualization for ten years now, and it still hits me hard. We have so far to go before we achieve a world without nuclear weapons.
I've been updating this visualization for ten years now, and it still hits me hard. We have so far to go before we achieve a world without nuclear weapons.
How Many Bombs?
80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this is something you have to see.
www.howmanybombs.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Wednesday, August 6, marks 80 years since the bombing of #Hiroshima.
I've been updating this visualization for ten years now, and it still hits me hard. We have so far to go before we achieve a world without nuclear weapons.
I've been updating this visualization for ten years now, and it still hits me hard. We have so far to go before we achieve a world without nuclear weapons.
#Chantal has destroyed more than 100 home in Carrboro, NC by my estimate.
Mutual aid is picking up and here are some city workers starting to haul out refuse.
Mutual aid is picking up and here are some city workers starting to haul out refuse.
July 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
#Chantal has destroyed more than 100 home in Carrboro, NC by my estimate.
Mutual aid is picking up and here are some city workers starting to haul out refuse.
Mutual aid is picking up and here are some city workers starting to haul out refuse.
Our children deserve a future.
Fund the weather service.
Fund resilience.
Fund climate action!
Fund the weather service.
Fund resilience.
Fund climate action!
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
www.nytimes.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Our children deserve a future.
Fund the weather service.
Fund resilience.
Fund climate action!
Fund the weather service.
Fund resilience.
Fund climate action!
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Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships
July 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships
This is a sweeping article but aligns with my core motivator for digital: move from consultant based broadcast advertising to local social media conversations.
Elephant in the room: “breakdown of elite-mass relations in American politics” - @policytensor.bsky.social
Solution? DIRECT 👏 DEMOCRACY 👏
policytensor.substack.com/p/the-elepha...
Solution? DIRECT 👏 DEMOCRACY 👏
policytensor.substack.com/p/the-elepha...
July 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is a sweeping article but aligns with my core motivator for digital: move from consultant based broadcast advertising to local social media conversations.
We need a global climate jubilee.
"A record 61 developing economies spent at least 10% of their government revenues on interest payments, leaving less for critical areas like health, education and climate action."
Global public debt rose to $102 trillion in 2024.
Developing countries accounted for nearly 1/3 of that amount – $31 trillion – and paid a record $921 billion in interests.
Public debt in developing countries has grown twice as fast as in richer nations since 2010.
Full report ▶️ ow.ly/OjG850WgRGZ
Developing countries accounted for nearly 1/3 of that amount – $31 trillion – and paid a record $921 billion in interests.
Public debt in developing countries has grown twice as fast as in richer nations since 2010.
Full report ▶️ ow.ly/OjG850WgRGZ
June 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We need a global climate jubilee.
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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
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Who wants to bet that contracts with 👮♂️ are coming soon. What, you thought integrating face surveillance was for when you forgot a coworker’s name?
Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
The limited-edition gold pair costs $499 and shoots 3K video.
buff.ly
June 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Who wants to bet that contracts with 👮♂️ are coming soon. What, you thought integrating face surveillance was for when you forgot a coworker’s name?
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tech 🤝 oil
Oil CEOs met Big Tech and policymakers in Washington on Monday to discuss concerns that energy shortages could cause the US to lose the AI race with China @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/45mT2NZ
June 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
tech 🤝 oil
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
As someone who works in communications and can’t keep there homonyms straight, this moment in the National Spelling Bee deeply resonated with me.
10/10 must watch TV.
10/10 must watch TV.
May 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As someone who works in communications and can’t keep there homonyms straight, this moment in the National Spelling Bee deeply resonated with me.
10/10 must watch TV.
10/10 must watch TV.
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URGENT: Please take a minute to comment on why Covid vaccines should continue to remain available for everyone under 65 years old. One day left to comment and you can do it anonymously www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
May 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
URGENT: Please take a minute to comment on why Covid vaccines should continue to remain available for everyone under 65 years old. One day left to comment and you can do it anonymously www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
May 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
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Its not even 8 and I already helped my kid stop a world ending bomb by performing a ritual with a stuffed goat while dressed as a hot dog. Rise and grind, people. RISE AND GRIND
May 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Its not even 8 and I already helped my kid stop a world ending bomb by performing a ritual with a stuffed goat while dressed as a hot dog. Rise and grind, people. RISE AND GRIND
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I talked about all of the costs in class, ecological and intellectual, and my students were really great and I wish I could teach them again
I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it
ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?
One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.
www.teenvogue.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I talked about all of the costs in class, ecological and intellectual, and my students were really great and I wish I could teach them again