Stephen "Kip" Tobin
@kiptobin.bsky.social
Assoc Adj Prof(e) of Mexican and Latin American literature and film, specializing in sci-fi, cli-fi, and posthumanism. Lover of song, animality, pranayama, narrative, and theory, infographics and mind-maps. Also digs felines and affect.
Excited to be part of this double panel on the body in Latin American Science Fiction at LASA in San Fran.
May 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Excited to be part of this double panel on the body in Latin American Science Fiction at LASA in San Fran.
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In a climate first, this ad will appear on the Super Bowl
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#LaterisTooLate #ProtectWhatYouLove
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#LaterisTooLate #ProtectWhatYouLove
By The Time
Climate change is taking the places we love. Later is too late to act.
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February 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
In a climate first, this ad will appear on the Super Bowl
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#LaterisTooLate #ProtectWhatYouLove
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#LaterisTooLate #ProtectWhatYouLove
"Waymo robotaxis have logged 33 million miles... Compared with cars driven by humans, Waymo vehicles have been involved in 62 percent fewer police-reported crashes, 78 percent fewer crashes that resulted in injury and 81 percent fewer crashes severe enough to deploy the air bags."
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Opinion | Your robot chauffeur is on its way. Welcome it.
Self-driving cars appear to be safer than those with human drivers. Bring them on.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"Waymo robotaxis have logged 33 million miles... Compared with cars driven by humans, Waymo vehicles have been involved in 62 percent fewer police-reported crashes, 78 percent fewer crashes that resulted in injury and 81 percent fewer crashes severe enough to deploy the air bags."
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Author Steve Roth: "And here’s what’s even more egregious: that concentrated wealth is strangling our economy, our economic growth, our national prosperity. Wealth concentration drives a vicious, downward cycle, throttling the very engine of wealth creation itself."
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December 13, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Author Steve Roth: "And here’s what’s even more egregious: that concentrated wealth is strangling our economy, our economic growth, our national prosperity. Wealth concentration drives a vicious, downward cycle, throttling the very engine of wealth creation itself."
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We have a new paper out in @science.org today, led by Helge Goessling from #AWI:
The recent global temperature surge in 2023 was intensified by a record-low planetary #albedo
👉 doi.org/10.1126/scie... @thomasjung.bsky.social @ecmwf.bsky.social
This is what we found (🧵1/8)
The recent global temperature surge in 2023 was intensified by a record-low planetary #albedo
👉 doi.org/10.1126/scie... @thomasjung.bsky.social @ecmwf.bsky.social
This is what we found (🧵1/8)
Recent global temperature surge intensified by record-low planetary albedo
In 2023, the global mean temperature soared to almost 1.5K above the pre-industrial level, surpassing the previous record by about 0.17K. Previous best-guess estimates of known drivers including anthr...
doi.org
December 5, 2024 at 7:18 PM
We have a new paper out in @science.org today, led by Helge Goessling from #AWI:
The recent global temperature surge in 2023 was intensified by a record-low planetary #albedo
👉 doi.org/10.1126/scie... @thomasjung.bsky.social @ecmwf.bsky.social
This is what we found (🧵1/8)
The recent global temperature surge in 2023 was intensified by a record-low planetary #albedo
👉 doi.org/10.1126/scie... @thomasjung.bsky.social @ecmwf.bsky.social
This is what we found (🧵1/8)
@annakornbluh.bsky.social
A non-academic friend sent me the following post on x.
My reply was "too late capitalism," and then sent him a screenshot of your book.
A non-academic friend sent me the following post on x.
My reply was "too late capitalism," and then sent him a screenshot of your book.
December 6, 2024 at 3:57 PM
@annakornbluh.bsky.social
A non-academic friend sent me the following post on x.
My reply was "too late capitalism," and then sent him a screenshot of your book.
A non-academic friend sent me the following post on x.
My reply was "too late capitalism," and then sent him a screenshot of your book.
"As far as global environmental concerns go, the US has an irretrievably split personality. Far from organising the world, it will be the world that has to adjust to the disorganising impact of America’s polarised and depressingly unintelligent democracy."
www.ft.com/content/fe39...
www.ft.com/content/fe39...
Only China can now lead the world on climate
As far as global environmental concerns go, the US has an irretrievably split personality
www.ft.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:41 AM
"As far as global environmental concerns go, the US has an irretrievably split personality. Far from organising the world, it will be the world that has to adjust to the disorganising impact of America’s polarised and depressingly unintelligent democracy."
www.ft.com/content/fe39...
www.ft.com/content/fe39...
Si los mexicanos son aproximadamente la mitad de la población indocumentada, entonces deportar a todo mexicano sin papeles resultará en un desplome de entre 500 mil millones-un billón de dólares, lo que representa entre 2 y 3 por ciento del PIB de Estados Unidos.
www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024...
www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024...
Sin los migrantes mexicanos, caerá 3% el PIB de EU
Equivale a 800 mil millones de dólares.
www.jornada.com.mx
November 28, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Si los mexicanos son aproximadamente la mitad de la población indocumentada, entonces deportar a todo mexicano sin papeles resultará en un desplome de entre 500 mil millones-un billón de dólares, lo que representa entre 2 y 3 por ciento del PIB de Estados Unidos.
www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024...
www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024...
"Es un libro muy bueno pero no es novela. Sí tiene una historia pero no es historiografía, más bien literatura, pero no es ficción. Ofrece una narrativa pero no es tradicional. También hay polifonía, intertextualidad, (neo-)extractivismo y una crítica mordaz."
-Django sobre La compañía de Gerber
-Django sobre La compañía de Gerber
November 25, 2024 at 1:20 AM
"Es un libro muy bueno pero no es novela. Sí tiene una historia pero no es historiografía, más bien literatura, pero no es ficción. Ofrece una narrativa pero no es tradicional. También hay polifonía, intertextualidad, (neo-)extractivismo y una crítica mordaz."
-Django sobre La compañía de Gerber
-Django sobre La compañía de Gerber
Post a movie GIF from the year you were born.
a blurry image of a person sitting on a bed
ALT: a blurry image of a person sitting on a bed
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Post a movie GIF from the year you were born.
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just saw alex garland’s civil war movie (private press screening) and it is the most harrowing and stress-inducing thing i have seen in awhile
March 30, 2024 at 3:46 PM
just saw alex garland’s civil war movie (private press screening) and it is the most harrowing and stress-inducing thing i have seen in awhile
The answer is yes and yes.
“Given the extreme lethality of the[ir] conduct and the awareness of the catastrophic risk on the part of fossil fuel companies, should they be charged with homicide? Could they be convicted?”
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
“Given the extreme lethality of the[ir] conduct and the awareness of the catastrophic risk on the part of fossil fuel companies, should they be charged with homicide? Could they be convicted?”
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil For Climate Deaths
Prosecutors regularly bring homicide charges against individuals and corporations whose reckless or negligent acts or omissions cause unintentional deaths, as w
papers.ssrn.com
March 22, 2024 at 3:27 PM
The answer is yes and yes.
“Given the extreme lethality of the[ir] conduct and the awareness of the catastrophic risk on the part of fossil fuel companies, should they be charged with homicide? Could they be convicted?”
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
“Given the extreme lethality of the[ir] conduct and the awareness of the catastrophic risk on the part of fossil fuel companies, should they be charged with homicide? Could they be convicted?”
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Reposted by Stephen "Kip" Tobin
The lucky 13th volume of the Critical Mexican Studies is out is a major one: Carlos Monsiváis's Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist, edited and translated by Norma Klahn and Ilana Dann Luna, with a preface by Marta Lamas. 30% at Vanderbilt University Press with the code 15FRIENDS
March 6, 2024 at 12:57 AM
The lucky 13th volume of the Critical Mexican Studies is out is a major one: Carlos Monsiváis's Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist, edited and translated by Norma Klahn and Ilana Dann Luna, with a preface by Marta Lamas. 30% at Vanderbilt University Press with the code 15FRIENDS
Con ganas de conseguir este libro del historiador y economista Diego Castañeda.
Desiguales: Una historia de la desigualdad en México.
Desiguales: Una historia de la desigualdad en México.
March 4, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Con ganas de conseguir este libro del historiador y economista Diego Castañeda.
Desiguales: Una historia de la desigualdad en México.
Desiguales: Una historia de la desigualdad en México.
"Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer…the first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won’t be eradicated for another 229 years."
tiny.cc/1gt6wz
tiny.cc/1gt6wz
Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer in "decade of divis...
tiny.cc
January 17, 2024 at 5:36 PM
"Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer…the first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won’t be eradicated for another 229 years."
tiny.cc/1gt6wz
tiny.cc/1gt6wz
"Time and attention are not something we can replenish. They are what our life is. When we offer our time and attention, we are not merely spending and paying, we are giving out lives."
Marc Schulz and Robert Waldinger
news.uchicago.edu/scientific-s...
Marc Schulz and Robert Waldinger
news.uchicago.edu/scientific-s...
The scientific secret to a happy life, with Marc Schulz (Ep. 107)
‘The Good Life’ co-author discusses the world’s longest study on happiness
news.uchicago.edu
January 14, 2024 at 5:20 PM
"Time and attention are not something we can replenish. They are what our life is. When we offer our time and attention, we are not merely spending and paying, we are giving out lives."
Marc Schulz and Robert Waldinger
news.uchicago.edu/scientific-s...
Marc Schulz and Robert Waldinger
news.uchicago.edu/scientific-s...
Provocative, high-level discussion about the Metacrisis with Daniel Schmachtenberger from Oct 23.
A.I., the climate emergency, species extinction, global capitalism, and what, if anything, can be done individually and collectively about these colossal, interlinked problems.
t.ly/VHQd5
A.I., the climate emergency, species extinction, global capitalism, and what, if anything, can be done individually and collectively about these colossal, interlinked problems.
t.ly/VHQd5
January 4, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Provocative, high-level discussion about the Metacrisis with Daniel Schmachtenberger from Oct 23.
A.I., the climate emergency, species extinction, global capitalism, and what, if anything, can be done individually and collectively about these colossal, interlinked problems.
t.ly/VHQd5
A.I., the climate emergency, species extinction, global capitalism, and what, if anything, can be done individually and collectively about these colossal, interlinked problems.
t.ly/VHQd5
Reposted by Stephen "Kip" Tobin
im so tired of the argument that "oh ya the world isn't getting worse it's just social media making everything seem bad." bro the world is on fire
December 26, 2023 at 3:16 PM
im so tired of the argument that "oh ya the world isn't getting worse it's just social media making everything seem bad." bro the world is on fire
Congreso de Estéticas de Ciencia Ficción:
Mundos que colapsan y ecosistemas que resisten:
Estéticas cienciaficcionales ante la emergencia climática
De 29 nov. a 1 de dic.
Registrar su asistencia en
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Consulta el programa en
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La transmición en vivo del evento:
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Mundos que colapsan y ecosistemas que resisten:
Estéticas cienciaficcionales ante la emergencia climática
De 29 nov. a 1 de dic.
Registrar su asistencia en
t.ly/iUNps
Consulta el programa en
t.ly/K71iM
La transmición en vivo del evento:
t.ly/IUe1V
November 28, 2023 at 1:56 AM
Congreso de Estéticas de Ciencia Ficción:
Mundos que colapsan y ecosistemas que resisten:
Estéticas cienciaficcionales ante la emergencia climática
De 29 nov. a 1 de dic.
Registrar su asistencia en
t.ly/iUNps
Consulta el programa en
t.ly/K71iM
La transmición en vivo del evento:
t.ly/IUe1V
Mundos que colapsan y ecosistemas que resisten:
Estéticas cienciaficcionales ante la emergencia climática
De 29 nov. a 1 de dic.
Registrar su asistencia en
t.ly/iUNps
Consulta el programa en
t.ly/K71iM
La transmición en vivo del evento:
t.ly/IUe1V
Exposing the Big “Free Market” Myth with Author Naomi Oreskes, science historian and co-author Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (2010).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJV7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJV7...
Exposing the Big “Free Market” Myth with Author Naomi Oreskes
CASI discussion examines the consequences of businesses pushing “free market” ideology and the changes needed for markets to serve rather than impede democra...
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2023 at 3:38 PM
Exposing the Big “Free Market” Myth with Author Naomi Oreskes, science historian and co-author Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (2010).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJV7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJV7...
Upcoming talk: "Vulnerability,the Racial Capitalocene and the Climate Emergency Narrative" by Johan Höglund.
November 20, 2023
5 PM - 6 PM (local time in India?)
meet.google.com/gur-zank-mjr
November 20, 2023
5 PM - 6 PM (local time in India?)
meet.google.com/gur-zank-mjr
November 18, 2023 at 4:12 AM
Upcoming talk: "Vulnerability,the Racial Capitalocene and the Climate Emergency Narrative" by Johan Höglund.
November 20, 2023
5 PM - 6 PM (local time in India?)
meet.google.com/gur-zank-mjr
November 20, 2023
5 PM - 6 PM (local time in India?)
meet.google.com/gur-zank-mjr
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“To reduce plastic pollution efficiently and economically, policy should prioritize regulating and reducing upstream production rather than downstream pollution cleanup.”
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Moving from symptom management to upstream plastics prevention: The fallacy of plastic cleanup techn...
Plastic removal technologies can temporarily mitigate plastic accumulation at local
scales, but evidence-based criteria are needed in policies to ensure that they are
feasible and that ecological bene...
www.cell.com
November 13, 2023 at 1:53 AM
“To reduce plastic pollution efficiently and economically, policy should prioritize regulating and reducing upstream production rather than downstream pollution cleanup.”
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A fin de mes en CDMX participaré en un congreso mexicano sobre la ciencia ficción y la emergencía climática.
Edmundo Paz Soldán dará la conferencia magistral.
Todo será emitido en vivo/línea en YouTube y Facebook.
Edmundo Paz Soldán dará la conferencia magistral.
Todo será emitido en vivo/línea en YouTube y Facebook.
November 10, 2023 at 8:35 PM
A fin de mes en CDMX participaré en un congreso mexicano sobre la ciencia ficción y la emergencía climática.
Edmundo Paz Soldán dará la conferencia magistral.
Todo será emitido en vivo/línea en YouTube y Facebook.
Edmundo Paz Soldán dará la conferencia magistral.
Todo será emitido en vivo/línea en YouTube y Facebook.