Nashin Mahtani
@nashinmahtani.bsky.social
thinking about democratic climate adaptation and knowledge infrastructures with @petabencana @mapakalamidad @ZoneMera http://cesaglobal.org
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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
May 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
Why was the World Bank seen as a “neutral” broker for the Indus Waters Treaty? It imposed a colonial framework onto a transboundary conflict rooted in partition and empire—then called it technocratic problem-solving.
May 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Why was the World Bank seen as a “neutral” broker for the Indus Waters Treaty? It imposed a colonial framework onto a transboundary conflict rooted in partition and empire—then called it technocratic problem-solving.
When AI tools are built *with* communities, they amplify local knowledge into a life-saving force. This #HKB2025, over 25,000 people joined Petabencana to coordinate preparedness across 22 provinces. The future of disaster response is peer-to-peer. 🌏🤝 info.petabencana.id/250426
April 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
When AI tools are built *with* communities, they amplify local knowledge into a life-saving force. This #HKB2025, over 25,000 people joined Petabencana to coordinate preparedness across 22 provinces. The future of disaster response is peer-to-peer. 🌏🤝 info.petabencana.id/250426
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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“The beauty of these river systems is that they are some of the last unregulated rivers in the world. What we’re witnessing is just rivers being rivers. There are no big dams on these systems…no massive irrigation industry. So this is just what big rivers do” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How historic is what we’re seeing in the Queensland floods? It’s hard to grasp the full magnitude
This weather event has not been seen on this scale since European colonisation. Why has it happened now?
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“The beauty of these river systems is that they are some of the last unregulated rivers in the world. What we’re witnessing is just rivers being rivers. There are no big dams on these systems…no massive irrigation industry. So this is just what big rivers do” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A timely & moving discussion on public service. The humility of civil servants, & their focus to do the work, often leaves their stories untold & allows a proliferation of lazy stereotypes. "The typecasting has always been lazy and stupid, but increasingly, it’s deadly"
youtu.be/79_n1FKZwHo?...
youtu.be/79_n1FKZwHo?...
Who Is Government? Storytime with Michael Lewis | The Weekly Show
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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April 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A timely & moving discussion on public service. The humility of civil servants, & their focus to do the work, often leaves their stories untold & allows a proliferation of lazy stereotypes. "The typecasting has always been lazy and stupid, but increasingly, it’s deadly"
youtu.be/79_n1FKZwHo?...
youtu.be/79_n1FKZwHo?...
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The greatest trick Big Tech every pulled was convincing the world that Big Oil was worse
Silicon Valley likes to present itself as clean and sustainable, but cloud giants have a very dirty relationship with oil and gas.
This week @js-tan.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how cloud and AI are used to fuel the climate crisis.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/270_...
This week @js-tan.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how cloud and AI are used to fuel the climate crisis.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/270_...
April 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The greatest trick Big Tech every pulled was convincing the world that Big Oil was worse
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ChatGPT ass presidency
Incredible. The Trump administration calculated "tariff rates" by taking the US trade deficit with the respective country and dividing it by the country's exports to the US. And then the tariff rate of the US is often just set by cutting that made-up "tariff rate" in half.
April 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
ChatGPT ass presidency
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“The extent of flood waters that have engulfed Queensland over the past fortnight is so widespread it has covered an area more than four times the size of the United Kingdom. The inundation is larger than France and Germany combined—and is even bigger than Texas” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bigger than Texas: the true size of Australia’s devastating floods
In outback Queensland, an area four times the size of the UK has been inundated with torrential rain, leaving many cut off or forced to abandon homes
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“The extent of flood waters that have engulfed Queensland over the past fortnight is so widespread it has covered an area more than four times the size of the United Kingdom. The inundation is larger than France and Germany combined—and is even bigger than Texas” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Energy Transfer has received requests to power 70 new data centers. Good piece by @andy-rowell.bsky.social + @ninalakhani.bsky.social on the gas pipeline companies poised to cash in on Trump's support for AI data centers.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks
Energy Transfer, a top backer of US president, has received requests to power even more energy-guzzling data centers
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Energy Transfer has received requests to power 70 new data centers. Good piece by @andy-rowell.bsky.social + @ninalakhani.bsky.social on the gas pipeline companies poised to cash in on Trump's support for AI data centers.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Great @nickfeik.bsky.social piece on how bad it is that both major parties are refusing to engage with the already-very-bad insurance crisis caused by the impacts of burning coal, oil and gas
"Premiums in disaster-prone regions have increased by up to 400%, posing a systemic financial risk"
"Premiums in disaster-prone regions have increased by up to 400%, posing a systemic financial risk"
Your house is becoming uninsurable due to climate risks. Albo and Dutton won't mention it
Premiums in disaster-prone regions have increased by up to 400%, posing a systemic financial risk. Don't expect it to be an election issue.
www.crikey.com.au
March 31, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Great @nickfeik.bsky.social piece on how bad it is that both major parties are refusing to engage with the already-very-bad insurance crisis caused by the impacts of burning coal, oil and gas
"Premiums in disaster-prone regions have increased by up to 400%, posing a systemic financial risk"
"Premiums in disaster-prone regions have increased by up to 400%, posing a systemic financial risk"
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Posting fed his need for attention but also trapped him in a loop that accelerated his derangement and exposed his ignorance and naivete. It's crazy to have a diagram of your descent into madness
March 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Posting fed his need for attention but also trapped him in a loop that accelerated his derangement and exposed his ignorance and naivete. It's crazy to have a diagram of your descent into madness
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A fascinating & hopeful river-moment: Lewes District Council agrees to recognise a Charter of Rights for the River Ouse.
“The Ouse has long been taken for granted…this is the beginning of a journey to give the river a voice & ensure its wellbeing for future generations.”
elflaw.org/news/histori...
“The Ouse has long been taken for granted…this is the beginning of a journey to give the river a voice & ensure its wellbeing for future generations.”
elflaw.org/news/histori...
Historic decision sees River Ouse set to become first in England with legal rights - Environmental Law Foundation
Lewes, – In an exciting and groundbreaking decision, Lewes District Council have agreed to recognise the Rights of the River Ouse, paving the way for the Ouse to become the first in England to have its legal rights recognised by a local authority. The decision represents a major step in the UK’s environmental movement, […]
elflaw.org
February 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A fascinating & hopeful river-moment: Lewes District Council agrees to recognise a Charter of Rights for the River Ouse.
“The Ouse has long been taken for granted…this is the beginning of a journey to give the river a voice & ensure its wellbeing for future generations.”
elflaw.org/news/histori...
“The Ouse has long been taken for granted…this is the beginning of a journey to give the river a voice & ensure its wellbeing for future generations.”
elflaw.org/news/histori...
(1/3) Today in Bali is Tumpek Landep. On this day, Balinese make offerings and pray for their tools made of metals such as bronze, steel, gold, iron, to be productive and safe. Midwives and doctors bless their surgical tools, seamstresses their scissors, even motorcycles and cars get blessed.
February 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
(1/3) Today in Bali is Tumpek Landep. On this day, Balinese make offerings and pray for their tools made of metals such as bronze, steel, gold, iron, to be productive and safe. Midwives and doctors bless their surgical tools, seamstresses their scissors, even motorcycles and cars get blessed.
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"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar display of life around you...To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget."
February 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar display of life around you...To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget."
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"A lot of the questions were variations of ‘are you like us?’" (On the TikTok exodus to RedNote) www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
Lavender Au | ‘Are you like us?’
A standard English textbook in China asks students to compose a letter from someone called Li Hua to their British...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
"A lot of the questions were variations of ‘are you like us?’" (On the TikTok exodus to RedNote) www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
Some important news garnering less attention due to the shock-and-exhaustion-as-political-strategy vortex, and worth amplifying:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Temperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point
Scientists say unusually mild temperatures linked to low-pressure system over Iceland directing strong flow of warm air towards north pole
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Some important news garnering less attention due to the shock-and-exhaustion-as-political-strategy vortex, and worth amplifying:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The White House backing away from its freeze on federal grants is a flat out win. As @choosedemocracy.bsky.social wrote in its email blast today: "It doesn't mean we will win every fight. But it does mean that anyone who is telling you it's hopeless is wrong."
January 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The White House backing away from its freeze on federal grants is a flat out win. As @choosedemocracy.bsky.social wrote in its email blast today: "It doesn't mean we will win every fight. But it does mean that anyone who is telling you it's hopeless is wrong."