Omair Ahmad
@omairahmad.bsky.social
For anybody who has covered climate issues, the "Let's have a serious conversation about AI" people are as tiresome as the idiot conversations about CCS and geo-engineering.
Unproven tech utopianism that simply ignores solid research on harms.
Unproven tech utopianism that simply ignores solid research on harms.
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
For anybody who has covered climate issues, the "Let's have a serious conversation about AI" people are as tiresome as the idiot conversations about CCS and geo-engineering.
Unproven tech utopianism that simply ignores solid research on harms.
Unproven tech utopianism that simply ignores solid research on harms.
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
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You would think that making a public statement about women not having the right kind of brain to do science would have been career-ending. For Larry Summers, it was just another day on top of the world. What’s the corollary to brining women have no intellectual utility?
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
You would think that making a public statement about women not having the right kind of brain to do science would have been career-ending. For Larry Summers, it was just another day on top of the world. What’s the corollary to brining women have no intellectual utility?
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My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
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Roughly a fifth of all deployed US naval ships are in the Caribbean, according to Stars & Stripes and USNI News
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Roughly a fifth of all deployed US naval ships are in the Caribbean, according to Stars & Stripes and USNI News
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I hope you appreciate the book. I think it's very good.
Yesterday I went to an ice watch training and then found this book @prisonculture.bsky.social mentioned during a guided tour she gave. Sometimes the universe syncs up.
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I hope you appreciate the book. I think it's very good.
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For those wondering how you get on and off a penny-farthing.
*A guy walking by said to his companion, “That looks incredibly dangerous.” 😅
*A guy walking by said to his companion, “That looks incredibly dangerous.” 😅
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
For those wondering how you get on and off a penny-farthing.
*A guy walking by said to his companion, “That looks incredibly dangerous.” 😅
*A guy walking by said to his companion, “That looks incredibly dangerous.” 😅
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Harvard and Cambridge are settings in Ronan’s book as well. I mention that in this piece about it. See the part about Noah Oppenheim’s gross columns in the Harvard Crimson and his clubby recruitment into NBC. My piece is about a different kind of club scene:
www.damemagazine.com/2019/11/13/t...
www.damemagazine.com/2019/11/13/t...
The Media Is Misogynistic By Design - Dame Magazine
On a late October day in 1997, the president of NBC News Andrew Lack was growing impatient with all the media men pushing back on his conference call hawking his latest brainchild, a weeklong program ...
www.damemagazine.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Harvard and Cambridge are settings in Ronan’s book as well. I mention that in this piece about it. See the part about Noah Oppenheim’s gross columns in the Harvard Crimson and his clubby recruitment into NBC. My piece is about a different kind of club scene:
www.damemagazine.com/2019/11/13/t...
www.damemagazine.com/2019/11/13/t...
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If you haven’t yet, read Ronan’s book about the actual club of NYC media men and their long history sexually abusing women, helping each other, talking horribly about women and forcing NDAs to keep it quiet. Too many predators and coverups still in the industry.
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If you haven’t yet, read Ronan’s book about the actual club of NYC media men and their long history sexually abusing women, helping each other, talking horribly about women and forcing NDAs to keep it quiet. Too many predators and coverups still in the industry.
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My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?
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I am telling you once more that there is something particularly sick about people who benefited from the courageous activism of previous generations of Blacks & Asians in Britain spitting on that legacy. Home Office can cancel me any number of times, I'll keep repeating
Illegal migration is ‘tearing our country apart’ and system is broken, says Shabana Mahmood – UK politics live
Illegal migration is ‘tearing our country apart’ and system is broken, says Shabana Mahmood – UK politics live
Home secretary says it is ‘moral mission’ for her to tackle asylum system
Ukrainians are in the UK on a “bespoke scheme”, Mahmood says, and it is on a temporary basis.
If Ukraine becomes a safe country again and the conflict ends, “the principle of the new reforms are that if your country becomes safe then you will return,” she says. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I am telling you once more that there is something particularly sick about people who benefited from the courageous activism of previous generations of Blacks & Asians in Britain spitting on that legacy. Home Office can cancel me any number of times, I'll keep repeating
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The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
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I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE
Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.
boltsmag.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
Living in a country where democracy has died is like inhabiting the carcass of some great beast, a whale, perhaps, or a dinosaur.
The large parts of the body still remain, even if inanimate, things go on, sluggishly, as vultures feed.
There is no new blood, the eye of justice is glazed over.
The large parts of the body still remain, even if inanimate, things go on, sluggishly, as vultures feed.
There is no new blood, the eye of justice is glazed over.
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Living in a country where democracy has died is like inhabiting the carcass of some great beast, a whale, perhaps, or a dinosaur.
The large parts of the body still remain, even if inanimate, things go on, sluggishly, as vultures feed.
There is no new blood, the eye of justice is glazed over.
The large parts of the body still remain, even if inanimate, things go on, sluggishly, as vultures feed.
There is no new blood, the eye of justice is glazed over.
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Looking at these pictures of Ruby Bridges, and thinking about how moving it is to see how tiny and vulnerable she is.
And, I'm thinking about our language and culture around trauma, and how on a personal level it often feels lacking for me.
And, I'm thinking about our language and culture around trauma, and how on a personal level it often feels lacking for me.
November 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Looking at these pictures of Ruby Bridges, and thinking about how moving it is to see how tiny and vulnerable she is.
And, I'm thinking about our language and culture around trauma, and how on a personal level it often feels lacking for me.
And, I'm thinking about our language and culture around trauma, and how on a personal level it often feels lacking for me.
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Mamdani’s victory isn’t just a milestone, it’s a geopolitical migraine for Modi. An Indian-origin leader abroad calling out Hindutva from a global platform shatters the BJP’s diaspora-dominance script. The fight over India’s pluralism has officially gone transnational. #MyPiece
November 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Mamdani’s victory isn’t just a milestone, it’s a geopolitical migraine for Modi. An Indian-origin leader abroad calling out Hindutva from a global platform shatters the BJP’s diaspora-dominance script. The fight over India’s pluralism has officially gone transnational. #MyPiece
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Once again thinking about Caravaggio (yes, the painter) and his inscribed sword that he would use in gang fights against rival art groups.
"Without hope, without fear," holy shit, dude.
"Without hope, without fear," holy shit, dude.
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Once again thinking about Caravaggio (yes, the painter) and his inscribed sword that he would use in gang fights against rival art groups.
"Without hope, without fear," holy shit, dude.
"Without hope, without fear," holy shit, dude.
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81% to the goal--thank you so much to everyone for your generosity in sharing & giving so far. Archita would be very grateful for your continued support so she can make her goal and find some semblance of security in this terrible time.
Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:
Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja
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November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
81% to the goal--thank you so much to everyone for your generosity in sharing & giving so far. Archita would be very grateful for your continued support so she can make her goal and find some semblance of security in this terrible time.
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Underrated part of 2019 @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social piece on media failures on Epstein: when NYT took its reporter who had been conspiring with Epstein for years off of a 2018 Epstein-Musk story, Epstein immediately said freak stuff to the new guy: www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
November 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Underrated part of 2019 @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social piece on media failures on Epstein: when NYT took its reporter who had been conspiring with Epstein for years off of a 2018 Epstein-Musk story, Epstein immediately said freak stuff to the new guy: www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
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It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
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If you haven't read through @mugrimm.bsky.social's thread of the wild AF stuff from the Bush years, read it. Trump didnt come out of nowhere.
A lobbyist named Jack Abramoff is caught in one of the largest bribery scandals ever.
Virtually nothing happens to any of the people named. His idea of dressing himself so no one catches onto him was to dress like this:
Virtually nothing happens to any of the people named. His idea of dressing himself so no one catches onto him was to dress like this:
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If you haven't read through @mugrimm.bsky.social's thread of the wild AF stuff from the Bush years, read it. Trump didnt come out of nowhere.
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This imo explains the MTG/Trump split more than anything
Replacing their amoral cynic enablers with true-believer psychos is lowkey one of the biggest mistakes these people ever made
👀
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This imo explains the MTG/Trump split more than anything
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Mira Nair in Harpers Bazaar apple.news/AfuiG6CIISXC...
![Even to say "it makes us look bad" implies that you've got the point of view of the outsider-the American, whoever it is-looking at you. I don't do that. I make films first and foremost about what gets
under my skin and doesn't let me go. And my skin, it was always about actually my own people.
[You prioritize your own gaze.]
Exactly. And my emotions. And my poli-tics. I never was here to become a part of an A list that was heading to Hollywood.
I'm here to do what I want to do as an
artist.
(Photo still from Mississippi Masala, Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudray hold each other on a Gulf Coast beach)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eskhb64i7xkg2bjh4prrzvl5/bafkreidqo2wco4df7yot6ovdcoujwd3k3jcm6drinczs7j4uxaeq3zalbu@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Mira Nair in Harpers Bazaar apple.news/AfuiG6CIISXC...
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65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges
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Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.”
“Why?” asked Frog.
“I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.
“Why?” asked Frog.
“I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.
November 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.”
“Why?” asked Frog.
“I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.
“Why?” asked Frog.
“I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.