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@peterkuehn37.bsky.social
Soil scientist and physical geographer @uni tübingen
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ICE is building a 24/7 social media monitoring program that would scan Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and dozens of other platforms. Private contractors would turn public posts into enforcement leads fed directly into government databases.

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Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation
ICE’s dragnet is expanding across social media, putting everyone’s digital lives into the realm of border and immigration enforcement.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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“Far from ‘innovating’ education, as AI proponents claim, the algorithmic turn has made public education more vulnerable to corporate capture.” www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-161

(h/t @melhogan.bsky.social)
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”

Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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"Insofar as LLMs are used to avoid reading, thinking, & writing, their use is incompatible with liberal education...

I also find the idea of anything even vaguely punitive in the university classroom embarrassing at best, & against the very idea of education at worst."
This description/reflection from @mattdinan.bsky.social on how he essentially delegitimized using LLMs as a way to outsource student thinking/writing is a model on how to work through your values and build a course around them. mattdinan.substack.com/p/the-ai-ske...
Permission Structures
How AI-skeptic Professors Can Still Help Students Write Papers
mattdinan.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Academics are making the decision to shove unpublished original research that isn’t even theirs into the plagiarism machine. I can’t.
I find this very alarming. AI is being used in explicitly prohibited ways. No doubt this will soon be the norm. The consequences of this will be dramatic. Over the holidays, the publishers and the whole of academic community are doing nothing else but working on a solution to this, right? RIGHT?!
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Looks typographically easy to remove that first line, at any moment.
I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center:
December 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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New essay now online: "EATING THE FUTURE: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop."
AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike.
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop
AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.
www.e-flux.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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"Metabolic images are visual material made by consuming billions of other images to be broken down and absorbed by #AI models via a gargantuan infrastructure that absorbs energy and water, and excretes media, atmospheric carbon, and other pollutants." — @katecrawford.bsky.social
Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop
AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.
www.e-flux.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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This video is really important.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.

@katecrawford.bsky.social
Opinion | A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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In her Long Now Talk, @katecrawford.bsky.social argues that AI has created a metabolic rift: massive data collection that acts like poor nutrition at planetary scale. However, this is something we’ve seen before, dating back to the 1500s.

Watch the full talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsBn...
Kate Crawford | Mapping Empires
YouTube video by The Long Now Foundation
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Plausible worst-case climate futures and extreme events for the UK

Paper by Arnell et al.: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Article: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case climate crisis scenarios revealed by scientists
Scientists say government must prepare for unlikely but ‘plausible’ 4C rise in temperature and a 2-metre rise in sea levels
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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What the “MAGA Civil War” is Really About

The first part of this piece is free for everyone. If you want to read more than the preview or gain access to the audio version, please consider becoming a paid member of Democracy Americana, which is solely funded by readers:
What the “MAGA Civil War” is Really About
Different factions are fighting for supremacy on the Right. What will post-Trump MAGA look like – and how dangerous is Trumpism without Trump?
steady.page
December 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Christian Drosten erhält die Auszeichnung „Rede des Jahres 2025“ der #UniTübingen. Das Seminar für Allgemeine #Rhetorik zeichnet den Virologen für dessen Plädoyer für eine engagierte Wissenschaft aus: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/…
December 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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What would you prefer as your legacy: 3 meters sea-level rise or #AMOC shutdown?
For me the answer is neither. Let's get out of fossil fuels fast enough to minimise both of these very real risks.
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
Rapid melt from Antarctica could help preserve crucial ocean current
Greenland’s melt is expected to slow the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but research suggests a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet could in some cases prevent it from shutting down
www.newscientist.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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"The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern latitudes continue a rapid shift to becoming rainier and less ice-bound due to the climate crisis, scientists have reported." via @theguardian.com
Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Another insane move from the Trump regime.

One of NCAR's contributions to climate science is the development of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), which is used by researchers worldwide. Here's a simulation of air-sea CO₂ fluxes from CESM.
December 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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The Arctic transforming faster and with more far-reaching consequences than scientists expected just 20 years ago, when the first Arctic Report Card (arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...)

theconversation.com/from-record-...
December 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Rechtswidrige Ungleichbehandlung: Nach aktuellen Zahlen des Statistischen Bundesamtes verdienten Frauen auch im Jahr 2025 in Deutschland deutlich weniger als Männer. #GenderPayGap
www.lto.de/recht/hinter...
Gender Pay Gap: Frauen verdienen weiter deutlich weniger
Auch im Jahr 2025 verdienten Frauen im Durchschnitt deutlich weniger als Männer, der Gender Pay Gap lag bei 16 Prozent. Was Betroffene dagegen tun können.
www.lto.de
December 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Finally, here it is. Also this year, I have together with @ruthmottram.bsky.social commented on the fate of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Thanks for your patience, @carbonbrief.org. One of the highlights: 2024/25 was the 29th year in a row with net mass loss. See www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...
Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2025 - Carbon Brief
Guest authors explore how Greenland’s ice sheets fared over the 12 months, including the evidence that the territory’s summer melting season is lengthening.
www.carbonbrief.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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PIK science on Planetary Boundaries and tipping points featured in this year round up on climate from @grist.org.
grist.org/climate/clim...
grist.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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#Archivboden - Unter dem Motto „Da steckt Geschichte drin“ werden 2026 zahlreiche Veranstaltungen und Publikationen angeboten – viele davon speziell für Kinder, Schulen und Familien. Alle Angebote werden hier laufend veröffentlicht: www.hlnug.de/themen/boden...

#BdJ2025 #BodendesJahres
December 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM