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Brad Weed
@bradweed.bsky.social
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I write about the interaction of people and place and advocate for improvements at interplace.io.
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 1d
Systems reproduce through relationships that shape identities. New piece on how capitalism locks in—and how alternatives from land trusts to buffalo restoration interrupt the spirals. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/spirals-of...
Spirals of Enclosure
How Capitalism Locked In
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 2d
How does theft become structure? How does violence become normal? New essay traces feedback loops from enclosure to contemporary debt extraction. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/spirals-of...
Spirals of Enclosure
How Capitalism Locked In
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 2d
Path dependencies aren't neutral—they're maintained by those who benefit. New essay on how geographic hierarchies persist through active enforcement, not inertia. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/spirals-of...
Spirals of Enclosure
How Capitalism Locked In
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 3d
Capitalism spreads by destroying alternatives. What got displaced? English commons, indigenous economies, African land systems. New essay on geographies of dispossession. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/spirals-of...
Spirals of Enclosure
How Capitalism Locked In
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 3d
How did English commons destruction become global extraction? New piece on capitalism's geographic origins—violence as emergent property, not externality. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/spirals-of...
Spirals of Enclosure
How Capitalism Locked In
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 4d
New essay: capitalism emerged through centuries of accumulated violence creating self-reinforcing patterns. Traces enclosure → plantations → global lock-in using complexity geography. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/spirals-of...
Spirals of Enclosure
How Capitalism Locked In
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d
62% of Americans say they don't closely follow professional or college sports.
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Chart showing about six-in-ten Americans (62%) say they follow professional or college sports not too or not at all closely. Another 21% say they follow sports somewhat closely, while just 16% follow them extremely or very closely, according to the August survey of 11,945 U.S. adults.
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 17d
In 1570, Henry Billingsley made history by publishing the first English translation of Euclid’s Elements. He embedded pop-up three-dimensional models into the pages. Centuries ago one man used paper engineering to bring math to life. h/t Ali Kaya beyondeuclid.substack.com
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 23d
Did you see Jacobin covered him a bit? jacobin.com/2025/09/kirk...
Political Violence Is Abhorrent. Charlie Kirk Didn’t Think So.
The murder of Charlie Kirk was a moral travesty. We can recognize that without ignoring that he repeatedly fanned the flames of political violence himself.
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 27d
Not the assault you’re looking for, but meaningful nonetheless. bsky.app/profile/brad...
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 27d
As late as 2020, it was a two-horse race with the US still in play. Now, China cranks out more than twice the wind turbines of the US and Europe combined. Via @adamtooze.bsky.social
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 27d
As late as 2020, it was a two-horse race with the US still in play. Now, China cranks out more than twice the wind turbines of the US and Europe combined. Via @adamtooze.bsky.social
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 29d
#Population trends decouple from #emissions trends. It’s about policy and possibility. Via @adamtooze.bsky.social
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 29d
While Trump thought he could bring back ship building to America, his repulsion repels potential customers.

“Japanese companies plowed a record $17 billion Down Under last year, and 2025 figures nearly match that.” Via @adamtooze.bsky.social
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 29d
This helps explain why: Africans make up the largest group of victims.

"Africa had the worst outcomes compared to other regions (figure 1.4), with half of the fatalities occurring during attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea."
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 29d
"...the real story here might be the EU, where investment jumped 63% from the second half of 2024 to ~$76 billion, double the paltry $37 billion in the US. In fact, the EU and the US swapped places as the world’s second-biggest destination for green capital after China." via @adamtooze.bsky.social
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · 29d
Wyoming, Connecticut, California, and Texas are the US states with the highest inequality. Via @adamtooze.bsky.social via @itif.org 👉 itif.org/publications...
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · Sep 10
Most African migration is within the continent, with less than 1% moving outside. Improved migration systems, bilateral labor agreements, and new skill development could lead to widespread prosperity. openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · Aug 28
Complexity will continue, with or without us. The wager is no longer whether to master the wave. It is whether we can learn to inhabit it without denying the unequal costs it exacts. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...
Masters of Mess Making and Meaning
The human wager in the age of turbulence
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · Aug 27
Nazaré’s canyon turns swells into monsters. Some ride them, others drown. So too with the Anthropocene: complexity persists, but justice demands asking whose lives are lifted, and whose are pulled under.@[email protected] @DialoguesHG @geopolitics @[email protected] interplace.io/p/masters-of...
Masters of Mess Making and Meaning
The human wager in the age of turbulence
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · Aug 27
Speculative realism reminds us the world is indifferent. Metamodernism asks us to oscillate—between cosmic order and human mess, between despair and tragic optimism. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...
Masters of Mess Making and Meaning
The human wager in the age of turbulence
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · Aug 26
The Holocene’s “safe operating space” is behind us. Talk of looming risks obscures reality: destabilization is already here, and its costs are unevenly borne. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...
Masters of Mess Making and Meaning
The human wager in the age of turbulence
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · Aug 26
Physics sketches elegant arcs across cosmic time. Geography drags us back to ground: uneven lives, fractured histories, and precarity. The wager is not abstract—it is lived. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...
Masters of Mess Making and Meaning
The human wager in the age of turbulence
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · Aug 25
We live in the fleeting middle: a cosmos born simple, growing complex, destined to end simple again. The question is not whether complexity continues, but whether we can dwell meaningfully within it. @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social #GeoSky interplace.io/p/masters-of...
Masters of Mess Making and Meaning
The human wager in the age of turbulence
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Brad Weed @bradweed.bsky.social · Aug 23
My Substack, interplace.io, has been indexed by the AI lords (Perplexity in this case). Circularity in the singularity. (I guess I was too lazy to look it up in my own work!) 🤭
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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · Aug 22
Hurricane Erin moves northward near the East Coast in this satellite imagery over the last couple of days.

As it pulls away to the east, Erin is undergoing extratropical transition.
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