Daegan Miller
@daeganmiller.bsky.social
Essayist and Critic. For all the beautiful radiant things. Book: *This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent* http://bit.ly/2HYSaSK | Essays: http://bit.ly/2Gn3EPM
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The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses
“While writing about landscape often begins in the aesthetic, it must always end in the ethical.” –Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks * There is a sentence 256 pages into Robert Macfarlane’s newest book,…
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I spent the spring reading through Robert Macfarlane's catalog to understand his remarkable new book, *Is a River Alive?* @literaryhub.bsky.social let me go long on the book that I think Macfarlane has spent his entire life writing toward. #nature #writing #booksky
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The high-tech world’s abrupt turn to a rabid anti-science stance is likely the result of the emergence of artificial intelligence and a consequent new romance with the burning of fossil fuels.
Why Is Bill Gates Attacking Climate Science?
Silicon Valley has a financial reason for wanting to slow down the global movement to reduce the use of fossil fuels.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The high-tech world’s abrupt turn to a rabid anti-science stance is likely the result of the emergence of artificial intelligence and a consequent new romance with the burning of fossil fuels.
LOVE the first snowy long run of the winter.
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
LOVE the first snowy long run of the winter.
I’m 2/3 of the way through the ecocriticism I’ve been most excited for this year. As with Ensor’s book, it’s hard to overstate the admiration I have for @nathankhensley.bsky.social’s *Action Without Hope*: a brilliant breath of darkly fresh air. On to @royscranton.bsky.social latest!
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I’m 2/3 of the way through the ecocriticism I’ve been most excited for this year. As with Ensor’s book, it’s hard to overstate the admiration I have for @nathankhensley.bsky.social’s *Action Without Hope*: a brilliant breath of darkly fresh air. On to @royscranton.bsky.social latest!
This promises to be an excellent piece—clicking over to Ben’s essay now.
as a topic for journalism, moral philosophy appears meek - but what if we add a collegiate social movement, billionaires, and a healthy dose of scandal? I reviewed David Edmonds' new book on the Effective Altruists and Peter Singer, for @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/drow...
Opinion | How a Thought Experiment Changed the World
Peter Singer and the roots of effective altruism.
www.chronicle.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This promises to be an excellent piece—clicking over to Ben’s essay now.
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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HAPPENING TODAY!
Tune in via Zoom at 1:00pm PT to hear from designers, editors, and authors about the work that fills the interior of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Places Editor Nancy Levinson will be speaking about PORCH: A Library.
Join us! Registration is free.
Tune in via Zoom at 1:00pm PT to hear from designers, editors, and authors about the work that fills the interior of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Places Editor Nancy Levinson will be speaking about PORCH: A Library.
Join us! Registration is free.
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
HAPPENING TODAY!
Tune in via Zoom at 1:00pm PT to hear from designers, editors, and authors about the work that fills the interior of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Places Editor Nancy Levinson will be speaking about PORCH: A Library.
Join us! Registration is free.
Tune in via Zoom at 1:00pm PT to hear from designers, editors, and authors about the work that fills the interior of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Places Editor Nancy Levinson will be speaking about PORCH: A Library.
Join us! Registration is free.
This, by Hannah Smart, on an attempt to diagram one single 900-word sentence of David Foster Wallace's, published in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, is one of the best online things I've read in a long while. Check it out: lareviewofbooks.org/article/noth...
Nothing Ever Happens: “Mister Squishy” and the Year of the Sentence Diagram | Los Angeles Review of Books
Hannah Smart writes about her attempt to diagram a 900-word sentence in David Foster Wallace’s “Mister Squishy,” and what the efforts taught her about human inertia and meaningless language.
lareviewofbooks.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This, by Hannah Smart, on an attempt to diagram one single 900-word sentence of David Foster Wallace's, published in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, is one of the best online things I've read in a long while. Check it out: lareviewofbooks.org/article/noth...
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...
Grist opens applications for new rural reporting grants on climate and environmental justice
Applicants can request up to $5,000 per project.
grist.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...
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You run outside all winter because your body needs it, and it’s good to get outside in all but the worst weather.
Even so, it frequently sucks. It’s cold and windy and slippery. They’re not good miles; they’re just miles.
Some days, though, there are compensations.
Even so, it frequently sucks. It’s cold and windy and slippery. They’re not good miles; they’re just miles.
Some days, though, there are compensations.
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
You run outside all winter because your body needs it, and it’s good to get outside in all but the worst weather.
Even so, it frequently sucks. It’s cold and windy and slippery. They’re not good miles; they’re just miles.
Some days, though, there are compensations.
Even so, it frequently sucks. It’s cold and windy and slippery. They’re not good miles; they’re just miles.
Some days, though, there are compensations.
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Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants.
Appeasers.
Appeasers.
Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding:
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University
statements.cornell.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants.
Appeasers.
Appeasers.
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"'True Nature' is beautifully written, generous, but also uncompromising, and Richardson handles the complexities with insight and grace."
The Path Home | The East Hampton Star
From Lance Richardson comes a hefty helping of biography on Peter Matthiessen, novelist, pioneering environmentalist, advocate for native peoples, bayman, Zen teacher, Sagaponacker.
www.easthamptonstar.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"'True Nature' is beautifully written, generous, but also uncompromising, and Richardson handles the complexities with insight and grace."
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Maybe ‘ol Ed was talking about voting for Mamdani!
Times like these I remember those words of Ed Abbey’s: “do this and we will be strong, and bold, and happy, we will outlive our enemies, we will live to piss on their graves.” Good fucking riddance, Dick Cheney.
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Maybe ‘ol Ed was talking about voting for Mamdani!
John Prine knew what was up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB2E...
John Prine - Some Humans Ain't Human
YouTube video by dumpster3403
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November 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
John Prine knew what was up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB2E...
Times like these I remember those words of Ed Abbey’s: “do this and we will be strong, and bold, and happy, we will outlive our enemies, we will live to piss on their graves.” Good fucking riddance, Dick Cheney.
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Times like these I remember those words of Ed Abbey’s: “do this and we will be strong, and bold, and happy, we will outlive our enemies, we will live to piss on their graves.” Good fucking riddance, Dick Cheney.
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Happening TODAY!!
@cetracey.bsky.social presents her On the Brinck | Places Prize lecture, "The Theology of Smuggling: A Genealogy of Humanitarianism in the Borderlands."
Attend in-person, @unm.edu School of Architecture and Planning, or tune in on Zoom!
@cetracey.bsky.social presents her On the Brinck | Places Prize lecture, "The Theology of Smuggling: A Genealogy of Humanitarianism in the Borderlands."
Attend in-person, @unm.edu School of Architecture and Planning, or tune in on Zoom!
Don't miss this lecture by @cetracey.bsky.social on theology, colonialism and humanitarianism in the Southwestern U.S. — part of our On the Brinck | Places Prize collab with the School of Architecture + Planning @unm.edu.
Albuquerque folks! Details below. Or join by Zoom: unm.zoom.us/j/97216782176
Albuquerque folks! Details below. Or join by Zoom: unm.zoom.us/j/97216782176
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Happening TODAY!!
@cetracey.bsky.social presents her On the Brinck | Places Prize lecture, "The Theology of Smuggling: A Genealogy of Humanitarianism in the Borderlands."
Attend in-person, @unm.edu School of Architecture and Planning, or tune in on Zoom!
@cetracey.bsky.social presents her On the Brinck | Places Prize lecture, "The Theology of Smuggling: A Genealogy of Humanitarianism in the Borderlands."
Attend in-person, @unm.edu School of Architecture and Planning, or tune in on Zoom!
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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Received my pre-ordered copy of
@joannapocock.bsky.social's Greyhound: A Memoir Wednesday and finished it this morning.
Very much a book for our moment. "A sentence kept surfacing in my mind, 'Something in the US has broken.'" 🧵
@joannapocock.bsky.social's Greyhound: A Memoir Wednesday and finished it this morning.
Very much a book for our moment. "A sentence kept surfacing in my mind, 'Something in the US has broken.'" 🧵
August 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Received my pre-ordered copy of
@joannapocock.bsky.social's Greyhound: A Memoir Wednesday and finished it this morning.
Very much a book for our moment. "A sentence kept surfacing in my mind, 'Something in the US has broken.'" 🧵
@joannapocock.bsky.social's Greyhound: A Memoir Wednesday and finished it this morning.
Very much a book for our moment. "A sentence kept surfacing in my mind, 'Something in the US has broken.'" 🧵
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We know it's true, but Joanna Pocock has the courage to journey into some of this country's most broken parts, where even the bus system is leaving passengers stranded, outside any social network. She notes, time and time again, how the erosion of support systems coincides with the proliferation...
August 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We know it's true, but Joanna Pocock has the courage to journey into some of this country's most broken parts, where even the bus system is leaving passengers stranded, outside any social network. She notes, time and time again, how the erosion of support systems coincides with the proliferation...
The best. Candy apples and razor blades! m.youtube.com/watch?v=L1v7...
Halloween
YouTube video by AFI - Topic
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October 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The best. Candy apples and razor blades! m.youtube.com/watch?v=L1v7...
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Might anyone know of modern / contemporary artists whose work centers on the sun, light, and the solstice? I'm thinking of Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, Emily Sheffer's Winter Solstice cyanotype project, etc...
Sun Tunnels - Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Holt’s most recognized artwork, Sun Tunnels (1973–1976), is a large-scale installation in Utah’s Great Basin Desert, a four-hour drive from the UMFA. It consists of four large concrete cylinders, arra...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Might anyone know of modern / contemporary artists whose work centers on the sun, light, and the solstice? I'm thinking of Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, Emily Sheffer's Winter Solstice cyanotype project, etc...
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Yes, Lord of the Rings is about how you must trust the “hard men.” Just as Narnia is about an evil lion. And the New Testament tells a tale of a wimp who wouldn’t fight back. Next week on “fascists read classics,” we’ll meet tech visionary George Orwell…
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Yes, Lord of the Rings is about how you must trust the “hard men.” Just as Narnia is about an evil lion. And the New Testament tells a tale of a wimp who wouldn’t fight back. Next week on “fascists read classics,” we’ll meet tech visionary George Orwell…
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It bears repeating: USDA has a $5 billion contingency reserve that it refuses to utilize to continue SNAP benefits. This was the USDA's *own plan* at the start of the shutdown—now quietly deleted from its website.
This is as blatant an example of "hunger is a policy choice" as you will ever see.
This is as blatant an example of "hunger is a policy choice" as you will ever see.
Trump administration says it won't tap emergency funds to pay food aid
The move means 42 million people will miss SNAP benefits in November unless Congress acts.
www.politico.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It bears repeating: USDA has a $5 billion contingency reserve that it refuses to utilize to continue SNAP benefits. This was the USDA's *own plan* at the start of the shutdown—now quietly deleted from its website.
This is as blatant an example of "hunger is a policy choice" as you will ever see.
This is as blatant an example of "hunger is a policy choice" as you will ever see.
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings