lux
@eluxon.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Political Science. Researching environment, climate, sludge, policy, power, responsibility, discourse. Reposts are not endorsements nor legally indicative of anything at all. Maybe I post and repost statements I disagree with 🤷♀️.
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Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
December 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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Suppose you want to brew a pot of coffee.
This is a task that is composed of several subtasks, each subtask contributes to the goal of having a freshly brewed pot of coffee.
You need to engage in teleological thinking to do this: understand what the goal is, and what actions to take to achieve it.
This is a task that is composed of several subtasks, each subtask contributes to the goal of having a freshly brewed pot of coffee.
You need to engage in teleological thinking to do this: understand what the goal is, and what actions to take to achieve it.
July 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Suppose you want to brew a pot of coffee.
This is a task that is composed of several subtasks, each subtask contributes to the goal of having a freshly brewed pot of coffee.
You need to engage in teleological thinking to do this: understand what the goal is, and what actions to take to achieve it.
This is a task that is composed of several subtasks, each subtask contributes to the goal of having a freshly brewed pot of coffee.
You need to engage in teleological thinking to do this: understand what the goal is, and what actions to take to achieve it.
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I've noticed that people who use the inevitability argument always make comparisons to email and social media, never to NFTs or DDT.
I think the so-called "AI" stuff is going to be the tech version of asbestos: shoved in everywhere, expensive and time-consuming to remove.
I think the so-called "AI" stuff is going to be the tech version of asbestos: shoved in everywhere, expensive and time-consuming to remove.
December 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I've noticed that people who use the inevitability argument always make comparisons to email and social media, never to NFTs or DDT.
I think the so-called "AI" stuff is going to be the tech version of asbestos: shoved in everywhere, expensive and time-consuming to remove.
I think the so-called "AI" stuff is going to be the tech version of asbestos: shoved in everywhere, expensive and time-consuming to remove.
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The 2025 National Security Strategy document makes it official: the Trump administration believes that European liberal democracy is a threat to U.S. national interest.
The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde
Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The 2025 National Security Strategy document makes it official: the Trump administration believes that European liberal democracy is a threat to U.S. national interest.
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“Scientists have identified the precise point at which stopping an H5N1 pandemic becomes impossible. When the bird flu virus jumps to sustained human transmission, authorities will have roughly two days to prevent catastrophe, according to a simulation study”
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
H5N1’s tipping point: Scientists identify when containment fails
India’s patchy bird monitoring across wetlands-farm interfaces risks overlooking the virus until it’s too late.
www.nature.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
“Scientists have identified the precise point at which stopping an H5N1 pandemic becomes impossible. When the bird flu virus jumps to sustained human transmission, authorities will have roughly two days to prevent catastrophe, according to a simulation study”
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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Dope
“Scientists have identified the precise point at which stopping an H5N1 pandemic becomes impossible. When the bird flu virus jumps to sustained human transmission, authorities will have roughly two days to prevent catastrophe, according to a simulation study”
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
H5N1’s tipping point: Scientists identify when containment fails
India’s patchy bird monitoring across wetlands-farm interfaces risks overlooking the virus until it’s too late.
www.nature.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Dope
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The Intersection of Place and Need: How Lack of Enrollment Offices Deters Participation in the Safety Net www.nber.org/papers/w34529
"SNAP participation in a census tract decreases following the closure of an office by 7–9 percent over two years"
"SNAP participation in a census tract decreases following the closure of an office by 7–9 percent over two years"
The Intersection of Place and Need: How Lack of Enrollment Offices Deters Participation in the Safety Net
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Intersection of Place and Need: How Lack of Enrollment Offices Deters Participation in the Safety Net www.nber.org/papers/w34529
"SNAP participation in a census tract decreases following the closure of an office by 7–9 percent over two years"
"SNAP participation in a census tract decreases following the closure of an office by 7–9 percent over two years"
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I’ve been on about Dems having a coherent shadow government for a bit, so I should actually acknowledge when they gesture in that direction.
HAPPENING NOW: Senator blumenthal.senate.gov and Rep. robertgarcia.house.gov are holding a bicameral public forum to hear testimonies from five U.S. citizens about being assaulted, profiled, and unconstitutionally detained by DHS agents.
Watch live: www.facebook.com/SenBlumentha...
Watch live: www.facebook.com/SenBlumentha...
LIVE: Masked ICE & CBP agents seizing U.S. citizens isn’t the nation we know & cherish. Totalitarian tactics have no place in our democracy. I hope that elevating these stories today of abhorrent abus...
LIVE: Masked ICE & CBP agents seizing U.S. citizens isn’t the nation we know & cherish. Totalitarian tactics have no place in our democracy. I hope that elevating these stories today of abhorrent...
www.facebook.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I’ve been on about Dems having a coherent shadow government for a bit, so I should actually acknowledge when they gesture in that direction.
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5/ In other words, I see very little reason to think that the Court would *allow* Congress to solve significant national problems—at least, when those solutions took a form the majority of justices disliked. And conversely …
December 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
5/ In other words, I see very little reason to think that the Court would *allow* Congress to solve significant national problems—at least, when those solutions took a form the majority of justices disliked. And conversely …
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👇🎯 Once again, I will table my deeply unpopular view that the thing everyone needs to spend less time pondering is the end of 🇺🇸 power/hegemony & the thing everyone needs to spend more time pondering is the increasingly authoritarian nature & unilateral abuse of 🇺🇸 power/hegemony.
Echo of @adamposen.bsky.social pieces describing how the US has moved from providing global public goods insurance to attempting to extract resources, for public and private [Trump family and those who secure a connection] purposes.
"As far as Donald Trump is concerned, global security is a protection racket and everyone is going to have to pay more."
Stunning interview with Europe security expert, formerly at the State Dept and NATO, Dr Terra.
Clearest explanation of Trump's (very confused) new global manifesto.
Stunning interview with Europe security expert, formerly at the State Dept and NATO, Dr Terra.
Clearest explanation of Trump's (very confused) new global manifesto.
December 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
👇🎯 Once again, I will table my deeply unpopular view that the thing everyone needs to spend less time pondering is the end of 🇺🇸 power/hegemony & the thing everyone needs to spend more time pondering is the increasingly authoritarian nature & unilateral abuse of 🇺🇸 power/hegemony.
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students are not customers. the university is not a factory.
December 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
students are not customers. the university is not a factory.
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New Publication!
Opposition often fails to coordinate. Why?
@draege.bsky.social and @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social find two overlooked drivers (resource asymmetry and extraordinary times as stress-tests) in their deep comparative analysis of Venezuela and Turkey journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Opposition often fails to coordinate. Why?
@draege.bsky.social and @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social find two overlooked drivers (resource asymmetry and extraordinary times as stress-tests) in their deep comparative analysis of Venezuela and Turkey journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
New Publication!
Opposition often fails to coordinate. Why?
@draege.bsky.social and @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social find two overlooked drivers (resource asymmetry and extraordinary times as stress-tests) in their deep comparative analysis of Venezuela and Turkey journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Opposition often fails to coordinate. Why?
@draege.bsky.social and @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social find two overlooked drivers (resource asymmetry and extraordinary times as stress-tests) in their deep comparative analysis of Venezuela and Turkey journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Well, sure, it’s true that “Afghanistan, Haiti, and Somalia” are in terrible condition. It’s also true that the U.S. has invaded all three, and, when not invading them, paid warlords in guns & gold to terrorize their people.
Trump: "I've announced a permanent pause on third-world migration…I didn't say 'shit hole,' you did…We had a meeting and I said, 'Why is it we only take people from shit hole countries. Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few.…But we always take people from Somalia."
December 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Well, sure, it’s true that “Afghanistan, Haiti, and Somalia” are in terrible condition. It’s also true that the U.S. has invaded all three, and, when not invading them, paid warlords in guns & gold to terrorize their people.
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More to the point, this culture of students showing up to college at 18 believing they know what courses they need to take is ludicrous in its face, yet here we are.
You’re 3 months out of high school. In terms of insight and understanding of adult life you are effectively a toddler.
You’re 3 months out of high school. In terms of insight and understanding of adult life you are effectively a toddler.
A liberal arts education is designed to make you a better person, not train you to do a job.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
More to the point, this culture of students showing up to college at 18 believing they know what courses they need to take is ludicrous in its face, yet here we are.
You’re 3 months out of high school. In terms of insight and understanding of adult life you are effectively a toddler.
You’re 3 months out of high school. In terms of insight and understanding of adult life you are effectively a toddler.
@fastlerner.bsky.social is a national treasure. Best chemicals reporting out there! If you’re not reading it, you’re being poisoned by corporations without your knowledge.
NEW: Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
They finally got their wish.
They finally got their wish.
Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Threshold for Safe Formaldehyde Exposure
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
www.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
@fastlerner.bsky.social is a national treasure. Best chemicals reporting out there! If you’re not reading it, you’re being poisoned by corporations without your knowledge.
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Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
December 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
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In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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Having worked in prevention my entire career—cancer, then vaccines, and then COVID19, I can say that while many people understand that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, for others, if it doesn’t happen immediately they aren’t able to follow cause and effect.
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Having worked in prevention my entire career—cancer, then vaccines, and then COVID19, I can say that while many people understand that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, for others, if it doesn’t happen immediately they aren’t able to follow cause and effect.
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One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.
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“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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This creater puts "reading levels" into perspective in a really helpful way, so sharing it here.
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This creater puts "reading levels" into perspective in a really helpful way, so sharing it here.
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Africa has more than a point- they are absolutely right.
WHAT IF WE JUST STOPPED USING FOSSIL FUELS INSTEAD OF THIS SHIT
WHAT IF WE JUST STOPPED USING FOSSIL FUELS INSTEAD OF THIS SHIT
The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology | Editorial
The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology | Editorial
Editorial: Sun-dimming risks putting the planet’s thermostat under Donald Trump’s control. Better to adopt the precautionary principle with high-stakes science
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Africa has more than a point- they are absolutely right.
WHAT IF WE JUST STOPPED USING FOSSIL FUELS INSTEAD OF THIS SHIT
WHAT IF WE JUST STOPPED USING FOSSIL FUELS INSTEAD OF THIS SHIT
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"i suffered and am still suffering and rather than confront how that has shaped me, i want other people to suffer as i have"
December 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"i suffered and am still suffering and rather than confront how that has shaped me, i want other people to suffer as i have"