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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

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Angela Frederick @angelafrederick.bsky.social · 9h

Ultimately, the implications of this disaster extend far beyond Texas and underscore our increased vulnerability to infrastructural failures as extreme weather events become more common.

Angela Frederick @angelafrederick.bsky.social · 9h

Frederick also emphasizes another meaning of the phrase “disabled power:” the individual and collective resilience and creativity Texans with disabilities exercised to survive the disaster.

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Angela Frederick @angelafrederick.bsky.social · 9h

Frederick highlights how disabled people and those with chronic health conditions are uniquely harmed when basic infrastructure such as power and water systems fail.

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Angela Frederick @angelafrederick.bsky.social · 9h

Disabled Power tells the stories of Texans with disabilities who endured the 2021 Texas power crisis, which forced millions of Texas residents to endure a dayslong winter storm without heat or water.

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Angela Frederick @angelafrederick.bsky.social · 9h

A call to place disability at the center of climate and disaster responses

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Angela Frederick @angelafrederick.bsky.social · 9h

I'm thrilled to share my book is now available for preorder!

Disabled Power: A Storm, A Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster
NYU Press
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#nyupress #sociology #climatesky

Disabled Power

A call to place disability at the center of climate and disaster responsesEvery disaster is a disability disaster, argues Angela Frederick. Disabled Power te...

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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 2d

A recent report by @alliancegreatlakes.bsky.social warns that three rapidly expanding sectors — agriculture, data centers and mining — are escalating stress on the region’s water supply.

How Agriculture and Data Centers Compete for the Great Lakes’ Most Precious Resource

Water demand is spiking from both agriculture and data centers. Without intervention, the Great Lakes could be strained past their limit.

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Jaishri Srinivasan 💧🔥 @jaishrijuice.bsky.social · 2d

I should have known that the Lakotas would lead the charge again! Heartened to see this! 🤘🏽

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 7d

Can we just admire Jane Fonda, please? She is a true patriot, inspiration, and role model.

"When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."

Text from the Variety article on the sub quoted piece:

In a letter inviting her peers to join the re-established group, Fonda writes: "I'm 87 years old. I've seen war, repression, protest, and backlash. I've been celebrated, and I've been branded an enemy of the state. But I can tell you this: this is the most frightening moment of my life. When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity: binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another."

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 The attack on LGBTQ studies at Texas public #HigherEd institutions has now reached UT Austin.

www.statesman.com/news/educati...

UT System audits gender in courses as GOP targets 'LGBTQ ideology'

The University of Texas System is reviewing all gender identity courses at its institutions to ensure courses taught "are aligned with the direction and priorities" of regents, law.

www.statesman.com

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 8d

ICYMI: The WSJ published a damning report today on the deterioration of FEMA, and I explained why it is ludicrous (and bad use of tax money) to expect state and local governments to maintain the infrastructure needed to effectively respond to major disasters. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

WSJ: "FEMA Is Paralyzed"

Thoughts and perspectives on their investigation into the crucial EM agency. And the weekly Monday tropical deep dive.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 9d

“If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.”
― Theodora Goss

#WritingSky #AcademicSky

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Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 9d

Batteries should come with every large electric appliance—an energy transition army shifting demand subtly throughout the day to match renewable generation on the grid.

Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 9d

Legacy air-conditioning giant Carrier has a simple solution to ACs stressing the grid: Pair them with a battery that charges up when power demand is low.

Here’s how it’s testing the concept.

Carrier wants to pair batteries with air conditioners to help the grid

Utilities are struggling to meet demand as AI data centers surge. Equipping air conditioners with batteries could be an easy and hugely scalable way to…

www.canarymedia.com

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 12d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

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

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

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Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · 13d

Terrific investigation by the @houstonchronicle.com finds that 20% of residential properties built since Harvey in greater Houston are in a mapped floodplain, 57,000 in-all. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...

65K Houston-area properties have been built in floodplains since Hurricane Harvey

Houston’s relentless push into new suburbs has overlooked flood risks, putting tens of thousands of families in harm’s way.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16d

If you're a southerner or a queer American, or someone who is otherwise interested in queer history and oral history as a social science, consider checking out and subscribing to my partner's project.

The Queer Joy Project of East Texas | Queer Joy ETX | Substack

Oral Histories of Queer East Texans! Click to read The Queer Joy Project of East Texas, by Queer Joy ETX, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

www.queerjoyetx.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 15d

A sleeper political issue of the next few years is the rising costs of electricity. AI & data centers are driving up demand & the Trump Administration is making it harder to add clean energy supply. I joined @chrislhayes.bsky.social on #WITHpod to talk about it: open.spotify.com/episode/32ps...

The Electricity Crisis with Costa Samaras

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 14d

Think of it as detectives gathering evidence at a crime scene.

Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 14d

Innovative new "plume" maps from @climatetrace.org show you how to identify and track emissions from the polluters you're exposed to. www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/c...

How to track the super polluters next door | CNN

A new tool allows people in the world’s largest metros to track their air pollution exposure and who’s doing the polluting.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 15d

Tradwife culture is not just aiming to restore “traditional” gender roles, according to researchers of extremism. It is also a force in formulating a new model of womanhood: one that incorporates strong religious identity, a specific feminine aesthetic, and far-right ideas.

Sourdough and submission in the name of God: How tradwife content fuses femininity with anti-feminist ideas

Tradwives influencers’ throw-back aesthetics mask a divisive ideology about women’s roles, two scholars of extremism explain.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 16d

There's a reason they chose this spot: it's in rural North Louisiana, one of the poorest places in the country, a place national media barely knows exists, a place with essentially no local journalism, where people and resources can be exploited (and lied to) with no consequence

WIRED @wired.com · 16d

Mark Zuckerberg’s company faces backlash after rowing back promises to create between 300 and 500 new jobs to man its subsidiary’s new data center. www.wired.com/story/louisi...

Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center

Mark Zuckerberg’s company faces backlash after rowing back promises to create between 300 and 500 new jobs to man its subsidiary’s new data center.

www.wired.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29d

We do not have to accept bad-faith pretexts from people hoping to destroy higher education. Every class goes beyond what is in the syllabus, because a 8-page outline can’t reasonably capture a semester’s worth of learning.

Defending this, or playing devil’s advocate, is weird.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Sep 8

Check out this Interview with @aripeskoe.bsky.social to hear about how ratepayers are covering the costs of the infrastructure needed to support the surge in AI and data centers.

How AI infrastructure is driving a sharp rise in electricity bills

Electricity bills are climbing nationwide, rising faster than inflation in many places. The explosive growth of AI and the massive data centers behind it are driving demand and straining the grid. To ...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Sep 6

NEW: The anti-Trump protest happening right now on the streets of Washington DC is HUGE!

It looks like tens of thousands have joined.

This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏

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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · Sep 5

As 40 states get ready to roll out Medicaid work requirements by 2027, the man in charge of Michigan’s former system says it would be “more honest” if Republicans just kicked people off insurance. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

He Built Michigan's Medicaid Work Requirement System. Now He's Warning Other States. - KFF Health News

Michigan’s former top health official spent a year and $30 million building a system to implement work requirements for Medicaid recipients. The difficulties he encountered have him worried about 40 s...

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