This has always been the plan!
They want a captive market in schools/universities and for those institutions to eventually automate education with their chatbots.
We are TRAINING these LLMs in preparation for our redundancy, and experimenting with the health and futures of children while we do it

Sincere question: is there a single college or university anywhere that is approaching AI from a position of resistance?

Hard no to the educational evangelists now pushing us to ‘embrace’ corporate gen AI as inevitable. And shame on the universities buying this crap and funding ‘expert’ speaker series espousing it.

"There's artificial intelligence, and then there's actual intelligence."

Crystal Fraser and I are co-editing a series on environmental histories of Indian residential and day schools for @nichecanada.bsky.social. We chose to launch the series on Orange Shirt Day, in part, to remind historians of their responsibilities to Survivors and intergenerational Survivors.

Thanks for sharing—so glad to hear you’ve enjoyed teaching with this article. Congrats on the new EH article and the podcast!

Today is a good work day 😀

🤓 Worked with @anjakrieger.bsky.social, creator of The Plastisphere podcast on 2 episodes on the history of beach cleanups and ocean plastic pollution 🐠🥤
🎙️ Listen below to a SNEAK PEAK!
📅 Ep. 1 is released next week
📖 Read my Enviro Hist article for background research

Amazing! This isn't a new one but I love teaching Finis Dunaway's article on the visual politics of modern environmentalism www.jstor.org/stable/40068...; it would work as a contextual article for what happened before the story I tell, that is envtal consciousness in the 70s.

What wonderful news—congratulations, Julianne!

Grateful to so many in announcing today’s launch of *”Alaska” is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey* (@universitypress.cambridge). Free downloads now til 9/11/25+for print order here: doi.org/10.1017/9781.... (I recommend checking out the whole series, starting with Gahman, et al!)

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

“Deep relationship is a sensation of the particular, held in the eager tilt of a lead dog’s ears before a run or the feel of an old scar left by a salmon’s tooth.”

An essay on the mighty but sometimes overlooked chum salmon & dogs & rivers & love

#envhist #rivers
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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
lithub.com/the-world-is...

Thanks so much to @finisdunaway.bsky.social! An amazing formerly anonymous reviewer, blurber, scholar, mentor, and friend whose work shapes so much of mine!

Congratulations @parhee.bsky.social on the publication of NATURAL ATTACHMENTS! This book recasts the history of environmentalism as the history of privilege. Rhee focuses on Santa Barbara to tell a story with national implications. #envhist @uchicagopress.bsky.social 📗

Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

To celebrate #SuperbOwls, here's one of my favorites: the snowy owl.

📷 Wilbur Mills, coastal plain of Arctic National Wildlife Range (now Refuge), Alaska, 1969.

Fun fact: 1969 was a "peak-lemming year" on the Arctic coastal plain. And more lemmings meant more snowy owls! #envhist #alaskasky

ICYMI:

"Almost without exception, Survivors talked about the places they were born and raised. They described the Land that nurtured them and their relationships with Land." - Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social

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#envhist #cdnhist #indigenous

It was a great mail day. I really enjoyed @hollyguise.bsky.social's article on how Indigenous activists, artists, & their allies fought for environmental justice in Alaska—and now look forward to her book! Congratulations! #alaskasky @uwapress.bsky.social 🗃️❄️

Reupping this @andykroll.bsky.social @mtredden.bsky.social and @nicksurgey.bsky.social piece as we await the confirmation of Russell Vought

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This is a beautiful piece, Sarah, & it weaves together so many fascinating themes. I also really enjoyed learning how much his book inspired & influenced you.

It was such a joy to talk with @sarahmgilman.bsky.social about BEING CARIBOU and the grassroots history of the Arctic Refuge struggle. Her lovely essay honors the memory of Karsten Heuer, who recently passed away. #envhist #envhum @uncpress.bsky.social 🦌❄️🎞️

In 2007, I read Karsten Heuer's book Being Caribou, and it changed my life. Last year, Karsten died at just 56 years old. I hope you'll read this remembrance I wrote, about his work and what it meant to me and so many others. It's as relevant now as it ever was ❤️ www.hcn.org/articles/the...

Jan 29 1925: dog teams set out from Nenana, Alaska to bring diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, where the disease was spreading. 20 teams & mushers carried the serum over 674 miles in under 130 hours.

Jan 29 2025: calling my senator to vote against a guy, so kids can get the diphtheria vaccine next year