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Jesse Damiani
@jessedamiani.bsky.social
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🎙️Urgent Futures youtube.com/@UrgentFutures. Follow for big ideas in overshoot/climate, tech, philosophy, postgrowth ➡️ YT, Spotify, Apple Pods @urgentfutures.bsky.social 🧑‍🏫 Adjunct Prof, NYU ✍️ realitystudies.co + NBC News, The Verge, WIRED
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · Nov 12
Status quo economics is breaking down.

I made a Starter Pack of folks who are progressing ideas, philosophies, & strategies for systems change, including ecological economics, degrowth, post-growth, post-/anti-capitalism, ecosocialism, Modern Monetary Theory, Doughnut Economics
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d
Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 7d
Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.

Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · 7d
Do we think the Sam Altman memes will do anything other than normalize him and his ideas? Genuinely asking
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 8d
STARRED review in Library Journal for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @older.bsky.social and me! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 8d
If we go with the analogy of brakes having been 'slammed', then global emissions would be decreasing 📉

Instead, they have increased since the Paris Agreement was signed 📈

We've "slightly taken our foot off the gas."

We don't do ourselves any favours by pretending otherwise.
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George Smeeton @gsmeeton.bsky.social · 8d
Growth in global carbon emissions has slowed to just 0.32 per cent a year in the decade since the Paris Agreement was signed in late 2015, shows @eciu.net analysis:

www.businessgreen.com/news/4519655...
'Brakes slammed': Global emissions growth has slowed drastically in decade since Paris Agreement
Global emissions have grown just 1.17 per cent since COP21 versus an 18.4 per cent increase in the decade to 2015, ECIU analysis shows
www.businessgreen.com
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · 9d
Unconscionable
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9d
This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 9d
Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia
Tweet by David Sacks: "Wikipedia is hopelessly biased. An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections. Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem."
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 10d
It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · 10d
Regarding all the “happenings”:
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Nancy Baker Cahill @drawing.bsky.social · 11d
If you’re at all concerned about digital privacy, don’t miss this free webinar on 10/2! @jessedamiani.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/damiani/...
Free Webinar: Digital Self-Defense 101
On Thursday, Oct. 2, get up-to-speed on digital hygiene practices + the basics of VPNs, password managers, privacy browsers, 2FA/MFA, encrypted messaging & storage.
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · 11d
Classic strategy for disproving allegations that you're authoritarian: hunt down and imprison every person calling you authoritarian.
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · 11d
See: Streisand Effect
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d
What Trump has wrought: a reversal of attitudes on immigration. Now we're an immigrant nation again, we need more immigrants to maintain our economy, and Trump's persecution of immigrants is just wrong.
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · 17d
This is parody but captures the actual logic capitalism breeds
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · 17d
This
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · 19d
It’s small but it’s something
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 19d
The world is on fire and the future in question but, small ray of sunshine:

Solar-powered cars are coming next year. Yeah, you read that right.

Imagine getting 10-40 miles a day of range from just parking your car someplace sunny. It's coming.

www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Solar-Powered Cars and Trucks Are Almost Here
New, power-sipping EVs due next year are efficient enough to gain 10 to 40 miles of daily charge from the sun alone.
www.wsj.com
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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 22d
This physical depletion of the crust is why climate scientists Roger Revelle and Hans Suess called the fossil fueled-industrialization of the world, “a large-scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past nor be reproduced in the future.”
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Reuters @reuters.com · 22d
Decline in global oil and gas field output accelerating, IEA says reut.rs/4meC74R
Decline in global oil and gas field output accelerating, IEA says
The decline in output from mature global oil and gas fields is accelerating amid greater reliance on shale and deep offshore resources, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday, meaning companies need to invest more just to keep output flat.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 22d
If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
Welcome to the World of Obstruction
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26d
the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · 28d
Yes, all awful, just less connected to the Trump admin.
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · 28d
Whatever you think about Charlie Kirk, this is a scary moment, not one for jokes. Trump has been itching for martial law. Powder keg moment.
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · 28d
Babe wake up new WWIII just dropped
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · 29d
*avid, thanks autocorrect 🤦
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · 29d
No better way to understand futures than to be an avoid historian, even of recent histories. Can’t recommend ‘In the Land of the Unreal’ enough!
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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 29d
yup! shameless book and article plug if you want to go deep on the previous hype cycle and get some different angles for critiquing AI
Book, "In the Land of the Unreal": www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-...
Article, "Putting Big Tech in its Place": anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Jesse Damiani @jessedamiani.bsky.social · Sep 8
if i see one more of these i swear
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Nancy Baker Cahill @drawing.bsky.social · Sep 7
Superb explanation of the imperial boomerang effect by @jessedamiani.bsky.social

www.realitystudies.co/p/the-depart...
The (Department of) War on American Cities, Ukraine, Gaza, and the Imperial Boomerang
Historical lessons for American citizens on how colonial violence returns home.
www.realitystudies.co
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