@lorecrystal.bsky.social
Student of equitable lifestyle and environment design for all. Permaculture and Solarpunk fan. Book-Dragon
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Shop small if you shop at all! Find a neighborhood business or head to pike’s market or a farmer’s market! Small businesses build communities!
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Shop small if you shop at all! Find a neighborhood business or head to pike’s market or a farmer’s market! Small businesses build communities!
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A Decade-Long Study Shows Cycling Helps Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives.
momentummag.com/a-decade-lon...
momentummag.com/a-decade-lon...
A Decade-Long Study Shows Cycling Helps Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives
If you’re looking for yet another reason to hop on your bicycle today—especially if you’re in your 60s or beyond—new research out of Japan has delivered a big one.
momentummag.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A Decade-Long Study Shows Cycling Helps Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives.
momentummag.com/a-decade-lon...
momentummag.com/a-decade-lon...
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…Oh. Oh no. Oh no nonono. …And yet: of course.
"Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.
"Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
…Oh. Oh no. Oh no nonono. …And yet: of course.
"Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.
"Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.
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Cannot recommend high enough this @volts.wtf episode (and a subscription)!
The no-brainer way forward of laying out the clean electrification, through pv, wind and batteries, VPPs and distributed capacity markets.
Buy what will make it happen, and curb the fossil capital blocking all right now?
The no-brainer way forward of laying out the clean electrification, through pv, wind and batteries, VPPs and distributed capacity markets.
Buy what will make it happen, and curb the fossil capital blocking all right now?
What's going on in electricity world?
Some thoughts on where we are in the electricity sector -- data centers, rising rates, etc. -- and a way forward that can benefit everyone.
www.volts.wtf
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Cannot recommend high enough this @volts.wtf episode (and a subscription)!
The no-brainer way forward of laying out the clean electrification, through pv, wind and batteries, VPPs and distributed capacity markets.
Buy what will make it happen, and curb the fossil capital blocking all right now?
The no-brainer way forward of laying out the clean electrification, through pv, wind and batteries, VPPs and distributed capacity markets.
Buy what will make it happen, and curb the fossil capital blocking all right now?
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Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
November 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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At a time when the food-stamp system is under fire & more strict work requirements are starting to kick in, a review of companies with the most SNAP recipients in the state shows many are employed by high-profile companies in retail, health care & the gig economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
‘The government is subsidizing corporate profits’: Who employs the most SNAP recipients in Massachusetts? - The Boston Globe
In Massachusetts, 74 percent of working-age SNAP recipients have jobs.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
At a time when the food-stamp system is under fire & more strict work requirements are starting to kick in, a review of companies with the most SNAP recipients in the state shows many are employed by high-profile companies in retail, health care & the gig economy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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Tonight’s #UrbanismBookClub book tackles better city-making from the communications, branding, & public relations spheres. “Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Undermines Our Health & Environment” by my friend @grantennis.bsky.social is a HUGELY important book today. Every urbanist should read it.
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Tonight’s #UrbanismBookClub book tackles better city-making from the communications, branding, & public relations spheres. “Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Undermines Our Health & Environment” by my friend @grantennis.bsky.social is a HUGELY important book today. Every urbanist should read it.
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Effective Altruism inevitably operates as a kind of fascist cult: it is a mode of thinking that liberates its followers from any direct moral responsibility for their actions.
New article inspired by the recent hoopla surrounding Karen Hao's book (re: water use). I argue that "no one should look to the EA community as exemplifying good habits of epistemic and moral conduct." Here's why: www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/how-effect...
How Effective Altruists Use Threats and Harassment to Silence Their Critics
How does the Effective Altruist community respond to critics? With threats and harassment. Even people who still call themselves "Effective Altruists" are afraid to openly criticize the community.
www.realtimetechpocalypse.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Effective Altruism inevitably operates as a kind of fascist cult: it is a mode of thinking that liberates its followers from any direct moral responsibility for their actions.
Please remember that every time you outsource your thinking to a machine, you destroy jobs for people and make yourself stupider.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/t...
What Is Agentic A.I., and Would You Trust It to Book a Flight?
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Please remember that every time you outsource your thinking to a machine, you destroy jobs for people and make yourself stupider.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/t...
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This and that (from @thelincoln.bsky.social) on how booksellers cope with the volume of new titles and select books for their book shops: countercraft.substack.com/p/interview-...
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This and that (from @thelincoln.bsky.social) on how booksellers cope with the volume of new titles and select books for their book shops: countercraft.substack.com/p/interview-...
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In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual designed to equip rank and file soldiers with the tools to spot and combat incipient fascism were it to emerge in post-war America. Those lessons are just as American as Miller's illiberal bigotry, and worth remembering today. bsky.app/profile/seth...
The first fascistic tactic to look out for is a hate campaign against a particular religious, racial, or ethnic group. Like, for example, let's say a candidate emerges who calls all people of one nationality "rapists" and "criminals," while promising to ban immigrants from only one religious group.
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual designed to equip rank and file soldiers with the tools to spot and combat incipient fascism were it to emerge in post-war America. Those lessons are just as American as Miller's illiberal bigotry, and worth remembering today. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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I Want to Dance with You
Resistance, Community, and Solidarity in the Work of Contemporary Mexican Women Artists www.ucpress.edu/books/i-want...
Resistance, Community, and Solidarity in the Work of Contemporary Mexican Women Artists www.ucpress.edu/books/i-want...
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I Want to Dance with You
Resistance, Community, and Solidarity in the Work of Contemporary Mexican Women Artists www.ucpress.edu/books/i-want...
Resistance, Community, and Solidarity in the Work of Contemporary Mexican Women Artists www.ucpress.edu/books/i-want...
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📰The 5th #VALERECO Newsletter is out!
#LivingLabs insights, #agroecology exchanges, and updates from key events, all highlighting the role of legumes in #sustainablefarming.
🔗Read: tinyurl.com/3cp7jwd9
🔔Subscribe: bit.ly/47iIwbA
#HorizonEU #EcosystemServices
#LivingLabs insights, #agroecology exchanges, and updates from key events, all highlighting the role of legumes in #sustainablefarming.
🔗Read: tinyurl.com/3cp7jwd9
🔔Subscribe: bit.ly/47iIwbA
#HorizonEU #EcosystemServices
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
📰The 5th #VALERECO Newsletter is out!
#LivingLabs insights, #agroecology exchanges, and updates from key events, all highlighting the role of legumes in #sustainablefarming.
🔗Read: tinyurl.com/3cp7jwd9
🔔Subscribe: bit.ly/47iIwbA
#HorizonEU #EcosystemServices
#LivingLabs insights, #agroecology exchanges, and updates from key events, all highlighting the role of legumes in #sustainablefarming.
🔗Read: tinyurl.com/3cp7jwd9
🔔Subscribe: bit.ly/47iIwbA
#HorizonEU #EcosystemServices
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
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Since there’s no Alt for the DoE I’ll share this info as someone with multiple higher degrees I wouldn’t be able to afford with these changes in place
Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Since there’s no Alt for the DoE I’ll share this info as someone with multiple higher degrees I wouldn’t be able to afford with these changes in place
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It’s time! Blackout Friday!
Please join unions 💪 & organizers 🤝 worldwide and BUY NOTHING 💸🙅from big chains this weekend! Instead support small & local businesses 💵 🙌 while sending the message:
the People Will Not Tolerate Corporate Complicity With Authoritarianism & Worker Oppression!
Please join unions 💪 & organizers 🤝 worldwide and BUY NOTHING 💸🙅from big chains this weekend! Instead support small & local businesses 💵 🙌 while sending the message:
the People Will Not Tolerate Corporate Complicity With Authoritarianism & Worker Oppression!
Black Friday sales are tempting, but remember unions are calling for a mass shopping strike for national chains, esp. Amazon, Whole Foods, Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Starbucks, & Apple. If you shop between now & Dec 2, please support small & local businesses & avoid crossing the picket line 💪
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It’s time! Blackout Friday!
Please join unions 💪 & organizers 🤝 worldwide and BUY NOTHING 💸🙅from big chains this weekend! Instead support small & local businesses 💵 🙌 while sending the message:
the People Will Not Tolerate Corporate Complicity With Authoritarianism & Worker Oppression!
Please join unions 💪 & organizers 🤝 worldwide and BUY NOTHING 💸🙅from big chains this weekend! Instead support small & local businesses 💵 🙌 while sending the message:
the People Will Not Tolerate Corporate Complicity With Authoritarianism & Worker Oppression!
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shit. OpenReview hacked and identities of reviewers, authors, and AC leaked for all conferences hosted on OpenReview
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
shit. OpenReview hacked and identities of reviewers, authors, and AC leaked for all conferences hosted on OpenReview
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#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars - a new type of star.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars - a new type of star.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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Being part of a Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice Wong co-edited with @freeblackgirl.bsky.social was really special, even more so now. My piece was republished in the @theflytrapmedia.com today (with some updates to make the piece more current). the-flytrap.ghost.io/complex-futu...
The Complex Future of Post-Pandemic Work
The COVID-19 pandemic showed that remote work is possible for many industries, but it’s still unclear what the future of remote work is five years later.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Being part of a Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice Wong co-edited with @freeblackgirl.bsky.social was really special, even more so now. My piece was republished in the @theflytrapmedia.com today (with some updates to make the piece more current). the-flytrap.ghost.io/complex-futu...
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As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.