So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
Our last, best chance to cool the EarthWe're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...www.ted.com
"Beef consumption has consequences" is also a key plot point in the Odyssey
Dr. Jonathan FoleyBeef has a huge climate problem. And the most effective solution -- by far -- is to simply reduce beef consumption and waste. But we don't want to hear that, so we often welcome fuzzy greenwashing stories instead. In the end, however, the math doesn't seem to work. drawdown.org/insights/gre...
If your government doesn’t treat the rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions & the rapid adaptation to the warming that is already baked in as its two organisational axes, what legitimacy does it still have? All other issues - the economy, defense, health, or AI - are extensions and enablers.
If you want an example of why having political appointees deeply involved in grantmaking... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.www.nytimes.com
When visiting Taco Bell becomes a righteous act of propaganda defiance, that is very convenient for me, a person who was already there anyway
Taco Bell QuarterlyThe Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply
In which I argue that AI is delivering the coup de grace to the postwar model of the mass-delivery "multiversity," and that this should be seen not as a disaster or tragedy but as an opportunity for curricular, pedagogic, and institutional self-reinvention: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
The University After AIThe postwar bargain at the heart of higher education is coming undone. What replaces it?www.chronicle.com