Did a story that looked at how Asheville's water woes are symptom of a broader problem that is likely to become more common unless we do something about it as the nation's aging water infrastructure comes face to face with climate change with @zhirji.bsky.social and Michael Smith. Gift link
Fierce storms like Hurricanes Helene and Milton, as well as extreme heat and drought, threaten to overwhelm the nation’s water treatment plants.
Perhaps the most personally infuriating thing to me about what President Eli Capilouto is doing at the U of Kentucky is his grotesque use of the term "shared governance" to refer to his efforts to strip power from everyone on campus equally so faculty, students, and staff "share" powerlessness
this reminds me a lot of portrayals of local city council in similar governance-stripping rationales: "dysfunctional" "combative" etc.
Currently sitting in a University of Kentucky Board of Trustees meeting with a HUGE faculty turnout. That's not a coincidence. The first item on the agenda is a Deloitte consultant recommending that the Board strip the University Senate of much of its authority over academic regulations.
This is ridiculous. It's their POLICY as part of their GENOCIDAL INTENT. This isn't any kind of FAILURE and you should STOP giving cover to intentional starvation as a war crime.
The crisis in northern Gaza, current and former officials say, stems from Israel’s failure to develop a postwar strategy, or to plan for a prolonged military occupation.
The crisis in northern Gaza, current and former officials say, stems from Israel’s failure to develop a postwar strategy, or to plan for a prolonged military occupation.
One of the basic tenets of market capitalism is the gospel of innovation - that if a product deteriorates in quality, the market will respond to meet consumer demand. The internet has completely put paid to this notion and AI accelerates the ongoing exposure
🧵 This is hugely important work from Haaretz, Israel's paper of record. "Residents, military officials and journalists describe scenes of vast devastation. 'It's like after an atomic bomb,' one of them reported in Haaretz after visiting northern Gaza."
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If you're in my generation or slightly older your mind is probably blown at the transition from early 00's "digital piracy is an all-consuming scourge, you have to *buy* the media" to the current "lol anything you buy can be taken away at any time, look at me, I am the pirate now"
Had a very contentious conversation last night with a NYT reporter and reminded of my favorite Steinbeck
it is truly unfortunate that we’re at the end of 30 years of internet with all its “reducto ad hitlerum” tendencies for every argument because this *is* how berlin 1933 started. literally. attacks on “degenerates,” immigrants & the burning of gender care clinics. but if you say it, nobody hears it.