Notices by inquiline (inquiline@assemblag.es)

There is an unwritten law that as soon as one publishes something, one learns of work one would have liked to have cited. Like, immediately

Oh so #degrowth is possible after all?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/16/economic-growth-could-fall-50-over-20-years-from-climate-shocks-say-actuaries

Very pleased that yesterday's #Mastodon announcement says trust & safety will be more of a priority in the new org structure.

Is this far too late? Yes.

Do we know it'll work? No.

Nonetheless it's an extremely positive move given, well, everything that's happening with social media right now

@abolisyonista Congrats!

So staggeringly angering

"They couldn’t escape on their own, & relatives said firefighters stopped them from entering the evacuation zone.

“He probably could have gotten up & walked away, but he’s not gonna leave my brother,” Mitchell said. So the pair huddled together awaiting a rescue that never came, becoming 2 of the 1st victims of the unprecedented firestorms still raging across L.A. County"

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/altadena-fire-deaths-disabled-victims

or

https://archive.ph/BlGEb

These were so brightly colored and out of place that I touched the petals to confirm they were real @dillyd

Beach-#bloomscrolling crossover today

Effect of the fires on #wildlife
https://www.hcn.org/articles/what-do-the-deadly-los-angeles-fires-mean-for-the-citys-wildlife/

#LAFires #ecology

As Los Angeles burns, the fossil fuel industry is both on the defensive & turning to some particularly ugly rhetorical behavior to escape scrutiny.

I write about their appropriation of environmental justice advocates' language of civil rights in a brand-new pub:
https://academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ccc/tcae055/7950795?guestAccessKey=98151a17-ab55-4145-91fe-a4671a94229d

#FossilFuels #Commodon #EnvironmentalJustice

"Everyday fossil fascism" perpetrated by oil's proponents includes accusing Californians who want to end #oil drilling of not caring about sloths or the Amazon (while denying that drilling harms Californians, esp racialized ppl); & an "Oil Lives Matter" Facebook group

The latter is, ofc, a vile twisting of BLM messaging. These patterned appropriations of meaning & language are of a piece with other settler practices claiming resources, land, property.

The paper also attempts to popularize(?) the term "slothwashing", which was coined in a Twitter discussion of #California oil lobbyist behavior!

Out now in Communication, Culture & Critique 🔓🛢️🦥
#MediaStudies #Petrocultures #EnvHum (?)
@commodon

That link ⬆️ is open access right now but I don't know if it's limited in how many clicks, etc. If it's not working & you want to see the paper, lmk!

On the ground re the #LAFires from a writer who covers infrastructure & transpo in LA:
https://www.torched.la/zero-percent-containment/

Here's how #LosAngeles officials made the fires worse: cutting firefighting budget & giving more $$ to cops
https://newrepublic.com/post/189997/los-angeles-fire-fighting-budget-wildfires

#LAFires

The student protesters made this happen: "American Historical Association members attending the group’s annual conference voted 428 to 88 Sunday to approve a resolution opposing “scholasticide” in Gaza and the U.S. government’s funding of Israel’s war"
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/01/05/aha-convention-attendees-oppose-scholasticide-gaza#

#AHA #Histodons #GazaProtests #HigherEd #academia

The conspiracy theories that are not really conspiracy theories that are unfolding in my text messages right now...

(this is not abt national politics, much closer to home)

All will be revealed if we're right...

This is disgusting!

ETA, the thumbnail doesn't render the whole headline, which is

"LA Times owner talked with [antivax actor] Rob Schneider about setting up a MAGA version of The View"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/la-times-owner-talked-rob-192431470.html

#LosAngeles #LATimes #California

If I were a US college student I might be mad about the US giving Israel $23B in military aid in the last year, for moral reasons, and I might find it pressingly urgent to protest about it, but what do I know.
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/USspendingIsrael

Good little regional history and history of medicine video about TB sanitaria in LA:
https://www.pbs.org/video/tuberculosis-the-forgotten-plague-o6gnxl/

#HistMed #HistSTM #LosAngeles #Tuberculosis

Another record 2024 broke: number of people killed by police in US:
https://mappingpoliceviolence.us/

@fivetonsflax We don’t have a tv. It’s pretty clearly one particular phone