What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
It is fantastic isn't it?! Local brush turkey not as easily impressed though... π
a chart showing data centre emissions by scenario
New CEFC report into data centres in Aus - shows that the worst-case scenario seem to be about 10x to 15x worse than the potential best-case scenario
Also frames DCs as "critical infrastructure". Is AI (84% of new DC growth) as 'critical' as a hospital or transport?
www.cefc.com.au/insights/mar...
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Another egregious example of uni wage theft. As claimant says: "our university encourages students to pursue Master's programs in Psychology and Social Work, and then undervalues those same qualifications in their own staff." Go @nteuvictoria.bsky.social newshub.medianet.com.au/2025/11/unio...
"clawing shared governance back can help ensure that universities arenβt converted into profit centers for private equity firms. It seems plausible, even likely, that faculty unions will have some success building power off of the growing resentment of ubiquitous AI and its slop products."
Incredible personal reflections on organising from @alybatt.bsky.social Spadework www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/pol...
Straight onto next year's Ludic Geographies reading list, thanks Alison! youtu.be/B0a3IPEZLAI?...
So much ill shit going on across the world ... but am also feeling devastated waking up to learn that D'Angelo has passed. Voodoo one of those records for me, if the not *the* record. RIP. youtu.be/_RLP0xAjdJU?...
"Kids, back when I did my honours, there was no Factiva, just days/weeks of scrolling through microfilm" ... says me every time an honours student does a newspaper search! (Which I am sure is very annoying...) What did the zoomers make of the format and the process?
australian street style, 1973
ABSTRACT Characterised as sites of energy citizenship, community energy projects help people locked out of the corporate green energy and rooftop solar markets to participate in the renewable energy transition. However, the environmental politics of community energy projects cannot be assumed. Drawing from document analysis and semi-structured interviews with community energy organisers, advocates and participants, we compare two projects in New South Wales, Australia. We show that community energy projects accommodate different forms of energy citizenship, with implications for their ability to address existing exclusions and injustices of a market-led energy transition. We demonstrate that community energy projects have struggled to enhance low-income householdsβ access to renewable energy while simultaneously facilitating democratic participation in energy governance. In identifying the challenges that these projects have faced, we contribute to debates about how community energy projects can realise a just transition to renewable energy.
New article!
Acts of energy citizenship in community solar gardens by Judita Hudson, @kurtiveson.bsky.social & Sophie Webber.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
AI is changing the way we work, and reshaping higher education.
It must be introduced fairly, ethically & with real consultation so staff arenβt left behind.
How is AI being used in your workplace?
Share your story: nteu.info/aistory
Congrats Brian, awesome news!
More and more and more, as Frezzoz puts it! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Looks awesome, congrats! Will read how you're thinking metabolism and municipalism in relation with great interest.
Call for sessions for the RC21 conference in Vienna, 20-22 July, 2026. Deadline for submissions: 6th of October 2025. rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-ses... #urban #sociology
50 Years of Political Economy. Some fantastic articles, but only one has brought me to tears.
@kurtiveson.bsky.social's generous contribution takes time to dwell on the PhD theses of @natashaheenan.bsky.social, Anna Sturman, and myself.
@ppesydney.bsky.social
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It is massive. Thanks to Peter Deppeler on Twitter for the footage. #GazaGenocide #MarchForHumanity
Re-posting in the wake of this week's news that YIMBY Melbourne has secured a $760,000 grant from US-based Open Philanthropy to progress their housing agenda locally...
arena.org.au/yimby-or-nim...
Job Alert! 3-year Post-Doc to work with me and Marilu Melo Zurita on our "Wiring Australian Cities" project. It's an ARC-funded infrastructure geographies project 'following the infrastructure' of urban telecommunications across time and space. Detailsπ usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
If you haven't already, please sign this petition in support of awesome sociologists at Macquarie Uni whose discipline is about to be decimated: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
Job Alert! 3-year Post-Doc to work with me and Marilu Melo Zurita on our "Wiring Australian Cities" project. It's an ARC-funded infrastructure geographies project 'following the infrastructure' of urban telecommunications across time and space. Detailsπ usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
We had B.U.G.A.U.P. here in Sydney hacking billboards in the 1980s, now generally lauded by public health professionals for their role in banning tobacco advertising in public space. I especially love their stories of technical innovations to reach inaccessible spots www.bugaup.org
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
π September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
Empty for over four years during a housing crisis ... nice job Sydney Uni. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
A timely reminder by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social of the necessary ingredients to build the powerful and sustained movements we need today: the power to withhold and the power to promise.
Looking fwd to this podcast about the Green Bans. Something I learned reading @kurtiveson.bsky.social and Meredith Burgmann (who is on this podcast) and others was that it wasnβt all about stopping development, but often pausing it (thru strikes) to make time for the community to take part
