Philip Loring
Human ecologist and storyteller. Regeneration and Social Justice. Global Director @nature_org. Author: FINDING OUR NICHE. Stubbornly optimistic that radical change is closer than we think. Opinions mine (but science-based). 🏳️🌈
- This is the first Supeman trailer that has me actually excited. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox8Z...
- With people being disappeared and children left alone on a street corner after ICE abducts their guardians and science being dismantled, I have absolutely zero fucks to give about this and think its truly shocking that anyone would give it oxygen right now.
- I so appreciate this post because it names a discomfort I’ve had reading all the recent stories about student GenAI use: that the students are uninterested slackers. I’ve worked with thousands of undergrads and the vast majority legitimately wanted to learn.
- I’m with Dell 👇
- Another reason I think is that lots of people suggesting this actually want Dems to lose.
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- Exciting news: I am now officially under contract with Oxford University Press for a book on food security. Really excited to distill 20 years of work in this space and my oft heterodox analyses into something super accessible and different than what is out there.
- Kind of fun that the actual celestial body that protects our planet with its gravity is named after a mythological celestial being who protected Rome with his thunderbolts.
- Now this is something new--an academic book that was never actually published by the authors and publishing house has somehow nevertheless been for sale at Amazon. People have real copies of who knows what.
- I initially had a strongly negative knee jerk reaction to this, but I think Eric is right. Yes, geoengineering is a terrible and risky idea but we need to put our energy into good ideas and let things like this wither on the vine. We waste too much time fighting against things rather than for.
- Is everyone else as freaked out about this as me? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- NYC's congestion pricing is working. Which is exactly why the right wants to end it. Because it breaks their entire schtick about regulated systems not providing better outcomes than those that are unregulated.
- NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Philip Loringdemocrats love to go “we need to have a bigger tent!” and they don’t mean leftists or queer people what they mean is a rich guy who wants to destroy all democracy and replace it with technocracies
- My only critique of this piece in @civileats.com is that it is not an opinion piece. It’s a statement of fact that no-till systems dependent on herbicides and fungicides are *not* regenerative civileats.com/2025/05/08/w...
- ROFL
- “Machine gun speed lying weapons” is pretty good
- There is probably about a teaspoon of plastics in our brain and some in our testes as well but if your threshold for concern is higher than that I guess you do you boo?
- I am urging Dems: ditch this vulnerability-oriented framing. Focus on aspirational and values-oriented messaging. Over and over. You don't excite new people to turn out by telling them how vulnerable your candidates are. @ossoff.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social
- I'm telling you--people out there saying that Trump & Co are dumb, don't know what they are doing, are making a huge mistake. www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
- If you work in climate, environment, social services, anywhere that work requires a strong and nonpoliticized civil servant work force, this is worth your time!
New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
- Pope Tortilla Chips the 6th
- This is great advice
- Yes there is a lot of bad about the Catholic Church, but also a lot of good I think, especially the many good people who through their Catholicism fight for a more equitable and just world. We got a hint of a glimpse of a different church from Francis, I am hopeful Pope Leo will continue to push.
- I love to see this from Gates. I sometimes disagree with the tech-fix bent in many of the ideas he boosts (like high yield chemical intensive crops) but this is the kind of bold action we need right now and I'm glad to see he sees this.
- BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
- First of all, “all” could be correctly used to refer to a set of two (but that’s beside the point). More importantly, she’s right: biology isn’t bigotry. Biology is infinitely diverse and defies binary categories. She’s the bigot.
- Anyone else not able to shake a perpetual angsty feeling like you're waiting for something to happen? Like everything you have to do is waiting on something else to happen first but you have no idea what that thing you're waiting for actually is?
- Reposted by Philip Loringaside from other issues with AI shit, I have been screaming about this since I don't even know when. cheating will always exist and these are just new tech and tools which students will use to cheat. what are we doing to remove the contexts in which students feel that they need to or have to cheat??
- The university experience was broken well before AI. That students are flocking to it (just like they flocked to test databases and essay writing services and Cole’s notes) says more about universities than it does the students nymag.com/intelligence...
- Reposted by Philip LoringPeriod. I was a library writing tutor at two different colleges and i basically retaught people writing skills from highschool bc professors made fun of and didn't care to actually explain themselves. So they pick up Chat GPT whoch doesn't degrade or call them out in in front of peers
- The university experience was broken well before AI. That students are flocking to it (just like they flocked to test databases and essay writing services and Cole’s notes) says more about universities than it does the students nymag.com/intelligence...
- Greatest lip sync of all time
- The university experience was broken well before AI. That students are flocking to it (just like they flocked to test databases and essay writing services and Cole’s notes) says more about universities than it does the students nymag.com/intelligence...
- This is what I was aspiring to in my classes before I stepped back from academia. But modern university educational structure is, at the core, institutionalized bullying and gatekeeping My students carried around so much trauma it was hard for them to adjust and settle in to something so radical
- Here it is folks, i truly think we are seeing a shift from reaction to proaction. You never see a tipping point coming
- What an inning #giantscubs
- Budweiser’s new slogan is … a choice
- Hactivism from @youranoncentral.bsky.social: "Anonymous has decided to enforce the judge's order sinc eyou and your sycophant staff ignore lawful orders that go against your fascist plans" www.404media.co/globalx-airl...
- “The “woke mind virus” that tech lords rail against is a front for their actual fear: that you are observant, awake, and alive.” @sarahkendzior.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
- Glad to see this stated so plainly
- Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’ Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
- Flattery will get you everywhere www.vogue.com/article/what...
