Wrote a book about the institutional violence justified by the authoritarian fairy tales in which human nature (ours) needs to be held in check by superior human nature (theirs) in crises. Including stuff about elite panic, a term disaster sociologists coined, because that's often who goes berserk.

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Pretty sure the "AI is people" discourse is just an elaborate attempt to argue that people aren't people and therefore shouldn't get special things like rights.

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like let's start on humanizing marginalized people first

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Toni Morrison said, "I am very conscious of writing in such a way that nondiscriminating readers have full access," while "structuring and writing in such a way that the more discriminating readers find some kind of reward. Trying to do both things is important to me." Goals.

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Last week, I started as a new fellow with @ucanrwater.bsky.social, where I previously spent a decade. I am grateful for the support of everyone @ucanr.edu and the Climate Science and Communications Fund. Nice to be back!

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