Celeste Diaz Ferraro

Celeste Diaz Ferraro

@celestedf.bsky.social

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Scholar, advocate, do-gooder, dog mom 🐶❤️
Entrepreneurship, ecosystems, marginalization, communities, flourishing, #qualitative
#TellYourDogISaidHi 🐕
Asst Prof, Busn & Society @ColoradoCollege
@UTSA & San Antonio ❤️

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Was feeling paralyzing despair this morning when my 82 yo recluse artist friend, who barely ever leaves his house in rural Georgia, texted to say he’s joined organizing efforts to protest & mobilize voters. Taught me a lesson. Getting connected locally today; hoping many others choose action too.

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Organize. If you need help figuring out how to approach that work, how to keep at it, or why collective action is our best hope in catastrophic times, remember that we wrote a book for you. ❤️

Let This Radicalize Youwww.haymarketbooks.org

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start climbing

Alright, everyone. Time to watch the inspiring speech from "Andor" to feel a little less depressed for a moment or two youtu.be/TKB67KzjO4A?...

Andor | Kino Loy’s Monologue | Disney+youtu.be Rewatch some of the best moments of Season 1 of #Andor, starting with Andy Serkis as Kino Loy and his rousing speech in episode 10. All episodes are now streaming only on Disney+. The “Andor” series will explore a new perspective from the Star Wars galaxy, focusing on Cassian Andor’s journey to discover the difference he can make. The series brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. It’s an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue where Cassian will embark on the path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero. Diego Luna returns as Cassian Andor and is joined by cast members Genevieve O’Reilly, Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough and Kyle Soller. The executive producers are Kathleen Kennedy, Sanne Wohlenberg, Diego Luna and Michelle Rejwan. Tony Gilroy is the creator and showrunner.

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the combination of Ohio, Chevron, and Jarkesy is to tell the extraordinarily rich “there’s no one who can hold you accountable for anything if you can afford a lawsuit”

The demise of Chevron is being widely interpreted as an expansion of judicial power. It is that, but it also and more profoundly an expansion of power of moneyed interests. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-money-...

The Money Coupdonmoynihan.substack.com What the fall of Chevron deference means for state capacity

I tried to avoid political chatter for my own mental health, but discourse around Biden’s debate showing as a rationale for not voting is shocking considering Project 2025 + Chevron decision are a direct line to fascism. Sorry about link from the bad place; important xplainr🧵 x.com/andrewpolino...

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Both the “black jobs” remark and using palestinian as a slur are hopefully clarifying as to actual Trump’s ideology and worldview, in contrast with the imaginary trump some people have built up in their heads as the memory of his administration has receded

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In this article I describe how racial animus & structural racism lay the groundwork for many anti-environmental policies & actions. I finished the article in 2020 but so much has happened since then (esp. today's ruling) that it's prob time for a new version. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The racial fix and environmental state formation - Ian Carrillo, 2021journals.sagepub.com Theories of the environmental state – treadmill of production and ecological modernization – have dominated discussion of the political economy of environmental...

I never cease to be amazed at Star Trek’s prescience about today’s realities yet persistent optimism for the future. Btw… 64 days until the Bell Riots. www.comicsbeat.com/star-trek-de...

Whew, this is an important thread that my jaded and social media-drenched students need to understand.

SOAPBOX TIME I hate how many times I read things like "nobody cares about the world" and "humanity is the virus" and "our species is too inept/evil/selfish to survive" online. I almost never see anyone talking about the many, many people who are doing incredibly hard, complex, good work

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The federal government is rescoring the quality ratings of this year’s Medicare Advantage plans, which could lead to an additional $1 billion of taxpayer money flowing into the coffers of health insurance companies. www.statnews.com/2024/06/14/m...

Biden administration to recalculate Medicare Advantage quality ratings and bonuseswww.statnews.com The federal government is rescoring the quality ratings of this year’s Medicare Advantage plans following recent court decisions.

Important thread explaining very important research & reporting on plastics & recycling (rather, the lack of recycling). We need more circular design thinking sooner, & more regulation to require firms to reduce/eliminate plastic production.

1/ Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. The cup was made via pyrolysis — a kind of chemical recycling I'd heard a lot about. The plastics industry made pyrolysis sound magical. It was a way to turn hard-to-recycle plastics into new plastic. So I tried to buy the cup…

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Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.

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If you really can’t think of any plausible alternatives, I can’t say I care much about your views on “deep moral questions”.

Opinion | Effective Altruism Is Flawed. But What’s the Alternative?www.nytimes.com The movement can’t answer our deepest moral questions, but it still has wisdom to offer.

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I cannot get over how many times in recent years the Washington Post had to decide *not* to share that they knew the Alito household flew an upside-down flag in the immediate aftermath of Jan 6 before reporting it today. www.lawdork.com/p/washington...

Washington Post bombshell: Washington Post buried Alito flag story for three yearswww.lawdork.com Saturday's report raises many questions, several relating to the fact that the Post, at least passively, made the decision not to reveal this news many times since 2021.

Have to say, this org is genuinely scary. I run across so few people in day-to-day life that know anything about Project 2025 or its stated agenda. Why is this? Lack of media coverage (as @mmfa.bsky.social notes below)? Whiplash & exhaustion re: public events leading to apathy? Something else?

Key Project 2025 figure Russ Vought was appointed to the RNC's platform committee. Mainstream coverage of the move was minimal. www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Key Project 2025 figure Russ Vought was appointed to the RNC's platform committee. Mainstream coverage of the move was minimal.www.mediamatters.org Russ Vought, a frequent guest on right-wing media shows and key figure in Project 2025, a broad effort to staff a future Republican administration, will have a top role in drafting the platform for th...

Calling for Universal Basic Income, the “godfather of artificial intelligence” is very worried AI will increase productivity and wealth, with profits going to the rich “and not the people whose jobs get lost and that’s going to be very bad for society.”

AI 'godfather' says universal basic income will be neededwww.bbc.com Geoffrey Hinton, known as the godfather of AI, said the technology could leave many without jobs.

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Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks. @violetblue.bsky.social thought you may want to boost. covid-long.com

Johns Hopkins COVID Long Studycovid-long.com The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is conducting research about the COVID-19 pandemic. Participate in this one-time, 10-15 minute survey.

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Are you a junior scholar who wants to learn about the job market? Please join the SIM Division for this event on 15 May! Pre-register: bit.ly/sim_jm2024

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Mayor Scott responds with precision to the gutter racism infesting the American right, in a way that directly exposes the feeble minded cowardice of the euphemisms they’ve employed to hide something everyone can see www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

Baltimore mayor responds to racists who called him ‘DEI mayor’www.thebaltimorebanner.com “We know what these folks really want to say when they say DEI mayor,” Scott told The Banner. “They really want to say the N-word.”

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The issue is that the “marketplace of ideas” was a meta for crafted precisely to extend (elite) control over the rapidly changing universities of the 1970s and 1980s. The metaphor was a response post-1968 higher ed politics precisely to institute hierarchies of value to knowledge.

Been thinking a lot about how conservatives and capitalists have been jamming ideas about free markets down our throats forever but can’t understand that academia is a market place of ideas where with study and investigation outmoded and bad ideas are replaced with newer, better ones.

March 24, 1984. When a brain, athlete, basket case, princess, and a criminal helped GenX understand "we're all bizarre - some of us are just better at hiding it." No film is entirely unproblematic after 4 decades of social change, but the sentiments still resonate. Worth a rewatch.

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They say the devil is in the details. So it’s important to know what’s in the details of policy proposals & plans, such the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which will kick in if TFG were elected president. Read @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s recap of the frighteningly draconian HF plan. And vote.

March 17, 2024open.substack.com On Friday, journalist Casey Michel, who specializes in the study of kleptocracy, pointed out that reporters had missed an important meeting last week. Michel noted that while reporters covered Hungari...

Ohhh! So that's what the G in ESG is about. Great job, Tesla, you're doing awesome at the governance thing! 🙄🙄🙄

A new study found that 35 major corporations paid execs MORE than what they paid in federal income taxes between 2018 and 2022. Each of the companies generated billions of dollars in profit over the same period. When I say the system is rigged for the rich, this is what I mean.…

It's B Corp Month! The future is this way, and B Corps are leading us there. If you’re looking for meaningful services and purposeful products from businesses that care about more than just profit – look no further. www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a...

This B Corp Month, B Corps are showing the world how they’re continuously moving forward, searching for new ways to grow their impact. Check out the B Corp UK blog to learn how the UK B Corp community has made strides since the last #BCorpMonth.

It’s a critical year for progressive business. B Corp Month reminds us the only way is forward.bcorporation.uk B Lab UK’s executive director, Chris Turner, reflects on the progress of the B Corp movement and how far there is to go.

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Listen, I'm so friggin disgusted over what is probably happening over at Automattic (Tumblr, WordPress dot com) so, if you have a blog over at WordPress dot com, I will help you migrate to a self-hosted WordPress install. Yes, for free. From a professional web dev. Reach out if you need help!

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I am SO excited about this @cos.io webinar on sharing sensitive qualitative data with the talented Rebecca Campbell, which will be on February 15 at 11am US Eastern! Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Read her team's paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #Qualitative #OpenScience

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Not on MLK day, satan.