Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!

University of Toronto to create AI role named after tech pioneer Geoffrey Hinton

I'll be in conversation with Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, Slow Poison, today at 4 at Columbia. Details below. Here's the first of two pieces I've written about the book. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/z...

Mali has recovered $1.2 billion in arrears from mining companies after an audit that uncovered massive shortfalls for the state and paved the way for a new mining code. The law raised royalties, boosted state stakes in mining companies & scrapped stability clauses. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Quand Nestlé décide de ne rien apprendre du scandale du lait pour bébé vendu en Afrique ça donne Nestlé qui ne met pas de sucre dans ses céréales pour bébés en Occident, l’enlève sous la pression en Inde, et… …augmente la dose en Afrique. Mais hein c’est pas du racisme, c’est de l’entrepreneuriat!

Tonight!

A fantastic review of The Second Emancipation in today's Boston Globe, seen just now, hours before I speak in Cambridge. This reviewer understands how a deep intellectual history of Pan-Africanism sits at the book's core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/a...

Some interesting numbers on the decline for clickthrough rates from Google thanks to AI summaries and overviews. It's basically the apocalypse for publisher revenue. https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/google-ai-overviews-leads-to-dramatic-reduction-in-click-throughs-for-mail-

A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.

Just wrapped an incredible panel at #SXSW2025: "Can AI Be Trained to Be Ethical, and Will It?" It was an honor to be with brilliant co-panelists @perspectivai.bsky.social, Grace Gerwe and @sustainablemedia.bsky.social 1/x www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2pXh4Nq/

Created by a slave owner and built by slaves. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

More great blurb banners for my forthcoming book, The Second Emancipation, out in August. I'm deeply grateful to all of these wonderful contributors.

Deeply, deeply immoral.

A reminder for these times.

The bombastic flouting of norms and laws makes the world more sensible to them. It is government and civic life they don’t understand. Musk clarifies a scary world for them, putting it in terms they understand. Bad guy. Good guy. Evil. Villain. Kill. Win. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

A curious group of friends sneak into an abandoned spinach canning factory to investigate the legend of the "Sailor Man" I approve.

Genuinely the most tense, gripping sporting contest I've seen all year. Great sportsmanship at the end too 👏🏾

I agree, and would extend by saying the onus is on communities and stakeholders to be actively involved in governance. It can’t be done credibly from above alone, we learned that in Web 2.0

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN HEATHER COX RICHARDSON @hcrichardson.bsky.social 12/12/2024 Ten days ago, on December 2, President Joe Biden arrived in Angola, the first U.S. president to visit central Africa since President Barack Obama traveled there in 2015. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

In Honor of Nikki Giovanni Ego Trippin for the rest of the week... I was born in the congo I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx I designed a pyramid so tough that a star that only glows every one hundred years falls into the center giving divine perfect light I am bad

🤔 Is AI good or evil? Or both? I would love to know what you think. ❤️ Please take 2 minutes to answer my quick questions and share 🙌🏽 Thank you so much, I will send you the results #AI #poll #questions forms.gle/J6u7xcUx7DWW...

U.S. Census Bureau predicts that by 2100, the largest age group of the world’s population will have changed from 10-14 year-olds today to 35-39 year-olds. The global population will have grown from 8.1 billion to 10.9 billion🧵

The doccie "Dahomey," by Mati Diop, was listed in today's NYT as one of 2024's best films. Have not yet seen it, but I'm looking forward to it. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/m...

Breaking with a long-held taboo, a new generation of leaders in #Senegal wants answers. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...