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Towards a socially-just creative technology culture.
#convivialtech
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The Journal
3 days ago
An attack planned on a mosque in Galway was âimminentâ, gardaĂ have told a court in Co Laois.
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Attack planned on mosque in Galway was 'imminent', gardaĂ tell court
GardaĂ opposed bail for Karolis Peckauskas, who is charged in relation to a cross-border investigation into far-right extremism.
https://jrnl.ie/6873973
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Didnât expect to see Dave Fanningâs name pop up in this article!
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Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/business/media/ai-defamation-libel-slander.html?unlocked_article_code=1.008.lKRr.lCbo2US_x-Mz
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This is a hell of a statement on the massive cost of
#AI
infrastructure from JPMorgan. For comparison, the entire German economy is ~$5tn, which is about 1/5 of the entire Euro economy.
on.ft.com/3JwN1pw
6 days ago
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This headline beggars belief⊠until you read the HSE response: â⊠the waiting time has now been reduced to 10 yearsâ. These are not timelines that any well funded health service should be working with.
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đŻ âAdvancing climate justice depends on confronting epistemic injustice as both a form of loss and a condition of possibilityâ đŻ
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Brian Gormley D7
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The
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dug a bit deeper into this Progress Ireland in this great piece by Lois Kapila
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With think tank Progress Ireland, the yimby movement here is powering up
With help from a wider network overseas.
https://www.dublininquirer.com/with-progress-ireland-the-yimby-movement-here-is-powering-up/
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Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
about 1 month ago
The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025 is now live. The report finds that of 6.3 billion people, 1.1 billion are multidimensionally poor. Poverty is our greatest global challenge - and one compounded by the climate crisis. Read the full report, published with UNDP:
bit.ly/globalMPI2025
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Duke University Press
about 1 month ago
Today is a good day to read some contemporary accounts of Columbus's voyages to the Americas & their consequences, such as those of Bartolomé de Las Casas & Fray Ramón Pané, who both condemned the treatment of Indigenous peoples.
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Portugalâs far-right Chega party âhoped to take 30 municipalities but secured threeâ. Glorious đ. Letâs hope itâs none next time.
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Portugalâs far-right Chega falls well short of expectations in local elections
Party hoped to take 30 municipalities but secured three after share of vote halved from parliamentary elections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/13/portugal-far-right-chega-falls-well-short-local-elections
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Libération
about 1 month ago
đŽ LibĂ©ration des otages : «Personne sur cette planĂšte nâen a fait plus que vous pour apporter la paix», a dit le prĂ©sident de la Knesset, Amir Ohana, Ă Donald Trump, lui lançant plĂ©thore de compliments Suivre notre direct :
bit.ly/48KoJ5F
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Mike Ananny
about 1 month ago
Dunno if it's helpful to anyone, but I offer this in the spirit of academics not talking enough about rejection & students sometimes not getting mentoring on the point. A student (primary author) & I just had a paper rejected from a journal, & I wrote this reply to them sharing the news with me.
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Global Voices
about 1 month ago
The armed conflict in Sudan seems to be one of the world's most forgotten civil wars. The reigning silence surrounding this conflict plunges the population into daily turmoil.
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Sudan is bleeding in silence: A humanitarian crisis the world cannot ignore
The armed conflict in Sudan seems to be one of the world's most forgotten civil wars. The reigning silence surrounding this conflict plunges the population into daily turmoil.
https://globalvoices.org/2025/07/26/sudan-is-bleeding-in-silence-a-humanitarian-crisis-the-world-cannot-ignore/
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Of course as a former Meta grifter he privileges might over right.
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about 1 month ago
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đđThe Board of Deputies of British Jews & the Jewish Leadership Council said: âIn our darkest hour, [Chikli] has ignored the views of the vast majority of British Jews, who utterly and consistently reject Robinson and everything he stands for.â
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Libération
about 1 month ago
A Paris, la Maison des mondes africains ouvre enfin ses portes Lâinstitution culturelle promise par Emmanuel Macron en 2021 inaugure samedi son point de chute pour deux ans, un atelier de 800 mÂČ du Xe arrondissement, et annonce une programmation rĂ©solument pluridisciplinaire. Lire đ
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A Paris, la Maison des mondes africains ouvre enfin ses portes
https://www.liberation.fr/culture/a-paris-la-maison-des-mondes-africains-ouvre-enfin-ses-portes-20251002_URDCWBJPWZGOTJJ5U2LNEY2BAI/?utm_medium=Social&at_medium=Social%20Media&at_campaign=Bluesky&utm_source=Bluesky&at_platform=Bluesky#Echobox=1759481040
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Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Amichai Chikli (Hebrew: ŚąŚŚŚŚ Ś©ŚŚ§ŚŚ) using the horrific Manchester attack as the context by which to welcome âcourageous leaderâ Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) to Israel because of their âshared valuesâ.
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Chris Osieck
about 2 months ago
The fund's ethics watchdog at the time said there was no doubt that Caterpillar's products were being used by Israeli authorities in the "widespread unlawful destruction of Palestinian property", and that the company had made no effort to prevent this.
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Dutch pension fund ABP sells stake in Caterpillar
Dutch pension fund ABP has sold its entire stake in U.S. construction equipment-maker Caterpillar on ethical grounds, it said on Wednesday.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/dutch-pension-fund-abp-sells-stake-caterpillar-2025-10-01/
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ianVisits
about 1 month ago
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Yonah Freemark
about 2 months ago
Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th âschool streetâ: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.
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Paris passe le cap des 300 rues piĂ©tonnes prĂšs des Ă©coles pour ĂȘtre « plus accueillante aux enfants »
La municipalitĂ©, qui a organisĂ© samedi une fĂȘte dĂ©diĂ©e, tire un bilan positif de ces espaces piĂ©tonnisĂ©s aux abords des Ă©tablissements scola
https://leparisien.fr/paris-75/paris-passe-le-cap-des-300-rues-pietonnes-pres-des-ecoles-pour-etre-plus-accueillante-aux-enfants-28-09-2025-6QFZ7NHQFJDIFAI7RSNZJD4K7I.php?xtor=AD-366
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Andy Bell
about 2 months ago
Thereâs never been a better time to switch from Next.js to Astro
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Karl Jacoby
about 2 months ago
Mohsen Mahdawi and Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbiaâs (locked) gates on the eve of their possible deportation
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45 vessels continuing on to
#Gaza
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@freedomflotilla.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
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Have been using
#ios26
for a week or so now and it feels like a really step back in terms of
#UX
. Primary culprit is the hiding of functionality behind multiple clicks. What has happened to
#Apple
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about 2 months ago
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Carole Cadwalladr
about 2 months ago
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!!
@thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!đđđ
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Well done
@atsukocomedy.bsky.social
for highlighting how the âyou canât say anything anymore!âcomedians (as she rightly terms them) agreed to being censored in order to perform in Riyadh. (She turned it down when asked đđ).
#shillinforsaudi
about 2 months ago
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Iâm struck by the fact that the gov spent âŹ10m to have the
#NFL
in Dublin but wouldnât grant visas to Palestinian kids to come and play
#GAA
here for a few days.
about 2 months ago
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Karl Jacoby
about 2 months ago
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Victoria Reed
about 2 months ago
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/a...
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Report Says Museums Post Less Online About Possibly Nazi-Looted Art
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/arts/design/museums-nazi-looted-art-report.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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mady castiganâš đłïžââ§ïž
about 2 months ago
Worker groups like
@notechforapartheid.bsky.social
and No Azure For Apartheid have been pressuring Microsoft for months or years on issues like these. Microsoft tries to silence dissent and make workers feel powerless--but they aren't. Every employee who was fired for standing up is saving lives.
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Apparently
#AWS
are taking over from
#Microsoft
. â⊠intelligence sources said [Azure] had been used in Gaza [to prep] airstrikes⊠highlight[ing] how Israel has relied on ⊠major US technology companies to support its bombardment of
#Gaza
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Microsoft blocks Israelâs use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unitâs access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-surveillance-of-palestinians
about 2 months ago
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Nature
about 2 months ago
If the 264 million students enrolled in higher education around the globe were a country, it would be the fifth most populous in the world
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The great university shake-up: four charts show how global higher education is changing
More students than ever are studying across international borders, but where and what they learn is shifting.
https://go.nature.com/46jJHGK
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Movie recommendation: Columbus (2017)
about 2 months ago
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âDĂ©but septembre 2025, Deezer dĂ©clarait que 28 % des titres qui arrivent chaque jour sur sa plateforme Ă©taient gĂ©nĂ©rĂ©s Ă 100 % par des IA.â đ±
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Naomi Saphra
about 2 months ago
Iâve been doing a cultural competency paper and this is clearly the frontier task. One time a Persian gym buddy insisted so hard that they actually preferred sleeping on the floor that, rather than heading home post-workout, I took their bed. Every Persian I tell this to laughs at me.
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We Politely Insist: Your LLM Must Learn the Persian Art of Taarof
Large language models (LLMs) struggle to navigate culturally specific communication norms, limiting their effectiveness in global contexts. We focus on Persian taarof, a social norm in Iranian interac...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01035
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Phrase of the day: âYouâve been worksloppedâ meaning someone sent you âAI generated work content that masquerades as good workâ.
#workslop
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AI-Generated âWorkslopâ Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce âworkslopââcontent that appea...
https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity
about 2 months ago
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Have I got this right?
#Nvidia
is investing in
#OpenAI
so OpenAI can use the cash to buy - you guessed it - ⊠more Nvidia chips. No hype cycle here at all! Nope, absolutely not!!
about 2 months ago
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On Windows 10 and want to keep your computer running securely after October 2025?
@therestartproject.org
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therestartproject.org/end-of-windo...
#EndOf10
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End of 10: Guide for repair groups
A guide for community repair groups on how your repair group can support people in your community who are facing the end of Windows 10.
https://therestartproject.org/end-of-windows-10-toolkit-for-repair-groups/
about 2 months ago
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â[O]ne tangible consequence of Trumpâs presidency [shutting USAID] is child-size graves being dug around the world.â
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
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Opinion | Trumpâs Most Lethal Policy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/opinion/trump-usaid-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU8.ZQH-.D3KuXKk20pur&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 2 months ago
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âHumanity in the Intelligent Ageâ is such a timely theme. Looking forward to hearing everyoneâs perspectives đ.
#OEB25
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To know more about Real Time Bidding and mass surveillance, see:
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Rabih Alameddine
2 months ago
Lacemakers, Brittany, France, 1920
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As Klein âleans inâ on the rise of authoritarianism (đ€ź), its time to re-up Larry David:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
#nyt
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âAt least 260,000 civilians trapped in El Fasher face a dire choice: risk being starved or bombed if they stay, and raped or killed if they flee.â
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w...
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Starving Children Eat Animal Feed in Besieged Sudanese City
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/world/africa/sudan-starving-children.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE8.9s_M.xavKidFkrWNa&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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digital cultures and arts
2 months ago
From 02â04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich. Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures. Program & Registration:
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International Conference: «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism»
Bringing together scholars and artists from a range of fields and backgrounds, the international conference «React & Respond» aims to map and analyze these contemporary economies of networked image cu...
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/de/react-respond/
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Auschwitz Memorial
2 months ago
If you want to deepen your knowledge of the history of Auschwitz, listen to our "On Auschwitz" podcast. Visit
podcast.auschwitz.org
to find all episodes, access transcripts, and find links to podcast platforms. If the podcast resonates with you, leave a review, comment, or share it with others.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
2 months ago
In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58)
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"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
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Arrests at Palestine Action ban protest in London but article notes that âpolice forces in Edinburgh, Totnes, Derry and Kendall had all decided not to arrest sign-holders.â
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Police make arrests at London Palestine Action ban protest
More than 1,000 people have pledged to risk arrest in demonstration billed as largest since group was proscribed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/06/police-make-arrests-at-london-palestine-action-ban-protest
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madoc cairns
2 months ago
Mike Higgins, who is blind and wheelchair bound, has joined todayâs protest against the Palestine Action ban after being arrested at the last. He, and over 1000 others, risk arrest as a âterroristâ & up to 14 years in prison for displaying seven words: I OPPOSE GENOCIDE. I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION
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Just discovered
#Artle
thanks to
@afroartnerd.bsky.social
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www.nga.gov/Artle
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