Amidst the fixation with semiconductors and geopolitics, how did Taiwan become a center of global electronics? Who were the people that powered its rise, and what happens when the tinkerer becomes the tycoon? I review Honghong Tinn's Island Tinkerers @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Revisiting Silver Case and 25th Ward and goddamn Tokio's storyline still makes me tear up ngl,,,,

9-nine- spin-off is titled as:9-nine- ARTEISIA Scenario: Yukihito (Nekopara 1-3, Karenai Sekai to Owaru Hana) A story about a girl whose powers are too strong for her to handle, and a young researcher who treats her condition All ages, 2026

Obama walked so Trump could run. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Campist leftist politics is uniquely vile towards exiled communities, from Syrians to Venezuelans. The moment these groups fail to perform “correctly” in unfolding political crises, their identity is stripped away & replaced with smears. Such accusations are so predictable at this point.

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

victims of colonialism can be best at weaponizing victimhood. in fact colonizers are also very good at playing victims these days.

An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages. restofworld.org/2025/kenya-c...

Support laid off union workers from PushBlack who lost their jobs right before the holidays. Anything you might be able to donate helps! www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Please help out a Pakistani trans woman if you're able <3

Live right now! the morning show with Open Mike Eagle: 2025 music in review part 3 | rapping about rapping discourse twitch.tv/open_mike_ea...

Excellent piece by @dirkmoses.bsky.social in @thediasporist.bsky.social thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...

one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills

[Official TL] NekoNyan announces Secret Love (Kari) Choose a public relationship or enter an "immoral" pure love route, where you keep your status a secret and enjoy it that way Created by Kishida Sora (Sugar*Style), 2 routes were written by Watanabe Ryouichi (Aokana, HaruKuru)

An excellent and indepth piece detailing the increasing digital surveillance and harassment of Kashmiris by Rayan Naqash and Pallavi Pundir genderit.org/index.php/fe...

"Hasan Piker's China Visit Marshalls the Cliches of Western Leftist Orientalism" by @brianhioe.bsky.social

we are cooked www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

People who argue "who cares it's just for kids" all I can say is fuck right off. Kids deserve thoughtful, well-made movies that challenge them just as much as adults do. Kids aren't stupid, and they remember how movies affect them basically forever.

UNBEATABLE

EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too. Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.

no AI in Romeo!! we ❤️ artists 🫶

Here's a quick episode on what the upcoming class on Lebanon (starting Jan 2026) is about and how you can register Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6ZtP... (and on any other podcast app) All details here too: thefirethesetimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

Listen. Lebanon is complicated. Like really complicated. But if you have any hope of understanding it's history and politics, its by attending elia's masterclass. I've followed his writings for over 10 years and he has one the most insightful, resourced, and intersectional understandings out there.

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Our handbook has a page on the publisher site :) (Available open access! Dont mind the price!) www.bloomsbury.com/us/ib-tauris...

A friend of mine and his family's home were destroyed by Israel exactly one year ago today. They are still displaced to this day. He set up this fundraiser to be able to cover basic essentials. Please please support him. www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-re...

I rly need ppl who are simping hard for Mamdani AND those who are bashing those who are simping to accept one thing: revolution will never come from the top. It's not about the person, its the structures.

New video out now! I talk about the many different (though often intertwined) crises in Lebanon at the moment. youtu.be/dFBE7NeDKdA

i am once again thinking about my favorite ever excerpt from our yiddish textbook

Long-ish read but super essential. The inability for the Western Left to stand in solidarity with the Syrian Revolution presents a rupture that is still widening. There needs to be a reckoning if we're ever to build a real, tangible internationalism. spectrejournal.com/rethinking-t...

Hey y'all, will soon start an online class on Lebanese history and politics. If you're interested, send me an email or Signal. Please say why you're messaging. I'll send an email/text (no more) with more details soon. Email: [email protected] Signal: @ ayoub.02

New article out now with @smokegatherer.bsky.social and Nasir Almasri on the Palestinian movement and demobilization. We look at the protests of 2021, the unity intifada, and their aftermath on the structure of the movement. Hopefully the 1st of a few articles on this topic doi.org/10.3167/cont...

Great article on @intrrgum.bsky.social about how engaging in precarious jobs impacts migrant labourers. interregnum.ghost.io/from-the-gro...

Familiarize yourself with the term Campist. This is basically what a lot of us mean when we talk sht about Tankies. It's a rly dangerous way of thinking that honestly is setting us back so much from actually combatting fascism, imperialism, capitalism, etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campism

The new issue of the Made in China Journal is out! This time we explore what it means to come of age in China today, at a moment when the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless. Download the whole issue at madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/27/b...

🚨 The @unesco.org just released volumes 9, 10, 11 of its monumental “General History of Africa”, a massive project launched 60 years ago with a clear goal: to tell the history of Africa from an African perspective. www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

The siege of al-Fasher in Sudan by the RSF militia has been on-going for 18 months now. Famine has set. People are suffering. If the city falls, untold atrocities will unfold. The resistance committee of al-Fasher wrote a statement 2 days ago. I read it out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wJU...

- Local sources indicate food has completely run out in Elfashir "after [...] RSF completed its encirclement of the city with the earthen barriers." - SAF airstrikes reported in Nyala, South Darfur (green). #KeepEyesOnSudan

I made this video 4 days ago. As of today, Elfashir has completely run out of food, and the earthen barriers RSF have been building around the city are now complete. Oh, and RSF drones struck a town in Khartoum State and another in Northern State. In case anyone gaf. #KeepEyesOnSudan

please help or share if you can. barely ate for days and im currently homeless as well. www.gofundme.com/f/57q2f-a-li...

Yangyang Cheng is one of them most astute, insightful, and sensitive writers chronicling the political, cultural, and technological life of China today. I am so honored that she took the time to read and review these two novels by Fang Fang. chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...

At 83, Tova Moradi fled the Taliban with the help of Israelis. From her new home in Canada, she recounts her story of forced marriage and a lifetime of hiding to Freshta Jalalzai, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Christian nationalists are not against state control. They are pro-authoritarianism and censorship, and habitually promote and implement anti-liberty policies in power. They simply don't like any state that isn't run by them or people like them. Don't ever believe their rhetoric.

Michelle King on two accessible new books on Taiwan that, fittingly, treat its history as of great interest for its own sake lareviewofbooks.org/article/one-... ...read the essay along w/this lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-de... & this lareviewofbooks.org/article/move... work well as a Taiwan trilogy

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

(Not) Naming Terror? Xianzhong and the Politics of Terrorism Designation in China - Chi Zhang, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...