Fascinating to see the range of filmmakers picking SIRAT: Pedro Almodóvar, Michael Mann, Luca Guadagnino, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Gints Zilbalodis, Karyn Kusama, Fede Álvarez, Ana Lily Amirpour, Andrew DeYoung, Pascal Plante. (It gets as many mentions here as SINNERS!) www.indiewire.com/gallery/dire...

Ni los 'data center'.

Lo de Masca es vergonzoso, con la complicidad de las autoridades de todos los niveles. #Tenerife www.atlanticohoy.com/tenerife/vec...

THREAD: Verified videos of anti-establishment protests in Iran on 1 January A group of protesters in the small city of Azna, in the western porvince of Lorestan, set fire to the local police station. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/Qz7rbxSWTp34...

THREAD: Verified videos of anti-establishment protests currently unfolding in Iran Protesters push back police and security forces on Tehran's Jomhouri Street. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/LKZH6YbnT2WE... @geoconfirmed.org

This is a great piece that speaks to my own family's background in NYC. Thanks to @mollycrabapple.bsky.social for writing it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is an outrageous abdication of journalistic duty. Grok's apology was prompted by a human, as was its equally vehement self-defense. People are willingly hurling themselves into the AI trashbin at the bidding of oligarchs who will happily remove them from their jobs.

🇾🇪 Yemen's UAE-backed separatists have announced the start of a two-year transitional period towards declaring an independent state after their forces seized large areas of the country's south.

The UAE-backed STC remains openly steadfast and is framing this as a north vs south war with the STC fighting against Saudi-backed Islah and Al-Qaeda militias. In a video speech, STC spokesman called Saudi Arabia an enemy.

The thinly veiled Saudi vs UAE proxy war for control of Hadhramaut is on. National Shield Forces and Yemen Emergency Forces (Saudi-backed) took the 37th Armoured Brigade/Al-Khasha base by force with Saudi air cover. Further airstrikes at Seiyun airport and 1st Military Region HQ.

How extreme is Jim O’Neill, Deputy Health Secretary who just froze federal childcare funding to every state based on a viral video? As a leader of the Seasteading Institute, he praised selling human organs on the free market b/c “There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused” 1/2

New Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson on the dangerous racist propaganda operation right wingers are engaged in (with the help of our shitty press)

🔴Info @politico.eu : La justice va se pencher sur les deepfakes de femmes déshabillées par Grok. Le parquet va étendre l'enquête ouverte sur X aux milliers de contenus non consentis qui prolifèrent sur la plateforme. Avec @klaradurand.bsky.social @emilemarzolf.bsky.social pro.politico.eu/news/210702

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

"100 million deportations" necessarily implies also the expulsion of all legal migrants, plus millions of (former?) US citizens too.

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Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

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Leftists shouldn't have clothes. If Rama wants to be warm, she should skin an animal and wear its hide.

🇱🇾 Libyans visit national museum reopened after 14 years In Libya's recently reopened national museum in central Tripoli, visitors wander past ancient statues and artefacts, rediscovering a heritage that transcends political divides.

On the ground violence in Yemen now seems to be the worst it has been since 2022

Luego se lamentarán por la crisis de la prensa.

Fuerte reducción de las llegadas de cayucos a Canarias en 2025. En 2024 llegaron 46.843 personas.

At first glance, 2026 looks like an in-between year for Europe. But on three topics that will define its future - rise of the radical right, direction of fiscal policy, Europe’s place in a multipolar world - it will prove pivotal. My column for @agendapublica.es: agendapublica.es/noticia/2052...

Haunting Soviet animation set in the faraway future of 2026 From: There Will Come Soft Rains (1984), dir. Nazim Tulyakhodjaev, Uzbekfilm

My annual report, Space Activities in 2025, is now available at planet4589.org/space/papers...

In his first press conference as NYC mayor, Zohran Mamdani announced three executive orders on housing and tenant protection One will revive the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants. He also revoked prior orders issued since Eric Adams’s indictment

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

Mamdani: "We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy ... I will govern as a Democratic Socialist"

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

The final death toll from the Trump administration's December boat strikes. #murder

The NYT editorial board members are wearing Black armbands while crying and vomiting today. Tomorrow's Editorial: "Just because you won the election DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN ACT LIKE YOU ARE THE MAYOR."

The era of big government been here for a while, news is Mamdani is trying to wrestle the state from the grubby hands of capital

Bernie Sanders publicly swears in Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor

AOC: New York City has chosen the ambitious pursuit of universal childcare, affordable rents and housing and clean and dignified public transit for all. We have chosen that over the distractions of bigotry and the barbarism of extreme income inequality

WATCH LIVE: The Inauguration of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Seven bodies recovered, 96 rescued after migrant boat capsizes, Gambia says reut.rs/4qtILql

Amazing collection of photos from @reuters.com capturing 2025…

I see that this excellent cartoon by Eneko is becoming viral, and not just in Spain. So I take the opportunity to show the original source and the author’s Bluesky account.

📷 #Fotos | Conmemoran el 32 aniversario del levantamiento armado Zapatista, en imágenes Las actividades conmemorativas del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional convocaron un encuentro sociocultural con intelectuales y activistas

Remnants of a Hellfire/JAGM rocket motor found after the December 18 US strike on Venezuela on claimed drug trafficking infrastructure in Alta Guajira.

B'Tselem, today: « Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza did not end with the “ceasefire” declaration. Blocking humanitarian aid, alongside ongoing airstrikes and shootings, is a direct continuation of the assault on Gaza’s population ».

The latest 🇺🇳 OCHA report talks about 2,08 million people in the Gaza Strip. Before October 2023, the figure of reference was 2,3 million people. Population loss as a result of genocide.

Gaza, 2025. By @euromedhr.bsky.social .

The Shadow magazine, cover dated January 1, 1940. Cover by Graves Gladney.

Nana Love – I Believe In Love [Nigeria/Ghana, Funk/Afro Disco] (1979) Funky Afro Disco heat by this London-based singer of Ghanaian origin most renowned for her 1978 album "Disco Documentary – Full Of Funk". https://redd.it/xanpzj https://youtu.be/DzcCg3fJy6A

Shintaro Kago

La situation au Soudan, dans @monde-diplomatique.fr du janvier 2026.

Setting off an insane amount of fireworks on your little front driveway has nothing to do with invader gangs; it’s one of the most white working class Dutch things you can think of

Had an interesting, hard interview with @adamconover.net on his podcast. I think he is a great example of a smart AI skeptic. My main messages were that AI is a really big deal, it has good & bad impacts, and that, by sitting things out, skeptics can’t guide use. open.spotify.com/episode/5cFK...