Really nice interview with Gauhar Raza on science and it's struggles with religious fundamentalisms in a country like India youtu.be/OPLFh1A-HCE?...

What have these barbarians done to Hinduism and to our country!!! 💔😢 aje.io/qebprg

It’s a bit sad that so many more Americans will have debates about the propriety of a group chat about bombing Yemen than about, well, bombing Yemen

The level of incompetence and hubris is something else. But what really got me were the emojis: these guys are basically playing video games.

A headline like this would have been impossible even 5 years back gizmodo.com/china-delays...

As expected Grok AI has no guardrails, like its owner. What you will read here is, frankly, quite frightening; straight out of Black Mirror! www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

Besides being callous and idiotic, this is perhaps the most historically illiterate argument I’ve ever seen. Has this man never encountered a single book, or just like… an older person?

Who'd have thunk!!??? Francis Fukuyama berating American Imperialism www.persuasion.community/p/the-new-am...

This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin. Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset. Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From the river to the sea!!!

This Palestinian girl comforted her little brother, despite being injured herself, after a recent Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat, central Gaza.

I don't know why the SF Chronicle avoids mentioning specifics at all. But the "violation of workplace conduct policy" alluded to here was a social media post promoting fundraising for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which offended some racists. She was fired for supporting the UN.

It is more than an accusation. Israel's top officials boasted that this is precisely what they were doing. They confessed joyously. Period. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

i think countries that are going to arrest netanyahu should stop announcing it and instead they should invite him to speak or something and when he arrives put a fucking bag over his head

After seven years of rejections and revisions, my article "Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers’ labour migration from a ‘climate hotspot’" is now published with the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... OA: Please check it out!

'Nan Shan, Tibetan Frontier', Nicholas Roerich, 1936.

The mountain Ama Dablam, with mani stones in the foreground.

Somewhere in Upper Mustang, Nepal. Photographed by J.F. Meyer.

Actually a problem I have with Bluesky

136,000 prisoners. Let it sink.

Who is #Luigi Mangione? He is a reader with 295 books listed on Goodreads. He holds a Master’s & Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of PA. He was the valedictorian at Gilman School in Baltimore. Worked on machine learning, robotics w/ projects on GitHub. An anti-capitalist.

We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe. ~ Frantz Fanon

It's not the Robin Hood story folks wanted but attractive, well-heeled young guy who had back surgery, unrelenting pain to the point of impacting his mental health. He withdraws from his peeps, eventually goes to a dark place, and eventually takes it out on insurance CEO. Still relatable.

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We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians

Important point... Human planted trees (and forests) are almost always an ecological disaster. What we need to do is remove our intrusive presence and nature will bloom, literally.

You will do readings where no one shows up. You will set up at events and sell no books. Rejection will show up in your inbox again and again. You will say “I wrote a book!” and folks will stay quiet or say “Cool!” and then not buy it. It’s all good. Part of the gig. KEEP AT IT.

#Oral #History methodology differs from other #Research : Interviewing Chaganbhai Kevat in 2008 and once again in 2024, 16 years later. Before the Sardar Sarovar Dam was built and after many years of its completion.

Sednaya was once so hidden that the only reconstruction of what it looked like used acoustic mapping from survivor testimonies. We spent 4 years trying to shed light on contemporaneous conditions, and it haunted me we couldn't do more. To see it open & inmates walking free... my god.

I’ll always root on a prison being torn down, people returning home, and loved ones embracing after being split apart for years. What tomorrow brings, I don’t know, but it’s still today.

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

Is it mere coincidence that we are seeing three instances (via news) of Google Maps misleading people in just the last two weeks?

The news coming out of Syria is amazing. Especially the release of the disappeared from Assad’s horrific prisons. And for those of you a bit “hmm, keep a hold of nurse” right now: the Assad regime - Bashar & his father Hafez - was pure evil. It is a thrill just to put that sentence in past tense.

I’m not a Syrian refugee anymore. I’m Syrian. Just Syrian.

if i were the NYPD i would try releasing some facts about the shooter that do not make him sound awesome

Unlikely that the US will be able to substantively reduce its foreign aid giveaways, as its global power depends on precisely that. It's a great idea and one which we all should support. The US imperialism

No flour, no bread, no pampers, no food, no electricity, no water, no houses, no clothes, no cures, no tikiats, no aid. Nothing. Tell us how we live?

Happy to see a chapter (co-authored with John Echeverri-Gent and Aseema Sinha) on Narendra Modi's economic record published. Many other informative chapters too. It is Open Access as well. www.jstor.org/stable/10.39...

No discussion of decolonization can be complete without understanding the importance of Vietnam and Algeria, and how their liberation struggles inspire oppressed people all over the world, including the Palestinians. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/vietnam-algeria-palestine-passing-on-the-torch-of-…

World Central Kitchen volunteers have been hit again, by an #Israel’i airstrike in #Gaza today. One of the only orgs successfully getting food to thousands of starving Palestinians is now pausing ops while they investigate what happened & figure out how to protect their staff under these conditions.

Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen. What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.

Most celebrated use cases for AI (personalized learning, medical care, etc.) only make sense in scenarios of absolutely bloodthirsty austerity, in which public investment in the common good is completely decimated. When you notice that, you realize that these interests are intertwined.