I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

One becomes numb so easily. But it's crucial to remember that after 2,5 years of bombing, displacement, and destruction, this is what people in Lebanon experience today. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

What the war in Iran and disrupting shipping in the Street of Hormuz, even if only for a few days, means for global economy and food supply—oil prices might not even be the first thing to worry about: nazem.substack.com/p/the-underw...

A very good piece on why the left can't jettison the concept of international law altogether, despite its limitations and structural arrangement which at times has repeatedly legitmized colonialism and might-makes-right.

If I was named CEO of Bluesky part of my growth strategy would be not to ban accounts with IP addresses from Gaza, in general work on diversifying my user base, globalise and make everyone feel welcome by actually banning racists. But I’m just a little user.

Noch was zu Iran, zum Kuhfladen Durchschneiden (ha!): Das Interview mit Roland Popp bei 99 zu Eins hier youtu.be/3TZPWh2q2_s

Now that I have listened to it twice let me recommend this podcast series by @thedigradio.bsky.social on the history of modern Iran, super insightful and can’t be shared enough👇

This International Women's Day, I want to talk about one of the strongest women I know. Over the past year, Samaa has survived and protected her family against seemingly insurmountable odds. You can help her at chuffed.org/project/157569 @mommunism.bsky.social @merryrobin.bsky.social #SkyHelp #Gaza

Surely the people of Iran now are going to rally behind the son of some former monarch who wants this war.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain. This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region. aje.news/64yl8m?updat...

Between October 2023 and January 2025, Israel destroyed at least 2,290,000 olive trees in Gaza In the West Bank, "Israeli settler attacks tripled on olive farmers and their land during the 2024 harvest" news.mongabay.com/2025/03/gaza...

The people of Gaza continue to struggle for basic sustenance, particularly now that Israel has once again restricted the flow of aid during its attack on Iran. The Gaza Soup Kitchen is still doing all it can to feed and provide medical support to as many people a day as possible. Please help them.

I never thought leopards would eat MY face!

The ones who kept quiet when they did this in Gaza will keep quiet when they do it in Iran and Lebanon, and no one will take them seriously the next the Russian military bombs a hospital in Ukraine.

Beste Zusammenfassung des ganzen Wahnsinns auf Deutsch youtu.be/ROhPWdsBTMc

This is a pivotal intervention that should also be widely read in Germany.

WHO (Weltgesundheitsbehörde) Direktor Ghebreyesus hat heute in Genf bekanntgegeben, dass sie bisher 13 US-israelische Luftangriffe auf Gesundheitseinrichtungen im Iran und einen solchen Angriff auf eine Einrichtung im Libanon bestätigen können. Kriegsverbrechen.

Israel's blockade of Gaza and starvation campaign is back. Support Reeem with a donation and help her heal.

Top neue Folge beim Parallelwelt-Palästina-Podcast hier über israelische Rüstungsindustrie und Kriegswirtschaft und BDS und so weiter und so fort👇 podcasts.apple.com/podcast/para...

"If we can have a civil war, great."

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Heiliger Strohsack Jesus Maria youtu.be/7fyufPkXLbs?...

"Die Hamas müsste nur die Geiseln freilassen, dann wäre Frieden", hat's wieder und wieder und wieder geheißen. Und während alle auf den USA/Israel/Iran-Krieg schauen, errichtet Israel die nächste Hungerblockade: #Völkermord #Genocide #Hungersnot

no more woke & gay international law

Wir arbeiten an einer imperialen Nachkriegsordnung im Nahen Osten und beerdigen dabei die globale Friedensordnung nach 1945...Merz zieht einen Schlussstrich und gibt zentrale Staatsräson (und Lehre aus der Geschichte), nämlich Geltung des Völkerrechts auf. Zeitenwende ins Dunkle

Gestern auf ARTE so ne Doku über Exiliraner in Europa gesehen und gelernt, dass alle den Shah wollen bis auf ein paar Querulanten in Paris die die Bewegung spalten—Konsens hart am manufacturen. Hier eine gute Übersicht über die Lage, Stand kurz vor dem Krieg, von einer, die sich auskennt 👇

US-Israel continues to hit border areas along the Iran-Iraq border - a likely sign that it hopes armed Kurdish fighters from Iraqi Kurdistan will come into Iran and take control of the Kurdish region at least….This is the fragmentation plan Israel has long wanted... x.com/perde_arkasi...

Iran has a great many Mandelas and Walesas. Most of them are in a prison that Israel bombed back in July.

Ich für meinen Teil warte zunächst einmal die rechtlich komplexe völkerrechtliche Einordnung der Bundesregierung zur US-Operation in Venezuela ab, die steht meines Wissens noch aus

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

Anyway, discovered this album through @philipsherburne.bsky.social's Futurism Restated newsletter (thanks!) and now it's finally out. It's guitar maestro Shane Parish playing the music of Autechre on acoustic guitar. Beautiful.👇 shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

Komisch, ich dachte ja es ging bei der Bombardierung der Wohnhäuser, Schulen und Krankenhäuser immer um die Hamas-Tunnel darunter aber naja was weiß ich schon

Not The Onion

not to minimize the abject horror but Trump basically does this exact thing every six months like clockwork

It is really not clear how long the U.S. can keep this up, the munitions really are limited (cc @proftalmadge.bsky.social), the Ford really is at the limit of its deployment, yet the maximal aims mean there's no clear endpoint. The U.S. has vast military power but real limits. 4/

Does anybody still understand why these wars are waged?

Also Pappé muss sein Lebenswerk jetzt nicht überarbeiten, ein neues Vorwort zur nächsten Auflage von Die ethnische Säuberung Palästinas wird's tun. Morris' Schlussfolgerungen wirken aber noch ideologisch verirrter als ohnehin schon.

Haaretz on new archival material on the Nakba accidentally discovered in Israel in 2024: "Thousands of newly discovered documents now make it possible to tell the true story of Israel's expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 – and to begin to grasp its bitter implications, post-October 7".

The latest Ms Rachel video lesson features little Rahaf, a survivor of the Gaza genocide, dancing and playing hide and seek youtube.com/watch?v=2dDp...

My friend Lama needs your help. As soon as she can get out of Gaza, she wants to continue her education in the UK or in Ireland. She has a few scholarships already, but sadly this won´t be enough. Please support her if you can. Thank you. chuffed.org/project/1682...

Activists from the anti-billionaire campaign group "Everyone Hates Elon" went to the Louvre museum in Paris where they hung a framed photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken by Reuters photographer Phil Noble on February 19.

“The least we can do here is to break the silence … You are not alone, we are not alone, we will not be alone.” listen to Emin Alper’s acceptance speech at Berlinale on the meaning of solidarity

Im Leben vieler Menschen, fern der westlichen Welt, hat der Luxus, unpolitisch durchs Leben zu gehen, nie existiert. Politische Arbeit ist dann kein Luxus oder Freizeitbeschäftigung, sondern kommt aus einer Lebensnotwendigkeit heraus.

„Kein Kind sollte Superkräfte brauchen, um einen Völkermord zu überleben“ Die Libanesische Filmemacherin Marie-Rose Osta gewinnt mit „Someday a Child“ den Preis für den besten Kurzfilm auf der #Berlinale2026 und hält eine sehr starke Rede.

die ganzen snarky „eat the rich“ movies die letzten jahre, die uns die superreichen als amoralische dumme spinner zeigten (triangle of sadness, the glass onion, the menue), wirken nach den epsteinfiles wie harsche untertreibung und eine verharmosung des themas.

It is difficult, as a Jew whose family was massacred in the Holocaust, to watch people come to this realization. Millions of us died because of people like this. The Holocaust was not that long ago! People have not evolved out of racism and bigotry. Folks like this will always live among us.

I have a small photo album of "royals in cars looking shit"