Another book you should get your hands on, and is also available for you to download and read online is this one here. Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power Edited by Felicia Anthonio and Tony Roberts (@phatcontroller.bsky.social)

Now that I’m back to a school and thinking like an academic again… I’m bout to get my hands on this!

At least three African countries that have accepted people expelled by the United States are now facing pressure from lawyers and campaigners.

NoViolet Bulawayo of Zimbabwe has won the 2025 Best of the Caine Prize for African Writing award! 🎉 jaylit.com/zimbabwean-w...

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Recognizing Palestine while funding Israel’s genocide is symbolism without substance. Our latest: what this recognition means, what it doesn’t, and why it’s happening now.

Guess this is what they mean when they say “Rh@desia will never die”

“Expats”? Tomboti.

The Osage Nation Historic Preservation Office has announced the full reacquisition of Sugarloaf Mound, the last remaining Native American mound in St. Louis and the city's oldest known human-made structure. www.newson6.com/story/68d25d...

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

Disney+ was already on the BDS list but it it had to take - *line cuts

Soon uhuru….

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We need a better less innocuous marketing terms than Chat Bots and Artificial Intelligence. What have yall got? Crap Bots Bullshit Bots Cheat Bots Echo Systems Vampire Tech Oligarch Tech Anti-Human Intelligence

I literally spent 10 min translating Lula’s speech about Palestine to English. I just need every single one of my gringo friends to listen to this man in order to maybe restore their faith in politics. This right here is a politician. This is why we voted for him. And personally, I’ll do it again.

This man must fry

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

I love Black women man because these expressions are full paragraphs.

This concludes our intensive three week course

“For me, it’s not just about a book — it’s an attempt to make our voice and our suffering heard. If we succeed in publishing the book, it might give me a chance to survive and leave Gaza. And if not, then at least, if they kill me, I will remain.” #BookSky 🧪 news.chanda.science/archive/gaza...

Alaa will be free!!!!

This document deserved a slightly closer reading. Shifting to faith-based providers means deprioritising abortion care and sexual health more broadly. There are many fantastic healthcare institutions run by religious organisations around the world but there are several that underserve women.

Estou do lado do povo brasileiro. As manifestações de hoje demonstram que a população não quer a impunidade, nem a anistia. O Congresso Nacional deve se concentrar em medidas que tragam benefícios para o povo brasileiro.

Huge news here today in Egypt: President Sisi pardons Alaa Abd El-Fattah after years of imprisonment & repeated hunger strikes.

This coming to pass would be terminal for many UK families of mixed-nationality - a truly dark future.

how much did google pay to slip an entire magazine of corporate propaganda into this weekend's @irishtimes.com newspaper disguised as public communication about AI

Canada and the UK formally "recognizing" the state of Palestine with massive terms and conditions that gives them no self determination is going to be the strongest example of the dangers of centrist attempts at appeasing everyone while appeasing no one; leading to the far right taking over

I'm in awe of Georgia Reads' mission to read a book from every country in the world. I'd never be able to do it but here's naming another good book from a country she's covered... 01. ZIMBABWE Life lessons and tales of Zimbabwe's struggle for independence in the form of a letter from a mother

A Zambian court has sent two men to prison for “attempting to use witchcraft” to kill President Hakainde Hichilema. The case relied on a colonial-era law. It’s the first time the country’s courts have handed down such a conviction.

Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

A British national is accused of murdering and dumping the body of 21-year-old in a septic tank back in 2012.

If Mugabe were alive and coherent, we’d have had an interesting speech on fascism in the USA. Like the time he said “orange tyrant” at the UN. (Because some of y’all will misquote me: please let it be known I still wasn’t a fan of the dude)

I mean… he’s not wrong.

Disorganised thread of street art, tags, graffiti, etc. I come across. Starting here:

The Wi-Fi?!!! Ok Mark.

SIGNED COPY OPPORTUNITY: If you buy my first book The Disordered Cosmos from @loyaltybooks.bsky.social and send me proof, I will send you a signed and personalized bookplate for it: loyaltybookstores.com/book/9781541... #BookSky

ZBC looking around like

“Then he came, the speaker. He stood in the square. He told us who to hate.” Been starting my mornings with William Stafford. Did not expect this one. (From The Way It Is) #poetry #writing

What kind of world is it if Jerry himself has to quit Ben & Jerry’s to remain true to Ben & Jerry? “If the company couldn’t stand up for the things we believed, then it wasn’t worth being a company at all” - Jerry Greenfield of #BenandJerrys

"The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom he or she continues to regard as totally ignorant, is grievously self-deceived." - Paulo Freire, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"

To be clear: this is a big fucking problem because we no longer have the time to drag your asses to liberation. That time has come and gone. To ask us to do so in this moment is to ask us to wage a war on your behalf while you benefit from our hard-won knowledge. Ain't nobody got time for that.

1. A song that makes you feel something you can’t quite name 2. Feeling in one’s body after a workout 3. Laughing so hard you snort with friends, family, lovers, or strangers 4. An outfit that looks good in the mirror as it did in your head 5. A book/story/play that draws you in

Former President Bolsonaro ordered to pay damages for racist comments www.reuters.com/world/americ...

In his new piece--which is largely about the reaction to his last piece--Ezra Klein says that he is deeply shaken by Charlie Kirk's murder essentially because they were in the same business: They both did public politics. This is honest on his part. It's also the problem. >

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.