Just 2k more to go, people. And this project has been fighting for 8 months. I have seen projects funded overnight - but THIS should be funded now. Translations. Black/African stories. In a world fraught with hate, we mend it with love. ko-fi.com/africantrans...

I am old enough to remember when the unis forced everyone to return to the classrooms during covid, refused to allow anyone to take a gap year, and endangered us all because they wanted the rent money. But I guess they have a new scam now. Won't even need students soon!

I know what my December read is

Join us tomorrow for an important event to discuss the future of internet freedom, and what we can do to protect digital rights. @phatcontroller.bsky.social Date: 26 November 2025 Time: 16:00–17:30 UK time Sign up here 👇 www.ids.ac.uk/events/inter...

When FB released its first iPhone app (pre-Android), if you let it have access to your contacts, and then deleted the app, IT WOULD LOCK YOU OUT OF YOUR CONTACTS. Just take the info with it. This company has always been particularly awful, even amongst tech awfulness.

Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.

The politics, theology, and hype behind the first gamer saint aftermath.site/carlo-acutis-g...

who- who do Britons think did the slavery

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

"theft tech" is a term my pal @astra.bsky.social thought of just today when we were working on our book about these End Times Fascists. We were thinking about what should happen when this this bubble busts, as we all know it will. Remember: they have bunkers. We don't. 2/3

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

Last day for submission!

“I hear you talk about ‘we’ a lot, oh you speak French now?”

Reminder to anyone who needs it today: Reading books (at home, on the bus, in Starbucks); owning books; loving books; discussing books. None of these things are “performative” unless you’re selling tickets.

Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us. The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off. That’s a win for basic law.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Therefore they are about 'entrepreneurs of memory' (ref: Marie Claire Lavabre) building (many reasons: political, financial gain, social cohesion, shaping of a 'national identity', etc.) a collective memory.

When fatigue & utter rage are cohabitating, endurance becomes both resistance and rebellion.

It's a notoriously low-risk, high-reward crime. I attended a well-resourced, painstakingly planned police cycle theft sting operation years ago, knocking on doors at dawn. The only thieves caught were at a roadside bike rack with their stolen bikes when officers happened to stop for a comfort break

Most critically, this: bsky.app/profile/clar...

Societal benefits: €100mn, of which almost €80mn is from wellbeing improvements - i.e. participants reporting more life satisfaction They used the WELLBY framework which values "a one-point increase in life satisfaction sustained over one year" at €15,000 www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/livi...

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

- put down the damn AI.

Rolling Stone crowns Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" as the #1 GREATEST SONG OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR 👑 "It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless." Ranked list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

This is amazing, Ireland! // Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

My attention was immediately caught by the claim that digital ID would help the 1 in 10 adults without a physical photo ID. Well ok, what about the 1.6m adults who don't have any kind of digital device? Or the 7.9m without basic digital skills? (Source: www.goodthingsfoundation.org/policy-and-r...)

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

This man must fry