The good thing about data centers is that theyre flammable

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_L0... I couldn't help but watch this and not think how this is the level of discourse in the united states as regards the other who lives outside the borders of the society.No wonder elites here can so callously murder people abroad with 0 attempts to sustain accountability

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_L0... I couldn't help but watch this and not think how this is the level of discourse in the united states as regards the other who lives outside the borders of the society.No wonder elites here can so callously murder people abroad with 0 attempts to sustain accountability

A useful article here with other details about the Vatican's relationships with Silicon Valley tech and Anthropic blacksky.community/profile/did:...

The only one who fights for your rights is you. Don't look to anyone powerful to do that, they only respond to your pressure.

Leaders of corporations, foundations, entrenched religious institutions, they hear from each other much more so than anyone else. They're all in the same echo chamber. It's the same lesson I learned about academia and industry, Stanford and Silicon Valley being the same, etc.

What I've learned in the nonprofit space is that all of these people you thought were independent from each other, hang out in the same places, Davos or a bunch of closed door meetings for the world's power brokers.

You thought religious leaders of organizations endowed with billions were gonna side with you rather than the dudes who are about to make billions with their IPOs?

Well, with this official Vatican + Anthropic mandate, I guess it was only a matter of time when the religion of effective altruism, worshipping so-called artificial general intelligence, merged with entrenched religious institutions.

The pope doesn’t increase credibility by presenting his encyclical with a billionaire AI overlord. Presenting it with data workers, with communities protecting their territories against technological exploitation might have. But this is just another normalization of AI inevitability discourse

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 240 of The Continent The latest Ebola outbreak is the 17th in 50 years, with more than half occurring in the past 5 years. Mining-driven mobility and mistrust are fuelling the spread. Ironically, better containment has limited vaccine trials. bit.ly/240_TC

virginia woolf posing for a good time with friends after a viewing of clarissa in lagos nigeria

virginia woolf posing for a good time with friends after a viewing of clarissa in lagos nigeria

Reverend George Washington Henderson, theologian, professor, principal (b. 1850 in Virginia, enslaved) graduated University of Vermont as valedictorian in 1877, was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, & attended Yale. In 1894 he wrote "1st Memorial Against Lynching" addressed to the Louisiana legislature.

The US has deployed one of the largest warships in the world USS Nimitz to the Caribbean to threaten Cuba.

Every other week, I see a viral post about "tipping" and visceral responses as to why it's not required and "it's not my job to pay you" regardless of the bill. And again I keep saying.. we're having the wrong conversation. You're punishing poor people to make an under educated point

A Gallup poll has found that most Americans would really prefer not to live next door to a data center. Go figure.

ABC White House Correspondent Selina Wang was recording at the White House when she heard gunshots and took cover.

The spokesman of the Iranian foreign minister:

"The people get tired of dying," says one of Henry Dumas' short story characters. #tdih 1968 Henry Dumas (b. 1934), acclaimed author, was fatally shot by NY Transit police. 💔 Dumas's family had moved to Harlem in Great Migration. He was active in Civil Rights Movement. Read more ⬇️#TeachTruth

How Louisiana Became ICE Detention Central

The density of flights over central Louisiana, as seen in this map:

Today's quick update [May 22]: - Elfashir Resistance Committees: RSF abducts 23 students from Jebel Marra, Central Darfur on their way to take Sudanese Certificate exam, demand ransom for release. - RSF drones shot down in several parts of Khartoum State. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Enlightenment men were anti-black colonizers. www.tiktok.com @rey_philosophy/video/

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu0B... This scene summarizes a lot actually. "You're not even a nigga. You're African"

My latest for @climateconnections.bsky.social ✈️😅

This year, 239 million people need humanitarian assistance and the current humanitarian system cannot cope—it needs to change. Our latest Editorial—"Transforming the humanitarian system": spkl.io/63329Ahqp5

‘Rug’ by Selva Aparicio is carved into the wood floor

Arrogance is believing we can endlessly take without giving back. Arrogance is thinking technological cleverness will always save us from ecological collapse. Arrogance is assuming nature is a foe to be battled,rather than the very system that gives us life. ‎ ‎

this is like everything these days

How much did Starlink benefit from the close relationship between Elon Musk and Donald Trump? https://restofworld.org/2025/musk-starlink-trump-doge/?utm_campaign=row-social

These deaths and so many others can be traced back to Donald Trump and his contempt for the lives of people across this planet. https://bit.ly/43o4yX0

"the avant garde for the real storm troopers of imperialism and exploitation" fwiw, i grew up in tumutumu and went to high school in kikuyu

“We see ourselves as a complement to the UN process, free from the lobby of the oil industry, so that it has no influence on these agendas. This is the moment to put all our cards on the table.” Available in EN and ES.

"‪It would emit more CO2 than the entire nation of Jamaica."

"Alex quit their virtual assistant job in late 2025, saying they couldn’t handle the 'mind-numbing' workload anymore. 'It’s all AI comments by fake people answered with fake replies by other fake people,'...'It’s so dead internet, like none of this is real.' " restofworld.org/2026/virtual...

la.utexas.edu/users/hcleav... philosophy of history as narrative