#Sudan #TW #GBV #SA 🍇 ⛔ 🚫 @unhcr.org says sexual violence is being used as a weapon of war. At least 200 cases of rape & sexual attacks have been reported since RSF seized Elfasher but the true figure may be much higher. @ajenglish.bsky.social #KeepEyesOnSudan youtu.be/EaBQAjHgwAE?...

I appeared as an expert witness before the Joint Committee on AI at the Houses of Oireachtas (parliament of Ireland) to discuss "AI: truth and democracy" this morning. You can read my opening statement here: www.oireachtas.ie/en/publicati...

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says his Religious Zionist Party wants to ‘cancel the damned Oslo Accords’ and encourage Palestinians to leave Gaza and the occupied West Bank, a plan Palestinians say amounts to ethnic cleansing.

Fascinating piece // Niger • Uranium : derrière le rétropédalage de Niamey, le très actif lobbying d'Emmanuel Macron

If the league is being honest about the salary increment players are asking for eating so much into their profits, then they lied to the new franchises about the profitability of teams. If they are telling the truth, the they need to pay the players. #wnba

A labour dispute is looming within the WNBA.

At an embassy doing visa things and just watched a European get to the front of the line. They tried to charge their card but they didn’t have enough money to pay for the visa so they left the desk and went to ask a friend to send the money to make up the difference. Privilege, man.

As forewarned in the early promos “I keep it moving but if you knock on my door, I’ll open” Skylar Diggins. #unrivaled

France is in "an exceptional situation," the flood information service Vigicrues told AFP, due to rising water levels in a large number of areas. Relentless rain over the past month has saturated soil and caused rives to overflow 📷 Damien Meyer, Gaizka Iroz, Thomas Bernardi

Bird flu ravaging Antarctic wildlife, scientist warns. Scientists are sounding the alarm over the spread of bird flu across Antarctica, with a leading Chilean researcher telling AFP Tuesday of an observed strain "capable of killing 100 percent" of infected birds u.afp.com/S6MP

A lobbyist used AI to falsify 20,000 public comments to tip the scales against reducing deadly air pollution in homes. This has been illegal since at least 2019 - but enforcement would require a prosecutor brave enough to argue that "bot" can mean "AI". Crickets. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Allisha Gray outscored Chelsea Gray in the 1v1 finals but still lost. She’s the second highest scorer in the league and one of the most impactful players on both ends. I’m going to need you all to remember that now that #Unrivaled voting season has started. #MVLish 👀

During ICE's crackdown in Minnesota, an immigrant was shot and then charged with felony assault. DHS claimed he had attacked the agent who shot him. Now, those charges have been dismissed and the agents have been placed on leave.

This is a small thing in the scope of the many thing he did, but I will always remember Jesse Jackson as a Chicago Sky fan. He was often at games in the first season I covered the team (2019). It was so special to look over and just see an absolute titan coming in to cheer on women's hoops.

Huge swathes of France, Spain, Portugal and Morocco are underwater because of unprecedented flooding but European leaders at the MSC clapped for a man who called climate advocacy a “climate cult” because he said “let’s be friends again”?

Many children in Colombia join armed groups with the false hope of enjoying a better life or escaping difficult homes. Once inside these groups, however, children are forced to fill the most dangerous roles: www.crisisgroup.org/brf/latin-am...

The civil rights leader and US presidential hopeful 'died peacefully' on Tuesday, his family said.

New from me.

1/2 A glimpse into Burundi’s silent decline Overshadowed by war in its neighbourhood, economic depression, and continuing authoritarianism, Bujumbura feels threadbare. Read more: open.substack.com/pub/continen...

The US is deliberately denying Cubans access to fuel and lecturing China on authoritarian supply chains.

Goertzel discusses with Epstein future scenario for "an AGI economy": "for the AGI parasite to overcome to regular-human-economy host (so it can grow to be more than a parasite and eventually gain its own superhuman autonomy) it first needs to suck off the resources of the host"

This is *so* important.

Israel's government has approved a process to register land in the West Bank as "state property", drawing condemnation from Arab nations and critics who said it would accelerate annexation of the Palestinian territory. u.afp.com/S6N8

Nihilism is a luxury. Giving up is a luxury. Go and enjoy your luxury somewhere else and let the rest of us fight for the world we want and need.

What are the alternatives to Substack?

VIDEO: 🇪🇸 Severe flooding hits central Spain as river overflows after violent storm People in the Spanish town of San Esteban de Gormaz watch as the Douro River reaches historic levels following days of relentless winter storms. In towns in central Spain, floods are forcing some people to evacuate

Shame on everyone who has applauded and celebrated this poison. Shame on everyone who has reported this speech as some kind of indicator of progress. Shame on you.

What part of Rubio encouraging a return to the so-called West “settling new continents and expanding empires” made you feel more at ease? JFC.

The man casually admits to bombing Iran 14 times with no Congressional or UN approval and the headlines in European media is “at least he still likes us”. What are we doing here?

Don’t be so dumb that you can welcome racism in because it comes to you wearing an expensive suit.

Did people actually listen to this or just read the headlines?? youtu.be/5HtGx-GWgZU?

The son of migrants raging about how migration has ruined Western civilisation. You can’t hate your way into whiteness, man. Ask Vivek.

Just watching Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference and I think all these media houses are batshit crazy for focusing on the part where he says the Europe and the US relationship remains strong and not the part where he rambles *in defence of colonisation*

Breanna Stewart signing with Fenerbaçe does not bode well for the upcoming #WNBA season.

"Any claims of AI solving for population scale problems must be matched against the reality of the Global South, in which young boys were applying enamel paint on the railings... with their bare hands to prepare for the arrival of Silicon Valley CEOs." www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-im...

Gunmen attacked three villages in Nigeria’s Niger State, killing at least 46 people and abducting several others. The raids come amid a worsening security crisis involving Islamic State (IS) affiliated armed groups and criminal kidnapping gangs. 🔗: aje.news/cdf4qc | #Infograph

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

It’s not my academic domain but given all these men who suddenly have opinions about birth rates, if I were a sociologist in the US I would study women’s basketball as a case for the impact of childcare on mothers remaining in or leaving the work force. Anecdotally, we can see a huge differences.

Every player who has won an MVP-type trophy at #Unrivaled so far is a mom. May the #WNBA give these women the childcare they deserve so they can continue to pursue their dreams.

And_i_took_that_personally_michal_jordan.gif #unrivaled

Love to see research affirm something you observe as a fan. Dunking is cheap short term thrills with diminishing returns. The kind of audiences that you want to cultivate are those who pay attention to all the game play or develop an emotive connection with players/teams. #unrivaled #wnba

Chelsea Lakeisha Gray made more money last night than in a full season at the W. Allisha Gray, slightly more than a quarter of her annual salary. As Adam Silver tries to gaslight players into conceding, what was stopping the #WNBA from offering similar incentives for All Star Weekend for example?

I’m sad for my girl Lish. Atlanta didn’t beat Vegas once during the W season either. But she has also had a magnificent 12 months and as she said “if I had to lose at least I lost to the Point Gawd. You can’t say that I lost to a scrub”. #unrivaled

Chelsea has an opportunity to be the first player to collect the Unrivaled, WNBA, and Unrivaled 1v1 Championships within a year. #Unrivaled

Nothing could have prepared me for the sonic dissonance of hearing a person saying “slim thic” in a Sloanie accent.

Cartoon by Nick Anderson

Glad this is getting covered, but also… Completely surreal to read the NYT report on this as recently disclosed info, and just an allegation. This happened to every observer I know! It happened to me twice! I have it on video both times! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

The Dunking Paradox. The difference between the NBA in the 1990s and the NBA today is that Muggsy Bogues (5’3”) could never play in today’s NBA. Not because he isn’t good but because the game shifted to showmanship and force instead of skill, which he had in abundance. He had a 14 year career.

Y’all don’t understand how *good* Chelsea Gray is at basketball. #Unrivaled

NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found. The government keeps doing it nonetheless. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...