So many women have been talking, writing and warning people of the dangerous ideologies and biases of tech in Silicon Valley, for decades, and it’s so infuriating that so many men (not OP here) just flat out ignore it and act surprised at the technofascists infecting it now

"It is time for the State and the private sector, together, to establish an arts-funding agency that will not be a political football and is properly constituted with strict funding rules to avoid nepotism and other forms of corruption." trinidadexpress.com/opinion/colu...

My article on Sam Selvon and his post-indentureship narratives is now out in the latest issue of the journal Anthurium. Pleased to have my work alongside that of Cornel Bogle, Ronald Cummings, Nalini Mohabir, Simone Dalton, and Ramabai Espinet. It's open access:  anthurium.miami.edu/35/volume/20...

Must read www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

This makes clear how irresponsible David Eby's recent comments in Surrey were

the mendacity here is galling: "We can't have an immigration system that fills up our homeless shelters and our food banks."

Irene Bloemraad with the right call here: "focusing on immigrants is an easy way, to be totally frank, to turn the attention away from deep structural problems such as a lack of affordable housing"

widespread austerity measures, the omni-presence of the US military, and the unfettered deployment of everything AI are united in the aim of reining in all that might coordinate change

US boosts military presence in region: fighter jets coming trinidadexpress.com/news/local/u...

More perverse rhetoric from Trinidad's PM: apnews.com/article/trin...

So the US military is now at war with a vaguely defined enemy (drug cartels) across a vast area (the Caribbean) with no specific goal (“winning” and “defeating them”) and accusing a regional government (Venezuela) of sponsoring that vague enemy without showing proof? Sounds pretty forever warish.

Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out: "Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."

My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...

Looking for some good reading about AI in education? Check out this new special issue "Theorizing the Future of Generative AI in Education" just out @lmt-journal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjem20/5...

Absent of substance. The promise of broadly beneficial disruption is all Solomon ever manages. Hard not to think that selling that promise is his primary job

Edwidge Danticat - This Is My Body www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

This issue of The Continent includes an excellent series of pieces on the war in Sudan by Sudanese authors. Read it instead of the recent Atlantic article. www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

John Henton on how he got the role Overton in Living Single (from the podcast ReLiving Single)

Palantir is in the news a lot lately. However, the public discourse about the company often misconstrues it as a data broker, a data miner, a single centralized database, etc. But what does Palantir actually do? I wrote a piece to firmly & clearly answer that question: www.wired.com/story/palant...

"we don't only need money, we need political pressure. We need the intl comm...to press on the warring parties and their backers to ensure that intl humanitarian law is respected so that ppl are fed, ppl get access to healthcare and are not targeted when doing so" www.aljazeera.com/video/inside...

I've increasingly seen the older ppl in my life negatively affected by chatgpt (not to mention crypto). Obscene how quickly govts have enabled these technologies, when they so easily lend themselves to misinformation and grift. A lot of the harm goes under the radar arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Media network condemns ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.

Announcing the publication of sx salon 49, an issue celebrating the work of Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist Lorna Goodison. Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...

Tomorrow’s Guardian front page

“immigration attorneys told the Herald that conditions at Krome are ‘the worst seen in 20 years’ and have ‘risen to the level of an international human rights disaster.’” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

"What does it do to a child to see their classmates, or classmates’ parents, taken by ICE at pickup or graduation? How does surveillance and abduction become internalized, the sensation of always being watched?"

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025. Check out Kris Singh's (@krissingh.bsky.social‬) essay “Artificial Intelligence, Tyrannies, and Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber" in our most recent issue. www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025. Check out Gabriel Cambraia Neiva's essay "Wilson Harris, the Zemi Shaman" in our most recent issue. www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025. Check out Betsy Nies's essay “Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and the Impossibility of Innocence: Representing the Trauma of Childhood Experience in Trinidadian Young-Adult Literature" www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/

"While open-source models or synthetic models can be extremely worthwhile technological efforts, highlighting only these offerings can serve to downplay and ultimately bury the ways in which these models and language data and community involvement is serving proprietary multilingual models"

Currently reading Marjoleine Kars's fascinating account of the Berbice Rebellion

Happy to have my article on artificial intelligence and Nalo Hopkinson's novel Midnight Robber published in the Journal of West Indian Literature. Grateful to the JWIL team, the reviewers, and the issue's editors Michael Bucknor and Aon Ul Abideen.  www.jwilonline.org/downloads/vo...

Happy Fourth! In the 1950s and 60s, Cold War liberals rewrote the story of American independence in an anticolonial vocabulary, proclaiming the US the “first new nation.” This was part of an effort to constrain movements for decolonization at home and abroad: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Aid seekers in Gaza have come under fire again on Wednesday. It’s been happening for weeks and has killed hundreds of Palestinians according to local officials. #AJStartHere's @sandragathmann.bsky.social explains what’s going on ⤵️

Take action against Bill C-2 via this template from the Migrant Rights Network migrantrights.ca

Many important insights in this piece. I particularly appreciate its juxtaposition of the influence of US anti-migration policy and rhetoric with Canada's track record: "Canada is no stranger to its own quiet brand of authoritarianism, particularly when it comes to migration"

Ending queer month w/ a recommendation for Andrew Salkey’s novel Escape to an Autumn Pavement (1960). One of the finest in queer Black British writing. The indeterminate queerness at the end is remarkable. Sexuality is both a choice & an alignment w/ a regime. Not to choose then reads as resistance.

“These women, whether they’re legal or not, do have a right to make reports to the police. My experience is that there is not much redress from the police or comfort they get. Our whole social welfare apparatus, for both locals and migrants, needs to be beefed up" trinidadexpress.com/newsextra/mi...

We're buzzing to share our Spring issue (Issue 69) with you! Stay tuned for individual contributor features to come, and read all of the pieces on our website now: ex-puritan.ca/issue-69-spr...

It's no coincidence that the long project of AI facilitates expansion of the military-industrial complex. That's always been its nature. Solomon, unfortunately, seems more interested in cheerleading than anything else www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Best batch yet tbh #peppersauce

Fantastic article by William Davies: "We are beginning to witness what happens when these algorithmically channelled resentments show up in mainstream politics." Wendy Hui Kyong Chun also takes this up in fascinating ways in her book Discriminating Data

This piece from Gadi Algazi is a must read. www.972mag.com/gaza-expulsi...

"While universities face legal, technological, and economic lock-in, individual staff and students face different kinds of challenges to their educational and social rights, with less room for collective action"

I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.

'The Israeli garrison state has made clear that it is not satisfied with overwhelming regional military superiority; it also seeks the permanent incapacity of its neighbours.' Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi on Israel's regime-change agenda: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

“Today their legacies demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity.” @jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow: