Today is yet another day of reminding myself that I will regret using AI to get to Inbox Zero. I’m still not using it.

Sehr interessante Ausgabe von "What happened last week?" von @shamjaff.bsky.social u.a. zur Militärpolitik in China und 2026 anstehenden Wahlen in Afrika. gishty.com/issues/2026-...

Rojava/DAANES wasn’t supposed to exist, but it did.

Ich find’s wichtig, über die Taliban und ihre internen Streitereien zu berichten. Ich find’s aber auch wichtig, zu betonen, dass die sogenannte “moderatere” Gruppierung innerhalb der Taliban deswegen als moderat gilt, weil sie Frauen und Mädchen Zugang zu Bildung gewähren möchten.

I think it’s important to report on the Taliban & their internal power struggles. I also think it’s important to be clear about what “more moderate” actually means in this context: a faction is considered moderate because it wants to allow women/girls access to education. That’s how low the bar is.

It appears that the expected #Internet shutdown in #Uganda has been implemented in advance of upcoming elections. A message from UCC_Official said the suspension of services would be effective at 1800 (15:00 UTC). At that time, we saw traffic from Uganda drop, falling 95% in under 30 minutes.

Plot for a movie you can steal: Main character goes to visit FIFA World Cup, ends up in a torture prison in El Salvador.

Help needed :)

Help needed :)

Simultaneously opening tabs on Rojava, Rojhelat and Bakur these days.

Die von mir sehr geschätzte Journalistin @shamjaff.bsky.social hat ein Interview geführt mit Gabriela Mesones, einer venezolanischen Journalistin. Und sie sagt u.a.: Bei all den Debatten um Öl sollten wir die Menschen in Venzuela nicht vergessen und was das diktatorische Regime ihnen angetan hat.

Stimmen aus Venezuela hören? @shamjaff.bsky.social hat die Journalistin Gabriela Mesones Rojo aus Caracas zu den Ereignissen der vergangenen Tage befragt: @gishtymedia.bsky.social

Wie sehen Linke vor Ort die Lage in Venezuela? Die Journalistin Gabriela Mesones Rojo kritisiert im Gespräch mit @shamjaff.bsky.social den US-Angriff und die rechte Opposition unter María Corina Machado scharf – aber ebenso Menschenrechtsverletzungen unter Nicolás Maduro (F+)

There used to be a time when it was our job as journalists to decode what's happening and why. Trump just eliminated us middlemen.

"We're in the oil business" - Trump

Waiting for Lula to wake up.

omg, just learned that @gishtymedia.bsky.social released her new (old) newsletter #whathappenedlastweek on ‪https://gishty.com‬ ! Looks already really good, and also very promising. A must go for anyone who likes to read about the world, curated by the wonderful @shamjaff.bsky.social :)

Es gibt ein neues Projekt / Portal von @shamjaff.bsky.social (@whlwnews.bsky.social). Schon jetzt sieht @gishtymedia.bsky.social klasse aus, ich bin gespannt auf das, was da noch kommen wird!

Is this the corner of the internet where I confess that I expected Mamdani to take that four hour train ride?

Can they just download the Epstein files to our phones like they did with that U2 album?

If you’re having a bad day, just know ex-Red Pill forums exist.

Here’s some important news I learned from @shamjaff.bsky.social’s global newsletter today: Australia secretively shipping people for indefinite detention in Nauru This world sucks sometimes, but this newsletter is great, and you should sign up for it.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

As a journalist, it is my duty to report the truth. Especially the uncomfortable ones.

Thanks so much, Caleb. This is such an interesting development.

Here’s an example of something interesting and important I learned today from @shamjaff.bsky.social. A link to her free weekly newsletter of underreported stories is in her profile. 📰

I recently watched a TikTok summarizing an article that was summarizing a documentary that was summarizing a trial. How valuable is information these days? Not sure.

Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire. Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*

Betreff: Politbarometer. Merz sagt in einem Satz fünf Sachen: 1) Es gibt „Probleme im Stadtbild“, 2) diese hängen mit Menschen zusammen, 3) die keinen dauerhaften Aufenthaltsstatus haben, 4) nicht arbeiten, 5) und sich nicht an unsere Regeln halten.

I still haven't seen any answer that makes sense to me. Why is an opinion journalist running CBS News as editor in chief? How did that happen, and what is the logic of that appointment? It still isn't clear to me.

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

I’m seeing a lot of “wow, look at all these Gen Z protests”-articles that lump all of these very legitimate protests in very different countries together. Just because young people lead them, and most use the One Piece logo. This is lazy journalism.

If you read today’s issue, you now hopefully have a good amount of skepticism, maybe even EWWW towards Takaichi, or “potentially Japan’s first female prime minister”, as other media call her.

My newsletter is finally on Bluesky! Show some love? 😘

Any Kurds from Georgia here?

Ich sag’s ja nur ungern, aber jede Person, die was mit Medien macht, sollte sich Gedanken darüber machen, wie abhängig man von der Reichweite bestimmt US-Plattformen ist. Das gilt nicht nur für soziale Netzwerke, sondern auch für Crowdfunding, Podcast-Hosting & Newsletter.

Jede Partei ist eine Umverteilungspartei. Die Frage ist, an wen.

Frage an die Community: Suche Expert*in für ein Gespräch über die juristische Einordnung der Global Sumud Flotilla.

Citizenship isn’t a universal shield. Its value depends on geopolitics, race, class, and whether your government sees you as worth the cost of protecting. #GlobalSumudFlotilla

Nothing on German TV on the Sumud Flotilla. Even if not for Gaza, not even for their own citizens. Watching Arabic news instead.

No, I will not fall for this. Charlie Kirk mastered rage bait. He was not a good debater. He did not argue in good faith, and he was absolutely not open to anyone else’s ideas.

An observation: Big liberal podcasts in the US spend a lot of time dissecting the “correct strategy” for Democrats. Of course, public discourse shapes politics, but wouldn’t their platform be more effective spotlighting concrete causes and events rather than debating endless hypotheticals?

As a journalist, my scariest horror movie is post-hoc narrativization. It's hard enough to "describe reality", but when people (or institutions) build a neat story about something after it has already happened, my ears perk up, and I'm on the edge of my seat. Much of journalism these days does this.

"The Taliban have yet to give an official reason for the shutdown." They don't need to. We already know it's about control. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bin so sad, dass ich alle meine Follower bei mastodon.lol verloren habe. Oh well. Bin wieder da und gebe Mastodon nochmal eine Chance. mastodon.social/@shamjaff

Wer ist auf Mastodon? mastodon.social/@shamjaff

Proteste sind moralisch wichtig, aber politisch oft ein stumpfes Schwert.

AfD verliert alle Stichwahlen in NRW, und damit gute Nacht.

Nepals Gen Z zeigt, wie Progressive das Netz für sich nutzen können. Sie zwang ihre korrupte Regierung zum Rücktritt und wählte nach dem Verbot von Social-Media-Plattformen eine neue – auf der Gamingplattform Discord. @shamjaff.bsky.social sprach für uns mit einem der Protestierenden (F+)

Perfect time to read this.