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A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Open Call For The Futures Past 2.0 | Electric South Futures Past is a dedicated project that supports archival and cultural institutions in South Africa, Lesotho and Malawi through immersive storytelling.

ARTISTS OPEN CALL ALERT: Are you an immersive artist based in South Africa, Lesotho or Malawi? Futures_Past is inviting teams to reimagine heritage through immersive storytelling. electricsouth.org/open-call-fo...

@electricsouth.bsky.social

The winter round of the @jerwoodfoundation.bsky.social Fund is open!

For organisations with a focus on making art available for public benefit and working with the Jerwood Collection.

jerwood.org/fundi…

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

1/2: Good to see a strong economic argument for #publicinterestmedia being made by leading economists including @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social @francescabria.bsky.social @dacemoglumit.bsky.social in this statement:

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Why was there a Kindertransport?

Because we wouldn't let their parents come with them.

Five years into the Nazi persecution, we wouldn't let their parents come with them. And we insisted every child had someone to meet their "costs". And we only agreed on condition most would "re-emigrate".

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

I hate the word "agentic" - it's almost as bad as "growth hacker."

AI models are neglecting African languages — scientists want to change that Scientists record 9,000 hours of languages spoken in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa as free-access training data for AI models.

Scientists record 9,000 hours of languages spoken in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa as free-access training data for AI models

go.nature.com/4miL25O

Johannesburg’s creative hubs are booming: how artists are rejuvenating a failing inner city Johannesburg’s inner city has seen a surge in creative hub development, driven by artists with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Johannesburg’s creative hubs are booming: how artists are rejuvenating a failing inner city
theconversation.com/johannesburg...

The Interpreters: One of South Africa’s remarkable anthologies This magnificent anthology will surely emerge as one of the best books out of South Africa this year, if not this decade.

Looking forward to reading this. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

They Turned Pranks, Hoaxes, and Parody Into Iconic Acts of Revenge. Then Something Got Revenge on Them. In Trump’s exhausting second term, we need them more than ever. But what happens when your target becomes revenge-proof?

When everything feels like parody how do you parody?

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I know this is very 1990s of me but driving around blasting Rage Against the Machine is incredibly cathartic.

YouTube video by Scott Peter Smith Africa’s Most Ambitious Indie Game? | Ben Myres on Building Relooted

Africa’s Most Ambitious Indie Game? Ben Myres on Building Relooted www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZEa...

Another month, another artist unable to attend a festival to celebrate their work because visas are inefficient (and often unfair to boot).

Screenshot of post from X “initial_rhi 8h Everyone in LA, when the Marines get here hand them your screenplay so they leave immediately”

A terrifying escalation:

💔 I don't think he had an easy life but what a gift he gave us through his music.

I Know What the Apple Vision Pro Is For The headset is already changing disabled users’ lives.

This article is from June last year but I finally got to try a Vision Pro and it's still relevent. The AVP was both wow and meh for me. But the accessibility affordances are incredible. nymag.com/intelligence...

A stock photo of two people doing business on a staircase.

Two dudes standing around a watercooler, presumably having a 'watercooler conversation' about last night's Seinfeld or whatever.

A woman reclining in a chair in a business suit with her shoes off.

A guy in a suit on a city street doing some damn business on a cell phone. The business never stops!!!!!

Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.

Yes exactly - we all carried this little book around with us! I lived in London not only without a smartphone but without any kind of mobile phone for 6 years. Every trip was an adventure!

YouTube video by THE HERDS THE HERDS - Creating impact across 20,000km

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FUA...

Lifesize herd of puppet animals begins climate action journey from Africa to Arctic Circle The Herds project from the team behind Little Amal will travel 20,000km taking its message on environmental crisis across the world

The puppets are so beautiful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Bookmarking. www.costarnetwork.co.uk/latest/an-in...

YouTube video by Sophia Tung This is where all of The Internet is stored

📹 Setting up a livestream isn’t easy. That’s why we turned to an expert: Sophia Tung.

See how this creative software engineer brought her signature mix of tech + chill to our new microfiche scanning livestream—now preserving government records in real time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93Q...

Great to see this amazing art centre in Uganda getting some love! rollingstoneafrica.com/film-tv/tv-n...

Today’s Chartbook features a tabular history of the world economy and the ascendant schools of economic ideologies (from Steven Blitz at TS Lombard). Truly fascinating stuff!