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"Privacy is not a bunker; it's a commons."

“Sovereignty is never in isolation; it's always in relation."

"We refuse acceleration without direction, optimisation without ethics, and autonomy without care."

"We do not merely seek privacy, we seek solidarity."

YouTube video by CLEAR Global What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech: Nwulite Obodo Open Data License - January 2025

🤔 What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech?

@aimeeansari.bsky.social discusses Nwulite Obodo Open Data License, a license for sharing African language datasets, developed by Data Science Law Lab at the University of Pretoria, with others in South Africa and Kenya.

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The Black Utopians; vision, history, and legacy | KCRW Utopian vision and how it influenced Black thinkers and leaders in the 1960s is discussed by sociologist Ruha Benjamin and author Aaron Robertson.

Utopian vision and how it influenced Black thinkers and leaders in the 1960s is discussed by sociologist Ruha Benjamin and author Aaron Robertson.

The ‘Next’ big thing? Turkey's new social platform faces scrutiny over ‘domestic’ label The platform was described as the country's first “domestic social media application,” offering users a new generation of social media free from ads and harassment.

The social media platform Next Sosyal, backed by Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), was launched on July 28th. A few days later, users discovered that the platform was not a website developed from scratch but was instead based on Mastodon, without complying with its license.

Dox Defense Resources Dox Defense“Doxing (or doxxing) is the internet-based practice of researching, documenting, and broadcasting PII (private or personally identifiable information) about an individual or organization to...

Resources for protecting yourself from doxxing.

"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up new age term, and if does a lot of damage." -Charlie Kirk

Benjamin Franklin: "And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes are generally of what we call a swarthy complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English make the principal body of white people on the face of the earth."

あの戦争に「負けたけど勝ったんだ論」の罪深さ（古谷経衡） - エキスパート - Yahoo!ニュース ・「負けたけど勝ったんだ論」とは何か　８月１５日。７２年目の敗戦の日である。戦後の右派、保守派を「支える」あの戦争に対する戦争観の主流に「負けたけど勝ったんだ論」というのがある。これは私が勝手に名付け

Tsunehira Furuya, one of the sharpest critics of Japan’s resurgent far right, analyzed the rhetoric through which the Japanese right rationalizes its aggression against China and other countries—namely, the claim that Japan was helping Asia to decolonize.

My heart is sad on this day, especially for my queer brothers and sisters in Burkina Faso. Thomas Sankara was super progressive on this front, and ensured that no part of the Burkinabe working class was left behind. He'd be rolling in his grave because of this. But we don't give up. We fight on! 🙏🏾♥️🔥

A History of the Tabloid Newspaper | Historic Newspapers A look back at the history of the tabloid newspaper on both sides of the Atlantic, from its inception in the early nineteenth century to the present.

“In the late nineteenth century, a Tabloid was a trademarked medicine, its name a compound of ‘tablet’ and ‘alkaloid’.”

"Black—favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists—has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas..."

(PDF) Race, gender, and Occidentalism in global reactionary discourses PDF | This article seeks to deepen understanding of the global politics of reactionary discursive formations, which at the current conjuncture... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

Chenchen Zhang analyzes the discourses of Chinese right-wing online nationalists and dissident intellectuals against “white leftists”(白左), offering a prime example of how the grammars of global reactionary discourse are localised within different political projects and ideological constellations.

“Glissant’s opacity is an ethical mandate to maintain obscurity, to not impose rubrics of categorization and measurement, which always enact a politics of reduction and exclusion.”

Weaving plural collectives in climate activism | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society How can diverse views on climate change translate into concerted action? Farhan Samanani explores this theme.

#TCRUSeminarSeries Weaving plural collectives in climate activism (Dr Farhan Samanani, King's College London)
G03 (55-59 Gordon Square) at 12pm, Thursday, 6 March 2025, followed by lunch.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Conviviality and its others: for a plural politics of living with difference Over the past 15 years, a range of scholarship exploring how people live with difference in their everyday lives has come to mark a multi-disciplinary ‘convivial turn’. This article suggests that w...

Farhan Samanani on how we may “...stage openness in relation to care, to leave space for opacity within support, to enfold transformation within familiar identities, and so on.”

“Between Men”: Vying Masculinities in 1970s U.S.-China Relations Upon his return from the People’s Republic of China in 1971, the Black Panther featured an image of Black Panther Party co-founder and Minister of Defense Huey Newton shaking hands with Vice Premier…

“In the escalating geopolitics of the Cold War, Mao Zedong chose survival over “friendship diplomacy” with radicals around the world.”

中国の「爆速成長」に憧れる〈中華未来主義〉という奇怪な思想 「現代ビジネス」は、第一線で活躍するビジネスパーソン、マネジメント層に向けて、プロフェッショナルの分析に基づいた記事を届ける新創刊メディアです。政治、経済からライフスタイルまで、ネットの特性を最大限にいかした新しい時代のジャーナリズムの可能性を追及します。

MIzushima Kazunori: "Once the prime target and adopter of ‘technological Orientalism,’ the Japanese have now ceded that position to the Chinese and others."

WP: Neoliberalism's true heirs: What late-apartheid South Africa can teach us about the contemporary far right, by Elizabeth Freda Soer
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A buffalo at the Met, and a video game about stealing African art held by western museums

The upcoming video game 'Relooted' offers an Africanfuturist twist on art repatriation, allowing players to 'steal' artifacts like a buffalo figurine at the Met.

Developed by a team from 12 African countries, it challenges colonial narratives.

#Relooted #ArtRepatriation

【走入巴勒斯坦】系列報導（七） 信仰與身份的夾縫：巴勒斯坦酷兒的內在離散 如果缺乏宗教給予的支持，誰能撐過戰亂帶來的巨大肉體與精神創傷？然而，穆斯林社群中是否又存在著一些，與伊斯蘭教義存在張力或扞格的人群，如果有，這些人又該如何找到支持自我的能量？

A Taiwanese journalist’s report on the inner displacement of local queers in Palestine.

Contributor Covenant | A Code of Conduct for Digital Communities The most widely adopted code of conduct in open source.

We're thrilled to announce Contributor Covenant 3.0, a major revision to the most widely adopted code of conduct for open source and other online communities!

www.contributor-covenant.org

旅日作家李琴峰發 「被迫出櫃聲明」 六千字怒控霸凌者的嚴重數位性別暴力 | 虛詞編輯部 |

Taiwanese-born writer Li Kotomi, the first Taiwanese recipient of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, stated that she was subjected to cyberbullying in Taiwan, which ultimately led to her decision to relocate to Japan.

In 2022, Pavel Litvinov—a Soviet dissident who was exiled to Siberia for his role in the 1968 Red Square demonstration—discusses Putin’s Ukraine invasion.

AI-Powered Drones Carry Deadly Potential in Africa - Africa Defense Forum ADF STAFF From Ethiopia to Libya to Mali, armed drones have become an increasingly important part of the battlefield arsenal. The rapid rise of drones powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is raisin...

“From Ethiopia to Libya to Mali, armed drones have become an increasingly important part of the battlefield arsenal.”

We Just Build Hammers: A New Book by Coraline Ada Ehmke Stories of visionaries from the past, present, & future of responsible tech, and the science fiction that inspired them. Available now from Apress.

It's here! "We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech" brings to life tales of the unsung heroes of responsible tech and the science fiction that inspired them.

thehammerbook.com

#TechJustice #EthicalSource #ResponsibleTech #TechEthics #TheFutureIsSoft

The Body as a Battleground The Whirling Dervish in Istanbul, 2025

"The act of whirling is no longer solely a spiritual exercise; it becomes a powerful political statement."