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A drone strike devastated Russia’s air force. The U.S. is vulnerable, too. The audacious attacks on Russian airfields highlight the power of unconventional, asymmetric warfare — and the threat to U.S. strategic bases and ports, experts say.

Ukraine’s audacious attacks on Russian airfields highlight the power of unconventional, asymmetric warfare — and the threat to U.S. strategic bases and ports, experts say.

South Florida meteorologist @johnmoralestv.bsky.social told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.

Cruel capitalism: a forum on media and fascism Abstract. This article introduces a forum on “Media and Fascism” by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of intern

Check out CCC’s latest forum on “Cruel Capitalism: Media and Fascism” co-edited with @ajbauer.bsky.social in
@ccc-journal.bsky.social!
Essays on trans culture, the central role of Christian Zionism, masculinity and alt media, reparative and abolitionist futures, and more!

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"our work lives in the tension between life and death; that we examine the complex and multiple ways in which language and textuality – in their broadest terms – construct relations of power in the affective, material, and discursive conditions of existence; that we engage with the tension between how much our work matters and, at the same time, how little it does"

"we must move away from politics that seek to stabilize individual categories of identity and embrace that which we know is true – the individual does not exist a priori to power but rather, as Foucault argued, is the very product of power. Critical cultural studies must resist restoration projects. We cannot restore the individual or society into the state of pre-power, and even more importantly, we must actively resist doing so. The project of restoration – much like the search for the origin story – is the project of totalitarian thought."

Highly recommend @marinalevina.bsky.social's editorial "Critical Cultural Studies in the Age of Totalitarian Thought." Rich, thought-provoking, and, true to its theme, deliberate and stalwart in its refusal to simplify or run from the darkness it confronts.

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Importante información, sobre una maestría de alto nivel en América Latina

Putin debe estar disfrutando este momento... 🍾 Y caviar

Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permission Betting companies secretly track visitors to their sites before sending data to parent company Meta

Con datos de usuarios de empresas de apuestas obtenidos sin consentimiento informado, Meta arma perfiles de personas como jugadores y las inunda de anuncios de casinos y sitios de apuestas (vía @halpern.bsky.social). Lucro mata salud mental
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A research lab from Northwestern, chosen because it's generic and sort of zoomed out. Three scientists are visible in lab coats, and there are benches and shelving, with glass along one wall showing another high-rise building nearby. Overhead fluorescents provide light.

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth.

It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

Trump tiene a Musk y Claudia tiene a Merino...

Please come to this meeting at Goldsmiths on the huge grass roots protest movement in Serbia that’s shaking the government. It's been going on for 3 months & the media have finally started to wake up to the fact there's a mass popular revolt in the heart of Europe www.eventbrite.com/e/revolution...

In 2019, I wrote an essay on GAFAM's "power" (structural and relational). www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/gafams... In 2024, another on Google for The Tech Lobby Project, about how US tech and platform companies lobby governments to try to shape public policy) thetechlobby.ca/googles-digi...

Las Big tech salen del closet - Revista Anfibia Martín Becerra analiza la alianza entre los magnates de Silicon Valley y Donald Trump. Las big tech se vuelven razón de estado.

Escribí para Revista Anfibia sobre la batalla cultural de las big tech: beneficios, costos y concesiones del alineamiento de las plataformas con la extrema derecha en medio de la disputa entre EEUU y China por el liderazgo mundial ✍️
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Lo vamos a intentar cada 10 años, hasta encontrar el hilo negro 😉

México ensaya un cambio en la institucionalidad de la regulación y el control de las actividades de telecomunicaciones y audiovisual. Acá Gabriel Sosa Plata analiza las novedades:
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Los 30 segundos más caros del 2025!

Netflix TV! Esa es su gran estrategia... Se ve el ajuste de unos y otros...

Ahí la lleva, en breve debemos cerrar la de X...

Interesante nota...

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

Excelente esta genealogía de las ideas reaccionarias en la generación que fundó Silicon Valley que escribió @beccalew.bsky.social. El tecnofascismo de los actuales barones de Internet tiene raíces hondas. Conservadurismo, misoginia y discriminación punto com
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Banned books!! What's happening?!!!

Francia facilita una mudanza masiva de X para recibir a Trump CTXT se suma a la iniciativa HelloQuitteX, desarrollada por el CNRS y que permite a los usuarios de la red social de Elon Musk conservar sus comunidades de seguidores en Bluesky y Mastodon

ayuda para la migración desde X (Twitter) hacia Bsky y otras redes sociodigitales 👌🏼
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Trump’s Attempt to Redefine America The effect of the President’s executive orders was to convey an open season, in which virtually nothing—including who gets to be an American citizen—is guaranteed.

The effect of Donald Trump’s executive orders was to convey an open season, in which virtually nothing—including who gets to be an American citizen—is guaranteed.

“Hagamos las redes sociales grandes de nuevo”: Pedro Sánchez propone mayores controles para las redes y sus propietarios | CNN Imitando el eslogan más popular del mandatario estadounidense Donald Trump, el presidente del Gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez, arrancó este miércoles algunas carcajadas y tímidos aplausos en Davos cua...

No es buena idea ilegalizar el anonimato en redes sociodigitales. No remediaría los problemas de violencia. Y no es realista en términos operativos.
Pero es lo que propuso Pedro Sánchez en Davos 🧐
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La prohibición de TikTok en EEUU (quedan tres días del ultimátum) tiene, como toda política, efectos económicos. Por ej. sus anunciantes publicitarios se repartirán entre otras plataformas. Regulación estatal y negocios privados:

Bernabéu-bound Miami Dolphins to play first ever NFL game in Madrid * Dolphins to play home game at Bernabéu next season * Renovated ground has retractable field for NFL football The Miami Dolphins will be one of the teams to play in Madrid next season at Bernabéu Stadium, the NFL announced Friday. The Dolphins will…

Bernabéu-bound Miami Dolphins to play first ever NFL game in Madrid

Updated again. An international list of media/comm policy scholars

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