Sham Jaff

“Smart people don’t like me.” — Donald Trump

Waiting for the AI meme apocalypse.

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

The One Piece Generation The protest movement inspired by anime is fueled by frustration. Madagascar’s Gen Z is done waiting for light, water, and change — and they’re not afraid to say so.

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?

Feels like the entire world is protesting something right now.

I think the Van Jones comments prove sth we've all been noticing: a lot of commentators have turned off their very human responses to the very real images of dead children in Gaza to continue being able to legitimize what's happening. You can only escape them by completely shutting down emotionally.

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.

Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings Police say they are responding to an incident in Crumpsall, Greater Manchester Greater Manchester Police said a suspect has been shot and four people have suffered injuries caused by a vehicle and stabbings at a synagogue in Crumpsall north of the city. The force said: Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public, and one man had been stabbed. GMP declared PLATO and a major incident at 9.37am. Shots were fired by Greater Manchester Police firearms officers at 9.38am. One man has been shot, believed to be the offender. Continue reading...

Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings

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.

For more nuance: There is also some speculation that is tied to Trump’s recent comments about retaking the Bagram airbase and U.S.–China competition over Afghan minerals like lithium, copper, and possibly uranium.

Afghan women lose their 'last hope' as Taliban shut down internet For many women, the internet was their last resource. An internet shutdown threatens to end 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

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Wer ist auf Mastodon? mastodon.social/@shamjaff

Generalstreik.

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

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

Revolution auf Discord: Wie Nepals Gen Z eine Gaming-Plattform politisiert Nepals Gen Z zeigt, wie Progressive das Netz für sich nutzen können. Sie zwang ihre korrupte Regierung zum Rücktritt und wählte eine neue – auf einer Gamingplattform

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.

So kurz davor, einen PhD anzufangen.

The picture we've all been waiting for: #AlaaIsFree

h/t: Mohamed Elbaqer

Jimmy Kimmel is what 2008 called ‘too big to fail.’ That’s the line, it seems. Deport, silence, threaten everyone else, go ahead. But hands off the late-night jester who’ll never cut too deep. That’s untouchable.