The violent commodification of life in Uganda Uganda's market economy has dispossessed and impoverishedthe ordinary people and caused ecological destruction, leaving society fragmented and unstable.

Uganda's economic growth is built on a violent process of commodification, a pattern exemplified by the introduction of the Nile perch. Available in EN, PT-BR, FR and IT.

It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

Unnecessary cruelty.

Why?

Transgender are less than 1% of the population, people! Let them live their lives.

‘A true genocide’: RSF kills ‘at least 1,500 people’ in Sudan’s el-Fasher Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkiye, Jordan and Qatar express alarm as more evidence emerges of mass killings by paramilitary forces in Sudan's in el-Fasher.

Another genocide...in Sudan

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We Asked People in Gaza What They Think of the Ceasefire: “Just a Declaration, Not Reality” Israel and the Trump administration insist that the ceasefire is still in place. Dozens of residents in Gaza disagreed.

After Israel's new wave of bombings in Gaza that killed 109+ Palestinians, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, a writer/poet in Gaza, spoke to 60 residents in Gaza for @theintercept.com to ask whether they think the "ceasefire" is holding. Nearly all said "THERE IS NO CEASEFIRE."

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I also come from a white family, and my sisters and I followed the same convention.

256GB of internal storage, up from the Leica MII's 64GB. This is in addition to a single SD card slot, so the camera acts as another memory device. The world's first camera that lets users encrypt their metadata and copyright information through the content authenticity initiative. This lets photographers validate the authenticity of their images as well as the origin. More specifically, the copyright info is tamper-proof. Once th image has been captured, any documentation of the edits is recorded. This translates into letting people know that you actually shot the image and that it isn't an AI-based image. It's a feature that's very important to journalists like the NYTimes, BBC, Reuters, and, believe it or not, us. The Phoblographer's reviews have entire sections that show whether or not our images our edited or not. Your digital signature is stamped on the image at creation and then verified through a specific website.

Leica who makes incredibly bougie cameras is talking about an anti-AI verification system as part of their camera framework, pretty cool.

the other thing i’ll say here is i am a bit frustrated with the narrative of online radicalization that treats it as akin to brainwashing. it lets individuals, families and communities off the hook for the choices they make and the environments they foster

Inside Epstein's Russian Tech Web: How Oligarch Cash and Three Women Connected Moscow to Silicon Valley Leaked records obtained by Byline Times reveal how Kremlin-linked investors used Epstein's network to channel oligarch money into Silicon Valley

🔴Inside Epstein’s Russian Tech Web: How Oligarch Cash and Three Women Connected Moscow to Silicon Valley

Leaked records obtained by Byline Times reveal how Kremlin-linked investors used Epstein’s network to channel oligarch money into Silicon Valley

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the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

House Rep Demands Answers About Delayed EPA Report on PFNA, a Toxic Forever Chemical In a letter to EPA Chief Lee Zeldin, Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, cited a recent ProPublica story that quoted government scientists saying a yet-to-be-released report on the toxicity of PFNA was rea...

The ranking member of a key House subcommittee is demanding answers from the EPA about why it hasn’t released a report quantifying the harm of PFNA, a forever chemical found in the water of millions of Americans.

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Tell me again, Donald, about the "Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax."

As any longtime Chicagoan will tell you, there are thousands of undocumented Poles here, cherished neighbors, who came in the 80s and 90s. Somehow ICE doesn't care...

Evil, fascist regime.

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right

I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

SCOOP: Suzy Weiss — Bari Weiss's sister & The Free Press co-founder — is set to appear on CBS airwaves tomorrow, to talk about her recent piece on lab-grown diamonds.

Would be the second Free Press writer to appear on CBS this week, despite CBS staff concerns the outlet doesn't meet CBS standards.

Seeds of Discontent: Kenya’s Seed Law Undermines Farmers’ Resilience Kenya’s seed law privileges seed multinationals while weakening the country’s food system’s genetic diversity and marginalising the very people who feed the country.

Kenya’s seed law privileges seed multinationals while weakening the country’s food system’s genetic diversity and marginalising the very people who feed the country. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR, FR, IT and AR.

In public: "UMMM ACTUALLY I'm a lamarckian classical liberal, not a 'fascist', you say fascist because you refuse to engage in the marketplace of ideas"

In the DMs: "What's up what's up can check for my white power white claw bros it's fucking FRIDAY I heard about a new slur today"

Young Republicans say they love Hitler. But what does that tell us about their politics?

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

vampires

Who could possibly have seen this coming.

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Fuuuuuuuuck this.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

…you meant it. If you can’t find elementary school terms to explain what you meant, then I think it’s possible you used the term far more recklessly than that. This is hardly the end of the world. You could simply have explained that and I wouldn’t have thought anything of it.

…architecturally beautiful nose—very straight, though not too perfect, which I tend to hate—and proportionately lovely relative to his eyes, cheekbones, chin, and forehead…I think, anyway, but I struggle to imagine in what way the word “insane” applies, even in the very cavalier sense I suspect…

I imagine they’re elementary school graduation words, not S.A.T. prep. terms, but I’m Canadian and so wouldn’t know. You replied to me as though I had not read your follow-up reply to yourself, and you have continued to not explain what you mean the word “insane”. C.M. is blessed with an unusually…

Please tell me, fellow informal art historian and classical ballet viewer, what you mean by the word “insane” as applied to Mr. Morgan’s nose. The word “good” signifies very little, save that it’s likely you don’t intend the first term as a pejorative.