Mafalda Dâmaso

I’d wager that there’s a lot of Conservative Britain out there that agrees with this

There's a reason this generation of kids are worried, building 'resilience' isn't pointless, but you need to give them a future they don't need to worry about.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Yesterday The Intercept posted the piece I wrote for them to X. That account has 800K followers. As of now, the post has 5,500 impressions, 8 likes, and the only reply includes a Pepe the Frog image and the n-word.

So yes, seems like the algorithm is working as intended!

Jared Kushner's Firm Is Said to Be Part of $50 Billion Buyout of Electronic Arts Mr. Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is said to be in talks with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and Silver Lake to buy out the video game giant.

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

YouTube video by FOX 11 Los Angeles Jimmy Kimmel delivers first monologue since returning | FOX 11 LA

ICYMI, Kimmel's full monologue.

A Curator Flees Bangkok After China Deems His Art Show Too Provocative A museum’s directors said Chinese and Thai officials pressured them to remove the names of artists whose works criticized China. The curator flew to London, fearing arrest.

The curator of a museum exhibition in Thailand that criticized authoritarian governments in China, Myanmar and other countries fled to London, fearing arrest after Chinese and Thai officials pressured the museum to remove the names of artists whose works criticized China.

If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump? | Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen European leaders’ weakness is undermining the democratic principles on which the EU was built, say Thu Nguyen and Jannik Jansen from the Jacques Delors Centre

Very well written piece by Thu Nguyen & Jannik Jansen. I cannot agree more. What European leaders call strategic pragmatism is costing the EU its dignity and agency.

If Europe keeps placating its own far right, how can it possibly stand up to Trump?
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ÚLTIMA HORA | Portugal hace oficial el reconocimiento de Palestina como Estado

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Um abraço

🔍 Portugal é um dos países europeus que menos investe na Ciência.

Orçamento do Estado português dedica apenas 0,29 % do PIB a investigação e desenvolvimento (I&D), enquanto a média na União Europeia é 0,71 %.

Países nórdicos e germânicos destacam-se pela positiva.+

The @bsky.app app for mac is virtually unusable. Bizarre size (either minuscule or full screen), refuses to scroll down, unresponsive. What do you use on your laptops?

Having mispronounced Azerbaijan & mistaken Armenia for Albania last time he mentioned this conflict, Trump has now settled on a formulation of words he is much happier with. And after all, what’s 4000 miles between friends? As the expression goes…

Thank you very much. I’m biased but do think that several chapters advance the scholarship significantly!

#internationalculturalrelations #euculturalrelations #culturaldiplomacy #culturesolutions | culture Solutions 📢 Reminder: EU’s International Cultural Relations – Reality Check Don’t miss the chance to join us on 22 September, 5–6 PM CET for EU’s International Cultural Relations: Reality Check — a special con...

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Thank you very much!

The European Union as a Global Cultural Power Although culture is increasingly recognised as a relevant focus of scholarly analysis, the European Union (EU) has not yet been examined as a global cultural power. Addressing this gap, this book offe...

ICYMI, The European Union as a Global Cultural Power, which I edited, is now out.

Suggesting that the EU is beginning to emerge as an enabling power that supports cultural diversity around the world and, it reflects on the global role of the EU by taking a new angle.

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Traffic sources for ACASignup.net over time

"They made themselves irrelevant"

Here's the source of all traffic to ACASignups.net over the past decade.

In just over a year Bluesky (top right corner) has skyrocketed from virtually none of it to nearly 40%, while Twitter has plummeted from as much as 50% to ~2%.

these details are less memorial and more nuremberg

Responsible governments find their policy space very limited. Irresponsible governments seem to be able to do whatever they want.

Jenny Holzer, "Redacted (Top Secret)," 2012

wrote about this last year and sure I wasn't in any way the only one but imo people voting for populist politics in the 21st century *is* a sign that they do just have too much faith in institutions, as opposed to not enough - they want to have their little tantrum but assume things will just hold

A Publishers Marketplace Deal Report for a new book deal. The text of the Dear Report reads: "REWILD THE INTERNET By Maria Farrell Imprint: One Signal, Continuum Irish tech writer and speaker Maria Farrell's REWILD THE INTERNET: HOW TO RESIST BIG TECH showing how to resist today’s toxic tech monoculture and grow a flourishing, competitive internet ecosystem where we can live better, freer lives, to Alessandra Bastagli at One Signal at auction by Zoe Pagnamenta at Calligraph (NA) on behalf of Antony Topping at Greene & Heaton. UK & Comm rights to Octavia Stocker and Tomasz Hoskins at Bloomsbury Continuum by Antony Topping. Translation: krizzo@greeneheaton.co.uk

So, THIS is happening

"Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London.

Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment.

(tk u @robin.berjon.com)

Disney: capitulating right away when the core idea of your major franchises is creative resistance.

Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner Slams Company’s Decision to Suspend Jimmy Kimmel in Face of Trump Administration ‘Intimidation’: ‘Where Has the Leadership Gone?’ Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner criticized his former employer -- and, implicitly, current CEO Bob Iger -- over ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.

Oh now it is on

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ESSAY: What are you waiting for? Twenty-first-century American authoritarianism is here. Too many Americans are waiting for irrelevant, outdated red lines

The authoritarianism is here. The red lines have been crossed. If you're going to fight, fight.

If you’re in Florence on the 26th of September, join us at the European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social in Fiesole to talk about #culture, the audiovisual sector and #cultural diplomacy/relations – and their potential contribution to addressing EU challenges www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Self censorship in the name of corporate mergers is still censorship

If you’re in Florence on the 26th of September, join us at the European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social in Fiesole to talk about #culture, the audiovisual sector and #cultural diplomacy/relations – and their potential contribution to addressing EU challenges www.eui.eu/events?id=57...