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Creating digital societies that work for the Global South.

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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Indian government is doing everything it can to crack down on the large protests taking place in the country for weeks now. #indiaprotests
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"A breast feeding baby was shot by a quad copter through the head" Yesterday the UN commission of inquiry published a report detailing how Israel deliberately targets & kills Palestinian children
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Saddened to learn that Marjane Satrapi, artist, activist and creator of this master piece has passed away at age 56. I carried her books with me from Belgium to the UK to India, because I loved them so much. RIP
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Peter G @zigzackly.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
From @article-14.com’s editor, Samar Halelarnkar, an appeal for support. They are one of the few — and vanishing — indie news outlets reporting with integrity on India. If you can afford to support them, see article-14.com/subscribe A basic subscription is INR 5000 (~ €46 / USD53 / £39)
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Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE @thresholdrose.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🐍 Cover Reveal 🐍 THE POISON PALACE retells the story of Alexander the Great's invasion of India from the point of view of a courtesan sent to assassinate him. Out with Dutton Books in Jan 2027, will link to pre-orders below. #booksky #amwriting #debutnovel #books
A book cover with a green background (and against a green background) and the image of a femme person with her back to the viewer. She is wearing a red upper garment and gold tone jewellery in her hair, ears, neck, and arms, and a five-headed snake is wrapped around her neck. On both sides of her are two crumbling ornate pillars, wrapped all over with oleander and datura flowers. The text says THE POISON PALACE: A NOVEL by Shreya Ila Anasuya
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
With #RightsCon now officially cancelled, perhaps #FiFAFRICA is a good place to meet next, at least for those in Africa? Next edition is 28 Sept-1 Oct in Mauritius, which also happens to be home for me now. If you'll be joining, let me know! internetfreedom.africa
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Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAFRICA) – Growing the #InternetFreedomAfrica Community
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
A sad, difficult day for my community as #RightsCon the world's largest conference on digital rights was cancelled at the eleventh hour by the Zambian government. It was to start in less than a week www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/04/zamb...
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Zambia censors an international conference…on censorship - Index on Censorship
Government demanded disclosure of critical information related to key thematic issues at RightsCon
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
An excellent description of the experience of so many of us who has tried to keep an organisation running in the Global South. #philanthropy #movements
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
#mustread Every day I wish there was a way to keep all the AI generated content out of my IG feed. So tired of seeing 'people' who don't actually exist.
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Proton @proton.me · 31/10/2025
Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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Eva Blum-Dumontet @evabd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🇩🇪 Hey Berlin friends 👋 Chayn is throwing a little party for the launch of our feminist AI tool - Survivor AI - which helps survivors of image based abuse take content down. Come for the AI hype, stay for the drinks and good company. Register here: luma.com/rg71dkhb
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Survivor AI Launch Party (In-person) · Luma
On 30 September, Chayn will launch Survivor AI, a groundbreaking feminist AI tool that empowers survivors of image-based abuse to request takedowns of harmful…
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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Oh wow. So good to finally have some good news 💜 #freeAlaa
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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The protests in Nepal, and the governments violent repression of them, are an increasingly important story right now. @globalvoices.org has reporting from Nepal on the "Nepo Kid" movement, including what the "international media" are getting wrong
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Gen Z stands up to expose corruption in Nepal
Youth-led demonstrations against corruption erupted throughout Nepal on Monday September 8, 2025, resulting in at least 19 deaths and over 350 injuries.
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The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
📣 TIMEP is recruiting for an in-person Bassem Sabry Fellow to spend six months working full-time in our Washington, DC office. Check out this rare opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of MENA policymaking! Applications are due August 28: timep.org/2025/08/08/o...
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
'Out of space: Picturing the big, crowded business of satellite internet' - a gorgeously visualised, superinformative story by @restofworld.org. Impressive restofworld.org/2025/satelli...
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Out of space: Picturing the big, crowded business of satellite internet
Space-based internet is remaking Earth’s orbit — and fueling a gold rush.
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Very insightful piece by @scotttimcke.bsky.social, with lessons valid across the Global South. #aigov
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke." www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...
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Israeli military says airdrops of aid into Gaza set to begin tonight amid increased starvation deaths
For months, the U.N. and experts have warned that Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine, with reports of increasing numbers of people dying from causes related to malnutrition.
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
'The bench also stated that the foreign policy of the country differs from the stance the party has taken and warned it of potential diplomatic consequences of such protests.' 'Our country has enough issues. We don't want anything like this' .
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Anders S. Løvlie @anderslovlie.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Send these monsters to the Hague
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/07/2025
Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize the state of Palestine, making it the first of the G7 nations to do so.
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France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says
The announcement sets France apart from the United States and most of its close allies, and could cause friction with President Trump.
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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Starving people to death is terrorism.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Tomorrow’s Guardian front page
A front page of the Guardian newspaper is entirely given over to the famine in Gaza. A large photo shows a mother holding her emaciated child’s body. The banner headline says, “We have faced hunger before, but never like this'
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
#BREAKING Slovenia has imposed sanctions on Ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, declaring them persona non grata due to statements "that encourage genocide" This is the first European Union country to impose sanctions on Ben-Gvir and Smotrich
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Peter G @zigzackly.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Hey Bluesky. If you come across opportunities for writers (calls for submissions, contests, jobs, gigs), please send them my way? I send out listings via Google Groups (when I have time to do a collection) and Telegram/WhatsApp (when I spot them). More: zigzackly.blogspot.com/2022/02/cafe...
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Caferati Listings
The essentials. Caferati Listings carries opportunities for writers — calls for entries and submissions to contests and anthologies...
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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 08/07/2025
How can you talk about AI for Good if you won't let one of the most visionary thinkers on AI (and a keynote YOU invited) speak about the way AI is being used for evil? Total farce.
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Sarah Mohsen @sarah94.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The Guardian view on Egypt and Alaa Abd el-Fattah: Starmer and Lammy vowed to do all they can. So do it #FreeAlaa #SaveLaila
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The Guardian view on Egypt and Alaa Abd el-Fattah: Starmer and Lammy vowed to do all they can. So do it | Editorial
Editorial: The UK still has ways to press for the release of the British-Egyptian writer and bring an end to the hunger strike endangering his mother’s life
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
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16 June 2025
Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/06/2025
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has confirmed: Alaa Abd el-Fattah is being held unlawfully. Egypt must release him, and the UK must use every tool to bring him home www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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245 Days Without Justice: Laila Soueif’s Hunger Strike and the Fight to Free Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Laila Soueif has now been on hunger strike for 245 days. On Thursday night, she was taken to the hospital once again. Soueif’s hunger strike is a powerful act of protest against the failures of two go...
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S&D Group @socialistsanddemocrats.eu · 26/05/2025
Last day to oppose Meta platforms training their AI with your personal data! Go to Privacy Centre in your account settings (Facebook or Insta) and click ‘object’ in blue.
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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 07/05/2025
WCK trucks loaded with food and cooking fuel have been ready at the Gaza border since early March. Additional food and equipment are ready to be shipped to the border from Jordan and Egypt. Our vital work cannot continue without permission from Israel for this aid to enter. #ChefsForGaza (3/5)
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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 07/05/2025
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Another one. Terrible #tfgbv
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The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: More journalists have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 than in both World Wars and other major wars, combined. Our new report outlines the costs of war to journalists – and the journalism we all rely on. [THREAD, 1/8] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
There is a big conversation I feel is missing in #RightsCon, but that I for one really would like to have. If you do too, come and find me. More about what I'm thinking here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #TheWorldIsOnFire
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Anja Kovacs, PhD on LinkedIn: #rightscon #theworldisonfire | 14 comments
When I first looked at the #Rightscon schedule last week, what really struck me about it was... what was not on it. Most editions, whether at Rightscon or the… | 14 comments on LinkedIn
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If you are at #RightsCon, join us today for a session on doing #quantitative surveys while #feminist. We'll talk about some of the challenges we faced and how we solved them, but most importantly, you'll learn hands-on how to get the most out of any data. It will be life-changing, I promise! :)
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 22/02/2025
an old co-author emailed me looking for a confirmation a non-existent paper supposedly authored by me that one of her students has cited in an essay... so i got curious and prompted gpt-4o “papers by abeba birhane”. it listed 9 papers none of which I authored
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S G Dickinson @sgdickinson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
To #IGF2025 participants from developing countries: ⚠️ Lillestrøm travel support deadline is *17 February* ⚠️ intgovforum.org/en/content/s... This info hasn't been sent to social media or IGF news yet. It's only been sent to MAG list. Pls share link widely ASAP, given there's only 1 week to apply.
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Ingrid Srinath @ingridsrinath.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“journalism does not serve any public purpose and therefore cannot be carried out as a non-profit exercise in India” If accurate, this is a bizarre and damning statement by the government of India. #FoE #journalism
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
New research: in 'The cost of transgression: Gender, sexuality and online violence in India', I try to make sense of the sometimes surprising, even confounding India findings of a global survey on online violence. #OGBV #feministinternet #India #CIGI www.cigionline.org/publications...
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The Cost of Transgression: Gender, Sexuality and Online Violence in India
This paper considers the findings for India from the Supporting a Safer Internet survey on online harms in 18 countries undertaken by the Centre for International Governance Innovation in partnership ...
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anjakovacs.bsky.social @anjakovacs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The only painting I have ever made (so far) was a canvas covered in sky blue paint. Because the point is not that every cloud has a silver lining, but rather that behind the clouds, the sky is always blue. The painting reminded me of that. It's good to be here, in these blue skies 💙
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