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Anjuli Webster

@anjuliwebster.bsky.social
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Writer and historian. Empire, environment, and racial capitalism. Writing a book on the history of water in southern Africa. Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Zululand.

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This op-ed really nails it. Universities going all in on generative AI are pulling us backwards on student mental health. Is that the university mission? Is that what a public good looks like? ncnewsline.com/2026/10/08/w...
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Commentary: Would your campus host credit card companies or Big Tobacco? Then why Big Tech? • NC Newsline
Like many other universities, NC State is introducing generative AI products into workspaces, classrooms, and learning management systems, but, to my knowledge, they are not informing students and par...
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grosmorne29.bsky.social @grosmorne29.bsky.social · 19h
Three years of a nonstop genocide that seemingly no one, no international law, can stop. What a depraved world.
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 06/10/2026
Anayo Ilodi – Chukwu Merem Ebere [Nigeria; Highlife ; 1982] redd.it/1r7c6vi youtu.be/jpoDfUtSCjg
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Anayo Ilodi – Chukwu Merem Ebere [Nigeria; Highlife ; 1982]
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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
VIDEO: Eric Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture: History at "The End of History: Inequality and Discourse in the Age of Reimperialism" by historian Toby Green. Don't miss this brilliant, provocative, and important lecture birkbeck.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The breathtaking The Heretic of Cacheu (@UChicagoPress & @AllenLaneBooks) by dear historian @toby00green was shortlisted for the prestigious @ASANewsOnline Best Book Prize. Read the full story here www.kcl.ac.uk/news/academi... #slaveryarchive
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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Join us in congratulating historian Mariana P. Candido , member of the @slaveryarchive.bsky.social international advisory board who was awarded the Volkswagen Foundation Transatlantic Bridge Professorship. #slaveryarchive
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#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Meet the finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2025. The winner will be announced by mid-October 2026 www.slaveryarchive.com/book-prize/s...
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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Saviez-vous que la revue African Economic History @africaneconhist.bsky.social publie des articles et des compte rendus de livres en français? Jetez un coup d'oeil sur les descriptions et thématiques ci-dessous et envoyez-nous votre manuscript. Visitez notre page aeh.uwpress.org/content/abou...
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy Birthday to the legendary MC. In his honor, here's the 10 minute Funk Flex freestyle that when you hit play, you think you're gonna turn it off after a couple minutes but then you end up watching the whole thing, just mesmerized: www.youtube.com/watch?v=prmQ...
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BLACK THOUGHT FREESTYLES ON FLEX | #FREESTYLE087
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Secret Life of Plants 🌿 An underrated Stevie Wonder fave. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2dD...
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The Secret Life Of Plants
YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Truth
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Guards Stand Outside the Emir's Palace, Kano, Nigeria Street Market, c. 1950 Cloth dyed with indigo drying in the open air House walls in Kano, Nigeria, 1930 #archivesxt
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very fun. Enjoyed the history of Ford's failed rubber plan in Santarém. www.maptap.gg September 30 94🏅 100🎯 90👑 97🔥 82🌟 Final score: 911
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Cave of Swimmers, Wadi Sura in the Gilf Kebir plateau of the Sahara, in SW Egypt near the Libyan border, ca 6000 BCE
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 28/09/2026
The Shiver -Hey Mr. Holy Man [Switzerland - Psych/dark prog] (1969) only one LP issued redd.it/1g9pipb youtu.be/cijt9EYKf6c
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The Shiver -Hey Mr. Holy Man [Switzerland - Psych/dark prog] (1969) only one LP issued
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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Read the new #OA article by Paulo Alexandre Vasconcelos on the Portuguese Overseas Pulp Company in #Angola as a case study for examining late-colonial developmentalism: cup.org/4xyzeBF
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Journal of African Economic History @africaneconhist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In "Making Southern Province Palatable," @utoronto.ca's Husseina Dinani explains why southern administrators in colonial Tanganyika implemented food rations on sisal plantations amid precarious food conditions and why their efforts failed. Read it on open-access here muse.jhu.edu/pub/19/artic...
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026
A Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In which ex-judges sit on media boards and publish opinions by ex-judges in support of juristocracy. Cachalia is defending a NON-DEMOCRATIC supreme constitution, while representing democratically elected parliament as a 'populist' bogeyman. South African public discourse is honestly a joke.
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can't wait for this! I devoured the wonders of An Immense World.
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jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our Plant Perspectives special issue on "Global more-than-human histories of palms" is out! Immense gratitude to my co-editors Sophie Chao and Pilar Egüez Guevara for their time, trust, and brilliance!! www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
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Peter James Hudson @darkfinance.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The CIA and Studies on Guerrilla Warfare Robert Molteno, 1979 www.blackagendareport.com/essay-cia-an...
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ESSAY: The CIA and Studies on Guerrilla Warfare, Robert Molteno, 1979 | Black Agenda Report
“In the period since 1969, one can detect the same old close ties between right-wing U.S. academics, think tanks, foundations, and the U.S. Government…”
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Congratulations, Philipp! Looking forward to reading 🤓📚
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
'They call the goal AGI, or ASI (artificial superintelligence), but whatever name they choose, its intrinsic worth is measured in money.' Whereas 'Mathematics only makes sense as a gift economy.' www.bostonreview.net/articles/kno...
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Knowledge Collapse
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 11/09/2026
The Amazon is in the impact zone.
EL NIÑO AND RAINFALL

El Niño conditions in the tropical Pacific are known to shift rainfall patterns in many different parts of the world.

The regions and seasons shown on the map below indicate typical but not guaranteed impacts of El Niño.
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Researchers estimate Earth held tens of thousands of languages between 3,000 and 1,000 years ago before a long period of language loss began.” archaeologymag.com/2026/07/anci...
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Ancient language diversity peaked before expanding empires began a long global decline | Archaeology News Online Magazine
A new study suggests language diversity peaked with tens of thousands of languages before declining over the past 3,000 years.
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grosmorne29.bsky.social @grosmorne29.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A genocide going on for almost 3 years, with most of the victims being children. And the world keeps going as if it’s normal. Shame.
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Was delighted to review @lesothojohn.bsky.social 's wonderful book on the #Lesotho Highlands Water Project for the South African Historical Journal. 50 free eprint copies of the review available via www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IRYBC...
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White Gold and Thirsty Communities: The Cold War, Apartheid, and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project
Published in South African Historical Journal (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This piece is aimed at fiction writers but SCHOLARLY WRITERS ALSO NEED TO GRAPPLE WITH VOICE that was my PSA for the day, gonna get up and have breakfast now, you go read this piece
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
(One of the) first of many?
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UChicago bans AI, laptops and phones in core social science courses for undergraduates
The goal, per division head Jenny Trinitapoli's memo, is to teach students "to read, write, and think without dependence on AI”.
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I worked at AbFab DVD Nouveau in Joburg in high school (2000s). The most incredible collections - specialist directors, 'foreign language', art films, documentaries. It was HUGE! Multiple rooms. Lines out the door on weekends. It slowly contracted floor space over time, and finally shut its doors 😭
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Kinda seems like everyone sorta forgot that the U.S. kidnapped the president of Venezuela and he’s still locked up in Brooklyn. He’s been there for almost 9 months.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
An alternative letter by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi who is my touchstone:
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
it's not even hidden!
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
African travellers from the medieval city of Malindi were in China, Malaysia, and India about 600 years ago. Malindi reached China before the famous admiral Zheng He visited the East African coast
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Large scale historical datasets are very hard to come by. Historical research is often about pulling scraps of different things together to make sense of it all. Historical primary sources can be considered *traces* of the past, because so much stuff goes unrecorded.
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Love to see the new direction that @draftingthepast.bsky.social is taking. I have been listening to @katecarp.bsky.social 's incredible work since 2022, and it really helped me as a graduate student trying to figure out writing (not yet figured out, but the podcast sure helped!).
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Moving across country borders for an academic job? Check this out @draftingthepast.bsky.social: @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social in convo with host @katecarp.bsky.social. And check out the new podcast website! Drafting the Past is now a multi-platform publication devoted to nonfiction history books. 🗃
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Dolly Jørgensen Always Has Another Project Up Her Sleeve
Listen to Episode 106 of the Drafting the Past podcast.
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.
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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In our last post before our August shutdown, Stephanie Kitchen & David Mills argue that since the 1990s, donors & multinational publishers have entrenched an extraverted academic publishing economy across Africa. roape.net/2026/08/07/t...
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The extraversion of African academic journals | ROAPE
There is a long history of donor funding for African universities, research and publishing, going back to the colonial period, and the foundation of the International African Institute in 1926. The cr...
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Stop building chips, stop building data centres. www.democracynow.org/2026/8/6/ai
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Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Governments to “Bring This to a Grinding Halt”
Is AI superintelligence inevitable? AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be. Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable, ...
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
anjuliwebster@gmail.com Thanks!
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
*Of the Jacobs review essay. I have yours from JAH!
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Any chance you could email me a pdf @mininghistory.bsky.social ? Don't currently have access through UniZulu library...
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UCL History @uclhistory.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chloe Ireton on the forthcoming publication of Plotting for Freedom this November! 📚 A powerful new contribution to the history of slavery, resistance and the Atlantic world. Congratulations, Chloe! 👏 shorturl.at/TsSpH
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Plotting for Freedom: New book by Chloe L. Ireton
Congratulations to Dr Chloe Ireton, Associate Professor in the History of the Iberian World, 1500–1800, on the forthcoming publication of Plotting for Freedom in November 2026.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is a very serious problem for libraries, archives, and knowledge-keepers of all kinds. If you don’t control access to your collections, *you do not have collections.* If we do not have permanent access to records, stories, & sources of knowledge then our histories and memories are not our own.
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