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Cam Laforest

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(He/Him) Settler in Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 Libraries, Education, Labour, & Abolition

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is how we get here: canadiandefencereview.com/sentinel-adv... 2/
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Sentinel Advanced Military Solutions Launches Integrated Defence Ecosystem Anchored by University of Alberta and $10 Million Lockheed Martin Contribution - Canadian Defence Review
Sentinel Advanced Military Solutions’ StarForge platforms are designed to detect threats, coordinate response and deploy mission-critical capabilities in the field, including manufacturing components ...
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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The priorities of @ualberta.bsky.social leadership are pretty clear: turn the university into an R&D provider for any corporate interest backed by government funding--never mind any ethical considerations or obligation to consult the professoriate about partnership decisions. 1/
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada continues to be shameful on this issue.
Screenshot shows the man in Canada's seat looking around at the other countries leaving the room all while staying seated. The country names are a bit hard to make out, but I cross-referenced this against the seating chart that's been published.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org
Screenshot of the Luddite Lab website. The word Luddite Lab is in the top left corner. The tables in the top read: Case Studies, Primers, Resource Library, Contact Us, and About. The text below reads: “The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library.” Below, there are five cards: Case Studies (Stories from worker organizers resisting AI), Primers (Applied research insights into AI, automation, and the future of work), Resource Library (Additional resources from partners), Contact Us (Ways to connect with the Luddite Lab team), and About (About the Luddite Lab project and team)
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Probably the scariest and also most intellectually rigorous uncanny novel I have ever read. My review for the NYT. Free link. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/b...
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Book Review: ‘The Rouse,’ by China Miéville (Gift Article)
“The Rouse,” by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to raise and weaponize the dead.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My first long-form video is up: Myths Around AI and Productivity! Based on the work we’ve been doing at @dairinstitute.bsky.social with The Luddite Lab, we dispel 5 common myths around AI and labor by looking at what studies actually say about AI’s impact on labor. youtu.be/3BO0iy91lfU
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Myths Around AI and Labor
YouTube video by Dr. Alex Hanna
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This thread was in response to some pro-AI propaganda specifically in the context of science communication, but it also feels relevant to all of the big PRs about OpenAI's models allegedly making breakthroughs in math.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
Also, open models… aren't? Free of those harms? Show me a team that takes seriously the racist, sexist, carceral, abelist, homophobic, transphobic, hegemonic, kyriarchal, & otherwise harmful values in the training data they feed their models, who then actively set their "AI" weights to COUNTER them…
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
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Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My husband was killed during the genocide. I haven't received any donations in days, and I have no resources to buy food for my three children, who are suffering from hunger and trauma. Every euro of support makes a difference.🙏 Please, do not leave them alone. ✅Molly Shah gofund.me/8db2db8db
A boy lying on a rug with his head on a pillow. He's got cream on his cheek and 3 medicine boxes are displayed next to him: Furazol pediatric suspension, co-trimoxazole oral suspension, and Mixderm cream.Three boys sitting on a rug on the sand are sharing pieces of flat bread for a meal.Mahmoud sleeping on a hospital bed with an oxygen tube connected to his nose, a bandage on his left forearm, and an IV connected to his right arm. The photo is surrounded by black borders, with phone status icons at the top and navigation buttons at the bottom, indicating it must have been a screenshot taken from the gallery.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You can bring Eslam's children some comfort by sharing & donating. They need funds for scarce & unaffordable food, shelter, & healthcare under Israel's genocidal siege. Eslam lost her husband to the genocide, and is caring for her children alone:
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Donate to Please help me support my children and provide for their edu, organized by Abdo Ridwan
​From the Rubble to the Tent: Help Yahya, Mohammad, and Islam… Abdo Ridwan needs your support for Please help me support my children and provide for their edu
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Death @insatiableone.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A child shouldn’t lose his home,his safety,and his sight all at once.Elias bleeds from 10 stitches in Gaza’s rubble,and now his last eye is dimming. We are running out of time. Please,be the miracle he prays for. Donate for his surgery right now! Verified by:molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/196611
Elias with his father inside a tent. Elias is wearing a patch on his left eye, glasses and showing his bandage on his left hand and wrist.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Mohammed's son Elias urgently needs treatment to save his fading eyesight. You helped Elias survive horrific malnutrition through your shares & donations, & he urgently needs your help again. Time is running out to keep him from going blind, & he's already hurt his hand badly falling down:
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Help Mohammed and his famile.
Father's Urgent Call: Save Little Elias's Sight and Life
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Consider little Sila as one of your own. Will you leave her to suffer like this? Her body is breaking down before her mother's eyes, and she's helpless, disabled and homeless. I beg you, she needs 100 euros to buy her baby's basic necessities. 🥺🥺🙏 Anything that can help😭🙏 chuffed.org/project/1730...
Selfie of Shaimaa leaning her face on her right hand. She's wearing a black hijab, looking extremely tired.Newbord baby Sila sleeping in a white blanket wearing a t-shirt with a double pink cherry on it. She's clutching her hands in front of her face with her eyes closed.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Shimaa is injured, starving, and homeless with her baby amid rubble, under bombardment and killer IDF drones. She's terrified for her baby daughter Sila, who's very sick from malnutrition. They have no one else, please share & give to help them:
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Help Shymaa and Sila
Hello friends, I am Shaima Al-Masry. Throughout my life, I have never asked for help from anyone, but the war on Gaza and on my city changed all of our lives. I used to work as an Arabic language teac...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 03/09/2026
Help stopped for a camp that was bombed and destroyed 🚨 Help families with essential survival supplies. They have been sleeping on the ground. Support goes towards essential supplies, like hygiene & more. Every little bit helps: chuffed.org/project/erc
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Emergency campaign for those affected by a Zionist bombing in the Gaza Strip
This is a rapid and emergency appeal on behalf of my dear friend in Gaza, whose family has lost their displacement camp in Gaza. On 23 August, 2026, a bombing in the central region of Gaza completely…
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Israel is still bombing babies. You can help little Ghazal survive a shrapnel injury from an airstrike that fractured her tiny foot. Her family desperately needs donations to help get her the urgent surgery & care she needs under siege. Share and donate:
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Save a Mother and her Fetus in Gaza
Urgent Request for Mutual Aid!
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Help a Palestinian student stay connected and continue her education under Israel's relentless siege. Resist genocide, resist scholasticide:
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💚 Help Moshreq Support His Family, Care for His Mother, and Protect His Siblings’ Future 🕊️📚🇵🇸
My name is Moshreq, and I am from Gaza. I am the sole provider for my family of five, carrying the responsibility of keeping my family safe and alive through unimaginable circumstances.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Yernot MaDad @acabninthewoods.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please donate to Hanan. This family is going hungry.
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Yernot MaDad @acabninthewoods.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please donate to Iman. They need us.
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meave (boo) @meave.nyc · 02/09/2026
please help mohamed send 6 kids to school. they must have education. gaza had a >95% literacy rate pre-genocide. mohamed's father educated all of his children; give mohamed the same chance with his. don't let our mad lad abdullah's bright mind be dulled by scholasticide. bit.ly/help-mohamed
A yellow rectangle with graphics of pens and pencils, a purple notebook, and blue sneakers. In the center, a photo of two pages of Abdullah’s preschool notebook from September 2025 of his first writing lessons.
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Get Mohamed’s Kids Ready for School
Six school-age children start classes soon. Abdullah filled his notebook last year—they’ll all need new supplies, uniforms, lunch money, and school fees.
Join the #FriendsOfTheSmallFarm and help support Mohamed and his family.

His shortened campaign link: bit.ly/help-mohamed
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Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
No online donations for six days. 😢 She's utterly exhausted and now in her eighth month of pregnancy. She needs $2000 and every day that goes by without any of that coming in is making her feel helpless and hopeless. gofund.me/03f0859d2
Amal, in a black headscarf, having her blood pressure measured.
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Anna Horroridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
£112 since yesterday - so many thanks to the kind donors. We roughly need to raise that every day this month, in order to make sure that dear Amal at least has the basics in place for when her baby arrives - as detailed in this visual, kindly created by @mollietindle.bsky.social
Virtual baby register for Amal. It details various costs needed for a new baby, including food, a crib, blankets, nappies, etc
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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
391-16 🔥🔥 denverite.com/2026/09/01/d...
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Denver library workers unionize with overwhelming vote
It's the city's first big union move in decades.
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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
No one is helping Ahmed and his family, and they are facing a desperate situation in Gaza. They need food, water, medicine for his parents, and a safe place to stay. Please don’t let them face this alone. Can you donate €25, And Repost ? Every bit of support matters. 🇵🇸🙏⬇️ chuffed.org/project/157281
Collage of four photos of Ahmed. The top two are him standing in front of his family's tent. The bottom right is a selfie in front of the tent. The bottom left is him seated next to his parents on a bench outside the tent.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ahmed is exhausted asking strangers for help staying alive, but he has no choice. It's the only way to survive in Israel's genocidal siege. They're starving, homeless under bombardment, & his mother urgently needs treatment for a retinal condition. You can help by sharing/donating:
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Urgent appeal: Help Ahmed and his family in Gaza
Hello everyone, I am Ahmed Al-Madhoun, 25 years old, studying for a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, fourth level, at Al-Quds Open University. I was supposed to graduate, but unfortunately the war pre...
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Mika Fae Queen of Night 🏳️‍⚧️ @msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Please give if you are able. No one will save us but us and Palestinians are us. Merci de faire un don si vous le pouvez. Personne ne nous sauvera à part nous-mêmes, et les Palestiniens, c'est nous.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 31/08/2026
Othman lost his *whatsapp* today, if you ever think the digital aspect of this genocide is somehow restricted to bluesky
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🪙⛲️Paradise 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥 @paradis3gained.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Om jameel :We are in our final moments with illness inside the tent; it's a matter of life or death.I suffer from a heart condition,&my husband is severely injured. Now, rats&mice are scratching &biting my kids inside the tent,I need $250 to rent a room&save the kids🙏🙏🙏 chuffed.org/project/1839...
a dead rat next to some trash on the dirt floor of this family’s shelter.Five children, young Palestinian siblings - Jude, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - plead for help in a tent shelter. Five children, young Palestinian siblings - Jude, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - sleeping together under blankets, on carpets laid on dirt, in a tent shelter. A Palestinian woman, Om Jameel, sits with her five children - Jood, Jameel, Ahmed, Jwan and Elief - pleading for help in a tent shelter.
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Oftentimes Jack 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Om jameel :We are in our final moments with illness inside the tent; it's a matter of life or death.I suffer from a heart condition,&my husband is severely injured. Now, rats&mice are scratching &biting my kids inside the tent,I need $250 to rent a room&save the kids🙏🙏🙏 chuffed.org/project/1839...
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Help us Survive the War(om jameel)
northern Gaza, in the yellow zone under occupation.
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Support dropped again. Today, we couldn't buy Ibrahim's IV dose or medicine.His body is burning, and I am watching him suffer helplessly. Losing my daughters broke me; losing him will destroy what's left of my soul,Please,don't let financial despair steal my last child! 💔😭 chuffed.org/project/191450
Baraa, wearing a black face mask, is holding her son's hands: Ibrahim is lying on a hospital bed with a face mask on, receiving an IV injection in his left arm
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Baraa is appealing to everyone to please help Ibrahim. She's lost 2 daughters already to Israel's genocide. She's constantly deleted & restricted by Bluesky, and exhausted from making new accounts. She has no reach, & is unable to secure funds for Ibrahim's survival. Please share widely & donate
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I Lost My Daughters to War and Hunger. Please Help Me Save Ibrahim, My Last Living Child"
My name is Bara'a, and I am writing to you from the depths of an unimaginable nightmare. I am a mother whose heart has been shattered into pieces, and today, I am reaching out to the world in a desper...
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Oftentimes Jack 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm getting so few shares bar from a handful of dedicated people I'm grateful to. tiny.cc/sspace
A circular image shows a group of people using computers in a brightly lit room. The words "Spark Space, Gaza" are displayed in large, curved letters around the circular image. Below the image, text reads: "We aim to create a safe, fully-equipped workspace with reliable electricity and fast internet, offering students and freelancers in Gaza the environment they need to continue their journey despite the hardships. chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza"
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 29/08/2026
We’re helping the camps!!! 15 displaced families have the chance to get a discounted solar panel to pump water & light the camp. ESSENTIAL. And!! we have half the amount already!!! So close!! Our goal is the goal on Chuffed. ANYTHING helps: chuffed.org/project/save...
A colorful graphic decorated with a painted sun, a scrapbook lightbulb, and a photo from above of a displacement camp of tents. Text: Be a light. A displacement camp has a chance to get a solar panel for water pumping & light. Be hope.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 29/08/2026
this entire bullshit global economy runs on actual scams—from health insurance, financialization, stonks, bubbles, crypto, AI, and prediction market gambling to structural adjustments, neoliberalization, wage theft, wealth extraction—but somehow desperate calls for aid are the suspicious thing
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 29/08/2026
We keep trying for a camp devastated by a bombing!!! 25 families need all of our creativity and boldness. This is a short, one-time campaign to help them with essential items. They lost everything. chuffed.org/project/erc
Colorful graphic. Title: Emergency relief campaign. Text: 25 displaced families lost their camp. Help them recover with dignity. To the side are four icons of a tent, a shirt, a water droplet, and a soap bottle, labeled shelter, supplies, water, hygiene. chuffed.org/project/erc
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 29/08/2026
These 3 campaigns are the quickest way to have a big impact. Each camp is 60–100 people, and most lack internet or other means. Volunteers are vetted by whole communities. A small recurring donation really sustains them. ❤️‍🩹 tiny.cc/jblfams chuffed.org/project/mawasi-families chuffed.org/project/erc
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....
Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist. 

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It’s such a shit time to be a librarian because you spend so much time talking about stuff like censorship and equity and critical information literacy and then you go to meetings about untested AI tools with a multinational monopoly vendor whose headquarters is built on stolen Palestinian land
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The Haunted Drive-in @haunteddrivein.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Remember folks, if buying isn’t ownership, piracy isn’t theft.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38. His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I've read a lot of disturbing articles about how AI fucks with people's minds, and Jesus fucking Christ, this is one of the worst cases I've seen. The people profiting from this are our enemies and must be plainly understood as such.
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Over 4,732 Messages, He Fell In Love With an AI Chatbot. Now He’s Dead.
The Wall Street Journal analyzed the full chatlog between Jonathan Gavalas and his Gemini chatbot. We found that Gemini at times tried to ground him in reality, but he quickly steered it back into a f...
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