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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 06/10/2025

Meta ends (at least for now) political ads in the EU today. Per their ad library data, they've run nearly 11,000,000 different political, social and issue ads in the EU since 2018 and made around €800m from them.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This is an EU proposed policy with the benign-sounding name "Child Sexual Abuse Regulation" which proposes to screen private online communications using sketchy image-scanning algorithms. It is technically unworkable, and would be a privacy catastrophe, especially for those in authoritarian states

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 06/10/2025

Part of your information landscape is very likely fake and designed to influence you. Read @marcowenjones.bsky.social 's investigations to begin grasping the extent. marcowenjones.substack.com/p/nobody-tal...

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Kris Ruijgrok @krisruijgrok.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Fascinating insights on Israel’s influence operations in the US, costing millions. Particularly striking is how the contracts openly talk about the usage of bots to “flood the zone”

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 19/05/2025

This video was really painful to watch.

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Tarek Megrisi @tmegrisi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Following the recent violence #Libya lays in a dangerous place for a nation to be in A ruling elite, acting like everything is normal And a public desperate to live a normal, dignified, honest life and wondering why they must accept this as normal.

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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Labour’s immigration “strategy” is bad on three levels: 1. It’s unlikely to work politically. Pandering to the far right on immigration rarely ends well, even if you deliver. 2. Tied to that - don’t raise the salience of issues you’re weak on! 3. What should be the most important: it’s bad policy.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 11/03/2025

I don't think it's possible to be truly happy unless you believe your existence is positive sum and brings good to others.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

FELLOWSHIPS for Scholars at Risk Applications until 20.01.2025 at 23:59 (CET). #SAFE offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral & postdoctoral researchers of non-EU nationality. Read the call carefully, contact potential supervisor in your academic field. saferesearchers.eu

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SAFE - Supporting  At-risk researchers  with Fellowships in Europe

As a pilot fellowship scheme, the SAFE project offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institutio...

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 11/01/2025

Really struggling to find good quality Arabic books for my toddler. Her bookshelf is clearly two-standard: the English ones are well-illustrated, engaging and fun, the Arabic ones have 80s standard amateur illustration and transparently-moralistic stories.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 07/01/2025

About 3-4 years ago, I predicted that authoritarian governments would start using deepfakes to discredit and attack activists. I have no idea why this hasn't transpired yet, but I'm very grateful it hasn't.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 30/12/2024

Example: picking Proton instead of Gmail to host your organisation's emails

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 30/12/2024

People who care about decentralisation should have a bias towards using services from a company which isn't the single globally dominant provider of that service.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 22/12/2024

Told my two-year-old that I love her hair. She looked at me for a second, processing, and replied "I love your ears!"

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Kawaakibi Foundation @kawaakibi.org · 21/12/2024

Kawaakibi congratulates the Syrian people on their historic liberation from the Assad regime! We stand ready to support the rebuilding process of Syria with the Syrian people and remain steadfast partners in this endeavour every step of the way. kawaakibi.org/kawaakibi-fo...

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Kawaakibi Foundation congratulates the people of Syria on their liberation from the Assad regime

Kawaakibi Foundation congratulates the people of Syria on their liberation from the Assad regime after 14 years of resistance. This historic moment marks the dawn of a new chapter in their courageous ...

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 24/11/2024

I wrote something about my experience attending #Devcon and Funding the Commons last week. gatnash.com/posts/reflec...

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Reflections from DevCon | Ahmed Gatnash

Reflections from attending Ethereum DevCon 7 in Bangkok.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 30/12/2023

Public mass protest is a tactic. Like all tactics, it can be effective when part of a wider strategy, and you understand why you're doing it and what the objective is. It's not effective when the tactic *becomes* the strategy, with no wider theory of how this creates change.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 28/11/2023

Once we've all recovered enough to be able to think straight again, there will be a reckoning for the Western donors who decided that mid-genocide was the time to cut off funding to human rights groups. aje.io/haqhqv

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Western donors cut off funding to Arab groups amid Israel’s war

Western silence on Israel’s assault on Gaza and violence in West Bank also risks rift with Arab groups, activists say

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 28/11/2023

The genocide in Gaza has made so many take their masks off and out themselves. So many who previously disguised themselves as pro -human rights. One of many things that will never be the same again. lettertohrf.com

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Open Letter to Human Rights Foundation

We, the undersigned, are dedicated human rights advocates who have been at the heart of the Human Rights Foundation‘s (HRF) community as speakers, partners, and their allies. We write to express ou...

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

Antisemites, islamophobes, tankies, and general grifters are spreading their bs like wildfire right now.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 16/10/2023

Worried about what our world looks like after there is no longer even a pretence of or aspiration to moral universalism, and the idea of intentional law looks like nothing but a discredited colonial charade.

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Shorter Duss: if you declare anti-civilian atrocities acceptable if your ally does them, or in the name of anti-imperialism, you're supporting a world where might makes right. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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‘We’ve Been Shaken Out of This Fantasy’: How the Left Sees the War in Israel

A former top aide for Bernie Sanders on how Israel's critics on the political left see the Hamas attack and what this means for deal-making in the region.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 06/09/2023

This was a really outstanding listen. Beyond Twitter, plenty to learn from it about the way all our online public spaces are set up for failure.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2023

Social media companies have figured out that regulators won’t MAKE them moderate disinformation (or anything else!), and that they won’t be meaningfully punished for failing to do so. This won’t change until we start punishing big tech. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election

By Naomi Nix and Sarah Ellison
Updated August 25, 2023 at 7:34 a.m. EDT|Published August 25, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 05/08/2023

Showing the small one nice things.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 05/08/2023

The world's largest reservoir of crushed dreams and rage.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 02/08/2023

A pretty beautiful review of Ernst Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs - on how noticing and enjoying beauty is a way to cope with dark times and remain functional during disaster. astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-…

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Your Book Review: On the Marble Cliffs

Finalist #11 in the Book Review Contest

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 18/07/2023

The sheer level of self-confidence is truly aspirational.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 18/07/2023

Just received a reply to an email I sent in January 2013. Absolute legend.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 06/07/2023

I'm tired of trusting corporations for our public sphere - especially those with a record of failure. The last 9 months of Twitter have just emphasised that.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 06/07/2023

Remember Facebook's good old days, when it felt like a place rather than an advertising chamber, and you saw stuff that you cared about? Then they nuked that for the business model: extorting publishers to pay for their audience to see stuff. Why would I trust them again?

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

lol nah, i’m good

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 02/07/2023

Elon Musk doing his absolute best to destroy the myth of meritocracy - lots of these billionaires won a lottery and have considered themselves geniuses ever since (or think their expertise in a single field generalizes to universal intellectual superiority).

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 25/06/2023

Given how sensitive military authoritarians are to minute insults, and how prone the regimes they build are to total collapse at the first sign of threat, perhaps we should drop the obvious misnomer of "strongman" and call them weakmen.

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Hexcraft (goth bf era) @hexcraft.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

the “block right wing losers on sight” approach on this app is the only one that works btw, the idiots on twitter who would qrt them for easy dunks actually helped show the algorithm that type of content is viral and gave it a bigger platform

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 15/05/2023

Something I wish I knew before my book came out. It would have saved much frustration.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 15/05/2023

Turkish election reminded me of some of the worst of Twitter. Wishful thinking, bias and denial dressed up as coverage and expert commentary. At least it didn't take too long for egg on faces.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 12/05/2023

My brother just got around ChatGPT's restriction on providing instructions for modifying a vehicle by informing it that the modification is not in violation of regulations where he lives (on Mars).

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 11/05/2023

Same, best way to learn something is sometimes to make a naive aspiration to write about it

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 11/05/2023

I'm basically waiting for my network to show up here so I can jump ship from Twitter for good.

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Ahmed Gatnash @gatnash.com · 04/05/2023

Malice or stupidity, you ask? What's the difference?

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