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Randolph Potts @rpotts-sawubona.blacksky.app · 6h

Timnit Gebru, 2026 Right Livelihood Laureate & pioneering AI researcher challenges the concentration of power in the tech industry, argues that behind "autonomous" AI systems are humans deciding whose data is used, what resources consumed, who owns the technology-and are responsible when harm occurs

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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Jennifer Doyle @fromaleftwing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This book is about the administration of harassment complaints on campuses, our ideas about campus safety/security, sexual vulnerability and the institution. It's out of print so, with the publisher's permission, I am sharing a PDF. drive.google.com/file/d/1S5vE...

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Doyle Campus Sex Campus Security.pdf

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

Deutsche Erinnerungsweltmeisterkultur (Symbolbild)

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a convergence of several overlapping moral panics that are at this point decades in the making by rightwing sensationalist media to prevent the only viable alternative to the CDU that isn't the AfD, from governing. Well done!

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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far. We've cracked £4k so we're well over 1/3rd of the way there in 24 hours! I know I'm asking you to put your trust in me and @bristolantifascist.bsky.social, ao thank you. Every donation is a real, meaningful act of solidarity to a comrade and his family.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am writing an essay on why I think universities that do not invest in the study of Black/African history have no business with Black History Month.

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To put this into context, it's more than the government gets in corporation tax from all energy, gas, water, sewage and hospitality companies combined! And it does this by making a profit on most applications. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

thebureauinvestigates.com

Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…

Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

thebureauinvestigates.com

Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…

Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The demographic which voted the least for the AfD was socialized entirely in the GDR, the highest share at 53% (35-44) were children or infants when the wall came down and 42% of those born in the 21st century voted for them.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Already signed up? Can you invite 3 friends? Can you share it in the group chats? We’re so close to breaking the record for the largest LGBTQ+ mass lobby in UK history again, but there’s still time to make sure we do! See you there 🏳️‍⚧️ www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...

transsolidarityalliance.com

Mass Lobby for Trans Equality - 9th September 2026

The law around trans equality is fundamentally broken. Government inaction is hanging trans people and organisations out to dry - with a confusing mess of challenging rules and lawfare.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Ohio Todd @lettucewrangler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sometimes i think about how, in the late 90s, USPS was moving to set up a secure email address for every US resident and how congress prevented it.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Shocking abdication of scholarly ethics by the American Historical Association which hired a Washington DC lobbying firm to ensure anticipatory obedience and quash a popular movement to condemn Israeli scholasticide in Gaza: www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...

In the past, AHA executives have been quite content to let members pass popular resolutions against such events as the Iraq war, and to make official statements opposing events like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Regarding Palestine, though, they have decided that the AHA cannot take “institutional positions on an active geopolitical conflict,” lest the Trump administration take notice and find some way to revoke its congressional charter. Over the last 20 months or so, they have taken a series of what they have called “unusual steps” to quash every effort by the AHA membership to pass a resolution against the mass atrocities in Gaza, including vetoes of three separate popular resolutions acknowledging those atrocities as a genocide.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A great review of Thinking from Black: A Lexicon. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

kirkusreviews.com

THINKING FROM BLACK | Kirkus Reviews

A set of critical tools to further Black resistance to things as they are.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Update from Team Kalam in Nepal Scientists are determining whether flood was triggered by earthquake-induced avalanche or glacial collapse, but climate change was major underlying causal factor with increasing dangers for Nepal's mountainous regions kalamweekly.substack.com/p/nepals-dev...

kalamweekly.substack.com

Nepal’s devastating flash flood

A brief update from Team Kalam

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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This review I published when I was EIC by Dexter Thomas, was the article that made it clear that Kusama anti-Blackness permeated her work, and even more disturbing, the art market was trying to cover it up in all sorts of ways.

hyperallergic.com

What the Art World Doesn't Want You to Know About Yayoi Kusama

A new publication tries hard to reinvent Kusama as a champion of racial equity despite her troubling record of anti-Black statements.

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Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Interested in radical, labour or anti-colonial history? Check out this list of *online* and *open access* collections of radical history documents from around the world, and in many languages! Over 1000 now listed! #history #historians #academicsky 🗃️ #archives hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

hatfulofhistory.com

radical online collections and archives

I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

So, it’s not a conspiracy, and you are not imagining it. The biggest and wealthiest tech leaders are genuine fascists. They are leading an active and intentional systematic attack on labor. And they have radicalized each other while sidelining or removing the remaining decent execs in the industry.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

They said straight up they wanted to disenfranchise women and people of color. They said they wanted to dismantle the federal government. And the likes of Thiel funded them for building the plans on how to do it. And _nobody cared_ when this shit was pointed out. People thought you were crazy.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

The greatest frustration is that warning everyone about this did nothing. Most of those raising red flags were women, usually women of color. Now nearly all are gone — left the industry, or their careers ruined, or dead. You can look on Yarvin’s blog for his post attacking me. In _2012_.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

'More than 1,500 staff members at the University of Sheffield have backed a motion of no confidence in the institution’s executive board and council.' UCU is accordingly calling on the VC to resign.

timeshighereducation.com

UCU calls on Sheffield vice-chancellor to resign

Union passes vote of no confidence in executive board over high workloads and job insecurity

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

UK Quakers commit to continued, explicit trans inclusion. "...toilet facilities labelled with a 'female' sign remain available to cisgender women, trans women, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience."

quaker.org.uk

Quakers reaffirm commitment to trans inclusion in the wake of EHRC Code of Practice

Quakers in Britain has refreshed and reaffirmed its commitment to providing trans-inclusive facilities across its buildings.

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Melanie Richter-Montpetit @mellimo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🔥 University of Sussex arms expert @annastavrianakis.bsky.social dropping the mic on the harm of nuclear deterrence

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ask the self-same people whether men are unfairly scrutinised since the metoo period.

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Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Migrantische Gewerbetreibende in #Magdeburg & anderen Städten [planen am 26. August] freiwillige Betriebsschließungen von 10 bis 15 Uhr. „Wir schließen heute unsere Türen, damit sich morgen nicht die Türen zu einer freien & demokratischen Gesellschaft schließen“, hieß es." Volle Solidarität! ✊🏾

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Good that the FSU is finally getting some scrutiny. Noting that Arif Ahmed, the OFS "free speech czar" (and formerly EHRC commissioner) was involved with the FSU and is also an associate of Vance's friend and Reform "theologian" James Orr. Burnham needs to take the foxes out of the henhouse.

ft.com

Tory peer’s free speech group urged JD Vance to lobby UK government

Free Speech Union called on vice-president to focus on censorship at time of Starmer visit to US last year

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Michael Truscello🏴 @mtruscello.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Sadly, this shadow economy made headlines only because of the tragic suicide of Jason Arday, a disabled Black man who was the victim of a targeted witch hunt organized by a network of academic eugenicists affiliated with the famous techno-fascist Peter Thiel..."

biopoliticalphilosophy.com

How Much Dark Money Is in Professional Philosophy?

One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the…

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Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hi Everyone, Just giving a shout out to a brilliant Scouse author with an upcoming book tour here in Meseyside. His new text 'Black Liverpool' is a powerful read about the city. I encourage you all to check Stephen Small out.

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.

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Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on
Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.

soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.

I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and notionol infroctrunturo unit

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My latest for the Middle East Eye: a recent deal by a Canadian mining company to sell a stake in its assets grants a Chinese state company with UAE state shareholders partial ownership of an Ethiopian gold mine near Sudan's warzone. Emirati gold smuggling has fueled RSF bloodshed in Sudan for years.

middleeasteye.net

UAE-backed Chinese company acquires stake in Ethiopian gold mine near Sudan war zone

Deal between Canada's Allied Gold and China's Zijin includes gold site on Sudan-Ethiopia border

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 18/08/2026

It's really hard to find coverage of what's happening in Sudan outside of internationally-focused publications like Equator. This is a fantastic, incredibly detailed, two-part piece.

equator.org

Khartoum After the Storm • EQUATOR

How Sudan’s revolutionary generation was dragged into total war

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

bylinetimes.com

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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SGIA Durham @sgiadurham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

📢WE ARE HIRING📢 We are recruiting an Assistant Professor with research and teaching expertise in Comparative Politics, whose work uses quantitative research methods and has a regional focus on Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Middle East. Apply here durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Hiring poster advertising the post. Apply by 28 Sept 2026. All applicants are asked to submit:

A CV  

A covering letter which details your experience, strengths and potential in the requirements set out above. 

Personal research plan. 

Two of your most significant pieces of written work.

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo... By his students: "We're collecting first-hand testimonies from people who knew him, learned from him, or crossed paths with him...Small things count. Small things are usually the whole point."

leilacancode.github.io

Everything Good About Jason Arday

First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.

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Melanie Richter-Montpetit @mellimo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

30,000 people gathered to honour Professor Jason Arday at tonight's vigil in central London

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30,000 people gathered to honour Professor Jason Arday at tonight's vigil in central London

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

People loved dabbling in anti-Blackness and now everyone is in constant state of shock about the material consequences manifesting everywhere.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Reminder for those who might not remember that a scholar in my subfield was, c2013, credibly accused of plagiarism, found guilty by an independent committee, had the book revoked by the press—& was not fired or dragged in the press but (over objections from 13 of her own colleagues) made into a dean

browndailyherald.com

After plagiarism allegations, prof. was named dean

Serving the Brown University community since 1891

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Northwestern plans to remove its flagship Program of African Studies’ status as a university research center, effectively closing the program at the end of the month, according to two sources familiar with the matter.”

thepurplewire.beehiiv.com

SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/03/2026

> The question is not whether Cofnas should be permitted to hold his views[. It's] whether a public research university in Belgium should be [granting] credibility to those views, funding their dissemination, and providing them the cover of academic legitimacy. www.brusselstimes.com/2020728/the-...

brusselstimes.com

The danger of legitimising hate through academia

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