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@princeguma.bsky.social
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Researcher | geographies, infrastructures, technologies, politics, lifeworlds

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Woke up, made coffee, and sat at my laptop where companies gathered and shared information about my news consumption, entertainment preferences, shopping habits, and more. When I left the house, my departure time was recorded by my smart lock and my doorbell camera captured what I was wearing. 🧵
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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
May his light long live and may he finally rest easy
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Beyond surveillance and control: how are data and AI mobilized as infrastructures of resistance? This paper shifts attention from data and AI as instruments of authoritarian power to their potential as infrastructures of resistance and political organizing. doi.org/10.1080/0272...
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Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism
Existing studies across Geography and related fields have yet to develop a sustained account of how new and emergent digital technologies reconfigure popular resistance and dissent under authoritar...
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The Kenya Times @thekenyatimes.com · 16/06/2026
Kenyans online are debating the hostility faced by former Starehe MP Jaguar after he was booed off stage with “Ruto Must Go” and “Wantam” chants after trying to promote the UDA party at the Mataha Festival in Thika, forcing him to leave the stage
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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Beyond surveillance and control: how are data and AI mobilized as infrastructures of resistance? This paper shifts attention from data and AI as instruments of authoritarian power to their potential as infrastructures of resistance and political organizing. doi.org/10.1080/0272...
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Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism
Existing studies across Geography and related fields have yet to develop a sustained account of how new and emergent digital technologies reconfigure popular resistance and dissent under authoritar...
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Territory, Politics, Governance @rsa-tpg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
New Special Issue with the free-to-read editorial 'Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa', guest edited by Theo Aalders, Prince Guma, Evelyne Owino & Dr Gideon Tups. doi.org/10.1080/2162...
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Urban Multiplicities @urbanmulti.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The fourth talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @princeguma.bsky.social (@campolis.bsky.social) in collaboration with @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social Tuesday 10th March, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
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Urban Multiplicities @urbanmulti.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Announcing the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series, featuring six brilliant speakers @rikjaz.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social Charlotte Lemanski @princeguma.bsky.social @maanbarua.bsky.social @profgillian.bsky.social Location: Small Lecture Theatre @camunigeography.bsky.social
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The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com · 19/12/2025
From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world. theconversation.com/ngugi-wa-thi... #ArtsCultureAndSociety
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Ngũgi wa Thiong’o and the African literary revolution
From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.
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CRC-TRR 228 Future Rural Africa @crctrr228.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New publication: Valentine Opanga @zefbonn.bsky.social & Prince Guma @cam.ac.uk show how “greening” in informal settlements in Nairobi isn’t always green—it's often tied to power, displacement, and deepening inequality. More: crc-trr228.de/new-study-re...
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New Study Reveals How Urban Greening Fuels Displacement and Inequality in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements - Collaborative Research Center TRR 228
In this study, Valentine Opanga (associate researcher Project C03 "Green Futures") and Prince Guma (Cambridge University) analyse how struggles over green and
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Jorge A. Ortiz-Moreno, PhD @jorgeortizmo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Call for Papers 📢 Excited to announce our panel at the @pollenetwork.bsky.social Conference (Barcelona, June 29 - July 3, 2026): "Cities, Urban Metabolism and the Polycrisis." 🏙️ If you work on urban metabolism or critical studies of cities & infrastructure, we want your contribution! 🧵👇
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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
X/ “Where Is the African Urbanist” is published (though still behind a paywall). I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Where is the African urbanist? Decentering and pluralizing global urban thought
Urban theory and geographic thought are, by nature, incomplete and continually evolving, yet they remain heavily shaped by those who occupy, speak from, and reinforce the center. While past efforts...
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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
X/ “Where Is the African Urbanist” is published (though still behind a paywall). I argue for the need to decenter and pluralize global urban thought www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Where is the African urbanist? Decentering and pluralizing global urban thought
Urban theory and geographic thought are, by nature, incomplete and continually evolving, yet they remain heavily shaped by those who occupy, speak from, and reinforce the center. While past efforts...
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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Everyday infrastructures enable, mediate, and shape the architecture of urban living, sustaining routines of dwelling, inhabitation, and survival and forming the norm in daily rhythms for majority populations beyond linear temporalities of urban life. 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/ever...
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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The stigmas faced by labour migrants in Indian cities gained global attention during the Covid-19 response. This paper shows how such stigmas are long-standing, reinforced and represented through the very urban infrastructures migrants help build 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/infr...
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
My paper, ‘Everyday Infrastructures of Urban Life’, now published in this latest issue of IJURR: www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-49...
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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
New paper out in our special issue — ‘Africa Under Construction: Critical Perspectives on Infrastructure and Labour’! I explore how informal work and governance shape Africa’s smart urban futures. #SmartCities #UrbanAfrica #Labour #Infrastructure www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance
This paper explores the interface between global circulations and local articulations of smart city plans and technological ideals in emerging urban contexts. Drawing illustrative cases from Nairob...
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Transient_Spaces & Societies (Research Group) @spacessocieties.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
📖 New Chapter: Transient_Spaces is now based at the Department of Geography @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. We continue to explore questions of spatial transitions, mobilities and change. Stay tuned for our upcoming projects, talks and publications! #HumanGeography #DigitalGeography
Blick von unten auf das Heidelberger Schloss vor grünem Wald
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Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
📣 New book cover!!!! INFORMATIONAL PERIPHERIES: RETHINKING THE URBAN IN A DIGITAL AGE Free OA with a fantastic lineup of authors. It's been a pleasure working with @fennaimara.bsky.social Shoutout to @uclpress.bsky.social for being so supportive and organised. uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
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Informational Peripheries
Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...
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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
New paper out in our special issue — ‘Africa Under Construction: Critical Perspectives on Infrastructure and Labour’! I explore how informal work and governance shape Africa’s smart urban futures. #SmartCities #UrbanAfrica #Labour #Infrastructure www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Transforming the smart city ideal from the margins: everyday regimes of labour and governance
This paper explores the interface between global circulations and local articulations of smart city plans and technological ideals in emerging urban contexts. Drawing illustrative cases from Nairob...
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Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Very honoured to co-author first article 'State as Auteur' in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Thanks @robkitchin.bsky.social for invitation & commentators @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo, Nancy Odendaal. with @fennaimara.bsky.social
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It was a great pleasure to discuss Armelle Choplin’s Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa on the @urbanpolitical.bsky.social with Wangui Kimari and Alice Hertzog, warmly hosted by @nitin-bathla.bsky.social!
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Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Listen to our latest podcast on the recent important book of Armelle Choplin, Concrete City. With @wanguikimani.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social and #alicehertzog
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Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Wangui Kimari, @princeguma.bsky.social and Alice Hertzog are reviewing Armelle Choplin’s book Concrete City. This episode is hosted by Nitin Bathla. They discuss the paradox of concrete, the idea behind green cement, the meaning of concrete for West African cities and much more.
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Limn @limnpress.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Prince Guma and Joel Ongwech explore the road to Uganda’s future. Limn 11 - The Obsolescence Issue limn.press/article/expr... @princeguma.bsky.social
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Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 08/03/2025
I'm excited to share the new forum I've co-edited with @marcowenjones.bsky.social for CSMC, here is our introduction: 'A century of propaganda studies: from pen and sword to surveillant smartphone' -check out the fascinating open access essays by our contributors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A century of propaganda studies: from pen and sword to surveillant smartphone
Published in Critical Studies in Media Communication (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The auteurist state amid unfolding digital futures journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Nice to see that my paper on ‘everyday infrastructures of urban life’ is now in print at @IJURResearch. I reiterate the need to reorient the foundational parameters of infrastructure… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I’m teaching “Anatomy of an AI Coup” @techpolicypress.bsky.social tomorrow (I’m covering a friend’s class at USF) and @eryk.bsky.social saw it all coming an eternity ago I mean way back on February 8 Eryk: are you a witch?
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Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
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Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
📣 Pleased to announce response paper with @fennaimara.bsky.social out on @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social responding to brilliant commentaries by @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social Nancy Odendaal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Timing the state - Ayona Datta, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, 2025
We wish to express our gratitude to the interlocutors for their considered and thoughtful commentaries on our article. They invoke new questions around the powe...
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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 21/02/2025
Last chance to submit your abstracts for prioritised asssessment for The Urbanisation of #Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation #CallforPapers Visit our website for details: buff.ly/4gw8zgb @deensharp.bsky.social
Background of blue world map showing lights of cities at night. White and yellow text reads: CRITICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ADVANCES IN URBAN STUDIES: CALL FOR PAPERS. The Urbanisation of Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation. In this inaugural call for papers, which focuses on armed conflict, the Journal invites both empirical and conceptual papers on the urbanisation of conflict and conflict-driven urbanisation. Visit urbanstudiesonline.com/callforpapers for details
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Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE @rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham. Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇 www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...
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'Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance' CfP at the RGS-IBG, Birmingham 2025 — Regional Futures
Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, Birmingham 2025 Session Organisers: Prof Ayona Datta, Dr Fenna Hoefsloot, Dr Mariana Reyes ...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/01/2025
"Deepseek will scare the American government into investing more in AI" invest in what? To what end? Deepseek is open source, and I guarantee you there are already American and European companies planning their own version as Deepseek explained their entire process. This is the race to the bottom!
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Sciences Po is hiring an Assistant Professor on Digital Inequalities. Candidates should have strong theoretical/methodological skills, and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...
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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
🤖 Register and submit your abstract for the two-days workshop at the @oiioxford.bsky.social on: "Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop" organised by @jonasvalente.bsky.social 🗓️10:00, Tuesday 25 March - 17:00, Wednesday 26 March, 2025 👉 www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
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OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop
This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Open access link to download PDF of the book is live. New book - Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods. Published by Polity Books. Also details on pbk & hbk purchase. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Blue Society @bluesociety.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Not a perfect man. Not a perfect president. But such a better man and better president than either Elon Musk or Donald Trump that hopefully he's well aware his legacy will outshine theirs forever. He got bills passed no one thought possible, oversaw a historic pandemic recovery, and modeled decency.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Writing is an act of rebellion. Writing is an act of creation. Writing is an act of salvation. Writing is an act of exploration. Writing is an act of emotion. Writing is an act of confession. Writing is an act of speculation. Writing is an act of reflection. Keep writing.
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fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
With input from friends, I’ve made a starter pack of early-career researchers across digital geography, STS, and critical AI studies. It isn’t meant to be definitive or exhaustive (though somewhat arbitrary at this stage), so please feel free to comment your own or others’ names for inclusion!
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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Because my followers should be amongst the first to know: @limnpress.bsky.social has released Limn 11–The Obsolescence Issue, just hours ago, free to read & reuse by one & all, on its newly redesigned website: limn.press. Or buy the gorgeous print edition. Just go take a look.
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Nassim Parvin @nassimparvin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Our book (out in May) now has a cover! tinyurl.com/technocreep
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Luund @luund.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A great athlete, but the real values are: empathy, sacrifice, perseverance, self improvement, honor, and friendship. We cannot fall into the hands of those who only talk about investment, profit, and speculation, as those are the very values opposed to the humanism that brought us prosperity.
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