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I teach in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal. I wrote Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines www.dukeupress.edu/monetary-authorities filipinxfreedomschool.ghost.io www.allaneslumba.com

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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 7h
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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One green shoot at a time: the women restoring mangrove forests in the oil-ravaged Niger delta
In a region of Nigeria blighted by decades of pollution, Martha Agbani and her team are not just replanting trees but regaining ownership of their lost lands and livelihoods
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Can’t tell whats more tragic, the government or the clients. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...
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Singapore launches government dating app as birth rate plunges
The city-state’s hands-on government helps with housing, health care, marriage, having kids and retirement. Add dating to the list.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it’s interesting that cinema attempted to adapt to the horizontality of our eyes’ vision while the smartphone inherited the form of the book/newspaper. Yet now, visual content is framed like a book, but no reading really occurs. Will our eyes be stacked vertically, one on top of the other?
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In Montreal, police brutality or racial profiling isn’t illegal but insulting police is…
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth... This man can’t even spell tenure
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Hegseth directs military service academies to immediately stop giving tenure to civilian professors
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered institutions like the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy in Annapolis to stop granting tenure to civilian faculty, in his latest change to mili...
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
apple.news/A3Gw1dAMCQ2W... “Chatterjee claimed Amazon’s only using the data from the glasses to “enhance the delivery process,” adding, “The intent has never been stuff like surveillance.” “ I think Chatterjee is honest. The glasses” pure intent isn’t surveillance. it is the command of labor.
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Amazon's delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos 'almost constantly' — The Verge
Amazon deliveries could soon come with a new catch: the delivery driver’s smart glasses will be snapping photos of anything they see while they’re in use, including people and private property.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Exports soar to all-time high, curbing trade deficit
(Photo by AFP) / China OUT / CHINA OUT / CHINA OUT MANILA, Philippines — Philippine exports climbed to an all-time high in August, helping shrink the trade deficit for the first time since
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Forgotten Island was actually pretty good and explored some deeply serious issues about feeling like the world is better off without you. So yeah, very surprised how there were some really promising stuff in it, much more than a lot of recent animated films for kids in the West.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/politic... just call it fascism
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Far right gains ground in Europe, as Canada pivots from Trump to EU | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney appealed to common values between Europe and Canada when proposing a closer alliance. Some experts warn those values may soon no longer be as closely shared by the governmen...
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Malaysia begins controversial repatriation of asylum seekers to Myanmar
Human rights groups say some 5,000 returnees could face violence, persecution and forced conscription.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
apple.news/AOSrdqoYJRTS... Hey! Destroying the world is a wealthy human‘s job
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AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’ — The Verge
“The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view,” Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It’s one of a dozen interviews with AI resear...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump unveiled a new AI chatbot that supposedly helps people understand the federal government. trib.al/pJpblIQ
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Trump Says His New AI Tool Can Probably Be Hacked
Donald Trump unveiled a new AI chatbot that supposedly helps people understand the federal government.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
apple.news/AUy8Ht6cUR_e... Always on
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OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor — The Verge
OpenAI is responding to Meta’s buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can “do ...
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Internal Montreal police documents describe ‘radicalized’ subculture among officers
A “radicalized” subculture formed among the ranks of officers at a Montreal police station in a multicultural neighbourhood before it was rocked by allegations of racism and criminal misconduct, newly...
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Bandung 1955: The meeting that terrified the superpowers | Al Jazeera Originals
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/09/2026
The Pennsylvania senator made an embarrassing Freudian slip while trying to defend his politics. trib.al/aFmcRWG
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John Fetterman Mistakenly Calls Himself a “Lifelong Republican”
The Pennsylvania senator made an embarrassing Freudian slip while trying to defend his politics.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Katie Phang breaks down one of the most disturbing pieces of evidence in the new Cornell sex assault lawsuit: an alleged fraternity Snapchat message referring to the plaintiff as “free p***y upstairs.” Phang zeroes in on another detail: someone apparently photographed the Snapchat from another phone
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/09/28/l... Yes IMPLEMENT the QC DOGE
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Le plan du PQ en intelligence artificielle : «arrêter de faire l’IA pour faire de l’IA»
Le Québec doit rattraper son retard en matière d’intelligence artificielle en repensant son approche, estime la candidate péquiste dans Prévost.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/09/2026
A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity in response to a lawsuit.
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Prosecutor reopens probe into Cornell gang rape allegations after accuser files lawsuit
A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity in response to a lawsuit.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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OpenAI Has Gone Rogue — The Atlantic
It’s impossible to know the extent of the AI-hacking crisis.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Southeast Asia's EV race risks pricing out drivers
National manufacturing ambitions are creating a costly, fragmented regional market
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really do think there is a general avoidance of reading, even among most of my peers, and people I politically with and admire. There is the constant drift toward substituting “alternative” deliverable modes of communication, especially on social media platforms.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
mb.com.ph/2026/09/28/g... Still a lot of cars tho
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/09/2026
The vote marks the first time the far-right party gained enough seats to form its own caucus.
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France's far-right National Rally gains ground in Senate vote
The vote marks the first time the far-right party gained enough seats to form its own caucus.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m publishing something tomorrow about Alpha School. One of the things I focus on is how it is an incubator for EdTech platforms with the ambition to hyperscale. Alpha may only have a few hundred students nationwide, but its founders are developing MANY extractive EdTech brands. This is one:
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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How amnesia is turning Asia’s tyrants into heroes
Experts warn that forgetting the realities of autocratic rule threatens democratic institutions, transparency and long-term stability.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Exclusive: Myanmar’s Dictator Wants to Rebuild Ties With the West — TIME
First came the mirror. Before Min Aung Hlaing enters the room for his first Western media interview since seizing power in a 2021 coup d’état, aides maneuver an ornate Rococo revival looking glass int...
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... pourquoi? lol
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Barack Obama to make appearance in Quebec City at automobile dealers' conference | CBC News
Barack Obama will be in Quebec City for this year’s Rencontre au Sommet 2026, a conference for Quebec’s automobile dealers.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/09/2026
Floods and landslides kill at least 56 people in India, 12 in Nepal aje.news/hlfmnw
Floods and landslides kill at least 56 people in India, 12 in Nepal
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The ADL says it fights hate. Its record tells a different story The Anti-Defamation League: A Critical Reader is OUT NOW👇️
Book promotional review graphic on a solid light blue background. On the left is a 3D perspective of a white book cover titled 'The Anti-Defamation League: A Critical Reader' edited by Emmaia Gelman and Heike Schotten, featuring a photograph of a pro-Palestine demonstration with a diagonal blue slash across it. On the right, white text reads: “A stunning, urgent, and utterly convincing volume.... We should all be grateful to this book for finally making the case we all needed to hear and know” — Judith Butler. A small white logo sits in the bottom right corner.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Photos: Heavy rains and flooding in Bangkok force thousands into shelters
Continuous downpours have hammered several areas of Thailand’s capital.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
overall toy story 5 was boring and agitating, but the most spineless worthless character were the dads
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI doesn’t replace humans, it replaces capital.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Indian police use tear gas against protesters seeking chief election commissioner's resignation
Indian police used tear ‌gas and water cannons on Friday to disperse opposition Congress party members during nationwide protests demanding the resignation of the head of the election commission, whom...
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig... techno-fascism
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Voter suppression is baked into ”western democracy”
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 25/09/2026
Élections Québec restricts use of English at polling stations to comply with Bill 96 Quebec poll workers have been instructed not to speak English with voters at polling stations. #polqc
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Élections Québec restricts use of English at polling stations to comply with Bill 96
In compliance with Bill 96, Élections Québec has restricted the use of English at polling stations during the upcoming election.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Illiberal party
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
very clear voter suppression
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cambridge accomplished what it set out to do
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Macklemore announces Free Palestine Tour
The rapper announced three dates in Europe, saying on his Instagram that “being apolitical during a genocide doesn’t work anymore.”
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
merely different dimensions of "extreme right"
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Surfacing Life @subsidence.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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A nation renamed stands up at the UN: 'Say our name. Naoero.'
President David Adeang has reiterated his island nation’s name change before the world’s largest gathering of leaders at the United Nations.
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