Reposted by JekanyikaGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 03/01/2026Minor thing given what's going on in the world right now, but I've just discovered that TurnitIn, the product many universities use for grading & plagiarism detection, offers students an 'AI-powered writing tool' as well as AI detection tools for instructors. They're selling weapons to both sides. 58923
Reposted by JekanyikaProf Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 18/12/2025There is ONE simple lesson. Learn it. Believe it. Teach it. There is NO benevolent Empire. No matter how politely it dresses up its violence 22210
Reposted by JekanyikaThe Continent @thecontinent.org · 12/12/2025All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 224 of The Continent We celebrate people whose purpose and passion shine through a tumultuous 2025, embodying Khalil Gibran’s words that “work is love made visible.” Meet our Africans of the Year: bit.ly/224_TC 02212
Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Very! Miss-Information is smiling somewhere in corner cause she won. 010
Reposted by Jekanyikasarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 10/12/2025are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson 722801523
Reposted by JekanyikaHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/12/2025In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.futurism.comWoman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on SubwayA New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero. 27595601822
Reposted by JekanyikaNanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Alongside the word of the year we should have “the word that has lost the most of its meaning this year”. I nominate “ceasefire”. 935695
Reposted by JekanyikaBrian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems … 7574156
Reposted by JekanyikaAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/12/2025Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities, calling for an end to femicide, rape and misogyny.bit.ly‘Stop killing us’: Huge crowds rally in Brazil, decrying rise in femicideDemonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities, calling for an end to femicide, rape and misogyny. 2322107
Reposted by JekanyikaThe Continent @thecontinent.org · 06/12/2025Before all that fame and history-making, Danai Gurira was a high schooler in Harare, acting in the local theatre scene. Her return to those roots may well be her most impactful production.continent.substack.comDanai Gurira’s Zim baby comes of ageBefore all that fame and history-making, Danai Gurira was a high schooler in Harare, acting in the local theatre scene. Her return to those roots may well be her most impactful production. 13016
Reposted by JekanyikaJoyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Just 2k more to go, people. And this project has been fighting for 8 months. I have seen projects funded overnight - but THIS should be funded now. Translations. Black/African stories. In a world fraught with hate, we mend it with love. ko-fi.com/africantrans...ko-fi.comSupport African Translation ProjectAfrican Translation Project / Rally Weekend - let's close this up! / please see - please share / After eight months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn'... 03438
Reposted by JekanyikaDr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 01/12/2025I am old enough to remember when the unis forced everyone to return to the classrooms during covid, refused to allow anyone to take a gap year, and endangered us all because they wanted the rent money. But I guess they have a new scam now. Won't even need students soon! 1636787
Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 30/11/2025lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...lithub.comMaybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran MamdaniIt’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen… 010
Reposted by JekanyikaInstitute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk · 25/11/2025Join us tomorrow for an important event to discuss the future of internet freedom, and what we can do to protect digital rights. @phatcontroller.bsky.social Date: 26 November 2025 Time: 16:00–17:30 UK time Sign up here 👇 www.ids.ac.uk/events/inter...lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 042
Reposted by JekanyikaEffie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 23/11/2025When FB released its first iPhone app (pre-Android), if you let it have access to your contacts, and then deleted the app, IT WOULD LOCK YOU OUT OF YOUR CONTACTS. Just take the info with it. This company has always been particularly awful, even amongst tech awfulness. 1106
Reposted by JekanyikaDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this. 803945533
Reposted by JekanyikaAftermath @aftermath.site · 20/11/2025The politics, theology, and hype behind the first gamer saint aftermath.site/carlo-acutis-g... 2556
Reposted by JekanyikaJoanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 16/11/2025who- who do Britons think did the slavery 1242325
Reposted by JekanyikaJoanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 16/11/2025holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...theguardian.comCaribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justiceCRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact 701840647
Reposted by JekanyikaNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/11/2025The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3 9096653285
Reposted by JekanyikaNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/11/2025"theft tech" is a term my pal @astra.bsky.social thought of just today when we were working on our book about these End Times Fascists. We were thinking about what should happen when this this bubble busts, as we all know it will. Remember: they have bunkers. We don't. 2/3 191533229
Reposted by Jekanyika404 Media @404media.co · 13/11/2025Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c... 45766516
Reposted by JekanyikaKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 11/11/2025Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre” 7288991594
Reposted by JekanyikaPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast. 302110031924
Reposted by JekanyikaHarare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 10/11/2025Last day for submission! 034
Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 02/11/2025“I hear you talk about ‘we’ a lot, oh you speak French now?” 020
Reposted by JekanyikaJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Reminder to anyone who needs it today: Reading books (at home, on the bus, in Starbucks); owning books; loving books; discussing books. None of these things are “performative” unless you’re selling tickets. 1041462
Reposted by JekanyikaJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us. The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off. That’s a win for basic law. 9692209
Reposted by JekanyikaNathan Kalman-Lamb @handle.invalid · 13/10/2025Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today. 4590313534
Jekanyika @tedoex.bsky.social · 13/10/2025You should write a manual for everyone else… folks are struggling outchea 110
Reposted by Jekanyikahistorianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Therefore they are about 'entrepreneurs of memory' (ref: Marie Claire Lavabre) building (many reasons: political, financial gain, social cohesion, shaping of a 'national identity', etc.) a collective memory. 1223
Reposted by Jekanyikahistorianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 26/03/2025When fatigue & utter rage are cohabitating, endurance becomes both resistance and rebellion. 3687
Reposted by JekanyikaLaura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025It's a notoriously low-risk, high-reward crime. I attended a well-resourced, painstakingly planned police cycle theft sting operation years ago, knocking on doors at dawn. The only thieves caught were at a roadside bike rack with their stolen bikes when officers happened to stop for a comfort break 051
Reposted by JekanyikaMike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Most critically, this: bsky.app/profile/clar... 412622
Reposted by JekanyikaClara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Societal benefits: €100mn, of which almost €80mn is from wellbeing improvements - i.e. participants reporting more life satisfaction They used the WELLBY framework which values "a one-point increase in life satisfaction sustained over one year" at €15,000 www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/livi... 2289
Reposted by JekanyikaMike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen... 125154285229
Reposted by JekanyikaRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 08/10/2025Rolling Stone crowns Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" as the #1 GREATEST SONG OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR 👑 "It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless." Ranked list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... 916044
Reposted by JekanyikaZimbabwe has enough problems without hadedas @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 08/10/2025A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_arttheoatmeal.comA cartoonist's review of AI art - The OatmealThis is a comic about AI art. 021
Reposted by JekanyikaHarare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 17/08/2025This is amazing, Ireland! // Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...citizensinformation.ieBasic Income for the Arts (BIA)The new Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme provides a basic income payment of €325 a week to 2,000 eligible artists and creative arts workers selected at random to participate. 042
Reposted by JekanyikaLaura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025My attention was immediately caught by the claim that digital ID would help the 1 in 10 adults without a physical photo ID. Well ok, what about the 1.6m adults who don't have any kind of digital device? Or the 7.9m without basic digital skills? (Source: www.goodthingsfoundation.org/policy-and-r...)goodthingsfoundation.orgDigital Nation | The UK's Digital Divide | Good Things FoundationWhat is the state of the UK's digital divide? Each year, Good Things Foundation gathers new facts and stats to reveal the reality of digital exclusion. 4248