Mapping Disinformation in Africa – Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Russia has pioneered a model of disinformation to gain political influence in Africa that is now being replicated by other actors across the continent.
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As a Rabbi Raised in South Africa, I Can’t Ignore Israel Is an Apartheid State - Truthout
Palestinians are not allowed to walk on streets decreed as “sterile” by Israel. This goes beyond Apartheid South Africa.
radical online collections and archives – New Historical Express
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…
Gullah Geechee enters the academy - Subtitle
There's a new language class on offer at Harvard. Gullah Geechee is a creole language developed by enslaved Africans and still spoken today. As far as anyone knows, it's the first time it's been taught anywhere. Sunn M'Cheaux — native speaker turned Harvard instructor — tells his story and the story of Gullah Geechee, a language that is as African as it is American.
'Just Deserts' or 'Just Desserts'? | Merriam-Webster
The usage advice you deserve
Links | bloodwrites
a growing collection of cool and useful links
The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence – The Marginalian
“I armed myself with patience and courage, and only after several months managed to dissolve my doubts and see my research crowned with happy confirmation.”
Cigar Box Charkha: Make Your Own! | Spin Off
Using a minimal number of tools and materials you can build your own functional charkha from a cigar box.
#42 Are you a neocolonial transport planner?
An opinion piece with Dr. Jackie Klopp
Mind the Gap — Black & brown skin
The Great Internet Grievance War the Right Has Wanted Is Here. It Ain’t Going Well.
The “Twitter Files,” and the journalists hand-picked for them, don’t reveal what Elon Musk wanted.
This endless fanfare of grievance, innuendo, and motivated misprioritization colors most of the content you’ll find on the most popular conservative news and opinion outlets: vast edifices of bullshit constructed atop small kernels of verifiable information. But this ongoing victim narrative is undermined by the plain fact that, far from being marginalized and undervalued, by most available metrics, right-wing news and opinion is very popular and profitable. Fox News consistently tops the cable news ratings. Conservative radio shows and podcasts top the leaderboards in their respective disciplines. Right-wing Facebook pages are consistently among the most popular issues-based Facebook pages. Substacks dedicated to the proposition that divergent political opinion has no home in the American media earn their proprietors better livings than they ever would have made at the publications they once called home. We are literally living in the Golden Age of Getting Rich and Wielding Influence by Pretending That Your Voice Has Been Silenced—which brings us back to the Twitter Files, and the people to whom they were handed by the wealthiest man in the world.
PATRICK GATHARA - The Black Spot: Why the Kenyan Road System Is Designed to Kill | The Elephant
CrimethInc. : How to Make a Rocketstove : A Guide from Recipes for Disaster
A rocketstove is an amazingly efficient tool for extracting the maximum amount of energy from limited fuel resources.
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? | MIT Technology Review
Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.
Reflecting on Twitter, White Flight, & "Quote Tweet" Tensions at Mastodon - Absolutely Maybe
Why can’t we “quote boost” at Mastodon, the way we can “quote tweet” at Twitter? That might sound like an innocuous question…
Feature by Herman Scholz - Gingers in Borneo
DMDA – Digital Museum of Dress Accessories
Digital Museum of Dress Accessories
About Japan: A Teacher's Resource | Learning from Babysan | Japan Society
Learning from Babysan: An American Cartoon as a Source for Studying the Allied Occupation of Japan, and the U.S. Military Presence in Postwar East Asia
EXCLUSIVE: TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists
ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.
The Quest to Defuse Guyana’s Carbon Bomb | WIRED
A former BP lawyer is going up against Exxon—and her own country—in a bid to stop offshore oil drilling before disaster strikes.
For Humpbacks, Bubbles Can Be Tools | Hakai Magazine
A lungful of air is like a multifunction toolkit for humpback whales.
User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer | Electronic Frontier Foundation
A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by
In China’s Diaspora, Visions of a Different Homeland | ChinaFile
At the beginning, there were songs. It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving. In the storied New England town, over a hundred of us had gathered for the candlelight vigil. After a fire claimed at least ten
Locals protest sand mining in Sabah - Macaranga
The sand mining project is part of a RM2 billion Chinese investment favoured by the state government. But locals fear the health impact.
Weekend Update #7 - by Phillips P. OBrien
Some ideas on how the war is being presented and analyzed--oldies and not goodies
Open Access Journals Related to East and Southeast Asia – Frog in a Well
Below is a list of English language open access journals that publish scholarship related to East and Southeast Asia. The peer-reviewed journals listed here make their articles available at no cost…
Primary Sources: History of the Malay World – Frog in a Well
Katak di bawah tempurung / Seperti katak dalam tempurung – Frog under the coconut shell. Let’s try to get out from under our shell.This page is a list of open access resources and prima…
Why the Age of American Progress Ended - The Atlantic
The real reason American progress has stalled
What went wrong? There are many answers, but one is that we have become too enthralled by the eureka myth and, more to the point, too inattentive to all the things that must follow a eureka moment. The U.S. has more Nobel Prizes for science than the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, Canada, and Austria combined. But if there were a Nobel Prize for the deployment and widespread adoption of technology—even technology that we invented, even technology that’s not so new anymore—our legacy wouldn’t be so sterling. Americans invented the first nuclear reactor, the solar cell, and the microchip, but today, we’re well behind a variety of European and Asian countries in deploying and improving these technologies.
Weird 19th-Century Punctuation Marks You Should Try Using | by Clive Thompson | Medium
Ever heard of the “colash”? Or the “commash”?
‘Underground Railroad’ Quilt Weaves Black Liberation History
African American fiber artists in San Antonio are challenging revisionist histories through artful storytelling.