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When the cost of running for office is too high, democracy becomes less accessible. theconversation.com/running-for-... #Politics
Running for parliament in Malawi costs a fortune: economic crisis undermines democracy
For many Malawians living in acute poverty, elections provided an opportunity to secure much-needed relief.
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This is Tino and Ro and they need their own tv show because why are they like this?! Pls the giant selfoe pictures of Ro on the walls… a real comedian 😭 They are Tino and Ro but this is someone else who posted them, Ro had to lock her downloads because ppl were stealing her content impersonating.
People are too scared to be polarizing. Even the Bluesky executive team does this poorly. That's how the media are running with the message that they want to run the libs off the platform after that Verge interview.
join neno!@ann.neno.social · 15h agoYou all are failing at the messaging game. On every platform. Just amplifying and reposting bullshit because you do not understand that narratives and agendas are hard at work.
That's how I had to block everyone reposting that weird artificially-generated video from Mario Lopez.
join neno!@ann.neno.social · 15h agoYou all are failing at the messaging game. On every platform. Just amplifying and reposting bullshit because you do not understand that narratives and agendas are hard at work.
You all are failing at the messaging game. On every platform. Just amplifying and reposting bullshit because you do not understand that narratives and agendas are hard at work.
And obviously we don’t have many details here but the pattern is sickening. it‘s not some sort of hyperbolic position to be cautious. ALERT. LOCKED IN.
Black people have to lock in to protect ourselves and communities. What that man did on Jan. 6—and everyday since—was signal a second redemption. The reign of terror wrought on Black people at the turn of the century was devastating. So much so that we don’t even know the half of it.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 16h agoJackson police are investigating the death of an unidentified Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Mississippi’s capital city on Monday night. www.mississippifreepress.org/black-woman-...
It's really nice not to have to worry if a social media post is gonna get me called to the principal's office. Because look at me. I'M THE PRINCIPAL NOW.
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Welcome to Soraya [dot] Press. I’m so glad you’re here! Legacy media is a dumpster fire right now (yes, even for Pulitzer finalists who allegedly write good). So I’m going independent, y’all. Soraya ...
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Prepare yourselves for a 24-hour stretch of not talking about white people later this month. Start practicing the art of navel-gazing Blackness now.
So if the digital protocols are not accounting for the variety of Blacknesses (and the material conditions of each of those Blacknesses), they're inadequate to me. And they should be to you. Come see me talk more about this on 15 August 2026 at Gather & Tell! gatherandtell.com 🌟
Social Media For The Rest Of Us — Gather & Tell | presented by PARIWO
What do community-owned social platforms look like in the age of generative artificial intelligence?
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join neno!@ann.neno.social · 20h agoIn the context of Black lives, sovereignty means something different because Blackness is borderless and state-agnostic. That means that, to the state, your specific ethnicity doesn't matter. That your skin is black is enough. The state doesn't care if you are jollof Black or mackanchis Black.
In the context of Black lives, sovereignty means something different because Blackness is borderless and state-agnostic. That means that, to the state, your specific ethnicity doesn't matter. That your skin is black is enough. The state doesn't care if you are jollof Black or mackanchis Black.
join neno!@ann.neno.social · 20h agoSpeaking of sovereignty: "ATproto separates into distinct layers what conventional platforms bundle together. Sovereignty, in this context, is a question of control over these interconnected layers of infrastructure." openfuture.eu/blog/w-socia...
Speaking of sovereignty: "ATproto separates into distinct layers what conventional platforms bundle together. Sovereignty, in this context, is a question of control over these interconnected layers of infrastructure." openfuture.eu/blog/w-socia...
W-Social: What does sovereignty mean for social media? – Open Future
The European Commission’s move to W-Social frames it as a European alternative to X, but its closed-source code and reliance on Bluesky’s infrastructure show that sovereign social media requires open ...
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join neno!@ann.neno.social · yesterdayAnd *that* matters because most of those societies are antiblack, misogynistic, ableist, and so on. The protocol doesn't escape the power structures from which it arises; it amplifies it. But there is a morality attached to the term "open source" that, in fact, doesn't exist or matter.
Being not-thin is enraging to empire because it means the society couldn't make you conform. Don't internalize that rage, babe. Jiggle and fold instead. Jiggle and fold.
No one wants to own their data until the platform where their data lives enshittifies to the point of unusability and/or starts selling their data in ways they didn't expect. Like, 99% of ppl are here because Elon owns Twitter. I get why people don't care, but they tend to eventually every time.
Johanna Fernández Dies at 55: Leading Historian of the Young Lords & Latinx Freedom Movement www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWkb...
Johanna Fernández Dies at 55: Leading Scholar on the Young Lords & Latinx Freedom Movement
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Hmm. Well I can’t sleep and I love a good investigation so here’s what I found. At the very least, both appear to be real human beings. Marva has posts going back to 2017 and Candas has posts going back to 2013.
✨Pretty, Witty, Girly, Worldly✨ ♌️ 8/11@asdoseofreality.blacksky.app · yesterdayBar for bar and now I feel slightly betrayed cause I’m not sure who stole from who. I really hate the internet sometimes
Absolutely it. Black folks are realizing they can capitalize on the fact that folks look at us as their helpers/saviors/caregivers. Then the next level of that is the tech bros who understand that and make AI Black people to tap in where they ordinarily couldn’t. Whole system insane.
still a mfn simone stan account — yes, all of them!!@larrycurlyanfro.bsky.social · yesterdayThe oracle “magical negro” trope in action. Everything on SM is intentional when it gets to this level of engagement. This is a good investigation.
Lmao I was so incensed that I might’ve been tricked by AI I got to the bottom of it at 5 in the morning. It’s f*cked up that the lady I posted stole that content from another creator but at least she’s a real human so I don’t have to doubt my ability to discern reality 😭
A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks
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Ridiculous o'clock. Reckless thirty.
join neno!@ann.neno.social · yesterdayOf course I'm wide awake at 00h25, aka, nonsense o'clock.
A very large part of me is bored with the "move fast" way of developing tech that features mostly men building and breaking and shipping. And by bored, I do mean pissed off. Enraged, in fact. Because it is very, and literally, care-less. But we'll chat about that next weekend. 💃🏾
Anyway! Come listen to me yap about this on 15 August at Gather & Tell gatherandtell.com
Social Media For The Rest Of Us — Gather & Tell | presented by PARIWO
What do community-owned social platforms look like in the age of generative artificial intelligence?
gatherandtell.com
join neno!@ann.neno.social · yesterdayAnd *that* matters because most of those societies are antiblack, misogynistic, ableist, and so on. The protocol doesn't escape the power structures from which it arises; it amplifies it. But there is a morality attached to the term "open source" that, in fact, doesn't exist or matter.
And *that* matters because most of those societies are antiblack, misogynistic, ableist, and so on. The protocol doesn't escape the power structures from which it arises; it amplifies it. But there is a morality attached to the term "open source" that, in fact, doesn't exist or matter.
join neno!@ann.neno.social · yesterdayThis matters because, if we understand technology to be a replication, amplification, and acceleration of material conditions, any protocol can be engineered to replicate, amplify, and accelerate the power structures of the societies that generate it.
This matters because, if we understand technology to be a replication, amplification, and acceleration of material conditions, any protocol can be engineered to replicate, amplify, and accelerate the power structures of the societies that generate it.
join neno!@ann.neno.social · yesterdayAnd the atproto is a precursor to surveillance web. Given the givens (accelerating techno-fascism), we might want to think about who benefits from a did:*
And the atproto is a precursor to surveillance web. Given the givens (accelerating techno-fascism), we might want to think about who benefits from a did:*
