bet you $10 they also refer to Africa as a country in the report 👀

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

Game over.

bring back glassholes

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.

Palantir delivers again, just not for patients, hospitals or the state.

Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says

Think-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform

ft.com

so glad academics are fighting this but it’s awful they have to do this alone without university backing

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w ago

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

I’m reading this book (an epic work of narrative nonfiction on the housing crisis and working homeless) right now. This is devastating. Life can be so unfair.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.

I’ve been doing some in-depth reporting on the Prairieland cases, and had to get this out first as I continue to dig: I spoke with Ana Bell, sister of Des, who it turns out co-owns and runs an indie bookstore. We talked about the case, the judge, book banning, ICE killings, and living through this:

My Brother Was Sentenced to 30 Years for Moving a Box of Zines

The sister of a defendant in the Prairieland case, which targeted Texas ICE protesters, speaks out.

newrepublic.com

Vanquished by the baby you washed is some Athena bullshit

Someone called the cyclospora outbreak MAHA Blast and I'm cackling like I'm 13 again.

fam we are so cooked.* *i.e. forced to live in an increasingly heating world so that billionaires can make higher profits www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-mo...

The Most Extreme Ways the Wealthy Are Coping During Heatwaves

If you can’t stand the heat, try a snow room—or retractable walls, or an underground retreat

architecturaldigest.com

ya know maybe it’s time we revisit our right to privacy because ‘public safety’ gets conflated with ‘mass surveillance’ far too often www.thedrive.com/news/how-tex...

How Texas Police Spent $4.5 Million on Four Chevy Tahoes

It's hard to make a 2026 Chevy Tahoe cost more than a million dollars. Until you start packing it with military-grade public surveillance technology.

thedrive.com

abolish ice.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 3w ago

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

"Metaphors that identify other human beings as pests, deadly animals, reptiles, parasites, disease, filth, zombies, or demons, are extremely dangerous rhetorical devices. As the case of Charlottesville also shows, such metaphors have a powerful impact on human thinking."

Dangerous Metaphors: How Dehumanizing Rhetoric Works

Dr. Anna Szilagyi describes how dehumanizing rhetoric – a key hallmark of Dangerous Speech – makes violence more acceptable.

dangerousspeech.org

Stop Funding Hate@stopfundinghate.bsky.social · last mo.

Earlier this year a Talk TV contributor also made dehumanising comments, describing refugees as "the vermin that is washing up on our shores". He also repeated a toxic trope framing refugees and migrants as a particular danger to women and girls /2

wild how in every photo of ken paxton he has egg on his face

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w ago

Texas AG Ken Paxton vowed to “stop at nothing to uncover and stop any illegal voting activity.” But experts say he may have violated state law by using an address where he no longer appears to live to vote in six elections in two years. w/ @texastribune.org

'Emerging research suggests data centres raise temperatures in their immediate surroundings by between 2-9°C.' I cannot comprehend how university leaders, politicians, & casual users of AI justify it to themselves. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/chat-ar...

Chat, are we cooked?

Around a third of EU citizens used generative AI (GenAI) tools like Claude and ChatGPT in 2025. Even if you aren’t one of them, GenAI is increasingly

europeancorrespondent.com

Ciarán Cuffe@ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ouch! 80% of Dublin’s electricity going to data centres? Tom Parlon, chair of the Irish Data Centres Supplier Alliance needs reminding that his members cannot ignore environmental and consumer concerns. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/chat-ar...

well well well if it isn’t the deadly consequences of unfettered wealth accumulation and environmental destruction

Dr. Jack Brown@drjackbrown.bsky.social · 4w ago

Meta is contaminating public water supplies with deadly bacteria. Cupriavidus gilardii is resistant to multiple antibiotic agents (even Carbapenems) and can cause fatal human infections.

The European Commission said its investigation into Facebook and Instagram found Meta failed to properly assess the risks of its “addictive design.”

Facebook And Instagram Must Remove ‘Addictive’ Features Like Infinite Scrolling, EU Says

The European Commission said its investigation into Facebook and Instagram found Meta failed to properly assess the risks of its “addictive design.”

forbes.com

A new investigation from the BBC is accusing Instagram of running paid ads in India promoting child sexual abuse material.

“Instagram's Darkest Secret”: BBC Investigation Finds Ads for Child Sex Abuse Material in India

A new investigation from the BBC is accusing Instagram of running paid ads in India promoting child sexual abuse material. BBC senior correspondent Divya Arya explains how Instagram's AI-powered review process frequently fails to flag content suggesting...

democracynow.org

The Supreme Court just wrapped up one of its most impactful terms in a decade – and our experts are breaking it all down live.

We're hiring! Do you feel angry about how migrants and refugees are portrayed in the media and by politicians? Do you want to influence the debate with compelling stories? We're recruiting a part-time Media Coordinator. Find out more👉 praxis.livevacancies.co.uk#/job/details...

Make hate cost more. Support our new Crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fight-the-... Show that there is a real cost to pushing hateful rhetoric.

ICE agents almost shot a man after an ICE agent dropped his gun and another yelled, “Gun.” 📍 This happened in Everett, Massachusetts. Witnesses had to shout that the detained man was unarmed. americansagainstice.org/subscribe

Every single lawmaker that’s calling for their constituents to “be responsible with electricity usage” during the extreme heat had better be supporting heavy restrictions on data centers.

what an absolutely bonkers timeline we are living in

Forbes@forbes.com · last mo.

The former U.S. Olympic canoeist faces a charge for destruction of property.

New @ms.now: The family of a 1-year-old who was shot to death by police in a Walmart parking lot in MS last month are demanding accountability from law enforcement after an independent autopsy called their narrative of the killing into question.

Autopsy of 1-year-old killed by police in Mississippi raises questions

The family of Kohen Wiley, a toddler who was shot to death by police in a Walmart parking lot last month, are demanding accountability from law enforcement.

ms.now

hi hello modern slavery expert here 👋👋 requiring asylum and refugee seekers to pay back support is precisely how traffickers keep victims in debt bondage. this exposes people to even greater re-trafficking risks. is the uk government trying to stop trafficking or learn from criminals?

🔥 The Los Angeles Dodgers ownership group has DIVESTED from GEO Group, the private prison company running ICE detention facilities. No one should be profiting from ICE detention camps. #DIVEST $GEO www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

Dodgers fulfill $1-million pledge in response to ICE raids, owners divest from prison group

The Dodgers followed through on a pledge made a year ago, donating $1.1 million to two foundations supporting those impacted by immigration raids in the Southland.

latimes.com

There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️

Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) at The University of Manchester

Apply now for the Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

jobs.ac.uk

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

just found a new hobby that may or may not involve creating fake restaurants on reddit

404 Media@404media.co · last mo.

This week, 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social talks to researchers Hal Triedman and Tingwei Zhang about how marketing companies are poisoning AI search results by manipulating Reddit. And yeah, it's really just that simple. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uG8...