Ashwini Vasanthakumar
@ashwinivasantha.bsky.social
Legal and political theory | migration, authority, obligation, oppression and the ethics of resistance | writing a book on why immigrants should not 'integrate' | reposts are not endorsements www.ashwinivasanthakumar.com
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
OTTAWA - Pollsters report a split among Canadians over the idea of higher tax on the assets of wealthy individuals, though support skyrockets after noting that Kevin O'Leary has vowed that he will res...
thebeaverton.com
According to the Climate Change Institute, “eighty per cent of majority-Indigenous communities in Canada are located in fire-prone regions.” www.thewhig.com/opinion/wild...
Wildfires devastate First Nations
Northern Ontario First Nations’ chiefs have called for an official inquiry into the Ontario government’s response to the wildfires.
thewhig.com
Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New: Successful legal challenge for survivor of trafficking forced to steer small boat across Channel — by Emily Soothill
Successful legal challenge for survivor of trafficking forced to steer small boat across Channel - Free Movement
The Home Office has conceded an important judicial review claim brought by a survivor of trafficking who had been forced at gunpoint to pilot a small boat
freemovement.org.uk
The right's war on avocado toast has new ammo.
Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
A powerful op-ed on why universities should not cave into political pressure. wapo.st/4ftHkFX
Opinion | Yale’s trustees face a decision with profound consequences
A lesson from Hungary: Boards don't capitulate to authoritarians. The people on them do.
wapo.st
When asked why British police screwed up the Andrew Tate case so badly, a "detective blamed the malfeasance on 'overworked, overstretched' officers who failed to take the women’s allegations seriously, partly because two of them were sex workers."
Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
newyorker.com
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
futurism.com
Look at how terrible this socialism is: “The windfall of tips comes after a city law cracking down on deceptive tipping practices by app-based delivery companies took effect in January … Since taking office, Mayor Mamdani has directed DCWP to vigorously enforce the laws.”
NYC Delivery Workers Earned $104M Extra in Tips Under New City Law
According to a new city report, enforcement of New York City’s tip transparency law has led to an average of about $2,287 in additional tips for each of the city’s 70,000 app-based delivery workers.
documentedny.com
So many things like this we didn’t ask for…
Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
There's a video of the machine cutting open books, including clearly old and rare books, and it feels so violent. We do not have to accept this shit.
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”
Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives
One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.
wxyz.com
Cleese coming out strongly against Western Civilization
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · last wk.if the major in faulty towers said this it would've felt over the top
When you're such a tech visionary that you....recycle Victorian-era policies. What a loser.
Shopify CEO appears to endorse giving more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News
The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for seeming to endorse stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke...
cbc.ca
Trying not to share X content on here. But rules exist to be broken and this is just too funny.
Not clear what's behind this, but the Home Office did roll out two generative AI tools to the asylum system this year - despite an evaluation finding they produced serious errors in 1 in 10 cases: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests
Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’
theguardian.com
'As the intensity of U.S. operations grows, the conflict has become increasingly opaque, making independent monitoring by journalists and human rights groups nearly impossible.' #Somalia truthout.org/articles/tru...
Trump Is Already Outpacing His First-Term Record Number of Airstrikes on Somalia
The Trump administration cut humanitarian aid to Somalia while continuing to pound it with military airstrikes.
truthout.org
"A liberal and flexible system towards economic migration routes is likely to produce better results overall than one whose primary aim is to limit eligibility to a very narrow set of potential migrants." ✍️ @jdportes.bsky.social on selective migration systems 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-paradox-...
The paradox of selectivity - UK in a changing Europe
Jonathan Portes analyses how increasingly strict immigration policies may have impacted the overall economc contribution of migrants in the UK. He argues that if the objective is to maximise economic ...
ukandeu.ac.uk
It Could Happen Here "Lebanon’s Agreement with Israel" Dana( @danaelkurd.bsky.social )El Kurd, Elia( @ayoub.bsky.social )Ayoub @iwriteok.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Lebanon’s Agreement with Israel - It Could Happen Here | iHeart
<p>In this episode Dana El Kurd talks with Elia Ayoub about Lebanon’s agreement with Israel, the concerns regarding the agreement, and how it fits in to the broader regional war on Iran.*</p> <p...
iheart.com
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
lrb.co.uk
"However, the Home Office is not providing the required onward travel assurance (OTA) and is using legal challenges to block these families coming to the UK, sometimes deploying several senior barristers to a single case." Shahbana Mahmood's 'fairer' asylum system in action.
Home Office blocking evacuation of dozens of women and children from Gaza
Refugee family reunions in limbo, despite Foreign Office saying it is ready get people out of war-torn territory
theguardian.com
being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.
Solidarity and sorrow with those in Berlin, from the home of Christopher Street. 💔
One dead and several injured during Berlin’s LGBTQ+ parade after car drives into crowd
Berlin’s Pride parade, known in Germany as Christopher Street Day, is one of Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ celebrations.
nbcnews.com
Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...
This article by @trinamoyles.bsky.social in @thenarwhal.ca is magical and quietly hope-giving in yet another week of abysmal news.
The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 2w agoWhat is it like to live with grizzly bears? Reporter Trina Moyles travelled to Haines Junction, Yukon, to find out. It has one of the highest concentrations of grizzlies in the territory. Here's her story about coexistence, with incredible photos by Sonny Parker thenarwhal.ca/grizzly-bear...