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Amarnath Amarasingam
@amaramarasingam.bsky.social
Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
Israeli Squatters Have blockaded this West Bank Village www.juancole.com/2026/09/isra...
Israeli Squatters Have blockaded this West Bank Village
By Shireen Akram-Boshar This article was originally published by
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New in PN: @ninajankowicz.com on the golden age of disinformation “I’m not optimistic about us clawing back from this unless there’s serious rethinking of our systems, and frankly, regulation of these social media platforms that are making us such passive and uncurious consumers of information."
Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation
“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”
publicnotice.co
Great to be on one of my favourite podcasts for a wide-ranging chat covering terrorist misuse of AI, the implications for counter-terrorism and the likelihood of a meaningful regulatory response
Arthur Snell@snellarthur.bsky.social · 5d agoBack to skool - Behind the Lines is back with a discussion with @davidwellsct.bsky.social on how criminals and terrorists are, and are not, using AI. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.
OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.
futurism.com
My man looks like he owns a Hooters-branded Discover Card
I have a new book chapter in @colinpclarke.bsky.social and Clara Broekaert edited volume on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: "The Fate of Global Jihadism Today: Internally Resilient, Strategically Deprioritized" thesoufancenter.org/wp-content/u...
ICE detainees say they’ve been served food that’s undercooked, spoiled or infested with bugs. They can buy commissary food, but it’s expensive. So self-described California mom Casey Revkin is channeling more than $10,000/week in donations to feed hundreds of kids @arelisrhdz.bsky.social reports
She’s feeding hundreds of kids in ICE detention using commissary accounts
Casey Revkin gives money to hundreds of families at a Texas family detention facility so that they can buy food their children will eat.
washingtonpost.com
This is very good advice, even if the true problem is at the cultural and systemic level rather than at the individual level. We write too much because academic culture and system value quantity over quality. And this quantity clogs the system, further weakening the quality.
Catherine E. de Vries@catherinedevries.bsky.social · 5d agoLots of writing advice is about procrastination or writer’s block. We worry & develop routines to tackle it. But what if our problem is the opposite? What if we write too much? Too many emails, posts, essays, papers. We have become very good at making ourselves write, perhaps too good. 🧵
One would hope, but this was back in a world of shame and consequences.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d agoDon Rumsfeld was forced out after the 2006 midterms because of how much of an anchor the Iraq war became for Republicans. I do wonder if Hegseth might be vulnerable. Objectively he has been a terrible leader of the Pentagon, and Trump will want to blame someone.
The facts and details of this case have been known for about 15 years. Long time coming. In September, on the 30th anniversary of Pac’s death, to boot.
Long time comin www.ktnv.com/news/closing...
Duane 'Keefe D' Davis found guilty in 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur
A jury found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur, marking the first conviction in a case that has gripped hip-hop fans for decades.
ktnv.com
Also only some of the money went to planned parenthood. Other orgs like Black Mamas Matter are built for, you know, babies and women not seeking abortions
Bart Harley Jarvis@williamzabka424.bsky.social · 7d agolol this is amazing. This nerd did dead baby math.
At some point, the Fox News dopamine hit just doesn't do it anymore and you need an even stronger hit of alternative reality. America, do you know where your Baby Boomers are?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoTrump posts AI slop with the caption, “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!”
@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social: "To be clear, there is no emergency around our elections. Noncitizen voting is minuscule. Fraudulent voting is minuscule. it's statistically insignificant. There is no big outside interference…But they're searching for a pretext to declare an emergency."
Current view of Google Maps while using a Canadian VPN (left) and an American VPN (right)
GDP data out this morning shows a strong rebound for Canada’s economy in the second quarter. It also revised the first quarter data to show Canada did not have a technical recession after all (though growth was still very tepid) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Canada Economy Grows 3.3% in Second Quarter, Fastest Since '23
Growth in Canada’s real gross domestic product accelerated to 3.3% in the second quarter, confirming a strong economic rebound after a yearlong slump brought on by US tariffs and a slowdown in immigra...
bloomberg.com
Did he...copy the 1948 Schlesinger poll and add in a couple contemporary presidents?
I have to believe that the slightly larger portion of us do not regard our humanity as a meatsuit seperatimg us from pure productivity. But it’s hard sometimes.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w agoI got nothing.
Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.
The United States and Canada have been friends, partners, and allies for more than 150 years across 32 presidential administrations. And now, solely because of the arrogance, incompetence, and ego of the current occupant of the White House, that relationship is being driven straight toward a cliff.
I don’t misunderstand Palantir. I just think it is crap.
The Economist@economist.com · 2w agoThe conspiratorially minded fret that it could steal and sell British data. More sober types worry about “lock-in”, where it burrows deep into the state and ensconces itself. But these fears stem from a misunderstanding of what Palantir does
Chauvin was, in fact, the cause of Floyd’s death. He used a technique that MPD and most other agencies have banned, specifically because it causes death. And the crime for which he was convicted is unintentional second-degree murder, which by definition does not require intent to kill.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3w agoIs there ever a time now when he's not trying to ignite a race war?
Very pleased to make my debut on The Walrus today, discussing illicit political financing and Alberta's upcoming referendum. thewalrus.ca/the-russian-...
The Russian Money Behind Alberta’s Separatist Movement | The Walrus
The Kremlin has perfected covert influence. I’ve seen how poorly equipped Canada is to stop it
thewalrus.ca
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
propublica.org