“Canary’s non-public websites promise expansion into new avenues to continue the group’s mission of punishing Americans for pro-Palestine speech via doxxing, pressure campaigns, and now arrests and deportations... Read the full report from @jsweetli.bsky.social for Drop Site News linked below 👇

Jacqueline Sweet@jsweetli.bsky.social · 7mo ago

NEW: We obtained 100 gigabytes of data from unlisted websites associated with Canary Mission, revealing their internal workings, employees, and an internal website called BlackNest where the group celebrated its “impacts”— arrests and deportations. www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...

If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?

As you read the news today, watch who phrases the news as an "illegal invasion and regime change" versus "bringing democracy". It'll tell you everything you need to know about the news source you're reading, and frankly should decide whether you ever read them seriously again.

Old enough to remember when manufacturing consent meant real pageantry and effort

The United States is a rogue actor throwing the world into disarray. It hosts war criminal Netanyahu, sanctions ICC and European officials, launches strikes around the world, and now kidnaps foreign leaders. Western allies need to stop it if they truly believe in human rights and international law.

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

Remember that the US *does not care* about the people of Venezuela. It is not about "narcotrafficking", or "democracy", or whatever propaganda they have going. It is *explicitly* about US control over oil, capital accumulation, and geopolitical power.

Imagine this at scale, unchecked: how is this not a fundamental threat to science? (Also, this is a perfect example of how irrational and ironic it is for large publishing companies to use “AI” to generate content that is of a much lower quality than the human-created content they already own.)

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · last yr.

Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term. Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here. Sigh.

The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says

The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’

theguardian.com

NBC News: "The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya" in exchange for the U.S. releasing to Libya "billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya

Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.

nbcnews.com

-It seems the US objective was to clear out this one US-Israeli citizen prior to letting Israel impose its violent endgame on Gaza. -Meanwhile, the US has been pressing Libya to take 1 million Palestinians, who will be ethnically cleansed by Israel.

Here's what's happening, as far as I can tell. 🧵 -The US agreed with Hamas to release Edan Alexander in exchange for lifting the siege on Gaza. -Edan was released, but Trump betrayed his promise. Israel continues to starve Gazans.

Just out in @politiken.dk: My interview on why Europe must urgently reclaim democratic control over its critical digital infrastructures from tech oligarchs. We need real digital sovereignty, not dependency. #Eurostack #DigitalSovereignty

"Urban Highways Are Barriers to Social Ties" out on PNAS! The 1st large-scale measure of how highways weaken social connections between the communities they separate. This barrier effect is strong in the 50 largest US cities--especially for low-income Black communities. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

With each update, tools like Midjourney promise us more »realistic« representations – but the »reality« these images represent has often little to do with the one we live in. Rather, they are best described as »Platform Realism,« a second-order aesthetic of generic images. A thread ... 1/9

I've not been v active here, so I thought I'd post some random tips for academics to get things going.. (I've been a UK-based Alife/complexity lecturer for about 25 years so far.) If you have similar tips or want to dispute anything I'm saying, please feel free to comment... :) #AcademicSky

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Three little books with really big ideas…

Reposting this 2021 study that outlined a strategy to regain working class voters: bread-and-butter economic issues framed in universal terms + working class candidates. Identity politics *language* is a liability and dropping it doesn't alienate other constituencies. jacobin.com/2021/11/comm...

Commonsense Solidarity: How a Working-Class Coalition Can Be Built, and Maintained

An experimental study, the first of its kind, from Jacobin, YouGov, and the Center for Working-Class Politics offers a new and powerful perspective on working-class political views.

jacobin.com

✨ Ghostty 1.0 is Coming - aims to be the best drop-in replacement for your current terminal emulator - will be publicly released in December 2024 - an open-source project under the MIT license - written from scratch in Zig mitchellh.com/writing/ghos... #zig #ziglang #ghostty

Helpful general purpose feeds! 👇 bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:... 1/2

I have one more starter pack in me: critical tech-art. Thing is: a lot of women in this space aren’t on Blue Sky and the gender balance here is no good. Really want to change that. Suggestions for critical women artists in tech (with bsky accounts!) please? go.bsky.app/EkpVQwY

A starter pack on Self-Organisation & AI, as well as adjacent topics such as ALife, morphogenesis, and open-endedness. I will keep adding researchers as people join 🦋 go.bsky.app/3jNeAPY