Gavin Chait;
@gavin.whyqd.com
I am a data scientist, researcher, engineer, sometime-traveler, and African SFF author. I am fascinated by the frontiers of human progress: innovation vs ignorance; wealth vs poverty, migration vs stasis. I also drink a great deal of coffee.
The last time so many people had to be evacuated from one place was in 1940, for Dunkirk. Conducted against us by our environment, the climate crisis is a war we've imposed on ourselves. The next century will be full of pointless suffering
Ever read a take so stupid that you feel like it's just punched you in the face?
yeah I don't think you get to "oops, my bad" the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people - and counting! - because you got "carried away"
Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social · 2w agolet he who hasn’t ever gotten so carried away illegally impounding federal funds that they killed hundreds of thousands of people cast the first stone
In case you didn’t have enough reasons to love Spanish football, here’s some more wholesome content of the male players paying their respects to the women’s team, which also won the world cup www.instagram.com/reel/DbEsgxe...
Pounding Yam Is Not The Will Of God This is seventy-nine percent of a true story on the ungodly and self-destructive exercise of yam pounding — by Mofoluwawo O. Mojolaoluwa t.ly/lcSXx
Pounding Yam Is Not The Will Of God
A seventy-nine percent of a true story on the ungodly and self destructive exercise of yam pounding — by Mof’Oluwawo O MojolaOluwa
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Nothing shrieks 'hope' more than re-appointing a home office cabinet minister intent on brutalising immigrants, refugees, and minorities.
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
This is Israel's future. One way or another. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFLJ...
Hilary Swank - Red Dust (2004) Trailer
YouTube video by xufamanverdadero
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What I don't get about AI •company• hypervaluations, hyperinvestments & hyperexpectations is they only work if they have a moat. But they never licenced anything they needed to build their stuff. If it's ok to break the law to do this, they have no moat. Anyone can do what they did, & they will. So?
The internet’s blessed me by reminding me of Stéphan Gladieu’s insanely hard photos of costumes made by Young Congolese artists from all the shit we dump there I don’t want to ever see another leather jacket wearing billy idol clone in a cyberpunk setting again www.stephangladieu.fr/homo-detritus/
Oh, I don't know. This Other Eden by Ben Elton had billionaire media tycoons promoting escape shelters while deliberately causing environmental disasters for views. The rich paid for nicer air, & people tried to achieve fame by committing violence on famous people. I think he got it about right.
Marie Vibbert@reasie.bsky.social · 3w agoNo science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
It’s one of the great ironies that people across the world who’ve spent years and years whipping up hate and dividing countries are now complaining that people hate them.
Not now venomous-snakes-escaping-breeding-farms-during-flooding, we have other things to worry about.
First trailer for "Le Corset", directed by Louis Clichy ("Asterix") at Eddy Cinema studio. One of my favorite movies of 2026 so far. Coming in French theaters on October 14. >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-07...
Et c'est alors que nous, les immigrés, pourrons décider si nous souhaitons confier notre avenir à une telle nation.
Docteur Bagarre@docteurbagarre.bsky.social · 4w agoSi on vote malgré ça pour elle ET pour l'appareil de parti condamné avec, ce sera le signe indéniable que le pays est majoritairement d'extrême droite et que l'honnêteté du tout venant n'existe plus.
Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.
Umberto Eco library opens in Bologna, 10 years after his death
The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.
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I feel like portraying it as a fringe theological dispute between catholic sects over the 2nd vatican council and finger pointing over who's a heretic, rather than as a conflict with a fringe far right sect that says Jews are going to hell and Muslims are rapists hides the general interest aspect.
There are about as many intersex people in the world as there are redheads— ~1.7% of the world's population. So claiming there are only two biological sexes is like claiming there are only two hair colors: Brown & Yellow. Now consider how you'd regard someone who loudly & repeatedly insisted that…
In South Africa, vigilante mobs are doing what similar mobs have done in Europe & what ICE does here. Xenophobia is a global epidemic. The carriers are right-wing & nationalist political activists.
GroundUp News@groundup.org.za · last mo.Hundreds of people waiting outside the Zimbabwean Consulate in Cape Town faced a cold night on Saturday. Read groundup.org.za/article/zimb... by Matthew Hirsch
Rest in Power, maestro Abdullah Ibrahim. Here is a fine NPR Music obit by Martin Johnson.
Abdullah Ibrahim, quiet giant of the jazz piano, has died at 91
The South African musician's "Mannenberg" was often called his country's unofficial anthem during the final years of apartheid.
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