check our project redcaju.org - a painstaking work of mapping derisking energy projects at granular level across the African continent, analyses of energy policies in Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, and a lot more to come.

Commodification of “learning” and making “intellectualism” “hot” via celebrity culture is not going to save us! This really pissed me off.

Jonathan Sadow@jsadow.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"With humanities degrees under threat, education takes on the texture of luxury. On TikTok, being “disgustingly educated” is, for want of a better word, the hot new aesthetic...if the robots are coming for the jobs, perhaps it is logical that we reclaim our brains for our own use."

Comunicado conjunto rede ex aequo – associação de jovens LGBTI e apoiantes; ILGA Portugal; AMPLOS; Casa Qui; Opus Diversidades: A nossa autonomia não é debatível 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦋 lê na íntegra: ilga-portugal.pt/comunicado-a...

A thread about Nepal’s recent elections, electoral co-operation of movements, resistance within imperial contexts, and the accumulation of revolutionary culture. You can read the full article here:

What Movements Leave Behind

Electoral co-optation, imperial constraints, neoliberal mandates, and the accumulation of revolutionary culture in Nepal

radicaltransitions.substack.com

A lot of the money behind the AI boom is coming from pension funds of working class people and when parts of the AI bubble burst, private capital gets protected, while ordinary people can be left with the losses. The AI Data Center Gold Rush: The Bailout State Behind It - youtu.be/fHwYIFa1mNE

I am thrilled to be on the advisory board of this series, please feel free to get in touch with ideas, questions, or proposals!

Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our new Queer and Trans Histories series creates a home for cutting‑edge work on past and present LGBTQ+ lives. We’re looking for proposals grounded in rich empirical work and innovative approaches to intimacy, emotion, silence, and subjectivity. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...

Cant take the valorization of this sentiment as an indication of love, hope or human decency. Loving the U.S., waving its flag, and insisting that the violence that is constitutive to the U.S. state as not USian is incoherent and dangerous. I wrote something last week that speaks to this!

Exiled From Our Own Struggle

How immigration discourse reproduces paradigms of imperial extraction

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Cooper River Indivisible@crindivisible.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

I wrote about how migration discourse & even our resistance gets colonized by the forces that created the displacement in the first place. We're forced to react to one fascist spectacle after another while material foundations of displacement remain uninterrogated.

Exiled From Our Own Struggle

How immigration discourse reproduces paradigms of imperial extraction

open.substack.com

If you ask most colonized people they will tell you that this has always been the U.S.

Truthout@truthout.org · 9mo ago

Instead of reckoning with the long and violent architecture of U.S. history, much of peoples' search for explanations collapses into racialized tropes and xenophobic reassurance: This isn’t Afghanistan. This isn’t China. This is America. We have rights. This is a democracy. This isn’t who we are.

If the newly formed socialists in the U.S. throw champagne on cops would we learn the true meaning of champagne socialists ? Anyway, good job by this young man!

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective@crimethinc.com · 9mo ago

On this day, January 28, in the year 2012, in a face-off with police during the Occupy movement, this enterprising young man in Oakland taught us the proper meaning of "armchair anarchist." Anything can be a instrument of social change if you use it right. 🏴🖤 crimethinc.com/contradictio...

What a game !

Daniela Gabor@danielagabor.bsky.social · 9mo ago

work so hard to get a shameful penalty, and then squander it, the goddesses of football are awake and alert

Please read this piece - I'm so fascinated by it! It provides a clear walk-through of feminist history - especially valuable for those of us less familiar with these debates. I learnt so much!

Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 9mo ago

Today, I would like to present a deep dive into feminist history that got away from me. Like, really got away from me. It is about the futility of a politics of appeasement. It is about the unburial of a neglected feminist history. But most of all, it's about lesbian feminism, and sins unforgiven.

My latest piece explores how private equity operates as a mechanism of subordination in the Global South. From Nepal to Kenya, we're told to celebrate foreign investment while our working populations bear all the risk and see none of the gains.

Private Equity and the Global South's Subordination

How finance capital turns our futures into investable assets

radicaltransitions.substack.com

Bluesky deleted his account (and keeps doing it). I verified that his account is him & that this Chuffed fundraiser is his: chuffed.org/project/1580...

Help Nurse Hammam and his family in Gaza

Hello !! My name is Sonia. I'm starting this fundraiser to ask for your help for my friend Hammam and his family, who currently live in Gaza 🇵🇸.

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The UK is not safe for trans people!

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 10mo ago

The @goodlawproject.bsky.social continues to warn that excluding Trans+ people could violate European law - and may even constitute a criminal offence www.wearequeeraf.com/organisation...

The Trump administration is engineering a brutal reordering of global capitalism. While claiming isolationism abroad and racism at home, they're actually forging a transnational capitalist alliance powered by AI. American fascists seek other fascists willing to enforce technological extraction.

Globalization 2.0: Artificial Intelligence and the New Fascist Order

How American tech supremacy forges a transnational fascist alliance through artificial intelligence

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I might be pro this kind of immigration process - at least until we dissolve borders! I moved to Lisbon and can walk up and downhill without slipping a lot. Do I get permanent residency now?

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Went for a (slow, painful) jog with the dogs in the snow wearing only a sweatshirt and joggers, do I get my Canadian permanent residence card now or will they mail it to me

Read about how the U.S. turned crisis management into the basis of accumulation. We live in a world where the state’s perpetual arbitration in the financial system has become the precondition for accumulation itself.

Ira.R@iraregmi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Part 2 of my AI investments series is live! The question isn't whether the state will bail AI firms and their financiers out. It's understanding why bailouts have become structurally inevitable under the contemporary form of financialized capitalism.

PLEASE STOP ENGAGING WITH HARRY POTTER SHIT! This includes everything from the video games, movies, TV shows to casually referencing HP content ! The scale of damage this one billionaire is able to cause to the trans community is staggering!

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 10mo ago

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

NEW TWIST: data centers in farm country may accelerate nitrate contamination from agricultural sources with big implications for public health. Studies are needed to confirm or refute this finding. Lack of transparency, monitoring, regulations makes it tough. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis

Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

rollingstone.com

Why there never was a Vibecession in one chart. It’s always been about the prices of essentials.

Part 2 of my AI investments series is live! The question isn't whether the state will bail AI firms and their financiers out. It's understanding why bailouts have become structurally inevitable under the contemporary form of financialized capitalism.

The Derisking State and Architecture of AI Accumulation

How OpenAI Obscures Its Dependence on State Intervention

open.substack.com

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild Tiger’s but and tail (Nepal) Elephant (Nepal) Urban monkeys (Nepal) Rhinoceros (Nepal) Musk Deer (Nepal)

Jason Read@jasonread.bsky.social · 11mo ago

snow monkey (in Japan) blue whale (of the coast of California) armadillo (in Florida) manatee (in Belize) howler monkey (in Guatemala)

Cover art by Sara Qaed

and @iraregmi.bsky.social with more "strategic reconnaissance" on how "the goals of the AI corporation and its financiers merge with the strategic objectives of the American empire" radicaltransitions.substack.com/p/how-financ...

How Finance Capital Fuels the AI Data Center Rush

AI infrastructure and the nexus of state power, industry, and financial institutions

radicaltransitions.substack.com

Waiting for distinguished economists to notice Larry Summers is a sex pest of the teenage boy variety, but with the power to harass his own students

Marshall Steinbaum@econmarshall.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

This is a very comprehensive mapping of AI financing structure and points to some really important dynamics. I’d pay attention to the GPU depreciations and especially the cash flow uncertainty @advaitarun.bsky.social points to!

advait@advaitarun.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Today's new @publicenterprise.bsky.social report is a comprehensive analysis of the capital structure of the entire AI sector: data center real estate, GPU markets, private credit, you name it. It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers! publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...

sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure