This is one of the most harrowing stories I've read about contemporary Mexico, and that's to say sth... I'm glad it is being published in English-language outlets. Do read it if you are interested in Latin America/Human Rights/Violence: A great investigation by top journalists.

Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · last wk.

For five years, @marcelaturati.bsky.social, Eliezer Budasoff and Thelma Gómez Durán have investigated forced labour camps run by drug cartels in Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara mountains. This is an edited, abridged excerpt of their shocking report

Let’s not treat this as some kind of brilliant strategy. Every man and his dog can wedge the Coalition. When no one else is doing it, the Coalition stands around and wedges itself. Eventually there will be one person left in the Coalition, and they’ll still get wedged.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last wk.

Federal politics live: Pauline Hanson seeks to wedge Coalition with Islamic State bill

Celebrate the Luddites, but celebrate their legacy of co-ops even more. This is a great article about how we measure the success of social movements.

Maria Bustillos@mariabustillos.com · last wk.

FREE for all: @ntnsndr.in on how Luddism is not the end. Featuring an extremely insightful and stirring observation from @rushkoff.com We made it free for everone to read because this post is what @flaminghydra.com is about. flaminghydra.com/issue-617/

Academic authors: For a fee, I will read your book on the NYC subway looking very engrossed. Extra for if you want me to point, and say very loudly, "THIS is what I'm talking about!"

Well-Pleaded Complaints@timorous.cishet.net · last wk.

spotted: man on the uptown D reading @unlawfulentries.bsky.social’s “Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship”. that’s what we call a blockbuster hit folks

By the way, I apply the same rule to Argentina as to Inter Miami: I only recognize you as a “fan” if you have any other player than Messi on your jersey.

Have you read Trent Reznor’s collection of short stories though? Nine Inch Tales

@aoem.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trent Reznor’s low impact skatepark design firm Nine Inch Rails

I ❤️ NY

Visiting my university’s new, expensively-refurbished space for startup incubators and senior management and cannot imagine a better illustration of the American university at this moment in time than a breathlessly press-released “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.

So was that the Taylor Swift marital military flyover, or the happy birthday USA big beautiful military flyover, or has the self-coup started?

Every single point made in this piece can be explained by the fact that more teams at the World Cup means more matches with major disparities in squad strength and depth. Underdogs are still getting results, because it's the low scores that are most surprising. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Red-hot strikers, errors and smart subs: why the 2026 World Cup is a goal-fest

This tournament is shaping up to be the most prolific since 1970 – if Messi, Mbappé and co can keep up the pace

theguardian.com

New AUKUS class submarines just dropped.

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · last mo.

Behind the scenes on Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), the crew shots a miniature version of the sub Indy hitches a ride on.

Great write up of the immense popularity - and well-founded criticisms - of Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum. By Rachel Nolan with key quotes from @criveragarza.bsky.social @marcelaturati.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

How did Mexico’s president become the world’s most popular leftwing leader?

The long read: Claudia Sheinbaum started as an activist. Now she is Mexico’s president. Has she stayed true to her ideals?

theguardian.com

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

I’m pilfering this directly from @danielalarcon.bsky.social on the Gram because Bsky deserves to see it too.

For non- Spanish speakers, this is announcement of the passing of Raúl Pacheco Vega. It doesn’t say when or what happened, but comments on his work and how generous he has been to colleagues not just at his home institution but around the world.

harmodio@harmodio.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Buen camino, profe Raúl Pacheco Vega. Fuiste y serás siempre el investigador más chido.

After the last story on Hanson’s undisclosed rorts, the politician received a free plane from her billionaire backer. Is she going to get a free yacht this time?

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce billed taxpayers more than $3,000 to attend fundraising and donor events on board the luxury cruise ship The World, hosted by the mining billionaire Gina Rinehart. Reporting by Sarah Martin. Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Must be doing something wrong, my cat costs way more than he brings in.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

‘Catnomics’: how Japan’s feline fixation has become an industry worth billions

Interested in contributing a chapter to a book on Drug Trafficking? Meet us at: Lobby of the Paris Marriott Hotel during #LASA2026 🗓 Friday, May 29, 2026 ⏰ 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Or contact co-editors at: M.Beeder@soton.ac.uk, r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk, a.torresguevara@essex.ac.uk

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

I've been trying to think who Altman reminds me of and he's the spitting image of Burke from Aliens

The stories about celebrity artists and intellectuals getting caught up in AI hype all sound so similar. Without fail, they're surprised that AI outputs make them feel something. And it's the same feelings every time. Dawkins was "moved" by the "sensitive" and weird and gendered) chatbot output...

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it

What could students possibly have against being told they’re all AI cheats but also that they need AI skills so they can become freelance prompt engineers?

Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 3mo ago

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Peru's general election goes to a 2nd round next month. Keiko Fujimori, daughter of dictator Alberto Fujimori, is one of the candidates. This is (Jr) Fujimori's 4th run for president - she came second in all previous attempts. The Fujimori brand remains strong(ish). www.ojala.mx/en/ojala-en/...

Why does Fujimorism still haunt Perú? — Ojalá

The troubled legacy of the former dictator boosts his daughter Keiko’s presidential campaign

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Two years on, far-right President Daniel Noboa’s prison crackdown—characterized by militarization, corruption, and deadly violence—has yielded no results. In this article, John Henry Murdy looks at the human toll of the policy. nacla.org/militarizing...

Militarizing Ecuador's Prisons has Failed

Far-right President Daniel Noboa’s prison crackdown, characterized by militarization, corruption, and violence, has yielded no results.

nacla.org

"If the seven One Nation members elected in South Australia earlier this month follow party tradition, two thirds of them will have left the party before the next election." satpa.pe/JvLOhPi

A complete history of One Nation’s f lame-outs

satpa.pe

Fun fact: Australian marriages are only legally binding once parents of the couple do the Nutbush.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas@horrornonna.com · 4mo ago

Talking to my sweet friend @thecinemascene.bsky.social about the Australian phenomenon of the Nutbush, an insane cultural phenomenon unique to this extremely weird country. l learned this dance to Tina Turner's "Nutbush City Limits" at least at the same time I was learning to walk...

Regular reminder that the literal 1st full conversation in ALIEN is a contract negotiation, & that everything that goes wrong throughout those movies happens because the Weyland-Yutani Corporation programmed all of its "AI" systems to put any possibility of profit over & above the lives of the crew.

Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

Hello! I'm glad this is making the rounds, as sometimes it feels as if we're pretending the so-called hallucination problem has gone away. It hasn't. It won't. But more importantly, this poses a particularly pernicious harm for education that I think is not well understood. So, a short thread...

Futurism@futurism.com · 4mo ago

This is catastrophic.

Why is this presented as short bullet points? Practice what you preach and bury this advice in a the middle of Finnegan’s Wake.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4mo ago

Making life harder sounds deeply unfun, but it might be good for your brain. We talked to experts to find out how modern ease affects brain health, and how you can try friction-maxxing, a way of reintroducing challenges to enhance cognitive function: https://wapo.st/4meA4j1