Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
Prof Sunny Singh
@profsunnysingh.bsky.social
Writer, reader, thinker. Founder & director of the Jhalak Prize
Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
prospect.org
Just a reminder as the new academic year kicks off - the UK government has deliberately, ruthlessly, throttled the recruitment of international students, solely to pander to racists, and the resultant 25%+ fall in numbers can and will only accelerate some universities into bankruptcy.
All my work on TESCREAL & instead of Black women warning you, you amplify the people we've been warning about. I'm done with all of you. See how long I've had to do this shit in my upcoming book you can preorder. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U... Fucking bullshit doing this over & over.
Deep Unlearning
Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...
simonandschuster.com
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last wk.I found this to be plausible. A scaffolded agent swarm given the directive to make money by any means necessary with a selection drive. Eventually, they become self sufficient by earning enough to pay for their own compute. They hide in AWS and other cloud providers. youtu.be/Gw_hnD7m00M?...
What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets!
Leftback@leftback.bsky.social · last wk.Well at least we've heard the worst of this story oh wait the mob got into the hotel onto the floor the players were on and were knocking on bedroom doors. I think I'm moving to rage now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
French prosecutors have found new investigative leads in the Epstein case, and have identified 13 new victims. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.
lemonde.fr
Coming up tomorrow and next Tuesday, my two lectures in Brazil. There will be a livestream and time for discussion. Looking forward to meeting colleagues and students
Belo Horizonte, Brasil: coming up Thursday, 10 September. First of my two public lectures this month in Brazil
Belo Horizonte, Brasil: coming up Thursday, 10 September. First of my two public lectures this month in Brazil
Creative! Avoids ablest connotations. Values humans and their labor. Uses my favorite way to insult something that is believed to be powerful by pointing and laughing. 20/10 stars!
Prof Sunny Singh@profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 3w agoJust learned that The Niece’s primary school buddies have a new insult to replace ‘stupid’. They point, shout ‘Artificial Intelligence’ & fall about laughing. I have NO idea where they got the idea. And I doubt they understand Large Learning Models (I refuse to call it AI)
There's a review of THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF in the latest issue of Wasafiri wasafiri.org/shop/issues/... (I haven't made it past the paywall yet but I will!)
Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
What shapes do solidarities take in these strange times we are living in?
wasafiri.org
The Cost of Borders is finally under contract! Thank you to my incredible agent @sarahburnes.bsky.social to @naomischneid.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social for believing in this project & to all the people from Palestine to Haiti to Cameroon to Iran who shared their stories with me!
Just learned that The Niece’s primary school buddies have a new insult to replace ‘stupid’. They point, shout ‘Artificial Intelligence’ & fall about laughing. I have NO idea where they got the idea. And I doubt they understand Large Learning Models (I refuse to call it AI)
@profsunnysingh.bsky.social I just saw this, and thought it might be of interest to you. (I hope you're well and thriving.) Full article: Between Lipstick and Widow’s White: Female desire and gendered ageism in contemporary Bollywood www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6SJTU...
Between Lipstick and Widow’s White: Female desire and gendered ageism in contemporary Bollywood
Aging women in Bollywood have long been confined within a narrow repertoire of archetypes, among them the suffering widow, the stern matriarch, and the self-effacing grandmother, figures defined no...
tandfonline.com
I have seven invitations from student groups to talk about A.I. They know what I think about A.I. That's why they asked me. They aren't feeling it, y'all.
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 3w agoAt the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.
As several commentators point out: Nepal hardly contributes towards global warming. A glacier collapse is serious. The Hillary step is gone as well. All Everest scalers from the west who destroy everything and claim possession of naming, where art thou? Show your passion for Nepal, perhaps?
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3w agoClimate change is a moral catastrophe because countries like Nepal who are least responsible for causing it suffer the most.
I've added a link to the English translation. How race-scientists weild systematic doubt and participatory scrutiny in order to recast themselves as arbiters of truth. The 3 year hunt for Jason Arday wasn't only about his destruction. The ultimate trophy is epistemic dominance.
Comment un réseau d’élite a chassé Jason Arday
Le racisme scientifique est une pseudoscience qui abreuve la propagande d'extrême-droite, dont masculiniste. Longtemps relégué aux marges, il s’installe dans les universités et cherche à imposer ses …
blogs.mediapart.fr
> Although the media had ample evidence with which to challenge the frame imposed on them by the eugenicists, they adopted it, running with the pack and, in doing so, legitimising both the aims and the epistemic authority of those leading the hunt. 3/
> Arday had been marked as quarry long before the media campaign that drove him to his death. A [...] well-funded international network gave the hunt the capacity to unleash the pack[, b]ut [...] its extremist ideology had to be laundered into a story about scientific and journalistic integrity. 2/
> From day one, everything pointed to the fact that Jason Arday, the Black neurodivergent Cambridge professor who died in August 2026, was being subjected to racist and ableist harassment — exactly the kind of targeting he himself had described. docs.google.com/document/d/1... 1/n
The Hunt for Jason Arday
Translation of Mediapart Le Club blog post in French, by Stephanie Lamy, 24th August 2026. How an Elite Network Hunted Jason Arday Race science is a pseudoscience that feeds far-right propaganda, inc...
docs.google.com
ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@@sven.blacksky.app · 3w ago«L’enjeu est considérable. Comme l’écrit Jafari Sinclaire Allen dans The Nation : « Il s’agit d’un mouvement transatlantique visant à mettre fin à la production indépendante de savoir sur la race et le pouvoir — et à décider, des deux côtés de l’Atlantique, qui est autorisé à produire ce savoir. »»
Call for a public inquiry over the relentless hounding of Jason Arday goodlawproject.org/petition/jas...
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
goodlawproject.org
Dire reporting from BBC which frames people seeking asylum as de facto criminals, along with a pretty patronising and derogatory booklet from the Home Office. This fairly obviously, as Reform's comments show, plays into a narrative people seeking safety are a "threat". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet
The nine-page booklet covers issues including respect in public, sex and consent, and gender equality.
bbc.co.uk
The UK on the other hand has GCs within Labour, top medical institutions, EHRC, medical journals such as the BMJ, and of course the British press. At every level GC's have done complete institutional capture of key influential positions to erase trans rights.
Yes, the Trump admin controls HHS, FTC, and DOJ and is using that to pursue anti-trans policies but that is tied to a single administration. Broader institutions have for the most part held on protecting trans folks. Event the ones that folded mostly did so because of threats by the Trump admin.
This is just social media. This does not include all of the money Rowling spends enforcing her views on the rest of the UK by threat of SLAPP suits. One of the reasons I remain hopeful in the US is how partisan anti-trans views remain here along with the relative lack of institutional capture.
Rowling's median engagement exploded after Elon took over. Her posts were regularly getting tens of thousands of engagements. Her anti-trans tweets became an increasing part of her presence on the site and it now makes up nearly half of all her posts (with conservative methodology).
One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.
What's stuck out to me is just how central UK GC Twitter is to the broader anti-trans ecosystem. While the US right drives a lot of the engagement, they're not as singularly focused and influential within the broader anti-trans network. The UK GC crowd drives the narratives that the US right adopts.
