Zama
@zamandlovu.bsky.social
I have a serious job. I’ve done and written serious things. But not here for that. Hoping I can occasionally have serious thoughts without needing to be a serious person.
“I have never done more suicide assessments than when I’ve run credit reports with clients and found coerced debt or identity theft.” @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social digs into a widespread and rarely talked about form of debt: coerced debt.
She escaped her abuser. But not before he buried her in debt.
This is how coerced debt haunts survivors of domestic abuse.
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This is the kid who NYU is considering withholding graduation from for speaking out against Gaza. This speech. Ask yourself why. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj5mEgHo/
NYU graduate Logan Rozos is facing criticism after condemning the atrocities committed in Palestine during his commencement speech. #gaza #palestine #israel #nyu #nyugallatin
TikTok video by Daily Mail
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"His photographs are often hazy, evanescent light fading like memories, the camera trying to clutch and fix the image before it is gone for ever." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘Power and simplicity: South African photographer wins Deutsche Börse prize
Lindokuhle Sobekwa praised for work exploring the loss of his half-sister in the wider context of post-apartheid life
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It's interesting that Paradise, Severance, and Silo are hit shows about a group of people trapped in a controlled environment by a group of rich people who are lying to them about the basic structure of their reality. Probably says a lot about where we're at as a people!
Tesla stock is pumped every Friday on options expiration like clockwork. Tesla is a complexly manipulated stock there can be no doubt $tsla $tslaq
At Pope Leo XIV's first Mass as leader on Friday, he pledged to align himself with “ordinary people” and not with the rich and powerful. Many see the first American pope as a continuation of his predecessor, Pope Francis, in his advocacy of the poor, migrants and a more open church.
Pope Leo XIV Echoes Francis in His First Mass, Aligning Himself With ‘Ordinary People’
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I think a big part of the pushback against GLP-1 meds, despite the strong science, is because wellness industry folks are losing a lot of clients. That Slender Wonder programme they sold in Joburg with the HGC injections cost way more than Ozempic.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last yr.There are legitimate issues with the pharmaceutical industry and how it's regulated; the wellness industry is even more predatory, like it's not even close. Woo woo bullshit on par with leeches and humors
That image isn’t giving me hope.
Maggie Astor@maggieastor.bsky.social · last yr.Breaking: The FDA has approved a vaginal swab that will allow people to screen for HPV — which causes almost all cases of cervical cancer — at home instead of getting a Pap smear, which can be painful and/or traumatic for many
Breaking News: An air traffic control facility at Newark Airport suffered another radar outage, the latest disruption at one of the nation’s busiest airports.
Newark Airport Has Another Radar Outage
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This administration takes antisemitism seriously. That's why we removed The Diary of Ann Frank from all federal libraries.
Pope Leo XIV has seen the movie #Conclave He watched it right before the actual conclave (via NBC News)
Can't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed
Worrying the extent to which Afriforum and its offshoots get treated as "representatives" of Afrikaners when they are in fact a particular ideological grouping, not even cultural. South Africa is diverse, and noone should hijack a whole ethnicity for political goals www.news24.com/politics/glo...
‘Gloves were off’: PAC facilitates ‘robust’ ANC-Afrikaner exchange | News24
The hush-hush four-hour marathon meeting between the ANC and Afrikaner Leadership Network at a hotel in Sandton has been at least four weeks in the making, and the PAC finally convinced the organisati...
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i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last yr.it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.
good to see, more of this from everyone please
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last yr.Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
Steve Carell has to do so much acting to hide just how hot he is, but as he gets older, his acting is increasingly not good enough to misdirect us.
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
🔒If you read between the lines of the DA's employment equity court case, it is about milking the current depressed economic environment to build the case against transformation, writes Qaanitah Hunter www.news24.com/opinions/col...
Qaanitah Hunter | The uncomfortable truth about the fight against redress | News24
If you read between the lines of the DA’s employment equity court case - which may be good for the ultimate certainty about employment quotas and their constitutionality - it is about milking the curr...
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To parent today is to encounter an endless firehose of marketing, data, tech optimization, and pastel branding. But rather than set fire to the machines, @amandahess.bsky.social's new memoir offers a refreshing approach to processing this digital behavior. The result is a gentle revolution.
A better way to think about tech's hold on modern parenting
Apps and influencers offer to ease burdens. But a closer look at the darker origins of that promise can help caregivers navigate what’s real.
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Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today: He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution He’s fine with a recession Americans can do with less Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
