NBC News: "The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya" in exchange for the U.S. releasing to Libya "billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

-It seems the US objective was to clear out this one US-Israeli citizen prior to letting Israel impose its violent endgame on Gaza.

-Meanwhile, the US has been pressing Libya to take 1 million Palestinians, who will be ethnically cleansed by Israel.

Here's what's happening, as far as I can tell. 🧵

-The US agreed with Hamas to release Edan Alexander in exchange for lifting the siege on Gaza.

-Edan was released, but Trump betrayed his promise. Israel continues to starve Gazans.

Just out in @politiken.dk: My interview on why Europe must urgently reclaim democratic control over its critical digital infrastructures from tech oligarchs. We need real digital sovereignty, not dependency.
#Eurostack #DigitalSovereignty

"Urban Highways Are Barriers to Social Ties" out on PNAS!
The 1st large-scale measure of how highways weaken social connections between the communities they separate. This barrier effect is strong in the 50 largest US cities--especially for low-income Black communities.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

With each update, tools like Midjourney promise us more »realistic« representations – but the »reality« these images represent has often little to do with the one we live in. Rather, they are best described as »Platform Realism,« a second-order aesthetic of generic images. A thread ...
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I've not been v active here, so I thought I'd post some random tips for academics to get things going..

(I've been a UK-based Alife/complexity lecturer for about 25 years so far.)

If you have similar tips or want to dispute anything I'm saying, please feel free to comment... :)

#AcademicSky

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

Three little books with really big ideas…

Reposting this 2021 study that outlined a strategy to regain working class voters: bread-and-butter economic issues framed in universal terms + working class candidates. Identity politics *language* is a liability and dropping it doesn't alienate other constituencies.

jacobin.com/2021/11/comm...

✨ Ghostty 1.0 is Coming

- aims to be the best drop-in replacement for your current terminal emulator

- will be publicly released in December 2024

- an open-source project under the MIT license

- written from scratch in Zig

mitchellh.com/writing/ghos...

#zig #ziglang #ghostty

Helpful general purpose feeds! 👇

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I have one more starter pack in me: critical tech-art. Thing is: a lot of women in this space aren’t on Blue Sky and the gender balance here is no good. Really want to change that. Suggestions for critical women artists in tech (with bsky accounts!) please?

go.bsky.app/EkpVQwY

A starter pack on Self-Organisation & AI, as well as adjacent topics such as ALife, morphogenesis, and open-endedness.

I will keep adding researchers as people join 🦋

go.bsky.app/3jNeAPY