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What a line-up! An @antipodeonline.bsky.social first: a "longread" of 68 pages! Expect a splendid New Year's gift, when the issue goes to print early Jan!
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What a line-up! An @antipodeonline.bsky.social first: a "longread" of 68 pages! Expect a splendid New Year's gift, when the issue goes to print early Jan!
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social
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Some fantastic work by the "Austin Clippies" has resulted in a new tool that lets organizers sign up for email alerts when councils nearby have surveillance technology like #Flock on the agenda! 🏆
👉 alpr.watch 👈
Quick overview from Louis Rossmann...
#deflock #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety
👉 alpr.watch 👈
Quick overview from Louis Rossmann...
#deflock #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety
We put Flock under surveillance: go make them behave differently 😈
YouTube video by Louis Rossmann
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December 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Some fantastic work by the "Austin Clippies" has resulted in a new tool that lets organizers sign up for email alerts when councils nearby have surveillance technology like #Flock on the agenda! 🏆
👉 alpr.watch 👈
Quick overview from Louis Rossmann...
#deflock #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety
👉 alpr.watch 👈
Quick overview from Louis Rossmann...
#deflock #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety
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“Why did we look up for blessing—instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon ... in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”
December 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“Why did we look up for blessing—instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon ... in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”
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"To map abundance is not a luxury, but an urgent insistence on life.
Envisioning and practicing abundance is a necessity in the face of the deadly consequences of occupation, settler colonial genocidal tactics and corporate-induced climate change." 1/2
- Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance"
Envisioning and practicing abundance is a necessity in the face of the deadly consequences of occupation, settler colonial genocidal tactics and corporate-induced climate change." 1/2
- Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance"
"Abundant-mindedness is a radical refusal of capitalist economies.. Mapping abundance is a profoundly decolonial act.
Fear is inscribed in neoliberal capital.. The crisis for capital is that abundance raises the possibility of a just redistribution of resources"
- C. Fujikane, Mapping Abundance
Fear is inscribed in neoliberal capital.. The crisis for capital is that abundance raises the possibility of a just redistribution of resources"
- C. Fujikane, Mapping Abundance
Review of Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi by Candace Fujikane (Duke University Press)
Employing the teachings of Indigenous cartographic practices to trouble the Western epistemologies of subdivision that underpin private property development, Candace Fujikane's Mapping Abundance for a...
csalateral.org
March 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"To map abundance is not a luxury, but an urgent insistence on life.
Envisioning and practicing abundance is a necessity in the face of the deadly consequences of occupation, settler colonial genocidal tactics and corporate-induced climate change." 1/2
- Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance"
Envisioning and practicing abundance is a necessity in the face of the deadly consequences of occupation, settler colonial genocidal tactics and corporate-induced climate change." 1/2
- Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance"
“technological escalation has led to the emergence of computational capitalism in our times/ As the world becomes a huge data emporium, tomorrow's technologies of racialization will be more and more generated and instituted through data, calculation and computation”
December 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“technological escalation has led to the emergence of computational capitalism in our times/ As the world becomes a huge data emporium, tomorrow's technologies of racialization will be more and more generated and instituted through data, calculation and computation”
The research done on "racial identity" or "race relations" by classic/popular/up-and-coming social psychologists is mostly racecraft, and it's been an uphill fight trying to get them to see that. I remember after one of my talks, one asked me "so you're calling us all racializers?"
Well, yes.
Well, yes.
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The research done on "racial identity" or "race relations" by classic/popular/up-and-coming social psychologists is mostly racecraft, and it's been an uphill fight trying to get them to see that. I remember after one of my talks, one asked me "so you're calling us all racializers?"
Well, yes.
Well, yes.
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Data Workers’ Inquiry continues its excellent project of amplifying voices of the human labor too often overlooked in debates about genAI. This latest report from Michael Geoffrey Asia is an essential read.
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Data Workers’ Inquiry continues its excellent project of amplifying voices of the human labor too often overlooked in debates about genAI. This latest report from Michael Geoffrey Asia is an essential read.
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“to attend to something is to care for… if you understand the attention economy as an economy that's based on the capture and exploitation of attention, it's really also an economy that's based on the capture and attention of human desire, which is the capture of care”
— Dr. Rohit Revi
— Dr. Rohit Revi
Dopaminergic, with Rohit Revi
Podcastaflevering · The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan · 11-08-2025 · 59 min.
podcasts.apple.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
“to attend to something is to care for… if you understand the attention economy as an economy that's based on the capture and exploitation of attention, it's really also an economy that's based on the capture and attention of human desire, which is the capture of care”
— Dr. Rohit Revi
— Dr. Rohit Revi
345lbs getting more manageable 🏋🏽♂️
December 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
345lbs getting more manageable 🏋🏽♂️
“when we start to understand that a lot of these people working in law enforcement in the military are government workers, it means we bring into focus more how the economy is actually organized and what role the state plays in its organization, and what are the big functions of government jobs”
This week, I talk to @tamaranopper.bsky.social about abolition in practice — how people learn through engagement with state violence, what gets in the way of developing shared analysis, and why abolitionists need to take recruitment and counter-recruitment seriously.
Fascism at the Door, Neighbors in the Street: Abolition in Practice
“I think a lot of us could level up our skills,” says researcher Tamara Nopper.
truthout.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“when we start to understand that a lot of these people working in law enforcement in the military are government workers, it means we bring into focus more how the economy is actually organized and what role the state plays in its organization, and what are the big functions of government jobs”
“insecure fascism organizes conditions under which crisis becomes likely, then retrofits those crises into proof of its own necessity
places its soldiers & surplus pops into a shared kill zone of political risk. Any rupture (shove, thrown object, pulled trigger) can be narrativized as confirmation”
places its soldiers & surplus pops into a shared kill zone of political risk. Any rupture (shove, thrown object, pulled trigger) can be narrativized as confirmation”
Chickens Coming Home to Roost, II — solutionsforpostmodernliving
When troops are inserted into the everyday — into subway stations, tourist districts, shelters, street corners — is the aim only “restoring order”? Or is there a quieter wager at work: that somewhere,...
www.solutionsforpostmodernliving.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“insecure fascism organizes conditions under which crisis becomes likely, then retrofits those crises into proof of its own necessity
places its soldiers & surplus pops into a shared kill zone of political risk. Any rupture (shove, thrown object, pulled trigger) can be narrativized as confirmation”
places its soldiers & surplus pops into a shared kill zone of political risk. Any rupture (shove, thrown object, pulled trigger) can be narrativized as confirmation”
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"We have classrooms because you have to learn how to sustain a thought aloud— exposed to others and to your own ineloquence— to see that other people can help you reach where you can’t quite go and to see that you can help others reach better clarity…”
- Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit
- Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"We have classrooms because you have to learn how to sustain a thought aloud— exposed to others and to your own ineloquence— to see that other people can help you reach where you can’t quite go and to see that you can help others reach better clarity…”
- Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit
- Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit
finally watched the Selena documentary 💗
love learning her backstory, brings up childhood memories from htown, a true fighter
love learning her backstory, brings up childhood memories from htown, a true fighter
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
finally watched the Selena documentary 💗
love learning her backstory, brings up childhood memories from htown, a true fighter
love learning her backstory, brings up childhood memories from htown, a true fighter
i couldn't believe what the water had told me
that man and plant had used to talk
man, i’d do anything to hear the redwoods talk
that man and plant had used to talk
man, i’d do anything to hear the redwoods talk
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
i couldn't believe what the water had told me
that man and plant had used to talk
man, i’d do anything to hear the redwoods talk
that man and plant had used to talk
man, i’d do anything to hear the redwoods talk
“we must make a nondreamer life livable, to pry open eyes to the value of the unseen. we must shake off any doubts we have when we say that we value the life of the “criminal“, that we value the life of those who invisibly survive and thrive in the u.s. in ways that aren’t considered excellence…”
(un)documentation & (dis)identification
where and for whom is the undocumented immigrant?
joeledmartinez.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“we must make a nondreamer life livable, to pry open eyes to the value of the unseen. we must shake off any doubts we have when we say that we value the life of the “criminal“, that we value the life of those who invisibly survive and thrive in the u.s. in ways that aren’t considered excellence…”
still get scared of the weight 🏋🏽♂️
November 13, 2025 at 4:12 AM
still get scared of the weight 🏋🏽♂️
if you don't go outside, well nothing's gonna happen
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
if you don't go outside, well nothing's gonna happen
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I am from Chicago. Friends are regularly telling us how abhorrent ICE/CBP tactics are and that it’s obvious their goal is to make everyone afraid.
I’m proud of Chicagoans for standing up to them every day.
I’m proud of Chicagoans for standing up to them every day.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I am from Chicago. Friends are regularly telling us how abhorrent ICE/CBP tactics are and that it’s obvious their goal is to make everyone afraid.
I’m proud of Chicagoans for standing up to them every day.
I’m proud of Chicagoans for standing up to them every day.
“I see a lot of students in Black Studies really bringing disciplines to bear on having to be accountable to Black Studies in a way that I think is really important
really great to see them carving their own lanes & developing a language of engagement that is specific to their desires & concerns”
really great to see them carving their own lanes & developing a language of engagement that is specific to their desires & concerns”
Patrice D. Douglass - Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · 07/30/2025 · 1h 1m
podcasts.apple.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“I see a lot of students in Black Studies really bringing disciplines to bear on having to be accountable to Black Studies in a way that I think is really important
really great to see them carving their own lanes & developing a language of engagement that is specific to their desires & concerns”
really great to see them carving their own lanes & developing a language of engagement that is specific to their desires & concerns”
"the sixties’ movements were really the first opening phase of the dynamic in which the series of “isms” (initiated by the black antiapartheid struggle for civil rights, women’s rights/feminism, indigenous & other of-color rights, gay & lesbian rights) erupted to challenge Man’s episteme, its truth"
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
"the sixties’ movements were really the first opening phase of the dynamic in which the series of “isms” (initiated by the black antiapartheid struggle for civil rights, women’s rights/feminism, indigenous & other of-color rights, gay & lesbian rights) erupted to challenge Man’s episteme, its truth"
“Mexico, the only country where he held a passport. It was a place that, to him, had ‘always felt like both a wound and a possibility’”
ditto, the thought of return has only grown sweeter
love seeing us refuse illegalization, flex our agency, to build a life on our own terms
ditto, the thought of return has only grown sweeter
love seeing us refuse illegalization, flex our agency, to build a life on our own terms
For this undocumented activist, returning to Mexico wasn't exile. It was liberation
For this undocumented activist, returning to Mexico wasn’t exile. It was liberation
Hector Alessandro Negrete was brought to the U.S. from Mexico as an infant. When President Trump began his second term, Negrete decided to leave L.A. for Mexico.
www.latimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“Mexico, the only country where he held a passport. It was a place that, to him, had ‘always felt like both a wound and a possibility’”
ditto, the thought of return has only grown sweeter
love seeing us refuse illegalization, flex our agency, to build a life on our own terms
ditto, the thought of return has only grown sweeter
love seeing us refuse illegalization, flex our agency, to build a life on our own terms
“Is Black history American history — or does it offer a challenge to the very idea of the U.S. and the way it’s been constructed?
invitation to allow students to think bigger —not just stop at the nationalism that textbooks promote, but investigate areas of Black history that point beyond borders”
invitation to allow students to think bigger —not just stop at the nationalism that textbooks promote, but investigate areas of Black history that point beyond borders”
Black History Is for Everyone
Check out this conversation between @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social and @jessehagopian.bsky.social, from the new issue of @rethinkingschools.bsky.social
Check out this conversation between @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social and @jessehagopian.bsky.social, from the new issue of @rethinkingschools.bsky.social
Black History Is for Everyone
Jesse Hagopian interviews author Brian Jones about his new book Black History Is for Everyone.
rethinkingschools.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Is Black history American history — or does it offer a challenge to the very idea of the U.S. and the way it’s been constructed?
invitation to allow students to think bigger —not just stop at the nationalism that textbooks promote, but investigate areas of Black history that point beyond borders”
invitation to allow students to think bigger —not just stop at the nationalism that textbooks promote, but investigate areas of Black history that point beyond borders”