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Recently been re-reading Susan Marks’ A False Tree of Liberty. As a critical genealogy of human rights, it’s an unparalleled piece of work - should be read, taught, and debated a lot more!
November 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Recently been re-reading Susan Marks’ A False Tree of Liberty. As a critical genealogy of human rights, it’s an unparalleled piece of work - should be read, taught, and debated a lot more!
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People experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs. “It feels good to ‘stick to our guns’ even if we are wrong,” researchers say. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/iXV9M2
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
People experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs. “It feels good to ‘stick to our guns’ even if we are wrong,” researchers say. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/iXV9M2
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Australia will mandate utilities to provide free power to some households during parts of the day in a bid to soak up excess solar generation, reduce power bills and improve grid stability.
Australia to Mandate Free Power for Some Households in World First
Australia will mandate utilities to provide free power to some households during parts of the day in a bid to soak up excess solar generation, reduce power bills and improve grid stability.
bloom.bg
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Australia will mandate utilities to provide free power to some households during parts of the day in a bid to soak up excess solar generation, reduce power bills and improve grid stability.
Quiet consummation have; and renowned be thy grave, Jakom!
Raila: A Portrait of an African Democrat
The tale of a nationalist in the second liberation movement
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Quiet consummation have; and renowned be thy grave, Jakom!
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Just got round to watching Mario Draghi's speech in Rimini in the original Italian. It is easily the most important speech on Europe so far this year and I hope someone (@grandcontinent.bsky.social?) publishes it in English and other EU languages soon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMME...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMME...
Mario Draghi’s Full Speech: Europe’s Harsh Reality — Powerless on the Global Stage! -ITALIAN-
YouTube video by EU Debates | eudebates.tv
www.youtube.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Just got round to watching Mario Draghi's speech in Rimini in the original Italian. It is easily the most important speech on Europe so far this year and I hope someone (@grandcontinent.bsky.social?) publishes it in English and other EU languages soon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMME...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMME...
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- 17/20 Draghi solution 2: a clear distinction between good and bad debt, as "only forms of common debt can support large-scale European projects that insufficient, fragmented national efforts would never be able to implement." 🎯
August 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
- 17/20 Draghi solution 2: a clear distinction between good and bad debt, as "only forms of common debt can support large-scale European projects that insufficient, fragmented national efforts would never be able to implement." 🎯
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i hate AI intensely but you can't trick me into supporting IP laws or attacking pirate sites. may AI and copyright burn together.
August 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
i hate AI intensely but you can't trick me into supporting IP laws or attacking pirate sites. may AI and copyright burn together.
Found this so beautiful.
Miriam Toews on Saying Yes to Life’s Possibilities
The author discusses her story “Something Has Come to Light.”
www.newyorker.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Found this so beautiful.
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New, from me: I became a PhD student mostly because one person, Patricia Wallace Ingraham, told me I should do it.
She passed away recently, and it made me think about the role of mentorship in our lives. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
She passed away recently, and it made me think about the role of mentorship in our lives. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
What it means to be a mentor
Who was the person that changed your life?
open.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
New, from me: I became a PhD student mostly because one person, Patricia Wallace Ingraham, told me I should do it.
She passed away recently, and it made me think about the role of mentorship in our lives. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
She passed away recently, and it made me think about the role of mentorship in our lives. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Taking a side in this argument seems like “normalizing” the outlandish views of those British lawyers— like agreeing that there is a point they made that is worthy of debate??
But…this is well written and worth someone’s time.
But…this is well written and worth someone’s time.
No, Recognizing Palestine Would Not Be Contrary to International Law
A group of British peers, among them several distinguished lawyers, yesterday sent a letter to the Attorney-General, Lord Hermer, asking him to advise the UK Government that its announced forthcoming ...
www.ejiltalk.org
August 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Taking a side in this argument seems like “normalizing” the outlandish views of those British lawyers— like agreeing that there is a point they made that is worthy of debate??
But…this is well written and worth someone’s time.
But…this is well written and worth someone’s time.
I am reading this book at the moment and I just want to scream at every turn of the page. An audacious, expansive, and just breathtakingly beautiful piece of work!
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's The Most Secret Memory of Men is one of the most audacious attempt at what may yet be regarded as the Great African Novel.
July 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I am reading this book at the moment and I just want to scream at every turn of the page. An audacious, expansive, and just breathtakingly beautiful piece of work!
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Rwanda sees sharp drop in “multidimensional” child poverty. The rate of children aged 5 to 14 living in multidimensional poverty has more than halved from 25.3% in 2016/17 to 11.9% in 2023/24.
Rwanda sees sharp drop in 'multidimensional' child poverty
Rwanda has made progress in reducing multidimensional poverty among children, with a decline registered across multiple wellbeing dimensions over the last seven years, according to...
www.newtimes.co.rw
July 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Rwanda sees sharp drop in “multidimensional” child poverty. The rate of children aged 5 to 14 living in multidimensional poverty has more than halved from 25.3% in 2016/17 to 11.9% in 2023/24.
A few thoughts drawing a line through Kenya’s heritage of protest, through Saba Saba to the current Gen-Z revolt and how this legacy of struggle is a legitimating force for our democracy. open.substack.com/pub/marginso...
open.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A few thoughts drawing a line through Kenya’s heritage of protest, through Saba Saba to the current Gen-Z revolt and how this legacy of struggle is a legitimating force for our democracy. open.substack.com/pub/marginso...
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Peaceful protesters in Nairobi clashed with stick-wielding men.
Ha, NO these are state-sponsored militia, not just stick-wielding men!
They have the protection of the police when the police are targeting the peaceful protestors and not the stick-wielding men! #Kenya 🇰🇪
Ha, NO these are state-sponsored militia, not just stick-wielding men!
They have the protection of the police when the police are targeting the peaceful protestors and not the stick-wielding men! #Kenya 🇰🇪
June 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Peaceful protesters in Nairobi clashed with stick-wielding men.
Ha, NO these are state-sponsored militia, not just stick-wielding men!
They have the protection of the police when the police are targeting the peaceful protestors and not the stick-wielding men! #Kenya 🇰🇪
Ha, NO these are state-sponsored militia, not just stick-wielding men!
They have the protection of the police when the police are targeting the peaceful protestors and not the stick-wielding men! #Kenya 🇰🇪
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🆕 How do labour market fears shape attitudes toward refugees?
Today on VoxDev w/ Julie Bousquet (UNHCR), Anna Gasten (University of Göttingen), Mark Marvin Kadigo (UAntwerp), Jean-François Maystadt (UCLouvain) & Colette Salemi (University of Victoria): voxdev.org/topic/labour...
Today on VoxDev w/ Julie Bousquet (UNHCR), Anna Gasten (University of Göttingen), Mark Marvin Kadigo (UAntwerp), Jean-François Maystadt (UCLouvain) & Colette Salemi (University of Victoria): voxdev.org/topic/labour...
How do labour market fears shape attitudes toward refugees?
Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia suggests that host prejudice against refugees increases when refugees are perceived as direct job competitors, but not necessarily when actual competition exists.
voxdev.org
June 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🆕 How do labour market fears shape attitudes toward refugees?
Today on VoxDev w/ Julie Bousquet (UNHCR), Anna Gasten (University of Göttingen), Mark Marvin Kadigo (UAntwerp), Jean-François Maystadt (UCLouvain) & Colette Salemi (University of Victoria): voxdev.org/topic/labour...
Today on VoxDev w/ Julie Bousquet (UNHCR), Anna Gasten (University of Göttingen), Mark Marvin Kadigo (UAntwerp), Jean-François Maystadt (UCLouvain) & Colette Salemi (University of Victoria): voxdev.org/topic/labour...
Great work by Bellingcat highlighting the role the truly contemptible Kenyan government is playing in enabling the war and genocide in Sudan www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/06...
Kenyan Weapons Linked to Sudan’s Civil War - bellingcat
Bellingcat and our partners at Kenya’s Daily Nation have identified Kenyan-labelled crates of ammunition inside an alleged RSF depot close to the recently recaptured Sudanese capital Khartoum. Althoug...
www.bellingcat.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Great work by Bellingcat highlighting the role the truly contemptible Kenyan government is playing in enabling the war and genocide in Sudan www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/06...
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🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality Database
In a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.
wid.world
June 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
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🆕 Are sensitive questions sensitive to survey method?
Today on VoxDev, Aditi Kadam (World Bank), Ellen McCullough (University of Georgia), Tamara McGavock (Grinnell) & Nicholas Magnan (Colorado State) study the impact of survey privacy and enumerator gender: voxdev.org/topic/method...
Today on VoxDev, Aditi Kadam (World Bank), Ellen McCullough (University of Georgia), Tamara McGavock (Grinnell) & Nicholas Magnan (Colorado State) study the impact of survey privacy and enumerator gender: voxdev.org/topic/method...
Are sensitive questions sensitive to survey method?
In-person household surveys measuring women’s empowerment encounter difficulties collecting data on sensitive questions, particularly those related to domestic violence. New research on Ethiopia revea...
voxdev.org
June 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🆕 Are sensitive questions sensitive to survey method?
Today on VoxDev, Aditi Kadam (World Bank), Ellen McCullough (University of Georgia), Tamara McGavock (Grinnell) & Nicholas Magnan (Colorado State) study the impact of survey privacy and enumerator gender: voxdev.org/topic/method...
Today on VoxDev, Aditi Kadam (World Bank), Ellen McCullough (University of Georgia), Tamara McGavock (Grinnell) & Nicholas Magnan (Colorado State) study the impact of survey privacy and enumerator gender: voxdev.org/topic/method...
That Frankfurt’s biggest annual event is the JP Morgan Stanley run tells you everything you’ll ever need to know about this city 😂
June 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
That Frankfurt’s biggest annual event is the JP Morgan Stanley run tells you everything you’ll ever need to know about this city 😂
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🆕 Understanding Brazil’s falling income inequality 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
June 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🆕 Understanding Brazil’s falling income inequality 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
I have not, for some time, read anything quite as spell-binding as "The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law", edited by Kathryn McNeilly and Ben Warwick . Each article and every one of those contributing scholars is a blessing upon the earth.
June 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I have not, for some time, read anything quite as spell-binding as "The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law", edited by Kathryn McNeilly and Ben Warwick . Each article and every one of those contributing scholars is a blessing upon the earth.
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🆕 The hidden cost of a firstborn daughter in Africa
Today on VoxDev, @ggenicot.bsky.social (Georgetown University) & @mariahdb.bsky.social (CUNEF Universidad) discuss the impact of a firstborn daughter on the trajectory of a woman's life: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Today on VoxDev, @ggenicot.bsky.social (Georgetown University) & @mariahdb.bsky.social (CUNEF Universidad) discuss the impact of a firstborn daughter on the trajectory of a woman's life: voxdev.org/topic/health...
The hidden cost of a firstborn daughter in Africa
Although sex ratios at birth remain relatively balanced in sub-Saharan Africa, this does not necessarily imply a lack of son preference. Analysis of over 100 Demographic and Health Surveys across 34 c...
voxdev.org
June 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🆕 The hidden cost of a firstborn daughter in Africa
Today on VoxDev, @ggenicot.bsky.social (Georgetown University) & @mariahdb.bsky.social (CUNEF Universidad) discuss the impact of a firstborn daughter on the trajectory of a woman's life: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Today on VoxDev, @ggenicot.bsky.social (Georgetown University) & @mariahdb.bsky.social (CUNEF Universidad) discuss the impact of a firstborn daughter on the trajectory of a woman's life: voxdev.org/topic/health...
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Straight talk on African elites’ complacency: the case of Kenya
www.africanistperspective.com/p/straight-t...
www.africanistperspective.com/p/straight-t...
Straight talk on African elites’ complacency: the case of Kenya
Figuring out how to get things done is a major constraint to African development
www.africanistperspective.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Straight talk on African elites’ complacency: the case of Kenya
www.africanistperspective.com/p/straight-t...
www.africanistperspective.com/p/straight-t...
