Mabala
@mabalamakengeza.bsky.social
Tanzanian, facilitator, writer, contrarian, activist
Duh!
Imagine a radiologist is using a cutting-edge AI tool to analyze your brain scan. The scan flags a problem in your "basilar ganglia." The problem is, there's no such thing.
Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/71804...
Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/71804...
December 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Duh!
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Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
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I feel sympathy and anger that critical thinking is not being taught in the schools or in the home. This is intentional by the government but parents are abdicating their responsibility too.
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I feel sympathy and anger that critical thinking is not being taught in the schools or in the home. This is intentional by the government but parents are abdicating their responsibility too.
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Nearly a year into Trump’s second term, the Guardian asked activists and opposition leaders from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey what their experiences have taught them about authoritarianism – and what they wish they’d understood sooner.
We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Nearly a year into Trump’s second term, the Guardian asked activists and opposition leaders from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey what their experiences have taught them about authoritarianism – and what they wish they’d understood sooner.
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Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
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"Was Shaaban, on his way to buy food, an imminent threat? Was Master Tindwa, standing in his own front yard, a danger to the state? Was a mother in her car with her child a legitimate target for lethal force?"
thechanzo.com/2025/11/04/a...
thechanzo.com/2025/11/04/a...
A Curfew is Not a License to Kill: Tanzania Must Answer for Its Dead - The Chanzo
Even a lawful curfew cannot justify the extrajudicial killing of citizens. The Tanzanian government must be held accountable for the deaths that occurred during the October 2025 lockdown.
thechanzo.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"Was Shaaban, on his way to buy food, an imminent threat? Was Master Tindwa, standing in his own front yard, a danger to the state? Was a mother in her car with her child a legitimate target for lethal force?"
thechanzo.com/2025/11/04/a...
thechanzo.com/2025/11/04/a...
Someone should ask Mike Johnson what is keeping him so busy. Does he have a second job? Is he moonlighting? Why does he never have time to do his official day job?
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Someone should ask Mike Johnson what is keeping him so busy. Does he have a second job? Is he moonlighting? Why does he never have time to do his official day job?
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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If you haven’t read 107 Days, spoiler incoming
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Chapter 103 Days
If people don’t read any other part of her book, they should read this chapter & understand what she was up against.
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Chapter 103 Days
If people don’t read any other part of her book, they should read this chapter & understand what she was up against.
September 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If you haven’t read 107 Days, spoiler incoming
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Chapter 103 Days
If people don’t read any other part of her book, they should read this chapter & understand what she was up against.
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Chapter 103 Days
If people don’t read any other part of her book, they should read this chapter & understand what she was up against.
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Everyone falling over themselves to defend Harvard, meanwhile the actual university newspaper tells the story of quiet complicity.
“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Everyone falling over themselves to defend Harvard, meanwhile the actual university newspaper tells the story of quiet complicity.
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The great thing about a boycott is that you don’t have to announce it to anyone. You can just do it. And it’s still one of the more impactful political actions you can take. Protests are excellent, but if you can’t get to one for whatever reason, let your money talk.
September 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The great thing about a boycott is that you don’t have to announce it to anyone. You can just do it. And it’s still one of the more impactful political actions you can take. Protests are excellent, but if you can’t get to one for whatever reason, let your money talk.
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One month from today @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in San Francisco (and via livestream): "Celebrating Euphrase Kezilahabi – with Jay Boss Rubin and Annmarie Drury." I'll be reading from Rosa Mistika, and in conversation with a fellow translator of Kezilahabi. Karibuni! citylights.com/events/celeb...
citylights.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
One month from today @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in San Francisco (and via livestream): "Celebrating Euphrase Kezilahabi – with Jay Boss Rubin and Annmarie Drury." I'll be reading from Rosa Mistika, and in conversation with a fellow translator of Kezilahabi. Karibuni! citylights.com/events/celeb...
yay
August 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
yay
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Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.
August 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.
how will we know that the released Epstein files have not been doctored?
July 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
how will we know that the released Epstein files have not been doctored?
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It feels insane to care about anything else while we’re watching a national government literally starve millions of people to death, soldiers shooting at hungry people seeking food. “Never again” has become the most meaningless platitude.
July 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
It feels insane to care about anything else while we’re watching a national government literally starve millions of people to death, soldiers shooting at hungry people seeking food. “Never again” has become the most meaningless platitude.
I sense another Watergate taking place. The smell just gets stronger and stronger and each denial leads to another revelation.
July 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I sense another Watergate taking place. The smell just gets stronger and stronger and each denial leads to another revelation.
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A predictable development. Since its creation in 1920 the Kenya police’s raison d’être has been protecting rich people’s property - first the colonialists and then the rich people who took over their property - from young black African men. This is from 2016.
foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/14/k...
foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/14/k...
Kenya’s Vicious War Against Its Youth
Security forces say they're targeting terrorists, but it's young people who keep dying. Why do so few Kenyans seem to care?
foreignpolicy.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A predictable development. Since its creation in 1920 the Kenya police’s raison d’être has been protecting rich people’s property - first the colonialists and then the rich people who took over their property - from young black African men. This is from 2016.
foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/14/k...
foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/14/k...
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I was wrong. The national tally for deaths during the yesterday’s Saba Saba rallies is 31 according to the #Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. All killed by the police.
July 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I was wrong. The national tally for deaths during the yesterday’s Saba Saba rallies is 31 according to the #Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. All killed by the police.
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The final tally of yesterday’s protests in #Kenya. Nine killed, 400 injured and 61 arrests. All killed by the police because the president will not listen to the young people who put him in power.
June 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Kenyan police fired tear gas at protesters marking one year since the deadly 2024 anti-gov't protests, when at least 60 were killed as crowds stormed parliament over tax hikes and corruption.
June 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Kenyan police fired tear gas at protesters marking one year since the deadly 2024 anti-gov't protests, when at least 60 were killed as crowds stormed parliament over tax hikes and corruption.
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An MIT study of 54 participants found ChatGPT users had lower brain activity, weaker memory, and less creativity than Google or unaided writers.
ChatGPT users brain activity declined over time, relied on copy-paste, and couldn’t recall what they wrote.
The brain is a muscle, use it or lose it.
ChatGPT users brain activity declined over time, relied on copy-paste, and couldn’t recall what they wrote.
The brain is a muscle, use it or lose it.
ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
time.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
An MIT study of 54 participants found ChatGPT users had lower brain activity, weaker memory, and less creativity than Google or unaided writers.
ChatGPT users brain activity declined over time, relied on copy-paste, and couldn’t recall what they wrote.
The brain is a muscle, use it or lose it.
ChatGPT users brain activity declined over time, relied on copy-paste, and couldn’t recall what they wrote.
The brain is a muscle, use it or lose it.