Nanjala
@nanjala.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Traveller. Tea connoisseur.
Great read here. I love the concept of the BBC; public broadcasting is so important. The reality of the BBC is that like any other newsroom it has several glaring blind spots - not least Gaza - but it is also a soft target for the far right because of how powerful it is when done properly.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
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New piece from me.
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The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
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November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Great read here. I love the concept of the BBC; public broadcasting is so important. The reality of the BBC is that like any other newsroom it has several glaring blind spots - not least Gaza - but it is also a soft target for the far right because of how powerful it is when done properly.
Exhibit B.
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Exhibit B.
She really touched a nerve.
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
She really touched a nerve.
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Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
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Because doctors, lawyers and priests are human beings who think, reason and feel and therefore understand particularly things like context, urgency and nuance. And also because there’s no such thing as “your” chatbot. You’re interacting with proprietary software that belongs to a corporation.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Because doctors, lawyers and priests are human beings who think, reason and feel and therefore understand particularly things like context, urgency and nuance. And also because there’s no such thing as “your” chatbot. You’re interacting with proprietary software that belongs to a corporation.
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Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Palestinian woman Umm Zuhri Shweiki was forcibly expelled from her home in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli forces, who seized and emptied her house before handing it to Israeli settlers.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Palestinian woman Umm Zuhri Shweiki was forcibly expelled from her home in occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli forces, who seized and emptied her house before handing it to Israeli settlers.
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The fate of two data centers in Santa Clara, California, highlights a major challenge for the US tech sector and indeed the wider economy.
Data Centers in Nvidia’s Hometown Stand Empty Awaiting Power
The fate of two facilities in Santa Clara, California, highlights a major challenge for the US tech sector and indeed the wider economy.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The fate of two data centers in Santa Clara, California, highlights a major challenge for the US tech sector and indeed the wider economy.
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of #Gaza civilians - “I feel like they’ve destroyed all my pride in being an Israeli – in being an #IDF officer,” Daniel says in the programme. “All that’s left is shame.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
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November 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of #Gaza civilians - “I feel like they’ve destroyed all my pride in being an Israeli – in being an #IDF officer,” Daniel says in the programme. “All that’s left is shame.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Typhoon Fung-wong leaves flooded Philippine towns in its wake.
Entire villages lay submerged and scores of towns remained without electricity on Monday as Typhoon Fung-wong left the Philippines after killing at least two people and displacing more than a million
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Entire villages lay submerged and scores of towns remained without electricity on Monday as Typhoon Fung-wong left the Philippines after killing at least two people and displacing more than a million
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November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Typhoon Fung-wong leaves flooded Philippine towns in its wake.
Entire villages lay submerged and scores of towns remained without electricity on Monday as Typhoon Fung-wong left the Philippines after killing at least two people and displacing more than a million
u.afp.com/SnwA
Entire villages lay submerged and scores of towns remained without electricity on Monday as Typhoon Fung-wong left the Philippines after killing at least two people and displacing more than a million
u.afp.com/SnwA
Boop.
Can’t wait to see what wrong lesson the Democratic Party learns from this. I think it will be something about social media.
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Boop.
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The UAE is smuggling 90% of Sudan's gold directly from the RSF funding a genocide in Sudan. Anyone funding genocide must be held accountable, sanction, divestment and boycott can create enough pressure to weaken the current gold cartel between UAE and RSF #BoycottEmirates #BoycottDubaiChocolate
October 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The UAE is smuggling 90% of Sudan's gold directly from the RSF funding a genocide in Sudan. Anyone funding genocide must be held accountable, sanction, divestment and boycott can create enough pressure to weaken the current gold cartel between UAE and RSF #BoycottEmirates #BoycottDubaiChocolate
“Where are you from?” I asked. “Cameroon,” she responded. “Oh! Oh. Ooh,” I responded, each one with a different intonation, showing pleasure, realisation and finally commiseration in turn.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Where are you from?” I asked. “Cameroon,” she responded. “Oh! Oh. Ooh,” I responded, each one with a different intonation, showing pleasure, realisation and finally commiseration in turn.
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"In a Facebook post on 29th October, the Sudan Doctors Network, who are a medical group monitoring the civil war, said: “The Rapid Support Forces yesterday … killed in cold blood everyone they found inside the Saudi hospital.”
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Hundreds killed in hospital atrocity in El-Fasher, Sudan
There yet more truly heartbreaking news from Sudan. Again, we see innocent people being massacred
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November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"In a Facebook post on 29th October, the Sudan Doctors Network, who are a medical group monitoring the civil war, said: “The Rapid Support Forces yesterday … killed in cold blood everyone they found inside the Saudi hospital.”
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“No good will come of treating art, storytelling and life as problems to be solved rather than who we are, what we’ve done and what we dream”. Darren Anderson in a great essay about Isao Takahata, Studio Ghibli co-founder.
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“No good will come of treating art, storytelling and life as problems to be solved rather than who we are, what we’ve done and what we dream”. Darren Anderson in a great essay about Isao Takahata, Studio Ghibli co-founder.
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Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
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Did we even need generative AI? on.ft.com/49bjNH0 | opinion
Did we even need generative AI?
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford academic and author, asks whether mimicking humans is the right goal of technology
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November 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Did we even need generative AI? on.ft.com/49bjNH0 | opinion
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I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
There is no business case for gen AI. ‘Twas always a grift.
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
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OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
There is no business case for gen AI. ‘Twas always a grift.
The top three leaders of Tanzania’s Chadema party are currently in jail following today’s arrest of Secretary General Amani Golugwa. Party chair Tundu Lissu was already facing charges of treason while deputy chair John Heche was arrested on his way back from Raila Odinga’s funeral.
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The top three leaders of Tanzania’s Chadema party are currently in jail following today’s arrest of Secretary General Amani Golugwa. Party chair Tundu Lissu was already facing charges of treason while deputy chair John Heche was arrested on his way back from Raila Odinga’s funeral.
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If you want to start a newsletter and don't want to use Substack because they currently platform/sponsor Nazis: consider using the free and open-sourced alternative that has been around for over a decade.
I'll personally walk you through it.
I'll personally walk you through it.
The Alternative to Medium/Substack - Sharpie Posts
Stop using closed-sourced solutions and move towards free and open-sources options that scale better, especially for indie creators.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If you want to start a newsletter and don't want to use Substack because they currently platform/sponsor Nazis: consider using the free and open-sourced alternative that has been around for over a decade.
I'll personally walk you through it.
I'll personally walk you through it.
Update from Project B. Does this mean the New York Times was wrong about who backed this league?
November 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Update from Project B. Does this mean the New York Times was wrong about who backed this league?
What. The. Absolute. Actual. Fuck?!
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
What. The. Absolute. Actual. Fuck?!
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Samia Suluhu Hassan ran all but unopposed in Tanzania’s presidential elections on 29 October. The only surprise came from the streets when protests broke out. Under the cover of an internet blockade, security forces met the protesters with force. Our readers recount what they saw.
Beneath Suluhu’s blackout, a blanket of violence
Tanzania’s Election Day erupted into protest, an internet blackout, and bloodshed. When the internet was restored, 37 readers told us what really happened. These are their accounts.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Samia Suluhu Hassan ran all but unopposed in Tanzania’s presidential elections on 29 October. The only surprise came from the streets when protests broke out. Under the cover of an internet blockade, security forces met the protesters with force. Our readers recount what they saw.