one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

MLK on technology and justice:

"We must keep our moral and spiritual progress abreast with our scientific and technological advances. This poses another dilemma of modern man. We have allowed our civilization to outdistance our culture..." 1/5

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NEW from @dropsitenews.com: Five Journalists in Gaza Reflect on Ceasefire Announcement

By Sharif Kouddous with words from
Shrouq Aila, Hossam Shabat, Abubaker Abed, Rasha Abou Jalal, and Bilal Salem

www.dropsitenews.com/p/five-journ...

UK's Prevent strategy used to collect data on children, says new report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-prevent-strategy-used-collect-data-children-says-new-report

There are families who will never be able to come back from this devastation, and many of them were in generational homes, passed down from people who bought homes in the 1970sand 80's in Altadena. All of the fires are a tragedy, but especially for those who don't have the resources to rebuild.

Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!)

Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...

As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!

AI medical note taking in practice

pulitzercenter.org/stories/rese...

(it is worth asking “is the AI backlash justified?” before vilifying criticism as anti-innovation)

NEW: In an apparent overture to the incoming Trump administration, Meta announced sweeping changes to its content moderation, including no more fact-checkers and a move to Texas.

Note that in previous years, Meta said it would limit political news.

ExpertBookSmuggler has created this useful reading log — all proceeds go towards Nour, a Sudanese doctor with only SEVEN days left to meet her goal!

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I wish Global North countries had the humility to learn from Rwanda’s quick and science-based response to the Marburg outbreak

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users?

Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

United, Not Homogenous: Democracy and Secularism in Syria’s Revolution

My latest for Al Jumhuriya
aljumhuriya.net/en/2025/01/0...

Decades of observing Big Tech at work should also make all of us suspicious of the industry as a whole. They might like to tell themselves and their investors they are "revolutionizing" healthcare/arts/education/you name it, but they do not care. They care about money.
And power.
And data.

When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".