Jekanyika
@tedoex.bsky.social
Social Media & Feminist African Citizenship| PhDing |Views=mine| Sometimes Writer/Poet|TEDx2016 Speaker
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
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Last day for submission!
Announcing: HRB's Zimbabwean Speculative Poetry Competition 🥳🎉
#HRBZimSpecPo
Send us your speculative poetry featuring Zimbabwean myths, urban legends, and or/oral narratives. Make it utopian or dystopian, we don't mind! Be formal, or experimental. Challenge yourself! Challenge us!
#HRBZimSpecPo
Send us your speculative poetry featuring Zimbabwean myths, urban legends, and or/oral narratives. Make it utopian or dystopian, we don't mind! Be formal, or experimental. Challenge yourself! Challenge us!
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Last day for submission!
“I hear you talk about ‘we’ a lot, oh you speak French now?”
UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash says the international community failed Sudan, while speaking at the Manama Dialogue about the humanitarian situation in Darfur following the advance of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
November 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“I hear you talk about ‘we’ a lot, oh you speak French now?”
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Reminder to anyone who needs it today: Reading books (at home, on the bus, in Starbucks); owning books; loving books; discussing books. None of these things are “performative” unless you’re selling tickets.
October 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Reminder to anyone who needs it today: Reading books (at home, on the bus, in Starbucks); owning books; loving books; discussing books. None of these things are “performative” unless you’re selling tickets.
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Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us.
The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off.
That’s a win for basic law.
The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off.
That’s a win for basic law.
Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
October 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Despite the headline it’s not George RR Martin personally going for them cos he’s rich and famous. It’s all of us.
The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off.
That’s a win for basic law.
The test case used his work, but it’s about the plain-as-day issue that ANY generative AI ignores and infringes copyright, by passing off.
That’s a win for basic law.
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Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
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Therefore they are about 'entrepreneurs of memory' (ref: Marie Claire Lavabre) building (many reasons: political, financial gain, social cohesion, shaping of a 'national identity', etc.) a collective memory.
October 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Therefore they are about 'entrepreneurs of memory' (ref: Marie Claire Lavabre) building (many reasons: political, financial gain, social cohesion, shaping of a 'national identity', etc.) a collective memory.
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When fatigue & utter rage are cohabitating, endurance becomes both resistance and rebellion.
March 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
When fatigue & utter rage are cohabitating, endurance becomes both resistance and rebellion.
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It's a notoriously low-risk, high-reward crime. I attended a well-resourced, painstakingly planned police cycle theft sting operation years ago, knocking on doors at dawn. The only thieves caught were at a roadside bike rack with their stolen bikes when officers happened to stop for a comfort break
October 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It's a notoriously low-risk, high-reward crime. I attended a well-resourced, painstakingly planned police cycle theft sting operation years ago, knocking on doors at dawn. The only thieves caught were at a roadside bike rack with their stolen bikes when officers happened to stop for a comfort break
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Most critically, this: bsky.app/profile/clar...
Societal benefits: €100mn, of which almost €80mn is from wellbeing improvements - i.e. participants reporting more life satisfaction
They used the WELLBY framework which values "a one-point increase in life satisfaction sustained over
one year" at €15,000 www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/livi...
They used the WELLBY framework which values "a one-point increase in life satisfaction sustained over
one year" at €15,000 www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/livi...
October 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Most critically, this: bsky.app/profile/clar...
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Societal benefits: €100mn, of which almost €80mn is from wellbeing improvements - i.e. participants reporting more life satisfaction
They used the WELLBY framework which values "a one-point increase in life satisfaction sustained over
one year" at €15,000 www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/livi...
They used the WELLBY framework which values "a one-point increase in life satisfaction sustained over
one year" at €15,000 www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/livi...
October 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Societal benefits: €100mn, of which almost €80mn is from wellbeing improvements - i.e. participants reporting more life satisfaction
They used the WELLBY framework which values "a one-point increase in life satisfaction sustained over
one year" at €15,000 www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/livi...
They used the WELLBY framework which values "a one-point increase in life satisfaction sustained over
one year" at €15,000 www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/livi...
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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- put down the damn AI.
October 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
- put down the damn AI.
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Rolling Stone crowns Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" as the #1 GREATEST SONG OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR 👑
"It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless."
Ranked list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
"It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless."
Ranked list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
October 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Rolling Stone crowns Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On" as the #1 GREATEST SONG OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR 👑
"It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless."
Ranked list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
"It was a nonstop freak manifesto that made the musical future sound limitless."
Ranked list: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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This is amazing, Ireland! //
Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Basic Income for the Arts (BIA)
The new Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme provides a basic income payment of €325 a week to 2,000 eligible artists and creative arts workers selected at random to participate.
www.citizensinformation.ie
August 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
This is amazing, Ireland! //
Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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My attention was immediately caught by the claim that digital ID would help the 1 in 10 adults without a physical photo ID. Well ok, what about the 1.6m adults who don't have any kind of digital device? Or the 7.9m without basic digital skills? (Source: www.goodthingsfoundation.org/policy-and-r...)
October 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
My attention was immediately caught by the claim that digital ID would help the 1 in 10 adults without a physical photo ID. Well ok, what about the 1.6m adults who don't have any kind of digital device? Or the 7.9m without basic digital skills? (Source: www.goodthingsfoundation.org/policy-and-r...)
Another book you should get your hands on, and is also available for you to download and read online is this one here.
Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power
Edited by Felicia Anthonio and Tony Roberts (@phatcontroller.bsky.social)
Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power
Edited by Felicia Anthonio and Tony Roberts (@phatcontroller.bsky.social)
October 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Another book you should get your hands on, and is also available for you to download and read online is this one here.
Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power
Edited by Felicia Anthonio and Tony Roberts (@phatcontroller.bsky.social)
Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power
Edited by Felicia Anthonio and Tony Roberts (@phatcontroller.bsky.social)
Now that I’m back to a school and thinking like an academic again… I’m bout to get my hands on this!
Yay! After a turbulent rollercoaster of emotions these past days, this image brings me joy. It's finally where it should be -- orientations!
Order it for your library, read it, cite from it, critique it ...
Order it for your library, read it, cite from it, critique it ...
October 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Now that I’m back to a school and thinking like an academic again… I’m bout to get my hands on this!
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At least three African countries that have accepted people expelled by the United States are now facing pressure from lawyers and campaigners.
Trump’s deportation diplomacy triggers domestic headaches
Campaigners and people deported to African shores are suing participating countries and demanding answers.
continent.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
At least three African countries that have accepted people expelled by the United States are now facing pressure from lawyers and campaigners.
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NoViolet Bulawayo of Zimbabwe has won the 2025 Best of the Caine Prize for African Writing award! 🎉
jaylit.com/zimbabwean-w...
jaylit.com/zimbabwean-w...
Zimbabwean Writer NoViolet Bulawayo Wins the 2025 Best of Caine Award - JAY Lit
The Caine Prize for African Writing has announced Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo as the winner of the 2025 Best of Caine Award for her short story, "Hitting Budapest", which originally won the Pr...
jaylit.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NoViolet Bulawayo of Zimbabwe has won the 2025 Best of the Caine Prize for African Writing award! 🎉
jaylit.com/zimbabwean-w...
jaylit.com/zimbabwean-w...
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Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
www.avclub.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
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9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive.
Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Donate to Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist, organized by paul Carter
Paulina's long time friend Steve Rappaport writes,
"Support P… paul Carter needs your support for Help Paulina Borsook: disabled writer, artist, activist
www.gofundme.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive.
Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...