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Tuan McDonald
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Scholar-activist & educator contemplating temporality, freedom, ontological politics, and relationality. Dreaming into decolonial and nonmodern futures. (they/he) 🌿🏳️‍⚧️🏴
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A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.

Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
December 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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We recently published a lesser known article by David Graeber written in 2013 called - Buncombe.

Here is the piece and an extract.

davidgraeber.org/articles/bun...
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I think we really need a book like Latour's Science in Action but for the AI tech bros. There is such a stark divide between what AI is actually doing to society and what the tech bros claim it is doing. #AI
August 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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“Canada's pursuit of mega fossil fuel expansion projects stands in stark defiance of the ICJ... This historic ruling is not merely a legal opinion; it's a global mandate that shatters any illusion of continued fossil fuel impunity." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/23/n...
Landmark court ruling a stark rebuke of Canadian position on climate change
The ICJ finding is a watershed moment in the fight against climate change that should send shivers down the spine of the fossil fuel industry, while threatening to upend the legality of Prime Minister...
www.nationalobserver.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Welcome to the new merger of techno-fascism and techno-feudalism... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US agriculture secretary says Medicaid recipients can replace deported farm workers
Brooke Rollins also claimed automation can replace the immigrant labor force despite repeated evidence of failure
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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That moment when real life is darker than Black Mirror
NEW: People are being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — and even ending up arrested or jailed — after becoming fixated on ChatGPT and other chatbots and spiraling into psychosis.

futurism.com/commitment-j...
June 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Social media, AI companionship bots, & crypto, the culture of cryptocurrency investment, are digital environments that include a highly targeted form of emotional connectedness that often has a coercive element. phys.org/news/2025-06...
Mind-control techniques remain with us in social media, cults, AI, elsewhere, new book argues
Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File."
phys.org
June 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM