Doctora Malka Older
@older.bsky.social
nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own
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When we were in graduate school 20 years ago, in Canada, the term that we used was "States-er" and I think I'd have preferred USian, if it had been coined back then.
February 9, 2026 at 12:02 PM
When we were in graduate school 20 years ago, in Canada, the term that we used was "States-er" and I think I'd have preferred USian, if it had been coined back then.
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This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
‘Together, We Are America’
Bad Bunny’s critics said his Super Bowl halftime show would be divisive. They were totally wrong.
www.theatlantic.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:55 AM
This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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Just finished @austinmccoy.bsky.social 's excellent De La Soul book Living In The D.A.I.S.Y. Age, and getting some HEA-filled wistfulness with Adriana Herrera's An Island Princess Starts a Scandal
February 9, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Just finished @austinmccoy.bsky.social 's excellent De La Soul book Living In The D.A.I.S.Y. Age, and getting some HEA-filled wistfulness with Adriana Herrera's An Island Princess Starts a Scandal
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Just finished Omar El Akkad's One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. A must read!
Also re-reading Stephen King's It and remembering all the things I had forgotten about from when I first read it when it came out. The sexualization of Beverly as an 11 yo (and as an adult)—is v smdh
Also re-reading Stephen King's It and remembering all the things I had forgotten about from when I first read it when it came out. The sexualization of Beverly as an 11 yo (and as an adult)—is v smdh
February 9, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Just finished Omar El Akkad's One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. A must read!
Also re-reading Stephen King's It and remembering all the things I had forgotten about from when I first read it when it came out. The sexualization of Beverly as an 11 yo (and as an adult)—is v smdh
Also re-reading Stephen King's It and remembering all the things I had forgotten about from when I first read it when it came out. The sexualization of Beverly as an 11 yo (and as an adult)—is v smdh
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“These were not our people.”
motherfu—
motherfu—
gift link. so horrifying www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
February 9, 2026 at 11:39 AM
“These were not our people.”
motherfu—
motherfu—
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I've been using USAnian, just because it flows better.
February 9, 2026 at 11:49 AM
I've been using USAnian, just because it flows better.
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The campaign celebrates the power of translation: fiction, journalism, and global storytelling that cross borders.
Your support helps fund @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social, keeping multilingual publishing open, community-driven, and accessible to all.
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Your support helps fund @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social, keeping multilingual publishing open, community-driven, and accessible to all.
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February 9, 2026 at 11:26 AM
The campaign celebrates the power of translation: fiction, journalism, and global storytelling that cross borders.
Your support helps fund @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social, keeping multilingual publishing open, community-driven, and accessible to all.
storybundle.com/translation
Your support helps fund @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social, keeping multilingual publishing open, community-driven, and accessible to all.
storybundle.com/translation
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This campaign brings together 12 books from 12 regions: Zimbabwe, Korea, Palestine, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Thailand, Malaysia/Singapore, Brazil, Wiikwemkoong, Canada, and Ukraine.
A global bookshelf—translated into English for the first time (And 10% of the donations goes to GV Lingua!)
A global bookshelf—translated into English for the first time (And 10% of the donations goes to GV Lingua!)
February 9, 2026 at 11:24 AM
This campaign brings together 12 books from 12 regions: Zimbabwe, Korea, Palestine, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Thailand, Malaysia/Singapore, Brazil, Wiikwemkoong, Canada, and Ukraine.
A global bookshelf—translated into English for the first time (And 10% of the donations goes to GV Lingua!)
A global bookshelf—translated into English for the first time (And 10% of the donations goes to GV Lingua!)
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Last week, @storybundle.bsky.social launched a global storytelling bundle focused on translated books which will support @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social, our network of volunteer translators who bring underreported stories into dozens of languages.
lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...
lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...
StoryBundle's In Translation bundle to benefit Global Voices Lingua: Interview
My primary goal was that the bundle be representative of our broader world, without a focus on the regions most already represented in collections of translation.
lingua.globalvoices.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Last week, @storybundle.bsky.social launched a global storytelling bundle focused on translated books which will support @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social, our network of volunteer translators who bring underreported stories into dozens of languages.
lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...
lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...
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Del amor y otros demonios, by Garcia Marquez (br edition). I read El general en su laberinto for the first time earlier this year and decided to revisit some books of his (let's see how this goes as a plan)
February 9, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Del amor y otros demonios, by Garcia Marquez (br edition). I read El general en su laberinto for the first time earlier this year and decided to revisit some books of his (let's see how this goes as a plan)
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Gift link.
Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Gift link.
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This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.
February 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.
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I wish it was a cottage industry. But it is everything from the @nytimes.com to @cnn.com. Imagine, just imagine if they covered Trump AS HE IS, not as some white-washed fantasy. Sanitizing him is complicity.
This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.
February 9, 2026 at 11:19 AM
I wish it was a cottage industry. But it is everything from the @nytimes.com to @cnn.com. Imagine, just imagine if they covered Trump AS HE IS, not as some white-washed fantasy. Sanitizing him is complicity.
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Over time, the measure of progress will be less about how well global models accommodate African languages and more about how confidently those languages shape the systems themselves reamby.substack.com/p/there-is-n...
"There Is No NLP Without the L": Professor Mpho Primus on African Languages and AI
The African Innovators Series(TAIS): Tech, Data, and AI Changing the Game
reamby.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Over time, the measure of progress will be less about how well global models accommodate African languages and more about how confidently those languages shape the systems themselves reamby.substack.com/p/there-is-n...
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The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. It's hurting my feelings I love it 🥺
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 AM
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. It's hurting my feelings I love it 🥺
gift link. so horrifying www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
February 9, 2026 at 11:16 AM
gift link. so horrifying www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
“Fox constructs a version of reality in which none of the most damning facts exist, leaving its audience unable to evaluate power as it is actually exercised. This epistemic divide now plainly extends to the Supreme Court.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...
The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America
A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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This might make it sound like I'm annoyed at the book, which I'm not at all. The articles in it are largely fascinating and well-argued.
February 9, 2026 at 11:08 AM
This might make it sound like I'm annoyed at the book, which I'm not at all. The articles in it are largely fascinating and well-argued.
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Everyone knows that an army moves as fast as its slowest unit. If you have a mixed force of cavalry and infantry, it marches as fast as the infantry. Making camp and breaking camp takes time. No army marches 30km on foot and immediately gives battle unless they *want* to lose.
February 9, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Everyone knows that an army moves as fast as its slowest unit. If you have a mixed force of cavalry and infantry, it marches as fast as the infantry. Making camp and breaking camp takes time. No army marches 30km on foot and immediately gives battle unless they *want* to lose.
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It was talking about the distances between marching camps and cited *none* of the extensive literature on pre-modern military travel and movement, taking one article (from the 1980s) and its estimates of how much ground a few thousand Norsemen could cover by foot and horse in a day as truth!
February 9, 2026 at 10:57 AM
It was talking about the distances between marching camps and cited *none* of the extensive literature on pre-modern military travel and movement, taking one article (from the 1980s) and its estimates of how much ground a few thousand Norsemen could cover by foot and horse in a day as truth!
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Just started Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao.
February 9, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Just started Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao.
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February 9, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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February 9, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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Bad Bunny's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show
YouTube video by NFL
youtu.be
February 9, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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Viking Camps, from the Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World series. I was very annoyed with the chapter I read last night.
February 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Viking Camps, from the Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World series. I was very annoyed with the chapter I read last night.