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Gayton McKenzie, South Africa's Arts Minister, cancelled a Venice Biennale artwork addressing Gaza's violence, invoking censorship concerns and risking the nation's participation. The decision sparked outrage, highlighting tensions between artistic freedom and political narratives.
Gayton McKenzie pulls the plug on SA’s Venice Biennale submission because it alludes to Gaza genocide
www.dailymaverick.co.za
January 9, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Gayton McKenzie, South Africa's Arts Minister, cancelled a Venice Biennale artwork addressing Gaza's violence, invoking censorship concerns and risking the nation's participation. The decision sparked outrage, highlighting tensions between artistic freedom and political narratives.
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Adelaide writers festival, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Symphony — in every case of censorship, boards have shown themselves.
They will destroy the reputation of the institutions they lead, to be on good terms with people in their cocktail set.
They will destroy the reputation of the institutions they lead, to be on good terms with people in their cocktail set.
January 9, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Adelaide writers festival, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Symphony — in every case of censorship, boards have shown themselves.
They will destroy the reputation of the institutions they lead, to be on good terms with people in their cocktail set.
They will destroy the reputation of the institutions they lead, to be on good terms with people in their cocktail set.
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“Cultural sensitivity” means destroying an entire arts festival rather than allowing a Palestinian person to come along and talk about her new novel.
January 9, 2026 at 12:09 AM
“Cultural sensitivity” means destroying an entire arts festival rather than allowing a Palestinian person to come along and talk about her new novel.
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for fucking decades i've had to listen to right wingers jerk off to their fantasies of masked federal agents turning their guns on innocent Americans and then the moment it actually happens they're sniveling boot-licking scum
January 8, 2026 at 12:42 AM
for fucking decades i've had to listen to right wingers jerk off to their fantasies of masked federal agents turning their guns on innocent Americans and then the moment it actually happens they're sniveling boot-licking scum
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PEN America condemns educational censorship at Texas A&M after a professor is told not to teach Plato, a foundational thinker in the study of Western philosophy, merely because his writings discuss questions about love, gender, and human identity. pen.org/press-releas... #censorship #highereducation
Plato Has Been Censored; What Next?
PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender
pen.org
January 7, 2026 at 10:01 PM
PEN America condemns educational censorship at Texas A&M after a professor is told not to teach Plato, a foundational thinker in the study of Western philosophy, merely because his writings discuss questions about love, gender, and human identity. pen.org/press-releas... #censorship #highereducation
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there are essentially two political camps in the US. those who are fine with lethal unrestrained regime violence against civilians, and those who aren’t. everything else is bullshit.
January 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
there are essentially two political camps in the US. those who are fine with lethal unrestrained regime violence against civilians, and those who aren’t. everything else is bullshit.
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Happy Klanuary 6th to all that celebrate.
January 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Happy Klanuary 6th to all that celebrate.
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Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America
14,445 and Counting - The Atavist Magazine
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.
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January 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America
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NATO minus the US issues a statement about Trump's territorial aspirations against Denmark
January 6, 2026 at 1:22 PM
NATO minus the US issues a statement about Trump's territorial aspirations against Denmark
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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This is a big part of how we code basic government amenities and services as some form of luxury concierge service. Not one person involved in this discussion would accept the level of shoddy service regularly provided to poor communities but they imagine it’s because the poor simply don’t care.
January 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
This is a big part of how we code basic government amenities and services as some form of luxury concierge service. Not one person involved in this discussion would accept the level of shoddy service regularly provided to poor communities but they imagine it’s because the poor simply don’t care.
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Anyone interested in the rise of techno-authoritarianism/broligarchs and why they're targeting Europe, I've stumbled on this great resource. Use it. authoritarian-stack.info cc @francescabria.bsky.social
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
authoritarian-stack.info
December 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Anyone interested in the rise of techno-authoritarianism/broligarchs and why they're targeting Europe, I've stumbled on this great resource. Use it. authoritarian-stack.info cc @francescabria.bsky.social
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Secret docs revealed by #FOI show the new AFP #AUKUS Command has been set up to safeguard the nuclear submarine project and deal with protests against visiting US/UK subs and the expanding US military presence in Australia. $200M budgeted for first 2 years. #auspol
Revealed: Australia’s secret Anti-Protest Force for US Department of War - Michael West
Revealed: AFP and Defence Dept secretly set up US Department of War Protest Force as public concerns over AUKUS and Donald Trump rise
michaelwest.com.au
January 4, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Joseph Weizenbaum, "Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976. Weizenbaum, an MIT professor and creator of the first chatbot (ELIZA), became one of AI's fiercest critics. He argued that there is a fundamental difference between deciding (a computational activity) and choosing (a human moral activity).
January 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Joseph Weizenbaum, "Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976. Weizenbaum, an MIT professor and creator of the first chatbot (ELIZA), became one of AI's fiercest critics. He argued that there is a fundamental difference between deciding (a computational activity) and choosing (a human moral activity).
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“The response to the Bondi massacre has been seriously strange.”
Essential writing from one of Australia’s great thinkers:
Essential writing from one of Australia’s great thinkers:
Don't Mention The War
After Bondi
robertmanne.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:23 AM
“The response to the Bondi massacre has been seriously strange.”
Essential writing from one of Australia’s great thinkers:
Essential writing from one of Australia’s great thinkers:
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biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.
“South Africans like Dr. Booley have found a remedy for power cuts that have plagued people in the developing world for years. Thanks to swiftly falling prices of Chinese made solar panels and batteries, they now draw their power from the sun.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.
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Japan: Diarists have chronicled the comings and goings of cherry blossoms each year since A.D. 812
The 20-year average is on the steepest decline since records began, and has moved in perfect correlation with the age of burning fossil fuels
Another one of my charts of the year
The 20-year average is on the steepest decline since records began, and has moved in perfect correlation with the age of burning fossil fuels
Another one of my charts of the year
December 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Japan: Diarists have chronicled the comings and goings of cherry blossoms each year since A.D. 812
The 20-year average is on the steepest decline since records began, and has moved in perfect correlation with the age of burning fossil fuels
Another one of my charts of the year
The 20-year average is on the steepest decline since records began, and has moved in perfect correlation with the age of burning fossil fuels
Another one of my charts of the year
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People desperately want there to be a right-wing worldview, that is necessarily grounded in supremacism, zero-sum personal enrichment, and apocalyptic make-believe, and yet somehow produces a functional society as the outcome of its social operation.
December 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
People desperately want there to be a right-wing worldview, that is necessarily grounded in supremacism, zero-sum personal enrichment, and apocalyptic make-believe, and yet somehow produces a functional society as the outcome of its social operation.
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There’s twice as many utes as tradies in Australia. We need remove the luxury car tax exemption which incentivises people to buy megautes instead of safer, cleaner smaller cars and SUVs.
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
There’s twice as many utes as tradies in Australia. We need remove the luxury car tax exemption which incentivises people to buy megautes instead of safer, cleaner smaller cars and SUVs.
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Autonomous computation effectively moves the problem of spam (and scams) up the social stack to render more of our social world and shared experiences into a surface for nonconsensual manipulation and exploitation (if you search for “AI village” on here, a lot of people seem to think this is great).
Yeah, I'd be pretty furious if I got spam email from some "AI agent" thanking me for my contributions too
I dug into what happened here, turns out it's an experiment called "AI Village" which unleashes all sorts of other junk emails on the world: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/...
I dug into what happened here, turns out it's an experiment called "AI Village" which unleashes all sorts of other junk emails on the world: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/...
December 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Autonomous computation effectively moves the problem of spam (and scams) up the social stack to render more of our social world and shared experiences into a surface for nonconsensual manipulation and exploitation (if you search for “AI village” on here, a lot of people seem to think this is great).
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Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end o...
www.wrecka.ge
December 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
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Al Jazeera’s journalists continue their coverage despite the destruction caused by the relentless Israeli bombing, mounting casualties and intolerable working conditions across Gaza.
Watch the film, The Price of Truth EP 3: aje.me/thepriceoftr...
Watch the film, The Price of Truth EP 3: aje.me/thepriceoftr...
December 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Al Jazeera’s journalists continue their coverage despite the destruction caused by the relentless Israeli bombing, mounting casualties and intolerable working conditions across Gaza.
Watch the film, The Price of Truth EP 3: aje.me/thepriceoftr...
Watch the film, The Price of Truth EP 3: aje.me/thepriceoftr...
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2025 has been an incredible year for using computers to make things worse
December 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
2025 has been an incredible year for using computers to make things worse
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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On 17 December, Zawadi YaMungu took to the stage at Cape Town’s Homecoming Centre to perform songs from Ngimuhle, her debut album released earlier this year. Joined by a dynamic line-up of artists and musicians, and welcomed by an audience that responded with warmth and admiration, the evening unfol
A homecoming in song: Zawadi YaMungu live in Cape Town
www.dailymaverick.co.za
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
On 17 December, Zawadi YaMungu took to the stage at Cape Town’s Homecoming Centre to perform songs from Ngimuhle, her debut album released earlier this year. Joined by a dynamic line-up of artists and musicians, and welcomed by an audience that responded with warmth and admiration, the evening unfol