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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 6d

Our horror at the genocide in Gaza, at the mass murder of civilians on Oct 7 2023, and at today's atrocity in Manchester, comes in each case from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 The majority of vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla are not intercepted yet. flotilla-orpin.vercel.app

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 7d

God bless and protect the members of the Samud Flotilla, who were abandoned by the Spanish and Italian navies at the 11th hour much as the world has abandoned the people of Gaza. Bless them for refusing to forget Palestine. Bless them for not giving up when so many of us have failed Gaza.

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Aisha Kadiri @aplkadiri.bsky.social · 7d

“We can put a halt to arms trafficking, the trafficking of death. […] We are fortunate to work at the port, because we do not see the horizon. We have only the sea ahead. The sea allows you to dream constantly, dream that you can get it done”

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 10d

Italian dockworker Romeo Pelliccaria tells @dropsitenews.com that Genoa workers are now coordinating with dockworkers from around Europe for a full-scale blockade of arms shipments to Israel.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 7d

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7d

Sophia reporting from the Conscience

Both Italy and Spain have withdrawn their ships, abandoning the Global Sumud Flotilla to be intercepted by the Israelis

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 12d

OpenAI's rapid rush into education has been achieved by habituating users through training programs, institutional lock-ins, strategic marketing partnerships, and third party integrations that together are helping it become infrastructural to teaching and learning. It's going to be hard to get out.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 12d

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

www.nytimes.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 13d

The UK’s failure to hold this war criminal accountable means that he gets to continue plaguing this world.

Trump wants to give Tony Blair “supreme political and legal authority” over Gaza for five years.

“Supreme authority”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority

Reported proposal for international body to oversee Gaza for up to five years counters UN-backed plan for faster transition to Palestinian rule

www.theguardian.com

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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 12d

It's amazing how this thing is geared towards just grabbing ppls attention, pure refined nostalgia bait and thirst traps and cute animals walking in your direction, staring in yr eyes and so on, nothing to say, no story to tell, really a kind of automatized mass sedation device

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12d

Mark Zuckerberg is introducing a feed that's just 100% AI slop. No pesky creativity from real people to get in the way. Eat up little piggies

Introducing Vibes -- a feed of expressive AI-generated videos from artists and creators in the Meta AI app. Create and remix videos with leading models and music for free.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 12d

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

Assata Shakur

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Union syndicale Solidaires @solidaires.org · 14d

Aucune réponse concrète aux attentes du monde du travail : l’intersyndicale appelle à une
mobilisation massive le 2 octobre !

solidaires.org/sinformer-et...

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 13d

"Er redete rassistische Scheiße, aber er redete, was die richtige Art von Politik ist. Im Gegensatz zu der von Transgender-Personen, die besser die Klappe gehalten hätten."

Eine Expertin

Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 13d

Man traut seinen Augen nicht, was für ein Süppchen hier (unter fleißiger Mithilfe des Interviewers) von einer berühmten Autorin zusammengerührt wird. Vollkommen uninformiert, assoziativ und nah am Rand der Fehlinformation.

Nach der Ermordung von Charlie Kirk gab es Linke, die den Mord an dem Aktivisten bejubelten.

Ezra Klein, Kolumnist der New York Times, schrieb in einem Artikel, dass er mit Kirk ganz und gar nicht einverstanden gewesen sei, aber dieser seine Politik auf die richtige Art praktiziert habe: Kirk debattierte mit seinen Gegnern.

Kirk sagte unter anderem, Joe Biden gehöre wegen seiner „Verbrechen“ gegen die USA ins Gefängnis gesteckt oder gar hingerichtet – oder Abtreibungen seien schlimmer als der Holocaust.

Es ist wahr, dass er oft abschätzig und brutal war. Aber er sprach. So ist die US-amerikanische Demokratie. Demokratie basiert auf einem fast metaphysischen Glauben an die Macht der Sprache, die Diskussion und die öffentliche Beratung. Kirk praktizierte das. Gewalt hat absolut keinen Platz in der Demokratie. Wer anfängt, Gewalt zu predigen, identifiziert sich nicht mehr mit dem Kernbestand der Demokratie. Auf eine schräge Art geschah dies auch am 8. Oktober: Ein Teil der Linken verwechselte Gewalt mit Widerstand, Mord mit Protesten. Das ist eine gefährliche Drift.

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Mediapart @mediapart.fr · 14d

« Personne n’y comprend rien » : notre film et ses bonus sur l’affaire libyenne

Par La rédaction de Mediapart

« Personne n’y comprend rien » : notre film et ses bonus sur l’affaire libyenne

À la veille du délibéré dans l’affaire Sarkozy-Kadhafi, voyez ou revoyez le film de Mediapart consacré au scandale le plus retentissant de la Ve République. Avec des bonus inédits dans lesquels le réalisateur et les journalistes qui ont enquêté racontent les coulisses de sa fabrication.

l.mediapart.fr

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Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 14d

Dans l'affaire libyenne, révélée en 2011 par Mediapart, l'ancien président de la République française Nicolas Sarkozy est déclaré coupable pour association de malfaiteurs. De la nécessité d'une presse libre et d'une justice indépendante. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Argent libyen de Sarkozy : suivez le dénouement du procès en direct

Le tribunal judiciaire rend jeudi sa décision dans l’affaire du financement libyen de la campagne de Nicolas Sarkozy pour l’élection présidentielle de 2007. Le parquet a requis sept ans de prison et …

www.mediapart.fr

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15d

Update: Global Sumud Flotilla was attacked starting around midnight as it sailed south of Crete early Wednesday morning, with initial reports of 15 drones above Alma. At least 8 attacks and 6 explosions have been reported.

An unidentified chemical device was poured onto Yulara via a capsule that...

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16d

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Disruption across Italy as tens of thousands protest against Gaza war

Schools and stations closed and ports blocked in one of Europe’s biggest demonstrations opposing Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18d

There is a lot of demand for digital privacy and security advice out there right now and lots of people are giving advice and writing guides. I beg them to do a few things:

1. Be explicit about the threat model your advice is meant for.

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 18d

Whoever said this country was three plantations in a long trench coat wasn’t wrong

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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 19d

Exklusiv: Meine Investigativrecherche zur Durchfuhr von Ersatzteilen für die israelische Luftwaffe am Flughafen Köln/Bonn sowie über die Verantwortung von deutschen Behörden und internationalen Unternehmen wie FedEx für einen laufenden Genozid.

Pünktlich getroffen: via Köln nach Gaza – the Diasporist

Im August verkündete die deutsche Bundesregierung einen temporären Lieferstopp von Rüstungsgütern nach Israel an. Er sollte gelten für Waffen, “die im Gazastreifen zum Einsatz kommen können”. Dennoch ...

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 20d

Eight months in, and Trump/Vought have already accomplished implementing 47% of Project 2025, per this tracker:

www.project2025.observer/en

Project 2025 Tracker

A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals

www.project2025.observer

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Philipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · 23d

Schon Sartre, Beauvoir, Fanon und Merleau-Ponty haben den Begriff "Situation" eingesetzt, um den Horizont der Möglichkeiten des erfahrenden Ichs zu beschreiben. Thomas Bedorf entwickelt in seinem Buch ein neues Verständnis von Situiertheit, eine politische Phänomenologie. Out!

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