ebbakalondo.bsky.social
@ebbakalondo.bsky.social
Addis based (for now) Afropolitan.
Anyone watched the Soundtrack to a coup d'etat documentary? Stylised visual poetry of hard politics. Maybe told much? Does it work? A vital watch all the same.
May 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Review: The Shadow Scholars gives us a peek into the world of Kenyan college grads who are commissioned and paid by students in the most prestigious institutions in the western hemisphere to produce essays, papers, scholarly articles and graduate theses on their behalf.
Review: Outsourcing academia
Meet the Kenyan intellectuals quietly ghostwriting academic works for lazy students in the Global North.
continent.substack.com
December 13, 2024 at 8:22 AM
I join the skies blue only for the South Korean president to declare martial law in the Korean dead of night. Citing frankly mental reasons. All because he doesn't want to be impeached. Every day a new chain breaks.
December 3, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Following a discussion about secure archiving of photos, here's a reminder that what might seem trivial NOW, can be significant LATER.

A roll of 35mm film shot in 1940, filed and annotated, and never viewed again until I scanned it 84 years later.
#photography

www.sandehalynch.com/photoessays/...
November 28, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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chill advice for people getting into digital security for the first time, before downloading anything or getting hung-up on what devices you need or getting lost in long lists of do's-and-don'ts... did you do a risk assessment first? here's how to do that (a guide for journos but useful for many!)
A journalist’s guide to digital security risk assessment
To fine-tune your digital security, start with a risk assessment. A useful resource for your reporting process, a risk assessment will help you identify potential digital security risks and create a p...
freedom.press
November 25, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Finally here. Wow. Does anyone know how to import accounts of those I follow on Twitter to these blue skies? Help.
December 3, 2024 at 9:44 AM