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Language, Power and (In)Visibility. Reflections on Decolonizing Academic English
Language, Power and (In)Visibility. Reflections on Decolonizing Academic English was published in Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History: Concealing and Self-Concealed Agents on page 143...
www.degruyter.com
Just out! My book chapter about the politics of language editing and decolonising academic English.
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Turns out climate change keeps happening even when we decide we don't want to talk about it anymore
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Turns out climate change keeps happening even when we decide we don't want to talk about it anymore
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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72 percent of full-time faculty were white in fall 2022 at US degree granting postsecondary institutions.
December 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
72 percent of full-time faculty were white in fall 2022 at US degree granting postsecondary institutions.
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There's a powerful resonance here, not mentioned in the piece, about the concept of refusing to follow illegal military orders.
December 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
There's a powerful resonance here, not mentioned in the piece, about the concept of refusing to follow illegal military orders.
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NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
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Friendly Reminder: Ihr könnt wirklich fast alle Bücher auch einfach per Telefon bei der Buchhandlung Eures Vertrauens ohne Portokosten bestellen. Ich kann meinen Kram meist schon am Tag darauf abholen. Kein Paket-Falsch-Abgegeben-Stress, kein Geld an Bezos - Super Sache!
December 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Friendly Reminder: Ihr könnt wirklich fast alle Bücher auch einfach per Telefon bei der Buchhandlung Eures Vertrauens ohne Portokosten bestellen. Ich kann meinen Kram meist schon am Tag darauf abholen. Kein Paket-Falsch-Abgegeben-Stress, kein Geld an Bezos - Super Sache!
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This is about a standard man-in-the-middle attack where users installed a corrupt Chrome plugin sharing all their prompts. But the idea stands: Do you trust AI companies currently incurring horrendous losses to _not_ share your conversations? How do you think they plan to make those billions back?
Well, well, well…
8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by
www.koi.ai
December 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This is about a standard man-in-the-middle attack where users installed a corrupt Chrome plugin sharing all their prompts. But the idea stands: Do you trust AI companies currently incurring horrendous losses to _not_ share your conversations? How do you think they plan to make those billions back?
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“For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic represented a remarkable natural experiment, an opportunity to study what wild animals did when humans stayed home, en masse. During what has become known as the “anthropause,” mountain lions crept closer to cities and sea turtles ventured closer to shore”
How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic represented a remarkable natural experiment, an opportunity to study what wild animals did when humans stayed home, en masse. During what has become known as the “anthropause,” mountain lions crept closer to cities and sea turtles ventured closer to shore”
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Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday
December 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday
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@marcusolang.substack.com, brilliantly, on the coloniality of ling. education and AI:
"The irony is maddening: You spend a lifetime mastering a language, adhering to its formal rules with greater diligence than most native speakers, and for this, a machine built an ocean away calls you a fake."
"The irony is maddening: You spend a lifetime mastering a language, adhering to its formal rules with greater diligence than most native speakers, and for this, a machine built an ocean away calls you a fake."
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
marcusolang.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
@marcusolang.substack.com, brilliantly, on the coloniality of ling. education and AI:
"The irony is maddening: You spend a lifetime mastering a language, adhering to its formal rules with greater diligence than most native speakers, and for this, a machine built an ocean away calls you a fake."
"The irony is maddening: You spend a lifetime mastering a language, adhering to its formal rules with greater diligence than most native speakers, and for this, a machine built an ocean away calls you a fake."
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More evasive than unrepentant, but Reform in 2025 think David Lammy should go home to the Caribbean is defensible for a Mayoral candidate without even withdrawing or apologising for it
Reform Candidate Unrepentant Over His Call For David Lammy To 'Go Home To The Caribbean'
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...
Reform Candidate Unrepentant Over His Call For David Lammy To 'Go Home To The Caribbean'
Chris Parry also refused to say that the former foreign secretary's "primary loyalty" is to the UK.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
More evasive than unrepentant, but Reform in 2025 think David Lammy should go home to the Caribbean is defensible for a Mayoral candidate without even withdrawing or apologising for it
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Menschen aus Osteuropa werden besonders oft in prekäre Beschäftigung gedrängt – nicht aus mangelnder Motivation oder Qualifikation, sondern weil rechtliche und politische Rahmenbedingungen ihnen kaum Alternativen lassen. Das zeigt eine neue von uns geförderte Studie.
Antislawismus: Menschen aus Osteuropa erleben in Jobcentern häufig Diskriminierung
Ukrainischen Geflüchteten wird einer Studie zufolge in Jobcentern Sozialtourismus unterstellt. Die Folge: Sie werden vorschnell in Niedriglohnjobs gedrängt.
www.zeit.de
December 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Menschen aus Osteuropa werden besonders oft in prekäre Beschäftigung gedrängt – nicht aus mangelnder Motivation oder Qualifikation, sondern weil rechtliche und politische Rahmenbedingungen ihnen kaum Alternativen lassen. Das zeigt eine neue von uns geförderte Studie.
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95 and counting is the number of murders the US military is willing to commit before refusing to follow unlawful orders.
U.S. Strikes 3 More Boats in Eastern Pacific, Killing 8
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
95 and counting is the number of murders the US military is willing to commit before refusing to follow unlawful orders.
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Springer Nature, one of the world’s largest academic publishers, has been caught using fake AI-generated citations in their textbooks
Publisher under fire after ‘fake’ citations found in AI ethics guide
A book published by Springer Nature includes dozens of questionable citations, including references to journals that do not exist
www.thetimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Springer Nature, one of the world’s largest academic publishers, has been caught using fake AI-generated citations in their textbooks
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Apropos #ICE in den #USA: Machen wir uns nix vor, deren Praxis ist nur einen Moment von dem entfernt, was hierzulande gerade geschieht. Es geht nicht um illegale Einwanderung, Migrationskontrolle oder auch Abschiebung von Straftätern bzw. Gefährdern, es geht um ethnische Säuberung, aka #Rassismus!
Neue Entwicklung im Fall Selmi: Mit Stimmen von CDU, SPD und AfD hat eine Mehrheit der Abgeordneten sich gegen eine Petition ausgesprochen, die gefordert hat, dass der Eintracht-Boxer und Tiefbau-Azubi bleiben kann. Der Chef von Selmi und die Jugendhilfe sind empört
www.faz.net/aktuell/rhei...
www.faz.net/aktuell/rhei...
Eintracht-Boxer Selmi: Petition abgelehnt, nun droht die Abschiebung
Für Abdelkader Selmi setzen sich tausende Menschen ein: Sie wünschen dem jungen Boxer und Azubi eine Zukunft in Deutschland. Doch der Hessische Landtag hat eine Petition abgelehnt, die seine Abschiebu...
www.faz.net
December 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Apropos #ICE in den #USA: Machen wir uns nix vor, deren Praxis ist nur einen Moment von dem entfernt, was hierzulande gerade geschieht. Es geht nicht um illegale Einwanderung, Migrationskontrolle oder auch Abschiebung von Straftätern bzw. Gefährdern, es geht um ethnische Säuberung, aka #Rassismus!
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nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.
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“What our grandparents practised instinctively through prayer, song, and time spent in the natural world, neuroscience is now validating with brain scans and data.”
Healing the past to strengthen the future: Why the Caribbean needs to talk about ancestral trauma
“What our grandparents practised instinctively through prayer, song, and time spent in the natural world, neuroscience is now validating with brain scans and data.”
globalvoices.org
December 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“What our grandparents practised instinctively through prayer, song, and time spent in the natural world, neuroscience is now validating with brain scans and data.”
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Video shows the man rushing one of the alleged gunmen who shot dozens of people on Sunday evening in Australia
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A bystander tackled and wrestled a gun from one of the two alleged gunman during the Bondi beach mass shooting in which at least 12 people were killed, footage shows.
Video of the scene shows the alleged gunman standing on a footpath between a grassy area and parking lot holding a shotgun and firing into the distance. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
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This is a short and extremely important thread. Please share it.
Look around you. Do you see policies being implemented at scale? Do you see the end of investment into new fossil energy? Do you see phasing out of existing fossil infrastructure? Do you see massive renewables deployment and the lowering of demand for energy and materials?
You do not.
3/n
You do not.
3/n
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is a short and extremely important thread. Please share it.
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Mounting debt crisis means global South governments are spending on average 15% of their revenue servicing external debt. This figure has doubled since 2010.
More than 3.4 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health or education.
More than 3.4 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health or education.
December 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Mounting debt crisis means global South governments are spending on average 15% of their revenue servicing external debt. This figure has doubled since 2010.
More than 3.4 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health or education.
More than 3.4 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health or education.
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“Her written reports for the Guardian provided vital coverage of a war most journalists were banned from witnessing,” they said. “Working alone, she faced deprivation, the constant risk of bombs and the threat of targeted attack for their work.”
December 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Her written reports for the Guardian provided vital coverage of a war most journalists were banned from witnessing,” they said. “Working alone, she faced deprivation, the constant risk of bombs and the threat of targeted attack for their work.”
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it's not just appropriating someone's artwork (important as that is!); it's also reframing these incredibly sheltered comemierdas, who shift all the risk and consequences from their decisions onto others while hoarding the profits, into this position of casual, almost heroic precarity.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
it's not just appropriating someone's artwork (important as that is!); it's also reframing these incredibly sheltered comemierdas, who shift all the risk and consequences from their decisions onto others while hoarding the profits, into this position of casual, almost heroic precarity.
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Die Grünen haben im Bundestag eine verdammte Selbstverständlichkeit beantragt:
"Visa für afghanische Staatsangehörige mit Aufnahmezusage erteilen und gerichtliche Entscheidungen umsetzen"
CDU, CSU, AFD
U N D
SPD
haben das GEMEINSAM abgelehnt.
Keine weiteren Fragen, euer Ehren.
"Visa für afghanische Staatsangehörige mit Aufnahmezusage erteilen und gerichtliche Entscheidungen umsetzen"
CDU, CSU, AFD
U N D
SPD
haben das GEMEINSAM abgelehnt.
Keine weiteren Fragen, euer Ehren.
December 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Die Grünen haben im Bundestag eine verdammte Selbstverständlichkeit beantragt:
"Visa für afghanische Staatsangehörige mit Aufnahmezusage erteilen und gerichtliche Entscheidungen umsetzen"
CDU, CSU, AFD
U N D
SPD
haben das GEMEINSAM abgelehnt.
Keine weiteren Fragen, euer Ehren.
"Visa für afghanische Staatsangehörige mit Aufnahmezusage erteilen und gerichtliche Entscheidungen umsetzen"
CDU, CSU, AFD
U N D
SPD
haben das GEMEINSAM abgelehnt.
Keine weiteren Fragen, euer Ehren.
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This is not just unserious, it's dangerous. And unfortunately it's the same story over and over with this admin in every policy domain
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is not just unserious, it's dangerous. And unfortunately it's the same story over and over with this admin in every policy domain
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"The history of humanity is about immigration. People moving around. The tapestry that mixing weaves has always changed and will keep changing. It's ultimately a fool's errand to think that you can try and stop that from happening." @mrhenrymorris.substack.com
🆕 National Insecurity Strategy
🌎 Trump's attack on our values
🦘 Australia's social media ban
🍪 Shouting at biscuits
🇻🇦 Popemobile to Hopemobile
@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social with @mrhenrymorris.substack.com.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/40d4...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🌎 Trump's attack on our values
🦘 Australia's social media ban
🍪 Shouting at biscuits
🇻🇦 Popemobile to Hopemobile
@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social with @mrhenrymorris.substack.com.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/40d4...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
National Insecurity Strategy: Trump's attack on European values
open.spotify.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"The history of humanity is about immigration. People moving around. The tapestry that mixing weaves has always changed and will keep changing. It's ultimately a fool's errand to think that you can try and stop that from happening." @mrhenrymorris.substack.com