Nick J
@nickjden.bsky.social
“Debt’s origins come from colonialism’s origins. Those who lend us money are those who colonized us. " -- Thomas Sankara
PhD International Development/ Geographies of Extraction
PhD International Development/ Geographies of Extraction
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Palantir, located in Denver, CO and headed by a PhD in critical theory, is one of the great sociopathic organizations of today.
Palantir, located in Denver, CO and headed by a PhD in critical theory, is one of the great sociopathic organizations of today.
Questions on Kenya's 25-year Health Pact with the United States | Pambazuka News
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December 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Palantir, located in Denver, CO and headed by a PhD in critical theory, is one of the great sociopathic organizations of today.
Palantir, located in Denver, CO and headed by a PhD in critical theory, is one of the great sociopathic organizations of today.
pambazuka.org/Imperialism
Caribbean countries have either blatantly come out in support of the imperial violence .. or been hesitant to respond ... Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) as well as Guyana expressed enthusiastic support for US militaristic incursions and extrajudicial murders
Caribbean countries have either blatantly come out in support of the imperial violence .. or been hesitant to respond ... Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) as well as Guyana expressed enthusiastic support for US militaristic incursions and extrajudicial murders
Imperialism by Invitation: Murder, Mafioso Politics and Caribbean-Venezuelan Futurity | Pambazuka News
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December 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
pambazuka.org/Imperialism
Caribbean countries have either blatantly come out in support of the imperial violence .. or been hesitant to respond ... Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) as well as Guyana expressed enthusiastic support for US militaristic incursions and extrajudicial murders
Caribbean countries have either blatantly come out in support of the imperial violence .. or been hesitant to respond ... Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) as well as Guyana expressed enthusiastic support for US militaristic incursions and extrajudicial murders
Fanon: The alienation of the colonized person is not a simple alienation based only on exploitation of labor ... A colonized person, Fanon argued, cannot become healthy simply through the work of a psychiatrist. The colonized person can only be healthy in the context of ending colonial domination.
🔥Horace Campbell on #Fanon and National Liberation
📖Explore the linkages between individual and national #liberation, resonating with the required conditions and persisting liberatory necessities across #Global #Africa 60 years after Fanon
🔗Read it at tinyurl.com/PZ-HC-Fanon
@ambermurrey.bsky.social
📖Explore the linkages between individual and national #liberation, resonating with the required conditions and persisting liberatory necessities across #Global #Africa 60 years after Fanon
🔗Read it at tinyurl.com/PZ-HC-Fanon
@ambermurrey.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Fanon: The alienation of the colonized person is not a simple alienation based only on exploitation of labor ... A colonized person, Fanon argued, cannot become healthy simply through the work of a psychiatrist. The colonized person can only be healthy in the context of ending colonial domination.
[Today, as we experience what Santiago López Petit defines as “postmodern fascism”— the ultimate fragmentation of contemporary capitalist societies ... —we must strive toward a different way of thinking that parallels those of Fanon and Walcott: “Either I’m nobody, or I’m a community.” ]
🔥In "Frantz Omar Fanon (1925–1961): The 'We' Against the Oppressors — Toward an Anti-Capitalist Theory,"
👉Gržinić explores #Fanon’s social, intellectual, and cultural evolution and the transhistorical influence of his work across struggles.
📖Read it at tinyurl.com/PZ-Fanon-We
@malangwa.bsky.social
👉Gržinić explores #Fanon’s social, intellectual, and cultural evolution and the transhistorical influence of his work across struggles.
📖Read it at tinyurl.com/PZ-Fanon-We
@malangwa.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
[Today, as we experience what Santiago López Petit defines as “postmodern fascism”— the ultimate fragmentation of contemporary capitalist societies ... —we must strive toward a different way of thinking that parallels those of Fanon and Walcott: “Either I’m nobody, or I’m a community.” ]
Many thanks to @pambazukanews.bsky.social for critically important interventions during 2025, including the last three issues which I will be working through in the next few days. There is no other platform like Pambazuka, and I am so grateful for the collective actively keeping Pambazuka going.
🔥As we wrap up 2025, #Pambazuka brings you sharp analyses and forward-looking insights, added to our growing list of informative and inspiring articles to explore this holiday season.
👉Visit www.pambazuka.org for #Issue912 and more.
🎄Happy Xmas
@malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social
👉Visit www.pambazuka.org for #Issue912 and more.
🎄Happy Xmas
@malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Many thanks to @pambazukanews.bsky.social for critically important interventions during 2025, including the last three issues which I will be working through in the next few days. There is no other platform like Pambazuka, and I am so grateful for the collective actively keeping Pambazuka going.
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"According to our analysis, reasoning models use, on average, 100 times more energy than models with no reasoning capabilities (or with reasoning turned off)"
Good new analysis of how 'reasoning' mode in chatbots consumes a fairly massive amount more energy than normal mode
Good new analysis of how 'reasoning' mode in chatbots consumes a fairly massive amount more energy than normal mode
AI Energy Score v2: Refreshed Leaderboard, now with Reasoning 🧠
A Blog post by Sasha Luccioni on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"According to our analysis, reasoning models use, on average, 100 times more energy than models with no reasoning capabilities (or with reasoning turned off)"
Good new analysis of how 'reasoning' mode in chatbots consumes a fairly massive amount more energy than normal mode
Good new analysis of how 'reasoning' mode in chatbots consumes a fairly massive amount more energy than normal mode
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Check it out. At The New School, you could've studied composition with John Cage, social science methods with John Dewey, cultural history with Lewis Mumford, or photography with Berenice Abbott
December 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Check it out. At The New School, you could've studied composition with John Cage, social science methods with John Dewey, cultural history with Lewis Mumford, or photography with Berenice Abbott
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"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds reut.rs/3MFJWnW
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds
The spouses and children of billionaires inherited more wealth in 2025 than in any previous year since reporting began in 2015, according to UBS's Billionaire Ambitions Report published on Thursday.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
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Larry Summers’ sexism is jeopardizing his power and privilege, but the entire economics profession hinders progress for women - an excellent reflection by @yanarodgers.bsky.social theconversation.com/larry-summer...
Larry Summers’ sexism is jeopardizing his power and privilege, but the entire economics profession hinders progress for women
In 2024, only about 1 in 3 newly minted economics Ph.D.s were women.
theconversation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Larry Summers’ sexism is jeopardizing his power and privilege, but the entire economics profession hinders progress for women - an excellent reflection by @yanarodgers.bsky.social theconversation.com/larry-summer...
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On this day in 1970, Cesar Chavez was sentenced to an indefinite jail term for his work boycotting lettuce produced by farms that had used coercive tactics against the United Farm Workers.
Dec. 3, 1970 | Cesar Chavez Jailed for Leading Boycott Against Coercive Farmers
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On this day in 1970, Cesar Chavez was sentenced to an indefinite jail term for his work boycotting lettuce produced by farms that had used coercive tactics against the United Farm Workers.
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time to unearth this excellent paper by legal scholar @madisoncondon.bsky.social (see below), which "argues that actionable and transparent information about our climate-changed future is a public good that the private sector cannot be depended upon to provide equitably or reliably."
scholarship.law.bu.edu
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
time to unearth this excellent paper by legal scholar @madisoncondon.bsky.social (see below), which "argues that actionable and transparent information about our climate-changed future is a public good that the private sector cannot be depended upon to provide equitably or reliably."
If Biblically centered psychology and other disciplines are the new baseline for evidence at Oklahoma University, they should lose their accreditation. I want to know that I am being taught psychology when I get a psychology degree.
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If Biblically centered psychology and other disciplines are the new baseline for evidence at Oklahoma University, they should lose their accreditation. I want to know that I am being taught psychology when I get a psychology degree.
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“Bahjat took the shell instead of me. He stood between me and death. He saved me, but at the cost of his life.” #eiGazaDispatches
A tribute to Captain Bahjat
Bahjat Tantish was a pillar of Palestine’s sports community, an inspiring karate coach, a policeman and a farmer.
electronicintifada.net
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“Bahjat took the shell instead of me. He stood between me and death. He saved me, but at the cost of his life.” #eiGazaDispatches
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Here are
the press release on the retraction of one our Nature papers
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
some explanations
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
the journal's comment
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please note:
The fact that climate change causes huge economic damages is not disputed..
the press release on the retraction of one our Nature papers
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
some explanations
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
the journal's comment
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please note:
The fact that climate change causes huge economic damages is not disputed..
Authors retract Nature study on economic damages from climate change, will resubmit for peer review
03.12.2025 - Following the publication of two critiques as “Matters Arising”, and in conversation with the journal Nature, the authors of the study “The economic commitment of climate change” at the P...
www.pik-potsdam.de
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Here are
the press release on the retraction of one our Nature papers
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
some explanations
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
the journal's comment
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please note:
The fact that climate change causes huge economic damages is not disputed..
the press release on the retraction of one our Nature papers
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
some explanations
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
the journal's comment
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please note:
The fact that climate change causes huge economic damages is not disputed..
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Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
The Wolfson History Prize - Celebrating Outstanding History
The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
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Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
I find that too many academics, especially behind the gates, express quite reductionist views in opposition to LLMs. These academics often have RAs, free library access & remunerated research time, & thus speak from privilege. We in the wild need all the info gathering help available. LLMs can help.
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I find that too many academics, especially behind the gates, express quite reductionist views in opposition to LLMs. These academics often have RAs, free library access & remunerated research time, & thus speak from privilege. We in the wild need all the info gathering help available. LLMs can help.
The worst aspect of LLMs is their development within corporate, colonial-capitalist ecosystems under climate catastrophe. All things being equal, LLMs offer time-saving efficiency like calculators. Since all things are not equal, however, LLMs are in reality emblematic of climate destruction.
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The worst aspect of LLMs is their development within corporate, colonial-capitalist ecosystems under climate catastrophe. All things being equal, LLMs offer time-saving efficiency like calculators. Since all things are not equal, however, LLMs are in reality emblematic of climate destruction.
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Classic "I'm sorry you had to find out I sucked, I wish you'd never known" non-apology
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Classic "I'm sorry you had to find out I sucked, I wish you'd never known" non-apology
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It's part of a general problem in economics. Women are relegated to "care economy" issues. They aren't able to call out obvious fallacies in things like Gary Becker's "New Home Economics" without risking career. It's an "alt-truth" problem where economic science is not being done on firm ground.
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It's part of a general problem in economics. Women are relegated to "care economy" issues. They aren't able to call out obvious fallacies in things like Gary Becker's "New Home Economics" without risking career. It's an "alt-truth" problem where economic science is not being done on firm ground.
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If you’ve read my reporting from Palestine you’ve almost certainly read about the people of Umm al Khair. Last week the Israeli military issued demolition orders that would erase the entire village.
URGENT: Demolitions of 14 homes and community spaces in the West Bank community of Umm al-Khair could begin as early as THIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, potentially leaving around 100 people (including children) homeless, with winter rapidly approaching.
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
If you’ve read my reporting from Palestine you’ve almost certainly read about the people of Umm al Khair. Last week the Israeli military issued demolition orders that would erase the entire village.
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For anyone who has followed Rajoelina's political career, and Madagascar's politics over that time, this is both eminently predictable and pretty incredible.
Also really revealing that he left on a French plane, if that bears out. Old habits die hard.
Also really revealing that he left on a French plane, if that bears out. Old habits die hard.
France has flown Madagascar's president Andry Rajoelina out of the country, RFI reports.
Ex prime minister Christian Ntsay and businessman Mamy Ravatomanga, a close ally of the president who protestors blamed for a lot of corruption, reportedly flew to Mauritius on a private jet on Saturday night.
Ex prime minister Christian Ntsay and businessman Mamy Ravatomanga, a close ally of the president who protestors blamed for a lot of corruption, reportedly flew to Mauritius on a private jet on Saturday night.
France evacuates Madagascar president amid protests and army revolt
Madagascar’s president Andry Rajoelina has been evacuated from the country by a French military plane as protests and a military mutiny threaten to topple his government, RFI has confirmed.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
For anyone who has followed Rajoelina's political career, and Madagascar's politics over that time, this is both eminently predictable and pretty incredible.
Also really revealing that he left on a French plane, if that bears out. Old habits die hard.
Also really revealing that he left on a French plane, if that bears out. Old habits die hard.
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We've heard them saying this more lately. Gotta be a group chat throwing these ideas around.
This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".
October 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We've heard them saying this more lately. Gotta be a group chat throwing these ideas around.
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“[Trump's Gaza plan] is a proposal really for the Gaza Riviera… A proposal for… colonization, permanent occupation & siege.”
Palestinian-American lawyer Noura Erakat tells @premthakker.bsky.social how Trump’s Gaza plan is a mechanism to shut down advocacy for Palestine.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
Palestinian-American lawyer Noura Erakat tells @premthakker.bsky.social how Trump’s Gaza plan is a mechanism to shut down advocacy for Palestine.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
October 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
“[Trump's Gaza plan] is a proposal really for the Gaza Riviera… A proposal for… colonization, permanent occupation & siege.”
Palestinian-American lawyer Noura Erakat tells @premthakker.bsky.social how Trump’s Gaza plan is a mechanism to shut down advocacy for Palestine.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
Palestinian-American lawyer Noura Erakat tells @premthakker.bsky.social how Trump’s Gaza plan is a mechanism to shut down advocacy for Palestine.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...