Our book of the week reveals how disinformation, surveillance, and inequality are embedded in WhatsApp's everyday use, reframing the app's much-lauded encryption as a lived, contested terrain of power. By Sahana Udupa & Herman Wasserman on NYU Press buff.ly/RW9ClT6

Many people puzzled why the Ugandan judge on the International Court of Justice was often the only one to vote with Israel. She explains:“ We are in the end times” and “the lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel” monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/na…

SMH.

WTF.

It must have felt like watching MLS, LOL.

Reminded of "Zone of Interest", the Oscar winning movie about the indifference of the Germans living next door to Auschwitz -- and how it's Jewish director made clear the film was not made to show "look what they did then, but look what we do now..."

Liverpool supporter here, but that goal was a nice f*ck you to the racist abuse from among the Anfield crowd. Good for Semenyo.

Semenyo deserves both those goals.

Overheard: "That’s what you get for racially abusing a quality Ghana forward." #Semenyo #LiverpoolFC #LFC #Bournemouth #Anfield #racism

Has someone asked Hakeem Jeffries about the difference between sun and ice people?

Sports historian and rugby administrator Dr Hendrik Snyders on his favorite @Springbok, Willie le Roux. The whole episode - where Hendrik talks South African rugby history, rugby politics, and his playing days - on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify and Apple. Search

There is trophy for this?

The media every time Wrexham play

"On Becoming a Guinea Fowl," which first came out last year, is an incredible film. I finally watched it on a long flight Sunday night. Set in contemporary Lusaka, Zambia, it tells the story of a patriarch’s death—and the silences surrounding his history of systematically

South African opera singer Pumeza Matshikiza in Herri: An intellectual told me not to sing “dead white men’s” music. I replied: if I give up this music, he must give up his beloved BMW—since that’s not exactly an African invention either.

Philippi outside of Cape Town? Even the media seems to agree that the ‘best run’ Cape Town the DA brags about is actually the Cape Town CBD and surrounding suburbs, not the townships IN Cape Town.

My mother was my first country, by Sean Jacobs open.substack.com/pub/elevenname…

My mother Eliza Magdalena passed away on this day in 2020. The poet Nayyirah Waheed once wrote, “My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived.”