The arc of the colonial universe is long, but it bends towards genocide.

Little known fact, if a woman exposes her shoulder, Jupiter's orbit totally changes.

PSA: South Asia job. Pls share. The Department of Asian Languages & Literature, UW Seattle invites applications for a new Endowed Chair in Telugu (Assistant Professor) with an emphasis in Telugu literature, cultural studies, or film and media studies. apply.interfolio.com/155050

👏 Big statement with two key parts: Break Up Big Tech AND fund and build public alternatives. We have to do both. If we fund without breaking tech giants up, many services won't stick. If we break without funding public infrastructure, another monopolist will come.

A month doing fieldwork in México on data centers: Communities without water or electricity, UN+Microsoft proposed 84 million pesos to improve their lives: "Where is the water and the money? Where is the benefit to our communities?" People living near data centers wonder.

We are extending the deadline for applications for our Technologist vacancy. To work with us as a technologist on a range of areas including privacy, digital security, and freedom of expression, apply by 7 October 2024. For more details: cis-india.org/jobs/call-for-…

New: massive e-learning platform Udemy gave teachers a window to 'opt-out' of their material being used to train AI. That window is already over. We spoke to instructors who had no idea they had automatically been opted-in. See here, it's greyed out 404media.co/massive-e-lear…

The strike of the #Samsung workers entered the 22nd day on September 30. Comrade K Kanagaraj, #CPIM state secretariat member addressed the protesting workers and extended solidarity. The workers are demanding that the management recognise the union led by the CITU CENTRE, regulate

Sucks that we don't have any good way of calculating the negative economic impact of generative AI through such use, let alone ways to address economic harm.

If you write, or podcast, or make art about data centers, feel free to add your work (and others’) to this open access bibliography that everyone is welcome to use and update: docs.google.com/document/d/1bn…

The CITU Tamil Nadu state committee held a statewide road blockade in solidarity with the protesting workers of the Samsung electronics Chennai unit. Thousands of workers courted arrest.  CITU state president Comrade A Soundarrajan and senior leader Comrade T K Rangarajan led

Would it be acceptable to ask this question about literally any other group of people?

Top 5 most preventable war of all-time

The most basic best thing that can happen to West Asia is for it to be left alone.

International law is back baby!

Just realised that this is the first time in my life that I've heard in-flight instructions and announcements in one language only.

The idea of the 'Middle East', a figment of nineteenth-century colonial imaginations, now useful mainly as a placeholder for garbage takes by would-be revolutionaries and self-styled political educators in something still called 'the West'.

This opening question is INSANE

We know "unprovoked" is a meaningless word now, but does "preemptive" also not mean anything anymore lol?

Today, the Supreme Court struck down provisions in various State Prison Manuals that mandated the assignment of work in prisons based on caste & the classification of denotified tribes as habitual offenders. The judgment was delivered in Sukanya Shantha v. UOI~1