Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Paul Conroy — a brilliant photojournalist who documented wars & human chaos for decades — has passed away. He was injured in the same attack in Homs that killed Marie Colvin & he just carried on travelling to conflict zones.
May he rest in peace.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Israel has now killed more journalists than any other government since the Committee to Project Journalists began collecting records in 1992.
The Israel-Gaza war is the deadliest conflict on record for journalists, the CPJ found. https://wapo.st/4aJGqBm
Greetings from Kyiv.
Today, I came to visit them.
To say thank you –
our fallen Heroes 💔
It is a failure of imagination and morality to act as though the highest and only aim of human communication were the market-based accumulation of an audience.
"How dare you say shit about our fair city and our single child, when you won’t even help your own"
clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/
Honestly, I thought this was a pic of Duke Nukem.
This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.
How to be a journalist, by one of the best. Carlos Hernández died this week. @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gun violence is not just a security issue. It is a public health crisis shaped by inequality, gender norms, and the global gun market. Our new report argues prevention must move beyond policing towards health, equity and evidence.
aoav.org.uk/2026/the-pol...
If anyone is interested in an AI haters cocktail meet up at #ICA2026, please let me know. I think it'd be cathartic.
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
Written version available here: open.substack.com/pub/louisear...
Nothing happened, except that they killed one of the journalists involved in the investigation, Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia.
1-- Epstein was funding white nationalist stuff (see next post)
2- How is he making these many typos
3- I don’t even know what to say about Chomsky anymore
Yeah, don't give it back, it's past it's use by date. Honestly, if you can, buy him a new one.
GAI in academia is such a disheartening lesson in how many people - when they think they won't get caught - will readily deceive their colleagues.
Amen!
Amen!
Can we have an “Amen”?
I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school.
Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
Langston Hughes on Patrice Lumumba on this the 65th anniversary of his assassination.
This is one of those stories that feels implausible, but not *quite* as implausible as you want it to be.
Like I'm sure back then if you paid a guy who knew a guy you could essentially do anything there. And we know better than ever that most of the truly rich simply have no ethics. So... 🤷🏽♂️
This article is excellent:
"...why study atrocities in Africa but not in Gaza? And it would raise a question that now haunts us: Was our work just a prop for advancing Western hegemony? Was conflict studies, even if inadvertently, an imperial science?"
One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Celebrating three #ICA26 rejections and counting. I'd like to dedicate these decisions to God, my enemies, and geopolitics.
Please consider passing this along:
If you are a scholar interested in journalism and how it's coping with increasingly violent targeting and repression (see Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, even the US), please consider sending in an abstract. There are even bursaries available for early career folk.
