I think the Labour Party should change its name. They definitely do not support people who labour/work.
Suggestions are welcome. Here are a few:
The L Party
Abandon UK
Blair Rich Project
Unfree Labour Party
So what/who does the Labour Party stand for? And why should we vote for them?
Remembering the time when Elle published an online story claiming that Nana Rawlings was the first woman to run for president in West Africa. Journalism has only gotten worse, and with AI writing, there may be no hope for good, solid investigatory journalism anymore.
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"...the thing is, photographs are historical evidence and once you start messing with that (using #AI) and falsifying that, you are falsifying historical evidence.
"That's the problem."
Dr Gilly Carr of
Cambridge University on the scurge of #AI fake images of the Channel Islands Occupation.
Remembering the time when Elle published an online story claiming that Nana Rawlings was the first woman to run for president in West Africa. Journalism has only gotten worse, and with AI writing, there may be no hope for good, solid investigatory journalism anymore.
folukeafrica.com/a-reply-to-e...
Very cool postdoctoral opportunity on an ERC project looking at 'Art and Liberation Movements during 20th Century Decolonization'. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vital new research from MOPAC and King's College today reveals huge disproportionalities in the use of stop and search against Black people in richer parts of London.
Stop and search is discriminatory and ineffective. This research confirms that it's time to re-think how we keep communities safe.
Today, March 10, is the publication day for the UK edition of my book *Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea*, by @versobooks.bsky.social . I’ll be in the UK the last two weeks of April. I'll post the dates/times of my book talks soon.
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“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say.
Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing.
These people are fools!
Next week: Is a machine plagarising every human who's ever written a book any good at plagiarism?
The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.
My son and I texting each other:
"Greetings, parent." "Greetings, offspring."
demonstrating how I almost managed to achieve a perfect cloning of myself.
Watching "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" demonstrates quite strongly that restricting our understanding of decolonisation to the 1960s independence moment ignores how the whole nature of human relations has been permanently altered by colonialism.
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"I believe that as academics, we have a responsibility to shine a light into the darkness of post-truth, to reveal the illusion of postfactuality..we should not give in to despair, b/c in our despair we are immobilised..Our action.. allows us to offer the one thing the world needs right now – hope"
Genre snobs are such dull people.
Read what you want! I know people who read only in one genre, and others who read broadly. Both are good, in fact!
A Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country—Ambrose Bierce, 'The Devil's Dictionary'
"Epistemic disobedience is…necessary because there is no way out of the coloniality of power from within Western categories of thought. Epistemic disobedience takes us to a different place...to spatial sites of struggles & building rather than to a new temporality within the same space." W. Mignolo
Quite a weekend for the Guinean junta. Received an ICE deportation flight and bans 40 opposition parties in the same 48 hour window.
“…about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members.
ChatGPT had deemed it “D.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. “Because it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said.”
My son and I texting each other:
"Greetings, parent." "Greetings, offspring."
demonstrating how I almost managed to achieve a perfect cloning of myself.
Watching "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" demonstrates quite strongly that restricting our understanding of decolonisation to the 1960s independence moment ignores how the whole nature of human relations has been permanently altered by colonialism.
folukeafrica.com/decolonizati...
No sun.
I wrote this years ago as an #InternationalWomensDay tribute to my grandmother. She has since joined the ancestors and I rested the essay for a while. But her teachings are still with me. She is still with me. So here it is. This is my grandmother's story.
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One thing about French crime shows, there's a 50/50 chance that the person who is supposed to be investigating the murders is actually the killer. 🤔
maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
I wrote this years ago as an #InternationalWomensDay tribute to my grandmother. She has since joined the ancestors and I rested the essay for a while. But her teachings are still with me. She is still with me. So here it is. This is my grandmother's story.
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Critical Rake Theory: an explainer of Bridgerton's attempts to explore the transformation of amorous men, through the trajectory of their amorosity.
What does it mean for us being human when a massacre does not stop you in your tracks? In this essay I examine the various ways in which scholars have tried to imagine the undoing of the endless night of the Zong, the undoing of a world we cannot live within.
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"the barrister acting for the Zong’s owners illustrated that point bluntly thus:
‘What is this claim that human people have been thrown overboard? This is a case of chattels or goods. Blacks are goods and property; it is madness to accuse these well-serving honourable men of murder.’"
