The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.
2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.
Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.
My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.
It’s packed ❤️🥰
No to war in Iran!
So many billionaires currently being openly nazis isn't getting enough attention, like literally from elons daily tweets to the epstein files. It is so bad
it's past simple, use it
After so many years of writing in English I still tend to overuse present perfect, no hope (reading copy edits)
haven't used the fascist website forever, and oddly only now i thought of deleting the account
We had such a good conversation at this event two weeks ago. Just 1.5 hour is basically nothing esp if you want to discuss both more big picture context and on the ground solidarity activities. In any case, will plan at least a whole day thing next time decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...
Thank you, as always @mellino.bsky.social, for excellent reporting on the ongoing scandal of conidtions for the workers who put food on our tables 🙏
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
When fake neutrality is the most political statement of all
At the Berlinale, Art Is Political. Except on Palestine. My Latest on Substack
hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/the-most-p...
In 2024 the government's Migration Advisory Committee recommended a series of reforms of the seasonal worker visa to protect workers from exploitation.
18 months later,the government has rejected or ignored the bulk of the worker rights recommendations
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Listen to this!!!
The government's banning of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was UNLAWFUL, rules the High Court.
This is a massive vindication for those who fought Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people - which is facilitated by our government.
omw to "Realising Palestinian Self-Determination and State Sovereignty: What next?" to hopefully meet mutuals and find inspiration www.iss.nl/en/registrat...
Me sense is that basically nobody is reading bluesky posts so this account is turning into occasional blurts about the most mundane things. Looking for sanity in the mundane to keep fighting against all the craziness out there
Have been writing something which ended up being about wage governance during Eurozone austerity politics in the 2010s, and the idea that I've been living through those times basically as an adult has made me feel veeeeery old
Must read. We all know the cognitive damage and other harms done to users of genAI, but here is behind the scenes reporting on the psychological costs and trauma to workers from vulnerable communities in places like India who are paid pennies to do AI “training” data annotation.
This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...
If people were wondering about danish marxism
Also, since I now check Linkedin regularly I've been targeted with job adds and it really wants me to go into the food industry
Can I still be a legit "academic" if I only want to read without writing anything for a very looong while
Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Cover art is a development of 'Two Squares, no. 7. El Lissitzky’s ‘About Two Squares’ on William Morris ‘Daisy’ wallpaper', paint and paper on canvas, 2008. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2780-b...
Family of worker killed on Saudi World Cup site still waiting for compensation a year on. ‘Arshad’s death was the first known fatality of a migrant worker linked to the 2034 World Cup.’ #SaudiArabia
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
If anyone is in Amsterdam on Feb 3: We are hosting the great Brenna Bahndar in our Decolonial Futures lecture series. The lecture is on pre-emptive violence as a legal technology in context of dispossession & removing Indigenous presence from the land in BC.
decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...
Lol can't imagine many instances where Allo Allo would be such a helpful reference, but here is just so spot on
parenting small kiddos currently means zero headspace for deep reads, literally headspace even when in theory i might have the time
On this snowy day in the home office: f*ck empire!
Starting the year with a bang 🚨 Correcting proofs on my forthcoming article on agonistic workplace democracy for Review of Social Economy.
I argue for an agonistic approach to workplace democracy against the mainstream assumption that democracy is about rational and consensual deliberation.
Disastrous
