The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism by Durba Mitra. How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present.
In The Future That Was, @durba.bsky.social offers a pathbreaking account of how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism & imagine a future freer than our present.
Out March 17 (12 May UK pub):
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06.03.2026 15:04
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Thank you!
08.03.2026 21:07
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Tulsi Gabbard released a fundraising video in 2019 titled "Trump's Path To War With Iran"
"We've gotta stop Donald Trump from starting a war with Iran."
01.03.2026 02:39
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This one hits hard.
21.02.2026 22:59
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Student uses AI to summarize readings, then feeds summary back into AI so it can write his term paper. Professor uses AI to grade the paper and then to write the student a recommendation. Employer uses AI to read the recommendation. Student is hired, and then soon replaced by AI. Whee!
16.02.2026 15:59
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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
Really dangerous. Do you want strangers on the street to look at you and immediately be told your name, profession, employer, religion, party affiliation—maybe your address and tax bracket? Meta claims it will strictly limit the features. Do you believe them?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
16.02.2026 13:48
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Thank you Jack.
08.02.2026 12:48
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"I got up at 7.30, and while I breakfasted I read through a volume I had to review. By 10.30 the review was written — three-quarters of a column of the Evening Budget.” From a character in George Gissing's New Grub Street.
09.01.2026 20:53
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“They talk very loud, very fast, and all together. If they ask you a Question, before you can utter 3 Words of your Answer, they will break out upon you, again—and talk away.” John Adams, on New Yorkers, August 23, 1774.
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A few days before that, Mr. Roberts had appeared to throw the full weight of the Heritage Foundation onto one side of a bitter conservative family fight over the rise of the white nationalist Nick Fuentes. After the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with Mr. Fuentes, Mr. Roberts posted a video on social media that defended Mr. Carlson and called his critics “the globalist class” and a “venomous coalition.”
Perhaps the most damning words in this article are the claim that this is "a bitter conservative family fight" over the neo-Nazi, Nick Fuentes.
What does this say about the conservative family?
14.11.2025 12:04
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This is a welcome post about expertise, but even more so about the dangers of total suspicion and the nihilism it encourages. Thinking of societies fueled by total suspicion always gets me back to experiences in Russia recently, but also to close post-Soviet contacts. One story always returns 1/4
18.10.2025 18:36
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“Expertise is… a process, driven by trial and error. ʼBelieving in the scienceʼ doesn’t mean taking what scientists say at any moment as holy writ—the scientists themselves don’t do this. It means believing in the process and accepting that what is seen as truth today may look like error tomorrow.”
18.10.2025 16:58
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I Tracked Down The Company Ruining Restaurants
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXXQ...
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