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Ryan Powell

@urbanstigma

Professor of Urban Studies, University of Sheffield

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“We should be keeping a clear list of every person in this administration who has broken the law…and they need to be prosecuted.”

@rokhanna.bsky.social and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social discuss holding tech billionaires like Elon Musk accountable at Zeteo’s live event in DC.

zeteo.com/p/what-is-th...

23.01.2026 18:10 👍 564 🔁 112 💬 10 📌 5
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Truly sickening stuff...

22.01.2026 19:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai

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23.10.2025 12:03 👍 376 🔁 130 💬 9 📌 54

Repudiating generative AI wherever possible has now become a moral duty.

It is an act of rebellion, an environmental stance, political resistance against technofascism, and our strongest weapon against the Silicon Valley billionaire class.

Burst the bubble.

21.01.2026 16:51 👍 37 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 1
US Boycott

US Boycott

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A global boycott on US continues to grow, Canada leading the front has already nearly collapsed US tourism industry since 2025 and reduced US alcohol purchases by 90%; now Denmark & Greenland have joined to cut off US products. Europe & Mexico also joining. #3E #BoycottUSA

21.01.2026 17:38 👍 2073 🔁 718 💬 117 📌 56
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KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”

@pkrugman.bsky.social
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20.01.2026 12:11 👍 11524 🔁 3856 💬 1008 📌 336

A statement of condemnation of the domicide in Gaza from the global housing studies community, please use this link to read and sign. Your name will not be shown publicly. Please share the link, and the existence of the statement itself:

forms.gle/uruHL2hwn7xq...

14.11.2025 07:59 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Israeli Finance Minister outlines plan to annex West Bank territory Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says maps are being drawn up to annex “maximum territory” in the West Bank.

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outright Zionist genocide and still govts refuse to call it what it is???

03.09.2025 16:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The city of Beit Hanoun in the north east edge of Gaza is seen from above. It is completely destroyed, not a single building is standing. It is all rubble, as though the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. The city had a population of 52,000

The city of Beit Hanoun in the north east edge of Gaza is seen from above. It is completely destroyed, not a single building is standing. It is all rubble, as though the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. The city had a population of 52,000

Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history.

This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.

“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.

#Gaza

21.07.2025 21:23 👍 940 🔁 404 💬 14 📌 10
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Living in Gaza, accepted to Cambridge — blocked by Home Office Young Palestinians overcome unimaginable challenges just to apply to university, only for the British government to make unfeasible visa demands

Eighty students from Gaza, who have overcome unbelievable obstacles to get a place at UK universities, unable to take them up due to the UK Home Office disgracefully putting even more obstacles in their place.

www.thetimes.com/article/2a7d...

21.07.2025 08:34 👍 120 🔁 74 💬 7 📌 6
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On boycotting the ISA in Rabat:

a) ISS needs to be expelled, not suspended; b) Z!on!st abstracts need to be removed from the program; c) Affiliations to universities complicit with the g¤n¤c!d3 must be removed

In full www.michelelancione.eu/blog/2025/06... @pacbi.bsky.social @gs4p.bsky.social

30.06.2025 22:49 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0