I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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The Louvre’s Attraction Is Its History. That’s Also Its Weakness. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/a...
Heartbreaking piece by Muhammad al-Zaqzouq, a writer and poet from Gaza. The piece is an excerpt from the anthology "Palestine is everywhere" (Silver Press, oct. 2025).
shorturl.at/sYLBU
I Covered the Epstein Case for Decades. These Are the 9 Questions We Actually Need Answered. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
Dal numero venti:
Ogni nuovo romanzo di Sally Rooney diventa un oggetto di culto ancora prima di apparire sugli scaffali delle librerie. Ma cosa resta, al di là dell’hype, di questi romanzi per “sad girls”?
di Martina Lodi @lostandsleepy.bsky.social
quantsmagazine.com/2025/06/sall...
My latest article for Radiotelevisione svizzera (RSI), the Swiss public service in Italian, is an analysis of how the rise of generative artificial intelligence is reinforcing platformization trends that penalize links and access to the open web. Read it here (🇮🇹): www.rsi.ch/info/scienza...
Eccovi il nostro numero 20, buona lettura!
quantsmagazine.com/prodotto/n-2...
@lostandsleepy.bsky.social @adsignorelli.bsky.social
i've been very specific about trains lately – how good is the food and how big are the windows and is air conditioning too cold? can one sit in the restaurant car, and is the coffee gonna be served in paper cups or actual ceramic ones?
i fear this has made me insufferable, and yet i cannot stop.
Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."
Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
how outlets are still publishing these sort of opinion pieces is beyond me – while in gaza children are literally being starved to death.
It is difficult to say, “Here is a tool that can basically complete assignments for you, thus reducing anxiety and saving you 10 hours of work without eviscerating your GPA. By the way, don’t use it that way.”
www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...
Since the 2nd of March, Israel has been preventing food from entering the Gaza Strip.
"This, too, feels like a metaphor for life. When your team loses you suffer, but it’s also a lesson in hybris: no one is above the strings of fate, and you must learn humility if you are aiming for happiness. Christians learn that from a very young age"
medium.com/p/1828cff636dd
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Israel's surprise bombings of Gaza, and the continuous aggression of settlers (supported by the IDF) against Palestinians in recent weeks only confirm what Luisa maintains: this occupation must end, our governments can no longer tolerate the constant violation of international law.
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Weeks before Hamdan Ballal's arrest, I interviewed for Lucy - Sulla Cultura the extraordinary Luisa Morgantini, who told me about the seriousness of the situation throughout occupied Palestine, and in the West Bank:
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After international awards, the Palestinian filmmakers of No Other Land (Wanted Cinema) continue to face threats and violence. >
hyperfixate
screaming crying throwing up anytime i have to make a linkedin post
State of the art trolling.
This is great - if you unironically ever bought a tesla you kind of deserve the bullying. Also aesthetics and ethics are the same thing (via @404media.co)
www.404media.co/dogequest-si...
I have a new in-depth piece out for Il Tascabile: it's a conversation with pr. Pietro Barbetta about about his book Una tomba per Antigone. We explore gender stigma in psychiatric diagnoses and how contemporary psychiatry reproduces forms of repression, particularly against women.
shorturl.at/K8FnU
The Revolution will be AI-icized
Brilliant conversation on being an unreliable narrator, a profound love for gossip and Alba De Céspedes ❤️
shorturl.at/9rt6X
📢 Call For Papers announcement: we are organizing a 2 day workshop on epistemic advantage at the #Philosophy department of @unibern.bsky.social on June 19th and 20th.
Abstract submissions (1000 words) are due March 1st.
Submit here 👇🏻
shorturl.at/gBisa
