Gemma Smith - The Whole is Shattered and Wrecked (Bella Caledonia, 05.8.2025)
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/08/05/t...
Highly recommend! Scottish Gael #Dùthchas, #Gàidhealtachd, late feudal relationships, indigenous relationality, connectedness with all that is around us, past, present & future..
Yanis Varoufakis - How Tech Lords Enslaved Humanity aka How the 'Cloudists' control us (DoubleDown News, 13.5.2025)
www.doubledown.news/watch/2025/m...
#TechnoFeudalism
Meanwhile on Planet Earth
(28.5.2025)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Open Your Eyes: Fake News for Dummies
Rather than use the term 'fake news', learn more about the difference between Mis-information, Dis-information & Mal-information..
www.openyoureyes.info/en/database
Disinfo .EU: "Defenders of democracy are often drawn into endless battles against falsehoods.. [T]he trap laid by anti-democratic movements.. Rather than playing by their rules, we must focus on protecting our shared rights and strengthening democracy."
www.disinfo.eu/we-fight-dis...
The 'Levellers of Digital Power' online course:
* Understand the principles & power dynamics related to digitalization
* Explore your opportunities to utilize digitalization & digital power
* Envision & begin creating a more just digital world
fingo.fi/en/levellers...
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
[thank you Dyne.org newsletter]
velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...
Rethinking Freedom in the Digital Age: The Rise of the Carepunks
(10 Apr 2025)
"Privacy is a fundamental human right.. [I]ndividuals can live, think, and express themselves without fear."
news.dyne.org/the-rise-of-...
#CarePunks #DyneOrg
The Women going to the Sepulchre, 1912, Robert Anning Bell Painting of women in blue garments walking leftward, one woman, and then five behind her, on a flat plain, hazy sky ....
Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.
Ane Hjort Guttu - The End of Art Education as We Know It (Kunstkritikk, 22.05.20)
"The new art academies that emerged in the Nordic region during the 2010s offer multi-functional spaces. They also prescribe a new role for the artist: project manager."
kunstkritikk.com/the-end-of-a...
Update on #Enshittification via the term's wordsmith Cory Doctorow's Medium acc (20.1.2025)
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
Carole Cadwalladr - Speaking Truth to the Tech Gods (10.4.2025) open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
ok this one is my favourite so far #AprilFools
The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.
The results tell us a lot!
Extracts below... 🧵
Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
Meanwhile, South Korea has successfully impeached their president
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
I’ve been critical of Sen. Booker throughout his speech, because he did it to politically enrich himself. It will likely be successful in elevating his position within the Democratic Party.
It was also profoundly historic & heroic. This is what leadership looks like.
He should be Minority Leader.
ChrisMcGreal - Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements (Democracy Now!, 27.3.2025) #ChrisMcGreal #DemocracyNow!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahv3...
David Lees, Katherine Mackinnon, Pablo Kala, Dan Glass - Protest then and now – Celebrating radical love and surviving the Valentine’s Day Massacre 30 years since Pollok Free State (Bella Caledonia, 27.3.2025)
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/27/p...
Kristina Safonova - Eight hidden suitcases (Meduza, 21.2.2020)
"Meet the Soviet physicist - Alexander Krivomazov - who hosted the USSR’s best-known underground parties and recorded the greatest writers of his era."
[Abridged trans. to english by Olga Zeveleva]
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Gaza’s children: what can the future possibly hold for them?
Ahmed Moor (The Guardian, 27 Mar 2025); Image credit: Hannah Yoon.
This article is devastating. But I argue it is a 'must read' type of journalism.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Planet Critical - The Age of Territorial Expansion | Michael Albertus (06.03.2025)
"We are in the beginning of an age of territorial expansion, as nations seek to shore up more resources, wealth and power by acquiring land."
www.planetcritical.com/p/the-age-of...
Mike Watson (Revol Press) - Trump 2.0: The idiocy of Certitude - How to Reclaim Doubt (18.3.2025)
open.substack.com/pub/revolpre...
Bass Generator @ Rezerection - The Harlequinade - NYE 1992
1hr 19min in.. "Dance while the record spins"..
youtu.be/fBLbzIx8FHU?...
Mike Small - War and Broken Britain (10.3.2024, Bella Caledonia)
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/10/w...
Laurie Winer - What to Expect When You're Expecting Catastrophe (13.3.2025, Snyder: Thinking about..)
snyder.substack.com/p/what-to-ex...
The student-led protests are coming to a head in Serbia.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
