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“Today their legacies demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity.” @jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:

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The years-long scapegoating of international students, migrant workers, and refugees will have many Canadians all too ready to convince themselves that this bill is to their benefit: "its reach extends beyond border applications to nearly all legislation"

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from the streets of LA fighting ICE raids, to the march and convoy to gaza confronting deportations - wherever people meet a bordering regime is where empire begins.

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Communities resisting against ICE raids in L.A. and Chicago are a model for us all, both sides of the border. Reject state violence, protect one another, and do not be afraid to stay human in inhuman times.

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"Ethnic cleansing ordered with a lazy smirk; questions about human rights deflected with a mute shrug; people kidnapped and filmed in abstracting close-up, blurred through a tissue of relaxing sound"

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Ontario "has reported a staggering 2,009 cases of measles associated with the current outbreak – more than all of those in the United States combined in 2025, and making Ontario the measles epicentre of the western hemisphere" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Wasafiri Associate Editor Thomas Glave pens a letter in tribute and grief for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025). www.wasafiri.org/content/dear...

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Important lesson for Canada's new AI minister (and the managerial class more generally): "Expecting AI to be helpful in every situation, prompting the desire to 'accelerate' an 'AI-first strategy' in government, is a recipe for failure."

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Canada tabled sweeping legislation today to increase border security, incl powers to cancel or suspend immigration docs immediately, and huge crack downs on asylum applications While Canadians can feel smug about their nationalism in this tarriff-trade war, it's a pretext for anti-migrant control.

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This goes to show once again why technologies should be understood not as agents in their own right but in relation to collective expectations, political visions, and information behaviors

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"they have already shifted the patterns of technology ownership not only in commercial spaces, but in the military itself. Instead of the Pentagon – or any other public or private institution – owning the software they pay for, corporations now turn their products into ‘services’"

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Terrible all around "Put another way, Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar and AG Jeremie should be wary of their proposed solutions encouraging violent confrontations rather than delivering public safety." trinidadexpress.com/opinion/colu...

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Madeleine Thien talks with @publisherswkly.bsky.social about the work of the late Y-Dang Troeung, including her memoir, "Landbridge," available from us in the US. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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#SurreyStudentsDeserveBetter globalnews.ca/news/1119740...

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The turning point that wasn't: the way the world talks about Israel's war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik

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Wrote a brief piece for the "Teaching With or Against AI" series in The Angle (the newsletter for the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English). Check it out if you're also thinking about the slipperiness of the term AI accute.ca/the-angle-sp... (pages 22-23)

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A thorough, informative piece

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Catch a convo with the brilliant Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on her incredible new book Theory of Water, as part of the #Workshops4Sudan fundraiser for grassroots support to Sudanese folks on the ground. Sign link here: chuffed.org/project/work...

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"To put it most provocatively, we’ve moved from a moment of masochism to one of sadism." Read Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's "Our Cruel Crude Techne?" on the CI blog. critinq.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/o...

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Predictive algorithmic decision-making is so often a sham. It creates opacity where there should be transparency. And it's all accomplished in the name of efficiency: “What I’m really trying to do here is make the system run more efficiently and effectively,” McMath said.

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"The Suffering Is Beyond Description": Report from Gaza as U.N. Warns 14,000 Babies Could Soon Die

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AGI is dangled in front of us not as a genuine preview of the future. It's a tool for managing the present. It is what legitimizes data accumulation and capital concentration

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Have news you'd like to share with a large community of scholars, cultural heritage practitioners, and general enthusiasts for all things Caribbean? Fill out this link for the possibility of having it featured in the next installment of the dLOC newsletter! webforms.fiu.edu/view.php?id=...

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www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/197efda...

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"At this point, AGI is largely rhetorical—a fantastical, all-purpose excuse for OpenAI to continue pushing for ever more wealth and power. Under the guise of a civilizing mission, the empire of AI is accelerating its global expansion and entrenching its power."

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Technocrats love themselves a frontier: a new space to be charted. The one thing AI does well is allow for the techno-utopian projection that is predicated on imperialist visions

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I've wanted to have an event like this. Are you confused about what decentralized social media is & why we should care about it? Join us for a conversation with some of the people who have been working, often without 💰or acknowledgement, to enable many communities to have a safer online presence.

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The AI project consistently fails to define itself except as that which magically produces greater efficiency. It's always been anti-worker

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There's a lot of chatter around the proposal being inserted into a budget bill that would put a moratorium on any AI legislation being passed by the states for the next 10 years. I thought I'd say a bit about why this is an absolutely disastrous move. www.404media.co/republicans-... 1/n

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“We’re seeing severe cases. Malnutrition appears in children in a horrifying and extremely visible way,” Farah said. “We have nothing to offer them. They need proteins, but there are none. We try to provide a little milk, perhaps powdered milk, but we can’t offer anything more.”

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"the new fusionism defended neoliberal policies through arguments borrowed from cognitive, behavioural and evolutionary psychology, and in some cases genetics, genomics, and biological anthropology" www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...

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SurreyDPAC, CUPE728 & STA have launched a campaign calling on the BC government to fully fund public education. Overcrowded classrooms, cuts to EAs & programs, and 360+ portables are unacceptable. Join the campaign: surreystudentsdeservebetter.ca #SurreyStudentsDeserveBetter #bced #bcpoli #SurreyBC

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"Every immigrant already knows this. Entering Canada means acquiescing to definition, official and unofficial." Kris Singh's essay "Backwater" is in Issue 68 of The Ex-Puritan: ex-puritan.ca/backwater

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My T&T 🇹🇹 election recap, “Red Wedding,” is up @CaribbeanClash. I reflect on the Dragon Gas fiasco, disaffected workers, and organized labor’s failure to chart an independent course beyond the two-party duopoly and the old politics of racial chauvinism. medium.com/clash-voices...

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Announcing the launch of sx salon 48. The issue includes essays by Amandla Thomas-Johnson and Stéphane Martelly, reviews by Sasha Ann Panaram, Oriana Méjías Martinez, Maddi Chan and Linzey Corridon, poems by Letitia Marie Pratt, and stories by José Darío Martínez Milantchi and Alicia Valasse-Polius.

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Surrey Students Deserve Better globalnews.ca/news/1116686...

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Surrey has cut elementary band. People once moved here because of strong public programs. Now they’re being gutted. This is what chronic underfunding looks like. Cuts by the BC Liberals weren’t reversed by the NDP - and kids are paying the price. @lizannefoster.bsky.social on @vancolour.bsky.social

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“It’s as if we’re animals. This prison already wasn’t livable and now they’re adding more people into a place that’s so unsafe and inhumane.”

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minister of public administration and artificial intelligence 🙃

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We are proud to introduce our next Workshop4Sudan w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore on May 5 at 12 pm (EDT). This wkshp will among other things allow 4 reflections on what internationalism frm below might look like, given abolition requires it + how we apply it to diff. contexts. chuffed.org/project/work...

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🌏 Streaming live today, Saturday, on our YouTube channel! For those unable to attend in person, the Festival livestream will bring you all events in the Old Fire Station! bocaslitfest.com/programme/li... #bocas2025 #alwayscominghome

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“I don’t mind if you hungry in the bush and that is all you could get to eat. You take down one and cook it and that’s your meal, but you not carrying any outside." trinidadexpress.com/features/loc...

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Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta

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Welcome all, to the 15th edition of the Bocas Lit Fest. Watch live at: www.youtube.com/live/oDLWCcq... #bocas2025 #alwayscominghome

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Mourners gathered at Surrey's Holland Park on Wednesday (April 30) to honour the victims of the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival. www.surreynowleader.com/local-news/f...

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"Health-care workers rallied in Surrey Thursday, calling on Ottawa to reverse changes that the Hospital Employees Union said have left hundreds of migrants in the Lower Mainland facing potential deportation" www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

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"Together we are sending a clear message to investors in this sector, including Meta, TikTok, Alphabet, and Amazon that moderators everywhere will no longer stay silent while platforms make profit from their pain.”

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