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Associate Professor in Development Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. Global development. Humanitarianism. Communication & Social Change. Chief Blogger at www.aidnography.de since 2010. More: https://linktr.ee/tobiasdenskus
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Some of the best critical investigative journalism throughout 2025 has come from @wired.com

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And why is it always about colonizing space, not „eliminating hunger“, „creating world peace“ or „ending violence against women“??

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"this collaboration will enable OUP to leverage Hum’s deep textual analysis together with Grounded AI’s contextual citation checks to provide an intelligent manuscript assessment to their editors"-the publishing house attached to 1 of the world's leading unis publishes PR-speak without hesitation

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After they were almost done sucking the blood out of the NHS, "tech companies" convinced the UK government of their latest scam...

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If you publish with global commercial academic publishers you need to be increasingly aware that the 150 Euro hardback you create will essentially be an AI training tool & the product of outsourced, precarious corporate structures.

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10 years ago I wrote a book review about Jeff Sachs & my conclusions haven't aged too well-especially since the pandemic when he took turns for the worse: "Sachs is changing development as much as he is changed by the developments of development" aidnography.blogspot.com/2015/05/jeff...

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R.I.P USAID.

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While German politicians go for populist "we'll take anyone from Harvard" takes, Canadian universities set up tangible initiatives to attract PhD talent...

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Putting cyclists in jail sounds like a typical US reaction to anything…they probably also need to hire 1000 more NYPD cops & pay 200 million in additional overtime to „deal“ with the issue…

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👇🎯 These people will never stop trying to get rich by telling everyone they can learn & teach w/o doing the actual hard work of learning & teaching. They peddle fake alternatives to the hard daily grind of education because they're greedy & lazy. They're charlatans, & we should treat them as such.

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"Senegal loses $272-million a year to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing ... As jobs dry up, more Senegalese turn to migration. In 2024, nearly 64,000 irregular migrants from West Africa reached Spain: double the 2022 figure"

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One of the first things you learn for your German driver’s license is that children can be erratic on the street and you need to be prepared to break suddenly. Unless you are a 76-year old in a Jeep & the children are black.

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London-based Builder[.]ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its "AI-powered" app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers pretending to be artificial intelligence.

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"by drawing attention to the unusual presence of African workers on Russian assembly lines, they also raise troubling questions for African governments. Why are their citizens toiling at the heart of Vladimir Putin’s arms empire?" www.economist.com/middle-east-...

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"China and Europe are offering researchers money and stability"-not sure what kind of research the NYT did for this piece, but the figures for Europe tell a very, very different story when it comes to basic funding & long-term opportunities... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

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