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smokegatherer.bsky.social
Head of Digital Trace at Canada's Media Ecosystem Observatory meo.ca Author at No Starch Press nostarch.com/social-media-observatory القصة هي الحياة التي ما كانت و الحياة هي القصة التي ما رويت
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📢 مجتمع التحقق العربي في مؤتمر #RightsCon2025! يسرنا الإعلان عن مشاركتنا في مؤتمر @rightscon.org في جلسة افتراضية. @abdelrahman.bsky.social @monashtaya.bsky.social @alsayyad.bsky.social @michatobia.bsky.social @smokegatherer.bsky.social @timep.bsky.social

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📢 Arabi Facts Hub at #RightsCon2025! We’re excited to invite you to our online session at Rightscon 2025! @abdelrahman.bsky.social @monashtaya.bsky.social @alsayyad.bsky.social @michatobia.bsky.social @smokegatherer.bsky.social @timep.bsky.social

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"a lot of automation relies on leveraging convenience. AI summaries do very little to help us learn how to listen... The short-cut on the switchback, the summary of the meeting so you don’t have to go, and in the process, you don’t have to engage with the mess that is a bigger set of relations."

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

This episode is now unlocked on all platforms. I learned a hell of a lot from these brilliant folks. And their courage inspired me to stop self-censoring about what I think is going wrong on the left. Highly recommend supporting The Fire These Times and the whole From the Periphery network.

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

Interviewed @naomiaklein.bsky.social about, well, a lot thefirethesetimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

Wicked proud of Alexei! He’s been working so hard to create this code and write this book: nostarch.com/social-media... Get early access today! @smokegatherer.bsky.social

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Read every word of this eloquent and thoughtful intervention by @smokegatherer.bsky.social on structural versus kinetic violence in occupied Palestine: www.972mag.com/structural-v...

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A moving excerpt from Adam Shatz’s new biography of Frantz Fanon (h/t @smokegatherer.bsky.social):

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Great podcast on how to think about violence in Palestinian context, with Dana El Kurd, Diana Greenwald and Alexei Abrahams open.spotify.com/episode/05Nd...

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www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... what an eloquent and insightful essay. It was a relief to read after the past few weeks 👏🏽

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My new piece in Foreign Affairs: An Invasion of Gaza Will Be A Disaster and Biden Should Stop It. It’s not dark yet but it’s getting there. www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...

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This part of the picture at the moment is receiving almost no coverage www.972mag.com/settler-atta...

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Chotiner interview with Tareq Baconi, the president of the board of the think tank Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

submitted 506 days ago • 1 comment

"I maintain that there are crimes of abundance and there are crimes of hunger, and we have not only brought Gaza to the brink of starvation, we have brought it to a state of collapse...How much security did we get? Where will another round of revenge take us?" amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Please watch and listen to Noura Erakat. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

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@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Could you help me spread the word about this reading list I curate for the Palestinian fantasy, sci-fi, and other speculative genre works (with links of where to find and support the authors? soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

submitted 509 days ago • 2 comments

I am not a Middle East expert, but @dbgreenwald.bsky.social is. I really appreciate her insights (& reminders of facts/ numbers) here, and can only recommend following her.

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