Beyond his generosity in sharing his analysis with people worldwide, I really want to know Micah's origin story! I love to learn about the movements that shaped different activists in their youth. I can't wait until the book arrives.

I have learned *so much* from @msifry.bsky.social's nuanced, informed, realistically optimistic thinking on the biggest conflicts humanity has faced the past few years. He shares it all for free on his Substack, so his book is an immediate order for me: micahsifry.com/books/whendo...

This project is #goals for anyone working on AI, computing, and environment: insightful research on an urgent matter, extremely compelling choice of case studies in the global majority, and beautifulllllll grabado/print illustrations. The women behind it are a dream team. tramas.digital/es/

In February, @404media.co did a piece on the overwhelming amount of AI Slop in public library vendor Hoopla Digital. They promised to clean up their platform, but just this morning I went looking and easily found a self-publishing house pushing shoddy health content by a fake author.

Today in dream job alerts, the International Spy Museum is hiring a historian: www.spymuseum.org/about/career...

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

Today I met someone. As I age, this feeling becomes more and more rare, but today I felt it strongly in my heart: it is the beginning of a long friendship. And I wish I could tell introvert teen me about it.

Thanks to the miracle that is our elementary school special ed teacher, Fat Bear Week has been an important event in my family life, and the kids screamed when they saw the news they had been awaiting:

CHUNK WON! Or, as NYT reported it, "All of the Bears Were Fat, but Chunk Was the Fattest of All"

Here is the thing that all the US libs (and deluded libs-who-think-they're-leftists) who stan Claudia: you cannot support Morena and also the Zapatistas, or the Ayotzinapa families, or the searching mothers of the disappeared, because Morena is against them

My best advice for parents re: harmful content: show genuine interest in the stuff your kid is watching and doing online.

Let them talk your ear off about Minecraft and Roblox and the funny video they just watched. Make them feel excited to share with you, vs making them feel ashamed or judged

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The UK Prime Minister has announced plans for a new mandatory digital ID scheme for anyone who wants to work in the UK.

The initiative is being pitched as a way to control borders - we fail to see how the two are linked.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Insightful research on #surveillance in Peru by Hiperderecho documenting the legal framework, FOIA limitations, and especially a list of cases kept secret by the government (starts in p60). [In Spanish, pdf link]: hiperderecho.org/wp-content/u... Tagging @surveillancemw.bsky.social

This is some great public writing on #surveillance. The illustrations, the narrative. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This week, I published with the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing on the History of Misinformation-at-Scale and Efforts to Mitigate it.

It’s very relevant to today’s discourse on media consolidation, academic freedom, and the power elite.

FREE TO READ!

drive.google.com/file/d/1Klg9...

(Though honestly I'm convinced I will die of a heart attack caused by the seismic alerts.) Still, on September 19, 2017, I learned I'm from the place where 'land gets pulled apart, yet people pull together.' Where everyone paused their lives to do right by the neighbors they didn't yet know.

The hardest week of my life was 8 years ago today, when Mexico City was torn by an earthquake. (I was in the US, diagnosed with cancer a month later, which oddly wasn't as devastating!)

By now, my displaced friends are back home. The vestiges of destruction are fewer, farther in between.

Australian Spy Museum Featured Artefact this week are beautiful vintage spy film posters - note the French "Espionne" for female spy.

We're also looking at running an exhibit in Sydney where this art is displayed alongside vintage spy-tech. Stay tuned, and let us know if interested in sponsoring 😀

Sacaron a otra mujer trans de los vagones de mujeres del metro de CDMX. Más allá de que esto muestra que el gobierno local no ha dado capacitación (y que los activismos vendidos ya nunca dicen nada), en verdad espero que quepa la prudencia en ciertas compañeras que solo han entorpecido esta lucha.

Great links on @accessnow.org 's newsletter. Info on the internet shutdown in Nepal www.bbc.com/news/article.... Silicon Valley's role in digital cages in China apnews.com/article/chin... . And @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social 's work on the global spyware market www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

Welp. "Microsoft said on Saturday that its Microsoft Azure users may experience increased latency due to multiple undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Just announced: @who.int is ending the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) over the spread of #mpox in Africa. It was declared in August 2024. (AfricaCDC has announced it remains a Continental Emergency.)
#IDsky 🧪

Guadalajara, home to more than 1,000 tech companies, is sometimes called Mexico’s Silicon Valley. It hosts four World Cup games next year.

Thanks to CJNG, It’s also ground zero for a national crisis: The abduction of tens of thousands of young people – many to work for the cartels

wapo.st/422J9Cs

¿Cuántos hogares en México están rotos por la desaparición forzada de un ser querido? 💔

De acuerdo con datos de la ENVIPE, 1 de cada 729 hogares reporta la desaparición forzada de un familiar en 2023. La tasa más alta desde 2014 y el doble en 7 años 📈.

Hoy publicamos nuestro #DatitoExplicado 💡.