Doctora Malka Older
@older.bsky.social
nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own
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Ça ne réduira pas le harcèlement, ni d’ailleurs le cyber harcèlement - pour ça il faut du personnel. Ça n’améliorera pas les relations entre ados - elles dépendent de bien d’autres choses à commencer par le fonctionnement propre du système scolaire.
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Ça ne réduira pas le harcèlement, ni d’ailleurs le cyber harcèlement - pour ça il faut du personnel. Ça n’améliorera pas les relations entre ados - elles dépendent de bien d’autres choses à commencer par le fonctionnement propre du système scolaire.
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Interdire les portables EN COURS quand l’enseignant le juge utile, oui bien sûr.
Interdire les portables dans l’enceinte de l’établissement, pourquoi faire ?
Interdire les portables dans l’enceinte de l’établissement, pourquoi faire ?
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Interdire les portables EN COURS quand l’enseignant le juge utile, oui bien sûr.
Interdire les portables dans l’enceinte de l’établissement, pourquoi faire ?
Interdire les portables dans l’enceinte de l’établissement, pourquoi faire ?
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Born OTD in 1757, English poet and visual artist William Blake. Here drawn by John Flaxman in around 1804.
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Born OTD in 1757, English poet and visual artist William Blake. Here drawn by John Flaxman in around 1804.
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If you’re going to shop today, buy a Sally Rooney novel while you still can. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
If you’re going to shop today, buy a Sally Rooney novel while you still can. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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#Pearly kings and queens of #London in their 150th year – photo essay - www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... amazing they still exist
Pearly kings and queens of London in their 150th year – photo essay
Photographer Owen Harvey explores belonging and identity in his work, and as the pearlies reach a major milestone, he decided to capture their traditions and discuss their future
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#Pearly kings and queens of #London in their 150th year – photo essay - www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... amazing they still exist
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L’artiste montréalais réunit la musique latino et le rap francophone sur un chaleureux album de duos.
Le coup de soleil de Cruzito
www.ledevoir.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
L’artiste montréalais réunit la musique latino et le rap francophone sur un chaleureux album de duos.
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...despite the critical role food plays in our daily existence - we all have to eat - we take it for granted to the point where investigating the forces that shape our food systems is considered ‘niche’.
🇧🇷 That + outcomes from Belém where food systems barely featured, led me to this week's issue.
🇧🇷 That + outcomes from Belém where food systems barely featured, led me to this week's issue.
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
...despite the critical role food plays in our daily existence - we all have to eat - we take it for granted to the point where investigating the forces that shape our food systems is considered ‘niche’.
🇧🇷 That + outcomes from Belém where food systems barely featured, led me to this week's issue.
🇧🇷 That + outcomes from Belém where food systems barely featured, led me to this week's issue.
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🥬🥒🍅 So food was in front of us, every single day, many times a day.
⁉️ And yet... I also had people come up to me and say something along the lines of, “The work you’re doing is so interesting. It’s also quite niche, isn’t it?”
🤔🤔🤔 I find it fascinating that....
⁉️ And yet... I also had people come up to me and say something along the lines of, “The work you’re doing is so interesting. It’s also quite niche, isn’t it?”
🤔🤔🤔 I find it fascinating that....
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🥬🥒🍅 So food was in front of us, every single day, many times a day.
⁉️ And yet... I also had people come up to me and say something along the lines of, “The work you’re doing is so interesting. It’s also quite niche, isn’t it?”
🤔🤔🤔 I find it fascinating that....
⁉️ And yet... I also had people come up to me and say something along the lines of, “The work you’re doing is so interesting. It’s also quite niche, isn’t it?”
🤔🤔🤔 I find it fascinating that....
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🫖 ☕ There were tea & coffee breaks with trays of veggie & non-veggie snacks, sweets, & more substantial eats.
🌯🍱🍜🍲 There were lunches - the obligatory long buffet table laden with dishes of meat, fish, veggies, & rice + individual stations serving one-dish meals + fruits and desserts.
🌯🍱🍜🍲 There were lunches - the obligatory long buffet table laden with dishes of meat, fish, veggies, & rice + individual stations serving one-dish meals + fruits and desserts.
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🫖 ☕ There were tea & coffee breaks with trays of veggie & non-veggie snacks, sweets, & more substantial eats.
🌯🍱🍜🍲 There were lunches - the obligatory long buffet table laden with dishes of meat, fish, veggies, & rice + individual stations serving one-dish meals + fruits and desserts.
🌯🍱🍜🍲 There were lunches - the obligatory long buffet table laden with dishes of meat, fish, veggies, & rice + individual stations serving one-dish meals + fruits and desserts.
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😊 Southeast Asian journalists, including yours truly, took the comments with grins & chests swelled with pride.
♨ “This is how we do it. We can’t let our guests go hungry.”
🍳 𓐐𓎩 There were morning sessions with beautiful quiches, bite-sized sandwiches, curry puffs, & an assortment of drinks.
♨ “This is how we do it. We can’t let our guests go hungry.”
🍳 𓐐𓎩 There were morning sessions with beautiful quiches, bite-sized sandwiches, curry puffs, & an assortment of drinks.
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
😊 Southeast Asian journalists, including yours truly, took the comments with grins & chests swelled with pride.
♨ “This is how we do it. We can’t let our guests go hungry.”
🍳 𓐐𓎩 There were morning sessions with beautiful quiches, bite-sized sandwiches, curry puffs, & an assortment of drinks.
♨ “This is how we do it. We can’t let our guests go hungry.”
🍳 𓐐𓎩 There were morning sessions with beautiful quiches, bite-sized sandwiches, curry puffs, & an assortment of drinks.
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✍🏻 I spent much of last week in a freezing cold conference centre, listening & talking to fellow investigative journalists. It was inspiring & exhilarating. Amusing too, whenever I keep hearing a common refrain.
🍝🍜👩🏻🍳🥘🤌🏻 “There’s so much food. They keep feeding us.”
news.thin-ink.net/publish/post...
🍝🍜👩🏻🍳🥘🤌🏻 “There’s so much food. They keep feeding us.”
news.thin-ink.net/publish/post...
Food, Climate, & Where They Meet…
Reflections from Kuala Lumpur and on Belém
news.thin-ink.net
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
✍🏻 I spent much of last week in a freezing cold conference centre, listening & talking to fellow investigative journalists. It was inspiring & exhilarating. Amusing too, whenever I keep hearing a common refrain.
🍝🍜👩🏻🍳🥘🤌🏻 “There’s so much food. They keep feeding us.”
news.thin-ink.net/publish/post...
🍝🍜👩🏻🍳🥘🤌🏻 “There’s so much food. They keep feeding us.”
news.thin-ink.net/publish/post...
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When Romani history & culture is not considered valuable, interesting or worthwhile racism can grow into policy like this.
There are no positions, prizes or fellowships specifically for Romani history in British universities.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
There are no positions, prizes or fellowships specifically for Romani history in British universities.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
New Slovenian law treats entire Romany minority ‘as a security threat’
Parliament approves law giving police powers to raid and surveil homes in what are demarcated as security risk areas
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
When Romani history & culture is not considered valuable, interesting or worthwhile racism can grow into policy like this.
There are no positions, prizes or fellowships specifically for Romani history in British universities.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
There are no positions, prizes or fellowships specifically for Romani history in British universities.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
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Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Climate finance has become a global arena of influence. China, now the world’s leading supplier of solar panels, batteries, and hydropower engineering, is increasingly central to this story. In South Asia, the question is not only whether climate finance will arrive, but who defines the terms."
The green fault line: The Global North, China, and the politics of climate finance in South Asia
“As right-leaning governments gain power, the willingness to spend on climate mitigation or on assistance to developing countries is declining.”
globalvoices.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"Climate finance has become a global arena of influence. China, now the world’s leading supplier of solar panels, batteries, and hydropower engineering, is increasingly central to this story. In South Asia, the question is not only whether climate finance will arrive, but who defines the terms."
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Morgan Stanley fined €101 million for avoiding Dutch tax www.dutchnews.nl?p=260539
Morgan Stanley fined €101 million for avoiding Dutch tax
www.dutchnews.nl
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Morgan Stanley fined €101 million for avoiding Dutch tax www.dutchnews.nl?p=260539
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Thinking about this during this season of recommendation letters xkcd.com/773/
University Website
xkcd.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Thinking about this during this season of recommendation letters xkcd.com/773/
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Would it kill somebody to say “Nancy is not stupid.” It pains me to see the WH press corps just accept the abuse. Sends the wrong image to Americans and the world IMHO.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Would it kill somebody to say “Nancy is not stupid.” It pains me to see the WH press corps just accept the abuse. Sends the wrong image to Americans and the world IMHO.
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for all the other language nerds loving on this post... one of the reasons I joined @globalvoices.org was because of the multilingual reporting, powered by @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social. go to the home page globalvoices.org and check out this list of languages at the top -each with its own page!
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
for all the other language nerds loving on this post... one of the reasons I joined @globalvoices.org was because of the multilingual reporting, powered by @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social. go to the home page globalvoices.org and check out this list of languages at the top -each with its own page!
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The last year hasn't been easy on plucky little sites like Momentum. If you've enjoyed what we are trying to do, creating community, telling stories and shining a light on smart living by bicycle, we hope you consider this message. #GivingTuesday
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Pedaling Forward: A Giving Tuesday Message From Momentum Magazine
In 2026, Momentum will be celebrating a milestone that feels both surreal and deeply gratifying: our 25th anniversary.
momentummag.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The last year hasn't been easy on plucky little sites like Momentum. If you've enjoyed what we are trying to do, creating community, telling stories and shining a light on smart living by bicycle, we hope you consider this message. #GivingTuesday
momentummag.com/pedaling-for...
momentummag.com/pedaling-for...
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They had to list so many ways to not use it to 'protect people, respect privacy, keep minors safe, empower people' that it's obvious there are so many scary plausible outcomes of product use. All burden is shifted onto the users w/o the company having to create a product w in-built safeguards.
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
They had to list so many ways to not use it to 'protect people, respect privacy, keep minors safe, empower people' that it's obvious there are so many scary plausible outcomes of product use. All burden is shifted onto the users w/o the company having to create a product w in-built safeguards.
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out on Tuesday! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
out on Tuesday! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
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Coming VERY SOON (tuesday)! WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about activism that @cxorlando.bsky.social called "An incredibly important book" - pre-order now!
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Marshall Jones (American Artist, born 1980)
"Family Portrait", 2021.
Oil on Copper Panel, 35.6 × 27.9 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Family Portrait", 2021.
Oil on Copper Panel, 35.6 × 27.9 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Marshall Jones (American Artist, born 1980)
"Family Portrait", 2021.
Oil on Copper Panel, 35.6 × 27.9 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Family Portrait", 2021.
Oil on Copper Panel, 35.6 × 27.9 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt