It's syllabus season & I'm shamelessly plugging some of my work for your consideration.
If you teach:
Communication
Media studies
Digital sociology
Media anthropology
Youth digital cultures
so courses at the intersection of media, technology & society, include in readings...
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Uttar Pradesh: FIR Filed Against 22-Year-Old for Recording Poor Conditions at Government School
“They don’t want us to show their failures and shortcomings,” said Gaurav Bharti, who is a student at Kannauj Degree College, reports @omar7rashid.
https://t.co/fH1zDt9teP
In case you wanna know how far back I’ve been yelling into the void, it goes much farther than that :) you can read all about it in my upcoming book which you can preorder at https://t.co/vH5svG637N
Companies replacing junior roles with AI and then wondering why they can't find senior talent in five years is going to be the most predictable crisis in hiring history.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to visit New York City to address the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, September 24, 2026. He will arrive directly by plane. You've got till the 24th to organize a protest or travel to New York to join one.
Calling a forest “undeveloped land” is such a strange way to describe it.
Nothing is undeveloped about it. It is an ecosystem doing exactly what it is supposed to do.
I just want to point out… the amount of money the U.S. has spent on war in the last 2.5 months is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never ‘can we afford it’… it’s what we choose to prioritize.
Burkina Faso has undertaken a drastic
Transformation of its educational system and text books.
Text book are no longer referring to the imperialist that entered the shores of Africa as explorers, but rather as invaders.
Calling things their proper names, is a significant necessary step in the decolonization process, and Burkina Faso is taking that step with pride and confidence.
“This is an opinion column. It usually runs to 1,000 words. Eight hundred of them have been spent naming ordinary things Israel has illegally denied the people of Gaza. I could fill another column and still not exhaust the list.”
~Colin Sheridan
Irish Examiner
"Underage girls testing positive for pregnancy at detention centers."
Let me fix that for you.
“ICE officers are raping little girls in detention centers.”
There you go.
Trump has now banned CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO from entering the White House grounds.
That’s not all. He is threatening that more news organizations who criticize him, including the New York Times and Washington Post, will be next.
Why? Because when demagogues like Trump are in trouble they want to control the flow of information and silence media that might hold them accountable.
We will not allow Trump to undermine the First Amendment, the Constitution and our democracy.
We will not accept authoritarianism.
Fight back.