2021-09-01 12:37:54 Reading about Rwanda, I’m haunted by: -the multi million $ diaspora funding networks of ill fated pogroms fueled by generational disconnects + mythologies weaponized by elites -intelligence networks and journalism that become indistinguishable -the ubiquity of Gérard Prunier 2021-09-01 12:09:58 haunting https://t.co/v5pE3z8gUu 2021-09-01 02:06:23 @HornAnarchists no, this is wrong. Enemy combatants are security forces engaged in armed conflict. Eritrean refugees are people trying to escape from a state they didn’t choose. “re-oriented” is code word for re education camps,an orwellian device that is no better or distinct from Isais himself 2021-09-01 01:30:45 @HornAnarchists you regularly advocate on behalf of Tigrayans who are being treated like enemy combatants in order to justify the genocide but then you periodically imply Eritreans are enemy combatants… 2021-09-01 01:10:50 this cartoon < 2021-09-01 01:07:57 @HornAnarchists Respectfully, every couple of weeks you say of inflammatory things like this ie death to Eritrea-people try to figure out if you misspoke because you seem like a decent person outside of these flare ups but at a certain point, it’s like are you ok or? b/c this is not anarchism 2021-09-01 00:32:18 academia be like 27 publications: 22 were written by students, 4 were theses stolen from non white people and one was the last original idea they had 2021-09-01 00:29:20 just a small insight into academia, most awards have no competitors so people have shit like humanitarian of the year on their cv because no one else was nominated 2021-09-01 00:19:16 tldr i’m alive with wonder yet numbed by the intellectual architect-ing of the status quo. I’m desiring something more than what we have now, and more than populist sloganeering for a dramatic re-inclusion into new forms of conquest 2021-09-01 00:15:59 i’m not a philistine. I love love reading and learning < 2021-09-01 00:13:47 academia, non profits, civic society, IGOs are stick up kids mostly without heart, fighting over citations and clout while the world burns. Analysis + intellectual life is important, there’s a couple PhDs doing they thing too- but a lot of scholars don’t have institutional cred 2021-09-01 00:07:15 someone hmu recently to ask if i brand my twitter as well as my projects. if you follow me, you may not know my cv or the institutional accolades i have and that’s intentional b/c academia is the emperor with no clothes. 2021-08-31 21:09:32 RT @hcdeUW: In a new summer program led by HCDE Prof. @suchetaghoshal and @UpFromTheCracks, a global cohort explored designing tools and te… 2021-08-31 16:19:24 What is the adjective that describes the fascist’s relationship to language? imho english is trash but this thesaurus as bible, predictive text generated, refusal to use spell check, stream of consciousness is just such a niche sport. the header image tho is chef’s kiss https://t.co/TGPkopDBEo 2021-08-31 16:11:42 omg this GLEAN adjacent statement on the african intellectual open letter has me in shambles. parody on parody prevails https://t.co/rSlKBdkSk2 2021-08-31 15:52:38 RT @balagonline: i don’t believe in counting up all the terrible things happening as further “proof” of whatever i’m thinking. people are d… 2021-08-31 15:42:16 @ubiquity75 executive class but also like office space landlords must be dying for this kind of framing 2021-08-31 14:53:49 Investigations of child maltreatment by foster parents, acs employees or any facilities contracted out by ACs are conducted by a separate division (OSI) and the numbers are not included in publicly disclosed datasets 2021-08-31 14:53:48 must read from Richard Wexler, also the irony of these invented statistics is they never include the rate of child fatality and physical abuse which is exponentially higher in foster homes and facilities operated by child welfare agencies. https://t.co/K42x8Daop9 2021-08-31 14:41:48 @f_bott the west hates kids and imho even our most critical Black theorists think school is glorified daycare where teachers just try to keep the crayon eating to a minimum so shit be loud racist and unexamined imho 2021-08-31 14:06:38 ok last one, the #SafeSleep initiative doesn’t get enough play as one of the most villainous initiatives pushed by ACS. Not even b/c co-sleeping is a culturally determined practice etc etc but b/c it’s whole objective is to include beds and sleeping as a valid site of policing https://t.co/stFjLMviOy 2021-08-31 13:59:46 @LeahAtWhatPrice lmaoo 2021-08-31 13:59:13 #DYK @ACSNYC loves to math wash the family regulation system. I swear their survey budget could fund a small nation state https://t.co/DnDGH1yvuJ 2021-08-31 13:36:54 Only @ACSNYC would unironically put a picture of a Black baby screaming as they get snatched up to advertise their “prevention” surveillance network https://t.co/2F9dLD7LRm 2021-08-31 13:27:22 @NYCHA lol a new pilot program, giving people the same schedule every week 2021-08-31 13:19:52 Ethiopia has been and continues to be, and international product: “The latest allocation [of $408 million] is the highest made to Ethiopia since the IMF approved a 2.9-billion-dollar loan in 2019” https://t.co/GEFJBSD9qE 2021-08-31 13:00:40 thank you @MARspidermonkey for writing this, whole family now reading in horror. Imagine how many kids are being socialized into worshipping Dian Fossey because nobody reads these grade school type magazine 2021-08-31 12:49:59 Omg i just read this essay in full h/t @KStackWhitney Dian Fossey v much lionized in @Kazoomagazine as a feminist idol, tortured, whipped and brutalized Black people in Central Africa in the name of anti-poaching. https://t.co/Ofipexh2dy 2021-08-31 12:33:10 **hole but you know the hole is also the void in which all are supposed be defined by whiteness aka the whole so freudian slip 2021-08-31 12:11:48 and there’s more on Dian Fossey yikes https://t.co/73b6z8NxVf 2021-08-31 12:10:11 Paging @ErinBried https://t.co/3nochWo0aK 2021-08-31 12:06:31 Does this not sum up everything: never named Black man carries white explorer out of a whole she fell down into, text shares her emotional state. in story about her saving Gorillas wtf @Kazoomagazine https://t.co/FicDtpZYxS https://t.co/0q3vWTpvOP 2021-08-31 11:57:22 i am deceaseddddd at this made in Brooklyn, printed in Vermont recycled paper icing on the hipster safari cake https://t.co/f82K6cMoPv https://t.co/2tZalgYCaK 2021-08-31 11:55:47 oh no no, there’s a whole comic. @Kazoomagazine please explain what in the “indie feminist” colonialism is this? https://t.co/upTwobzfY9 2021-08-31 11:55:39 Helping People, SavIng Gorillas: “Our brave founder, Dian Fossey, knew that gorillas need human help to survive the future.” optics of white women saving gorillas aside, dead at why does this sound like everyone’s militia press releases- https://t.co/i08hXGDWEj https://t.co/reAvmHzfU7 2021-08-31 11:55:38 This looks anodyne enough but now i’m being asked to navigate to https://t.co/bV25nmkpWc on the way to school- https://t.co/tAv9gzau3D 2021-08-31 11:55:36 Parenting be like oh let me encourage my daughters curiosity and get her a subscription to a kids magazine, aww look at a non white character on the cover. hmm “The Wild” issue- https://t.co/KbdzpvfoJC 2021-08-31 11:31:55 I wasn’t ready for the evangelical take on biometrics, please indulge yourself with some Prophecy News Watch https://t.co/RyN5rWANpi 2021-08-31 10:56:03 @f_bott Happy birthday ! 2021-08-31 10:13:40 @ProfDancy 2021-08-30 23:39:29 having nightmares, i wish and wonder what it’s like to just study 13th century provenance literature or something so abstracted away and non visceral- to be occupied by idle curiosity 2021-08-30 23:10:50 the prefix “de-“ means to remove which maybe is why decolonial discourse seeks to rid the evidence and anti-colonial opposes or fights against colonization 2021-08-30 23:03:46 also on the mark, the #HoA record repeats… https://t.co/bY0f72erca 2021-08-30 18:19:35 @UngratefulAdopt yeah it’s for real an apartheid now, because even my son with multiple disabilities-his school worked with them in months for remote to prepare for mask wearing, there’s 8 kids in the class, social distancing with extra space etc. 2021-08-30 17:23:12 @UngratefulAdopt i feel you, they were home pretty much until May 2021 but we’re privileged to have access to schools where I feel safe sending them now (small classes, mandatory vax for those of age, weekly testing etc) 2021-08-30 16:04:16 @Skaitama girl no character being assassinated this is my cry for help lotta hours to be filled 2021-08-30 16:03:39 random factoid: Nancy Spungen and i got sent to the same place around the same age (3 decades a part) 2021-08-30 15:57:01 throwback to first quarter pandemic, still got 5 kids in 5 schools, still hustling but thank god for vaccines, in person school and a bigger place https://t.co/JYlWV9m7xu 2021-08-30 15:55:29 like 2.5 weeks before school starts starts, come hang out with me and my kids https://t.co/sgAZz6O0OI 2021-08-30 14:46:40 an imperial logic that animates the separation and surveillance of families whether war on terror or war on drugs https://t.co/PPMVjUlKRi 2021-08-30 13:17:51 @hypervisible the thing i can’t stop thinking about from @ShwangsNarayan book is how middle Brahmins would send their lower caste servants to activate their phones with biometrics internet their behalf-the apartheid of it all 2021-08-30 13:15:43 @hypervisible shrug been worked for unhcr 2021-08-30 13:13:49 “It’s really easy to paint this [APPS] as exceptional,” says Kak, who co-edited a book on global biometric policies. It “seems to have a lot of continuity with global experiences” around biometrics.” https://t.co/XZLbpxvgWL 2021-08-30 12:46:04 I know DRC looking at us like https://t.co/uYkdjQfEG5 2021-08-30 12:43:28 https://t.co/yoeKbG945T wild b/c tutsi refugees brought musveni to power, were given top appointments in his government then were fired due to xenophobic resentment, one of the fired was Ugandan intelligence officer, Paul Kagame who leads the RPF to overthrow Habyarimana https://t.co/PloOTBguPi 2021-08-30 12:27:55 RT @jathansadowski: So IBM provided computation for the holocaust, HP did the same for apartheid, Facebook did the same for genocide in Myn… 2021-08-30 12:27:18 @solomonmissouri deceased https://t.co/FtcBUz9Ym5 2021-08-30 11:44:43 Very interested in putting together a citizens tribunal to investigate the rate of removal of Black children by NYC ACS in the 1990s ever since reading Kurt Mundorff’s book. Can anyone direct me to similar tribunals that were not operated by the state? https://t.co/qjQDvGXgqE 2021-08-30 11:38:18 @liberatetigray thank you!! 2021-08-30 11:38:04 @BellumPaxBR thank you!! 2021-08-30 11:37:54 @HornAnarchists thank you!! 2021-08-30 11:28:24 it’s my baby first day of first grade, hair on fleek. i wish twitter was less fascist so i could spam you with her gorgeousness and excitement 2021-08-29 23:50:47 dear god, no stanning Mengistu, the derg or red terror either. you cannot fight fascism with fascism or post modernism or bitcoin? things i didn’t realize we needed to go over, yeesh 2021-08-29 23:41:50 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 You’re contesting an argument i’m not making. I honestly can’t understand how you’re endorsing the derg and zenawi in the same breath as calling out the terror -they developed the capacity for- being operationalized in Tigray. imho that’s totally contradictory and wild 2021-08-29 23:24:44 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 @BellumPaxBR this is a non sequitur homie, you know v well that i do not and have never justified the genocide in tigray. We can condemn Abiy Ahmed, amhara extremists and not whitewash the derg or zenawi 2021-08-29 23:15:15 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 @BellumPaxBR I’ve been condemning Abiy, OPDO and the genocide from jump- as well as all attempts to present Tigrayans as enemy combatants. I cannot speak for all Oromos but the condemnation has to extend to atrocities committed prior to this regime. 2021-08-29 23:07:04 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 @BellumPaxBR omg i do appreciate your 35 tweet threads at times but @Galaxy2Galaxy5 i will not ever ever, ever ever, be endorsing the derg or zenawi. or downplaying their harm/torture/etc etc. that’s the most i can muster on a sunday but please stop now 2021-08-29 23:05:00 Just want to make clear from now until the end times: Zenawi laid the groundwork for the horror we find ourselves in as much as Abiy Ahmed who rose up in his ranks. I’m so far removed from the Zenawi stan club i don’t get it but happy to share a syllabus on why to let it go https://t.co/bKi5XPuGvV 2021-08-29 22:49:08 @BellumPaxBR **sorry above was saying about what I think is needed in Ethiopia based off of reflecting on Rwanda just to clarify 2021-08-29 22:48:12 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 @BellumPaxBR Reading about the international community’s support for Kagame, definitely makes me think about support for Zenawi at the same time period i’ll tell you that much. I know the stories to justify both v well, we can do better, the stake are too high for us to be uncritical 2021-08-29 22:45:33 @BellumPaxBR that’s the million dollar question. idk but reading about Rwanda, i think it has to be a combination of reparations for descendants of slaves, state subsidies for all poor, citizen tribunals for atrocities across regimes and federalism to mandate recognition and regional autonomy 2021-08-29 22:32:37 @BellumPaxBR I don’t have enough fluency to comment on Brazil but it’s concerning to me in the HoA context that i definitely see a kind of cross partisan willingness among diaspora or westerners to endorse policies we’d reject for ourselves on the basis of simplistic and paternal dichotomies 2021-08-29 22:29:44 reflecting on what outsized influence those of us who are diaspora have, especially if affiliated w/ academic institutions, expertise or financial influence- for better or worse, silent complicit, wrong, or clear eyed analysis, we’re in it. To whom much is given, much is expected 2021-08-29 22:18:58 @BellumPaxBR I think it’s complicated v specifically because the ‘94 genocide didn’t happen in a vacuum and the truth is less palatable than the villain/hero stories marketed to us but just to be clear, i don’t think anyone deserves despotism administered by Belgian, Tutsi, Hutu or otherwise 2021-08-29 22:12:09 @BellumPaxBR That tracks, i think it’s easy for people to justify the barrel of the gun when it’s not at their own heads (and given gold stars by intl community). I’ll add I’m both horrified by Kagame, the RPF and elites of the oppressed- def multiple registers and intensities to process 2021-08-29 22:01:13 @delabunna Just finished Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace by Susan Thomson, and just starting Do Not Disturb by Michela Wrong https://t.co/GPLhdychJ7 2021-08-29 21:49:37 I’m being a little vague b/c i don’t feel like dealing with a whole new set of trolls but imho go through everybody’s fascists, the humanitarian stuff, the critical scholarship- the key competing claims-Rwanda was a canary in the mine we should have understood in more depth 2021-08-29 21:47:29 I really think #Oromo, #Tigray and #Amhara, #SNNPR have to go through the scholarship on Rwanda ‘73 to the present. There’s v direct historic parallels + a complicated reckoning to be had with the role of diaspora and the failure of elites who seek state capture at any cost 2021-08-29 21:25:13 Making my way through Rwanda scholarship- haunted by the parallels to the sequence of events in Ethiopia which exceed the shallow invocation of machete images-if anything it’s the complex consequences of state sanctioned unity, memory making and refusal to offer accountability 2021-08-29 20:54:34 RT @TejNagaraja: RIP #GailOmvedt — scholar + activist on caste, religion, gender, social movements Died in India, age 80 — survived by Bha… 2021-08-29 14:49:28 RT @nit_set: In our investigation, we found the Gujarat govt had lied and understated the pandemic toll by over 27 times. You can read it i… 2021-08-29 12:26:47 the lost baby poem - lucille clifton https://t.co/bTu9MloMsp 2021-08-28 19:50:45 @taoleighgoffe it sounds like you need a book contract @DukePress 2021-08-28 14:32:06 RT @AjeebAurat: 2) Mignolo and MANY other scholars based in the 'West' (including non white ones) make no effort in understanding the actua… 2021-08-28 14:31:37 Can everyone in #AIEthics #TechPolicy please read this because half these barons of social justice are hindutva or other genres of supremacist ideology repackaged as feminists and decolonial scholars https://t.co/PmDX62ufIH 2021-08-28 13:55:06 @BellumPaxBR I mean detailed critiques of Pinker are widely available but just to give you sense of how he’s approached medical experimentation in another context here’s a passage reviewing his latest book https://t.co/JVKsmXName https://t.co/XLHoAWcPdm 2021-08-28 13:44:31 This authoritative vantage point through which white disciples of enlightenment jeer and anthropologically examine the QAnon circus while wholly unable or unwilling to examine their own set of beliefs mired in colonialism- 2021-08-28 13:29:53 The desire to frame+ obsess over QAnon as a site of disinformation comes from the same white episteme that unironically refers to eugenicist Steven Pinker as a paladin aka [white] knight of rationality i swear the vacuousness of the Mis/Disinfo field is rivaled only by AI Ethics https://t.co/uQMeyZY9KP 2021-08-28 13:04:06 RT @FBedaso: Wow the powerful visuals in this video-the clip of the guy fishing that tiny dress out of the water undid me I dedicate the… 2021-08-28 12:38:21 https://t.co/7HIiuhqG0l 2021-08-28 00:53:10 @EremiasWmikael @mrubin1971 @BillKristol I’m despairing atm but i wouldn’t quite say the choices are American Enterprise Institute or Tankies. This is like saying it’s Neamin or death lol. 2021-08-28 00:41:17 @EremiasWmikael question of our lives, idk if there’s just one but i don’t think neocon is gonna be the exit ramp lol 2021-08-28 00:34:04 @EremiasWmikael there’s a many roads between fatal liberalisms and fascism my friend 2021-08-28 00:25:18 Have been more affected than usual by the moral and analytical impotence of academia but s/o to the lyrical scholars holding it down. @AmanSium just put me onto Faytinga, please comment/dm with any other HoA https://t.co/mUMmDng48Y 2021-08-27 21:42:51 @ThaAyantu @ChiwaraLetty as much as the “reasonable” would like to relegate us as pesky irrational sites of Black on Black generational violence. 2021-08-27 21:42:33 @ThaAyantu @ChiwaraLetty there’s no short cut where “all ethiopians” and all “african intellectuals” unite to push the “neutral” AU to make the Prosperity Party give peace a chance 2021-08-27 21:30:05 Thank you @mer__edith for this desperately needed analysis, cutting through the pitty pat, all consuming, ethics laundering, never changing anything about injustice but always profiting from and sucking up our time, play acting at social justice that is tech policy TLDR: Get em’ https://t.co/8cQwMk5O6i 2021-08-27 19:23:14 RT @frankhersey: Quite a 24hrs for Facebook: First South Korea fines it $5.5m for privacy issues, bans it from handling ID numbers without… 2021-08-27 16:00:18 we need good medemer to fight bad medemer: a story of lost plots 2021-08-27 15:55:49 Liberalism is a helluva drug 2021-08-27 15:10:16 RT @ThaAyantu: And the archives of abuses, deaths and destruction testify to this 2021-08-27 15:09:36 The intensity of violence and torture is always preceded by the federal government’s refusal to allow political recognition, decimation of media infrastructure and facilitated by a weak judiciary that cannot serve as a mechanism for justice or accountability. https://t.co/yBJSI7Gnmz 2021-08-27 15:04:57 The Ethiopian government’s response to requests for investigation into alleged rights abuses is to state that the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) can carry out such investigations, but EHRC investigations have generally not met the most basic standards of impartiality https://t.co/86lALkVOc4 2021-08-27 15:02:29 “The cycle of torture, humiliating treatment, overcrowding, inadequate food, sleep deprivation, and lack of health care in Jail Ogaden is consistent with the government’s long-standing collective punishment of people who are perceived to support the ONLF.” 2021-08-27 15:02:28 re-reading “We are Like the Dead” Torture and other Human Rights Abuses in Jail Ogaden, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia(Every TW imaginable) how the founder of an intelligence agency overseeing all of this was ever presented as a reformer is wild https://t.co/UIyQ2vh1ic 2021-08-27 13:31:04 bookmarking to read later #Biometrics collection on Afghanistan and Iraq https://t.co/01jUHS0y6l 2021-08-27 13:29:41 https://t.co/kgUZg81H7s 2021-08-27 13:09:49 @JMacForFamilies I’d submit a petition in court requesting the records (more for documentation sake because you already know how that goes) Then I'd make a complaint to the justice center which will compel the doctor even if the agency doesn't care https://t.co/hcB6LsUAqL 2021-08-27 12:59:53 @JMacForFamilies 1000% agree that foster care loves to medicate kids for the trauma that they induce. I think the parents having access to information about which meds are being prescribed and how they work can only empower them in the fight to demand justice. 2021-08-27 12:53:48 @JMacForFamilies If i was the parent, I’d request a copy of all evaluations that made the diagnoses these medications are prescribed for, a copy of clinical notes showing when each drug was prescribed, side effects etc. Also if the child is 4 vs 14, makes a big difference here 2021-08-27 12:51:23 @JMacForFamilies Poly-pharmacy is a big problem in foster care, not because kids never need medication-psychiatric or otherwise-but because interactions are higher with multiple classes of drugs and clinician turnover is high so meds are often added rather than optimized. 2021-08-27 12:49:18 @JMacForFamilies Parents should have a say and be informed of medical treatment but they’re not mind control: -Demopressin is to stop bed wetting -Methylphenidate is a stimulant for ADHD -Abilify is an atypical antipsychotic -Lexapro is an anti anxiety med/ssri 2021-08-27 12:43:05 @IBJIYONGI @Ethnography911 @keguro_ tbf, because US health care is trash, using veterinary versions of medication is very common and often equivalent to say antibiotics for humans but available w/o an Rx. That said the ivermectin craze is rooted in a deeper covid conspiracy theory/denial wormhole 2021-08-27 12:35:30 This: Without a clear understanding of Hindutva ideology, orgs are likely to see both the critique and defence of Hindutva as merely two positions in an internal squabble within the Hindu-American and diasporic Hindu communities, one that they would prefer to stay clear of. https://t.co/1XZ9XZELvu 2021-08-27 12:25:16 RT @ruchowdh: This is happening here. Now. To people like me. 2021-08-27 12:23:48 “For years, the Hindu Right has benefited from a general lack of awareness about Hindutva in American academia and American society at large.” 90s multiculturalism + Diversity committees have basically elevated everybody’s colonial administrators as freedom fighters https://t.co/GCcVEXv4K3 2021-08-27 12:19:00 Extremely helpful and accessibly written piece on how Hindutva ideologues weaponize social justice language and notions of free speech in order to paint critique of Hindu fascism as Hinduphobia. Please read! https://t.co/YYRlgb2lXv 2021-08-27 11:52:06 nothing like facial recognition to help Black people feel safer dating white men?? https://t.co/e2NNT0QZy5 2021-08-27 11:45:28 @PatrickWight1 @curateoromia and most of the world does not know how Ethiopia was formed so its a successful project 2021-08-27 11:12:48 RT @Strandjunker: JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both… 2021-08-27 11:11:23 RT @Habesh_: NEW WORLD: This Video Game Is Turning the Pandemic Jobless Into Crypto Traders! Axie recorded around $30 million worth of Ethe… 2021-08-27 01:31:18 Important addendum is the UNHCR shares biometric data for all refugees referred for settlement in the US, even if they never step foot in this country https://t.co/DCAlh930re https://t.co/4UUm5q6zzq https://t.co/Dv8kUrGVeS 2021-08-27 00:50:51 slowly realizing that uncle twitter thinks hashtags are exclamation points and am screaming 2021-08-27 00:02:04 RT @JMacForFamilies: TICKETS https://t.co/TOZVdWdt8G are now available for JMacForFamilies 1st annual fundraiser with Keynote speaker @Doro… 2021-08-27 00:02:00 RT @DorothyERoberts: I can’t wait to celebrate @JMacForFamilies and to support its vital work to keep families together & 2021-08-26 23:43:47 RT @DeqiWoldeMikel: Can't believe the news about Wedi Gebru. What a loss. A piece of Eritrean history in of himself. May he RIP. His last… 2021-08-26 21:28:59 what is the origin of the press memo speak? It feels white aspirant but no white people have spoken like this besides idk monty python 2021-08-26 20:18:38 Truth matters, facts matter, narratives matter- whether the discourse or the state subscribes to logic or not, I will not be busying myself playing ouji board with anecdotes and affect like it’s all a game. 2021-08-26 20:14:46 i will not now or in the future engage with the tiny morsels of propaganda galavanting as reporting while the state continues to keep most of the population without access to media, the internet, a fair trial or to the knowledge that they too were a part of “TPLFs 27 years” 2021-08-26 20:14:45 It does not somehow benefit Amhara civilians to only be cited in the media for the purpose of demonizing whoever is in the crosshairs of the state. It does not benefit anyone that “ethnic mobs” is forever substituted for analysis. 2021-08-26 20:14:44 This was made worse by the use of “neutrality” as a legitimating mechanism, ie look we’re so objective, we referee/count bodies on both sides. Implying that if you were a good victim, and a moral diaspora, you’d endorse the article as true 2021-08-26 20:14:43 The Telegraph article presented circumstantial evidence as certain and then under the banner of neutrality, which changed the terms of debate away from whether a narrative or claim was true to whether Tigrayans are good or bad victims- 2021-08-26 17:42:17 @xrw @AINowInstitute @ambaonadventure @LukeStrathmann just finished beautiful piece, thank you so much for writing it :) 2021-08-26 17:39:00 RT @AINowInstitute: For an entry on CARE, Xiaowei Wang (@xrw) explores how we move away from the logic of cure: to care for patients + care… 2021-08-26 16:07:51 RT @Snowden: I don't think you should miss this one. https://t.co/k3SxaFSJEJ 2021-08-26 15:36:18 @murakamiwood congratulations 2021-08-26 14:42:44 RT @UpFromTheCracks: I appreciated @GetuTeressa’s insights a year ago but his grasp of the fault lines which PM Abiy Ahmed combusted into w… 2021-08-26 14:42:41 RT @UpFromTheCracks: ** The @WeBeImagining podcast is available on Apple, Google and the Columbia University site as well. Linking @ThaAy… 2021-08-26 14:39:49 @chaedria i wonder how many of the best Black artists are shadow banned on tik tok 2021-08-26 14:32:30 @TsenatSaba @haluk Ironically, that's how the Nobel Peace Prize was created. Alfred Nobel didn't want his legacy to be the civilian carnage from the dynamite he invented so he created the prize after scathing obituaries were released, wrongly thinking he died (when his brother passed) 2021-08-26 14:10:35 @Yohannes_T_M #PMEthiopia needs to stop releasing ASMR webinars 2021-08-26 14:00:41 imho what is the reason? It's not like she has box braids, I'm legit confused 2021-08-26 13:54:52 is billene hair line part of the amhara regional forces because idk why it’s running away like that 2021-08-26 13:42:32 I know I've been 10 toes down on #HoA politics but @ACSNYC has not been forgotten, this is the eye of the storm but there's a national movement growing to Abolish the Child Welfare/Family Regulation system and we coming for you. In the streets, in peer reviewed journals etc etc 2021-08-26 12:35:16 “A Chinese company has effectively imprisoned workers in a Mozambique cement factory for over a year,” https://t.co/LDApg4H8Lq 2021-08-26 12:18:20 the most tragic/comic thread of the #Mozambique Tuna Bond scandal is that Erik Prince de la Blackwater partnered with Ematum at the height of the scandal in 2017 https://t.co/gyHQUpoLbE 2021-08-26 12:08:22 ethiopia redefines dialogue to who can best recite their press memos on INSABook, What’s App’insa, or Zooming with INSA. https://t.co/IN2x0xH0my 2021-08-25 23:50:06 @salemfromtigray @ThaAyantu 2021-08-25 23:49:58 RT @salemfromtigray: unprepared for the works of this dream team of @ThaAyantu and @UpFromTheCracks. thank you both for taking the time and… 2021-08-25 23:22:31 also so excited for y’all to see their incredible ArcGiS map documenting the geographies of Tigrayan life that persist despite war and genocide. It will be available and open access in @interactionsMag November @salemfromtigray is a rock star 2021-08-25 23:21:38 i could not find their handle when i tweeted this but so much love and gratitude to @salemfromtigray for many things including sharing photos of Debre Damo that we included in this essay https://t.co/JkuUFac2jJ 2021-08-25 22:14:05 https://t.co/6fLv7YzTga https://t.co/r8MXB6kqgV 2021-08-25 22:06:47 not all septuagenarians are our elders 2021-08-25 22:00:58 the revolution is not an anagram ! 2021-08-25 22:00:57 abyssinian neo-colonialism administered by oromos is not it 2021-08-25 21:45:56 RT @machinekillspod: 96. Taking Control of the Data Pipeline (ft. Meredith Whittaker, Salomé Viljoen) We're joined by two of the sharpes… 2021-08-25 20:47:50 @VaroonMathur @mer__edith not for nothing, the girl with all the gifts (on netflix) was the most comforting zombie movie i’ve ever seen and v apropos for this phenomenon 2021-08-25 19:41:02 @DocDre what is the textual equivalent of narcan? 2021-08-25 19:28:11 @vee_etc the audacityyyyyyyyy 2021-08-25 19:26:17 Studying the use of predictive algorithms in the child welfare system is literally just a series of never ending horror and unbeknownst to academia, it’s not Black families that give me nightmares. Literally wtf is this?? https://t.co/Ycnyv6BTVp 2021-08-25 19:23:02 < …i just…the audacityyyyy…shows slides of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare by Dorothy Robert’s saying people seem to be upset with racism a lot lately and then says Big Data is unbiased…i, just am never not horrified https://t.co/n5ftjeUeKg 2021-08-25 19:17:30 @vee_etc 2021-08-25 19:08:04 Check @mirsuhail out on IG too, where he draws across and in rejection of borders, documenting state violence 2021-08-25 19:02:48 These images show what it’s like to live under Indian Occupation in #Kashmir: torture, repression, no free press, constant telecom blackouts, a silent “international community” yet, anyone who dares to rebel is deemed a terrorist. Follow @mirsuhail and #FreeKashmir https://t.co/5zvLzxNCRE 2021-08-25 18:15:23 @cloudquistador Yeah i’d like to see more public education/discourse around the digital as infrastructure because that’s what this thing marketed as AI is doing: remaking the geographies we inhabit and in the service of monopolizing industrial power 2021-08-25 16:29:05 @dailycupofjooo ugh academia is so violent but please know the friction is with them and you’re exactly the type of scholar and person we need to be in community with 2021-08-25 16:26:00 everything about this idea is amazing, so happy to see this birthed into the world. Apply to their positions and definitely keep an eye out when the fund is open https://t.co/mhGK6oeTRH 2021-08-25 15:35:27 TLDR: Get you a copy of the Against Genocide edition of @TheFunambulist_ available on pre-order until September 2! https://t.co/b1c3vewQ9b 2021-08-25 15:33:55 RT @RonMorrison_: So excited to be working with @UpFromTheCracks and @AINowInstitute! Have been such a fan girl since meeting @mer__edith a… 2021-08-25 15:33:06 The Techno-optimism of the early aughts has given way to a tech lash in the present- that is too often US centric and abstracted away from the everyday lives of the global majority or the complex way diaspora networks intervene and contest state narratives- 2021-08-25 15:33:05 Reimagining coexistence in the Horn of Africa beyond the nation-state requires a critical examination of the infrastructure, both cultural and technological, where we negotiate our collective meaning-making.- https://t.co/b1c3vewQ9b 2021-08-25 15:12:45 @AINowInstitute @RonMorrison_ Woohoo! Congratulation 2021-08-25 15:11:58 Congratulations to @RonMorrison_ on the Art Based Research Fellowship @AINowInstitute ! So, so grateful to learn from and alongside their thinkings on speculative computational histories centered in Black Diasporic movements https://t.co/zarkpX2YKn 2021-08-25 15:07:18 RT @AINowInstitute: We're delighted to welcome Romi Morrison (@RonMorrison_) as an Arts Based Research Fellow! They'll be exploring specula… 2021-08-25 14:58:00 @afrosnlipsticks @ThaAyantu 2021-08-25 14:52:08 Forced to to tow the line or have their license revoked-they’ve been v compliant-yet notice the quiet subversion in crafting these pithy tweets. Who ever writes this understands the absolute parody of the PP death cult imho https://t.co/I36MgkEPss 2021-08-25 13:53:41 RT @AmanSium: Pre order this piece by the incredible @UpFromTheCracks & 2021-08-25 13:23:05 RT @ThaAyantu: It was difficult to write in the midst of war & 2021-08-25 13:18:08 RT @ztsamudzi: Beyond excited to share that the Sept-Oct issue of @TheFunambulist_, the issue I had the honor and pleasure to guest edit, i… 2021-08-25 13:13:47 You can tell the thoughtfulness and care Zoe put into the Against Genocide edition: “The issue thus mobilizes histories of massive state violence without falling in the trap of arguing that they should considered as genocidal enterprises or not” https://t.co/ivKBXK8gxd https://t.co/NlmNLcOZdH 2021-08-25 13:06:49 Honored to have had the opportunity to publish an essay with @ThaAyantu on Ethiopian Empire, Tigrayan Genocide and Oromo Memory This forthcoming edition of @TheFunambulist_ is now available for pre-order Special thank you to @ztsamudzi for such a supportive editorial process https://t.co/b1c3vewQ9b 2021-08-25 12:41:36 From 2014, but i think still one of the best articles explaining how the internet actually works in plain language. I’m reviewing in the process of thinking through last mile infrastructure in #Oromia https://t.co/MrURlVLJrJ 2021-08-25 12:39:06 @rzhongnotes cuz the world be having me like https://t.co/M5XwRItFYw 2021-08-25 12:29:47 in all seriousness though, we have to hold onto some laughter because scorched earth is incomplete, the worst is yet to come 2021-08-25 12:20:43 I’m wilin for saying that Ethiopia is the most sexually repressed homo erotic country in the world when we’re all forced to live and die for the dick contests of others and farmers are conscripted into having they legs wide open, ok https://t.co/yJq1iwNCQ8 2021-08-25 12:09:37 ENDF military training going viral https://t.co/2Ny3uxtOi0 2021-08-25 10:12:22 RT @mayameme: Friday evening 2021-08-25 00:40:51 “For many lyrical assassins, Bill Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horse became a key text. Rappers who have mentioned Cooper or his book include the Wu-Tang Clan, Big Daddy Kane, Busta Rhymes, Tupac Shakur, Talib Kweli, Nas, Rakim, Poor Righteous Teachers, Gang Starr, Goodie Mob….” https://t.co/KCy2Lb0yxa 2021-08-25 00:40:49 For many in the black community, it was common knowledge that the CIA was bringing dope into the ghetto to further enslave the people. What was the big surprise [was that] AIDS had been whipped up in a test tube at Fort Detrick (home to MKUltra) as a plan to wipe out Africa? https://t.co/4V9X6RI7Is 2021-08-25 00:33:01 exhibit 9137 of mis/disinformation being a field created by white people selling us QAnon like it’s genesis, so much of the covid nonsense is of this world https://t.co/61v925GeWl 2021-08-25 00:17:20 idk why everyone is surprised that so many Black rappers are libertarian conspiracy theory alumni-ARs might as well have written Behold the Pale Horse into the contract https://t.co/uma0NJ0vSu 2021-08-24 23:51:55 @DeqiWoldeMikel @wintakb Yeah my 2 cents is it’s not comparable, there’s widespread support among “Ethiopian” intelligentsia with a platform who are not politically affiliated compared to Eritrean diaspora who are non PFDJ. 2021-08-24 23:45:05 POV: when you’re the tankie publicist trying to spin Abyssinian Anti-Blackness https://t.co/El67qesIr6 2021-08-24 22:38:21 when i die publish the super ego i keep in drafts please 2021-08-24 21:37:04 Finishing a chart tracking internet shutdowns in #Ethiopia since Abiy Ahmed took power and stumbled upon this gem. btw its been over 13 times since he took power, the longest so far in Tigray, the most frequent in Oromia https://t.co/YsXBJkSqYB 2021-08-24 20:58:38 @Tarik_Endale agreed, you know there's always subtext to these journal articles lol 2021-08-24 19:48:56 NHI falls outside of their jurisdiction as we cannot have rights. “Ethiopians” and their property is their sole mandate 2021-08-24 19:45:34 EHRC clarifies no humans were involved outside of Amhara. https://t.co/8OcY0i5zTU 2021-08-24 17:16:14 @ThaAyantu third why helvetica on word perfect, if they had a grain of sense they’d match the font on the platforms they’re critiquing. obvi the actual starvation is a bigger problem, but it’s infuriating to consider how many people are suffering due to stupidity 2021-08-24 17:11:31 @ThaAyantu and why/how are they so obsessed with hashtags and still have not grasped what they are or how they work 2021-08-24 17:10:50 @ThaAyantu i get the misspelling on some level with destabilization but how/why would tigray be misspelled?? 2021-08-24 17:02:22 RT @keguro_: I cringe when I watch African thinkers with gorgeous, imaginative minds stuck responding to basic shit. Even as I know they mu… 2021-08-24 13:40:32 who produced Neo-Derg: A Hip Hop Musical in 2019? the people need to know https://t.co/ZORt6I9K02 2021-08-24 13:20:45 The best documentary about academia ever created was Candyman so idk why so much time is wasted on netflix’s little series 2021-08-24 13:17:03 @Combsthepoet https://t.co/iMNuBzINsZ this 3 minutes of Nina Simone on Blackness may bring you some joy and light 2021-08-24 13:08:54 may we not substitute governance and discourse for dick contests ameen 2021-08-24 13:05:56 “Grazmach Sera,an Oromo leader, had spoken out for some measure of local Oromo autonomy. He was murdered in Adola,near the camp of a British political officer. He might be suspected of having tried to negotiate the independence of southern Ethiopia [Oromia] with British help” 2021-08-24 13:05:55 “When we are fighting for freedom in Europe, how can we restore the Gallas [Oromo] and other subject races to Amharic tyranny? https://t.co/T3J1tu7fnw 2021-08-24 13:05:53 “When informed of the decision made to restore Amhara rule over his people by British officials whose forces had just driven out the Italians, an Oromo leader told them: 'Today I feel like a sheep whose throat has just been cut, kicking for life, knowing I cannot live'.” https://t.co/6vQqx7t7qQ 2021-08-24 12:48:07 what’s particularly hypocritical about those who decry oromos as stuck in the past, is that the Selassie statue was erected in Addis in 2019-unveiled in front of the African Union Headquarters in the opening of the Summit 2021-08-24 12:45:57 “Emperor Haile Selassie was no pan-Africanist. In fact there is overwhelming evidence of his autocracy and rejection of the Black cause. It will be an injustice to African history to erect his statue at the new AU headquarters in Addis Ababa.” 2021-08-24 12:45:19 Yo who is Asrat Deferes because he comes for the Selassie Stans no holds bar and i love to see it. straight bars https://t.co/eQECI8Vs6l 2021-08-24 12:32:25 The Emperor's “philosophy” of African unity is purely pragmatic… Selassie believes that the heads of state must move only step‐by‐step toward union because “tradition cannot be abandoned at once.” https://t.co/2ktFDX9B5l https://t.co/ZKxQVrNqqg 2021-08-24 12:32:23 Africa at this stage cries for unity: and that with the foreign colonizers gone, some substitute coalescent must be found. The problem facing those who favor such unity—especially an elder, “moderate” Pan‐African like Emperor Selassie—is that the hour grows exceedingly late -1964 https://t.co/ZveNxnjzjJ 2021-08-24 12:21:13 @ThaAyantu I mean he did, through the barrel of a gun. even in death, they fought over which land he belonged to and which people had the right to decide 2021-08-24 12:13:32 @ThaAyantu Don’t children deserve to see someone who looks like them at the end of the supply chain? https://t.co/ZMQQyGEDrG 2021-08-24 12:08:33 @ThaAyantu this is why every other word in nollywood is abeg, abeg 2021-08-24 10:40:44 RT @mer__edith: YES! And these large language models are the same ones that Stanford and its industry allies are working to rebrand and val… 2021-08-24 10:38:35 RT @naflello: @JaalMesa We have to fight for more than one type of justice to create the kind of free Oromia we want to see. This rhetoric… 2021-08-24 01:47:10 @HornAnarchists @AmanSium Have you read his paper? so good and interrogated the limitations of state based nationalism etc https://t.co/IO49CGzCfn 2021-08-24 01:45:24 RT @AmanSium: There is more than one type of Eritrean nationalism. Please don't superimpose Shabia nationalism to be the outlook of all or… 2021-08-24 01:35:59 @HornAnarchists @EremiasWmikael i appreciate your collective banter lolol. i mean the decentralization and autonomy of federalism goes well with your anarchy theme so i’m surprised you’re not a fan 2021-08-24 01:32:07 @ballamii i mean ethio deserves whatever is the oromo equivalent to a monty python episode 2021-08-24 01:26:51 @ballamii coherent meaning internally consistent not rational lol. i just mean it’s easy to chuckle at them conscripting farmers into military twerking exercises and forget they’re building (what they believe will be) the post war consensus 2021-08-24 01:04:22 @MI202018 i’m saying that abiy is as of eprdf as tplf 2021-08-24 00:30:58 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 i mean the US didn’t “fail to solve” these regions, we’d be remiss to synthesize what happened in Somalia w/o understanding how the US designed the war on terror or how they designed the cluster bombs Israel traded with Mengistu for the Beta Israel 2021-08-24 00:27:45 i think we have to disaggregate these comparisons, Yugoslavia and Rwanda are instrumentalized to justify repressive central control. the particularities of what lead to genocide ie Tito’s “Brotherhood and Unity” program are erased. https://t.co/l2K7OrStOe 2021-08-24 00:20:37 @ballamii @TheNapMinistry nahhhh what is reparations sans currency, maybe LWFAAM (leave with forty acres and a mule) 2021-08-20 00:01:37 @thaiyaan @AmbedkarCaravan @IveyPublishing @HariBapuji @chetjoshi11 @techworkersco Thanks for the tag just shared :) 2021-08-20 00:01:20 RT @AmbedkarCaravan: There are about 30,000 business/management case studies on @IveyPublishing, one of the largest business case studies p… 2021-08-19 23:59:59 I often reflect on this video, remember when it was Abiy’s pinned tweet? https://t.co/HyWvXlKvUC 2021-08-19 23:56:53 This is definitely in my top 10 #HoA tweets of this year https://t.co/Qy59AFCQGx 2021-08-19 22:03:24 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Come thru, Friday at 9am EST How do we begin to think about #Oromo perspectives on #Ethiopia when media coverage is a… 2021-08-19 21:33:32 RT @FamilyAdvoKat: It was an incredible honor to interview @DorothyERoberts on Demystifying Abolition at the @ABACCL #parentrep21. We talk… 2021-08-19 20:31:19 @hypervisible I feel all the tech save the poor African kids projects are iterations of the Zuck/Gates/World Bank franchise https://t.co/ngopSYE9U0 2021-08-19 20:00:54 Fascinating essay by Ranjit Singh that examines Aadhaar biometric ID infrastructure through the concept of resolution. Found this bit helpful in distilling what seeing looks like from the POV of a state vs *a citizen* https://t.co/BLgw8WYOpF https://t.co/fyXo3yr87T 2021-08-19 16:43:31 @robyncaplan But I’m biased because I like and have used your work lol can’t wait to show you the otherwise school project your talk inspired 2021-08-19 16:42:08 @robyncaplan Meaning there’s like some proprietary notions of what is or is not governance that maybe have nothing to do with the validity of your work but more so with the policing of what constitutes governance by discourses that have a stake in maintaining a boundary your contesting 2021-08-19 16:38:03 @robyncaplan My 2 cents from being so deep into,yet not a part of academia-is that critiques of technical systems are so tied to specific fields-policy, economics, sociology-that there’s a kinda context collapse when you define a problem outside of strict adherence to those normative lexicons 2021-08-19 16:26:10 @robyncaplan Oh lol I wasn’t sure if it was referring to something like Elinor Carmi’s argument about the rhythm of social media. Idk the idea that notions of platform governance are so well defined that you could be operating outside of it seems almost perversely optimistic 2021-08-19 16:21:53 @robyncaplan What does “performance of listening” mean in this context? Is it referring to your methods or an interpretation of the conclusions you arrive to? 2021-08-19 16:13:19 Very comprehensive investigation into ShotSpotter- How it decimates the lives of Black people more likely be ensnared in policing-and by extension predictive policing technologies. https://t.co/JkTf0ApRhP 2021-08-19 14:31:42 Look between the hands and you’ll see the key to life 2021-08-19 14:27:56 ICYMI: You can watch the video here https://t.co/9UNGVkP0R9 2021-08-19 14:27:02 Thank you to @lizar_tistry for these beautiful graphic notes on the Abolishing Family Regulation Systems Across Borders and Generations event @BenJofaman put together at @HiARTSnyc with @movfamilypower @JMacForFamilies and me. *Alt text within #AbolishACS https://t.co/F6rCzshVy7 2021-08-19 14:13:33 Looking forward to reading this https://t.co/DERZ9c57wA 2021-08-19 13:57:11 And more, which is why it’s sad that in the wake of OMN being shutdown that we’re left with Ethio Insight being the sole outlet to publish anything since the summer about Oromos relationship to the PP and war on Tigray…@ThaAyantu and I have a piece dropping next month tho https://t.co/lVNi5N1dfr 2021-08-19 13:53:51 Context re Davison https://t.co/hoo2tBwu7K 2021-08-19 13:39:25 **My usual quibbles around multinational federalism being misnamed, omission of how the police killings post Haacaaluu’s assassination and Jawar’s FB post were wrongly reported as irrational Oromo mobs etc. but it gets a lot right too 2021-08-19 13:39:24 While it pains me to share anything remotely connected to William Davison-and for the second time today at that-this is v worth reading esp given the dearth of media analysis on Oromia https://t.co/Bx8BiTRnRW 2021-08-19 12:40:37 @seanmmcdonald I owe you an email too thanks Sean :) 2021-08-19 12:17:35 A system that locks up 6 year olds, but the outcome data and consistency is the problem… the corporate uplift lingo just tops it all off “charting a path for juvenile justice reform” aka locking kids up more better™ https://t.co/KFipCghu7C https://t.co/LVpayrg0wk 2021-08-19 12:09:44 RT @IFEX: In another sign of shrinking civic space in Hong Kong, continuous attacks waged by Chinese state media outlets led to the disband… 2021-08-19 12:08:00 @Jess_asli Demand a condom 2021-08-19 12:06:38 As someone who was mandated to attend meetings in VR once upon a time, lemme tell you it’s like being water boarded into tech bro land. I was also immediately nauseous and instructed eat ginger candy https://t.co/uZMDMEa9LQ 2021-08-19 11:47:13 https://t.co/GL5RwkhHhU 2021-08-19 11:45:54 @jathansadowski Congratulations! English as the sole language is such a barrier to expanding the tech discourse, love to see this 2021-08-19 11:41:13 No personal information will be disclosed, emails are collected to limit multiple submissions. The results will be made publicly available as aggregate and anonymized 2021-08-19 11:38:10 Despite my emphasis on qualitative methods, would really like to get more data on how people get information about #Tigray #Ethiopia and #Oromia Can you please share? @OmnaTigray @SWTigray @TeamFreeOromia @FBedaso @henokgabisa https://t.co/TZJy5pQWyD 2021-08-19 11:31:14 Misconceptions: -Mis/disinformation is a vacuous term that loses the trees for the forest -The internet decentralizes propaganda + public participation affects how we register information or social interactions as meaningful -reach of SM content ≠ what people think it does 2021-08-19 11:21:55 Themes I think are under attended to: -Technoculture in rural areas,ie how do rates of internet or social media penetration in rural areas mediate political narratives -Disaggregating internet shutdowns, ie how does the Facebook ISP team interface with the govt during shutdowns 2021-08-19 11:12:00 So, I was ambitious in terms of how much time it would take me to finish this report on the role of tech and mass atrocities in the #Ethiopia but I’m inching towards the finish line and would love to integrate insights from journalists/researchers/activists 2021-08-19 11:02:13 The tragic irony of @addisstandard RT’ing this article after having their license revoked by the same Ethiopian state only to be reinstated once they agreed to tow the party line on TDF. In Ethiopia, #ParodyPrevails! https://t.co/kCRmg3BCya 2021-08-19 10:56:17 @paulmwatson Maybe we could hash it out at a talk sponsored by Microsoft lolol 2021-08-19 10:47:21 Peter Piper picked a perennial Ponzi scheme perpetually providing pompous intellectual paupers a panacea of private pay pilfering the public. https://t.co/NCHjqGPL47 2021-08-19 10:43:41 @sedyst @merbroussard Peter Piper picked a perennial Ponzi scheme perpetually providing pompous intellectual paupers a panacea of private pay pilfering the public 2021-08-19 10:40:43 @merbroussard The social implications of an emperor without clothing 2021-08-19 10:28:33 @ThaAyantu @efreem_s I bet you Bruton Crouton and Me’amin love them some shiro and coffee 2021-08-19 10:21:25 @ThaAyantu https://t.co/kFFUXZZyy8 2021-08-19 10:06:38 @ThaAyantu malaan jirra? 2021-08-19 10:03:31 @ThaAyantu People who like their kitfo with Red Bull 2021-08-19 09:50:17 RT @math_rachel: We find drastic differences in data & 2021-08-19 09:44:11 @Nanjala1 Unfortunately lol 2021-08-19 09:18:52 Good to see the propaganda war in Ethiopia covered explicitly-we need much more of this. The recording of teenagers with officials in the back telling them what to say is wild. I wish they’d included the state tv tutorials mobilizing ppl on Twitter. https://t.co/SxMFq1r4Xm 2021-08-19 09:04:39 RT @andrewhume: This must-read article by @kendrahurleynyc breaks huge news. Child abuse didn't rise during the pandemic while @ACSNYC inve… 2021-08-19 00:39:53 @funnymonkey @robinberjon ssris and noise canceling headphones 2021-08-19 00:20:29 RT @ztsamudzi: .@theprimalplot is my voice of reason for many things, and this piece co-written with Anila Daulatzai about the Taliban in t… 2021-08-19 00:12:57 @DocDre so chaotic, but it’s the family group chat for me https://t.co/8qSgoJfqET 2021-08-18 23:48:21 **run by Rigoberto and Ranjit Singh! 2021-08-18 23:45:38 I like this concept and it’s run by @chicanocyborg apply! https://t.co/RXiY68YPVt 2021-08-18 22:24:16 @bigblackjacobin Is this the same outfit Spike wore for the crypto commercial? 2021-08-18 21:07:12 @SamuelTsegai1 @ThaAyantu Ha! I’ll help you both detox and recover from academia when you’re done lmao 2021-08-18 20:48:02 RT @demonicground: My students and I wrote this Intervention...we hope it is useful! “Impermanence: On Frantz Fanon’s Geographies” - Antip… 2021-08-18 20:03:30 @INotice8 @amnesty Unfortunately he’s being amplified by what looks like the same network as Jeff. Worth noticing how the strategy is evolving to include this fake whistleblower archetype alongside the GLEAN team in order to sow confusion 2021-08-18 19:46:37 @INotice8 @amnesty https://t.co/Quojv5Fwqx 2021-08-18 19:45:33 Alastair Thompson appears to be manufactured in whatever place produced Jeff Pearce and has been sharing disinformation in an authoritative tone. Most recently this medium article with a nonsensical allegation about @amnesty Axum report. Notice there’s no citations or hyperlinks https://t.co/e5A1fJwGHT 2021-08-18 19:42:01 @althecat @amnesty @zeynep @martinplaut Is this not the pot calling the kettle black Alastair? You’re also sharing a medium article with nonsense allegations about the amnesty report. Martin Plaut is awful but it wasn’t based on his testimony so that’s a non sequitur 2021-08-18 19:36:00 “Authoritarian governments and groups cannot always resort to traditional forms of censorship to suppress messages, so they sow confusion instead.” #Ethiopia #AxumMassacre @amnesty https://t.co/SkimZN67Va https://t.co/6H1LLWNX2X https://t.co/iOkELUMUSd 2021-08-18 19:21:58 3. Religiosity, faith based cult https://t.co/7OaincX88W 2021-08-18 19:13:24 2. Exaltation, hyperbolic attributes of the royals, making them divine beings https://t.co/CkWo3ToeMT 2021-08-18 19:11:32 Thongchai Winichakul asks, What are the characteristics of Hyper-Royalism? 1. Intensified presence of royalist in the space and time of everyday social life in Thailand https://t.co/uhXEN24zdM 2021-08-18 19:09:06 H/t @ThaAyantu for reminding me of the comment Vinay Lal made at #OSA, that it’s worth paying attention to the parallels between Thailand and Ethiopia 12 minutes into this video, and nodding so hard I choked on my duck pad thai https://t.co/tpXSosQfK5 2021-08-18 18:36:39 RT @ztsamudzi: TODAY!!! A discussion with Ovaherero & 2021-08-18 17:55:35 @DidaWako3 @ThaAyantu Yes, yes he did and Adidas advertised it saying neftegna means “boss” 2021-08-18 16:18:34 I don’t think I share this joy in formalizing the corporate capture of even the most tepid critiques of techno capitalism. Seeing @wef on the TL joining the fray is why they call it doomscrolling https://t.co/oeQEumCCqj 2021-08-18 16:11:45 RT @gleemie: If you want workers to have a voice in AI labor, support Turker-run worker with a recurring donation, however small, to @turko… 2021-08-18 16:09:27 @nkrishnaswami Also love love Mirca Madianou’s work on this https://t.co/cnJo1QAnL6 2021-08-18 16:08:28 @nkrishnaswami I mean you’re not wrong, my issue with Foucault is largely not conceptual, it’s that he assaulted Algerian boys and plagiarized the Black Panther Party 2021-08-18 16:06:10 @twocatsand_docs @mer__edith sure I think the point is that the people with the most power to have enacted those protections have not 2021-08-18 15:59:37 @nkrishnaswami The articles thumbnail tho, my god, the eugenics genealogy of it all just is stunning https://t.co/vjl9mfSZYG 2021-08-18 15:56:48 Not shocking but much like COVID, the fungible and racialized category of “terrorist” has always been used to justify intrusive surveillance, 2021-08-18 15:56:47 “But the U.S. didn’t only collect information about criminals and terrorists 2021-08-18 15:52:09 “I don’t think anyone ever thought about data privacy or what to do in the event the [HIIDE] system fell into the wrong hands,” said Welton Chang, chief technology officer for Human Rights First, himself a former Army intelligence officer.” https://t.co/v0YdaRCmvY 2021-08-18 15:50:18 My understanding is that a back door was built into Sudanese biometric systems that allowed NGOs to slash and burn the records as the US exited. Curious why and who decided that would not be the case in Afghanistan. https://t.co/YHPe0aRrs3 2021-08-18 15:40:28 Really appreciate the attention to citations in this piece about expanding carceral tech in the name of public health measures https://t.co/qOQSJ3dUV1 2021-08-18 15:35:47 @ThaAyantu same energy https://t.co/WS7fi5TDtO 2021-08-18 15:14:01 This is ironic because in the wake of the summer, @MinorityRights has not released a single solitary statement about #Tigray or anything about #Ethiopia save a tweet downplaying the significance of Tigray https://t.co/rrBehy58ry 2021-08-18 15:10:31 **Making Ethiopia Great Again 2021-08-18 15:08:35 Translation for non-HoA peeps, this wording is ironic b/c Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dissolved the coalition government to form the Prosperity Party. Ethiopianists want to “Make Ethiopia Great Agaialn” MEGA and @MinorityRights recycles that same language while demonizing Oromos https://t.co/fSyDONtiKO 2021-08-18 15:01:59 I would love to receive comment from @MinorityRights @JoshCastellino @SamGougsa about why there’s been no statement released about the #TigrayGenocide but you stand by claims against 34 million Oromos that were unsubstantiated https://t.co/UD2cBt6kRr 2021-08-18 14:58:56 While I don’t endorse Western military intervention, I think Getu’s point here is exactly it. Imagine if the extrajudicial and state sanctioned killings of the Oromo were better covered last year-we would have a better grasp on how the #TigrayGenocide evolved https://t.co/te8LfmlSTF 2021-08-18 14:58:55 The @MinorityRights rushed to push out a statement demonizing Oromos after Haacaaluu’s assassination, refused to rescind even after it came out the majority of deaths were Oromos, majority of killings were security forces, but the only mention of Tigray them is this tweet https://t.co/sI1tb4taQ1 2021-08-18 14:58:53 Re-reading the @MinorityRights statements “Recent history shows how such an ambience privileges strident voices and extremists, silencing the calm, intelligent moderate voices who need to find a way of configuring a peaceful path to prosperity.” https://t.co/kQV8TOL0HA https://t.co/BOKWgpJIMx 2021-08-18 13:47:45 @nullvoidstar @AmAssembly Thank you! 2021-08-18 11:31:51 Autocorrect is the devil and I cannot be messing up peoples names so had to redo 2021-08-18 11:30:58 I really appreciate that @AmAssembly and @INCITE_Columbia have pushed to fund non white men as a cohort < 2021-08-18 11:30:55 These events will support a community-designed mural celebrating Black family life and abolition of the Family Regulation System. With the generous support of @AmAssembly, my goal is also to pay as many impacted parents and #adoptees with the programming funds as possible 2021-08-18 11:30:54 Super honored to be selected as a @AmAssembly Fellow alongside Asha Boston, Jasmin Chang and Kisha Bari This year, I’m going to organize a series of events in Brooklyn to support political education, organizing, and mutual aid with people impacted by the ACS. https://t.co/baK3wFZ7Om 2021-08-18 11:03:32 RT @vlad_hernandez_: We're hiring! Looking for a field producer in Kenya who's hungry to do impactful stories in East Africa with a high… 2021-08-18 01:43:23 RT @markhurst: A few weeks ago on https://t.co/R5iYbzApUO I spoke with @AnnieJacobsen about the U.S. military launching biometric surveilla… 2021-08-18 01:17:22 this was all preceded by managing Black people as deviance. Imho Black history in America is a history of being held indefinitely without charges, to prevent Terror. They didn’t pull the Patriot Act out of thin air. 2021-08-18 01:06:02 I can’t help but notice that the American military intelligence operatives that designed the infinite war on terror have transitioned en masse to tech, selling us algorithmic bounty hunters, coordinated inauthentic behavior networks, cyber security etc. https://t.co/VVkREfbDiV 2021-08-18 00:48:09 RT @datasociety: Join us on Sept. 15th @ 4pm ET as we discuss "A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" with author & 2021-08-18 00:45:45 RT @biancawylie: “Despite the inadequacy of governance schemes for digital identity, making us machine-readable humans and managing our ide… 2021-08-17 23:48:31 RT @AudreyTruschke: I'm going to check out of Twitter for a while. Seeing the rape of my children discussed is, well, difficult. What hat… 2021-08-17 22:20:40 RT @ThaAyantu: On Friday @UpFromTheCracks and I are hosting a discussion on the state of Ethiopia. Come thru to hear and share your thought… 2021-08-17 22:20:16 Come thru, Friday at 9am EST How do we begin to think about #Oromo perspectives on #Ethiopia when media coverage is almost non existent? What has @ThaAyantu learned in the Oromo archives of Berlin this summer? What are Oromo critiques of Digital ID? https://t.co/LclRXoHpsK 2021-08-17 21:41:24 @hypervisible So many things to say about this thread length article but it’s always been fascinating to me that Twitter acts as if misinformation and abuse are distinct phenomena 2021-08-17 21:37:12 For the record, I questioned @TheBreachMedia article about Canada covering for mining in Tigray b/c it seemed speculative in the absence of including the leaked report. @fitsumareguy responded and sent it to me. I no longer think it’s speculative. https://t.co/pz2i9rsQkX https://t.co/OX6y9KXXzJ 2021-08-17 20:55:32 RT @mer__edith: This framing of this workshop is a good lesson in the way hegemonic narratives are produced not by ignoring problems [with… 2021-08-17 18:57:58 RT @someshjha7: .@reporters_co has worked for 3 months gathering, translating & 2021-08-17 18:40:06 RT @Jackstilgoe: New paper ! The attachments of 'autonomous' vehicles, by Chris Tennant and me, just published in Social Studies of Scienc… 2021-08-17 18:36:51 RT @wewatchwatchers: Afghans scramble to delete digital history, evade biometrics https://t.co/cq7DKJ94Fi 2021-08-17 18:34:52 RT @Muralisvelan: Shameless self-promotion. But do please pay attention to the issue. This session is an opportunity to set the agenda, tha… 2021-08-17 15:08:54 @HabeshaHokage correct but frankly I had more expectations for the Telegraph than Fana 2021-08-17 14:55:33 The paper linked above focuses on satellite imagery and is citing this paper on ICT more broadly Information and communication technologies in peacebuilding Author(s): Ioannis Tellidis and Stefanie Kappler P83-84 Look at the SA and Sri Lanka case study https://t.co/G2OyPKFqok https://t.co/8TDtxzc21W 2021-08-17 14:55:31 “ICTs can serve as a platform on which hegemony can be promoted and existing power imbalances be reinforced, shifting the balance towards powerful institutions if the latter are able to strategically use ICTs as legitimating tools” https://t.co/HWqq17kMWr https://t.co/smjl0jbKWJ 2021-08-17 14:11:02 @BiraanuuBiyo all good 2021-08-17 13:59:09 Nate Raymond was a speaker at the Otherwise School this summer. He founded the Satellite Sentinel project using remote sensing to document atrocities in Sudan. We don’t agree on theories of change per se but he raises v good questions https://t.co/VMOqZaGzSF 2021-08-17 13:59:08 I have thought a fair amount about the ethical and social implications of satellite imagery technology for documenting mass atrocities (but by no means am an expert) I encourage people to read this paper-it’s open access. https://t.co/HWqq17kMWr 2021-08-17 13:29:26 @PeaceForTigray I’m not going to side with one set of speculations against the other. I think given time, there will be more clear evidence about what happened here and by whom. 2021-08-17 13:25:43 https://t.co/fC38iEbbnR 2021-08-17 13:12:53 RT @UpFromTheCracks: TLDR: Given the degree to which disinformation has been weaponized as a tool of war, I think evidence standards for cl… 2021-08-17 13:10:45 TLDR: Given the degree to which disinformation has been weaponized as a tool of war, I think evidence standards for claims across the board are necessary. And, this is not a reason to deny that people in the Amhara region are suffering or that anyone’s army is benevolent 2021-08-17 13:10:44 When the families of Eritrean refugees protested in Addis, many anti-war advocates speculated that it was a set up by informants when there’s much more reason to believe that in fact Eritrean refugees in Tigray camps have legit claims to suffering. https://t.co/dGjWyl04XR 2021-08-17 13:10:43 This is not a partisan demand, the Government of Ethiopia was accused by the Telegraph in May of dropping white phosphorous on Tigray. This was also based on speculation and circumstantial evidence that to my knowledge has never been substantiated. https://t.co/gmVbZ8NQjF 2021-08-17 13:01:02 What is clear is that a village in Kobo Robit was unjustifiably razed to the ground, Amhara civilians were killed and displaced. I’m not ruling out TDF committing atrocities but I think it’s reasonable + ethical to demand more rigorous evidence to establish their culpability here https://t.co/Mqu848Rzrv 2021-08-17 12:29:45 @HabeshaHokage @INotice8 Anyway, remember when Telegraph claimed the Ethiopian government was using chemical weapons against Tigray? That was never substantiated and it matters. Otherwise we just have affect driven accusations 2021-08-17 12:22:10 @HabeshaHokage @INotice8 what is msm 2021-08-17 12:18:37 @HabeshaHokage @INotice8 Sure, my issue is not that it’s inconceivable that TDF could commit atrocities. It’s that any of us could establish a narrative of our choosing with 6 verbal testimonies and circumstantial evidence. 2021-08-17 12:11:30 @Brooko07 I mean I see there are some #OnHere unwilling to consider that TDF could ever do wrong but I think while this report substantiates a village was burned down-who is culpable is very uncertain based on the evidence the report is citing 2021-08-17 12:09:18 @INotice8 https://t.co/yacGfgnpeX 2021-08-17 12:07:27 @Meron_Geb Unfortunately, I don’t see independent investigations coming down the pipe anytime soon so it feels like a cop out for me to say that. In the interim, I think we need to demand a higher bar of evidence for claims made across the board. 2021-08-17 12:03:41 Given the ongoing conflation of Tigrayan people with TDF to justify the genocide, this pull out quote tapping into the state narrative about Amharas endangered by barbaric minorities seems needlessly inflammatory esp when its unconfirmed whether 36 people were killed or 300. https://t.co/xIeBdo5Lfh 2021-08-17 11:55:02 -citing self identified pro Amhara telegram channels as a neutral source of information is problematic and the type of thing we saw around claims against Oromo protests 2021-08-17 11:47:36 -Satellite imagery clearly shows village in Kobo Robit was intentionally burned to the ground -Serious accusations made against the TDF by ~6 displaced people abandoned by Ethiopian federal forces -But the evidence for who is responsible seems v hazy and speculative https://t.co/Pbo8hQWduD 2021-08-17 10:20:54 @BiraanuuBiyo The internet is the complete opposite of a telegraph in a way, you have a massive amount of content, everyone can create it, most people can access it. So it’s interesting how that same level of control from Menelik on the Telegraph is reproducing itself 2021-08-17 10:17:44 @BiraanuuBiyo For example, Menelik loved telegraphs right because it provided a way to manage central communication and control of an empire that was geographically spread out, and he could control the messaging. Common people didn’t have telegraphs only bureaucrats 2021-08-17 10:15:17 @BiraanuuBiyo I mean sure I understand the historical basis for peoples attitudes towards the south and in a dif way- Tigray but I’m asking the means by which people are brought into a script, particularly in the diaspora where there’s not as much central control 2021-08-17 02:13:14 @jathansadowski Congratulations 2021-08-17 00:47:46 my favorite part of woreda Nollywood is when the protagonist be a whole hustler in dockers and a newsboy cap 2021-08-16 23:47:58 @ninamonei Congratulations 2021-08-16 23:41:03 RT @_jack_poulson: New GAFAM-funded lobbying report just dropped. It advocates against: - State-level AI regulation - Regulating AI compan… 2021-08-16 22:00:28 RT @AoIR_org: It is our great pleasure to announce that the Nancy Baym Book Award committee has chosen Distributed Blackness: African Ameri… 2021-08-16 21:59:26 @ballamii Perhaps it’s roots are earlier like in the US forcing Selassie to diversify his patronage and the generation of habesha intelligentsia who used their Soviet Union Marxist training to justify privilege and repression back home. 2021-08-16 21:45:57 Screaming Congratulations to my big brother, mentor, partner in crime, favorite scholar ever @DocDre https://t.co/J5fUeNW4Nu 2021-08-16 21:34:59 @ztsamudzi Congratulations! 2021-08-16 21:34:49 RT @ztsamudzi: Honored and grateful to be a part of the advisory committee for the new Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies… 2021-08-16 21:32:26 Bracing for the onslaught of “reasonable” takes reviving Islamophobia, pragmatic opinions demonizing any non state actors wanting independence or federalism as tribalists and tankies romanticizing anything anti-US without condition 2021-08-16 21:03:03 @fitsumareguy @aslanschild_ @TheBreachMedia @aida_notacat Thank you for responding, I dm'd you :) 2021-08-16 19:50:21 @sreekotay @Noaaronmylungs I mean the author literally argued to abolish mother tongues in service of "ending tribalism" so I'm not sure how Poe's Law is relevant here. further, its less about the teenager's intent than @NationAfrica using them for reactionary click bait 2021-08-16 19:41:28 @aslanschild_ @TheBreachMedia @fitsumareguy @aida_notacat I saw this. It's hard to know what to make of speculation on a leaked report by a website started in March. They don't provide the report and I haven't seen any other reporting on it, so could be true but we need more evidence than this 2021-08-16 18:00:04 New and open access paper, "The Appropriated Body: Biometrics Regime, The Digital State and Healthcare in Contemporary India" by Rajiv K Mishra https://t.co/SpKAKjQ3U7 2021-08-16 17:50:48 @sbenthall What do you call secession into something besides a new state 2021-08-16 17:04:42 @HabeshaHokage Plot twist, the GIF depicts them saving us from being doomed by our banned languages 2021-08-16 17:03:00 @Noaaronmylungs Let’s be honest, it can only be American Central Standard Time English 2021-08-16 17:02:04 What is the language for a nation who wants to be independent but has any of the following attributes: -state formation is not an objective -state formation is desired but has not happened -state formation has happened but is not recognized by international law and/or failed 2021-08-16 16:53:16 RT @QulshTM: @ThaAyantu @NationAfrica We carried a piece of timber around when caught speaking mother tongue at school. If at the end of… 2021-08-16 16:46:19 Since the Twitter update changing the follow|ing button has people thinking about Human Computer Interaction (HCI) This is a v interesting paper on how bad design contributed to the Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown *Disclosure author is at Google now https://t.co/2UVVerAHwN 2021-08-16 16:39:47 Why stop at mother tongues? Why not just ban all languages except English so we can march towards universal freedom and progress? https://t.co/PXat9SFEnw 2021-08-16 15:47:49 @ThaAyantu @NationAfrica Why stop at mother tongues? Why not just ban all languages besides English so we can march towards freedom and progress? 2021-08-16 14:32:16 I have concluded that my traction among the opposition is limited lol. Details TBA but @ThaAyantu and I will be hosting another @TwitterSpaces focusing on #Oromo perspectives this Friday 9am EST 2021-08-16 14:06:53 Here is the survey I mentioned for anyone who attended the @TwitterSpaces. Please complete and share broadly, thank you ! https://t.co/7Q3C12hLtz 2021-08-16 13:52:56 RT @ThaAyantu: Happening now! Come thru 2021-08-16 13:01:40 Now! https://t.co/Br6Gbiz65f 2021-08-16 11:54:44 My speculation is peoples news consumption is affect (emotion) driven and networked (meaning you’re most likely to read + register information as meaningful via peer groups you perceived as having the “right” politics) but that doesn’t explain why there’s so much content produced 2021-08-16 11:54:43 Someone saw this post and asked if I was hacked, lmao. No I haven’t suddenly become a disciple of Ethio state propaganda but I want to know what is the vehicle by which other people have come to their beliefs in such totalizing synchrony. https://t.co/Br6Gbiz65f 2021-08-16 11:41:19 @FrankPasquale This is v meta commentary in that it’s a thread length article made into a substack evading I suppose the non monetization of content #OnHere 2021-08-16 11:07:57 Geography Test by Saaro Umar https://t.co/U5aYY8KJE2 https://t.co/DDpdbM3RF7 2021-08-16 00:45:30 Topics covered in @TwitterSpaces will be similar to the questions of this survey. How do you find the Truth about #Ethiopia and #Tigray? https://t.co/TZJy5pQWyD 2021-08-16 00:43:01 Tomorrow Monday 9am EST What news outlets do you trust on #Ethiopia #Tigray that are not biased? Please share widely @AAA_Amhara @_AfricanUnion @addisstandard #TPLF #Amhara #UnityForEthiopia https://t.co/Br6Gbiz65f 2021-08-16 00:02:13 @HabeshaHokage I think I got the long way pretty good, looking more at the mid way. Do you know anything about the Irgun Lehi camps? 2021-08-15 23:44:06 Selassie had 4 major Foreign Policy objectives -be a major of provider of military + economic assistance -minimize the effects of Arab nationalism or Islamic unity as they concerned Ethiopia's national integrity -to promote pan-Africanism, which is opposed to ethnic separatism https://t.co/kG5tEVNQcE 2021-08-15 23:24:10 @_TigrayGenocide Will release the results once I get at least 500 people. I will have push it out more seriously this week. 2021-08-15 23:22:59 This is also so much more tragically ironic now “Without Abiy's approval he [Hailemariam] would not dare to meet Mengistu,” https://t.co/AeuPEBxZ0P 2021-08-15 23:18:40 I knew when Menelik conquered the Tulama he built his palace on the sacred ground belonging to his staunch opposition Oromo leader Tufa Muna, but legit didn’t know Mengistu built his office bathroom on Selassie’s grave https://t.co/jqFpODmzpC 2021-08-15 22:58:06 RT @Jimmicha_: International Orgs (https://t.co/yQCnGNWBoh) need to pressure the Ethiopian Govt to End Political Assassinations @hrw @Amnes… 2021-08-15 21:49:31 what to do when the grim feels infinite 2021-08-15 20:51:27 @azumoran @lopalasi **story 2021-08-15 20:40:52 @azumoran @lopalasi Totally. I think these diagrams are more helpful as an example of “seeing as a state” The dispossession is first whose kid gets snatched up to begin with and followed by a classification that erases the whole store 2021-08-15 18:48:42 Please note, all questions are optional besides email (to limit one submission per person) you can share as much or as little information as you like 2021-08-15 18:44:56 https://t.co/xIttc5cAOt 2021-08-15 18:44:34 https://t.co/OaM9Keuibu 2021-08-15 18:29:37 @ethio_style My point is more basic than that, I just mean appreciating an intra-communal difference requires some adjacency to the people at hand. Communal here meaning simply in the sense of a Twitter network. Anyway, legit was just curious what you see as a reliable source of news 2021-08-15 18:04:35 @ethio_style Well I think nuance is in part relational no? We're more likely to grasp the distinction among people in our network ie the screenshot features 3 people wit varying ideologies and political positions 2021-08-15 18:01:52 I'm very interested in peoples information diet on #Ethiopia #Tigray and #Oromia, whether you believe #TPLFIsTheCause or advocate for the #TigrayGenocide can you please fill out and share this survey. No personal info will be shared, just aggregate results https://t.co/TZJy5pQWyD 2021-08-15 17:04:26 @ethio_style Can I ask you, if the assumption is both sides are dragging us into a bottomless pit, where do you go for what you perceive as accurate or nuanced analysis of the current situation? 2021-08-15 16:55:58 Zehabesha has over half a billion views and apparently is well liked in Addis https://t.co/SyFeKuphI1 2021-08-15 16:50:51 Slightly less than 1 million followers on the Amhara Media Corp page https://t.co/JBLX7m74kZ 2021-08-15 16:46:45 Co-founder and editor of Scoop-a New Zealand based news aggregator Alistair Thompson seems to be a group fave https://t.co/ZPclDDzwd9 2021-08-15 16:43:19 https://t.co/2B1mPfKKsF 2021-08-15 16:42:14 The comparison to Yugoslavia being rejected for a comparison to US involvement in to Libya (origin of the claim is def B4P statement) https://t.co/4EWS5vJpRI 2021-08-15 16:40:21 https://t.co/03y0LjNzfJ 2021-08-15 14:02:28 @Sceptic01 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 Yes Tigrayans and Amharas are Abyssinians, whichever is pushed out the seat of power allies with the Oromo against the other. The point is “weed” or “cancer” would only be made by and against Abyssinians because the Oromo don’t exist in that matrix 2021-08-15 13:44:15 https://t.co/M1EqIejvLc 2021-08-15 13:38:50 @Atse61 No I want to know what they’re reading 2021-08-15 13:36:50 Africa Press https://t.co/Cq6XoIBYCv 2021-08-15 13:31:56 Several now seem to be pushing for an anti-TPLF Tigrayan led front. Thread from Ann fitz-Gerald claiming there is one now https://t.co/XfwYKqQXJT 2021-08-15 12:18:05 RT @thotscholar: so they *CONFISCATED* this woman's children without cause. they've been surveilling this family. they targeted them for a… 2021-08-15 02:38:39 I personally am not believer in the #PropserityParty and #AbiyAhmed but have been told I’ve been led astray. Would like to spend this time learning more about what people are reading in order to better understand the #Ethiopian point of view 2021-08-15 01:04:24 How can we understand more about #Ethiopia when the western media is so biased. Who are the journalists, analysts, and reliable news sources covering #TPLFisaTerroristGroup, and #AfarMassacre? Share Monday https://t.co/kFFGIUgM5b 2021-08-15 00:59:10 I am going to plan a Twitter spaces with more advanced notice because I’m very interested in this question but clearly I need to do some advanced promotion https://t.co/1eJI3sKkFs 2021-08-15 00:43:03 @delabunna I want to know what’s the character of the list servs/what’s app groups people are participating in. Is Jeff Pearce universally embraced by crowd? 2021-08-15 00:41:23 @ballamii In all seriousness the degree to which so much of the society has been captured by the same exact narrative, I think we need to know how and what information they’re getting. I want to know 2021-08-15 00:34:19 If the Amnesty report is really #Shamnesty and #TPLF propaganda, where is the source for accurate information about the #ProsperityParty and #PMEthiopia. Please drops links to books, articles, blogs anywhere I can learn more 2021-08-15 00:24:47 If the western media is biased and is synchronized with the CIA and other foreign intelligence to undermine the integrity of the Ethiopian state—where do you go to learn the truth? Is it social media, you tube, what’s app, zooms with trusted people? 2021-08-15 00:23:20 I really want to understand the information science ecosystem of the pro-war crowd. If you believe that this war is necessary means to eliminating #TplfTerroristGroup can you please share what’s your info diet. Can you drop links to news sources you trust? 2021-08-15 00:19:21 Why I’m the head of the Distributed Blackness Stan club https://t.co/nCuq2F8byE 2021-08-14 22:32:54 I think we should all be forced to hate read the 756 page report from the national security commission on artificial intelligence of course led by Eric Schmidt-former hear of Alphabet-Google’s parent company https://t.co/n4uB5Ad2Lf 2021-08-14 22:32:53 S/o to @forbes for hosting the post @Snowden + @timnitGebru limited hangout. I suppose these are the nominees for the National AI Research Resource. AI Ethics has so effectively commodified the social harms of AI into a vehicle for state + Corp actors https://t.co/I7qIwSHSZ9 2021-08-14 22:17:39 @TeklehaymanotG @ThaAyantu I mean colonization is people in search of seasoning no? They don’t have any on home base 2021-08-14 21:26:13 @yslm_19 Good eye- so my speculation is that that level of specificity reflects vestiges of previous *humanitarian campaigns* where there was an influx of international adoption through state intervention rather than a targeted population 2021-08-14 19:30:03 RT @thaiyaan: "There is no nation of Indians in the real sense of the world, it is yet to be created. In believing we are a nation, we are… 2021-08-14 18:25:49 @PalmTreesnGz 2021-08-14 18:25:33 @ballamii When they see the Oromo in times of their own security- I think that’s right-we’re a site of their domestication. Times like these, I think the execution and recognition are simultaneous 2021-08-14 18:19:43 The Oromo is not recognized as a cell or part of the body politic, you cannot be a weed if you’re not even recognized at all. Haacaaluu was a genius, malaan jirra? Is a question demanding longue dureé -it operates on a different register than the pamphlet or militia- 2021-08-14 18:19:42 If in the Abyssinian imaginary Tigray is a weed-a plant classified into a crime solely for growing outside of where the state has allowed 2021-08-14 17:54:21 everyday I understand Baldwin more 2021-08-14 17:28:39 What I appreciate about the child welfare system is that it be keeping it 1000 given the pervasive absence of scrutiny. **Please note, emphasis on documenting candidacy is “maximizing reimbursement as opposed to a family’s actual circumstances https://t.co/FX9CYIYUef https://t.co/bYrjZCqA4B 2021-08-14 17:22:14 OCFS step by step tutorial for caseworkers to enter information into their CONNECTIONS database for a “placement request” Only in child welfare is kosher, halal, fire starter, sexual assault survivor and frequent appointments listed on the same axis. https://t.co/VrZ2xJP2cG https://t.co/MfnoxQN8wn 2021-08-14 17:13:56 @ballamii Ha! This would be an interesting question in Ethiopia given the depth of information collected at the woreda level. In this context, I believe the “I’m not Black, I’m Spanish” crowd opts for Hispanic or White if passing 2021-08-14 17:06:25 The implications for the New York City Child Welfare/Family Regulation system are the estimate of Black Children representing 53% of children in foster care and 36% of child services investigations is undoubtedly beneath the actual numbers 2021-08-14 16:57:03 Citation for both claims in the OCFS Monitoring and Analysis Profiles With Selected Trend Data: 2016-2020. (MAPS) Screenshot below is page 8, previous chart is from Appendix A of same document https://t.co/WVcmQSJjws https://t.co/JkBmiEHh8v 2021-08-14 16:51:45 a reminder that when interpreting studies where results are aggregated by race and ethnicity- to check how the classifications are determined Image here is from NY Office of Children and Family Services-Hispanic, White and AA are mutually exclusive w/ Hispanic given priority https://t.co/R3mX6RXBiG 2021-08-14 16:21:41 RT @DorothyERoberts: Morrison on what’s valuable about mothers is opposite how the U.S. state has always devalued Black mothers as inherent… 2021-08-14 15:49:24 UNHCR Sudan Emergency Response to Tigray Situation Weekly Update #5, Reporting Period: 1 – 7 August 2021 - Sudan | ReliefWeb **46,505 - total number of refugees registered via UNHCR’s Biometrics Identity Management System as of 30 June https://t.co/eacNfDx0Mu 2021-08-14 15:47:37 Amazon plans to monitor the keyboard strokes + mouse movements of customer service employees in an attempt to stop rogue workers, imposters, or hackers accessing customers https://t.co/ErjLHJhJ3f 2021-08-14 15:37:44 RT @funnymonkey: After Apple effectively reneges on their privacy promises, trusting both Apple and an app with your physical location and… 2021-08-14 14:53:10 prevail: be widespread in a particular area at a particular time related terra nullius: land belonging to no one 2021-08-14 14:49:03 i don’t want to build | celebrate | mythologize | claim | war machines. they are not gallant or clever or supreme or govern they just prevail 2021-08-14 01:35:13 @DocDre oh you mean deputies 2021-08-14 01:25:26 @DocDre come again? 2021-08-13 23:02:58 @ThaAyantu seldom do I answer a word 2021-08-13 22:10:43 RT @PopTechWorks: In the next piece in #AutomatingCare series @guardian, meet ElliQ, the AI “side kick for happier aging.” The question "Wh… 2021-08-13 22:06:45 < 2021-08-13 21:49:26 RT @MariusKothor: My archival research this summer gave me a deeper understanding of just how much time & 2021-08-13 21:45:02 @bigblackjacobin Pedro Paramo! 2021-08-13 21:41:06 Me: how are we going to reintegrate the war mongerers into society? Someone in Addis: you got it backwards-they are society- so how are we going to reintegrate with them The press conferences are less funny now that I see the extent to which it has captured hearts and minds 2021-08-13 21:30:38 @DocDre The article that explains so much… 2021-08-13 17:55:44 @ZeerakW 2021-08-13 16:28:33 What’s the most disturbing about him literally saying that while we disagree, I must keep an open mind to anti imperialism b/c the CIA and Interpol are synchronized in support of the terrorist TPLF-is he’s not on social media 2021-08-13 16:24:39 Not my father saying “he’s responding to the call for diaspora to return to the motherland in support of the war effort” 2021-08-13 15:26:10 @makeinjera Conscription into silence might be the first GoE plan we can all support 2021-08-13 15:08:50 My one and only issue with Lizzo. *This coincided with a series of commercial deals btwn her and Amazon https://t.co/RgncERz0b2 2021-08-13 14:51:46 @whoreganizer clearly… 2021-08-13 14:04:47 Huawei late night cackling at the first African Union data breach not to be traced back to them https://t.co/CqfwLkJ8G1 2021-08-13 13:57:28 all the MLM dogmatists will have you believing sex work as work is white feminist idealism because they conceive of the superstructure as the exclusive domain of the state and White bourgeoisie- aka they deny Black agency and crowdsource respectability politics for the free- 2021-08-13 13:45:04 Mad people asked me for comment on Apple’s iOS update to scan all photos in service of preventing child abuse but idk what to say other than y’all don’t listen to sex workers 2021-08-13 13:38:58 @TeklehaymanotG @dr_muyoka @ThaAyantu @_AfricanUnion It never ceases to amaze me how these people don’t understand how the internet works 2021-08-13 13:23:03 RT @keguro_: (resistance cannot be our only vernacular I take that as @DocDre's point we need—AND HAVE—Fanonian invention AND other ways… 2021-08-13 13:18:25 @ballamii @ThaAyantu Countdown til he marches out his adopted daughter 2021-08-13 13:05:39 @ThaAyantu Omg this is worse https://t.co/NjV2OTzPxf 2021-08-13 12:27:49 @BurukAregawi I knowwwww everything about this screams “panicked fleeing” 2021-08-13 12:13:11 RT @sesmith: Many people are unaware that their states have databases tracking their controlled substances prescriptions, but it’s worse th… 2021-08-13 12:03:22 @ThaAyantu Was war mongering propaganda always so cringe? 2021-08-13 11:51:49 @franz_kassa The said #ThrowbackThursday with their whole chest 2021-08-13 11:50:44 @ballamii @ThaAyantu @Teklai_Michael agreed 2021-08-13 11:50:04 What in the zoomed in screenshot of a Google docs on MS-DOS is this lmao https://t.co/xpW73x95tx 2021-08-13 11:45:04 Why do all of these press briefings sound like the script was written through predictive text? “We fired the unilateral cease, clique criminal terrorists with humanitarian aid, trucks of framing wrong, western western media biased, government of Ethiopia…” https://t.co/ciCG2375eD 2021-08-13 11:27:04 “The Indian government seems to be working towards restoring a skimmed version of the pre-2019 status quo in Kashmir, wherein regional integrationist parties appear to have some power on paper, but in practice, the BJP has the final say in all matters” https://t.co/p6evWtDIxo 2021-08-13 11:20:12 Compare that response to the header https://t.co/Mcjuh9MGh5 https://t.co/GQCT5NwNoU 2021-08-13 11:18:42 Hannah Giorgis wrote this largely celebratory piece in August 2018 about the diaspora response to Abiy Ahmed. Oromos know what time it is because the politics are always clearer from those violently forced into the periphery. Y’all don’t hear us tho https://t.co/xLOANVlOC7 https://t.co/vZNOXRtS5f 2021-08-13 11:11:09 @DidaWako3 I’m surprised Abiy hasn’t fled yet tbh but I’m less worried about the timing of inevitable regime change than the lack of a viable political project on the table by all parties that returns to the question of multinational federalism in any serious way 2021-08-13 11:09:05 @ThaAyantu @Teklai_Michael I think it’s anti empire in the sense that B4P was anti imperialist lol. I’ve actually heard this argument before but I don’t think it’s a question of education as much as how much every nations’ collaborator class is willing to use the youth as cannon fodder for their ascendancy 2021-08-13 10:51:31 @ThaAyantu < 2021-08-13 10:50:51 The instrumentalizing of Oromo people by whoever has state power is the weather in Ethiopia. So is torturing, executing and imprisoning Oromo political dissent. 2021-08-13 10:44:37 17 year old Amaniel Wondimu Kebede was executed in broad daylight and that brought little attention to the frequency and intensity of everyday violence in Oromia. 2021-08-13 10:29:19 10 months, Oromos weren’t even spoken of by the GoE or the media- save as a site of conscription-until the TDF/OLA alliance and an assassination came Amazon prime delivery speed. 2021-08-13 01:52:13 @BougieBlackGurl :/ https://t.co/0QImdI0Pti 2021-08-13 01:25:16 @misskitila My favorite part is Fitsum dropped transcripts like it was a flex 2021-08-13 01:22:42 RT @taoleighgoffe: Over the moon and honoured to receive the 2021 Toni Cade Bambara Article Prize for my @womenandperf essay “Chop Suey… 2021-08-13 01:06:05 @blkwomenstudies @taoleighgoffe Congratulations! 2021-08-13 00:27:32 @cloudquistador @parismarx @hypervisible @histoftech Thank you 2021-08-13 00:10:06 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 @AmnestyEARO It’s a free citation manager, which is extremely helpful to researchers or advocacy orgs because you enter metadata and organize everything by topic. Basically your Twitter threads as an archive https://t.co/wgyn5mWCX7 2021-08-13 00:02:12 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 @AmnestyEARO @Galaxy2Galaxy5 do you know what Zotero is? I feel like that would be a great tool to leverage your citations 2021-08-12 22:29:11 This was the inspiration if you want to join the challenge https://t.co/GmZ9Cuu06U 2021-08-12 22:26:38 We have to render the image in Black and white first, which makes me think of CCTV. What does the fish make of watching the watcher https://t.co/2IW0hHo0Wi 2021-08-12 22:18:41 I finished my second paper on genocide in two weeks and I’ll be focusing on building the fish go cart to retrieve some joy now 2021-08-12 22:16:40 Idk where the rats went on holiday but they back now 2021-08-12 19:21:08 @Blen_Ge @zeaxumawit I don’t disagree that the stories should be told, but I think Amnesty could have proceeded with more care in how they framed and delivered the information. They could have also included more people in the design of the project…This is not just advocacy it’s peoples lives 2021-08-12 15:22:08 @MeskiDu @EremiasWmikael @amnesty @ProfKindeya @GlobalGsts I’m with you-if it came across otherwise I apologize. What I was trying to say is we need more framing from your example vs Amnesty’s headers saying “sadistic brutality” and ignoring the community’s traditions of healing 2021-08-12 15:13:22 @MeskiDu @EremiasWmikael @amnesty @ProfKindeya @GlobalGsts ^^I agree with relying on traditional healing 1000% instead of “newer better”. I think that a lot of people are in need of that but have just been reading the amnesty report alone in horror 2021-08-12 13:40:01 Billene Fall Plans The Delta Variant https://t.co/Yd77Eyxhl6 2021-08-12 13:35:36 Abiy’s Fall Plans The Delta Variant https://t.co/XZdxryzajY 2021-08-12 13:20:25 @uche_blackstock To be clear me and my kids who are old enough are vaccinated but response from our family that are resistant: where was this energy for HIV, Crack, more people are dying of war (for my relatives in Ethiopia) etc. rather than conspiracy 2021-08-12 13:18:00 @uche_blackstock Black folks experience an intensity of violence that in certain areas outpaces Covid (Ie infant mortality, incarceration, lead poisoning) but doesn’t get the same singular focus as Covid-I think it’s not just lack of trust but cognitive dissonance 2021-08-12 12:58:09 RT @FBedaso: Enough has been said about this precious life we lost. It’s unbearable that we continue to lose the very best of us seemingly… 2021-08-12 11:56:19 I can’t help but think the entire origin of this article was WSJ making it to the #PMEthiopia press release’s nonsense list of junta media or whatever. Like there’s no real reporting, it just kind of says water is wet and puts a stake in the ground. https://t.co/fPQ1MldJNR 2021-08-12 11:48:06 @EvelKneidel It’s also the historical norm, at the turn of the 20th century police would knock down peoples door to enforce vaccination in the tenements under the auspice of the department of public charities and corrections 2021-08-12 11:38:41 @Dawit_ng Fwiw this is a thread from the co-author of the WaPo piece on Tigray Twitter explaining the method they used to map both pro-govt and Tigray activists. Some of the software like Gephi to map networks is free and maybe easier than listing names one by one https://t.co/zB8PARvCx2 2021-08-12 11:18:32 RT @machinekillspod: 92. Fully Automated Luxury Surveillance (ft. @hypervisible) We had @hypervisible on to talk about his incisive anal… 2021-08-12 01:41:02 I’ve made it from born again Nollywood to RomCom Lagos, this one is pretty decent https://t.co/DptlNFF2nz 2021-08-12 00:44:24 @aslanschild_ @swilliamsjourno I think I’m caught up now, it’s a shame that he’s so basic given the article was overall good, and imho preferable to Davison etc. but…whiteness prevails 2021-08-12 00:33:33 @aslanschild_ @swilliamsjourno 2021-08-11 23:00:21 @micahherskind The same field that brought us this https://t.co/ZYopP3IpFx 2021-08-11 20:22:30 @henokgabisa Rest In Peace and sorry for your loss 2021-08-11 18:59:40 Absolutely thrilled and grateful for this urgently needed book https://t.co/mJ5urqibGT 2021-08-11 17:11:53 @mynewdam @swilliamsjourno Echo chamber is literally a small enclosed environment, evidence of the Tigray genocide exists everywhere outside of PP propaganda 2021-08-11 17:09:04 @_Almaqah It’s similar to QAnon in a way 2021-08-11 16:28:25 RT @ThaAyantu: "I don't regret that I got out from that country (#Ethiopia) and I don't even want to go back again. It's so painful. It hur… 2021-08-11 15:53:53 “Colonization cannibalizes your most intimate discourses and weaponizes them against you” 2021-08-11 15:52:48 The point on how TRC allowed the people who benefitted from apartheid to commodify reconciliation through creating civic society orgs “saving victims of apartheid” reminds me of Vinay Lal’s point that the Nazis wanted to build a museum of Jewish culture post-Holocaust 2021-08-11 15:47:19 This is imho v good, it discusses the “epistemicide” of the Truth and reconciliation commission-meaning how western notions of time were pushed into people, undermined indigenous governance structures and accepted historical harms as meant to be https://t.co/mjjZMRuspc 2021-08-11 15:29:47 **I rebuke this Arab Springs framing where the problem with “Zuckerberg’s vision for connecting the world is it doesn’t translate” to the global south [read: tribalist colored people ] but there’s some good reporting in here nonetheless 2021-08-11 15:29:46 Almost comforting to know Ethiopia is not the only repressive nation state struggling to grasp how the internet works https://t.co/T2JO37nBBR https://t.co/a4s3sU2mIN 2021-08-11 15:16:23 RT @ztsamudzi: My piece “A Paradox of Recognition” looks at Raphael Lemkin’s responses to the Ovaherero/Nama genocide and the “We Charge Ge… 2021-08-11 15:14:57 RT @vukosi: Our pre-print looking at Machine Learning models to identity South African disinformation websites is out. This is a step in a… 2021-08-11 15:12:25 RT @keguro_: Also, since I'm thinking about method. Keyword searches are not very helpful for finding a lot of stuff in earlier scholarshi… 2021-08-11 15:05:34 RT @ThaAyantu: The real crime is you all are leading a country of 100 million people but you can’t grasp the simple fact that you can’t con… 2021-08-11 14:29:28 This is a great thread examining the failures of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa. Helpful in thinking about what mechanisms of accountability should and shouldn’t look like https://t.co/EGJ9J22pWr 2021-08-11 14:24:40 @ETFactCheck It’s #6 for me. How are you a whole nation state speaking in tongues and cribbing the Old Testament to demonize a section of your population, unable to find a better publicist yet criticizing the media for a lack of effort?? Make it make sense 2021-08-11 14:02:23 Also transformative justice doesn’t mean “Truth and Reconciliation” or that survivors must forgive or forget those that harmed them. https://t.co/EGJ9J22pWr 2021-08-11 13:53:18 I’m personally not Christian but I know many survivors are, this is a guide for building accountability in Christian communities that are not punishment focused https://t.co/4YmpzyHqtw 2021-08-11 13:37:00 Resource Guide for Black Healing and Support, geared towards the Greater Toronto Area but there’s also online supports open to everywhere else https://t.co/Ngqz04RJ4x 2021-08-11 13:31:05 @MussieG_cherkos @AmnestyEARO This is an example of what an anti-colonial approach to this type of report could look like https://t.co/Vfcia1pgCy 2021-08-11 13:29:33 @MussieG_cherkos @AmnestyEARO These are tragic stories that need to be told and it was designed by an outside entity that could have taken more care and included the community in the recommendations. Can’t we hold both as true? 2021-08-11 13:16:15 RT @UpFromTheCracks: This Invisible No More Guide is geared towards Black women in the US but it has a lot of tips that can be slightly mod… 2021-08-11 13:15:12 This Invisible No More Guide is geared towards Black women in the US but it has a lot of tips that can be slightly modified for #TigraySurvivors esp how to manage reading things like the Amnesty report https://t.co/cVlofH42hm https://t.co/O3dofJ9Qfj 2021-08-11 13:13:05 @MussieG_cherkos @AmnestyEARO What makes it colonial is not that the people who wrote the report were white-which idek if they were- it’s that they list violence after violence with no consideration to the families that will read it and no recommendations for them even though the brunt will fall on them 2021-08-11 12:54:15 Short note on hashtags: 1-Mute Mein Kamf Twitter, life is too short to deal with their war mongering energy on the TL. You can add their hashtags into your settings to mute them as a network or group 2- Hashtags are not meant to be a paragraph long y’all. 2 words max, I beg. 2021-08-11 12:39:41 RT @Meron_Geb: Important point. Ultimately it is the community that bears the brunt of these crimes and the wishes of the community at larg… 2021-08-11 12:25:56 Also an important point about the added dimension of maternal health and postnatal care https://t.co/PAZiJYRXiv 2021-08-11 12:24:05 Adding this here too so it flows with the thread s/o to @womenoftigray https://t.co/j52N2AIedT 2021-08-11 12:22:46 @_Almaqah Yes shout out to @womenoftigray for putting together this thread. This is much better and an example of why the community should be framing from the ground up vs NGOs top down 2021-08-11 12:19:46 I know text is not accessible for everyone, here’s a series of videos on transformative justice from that are in plain language and address disability as well as centering survivors https://t.co/axJBkTeXTU 2021-08-11 12:17:01 This doesn’t address the context of war but it does outline a transformative justice approach to child sexual assault and can help people think through healing differently. Provides prompts or language to use with child survivors. https://t.co/j4Ce45WXr7 2021-08-11 12:13:19 this is a process to support people in making a plan for who they can go to for which type of supports. A pod just is more concrete than saying “build community” it’s about identifying roles and relationships around the person harmed #TigrayGenocide https://t.co/ZSBAo3ZFxn 2021-08-11 11:59:39 I’m so disturbed by @AmnestyEARO’s colonial approach to documenting harm in Tigray. It addresses and makes recommendations to 2 states and the UN as if the community that’s reading it only exists as a site where other peoples violence takes place. 2021-08-11 11:46:14 Not all of the Black left are tankies even though it can feel like that rn. Black women like Mariame Kabe, Andrea Ritchie, organizations like Project Nia, 8 to Abolition have created guides for transformative justice approaches to harm- 2021-08-11 11:46:13 Survivors who have become pregnant will begin having children. They need support now and 20 years from now when the children begin to look like the soldiers who conceived them. 2021-08-11 11:46:12 TW: Rape Sexual violence is about power and domination, there will be survivors who identify as men, boys or queer. There will be elders and children. The grief and trauma will continue after all the NGOs and liberation fronts have moved on- https://t.co/YyDxHDO9Ch 2021-08-11 01:45:15 @PopTechWorks @FAccTConference Ha! You’re always more generous than me 2021-08-10 23:06:47 RT @PalmTreesnGz: This is why abolition as a praxis and guiding organizing principle is important transnationally and for Central Americans… 2021-08-10 22:57:04 No literally the intellectual architect automated child welfare/family cops is saying Virginia Eubanks wasn’t a fan but the AFST was a smashing success + @FAccTConference approved paper btw https://t.co/iVQV0BUYvK 2021-08-10 22:29:20 My Rhema Vaithianathan nightmares are only second to Jeanette Wing. Summary: Everyone agrees the Allegheny Family Screening Tool is a great way to mitigate racial disproportionality in child welfare except Virginia Eubanks but can’t win them all! https://t.co/0oAh7eINR7 2021-08-10 19:52:00 I realized the language of the piece is kind of academic so wrote my attempt at plain speaking here https://t.co/ev9VDyT0mw 2021-08-10 19:49:30 In plain language (n my 2 cents): whiteness changes atrocity images into a thing to be collected, viral videos of genocide or lynching turn the violence into the ordinary. It doesn’t change our political situation as much as feed into the assumption that we’re already dead https://t.co/O0YMIEa4KB https://t.co/yop2PNNOPF 2021-08-10 19:41:22 @aslanschild_ I love how you got the receipts 2021-08-10 19:31:33 #TigrayGenocide #OromoProtests #HumeraMassacre squad, please read this piece on the white desire to consume Black suffering (and why we must take more control over how our stories are told) https://t.co/XN2K0do3Ht 2021-08-10 19:29:07 I promise you @AmnestyEARO there are ways to document harm that are not as dehumanizing as this. Why is sexual violence being pre-advertised like a new mixtape is about to drop?? https://t.co/J8scOd1jtR 2021-08-10 19:24:22 The more I think about that man’s comment, the angrier I become, even in genocide we’re supposed to produce ourselves as desirable sites of consumption for white people? 2021-08-10 19:09:04 @swilliamsjourno The deaths and displacement in Afar should be condemned but we’re operating in a v hazy information space where it’s unclear if some of TDF went rogue, are they just out here committing war crimes just off strength we don’t know yet. 2021-08-10 19:04:46 @swilliamsjourno This is a problematic take conflating Tigray genocide survivors w/ TDF. Compassion for genocide should not be conditional- esp. on being perceived as politically desirable subjects. 2021-08-10 18:34:56 @swilliamsjourno Part of why your overall analysis was better than many, was you began from the Irob- those historically and violently forced to the periphery have a more clear eyed view of society. Where your understanding falters is in the near complete omission of the south 2021-08-10 00:29:20 thinking about how many neamins exist but we don’t know them because they’re not on Twitter, how do you reintegrate these people into the world? This is so much worse than QAnon 2021-08-09 18:22:45 @Blackamazon @so_treu @sassycrass Thank you so much! 2021-08-09 18:00:42 @Blackamazon I’m trying to cite the slip is showing campaign. are you the creator ? And/or who else should I attribute 2021-08-09 17:24:46 I swear all the Prosperity Party does is plagiarize the Derg’s playbook. In 1990, Israel backs Mengistu’s war on EPLF claiming the predominantly Christian population will change the “Red Sea into the Arab Sea” https://t.co/1vkiH7TMee https://t.co/iKqLBBPb0X https://t.co/4kFYhACNIf 2021-08-09 17:05:28 RT @curateoromia: This is so hilarious but lays bare how the Ethiopian empire has dogamtic Others (Islam & 2021-08-09 14:34:25 This is the absolutely most hilarious collage of misfiring symbolism that I’ve witnessed in the last 9 months and I’m cryinggggg just thinking of the meeting where they was like Islamophobia meets Star Wars, and the hotep was like < 2021-08-09 10:40:43 @ballamii We knew that before he showed up tho, why is the bar so low? 2021-08-09 10:33:05 @ballamii Respectfully, I completely disagree. We hear from him and colonial minded people like him all the time whether we like it or not. The entire world is their platform and we don’t need to give them another one. 2021-08-09 01:45:49 Apples and honey is the accessory to Rosh Hashanah aka Jewish new year, a new beginning fraught by the question of- anew- but at whose expense… https://t.co/ea7ARsw7f4 2021-08-08 23:53:54 RT @ThaAyantu: The AU needs to acknowledge that they have built their headquarters on the stolen lands of the Tulama Oromo, learn it’s hist… 2021-08-08 22:48:31 We need to expand our lexicon b/c when I say Oromo, I don’t mean OPDO, I don’t mean Asafa Jalata but I do mean Galaanaa Gaaromsaa, Haacaaluu Hundeessaa and I do specify Tulama Oromo and I do mean #LandBack and I do invoke oral archives of dispossession, enslavement and rebellion 2021-08-08 21:50:26 osa is so chaotic. It be feminist anti-colonial Oromo theory punctuated by white men explaining how we don’t need to decolonize that much, uncles whose biggest problem with empire is Oromos don’t get to administer it followed by beautiful storytelling in afaan oromo 2021-08-08 21:31:05 RT @ThaAyantu: Vinay's critique of Edward Said: he fundamentally could not contend with the question of the transcendent. His inability to… 2021-08-08 21:30:46 RT @ballamii: The name "#Ethiopia" is not a name of a country or anything. Rather it is a name of political ideology called Ethiopianism. T… 2021-08-08 21:22:32 My 2 critiques of the essay (while I still think it’s v much worth reading) is it parrots the Ethiopianist rejection via re-phrasing of multinational federalism as “ethnic federalism” 2021-08-08 21:22:31 This is a really good substantive analysis on the Tigray genocide. Strong recommend to my non #HoA people who have no idea what I’ve been rage tweeting about- https://t.co/E9wXDUj2o9 2021-08-08 20:55:29 “Our oromo nationalism cannot reproduce fascist nationalism, we cannot forget the relational, we have to reach for our ontological roots which are not the same as state nationalism” -Kuwee Kumsa 2021-08-08 20:22:15 Followed by claiming the Ugandan refugee experience as his own, he said we are all ignorant of Africa. May him and his ilk never know peace. 2021-08-08 20:19:19 Gérard Prunier should not be allowed to speak at the Oromo Studies Association. Imho this man shouldn’t be allowed to speak anywhere 2021-08-08 20:03:23 @ThaAyantu I particularly Stan those who do so with such precision and disregard for respectability politics 2021-08-08 20:00:42 @Teklai_Michael No one should agree because dr prunier is white intelligence agency While there’s a difference in Oromos relationship to the state as compared to Tigrayans, this is a statement intended to inflame absent analysis in service of neither of us 2021-08-08 19:47:37 “Stop bringing regime change foreigners to forums like this, if you want to talk about the future of Africa, don’t bring people like this who say my wife is Black and thinks they can show up to take over.. Bring people who have real stakes in the future of Africa” -Kalundi 2021-08-08 19:11:29 I have to reactivate just to commend @NativeLandgrab for calling Dr. Prunier out his whole life. How dare the CIA come through to #OSA to invoke Musveni as an moral arbiter of the Ethiopian empire!! Get emmmm 2021-08-05 13:42:05 RT @shannonmattern: Today from 10-11:30am ET I'll be serving as Twitter documentarian for the Community Internet Trust roundtable, hosted b… 2021-08-05 13:41:47 short version, don’t focus on moving the pieces on the board to the point you forget to question the game being played 2021-08-05 13:36:10 RT @AmanSium: For a lot of the Western left Africa is reduced to a talking point. An analogy. A proxy through which people take sides in U.… 2021-08-05 12:36:41 @ElleniZeleke I actually never read them but just lightly noticed them from the periphery-which tbh is how I imagine most people do and why they get so far. 2021-08-05 12:31:09 @ElleniZeleke Until recently I had only seen their coverage on Incarceration/Policing in the US and Palestine which seem basically coherent and principled. It’s worth noting tho, even these start to fall apart if you look too close, but people don’t read. 2021-08-05 12:07:00 “A friend, whenever he calls someone, often starts his conversation saying, “my phone is being tapped, please be a bit louder so that the listener shouldn’t face any difficulty.” 2021-08-05 12:05:26 An important reminder in the aftermath of Pegasus revelations- in #Kashmir the default assumption is your phone is tapped. People cannot afford to think about surveillance as anything other than the fabric of Indian occupation https://t.co/2GifPmicpS 2021-08-05 11:59:50 RT @mjunaidr: August 5, 2019 will be remembered as a day when a hateful, fascist regime cheered on by a vengeful majority sought to destroy… 2021-08-05 11:52:24 RT @mirsuhail: KASHMIR IS "NORMAL" ON 5 AUGUST #kashmir #5august #article370scrapped #normalization https://t.co/4RUQZpTfX2 https://t.… 2021-08-05 02:17:10 @IgorBrigadir @DocDre soon come it will be published in ACM interactions, they embedded audio in each scene too, pretty amazing project 2021-08-05 02:09:40 @DocDre TOS participants did a prototype of the internet as a city and featured FB as a mall so can't take credit for that 2021-08-05 01:34:42 @DocDre What about a mall? 2021-08-05 01:16:24 RT @nullvoidstar: I work on this project. Not sure what else to say right now, but previously I wrote about using Facebook’s “transparency… 2021-08-05 01:09:41 @aslanschild_ @ThaAyantu I do not think Ethiopia will Balkanize because the economic base of the country is so reliant on southern land and natural resources. What I’d like to see is national dialogue and revisit federalism, what I see on the horizon tho is more war 2021-08-05 00:56:36 From 2018 but one of the first things that changed how I think about tech https://t.co/lrR3URznFZ 2021-08-05 00:54:22 I’ll never forget the @flashforwardpod episode where I learned car manufacturers hired a PR agency to convince the public streets were no longer for pedestrians for months before rolling out the cars to consumers https://t.co/KSAYocf7bc 2021-08-05 00:48:37 @aslanschild_ @ThaAyantu post-91 during the transitional government but similar to the lead up of this war, much of the political opposition was arrested etc by the time multinational federalism was adopted in ‘95 2021-08-05 00:40:48 @dgolumbia https://t.co/f8C5ggqeAJ 2021-08-05 00:18:34 @tmah1670 Oromos who have a platform are generally in jail, executed or outraged. But I cannot speak for 35 million people particularly in Oromia where the intense and frequent state violence goes unreported nevermind peoples political dissent 2021-08-04 23:38:10 @tmah1670 Oromo elites collaborating with the federal government and selling out their people doesn’t change the fundamental difference between the north, the south and the Ethiopian state 2021-08-04 23:24:49 In the 1990s, one of the things Oromo activists were discussing was to let Amhara and Tigray keep the name Ethiopia for themselves in the North and the rest of the territories use their Indigenous names- h/t @ThaAyantu 2021-08-04 23:13:55 Amharas: thank you so much, I’m in tears Oromos: Ethiopia as an ancient Christian kingdom is a myth used to deny conquest and legitimate state violence Tegaru: It’s our myth not Ethiopia’s https://t.co/FHLa2nXExS 2021-08-04 22:43:13 @ThaAyantu I’m just dead at the same people crowing about US regime change a week ago, are orgiastic in Tibor’s mentions today. 2021-08-04 22:37:18 If Spike Lee was Oromo https://t.co/8NuOM0nJkQ 2021-08-04 22:29:20 RT @ThaAyantu: Never mind that the nation state as a system itself is not 2000 years old but you know we stay #Prevailing not even the law… 2021-08-04 22:14:26 RT @omarhuseiin: “I’ve never said i wish i could run for Ethiopia, unless for Oromia if it gets liberated”. — Sifan Hassan. https://… 2021-08-04 22:03:33 @bwesigye @ThaAyantu I mean sure, I’m just not convinced this litigating of terms is productive given many continue to celebrate Emperors as Black liberators nvm acknowledge there are African Indigenous nations with claims in 2021 2021-08-04 16:53:46 @HalfAtlanta Emla cream (it’s basically topical lidocaine) for 20 minutes prior to the blood draw and freeze spray for 30ish seconds right before can decrease the pain for many people 2021-08-04 16:49:06 @DocDre There’s already an epsilon and lambda they’re just not “variants of concern” 2021-08-04 16:24:03 @bwesigye @ThaAyantu “merely” rushes past exactly what was the arrangement and relationship btwn for example Emperor Menelik + Selassie and their Western patrons. West being primary doesn’t negate the agency of conquerors who wrought centralized control of many nations through military force 2021-08-04 14:05:08 “The war in Yugoslavia began with speeches, political disputes and minor clashes. “ like I cannot yo? Wtf is this 2021-08-04 13:54:35 I fail to see the value in these shallow comparisons. Who is the audience for this? The west who can’t find either country on a map? Raising the specter of Eastern Europe to add no analysis + champion the African Union, people just throwing darts out here https://t.co/5f9KmnHVOE 2021-08-04 13:40:06 Cryinggg, we deserve this laughter in the midst of so much despair https://t.co/xBcHXZlkx4 2021-08-04 10:52:58 RT @AINowInstitute: NEW: @ambaonadventure & 2021-08-04 10:02:01 @henokgabisa It’s interesting that people are responding as if this is such an outrageous claim. Check out IBM and the Holocaust https://t.co/mAhrUzBVVO 2021-08-04 01:02:19 @aslanschild_ I’m familiar with it in the US, my family back home is Muslim albeit that has its own issues 2021-08-04 01:00:26 @fosterhood https://t.co/oGJI18a6SO 2021-08-04 00:32:32 Netflix has brought me to the Pentecostal section of Nollywood and god is literally hitting shorty up on her iPhone 2021-08-04 00:23:46 burnt out is the weather 2021-08-03 23:42:58 RT @JulianPosada0: I was interviewed by @telliotter for this @restofworld article on data annotation for the self-driving car industry. Th… 2021-08-03 23:39:10 RT @telliotter: Often, users treat tech like it's magic. Terms like "smart" and "autonomous" imply that humans are not involved in the proc… 2021-08-03 23:38:15 Excellent piece on the the sweatshop labor hidden by tech bro lingo like *smart* and *autonomous*. Also super dope to see @JulianPosada0 discussing his research with Latin American micro taskers https://t.co/xS2x26SZot 2021-08-03 15:02:48 “It has been surreal to see how Ethiopia’s state media and affiliated influencers have managed to create an alternative reality in which even live-recorded killings do not register a sympathetic response.” https://t.co/IGD3jcLjfR 2021-08-03 11:49:52 https://t.co/opxM8DJPbT 2021-08-03 11:48:33 The question is why why why https://t.co/qIgxBhV2sh 2021-08-03 11:47:31 Ugh so good https://t.co/aJjGtSpMYV 2021-08-03 11:45:36 I’ve been blocked by my fave. Idk why but Billene is a constant source of hilarity for me https://t.co/uArIuFIMq9 2021-08-03 11:23:31 It’s a sign of desperation that the Prosperity Party is scraping the barrel in search of media outlets to manufacture consent for the war. TRT is the mouthpiece of the Erdogan govt. BTNewsroom is one of the BAR/Grayzone adjacent type pop ups etc. https://t.co/OCNX8bx5zL 2021-08-03 11:19:43 @TsenatSaba Re: TRT, it’s a right wing mouthpiece of the Erdogan Govt https://t.co/5tV0TlaSwp https://t.co/jzIrqDaYyC 2021-08-02 22:20:42 Shsjdjdjjddddkkk https://t.co/6opKeKqULX 2021-08-02 22:03:03 The first time I’ve heard Oromo invoked by the Prosperity Gospel Party since Haacaaluu was murdered-was to conscript them into this war. We’re considered useless until we’re useful. 2021-08-02 21:59:41 No wonder the Ethiopianists hate multinational federalism, it codified recognition for the plurality of nations and nationalities they’d like to remain a nameless geography of extraction 2021-08-02 21:57:24 Oromos rarely invoke the international community because we’ve never been legible to them. The people who actually forced a regime change are rendered a non event in their eyes 2021-08-02 21:55:38 Did she just chimamanda adichie a genocide? Such a collage of cultural and political registers going on here https://t.co/Oc83bpLIMu 2021-08-02 21:10:06 The “Ethiopian Journalist dismantling the one sided narrative” is a @PMEthiopia press correspondent. The punchlines write themselves. https://t.co/tvsjzuDNsq https://t.co/AgTRVWWdQd 2021-08-02 19:41:45 How to answer such good questions when the nature of the Ethiopian state means so much the Oromo opposition is dead, in jail or free because they sold out https://t.co/nYAiAG8gyV 2021-08-02 18:00:04 accountability is not a punishment 2021-08-02 17:54:12 RT @ThaAyantu: The irony being that it’s the very thing that people think they “know” about Ethiopia that gets in the way of them actually… 2021-08-02 16:58:20 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Relatable, as Oromos attempt to speak through the veil of Pan African Mythos including Selassie, Garvey, Menelik et al… 2021-08-02 16:56:50 Relatable, as Oromos attempt to speak through the veil of Pan African Mythos including Selassie, Garvey, Menelik et al. So many of us muffled by this progressive canon https://t.co/q2vszFjipe 2021-08-02 16:54:11 “All activists in Kashmir are at risk. Lawyers have been killed, people’s houses have been targeted, unidentified gunmen have shot at people associated with us and other groups. It’s a very militarized environment, you know” https://t.co/WutWv4tVrL 2021-08-02 16:54:09 The parallels between Modi’s hindutva paternalism and Abiy Ahmed’s Pentecostal Ethiopian unity are so stark, down to the invocation of broken ceasefires https://t.co/TjwQ7FdRGj 2021-08-02 16:54:05 “Hindutva Twitter—which has long made MAGA Twitter look quaint—seethed with denunciations of “traitors” and “Pakapologists” and writhed with demands for ever greater violence.” https://t.co/q9spWmt9Cb 2021-08-02 16:46:21 From 2019 and don’t per se agree with everything within but a v compelling and substantive essay on the occupation of Kashmir in all its complexity https://t.co/KECS1jKHbt 2021-08-02 15:13:28 the irony given a certain group’s obsession with the dam https://t.co/iL9nRaQkrP 2021-08-02 14:57:25 RT @ljosag: See also this egregious one I'm re-sharing from this morning: https://t.co/dvak05Od41 2021-08-02 14:39:41 @dgolumbia @berrydm Dm me if you have a chance @dgolumbia 2021-08-02 14:35:30 @dgolumbia @berrydm Ah in transit, like send it to you in a bit but it was from the Resistance AI workshop at NeurIPS 2021-08-02 14:26:13 RT @dgolumbia: stunning expose (unless you've been paying attention) on how #Google (& 2021-08-02 14:26:10 @dgolumbia @berrydm Good piece, it’s interesting they didn’t include that all major AI/CS conferences are funded by big tech including NeurIPS where that big tobacco paper originated from. My 2 cents, the conferences really serve as a validating mechanism for which analysis is amplified 2021-08-02 14:16:45 Interesting to see the war mongering queen of disinformation distancing herself from the latest round of B4P inspired mythmaking https://t.co/L8gvVboDO8 2021-08-02 14:06:25 @Brooko07 Recognizing they have legitimate grievances needs to be accompanied with enough silence to let them be heard. Litigating their strategy and blame allocation shouldn’t take precedent. Especially on social media where on the whole they have no access. 2021-08-02 12:34:11 The most tragic part of the Eritrean refugees protesting at the UN, is we can see that the UN is also awful from the way they’ve treated Tigrayan refugees in Sudan. https://t.co/YlB7n8zYIj 2021-08-02 12:29:19 @AgameAdiJeganu @SoiraEmba We should hold each other accountable yes 2021-08-02 11:58:39 @NetserTS My post is directed towards those who explicitly labeled Eritrean refugees as opportunists and informants - if it doesn’t apply, let it slide. Regardless, solidarity means not drowning them out with claims of your innocence, let them be heard even if it’s politically inconvenient 2021-08-02 11:54:59 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @Galaxy2Galaxy5 Refugees have been abandoned thrice over by their nation states, the UN and all of everyone’s acronym… 2021-08-02 11:46:30 I’m unmoved by this argument that some refugees are spies. And? Some TDF are TPLF that committed mass atrocities in the past without being held accountable. Does this mean all Tigrayans are enemy combatants? Does this mean Eritrean refugees have no legitimate grievances? 2021-08-02 02:21:41 @RatioDecider @UNHumanRights @PowerUSAID My post is directed to those #onhere who have explicitly painted the protests of Eritrean refugees as opportunism or the work of informants. You’re being defensive about blame I’m not allocating or in a position to for that matter 2021-08-02 00:50:31 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 Ok I have to get off of Twitter an watch Nigerian movies now. I’ll read these tomorrow and respond 2021-08-02 00:49:32 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 Refugees have been abandoned thrice over by their nation states, the UN and all of everyone’s acronymed political movements and militias as far as I’m concerned. So this analysis about their machinations rings hollow to me 2021-08-02 00:46:28 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 2) Who are the displaced to the political imaginations so tied to the nation state? The only people who think about refugees are NGOs who have their own agendas or people’s adhoc mutual aid funds but we have no grassroots infrastructure for people who are the most vulnerable- 2021-08-02 00:43:25 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 1) There’s something v specific to be said about all of Eritrean refugees being conflated with PFDJ during a genocide where all of Tigray is being conflated with TPLF. I’m saying this in response to comments I’ve observed generally not you. 2021-08-02 00:30:21 logging off but I to the people who asked me for PDFs on digital ID and cryptocurrency in HoA, I didn’t forget. Soon come 2021-08-02 00:29:12 For my own joy, I’ve been working on building a fish go kart. using computer vision to track the fish’s movements, allows the fish to drive the kart. S/o to @ilanmandel whose been ever patiently teaching me how to use jupyter notebook https://t.co/3mfdP2aDl3 2021-08-02 00:18:46 I’m very disturbed to see people in the anti-war camp demonize Eritrean refugees. If your concern is the impact of their protests on TDF’s reputation over the impact of this war on their lives, you’ve lost the plot. 2021-08-02 00:09:54 @ElleniZeleke their response is disappointing but i really don’t want this to devolve into being about them b/c the stakes are so high for the bigger problem which is Black radical academics and activists giving lip service to orgs who serve the Ethio/Eri state in the midst of a war 2021-08-01 23:21:56 @GREGORYABUTLER This is The Abyssinian Burger King https://t.co/uhxN6vEAEz 2021-08-01 23:04:17 It very much appears like these are info mercenaries for hire. What in isolation might be rudimentary blogs with analysis so based it looks auto generated - is being disseminated by state actors, shifting the discourse and undermining local grassroots movements in country 2021-08-01 23:04:16 ^^that really is directed towards the academics and tenured activists who soft endorse these people like there’s no stakes, but the way bigger picture is that stepping back- 2021-08-01 22:49:30 I just want to make it extremely clear that this is the beef with Glen Ford + that whole ecosystem of acronymed organizations (B4P, BAR etc) is this https://t.co/p440BMwzzq 2021-08-01 15:52:12 @Geylame9 1- this is a good piece on why people need to divest from the myth of Selassie + Menelik as Black Freedom fighters 2-there’s a whole world that’s neither ados or flattening all of Black histories into Africa as a country. https://t.co/hjYpdy21es 2021-08-01 15:24:09 @Arrianna_Planey Ethiopia made a similar claim about Eritrea to Israel saying it represented an arabization endangering Israel’s geo-strategic interests in service of getting military aid against the Eritrean war of independence. But people be no history out here just vibes 2021-08-01 15:15:35 @Geylame9 What’s this assumption that descendants of transatlantic slavery in the Americas can only be inspired by false mythology valorizing the conquerors? Why not solidarity with Somalis, Afars and Oromos who share history of violent subjugation (and rebellion against it)? 2021-08-01 14:44:46 Shouldn’t we appreciate that Africans aren’t symbols for Americans to project their piss poor analysis onto?? https://t.co/bAfi0Kmkfy 2021-08-01 14:42:29 RT @DualehY: And the Ethiopia “succeeded in defying colonisation” narrative needs to end. No real history just mythology. 2021-08-01 14:40:57 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @Arrianna_Planey The comparison to Somalia is tragic-comic because the US backed an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia! 2021-08-01 14:39:44 @Arrianna_Planey The comparison to Somalia is tragic-comic because the US backed an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia! 2021-08-01 14:36:01 @Arrianna_Planey Except Ethiopia is the US’ ally for the War on Terror. They gave massive military aid to Meles Zenawi to fight so called Islamic terrorism in Somalia for yearsss knowing it was also being used to torture and imprison Oromo political dissidents. 2021-08-01 14:23:48 @sirarwa A collage of conspiracy awaits us https://t.co/5hPBoIExdf 2021-08-01 13:47:48 Who said anything about bombing before this b-, all of these extreme measures to shift the narrative lead back to these people https://t.co/0ezulLX1TP https://t.co/rvR5K2nVZq 2021-08-01 13:38:10 Yael Eisenstat was a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, a National Security Advisor to former Vice President Joe Biden, and diplomat. In 2019-2020, she was a Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech… https://t.co/emG9nvB4bU https://t.co/mLPmRTJ7YR 2021-08-01 13:19:05 @GREGORYABUTLER Welcome to Ethiopian unity https://t.co/ahKArb67CC 2021-08-01 13:14:15 Please drop the link for his endf stan video so that had us all in tears. He deleted his tik tok now and I can’t find it https://t.co/8FP4xeWG9M 2021-08-01 13:11:13 @GREGORYABUTLER Lmao i got to find my favorite video but that’s him cos playing an Ethiopian king https://t.co/uWengXWuuW 2021-08-01 13:02:50 The Unity comms team stressing over the next blog post https://t.co/c0AbpNZ8Sd 2021-08-01 13:00:27 Who Billene n them uniting with https://t.co/M0GDGInRPa https://t.co/vUgUfsq0lJ 2021-08-01 00:46:41 @DocDre thank you for this 2021-08-01 00:30:29 Why does all the HoA disinformation trace back to some nondescript strip mall in a 25 minute radius from ESAT https://t.co/jLFblbF1T1 2021-08-01 00:28:32 Who will protect us from the uncle list servs out of Virginia is the real question https://t.co/DfiegpihsH https://t.co/P2nlCUQ9oS 2021-08-01 00:24:35 #LolSob h/t From the Frying Pan Into the Fire by Derese Kassa for putting me on https://t.co/TD5RMxkpGY https://t.co/rhDxH2SkG7 2021-08-01 00:16:05 @sirarwa this might be the brain child https://t.co/uan5Kkvrtz 2021-07-31 23:56:25 How pleased the settlers must be, to divert attention away from the peoples they oppress, to the US who funds them either way https://t.co/F2GkWwdMKj 2021-07-31 23:56:24 The first time I ever heard this claim of US regime change in Ethiopia was from Blacks4Peace on June 24. They directed attention away from the southern peoples demands and analysis, away from Tigray experiencing a genocide to the US. https://t.co/Ttb3bo4Pnn https://t.co/fKTEXI3p3u 2021-07-31 23:56:17 The last time Ethiopia had a regime change, it was forced by the #OromoProtests not the US. But how conveniently you all like to forget. https://t.co/Q8ETlJcqVh 2021-07-31 20:55:21 @_jack_poulson Given recent events, just clarifying I don’t support R2P or Helen Epstein’s ideology but Bridgeway got on my radar initially from being entangled with foster care agencies and along with Kroll is a weird bridge from US hedge fund - HoA NGO -US child welfare 2021-07-31 20:38:39 @blackfagnorth All them degrees and you don’t see the irony of posting kevin hart’s homophobic cis ass in response ? We could have a conversation instead of these Freudian slips 2021-07-31 19:36:43 @_jack_poulson I got you, the Bridgeway foundation I guess is unrelated to him but similar wild interplay between finance, the state and human rights land which is why I asked https://t.co/rEqiSLutaB 2021-07-31 19:31:07 @_jack_poulson Is bridgespan group connected to the bridgeway foundation? 2021-07-31 19:20:40 nobody said it’s genocide apology or death, but you can’t tone police accountability until it’s palatable 2021-07-31 19:18:50 You can block the inconveniently African, get back channel affirmation from the Blackademic echo chambers who got you clinging to left geographies from ‘64 in the first place or . . . you could listen to the Black people you’re harming and repair. 2021-07-31 19:13:23 Xinjiang ain’t free and neither is shucking and jiving for the CCP https://t.co/7Ho6d1bSiz https://t.co/krp1swGoh9 2021-07-31 15:54:48 @EremiasWmikael @tigistAA @zeaxumawit @Myriam_A_Said @SamRosmarin The point Edwin makes about the Hollerith machine is that the Nazis might have perpetuated the Holocaust either way, but it was the computation that allowed them to do it fast at scale Second, given the Rohingya we should be v concerned about UN/WFP biometric ID 2021-07-31 15:52:10 @PetrosShumie I’m not aware of any specific to the HoA < 2021-07-31 15:50:48 @EremiasWmikael @tigistAA @zeaxumawit @Myriam_A_Said @SamRosmarin This is why we need more public and political education around digital tech in the HoA. Digital ID and e-currency aren’t some separate phenomena from the politics at hand ie see Edwin Black’s IBM and the Holocaust https://t.co/EeE33K9f0d 2021-07-31 15:16:37 it’s feds all the way down https://t.co/TUtiO7Kcxe 2021-07-31 14:09:18 @clancynewyork Ah this is my forever quest, bonus if it did OCR. 2021-07-31 13:55:33 @clancynewyork Eileen do you know is there any extensions for iPhoto where I can save in-app the alt text? 2021-07-31 13:54:24 Img: Now installed iWave Bipolar Ionization Air Purification System Kills mold, bacteria, and viruses, reduces allergens and other airborne particles. Tests conducted on this system have shown that it can inactivate Covid 19 up to 99.4%(Black text on white sign, blue iWave logo) 2021-07-31 13:42:22 Visual description: Deweys sit in Activists led one of the nations first LGBT sit ins here in 1965 after homosexuals were denied service at deweys restaurant. Inspired by African American lunch counter sit-ins. This event prompted Dewey’s to stop its discriminatory policy.- 2021-07-31 13:37:52 @tigistAA @zeaxumawit @Myriam_A_Said @SamRosmarin It’s almost exclusively people with her politics who are following the digital ID and e-currency shift in Ethiopia is what’s disconcerting, we need to raise more public consciousness around it so they’re not the only ones weighing in 2021-07-31 13:27:10 No one wearing masks but the air system is on Bipolar https://t.co/uatAWWZu7z 2021-07-31 13:27:07 Philly signage has me in tears A whole novel on fighting segregation only to segregate Blackness from gender and sexuality https://t.co/Pr3iCHTJ3i 2021-07-30 23:14:35 the problem is the Indy press is an S Corp on the payroll of multiple empires unless you in so deep you think the ccp gets RTs from Margaret Kimberley for the free and the Eritrean government liked Glen Ford for his personality 2021-07-30 22:21:44 some Black folks want to be accountable to anyone but other Black people https://t.co/9TVPYh47gg 2021-07-30 22:06:15 Not you being a whole Somali diaspora trying to get airlifted out the Horn https://t.co/pL2HLRnSuk 2021-07-30 21:13:05 The same regime conscripting children indefinitely into war, jailing Black folks in desert shipping containers said Ford was a GENUINE FRIEND OF ERITREA. only thing out of order is y’all endorsing these agents of Black Death +yelling psyop when ya really just don’t have the range 2021-07-30 21:13:04 No Rinaldo, you and anyone in the Black Radical™ gang citing abolition out one side of their mouth and giving cover for Glen Ford and his 3 letter lotto of orgs serving sloppy analysis and genocide apology can get called out they whole government name. https://t.co/cz73xaREoF 2021-07-30 20:02:20 @samuelonyoso Boom, most sources state he was given the name by a teacher in high school during a Pan African class but you got the central parts right. DM me your app handle of choice 2021-07-30 20:00:30 RT @samuelonyoso: @UpFromTheCracks I actually come from the tribe in Kenya where the name 'Mumia' originates called the Wanga tribe whose l… 2021-07-30 18:53:36 **not a societal commentary, legit what would you do lol 2021-07-30 18:50:22 How would you address gaslighting deployed with transformative justice language? Like what to do when care and accountability are weaponized? 2021-07-30 18:26:15 @samuelonyoso say more ^^ 2021-07-30 17:02:48 https://t.co/OZZoBO3SrH https://t.co/3wMYTLfPLO 2021-07-30 15:52:01 it’s already hilarious/cliche that half the tech think tank critics are married to Big Tech execs. Algorithmic Impact Assessments feel like a way to formalize that arrangement for the long term 2021-07-30 15:48:11 @dgolumbia they dead went with Facebook’s name, I cannot… 2021-07-30 15:43:16 https://t.co/mbAcHHfNYK 2021-07-30 15:40:42 I will send $25 USD to the first person who can answer this question in full and provide citation https://t.co/1gKJGYdMRg 2021-07-30 15:36:29 Question of the day: Who was Mumia Abu-Jamal named after and what was this persons political significance? 2021-07-30 15:29:23 the real conspiracy is self care under techno-capitalism has produced people who refuse to read and are proud of going viral with their disinformed eugenic nonsense 2021-07-30 15:20:37 @ProfDancy I mean Martin, Cosby, different world aged like post expiration govt cheese so… 2021-07-30 15:12:41 @ProfDancy omg dont ruin in living color for me, were they saying you get his from kissing or something? I've been clutching onto that show aging well relatively speaking 2021-07-30 15:11:12 @vee_etc where the lie at tho 2021-07-30 13:59:13 Lack of trust in racist medicine, I got you. They’re injecting us w/ microchips b/c of the blog post you read on fedbook-you wilin’ 2021-07-30 13:59:12 my bar has changed, personally I want my Black people who have access to get vaccinated but politically, at this point, I want my people who refuse to get vaccinated to just not sound like 9/11 truthers had a DEI meeting 2021-07-30 13:08:13 I’m torn between unpacking this image and feeling like no one pays me for the therapy that I’ll need afterwards 2021-07-30 13:01:07 < …and wonders are the limited hangout leftists being paid in rush card telebirr https://t.co/NJVWW1F9Vb https://t.co/2W1Dzmlj4R 2021-07-30 01:21:34 RT @zewari7: the consistency of Black Agenda Report's deceitful coverage of certain pivotal conflicts orchestrated by western imperialism i… 2021-07-30 00:01:55 Forever endorsing anything @chicanocyborg https://t.co/nGjfCjpNxq 2021-07-29 23:31:15 @GREGORYABUTLER idek who that is but they can stay mad 2021-07-29 22:41:58 @HabenGirma @timnitGebru Happy birthday @HabenGirma 2021-07-29 22:39:44 @bigblackjacobin they could have built affordable housing but they literally chose violence 2021-07-29 22:30:45 scaffolding for the diaspora, Carolyn Donham to the right is who got Emmett Till killed 2021-07-29 22:28:55 @KasechRayaweyti 2021-07-29 22:27:32 same energy https://t.co/mS5JCggX1h https://t.co/ym54UZKvV0 2021-07-29 22:22:47 @zeaxumawit @tigistAA @EremiasWmikael Ohhhhhh I know who you’re talking about :/ 2021-07-29 22:19:03 Can you imagine being so willing to dance for dollars that you an apologist for PFDJ, Prosperity Party, CCP and Assad #BlackAgendaReport https://t.co/gHsTi0lbFt 2021-07-29 22:17:19 Black Agenda Report said S Corp with a hard R https://t.co/djG49JxPag 2021-07-29 22:10:59 @SAVEAXUM These rainbow pixels got people confused https://t.co/KMSJ6uKjFE 2021-07-29 22:07:27 @zeaxumawit omg who is mariam?? It’s like whack a mole 2021-07-29 22:06:52 @SAVEAXUM 2021-07-29 22:04:14 Hint: if Jeff P3arce had a sister who would it be 2021-07-29 21:56:47 gold star for whoever can identify the person in this photo https://t.co/Wo0AGnUyzu 2021-07-29 20:58:10 @tmah1670 @sirarwa @makeinjera They’re also just so basic? Like what strategies or thoughts imho do they have besides obsessing over their perceived opposition and hijacking their aesthetic 2021-07-29 20:45:05 @makeinjera @sirarwa the way she struggling with the west leaving her on read has me deceaseddddd 2021-07-29 20:35:54 @sirarwa @makeinjera If you haven’t gifted yourself this press conference, please scroll to ~00:09:50 as Billene struggles to even pronounce unilateral and then pre QA where she cries “why why why” They’re in shambles https://t.co/fSy7CAUg7Q 2021-07-29 20:33:16 @sirarwa @makeinjera Lmao for sure but do you think Neamin and his gang gang are just out here functioning in the real world? I’m sure they’re eligible under multiple criteria 2021-07-29 20:30:04 we don’t deserve them consistentlyyyyyy https://t.co/gvw1ustXPk 2021-07-29 20:28:51 @makeinjera rehab 2021-07-29 20:10:37 RT @AimiHamraie: Reminder: applications for membership to Critical Design Lab for 2021-2022 are due August 1, and open to current graduate… 2021-07-29 20:00:56 RT @AmanSium: If you've got "friends in the Eritrean government" you're about Black death, not Black life. Simple and plain. 2021-07-29 20:00:11 @AmanSium @abraham_zere < 2021-07-29 17:42:49 @HabeshaHokage Black epistemology as poetics lol 2021-07-29 17:42:23 maybe jargon is just the developmental stage, like a kind of babbling as you figure out speech is this tool to make thoughts external 2021-07-29 17:02:39 slowly its creeping up that it was now then before later-like it’s not enough to anagram you have to implode and birth new words…how do you say things without the grammar that must be refused 2021-07-29 16:59:17 and appreciate mckitterick anew, maybe in my unevolved emotional evolution, I’m counting out the anger different lmao 2021-07-29 16:58:12 suddenly I realize I’ve been mad at all the wrong things 2021-07-29 14:31:36 Phenomenal article profiling Zhang’s quest to expose @Facebook’s refusal to take down coordinated fake engagement that produces IRL harm (and imho is its core product) The intensity of algorithmic disinformation she highlights in Azerbaijan can easily describe #HoA too https://t.co/h53wJlIeHG 2021-07-29 14:20:22 RT @hipsterelectron: @UpFromTheCracks as an autistic i have been subject to some of this kind of abusive pattern directly 2021-07-29 14:19:49 if the US declared a techno hybrid form of feudalism people would riot. Instead,the gutting of the social safety net precedes the rise of the gig economy, at best ppl fight to unionize for better rights w/in techno-feudalism if they recognize a fundamental shift in labor at all 2021-07-29 14:14:59 RT @seanmmcdonald: One of the practical aspects of decolonizing governance design is looking at indigenous governance integration as both p… 2021-07-29 14:14:38 If I say our Abu Ghraib is for the people and Revolution does it become somehow distinct from the US’ administration of Guantanamo? Which is more violent? Which one demands not merely to torture but to be formally celebrated for doing so? 2021-07-29 14:05:07 The liberal permissive father says to his daughter, your uncle is sick and do you really care about anyone besides yourself? The same coercion is at play but she’s only hailed into subjectivity through response. He signifies ambivalence, permitting either choice- 2021-07-29 14:05:06 Relatedly I think people have lost the thread on signifier vs function- the political distinction btwn political rhetoric and its moral claims should be measured against the infrastructures, forms of organization and social experience it hails in practice 2021-07-29 13:37:25 have to break from live tweeting but worth noting that Sium goes on to analyze the limitations of Baito as a collective form of governance incl the exclusion of women from voting and decreased emphasis on youth- it’s rare to read such intersectional + fresh scholarship for HoA 2021-07-29 13:30:13 The tension (btwn Baito and Statism) is an ideological one. It is a matter of the Indigenous versus colonial claims to power, horizontal versus vertical understandings of that power, and populist versus oligarchic methods of sharing power. https://t.co/HIz1If3RzR 2021-07-29 13:23:51 RT @ABarnardNYT: A problem highly recognizable to Middle Easterners too! (and let me also re-up a key corollary: Pointing this out is not… 2021-07-29 13:23:31 Systems like the baito became a way for local communities to negotiate the highly centralized nature of the state. It allowed them to take matters into their own hands - ensure equitable access to land, sustainable farming practices, conflict prevention and resolution … https://t.co/Ck9ZiUjM7T 2021-07-29 13:14:05 Recognizing that the state is the hand that feeds them, Africa’s “big men‟ are more concerned with defending the state (power) from the nation (people) than the other way around. At the end of the day their beliefs and ideologies are for sale. https://t.co/AIFCfGcfal 2021-07-29 13:10:56 In this system of proxy imperialism the granting of independence was merely a tactical move,a way for colonial powers to keep a low political profile while maintaining an economic advantage over their former colonies-a structure by which the West pushes through its policies https://t.co/M6s0ezLftl 2021-07-29 13:00:41 intellectual criticisms of the state are drowned by expressions of blind nationalism as scholars collectively remember + then re-remember the Revolution…the Eritrean state has encouraged such intellectual nostalgia diverting scholarly attention away from its present failures https://t.co/rRPyp7kani 2021-07-29 12:55:28 At 9 years old, boarded the plane eager to measure my imagined homeland against the reality on the ground….the first images I saw were not those of a bountiful landscape as my mother had described in her stories,but those of a nation ravaged by 30 yrs of anticolonial warfare https://t.co/y0hvVNlZ8G 2021-07-29 12:51:39 I appreciate the raw honesty in which Aman locates his methodology as a diaspora including the romantic notions that give way to “Imagined Communities” while confronting alienation and racist exclusion in Canada https://t.co/vI5KJQ53xT 2021-07-29 12:45:35 “the state apparatus is an inherently flawed system of governance that African people have repeatedly rejected, but continues to impose itself through the elite and their Euro-American backers.” https://t.co/GylylzCXx0 2021-07-29 12:43:16 “Although the baito has been used since time immemorial to mediate village conflicts, equitably distribute land and collectivize labour, the Eritrean state has tried to dismantle the institution instead of learning from it and applying its teachings at the state level” https://t.co/nd7dCR78ks 2021-07-29 12:35:38 aside from @abraham_zere entire body of work which is a whole syllabus, @AmanSium’s dissertation is one of the best pieces I’ve ever read on Eritrea. I now understand why he dropped this bomb ass scholarship and dipped from academia tho. https://t.co/IO49CGzCfn 2021-07-29 12:13:12 https://t.co/iD5PrxuMpv 2021-07-29 12:03:18 Apparently the sentiment that Africa is not just a country but a tabula rasa for you to project your facile anti-imperialist ideals is widespread, nvm that pesky incongruence btwn real life Black peoples and their histories vs your veneration for their oppressors 2021-07-29 11:27:03 I continue to be deeply disturbed 2021-07-29 10:48:20 @EremiasWmikael @abraham_zere Zere’s ability as a storyteller is even more impressive considering how so many have lost the plot on Eritrea for so long. 2021-07-29 01:37:05 @slagthompson one would think 2021-07-29 01:29:14 https://t.co/se1akfSlfI 2021-07-29 01:21:03 RT @ThaAyantu: Imma try to sleep tonight but I just know I’ll be haunted in my dreams by Black leftists stanning genocidal Ethio government… 2021-07-29 01:15:53 RT @FrankPasquale: Important work: Whole Foods “reportedly used heat maps to visualize unionization risk scores based on variables such as… 2021-07-29 00:40:24 billene is in shambles 2021-07-29 00:23:12 this looks so good, can’t wait to read all of this https://t.co/WRndtLgGGW 2021-07-29 00:20:30 RT @essaysmythe: The @PMC_Journal special issue Troubling the Grounds: Global Configurations of Blackness, Nativism and Indigeneity is here… 2021-07-28 22:32:29 apparently the only problem some of y’all had with Guantanamo was which state ran it… 2021-07-28 22:27:11 I remember thinking the Obama years were lonely yeesh 2021-07-28 22:21:22 watching Black scholars whose work on the afterlife of slavery i am deeply indebted to- give condolences to a man who dedicated his life to being an Isaias apologist is certainly a wake up call 2021-07-28 21:48:07 RT @movfamilypower: Do you agree that Mandated Reporting is just another form of policing that needs to be abolished? Then come learn about… 2021-07-28 21:42:19 Final layer of hilarity in this case being wtf is your political analysis if your calling out the US military command in Africa in order to demand people crowdsource $ 8k on a private American corporation’s platform for these non specific survivors of AFRICOM?- 2021-07-28 21:42:18 I need to write more about this b/c it’s not as fun to laugh so hard alone but short version is platforms like GoFund Me manufacture consent for privatized popularity contests in lieu of addressing the gutting out of our social safety net (incl humanitarian response) https://t.co/y6RA3w9Grc 2021-07-28 21:20:59 @lifewinning @udceoe @Prof_Klinger Congratulations 2021-07-28 21:20:45 RT @thellpsx: still horrifically bad/ crip fail to self promote, but I was on this thing last week with Eli Clare @rebirthgarments and Rya… 2021-07-28 21:10:11 ok now I’m double dead at the victims of africom go fund me after the study group prays 5 times a day to authoritarian dictators-so the end of imperialism will come, they don’t even skim the fintech literature? make it make sense lmao 2021-07-28 20:58:40 For those who grew bumping Queen Latifah’s U.N.I.T.Y. lemme translate- In the Horn of Africa, “unity” means violently assimilating historically marginalized and oppressed peoples into the dominant state sanctioned culture 2021-07-28 20:52:34 Cryinggg as I reread just at the thought of these self proclaimed super spies entering “jesushelpme” as their password https://t.co/pz2yZy1xpw 2021-07-28 20:47:42 Neamin’s latest nonsense (sharing a blog citing a blog to demonize aid workers during a man made famine) reminds me how Abiy’s INSA brainchild was hacked b/c everything is dumb and their password was P@$$w0rd https://t.co/VSXWNoqPqI 2021-07-28 20:27:46 @Meron_Geb @Twitter @TwitterSupport @jack @TwitterMENA @Refugees @WFP @Medium I mean at this point spewing genocide denial doesn’t seem to register as worthy of intervention for @Twitter but I’m positive these accusations are considered a problem for UN et al, it’s striking they seem unable to respond effectively at all 2021-07-28 20:25:21 @Meron_Geb @Twitter @TwitterSupport @jack @TwitterMENA What’s particularly odd about this error laden medium post whose sole citation is a blog lol-is that the @Refugees and @WFP don’t have the clout to push @Medium and @Twitter to suspend accounts politicizing humanitarian relief- resulting in their aid workers being murdered. 2021-07-28 19:13:10 Read this! . . . …also- the relationship between opt in luxury surveillance and carceral surveillance is forever memorialized for me in this image https://t.co/o221keRAdy https://t.co/rIomDsTzox 2021-07-28 18:57:09 The babies were not at high risk for HIV because there’s v effective treatments to prevent parent to child transmission of HIV/AIDS and even if they had HIV it would be manageable unlike the the array of potential things that can go wrong with CRISPR germline editing in humans 2021-07-28 18:57:08 a reminder that one of the most recent events to resurrect HIV/AIDS stigma was the rogue scientists violating a global consensus against CRISPR germline editing Blame was almost exclusively levied on China but the in utero modification of CCR5 was w/ US https://t.co/km5gKopfpq 2021-07-28 17:49:34 As someone who studies the family regulation system and it’s quest to decimate Black relationships, I love this thread on how Black folks care and hold each other down in ways professionals could never https://t.co/IjAqxekcjp 2021-07-28 17:47:15 RT @YoloAkili: I really want folks to put some respect on therapy without degrading the real impact of peer support and peer/village/commun… 2021-07-28 16:11:03 Idk I’m not a doctor or a public health expert but follow some who are please b @oni_blackstock @Arrianna_Planey @DrKimSue 2021-07-28 16:07:03 COVID has exposed the limitation and fundamental flaws of western medicines conceptions of both collective health and expertise but the crowdsourced social media commentary sans citational practice and peer review is not the corrective measure we all seem to think imho. 2021-07-28 16:03:01 wording here taps into a rich archive of conspiracy theory, plus “used as passive” is an oxymoron…I think there’s plenty of scholarship we could instead leverage (Ie Dorothy Roberts) to describe how the racialized response to COVID-19 is facilitating a kind of techno feudalism https://t.co/ahtAiY7BVj 2021-07-28 15:49:35 @SirJoshBennett @DocDre Y’all in conversation is what this year needs 2021-07-28 15:47:09 Important thread on the social implications of Digital ID https://t.co/iy8IYMLiha 2021-07-28 15:45:22 @Blackamazon I appreciate you always @Blackamazon 2021-07-28 15:45:09 RT @Blackamazon: This is important and Cornell Tech fired @UpFromTheCracks for exercising her free speech 2021-07-28 10:33:24 @ElleniZeleke @EremiasWmikael @BTnewsroom @RaniaKhalek @EugenePuryear @AnnGarrison @Blacks4Peace @ElleniZeleke choosing violence early this morning lolol @EremiasWmikael I think the only difference between Simon and the rest of these fools is who gets paid in USD. 2021-07-28 01:11:02 @fosterhood the bar is so low, I be traumatized 2021-07-28 01:01:55 adoptive and foster parents are horrifying on the whole, only thing comparable is the parents of disabled people https://t.co/elEcKc6Ag5 2021-07-28 00:22:01 RT @AudreyTruschke: Shout out to @standwkashmir's Kashmir syllabus. Whether you're looking to teach or write a little on Kashmir, or you'r… 2021-07-28 00:19:34 RT @WearYourVoice: “Part of graying our analysis on ‘the closet’ means examining how it ignores that sexuality does not exist as a binary.… 2021-07-27 23:37:21 RT @fredvanamstel: we discussed today this critical article on #designthinking by @_dabuzon my students are now on fire to study totalitari… 2021-07-27 23:29:40 RT @Ryan_Ken_Acts: Many cishets are not happy with the compromises they’ve made for cis identity and heterosexuality. They take out their r… 2021-07-27 23:22:27 RT @Greene_DM: Surprisingly little of the analysis of our incredibly weird contemporary labor market has discussed the missing 600,000 peop… 2021-07-27 23:13:36 RT @haymarketbooks: LIVE NOW! Counting Crime Join @tamaranopper for an online discussion of the politics of crime data and its uses, host… 2021-07-27 21:12:01 @getachew_temare @AxumiteTegaru @dewaala Lmao imagine this Australian man trying to parse what’s going on here 2021-07-27 21:08:50 @ThaAyantu I just wonder how much does a de Waal cost 2021-07-27 17:06:35 The real story is the information only came out after someone spent years in court challenging the digital ID scheme and refusing to comply with the mandate for Smart ID https://t.co/veGb0vXVVD 2021-07-27 16:56:09 so much going on we don’t even have the space to talk about the unhcr biometrics and ongoing mismanagement of donor funds leaving refugees in abysmal conditions but bookmark b/c this will have long term ramifications 2021-07-27 16:53:01 RT @mvuwoT: Insightful discussion on neuroscience publication trends in Africa. 2021-07-27 16:20:55 RT @TsenatSaba: Help me highlight what has been happening since November using videos you have. It seems the world is focused on outcomes o… 2021-07-27 16:13:53 RT @ThaAyantu: Ofc there’s pressure/force to join the war, but also there's enough poor youth who are being promised land & 2021-07-27 16:13:26 nothing makes families feel safe like the ACS police being a formal partner with their Medicaid clinic…I need to write the paper about federal Medicaid waiver transition in relationship to the Federal Family First Prevention Act https://t.co/S57LiZGrIq 2021-07-27 16:04:41 @Tarik_Endale Fair fair, I cede the first point but I do think for whatever series of factors the public messaging around collective health could be more robust. Not just in its dissemination but in conception. But this is totally a lay persons observation 2021-07-27 14:59:56 imho, public health are just med school alumni who didn’t want to do clinical work no? Maybe we need to also transition from vilifying their individualizations of a pandemic to providing the language and theories of collective health 2021-07-27 14:59:55 half of the people in my house are unvaccinated… . . . . . Cuz they’re not old enough to get the vaccine. 2021-07-27 14:13:52 RT @TheAfricaReport: "The ranks of the Oromo Liberation Party are not filling up today because of the TPLF, they are filling up because Oro… 2021-07-27 13:56:17 if it was up to these people, rape wouldn’t even be legible, it would just be duty bound conscription into serving male desire like the rest of this godforsaken war. 2021-07-27 13:54:46 Isaias approves this message https://t.co/S7tExO8LNf 2021-07-27 13:52:25 All those familial silences, hazy eyed uncles dulled into khat half mentioning how they made their way barefoot from Oromia to Djibouti to raise their kids in some white exurb, zabibas shining tandem with devout refusal to discuss the non-present, UAE bids, my god the whole lot 2021-07-27 13:46:47 If I understood Ethiopia fascism as a kid as well as I do now, it would have saved me a lot of grief. https://t.co/Er3r42hsXf 2021-07-27 13:20:50 Analyzing the Horn is like Schrödinger’s cat, dead and alive at the same Mf time w/ radioactive decay picking a state if you look to close at that bih 2021-07-27 12:05:45 @murakamiwood “Here in India, the summer of dying is quickly morphing into what looks very much like a summer of spying.” I can imagine Roy explaining this line was to good too kill to an exasperated editor 2021-07-27 11:02:07 @Tarik_Endale The second excerpts is from invention of Ethiopia, the first is from Race Rebels 2021-07-27 11:01:08 @gleemie ok but she got terrorized, I want the waiting sans trauma 2021-07-27 01:13:23 RT @mike_salter: Read the brilliant work of @TurnbullVanessa on the impact of adoption reform on Aboriginal children and communities, just… 2021-07-27 00:56:20 RT @SanDiegoTRUST: Shotspotter routinely hand-revises AI evidence at the request of police departments, including two cases where police re… 2021-07-27 00:54:14 do publishers pay advance advances for adhd because I need money to write a book and money to procrastinate for a year in writing a book 2021-07-26 23:00:12 @dmandosa that’s what I heard from the dancing whisper network 2021-07-26 22:46:59 before this latest round of ignorance tho I was mad he didn’t pay the jabberwockies in the Bop video 2021-07-26 22:44:06 I’m so glad this is no longer within acceptable discourse cuz I sure grew up in the “no homo” era https://t.co/jxMSD4zcfO 2021-07-26 20:01:01 RT @STOPSpyingNY: Join our team this August! STOP is looking to fill our 1-year VISTA Fellowship position. Work on communications & 2021-07-26 17:26:40 @DrSyedMustafaA1 omg I didn’t know that was a real thing 2021-07-26 17:14:27 RT @rachelkuo: "Who are we not seeing? Landless migrants, people whose lands are being stolen...those are people erased from the Internet.… 2021-07-26 17:14:09 RT @unc_citap: New episode of #DoesNotCompute: How does disinformation circulate within Asian American communities? @rachelkuo traces… 2021-07-26 15:38:55 RT @Blackamazon: Doug Williams Rania Khalek Max Blumenthal started with specific folks and now are on a special tear of anti blackness I ca… 2021-07-26 15:38:49 RT @Blackamazon: Max Blumenthal is why I distrust "allyship" on a deeply fundamental level. 2021-07-26 15:38:47 RT @Blackamazon: Max Blumenthal has issues with how Black women survive and make their money but not how black bodies are used to make poin… 2021-07-26 15:37:00 RT @AngryBlackLady: Rania Khalek was part of the original crew who liked to harass me about “kicking black people out of their homes.” Her… 2021-07-26 15:33:06 RT @Blackamazon: And the resistance shrugged . Rania Khalek mocked Black-only spaces and folks still give her more space . 2021-07-26 15:20:26 RT @so_treu: And she started with antiblackness and y'all crucified everyone who called it out. https://t.co/villbSBUNv 2021-07-26 15:20:07 @sirarwa @BronwynBruton @LaurenBinDC Eugene legit had a whole show on sputnik so I'm not sure how anyone could say that it's baseless. similarly Ajamu Baraka had a show on Russia Today and Rania for it's subsidiary so 2021-07-26 14:30:37 @_jack_poulson if you were an uncritical minion of some corp or govt it wouldn’t be disconcerting. It is precisely because you take such a critical stance on those issues that you worrying about Grayzone etcs reputation or “icking” over n above the harm that they’re causing that is upsetting 2021-07-26 14:24:59 @makeinjera I mean sure re Simon and filmon but this is bigger than them and across multiple contexts 2021-07-26 14:12:21 @_jack_poulson Jack, disengaging from a twitter thread is not punishment, come on. I respect your work on exposing funding streams so I know where you're coming from but your defense of Grayzone is disconcerting. I really don't want to spend my morning arguing about this is all. 2021-07-26 13:48:09 @_jack_poulson B) hand waving at the failures of mainstream us coverage equivocates on Grayzone’s staunch refusal to fact check, issue retractions when errors are made and their promotion of conspiracy theories. I’m disengaging now 2021-07-26 13:44:12 @_jack_poulson A) see how I’m talking about Tigray and Oromia, regions in the Horn of Africa where the vast majority of my family lives and you’re talking about 2 different examples in the US. There are actual human people with agency that are omitted in this calculation- 2021-07-26 13:41:20 @_jack_poulson Ethiopia is a dependent colonial state and empire renowned for its disinformation only second to Eritrea which these people have also aligned with. I take issue with this line of inquiry b/c it’s completely divested from any curiosity about wtf is actually happening in the region 2021-07-26 13:31:55 @_jack_poulson I just want the people who are rendered illegible by this focus on US foreign policy to have the space to make their claims as subjects and not objects of geopolicy. The contention is not pro or anti US, it’s Americans taking up all the space for a context they know nothing about 2021-07-26 13:27:36 @_jack_poulson This enemy of my enemy is my friend tho produces in real life harm tho. Exposing US funding streams for intervention does not excuse their blatant promotion of pro-state narratives everywhere else. Networked disinformation to support genocide should be shunned imho 2021-07-26 13:23:03 @_jack_poulson Fair. What I mean is that the left is uncritically amplifying and consuming this very problematic ecosystem and accountability is nowhere to be found. It’s also not clear to me that Grayzone and it’s ilk are actually left at the end of the day 2021-07-26 13:17:11 @_jack_poulson wym 2021-07-26 13:16:19 @_jack_poulson this is the thing Grayzone et al mix in legitimate claims amidst the propaganda. ie we can all agree the CIA and US foreign policy is egregious but they’ll raise that specter followed by Xinjiang or Tigray denial. The latter is being amplified nonstop by the Ethiopian govt 2021-07-26 12:46:33 Adding this to the list of copycat disinfo https://t.co/SwQk83Bif9 2021-07-26 12:45:13 I’m both horrified and feeling very validated that this is such an obvious pattern. All these people do is push out pro state propaganda and call it anti imperialism https://t.co/XqOuI3qoI8 2021-07-26 12:43:13 These people are also entangled with Max Blumenthal’s Grayzone. this essay helpfully captures the dynamic of Grayzone’s CCP talking points being replicated on Black Agenda Report https://t.co/7azsEokS0r 2021-07-26 12:34:38 RT @RichFelker: This is why I block them entirely and don't cite/boost anyone citing them as a source. No amount of legitimate information… 2021-07-26 12:34:16 Rania Khalek is transitioning to Ethiopian State Genocide apology from hijacking Free Palestine in the service of pro-Assad and pro-Russia propaganda https://t.co/UlmCpQBQTE 2021-07-26 12:21:19 Does this not sound exactly like the dynamic with the Blacks4Peace statement on Tigray? https://t.co/6TFg8lE3ok https://t.co/mjCQIGTxLn 2021-07-26 12:18:53 RT @Blackamazon: … oh so the ways folks have been warning them social surveillance was being used on Black people since 2014 ? and how it w… 2021-07-26 12:18:35 I’m telling you this nexus of Blacks4Peace, BreakThrough News, Simon Tesfemariam -PFDJ/HGDEF + Ethiopian state all pushing out the same talking points is not just ignorance. This is a pattern of coordinated behavior (and clearly is well funded) https://t.co/NjVlXcrxnX 2021-07-26 12:15:28 RT @Blackamazon: Raina openly targeted Black organizing. Mocked Black people . usually while lying Spoke over Palestinians and EVERY time .… 2021-07-26 11:54:53 https://t.co/Mvtvo9xQKL 2021-07-26 11:53:41 v interesting piece from 2019 that directly cites Eugene Puryear and references someone who appears to be Rania https://t.co/I2IerudItS 2021-07-26 11:26:47 I wonder if Venable is contracting out disinformation to the #jeorge floyd squad https://t.co/F2GkWwdMKj 2021-07-26 11:16:54 Those complaining about his sexual assault and predatory behavior were given a “subscription to the meditation app Headspace and another “app that provides athletes with a suite of online tools and courses that help athletes identify, understand, and address their mental health.” https://t.co/7uG5Wd4DHi 2021-07-26 11:08:46 @veenadubal The worst part of having kids is interacting with Parents™ 2021-07-26 11:06:06 RT @IamTagiCTyronce: @jklmd123 @AngelaMBarra And stealing them through the #RacistASHellCPSSystem! https://t.co/GSyvr4vdne 2021-07-26 10:53:36 @Combsthepoet @histoftech @timnitGebru This sounds v much like all of child welfare and no surprise from Florida the same state that brought us Eckerd Connects https://t.co/9cq7FQ7tr8 2021-07-26 02:48:04 @misskitila I can’t help but laugh that they still don’t know how hashtags work 2021-07-26 02:25:44 @ruchowdh semantically I tend to see “restorative justice” attached to organizations that get funding through some kind of a system and by extension implement those same logics with therapeutic words vs “transformative justice” which is focused on the persona harmed and accountability 2021-07-26 02:18:09 RT @awolallo: Join us on July 30 for the Jirra concert as we bring Oromo artists, musicians, and performers together to stage a show that w… 2021-07-26 00:45:08 @ruchowdh @hypervisible @rzhongnotes interesting, imma recon and report back. now that I see who the gamers are on the tl 2021-07-26 00:43:00 @ruchowdh @hypervisible @rzhongnotes Ah ok I literally have no idea, I just buy them games from the brick and mortar store 2021-07-26 00:41:15 @ruchowdh @hypervisible @rzhongnotes Oh word what is this indie game market, put me on! 2021-07-26 00:38:55 I have spent the last 5 hours with @ilan_mandel trying to build this shit, my god we’ve spent so much time troubleshooting basic things. But I’m determined https://t.co/VUmzrUwQzA 2021-07-26 00:35:33 @hypervisible @ruchowdh @rzhongnotes Lmao I meant the teenagers, little kids it’s just basically anything with a g rating 2021-07-26 00:33:09 @rzhongnotes @hypervisible Ooh idk this one will get it 2021-07-26 00:30:43 @hypervisible @ruchowdh @rzhongnotes ok brain trust last question any suggestion on the games, idc if it's fighting but just am opposed to nightmare inducing gore 2021-07-26 00:26:22 @ruchowdh @hypervisible @rzhongnotes we actually have two switches but I kind of hate it because they prefer to play alone lol, I’m trying to get something that encourages them to play together on the tv 2021-07-25 23:41:53 @hypervisible @rzhongnotes Ok so should I get the Xbox series X? I’m not really a gamer but I want something my 6-15 year olds can play. 2021-07-25 23:36:41 Is the ps5 worth it? 2021-07-25 19:42:52 @woyeso @NeaminZeleke it was between him and jeff, and whose more Black Lives Matter than him 2021-07-25 19:42:10 peter pipers prosperity party piously picks pan african pogroms for peoples anti racist ratchetry randomly running awry 2021-07-25 19:37:13 the intellectual architects of the #jeorge floyd movement https://t.co/8SR8yNb8W2 2021-07-25 19:11:05 @vee_etc girlllll the adhd squad needs more scribes 2021-07-25 19:09:51 “But today, thanks to increasingly sophisticated control of telecommunications networks, brute force, and a fair amount of global indifference, it’s still very possible for governments to keep these situations under wraps.” https://t.co/PDJFg9oKzI 2021-07-25 19:08:25 This piece in @Slate did a great job underlining how the man made famine of 1984 echoes in the present but Abiy’s only takeaway from that history is to prevent images of mass atrocities from circulating through blackouts and political repression https://t.co/r3KaPlf6vB https://t.co/0RXea8DBn9 https://t.co/fHD4bb2zj6 2021-07-25 18:49:42 https://t.co/LvTtIET4rD https://t.co/23n1ts639t 2021-07-25 18:22:38 RT @LiLiWhittWhitt: Carol Bryant Donham is the #Karen who lied on Emmett Till in 1955. She is still alive enjoying her life. She never apo… 2021-07-25 18:22:10 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Revisiting @LiLiWhittWhitt insightful meditation on painting Emmett Till. She discusses her piece “How She Sent Him an… 2021-07-25 18:21:57 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Little Red Riding Hood Killed Emmett Till...my reflections on FDR, Fairy Tales and the architects of forgetting. LMK w… 2021-07-25 18:20:56 Also this remix I made last year of @ruha9’s talk brings @rechpauline in conversation with Mamie Till, Joshua Bennett is woven in with Pac and Geto Boys y mas. If you have time, check out Mourning Good https://t.co/JYi27mgp0x 2021-07-25 18:18:12 Years ago I wrote this essay reflecting on Red Riding Hood, Emmett Till and FDR. Sharing as a token of memorial on what would have been his 80th birthday. https://t.co/IU0ZQJ3oDj 2021-07-25 18:14:06 resolved thanks everyone https://t.co/aEZwt8N7lC 2021-07-25 18:11:42 And also such a reminder of how the Ethiopian state’s calculations are predicated on the western gaze-November 3rd, 2020 ofc is the beginning of the Tigray Blackout but also the US Presidential Election 2021-07-25 18:03:14 I had forgotten that the telecoms blackout in Tigray November 3rd was prefigured by the multiple weeks of shutdowns after haacaaluu was assassinated https://t.co/4PM1z1EYmi https://t.co/OdarZT6MIJ 2021-07-25 17:10:28 @zeaxumawit @_Almaqah Oh don’t worry I can get the time stamp thank you 2021-07-25 16:49:20 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @zeaxumawit @_Almaqah Someone told me the first time the claim was made was by Abiy in the parliament before release o… 2021-07-25 16:49:02 @zeaxumawit @_Almaqah Someone told me the first time the claim was made was by Abiy in the parliament before release on Twitter, if you have link please share 2021-07-25 16:46:47 @zeaxumawit H/t @_Almaqah for future reference this is the claim from the horses mouth https://t.co/RKpbh0bTpU 2021-07-25 16:43:21 @zeaxumawit thanks trying to establish the timeline of tigrayan people being conflated with TPLF and wholesale rendered enemy combatants so this is v helpful, appreciate it 2021-07-25 16:40:41 @zeaxumawit excellent thank you 2021-07-25 16:37:55 @NuurHHassan @AmanSium thank you and now the mission is to bring these texts into public conversation 2021-07-25 16:36:03 **just in case this request travels^^ the claim is untrue but need the citation 2021-07-25 16:35:18 Tweeps can anyone share a link to either a statement or article from early in the war where the govt was claiming tigrayan refugees fleeing into Sudan were mostly men and therefore terrorists infiltrating the camps? 2021-07-25 15:23:38 tfw when undoing the myth of Ethiopia refuses discipline plus h/t @AmanSium’s phenomenal piece on Eritrea https://t.co/IO49CGzCfn https://t.co/jCgOSUTU6r 2021-07-25 15:09:41 on a lighter note, did anyone notice my profile photo is 7 year old me with the OG nerd hat from FAO Schwartz with the propellor. I begged for monthssss for my parents to get me one lmao 2021-07-25 15:06:45 RT @Meron_Geb: @UpFromTheCracks The efforts to gaslight are exhausting. He says this amidsy meaningless platitudes and people are tripping… 2021-07-25 15:06:40 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @Meron_Geb There’s ideological clarity among much of the southern peoples who see through the smokescreen and gaslight… 2021-07-25 15:05:43 @Meron_Geb There’s ideological clarity among much of the southern peoples who see through the smokescreen and gaslighting but this also underlines how post state organizing is both urgent and overwhelming H/t @ThaAyantu https://t.co/3hywRASl4a 2021-07-25 14:48:48 The attempts of the Ethiopian state to manufacture consent for the demonization of Tigrayans comes up against the force of collective memory. We remember the enemy is the state who sacrifices us even now as cannon fodder, not Tigrayans who find themselves in the crosshairs https://t.co/nItyVsJCX9 2021-07-25 14:43:55 RT @ThaAyantu: What happens when there is no longer an empire to dominate? When there are no longer lands over which to claim ownership and… 2021-07-25 14:34:30 Meanwhile (and apologies for the lack of alt text but don’t have access to OCR copy) https://t.co/5qAkMWktzd 2021-07-25 14:32:06 It’s so hard to write about what’s happening in Tigray and Oromia in the present b/c there’s so much work to cover in unsettling the hegemonic myth of Ethiopia as the pinnacle of Black Pan African freedom. https://t.co/Fa6opzMtO0 2021-07-24 23:31:02 RT @clancynewyork: Go @schock! If you want to cite tweets in a scholarly fashion, but are concerned they may disappear, you can add them to… 2021-07-24 22:50:55 omg this man has literally the worst takes on every issue https://t.co/rOkMBWyZaD 2021-07-24 22:46:42 I swear these be the people selling us anti-racist incarceration and trauma informed cages. @PalmTreesnGz come look at this https://t.co/bD3ZuLwtQo 2021-07-24 22:45:13 “The cabins the city purchased are about the size of a jail cell, or of a medium-sized backyard shed that can be purchased for a few hundred dollars.” https://t.co/hzy9wHDsYZ 2021-07-24 22:43:46 this man saw jail sized boxes in LA and said Toronto #goals…are you ok sir? https://t.co/Oar3B4elEI 2021-07-24 22:34:37 Excellent piece by @Gregbsmithnyc proclaiming what we been knew, most 911 mental health calls still get cops, the million dollar BHeard program makes makes better headlines than change https://t.co/oRwcFJgjth 2021-07-24 21:39:44 RT @tsnvaa: 1/6 Uff, buried lede: https://t.co/eoXPmmAJgv 2021-07-24 21:39:39 @tsnvaa thank you legit same reaction but had no energy to do a thread. You’re the mvp 2021-07-24 19:44:21 RT @netabomani: today’s the day ! pull up to Miriam Gallery to browse and buy zines by me (with special select zines made with @prisoncultu… 2021-07-24 17:12:22 @PopTechWorks @ShrewAnonymous Boop we got the answer with some digging :) https://t.co/0p0s8x5RCS 2021-07-24 17:11:16 Surveillance as Governance: Aadhaar by @ShrewAnonymous is available for international shipping at the link below. (FYI the price ₹599 = $8.05 in USD ) https://t.co/yvccVk0Yhq https://t.co/Tix4pHe6FW 2021-07-24 15:01:03 @gleemie what?! That’s wild too 2021-07-24 14:47:36 y’all don’t spend 30% of your life with dealing with care coordinators for 1115 Medicaid waivers and it shows lmao. PHI is for the privileged 2021-07-24 14:44:42 Electronic health records terms of service be a manifesto to abolish hipaa 2021-07-24 14:14:53 https://t.co/u9feXXAJqt 2021-07-24 14:09:10 https://t.co/eDRL7wlrua 2021-07-24 14:06:42 RT @balagonline: “blame unvaccinated folks” instead of a government that sacrificed 600k workers and spread misinformation about covid for… 2021-07-24 14:04:15 The Otherwise School participants gave @suchetaghoshal and I this beautiful gift on the last day and my heart is full. Their intellectual generosity and care is unmatched. unforgettable summer https://t.co/1jqr1sjiqd 2021-07-23 23:25:01 **where https://t.co/1t6WkmlUHs https://t.co/dGAL6521p3 2021-07-23 23:20:30 RT @KaMaZhe: Kentler war nicht allein... 2021-07-23 23:12:47 y’all don’t hear me tho https://t.co/Pep0m0357P 2021-07-23 23:03:27 I know anything with government sex trafficking gives people QAnon Vibes but this is not some Facebook conspiracy theory. This is real life and it’s a network of high ranking academics https://t.co/uusjhYxoTv 2021-07-23 22:59:34 The New York City Administration for Children’s Services (@ACSNYC ) hired a leader of the pro pedophile movement, Theo Sandfort. Helmut Kentler wasn’t alone. https://t.co/vsSKNEsEjq 2021-07-23 22:23:27 Helmut Kentler was the director of the Sexology Institute when Theo Sandfort was a member. Theo Sandfort is a leader of the pro-pedophile movement and was hired by @ACSNYC to consult on LGBTQ kids in foster care. Will we wait as long as Germany to reckon? https://t.co/WaI5GfuJT0 2021-07-23 21:46:01 RT @SessiBlanchard: Yesterday I found the guy who survived the OD I reversed last week very next day he reversed all 4 ODs suffered by a f… 2021-07-23 20:14:46 @cemicool yea… are we allowed to cringe ? 2021-07-23 18:53:36 RT @SamLutzker: Just yesterday, I brought an unhoused friend into CVS to receive the vaccine and we were turned away b/c we hadn’t made an… 2021-07-23 15:59:37 READ this years in the making scholarship about Aadhaar and surveillance as governance by @ShrewAnonymous ! Critical text for anyone examining social safety net as punishment + Excellent complement w/ @PopTechWorks Automating Inequality https://t.co/b2KpSSbE6x 2021-07-23 13:09:13 RT @JohnathanPerk: Like, white ppl using gifs of Black ppl OBVIOUSLY annoys a good % of Black ppl. There have been whole think pieces writt… 2021-07-23 13:06:50 @PalmTreesnGz Boop, that part. But they have no idea #OnHere 2021-07-23 13:05:12 RT @PalmTreesnGz: As someone who has to deal w this system re: two parents who are on Medicare I can attest to challenges. I just had to ta… 2021-07-23 13:05:02 RT @UpFromTheCracks: ** Correction the man with the white shirt is John O’Connor Director African Operations for IOHK Cardano,but point sti… 2021-07-23 13:02:46 RT @UpFromTheCracks: If you’re concerned about low rates of COVID vaccination in a carceral society like the US- you have to look at how pr… 2021-07-23 13:02:37 If you’re concerned about low rates of COVID vaccination in a carceral society like the US- you have to look at how prisoners have been been disproportionately ravaged by the virus and given limited access to the vaccine. (*article from May ‘21) https://t.co/wHSwhjAV7Y https://t.co/stTAbrbAy6 2021-07-23 12:53:23 @dgolumbia @Meron_Geb @aida_notacat @bigblackjacobin @JournoJoshua Thanks! 2021-07-23 12:53:03 @nullvoidstar @WeBeImagining @suchetaghoshal @hcdeUW Thank you 2021-07-23 12:50:43 my kid had multiple anaphylactic reactions earlier this year and I couldn’t even get a call back from the clinic. Vaccine hesitancy is not just about being hesitant about the vaccine itself, it’s anxiety about having nowhere to turn if you even have a basic question 2021-07-23 12:50:42 This has always been true. Yes there’s middle class white women who claim vaccines cause autism or w/e eugenic microchip nonsense but the majority of people who do not have basic medical care are people who do not have access and/or feel unsafe in our healthcare system- 2021-07-23 12:50:41 I’m concerned about a kind of eco-fascism/eugenics tendency in the vaccine discourse that implies we should just kill off the inferior unvaxxed. The majority of people who are unvaccinated don’t have access- 2021-07-23 12:26:47 @ShrewAnonymous Next i have to get you on @WeBeImagining to discuss your book! 2021-07-23 12:05:46 We will be releasing a public version of the syllabus, participants who want to go public will be sharing their prototypes through @interactionsMag and other means. @suchetaghoshal and I will need to recover a bit but will be releasing a report on the goings on. More soon :) 2021-07-23 12:03:20 I cannot believe how time flies. Today is the last day of The Otherwise School: Tools and Techniques of Counter-Fascism, a @WeBeImagining + Inquilab partnership w/ @suchetaghoshal at @hcdeUW More than anything grateful for the global alumni who are going stir things up 2021-07-23 11:38:35 The Govt DAta sHoWS pAREntS diDNt spEnD mORe TiMe PAreNTiNg duRInG the PANDEMIC https://t.co/0wHtxBoTuG 2021-07-23 05:05:24 RT @DeqiWoldeMikel: You should enquire what happened to #Eritrea's last Information Minister, Ali Abdu. When he escaped to exile, his 15 yr… 2021-07-23 04:56:59 @vee_etc where we gonna goooo 2021-07-23 04:56:19 @vee_etc noooo 2021-07-23 04:38:43 omg flashbacks to when my kids were 8,6,3,1 and 0. I lived in a 2nd floor walk up by myself carrying a double stroller, one in the carrier, groceries, laundry. Life is so much easier now, maybe I’d do a walk up if I was single w/ no clothes or desires for anything to be carried https://t.co/egL5DLJYGj 2021-07-23 04:21:27 @zeaxumawit @EremiasWmikael @jack @Olympics He’s trolling, Olympics does not think he’s supporting Ethiopian athletes they’re trolling Jack. The tweet is not in an of itself a big deal per se the cognitive dissonance is the neoliberal/libertarian agenda colliding w/ the intensity of violence by Ethiopia 2021-07-23 02:39:27 @Jimmicha_ @waisideas @jack Clubhouse …tbh I feel like the cryptocurrency conversation is well trodden and many people can speak to its limitations better than me , the implications of digital ID are very interesting to me tho 2021-07-23 02:32:12 @waisideas @Jimmicha_ @jack Lol are you opposed to SSI or this an exclusively crypto-Stan comment ? 2021-07-23 02:00:43 https://t.co/MmStWBFUV0 2021-07-23 01:57:28 @Noaaronmylungs @IOHK_Charles I’m saying crypto doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it’s a concrete thing-yes not governed by central banks but prone to major fluctuations in value, absent any FDIC insurance, subject to major transaction fees, scams, cybersecurity flaws-libertarianism doesn’t address income inequality 2021-07-23 01:47:30 @Noaaronmylungs @IOHK_Charles I think we’re arguing on different levels of abstraction here, you’re making an argument for a negative use case of IP to say that ofc Bitcoin could be deployed for ill gain but it’s not inherently bad- 2021-07-23 01:25:33 RT @ubiquity75: Check out this wonderful series, featuring friends like ⁦@DocDre⁩! A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I | WIRED htt… 2021-07-23 01:24:03 @Noaaronmylungs @IOHK_Charles Except it’s not just a protocol it’s an infrastructure based on speculative finance with currency subject to massive fluctuations in value. Like all technology it’s infused with the values and objectives of those who designed it https://t.co/z0K5zpaT0z 2021-07-23 01:13:07 ** Correction the man with the white shirt is John O’Connor Director African Operations for IOHK Cardano,but point still stands that Charles Hoskinson is the co-founder of Ethereum and Cardano https://t.co/qJkKA3XRWx 2021-07-23 01:10:21 @Noaaronmylungs @IOHK_Charles But you’re right it’s @jjtoconnor the director of Africa Operations for Cardano, my error on that. I can’t see the picture so well 2021-07-23 01:03:04 @Noaaronmylungs @IOHK_Charles Palmers take was very late on what people have been saying for years, cryptocurrency is not magical it’s a finite speculative based currency that evades regulation at the expense of the average person. 2021-07-23 00:58:52 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 @aida_notacat @Meron_Geb yup yup he’s the homie 2021-07-23 00:32:04 @aida_notacat @Meron_Geb Inter-dude bro conflict since he’s team #btc 2021-07-23 00:31:05 @aida_notacat @Meron_Geb He’s trying to undermine it as a reference is the point, he’s not endorsing ethereum, he’s trolling it by making it into the Ethiopian flag 2021-07-23 00:24:10 The man in the white shirt is Charles Hoskinson. He’s the founder of Ethereum and Cardano https://t.co/Asu694x5wT 2021-07-23 00:24:09 This is why @jack dropping #Eth is worse than you think https://t.co/aTFXx0DSAI 2021-07-23 00:09:33 @Meron_Geb @aida_notacat Ah I found it, here’s an accessible thread from the dodge coin CEO about why cryptocurrency is based and evil underlining that again we live in dumb times https://t.co/aTFXx0DSAI 2021-07-23 00:03:12 @Meron_Geb @aida_notacat do you have that thread handy from the cryptocurrency CEO who had a revelation that it’s all just evil right wing nonsense @dgolumbia @bigblackjacobin 2021-07-22 23:43:52 we live in such dumb times https://t.co/Jgs9l1FRL5 2021-07-22 23:14:05 @timmhotep yes, bipolar is no joke 2021-07-22 17:22:10 Where is @Twitter as @PMEthiopia uses the platform to demonize humanitarian assistance in the wake of a famine + executions of aid workers attempting to access Tigray? @TwitterSafety Failing to invest in bare minimum content moderation is producing IRL harm @malemayehou @jack https://t.co/EPTTstgv2U 2021-07-22 15:45:59 There’s 195-249 countries depending on who’s counting but the geography of discourse seems to be a collage of Cold War and Tri-continental ghosts 2021-07-22 15:39:53 what makes geopolicy rise to the concern of the American left because the logic escapes me. Just off discourse you’d think there’s blank space btwn Palestine, Syria, China, Haiti, Russia and North America. Sometimes SA and Egypt is thrown in… 2021-07-22 14:12:58 @DocDre I think the points about context collapse are spot on but I think it also takes the terms of online behavior ie “abuse, spam, etc.” as dictated by platforms. It’s v odd that you cannot report a tweet is lacking citation-you verify accounts not info even tho that’s the currency 2021-07-22 13:10:13 We can oppose US regime change + reactionary white Cubans, Operation Pedro Pan alumni (of which Bezo’s father was one btw) support an end to the embargo and acknowledge every single thing is not perfect about Castro or Cuba? 2021-07-22 13:10:12 All to say,can we divest from these simplistic+dogmatic binaries of there’s no imprisonment of the Uyghurs b/c Open Society Foundation is funding the studies that prove it? The CIA is evil + has its own agenda,the CCP is a carceral state in ways similar to the US both can be true 2021-07-22 13:10:11 Djibouti has no free elections, violently suppresses dissent and hosts multiple foreign military bases and has publicly opposed Israel’s atrocities against the Palestinians. 2021-07-22 13:10:10 Al Jazeera has had the best investigative series of Hindutva linked orgs in the US receiving millions in PPP loans and will never have any good coverage on Qatar b/c it’s ran by the Qatari government 2021-07-22 12:36:03 imagine explaining this to George Floyd’s family? dude look like he know this don’t make sense but the birr hit his account tho https://t.co/5ZQLGE0Ndf 2021-07-22 06:27:42 RT @TavNyongo: Just when I despaired of anyone making Africanist sense of afropessimism, @keguro_ steps in and does, not just that, but so… 2021-07-21 22:19:25 Editors are midwives, we need more Black editors, we need to pay them a lot, and we need to upskill the brilliant and disorganized procrastinators. 2021-07-21 21:34:04 RT @ThaAyantu: “it’s almost tradition that when elites of this () empire fight each other the human resource they use is from the south,… 2021-07-21 20:22:19 RT @SunnyJReedABook: Thrilled! I’m presenting @MAPACAnet this year, my very first conference! My topic: Asian Adopted Children, Racial… 2021-07-21 19:35:39 Imagine thinking dislike is not already a feature of this app https://t.co/xT0fNx5rvC 2021-07-21 18:02:11 @STOPSpyingNY Are interns paid? 2021-07-21 18:00:54 RT @STOPSpyingNY: Join our team! STOP is looking for remote Media/Communications Interns this fall. Interns will implement and develop STOP… 2021-07-21 16:07:18 RT @_TheodoreKim: Anybody know who “lesbianmooncolony” was on Tumblr? Their 2015 critique of subsurface scattering in humans was SPOT ON.… 2021-07-21 15:00:53 RT @jeffreyansloos: But while you're here, check out some of @majdal's work with https://t.co/JEbiXpMhOj 2021-07-21 15:00:51 RT @jeffreyansloos: Honestly @ashleycmorford and I had no idea how much this work would resonate with folks but we've been delighted to hea… 2021-07-21 14:40:11 RT @qadrida: Sharing my piece in @interactionsMag where I frame driver communities as infrastructures of the platform, showing how their re… 2021-07-20 21:28:24 Check out First Cry documentary, about worker run + built Shahid (Martyrs) hospital in the mining township of Dalli-Rajhara Chattisgarh India- the hospital successfully provides healthcare for and by the poor h/t @sayashk https://t.co/wIRF28LXh6 2021-07-20 21:02:34 RT @AudreyTruschke: A lot of horrifying information is coming out about the Modi government's surveillance of its own citizens using Israel… 2021-07-20 21:01:24 RT @raqib_naik: My Latest For @frontline_india, @divyatriv and I investigate how Sangh Parivar funds advocacy efforts through family found… 2021-07-20 20:57:58 On the manufacturing of Hinduphobia by @raqib_naik https://t.co/3uLBkojP9W https://t.co/maXVai3aKM 2021-07-20 17:50:31 RT @bigblackjacobin: Wrote about the far right group behind a new Chrome browser extension that supposedly lets you see whether someone on… 2021-07-20 15:58:20 RT @UpFromTheCracks: ** and ofc not downplaying that the only permanent institution created by the Freedman Bureau during Reconstruction wa… 2021-07-20 15:02:10 RT @chicanocyborg: Saying "Western" to indicate a Western European episteme is a geographically contingent not universal orientation. It on… 2021-07-20 14:53:52 ** and ofc not downplaying that the only permanent institution created by the Freedman Bureau during Reconstruction was public schools and that the white wives of northern abolitionists came to *save* Black folks by dismantling their curriculum and teaching staff 2021-07-20 14:50:37 RT @jpdimond: Sucheta is a brilliant star! 2021-07-20 14:49:18 Drawing on these other examples of quasi state and far right organizations deploying social justice language to further the erasure of Palestinians, Dalits, Black and other oppressed peoples, could help inform our opposition to the latest forms of white supremacist revisionism 2021-07-20 14:49:17 Hijacking public school textbooks to whitewash fascism is also a tactic we saw in California by the Hindutva. HAF lobbied Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and other major publishers to remove any mention of caste oppression in Hinduism. https://t.co/k9IhonoHjk https://t.co/mZP2ez2bBT 2021-07-20 14:30:20 RT @gleemie: @UpFromTheCracks I feel this work so hard and this documentation maybe will make it possible for more of us to push for this i… 2021-07-20 13:58:35 We were given no funding for speakers so I paid out of pocket for honorariums for speakers to make the 10 weeks more engaging. I wasn’t the only one either. Anyway TLDR Cornell tech and Tapan Parikh are abusive AF and never again 2021-07-20 13:58:34 As soon as it became clear that the shelter in place order would result in the summer being online, I flagged that we needed to think about an interactive pedagogy for Zoom. I was told this was my own inadequacy and the program was extended from 6 to 10 weeks and pushed to 8-10pm 2021-07-20 13:47:38 I only had to teach 1 day a week compared to 3 this summer but I am nowhere near the anxiety induced state he pushed me to only in retrospect can I process how incredibly abusive that work environment was-It makes me realize how much “impostor syndrome” is actually just trauma 2021-07-20 13:47:37 reflecting on how this summer compares to last and am having flashbacks to Tap simultaneously scream texting me on my phone, telling me I’m an incompetent idiot in the Zoom chat, emailing me that I’m Khmer Rouge while I’m lecturing- 2021-07-20 13:25:53 RT @DrKimSue: ACTION ALERT: do you work for a fire/police dept, health dept or system that has a significant quantity of expiring or expir… 2021-07-20 13:09:34 as I’m not a UW employee I’m probably not effectively describing the 20 hours+ a week that she spent on problem solving this (in addition to every aspect of the procurement + payment process being outsourced to dif private platforms ) but this was workkkkk 2021-07-20 13:04:22 Sucheta’s hard work means there’s now an infrastructure to fund international participants in almost every imaginable scenario. This is part of what building operational capacity for transnational solidarity looks like. 2021-07-20 13:04:21 short thread on why @suchetaghoshal is the Leaving aside the content of the Otherwise School, a major component of the program is funneling money from the university to people on the outside. 12 participants receive $2k/each and the majority are located outside of the US- 2021-07-20 12:16:50 Eid Mubarak ! 2021-07-20 01:03:59 omg I had flashbacks the other day of going to this exhibit at the schomburg in 2013 about ethiopians enslaved in india who ascended to royalty in their lifetime- “the clever” meets Brahmin discourse https://t.co/HrAW7WBNDk 2021-07-20 00:58:27 @DocDre @_Zeets they haven’t been to the Harlem book fair- 2021-07-20 00:52:49 @HornAnarchists @anarchievsprue1 Ie gender is a universal category but gendered forms of labor and knowledge production are particular in wollega vs Detroit vs Asmara vs Addis vs Melbourne. Particular is not dogmatism, it’s about honoring the specificity of a context 2021-07-20 00:42:08 @HornAnarchists @anarchievsprue1 Ah so I’d say particularity is holding both (legitimate grievance {but also particular doesn’t just need to be grievance} and the state) this is important as we can see with BAP 2021-07-20 00:28:16 @HornAnarchists @anarchievsprue1 oh I thought you were being sarcastic, I don’t think polarization is inherently negative. particularity can also be nuance, like holding two ideas at once even if they’re contrasting-maybe that’s lost if we focus on the state exclusively 2021-07-20 00:22:51 when i organize around abolishing the family regulation system, a lot of the time I don’t agree w/ parents politics. but my square is supporting people who got their kid snatched up, if they’re an anti-vaxxer and a hotep (true story) I fight for them- 2021-07-20 00:08:19 tweeting from your room in your parents house doesn’t count, I mean have you been around kids and their grandma at the same damn time frfr 2021-07-20 00:08:18 I wonder how much these abstracted political positions result from single generation households. 2021-07-19 23:52:27 y’all just be pledging allegiance to discourses f*** the particulars 2021-07-19 23:05:02 i swear y’all be hoarding knowledge because I didn’t even know that I didn’t know about this. 2021-07-19 23:03:08 Me: what did you do today at camp Kid: fly boarding Me googling fly boarding: https://t.co/1Fz7TmqGJf 2021-07-19 22:45:16 RT @but_im_kim_tran: Specificity matters. Saying so isn't idiosyncratic, or waxing philosophical, it is the difference between responsive m… 2021-07-19 22:44:10 @Blackamazon at # 4 2021-07-19 22:36:32 it’s like sun up to sun down, except there’s no time shift in email. the shit just stay lit, it’s forever present in the inbox 2021-07-19 22:35:16 sometimes I ask god if I was put on this earth to answer emails 2021-07-19 22:22:03 Nollywood’s Meet The In Laws > 2021-07-19 21:56:00 @DiverseInAI @moiragweigel @timnitGebru @interactionsMag 2021-07-19 19:08:48 Screaming Happy Birthday to @FBedaso !! https://t.co/gs6Pz8ZiVX 2021-07-19 19:06:55 RT @ifatgazia: Can't believe it's week six already of solid learning and unlearning. @timnitGebru's keynote was https://t.co/OfHaKlgXUT 2021-07-19 19:06:43 RT @suchetaghoshal: honestly the line up of features who have made time for us in the last 6 weeks is incredible < 2021-07-19 17:57:29 @timnitGebru In 90 minutes you covered the environmental devastation of Large Language Models, the connection between climate change and refugees - how its coupled with unmitigated disinfo on social media, organizing against the misogynoir of big tech corporations + mas-so we’re grateful 2021-07-19 17:54:44 RT @timnitGebru: I had a great time presenting. I spent too much time talking though & 2021-07-19 15:36:01 RT @hypervisible: Another thing to pay attention to in this story is how coordinated LE and company reps are in their responses. It’s some… 2021-07-19 13:58:28 a word https://t.co/5Q7Nnsi7cF 2021-07-19 13:27:49 @HalfAtlanta Just putting two and two together that you produced this documentary. We had Pauline and Frederick Rogers come speak to The Otherwise School after participants watched the doc, thanks so much for your work https://t.co/rxKU8rhoAq 2021-07-19 13:03:31 RT @moyazb: What are you doing Tuesday (tomorrow) from 7-8pm EST? I hope you will be joining me and @adriennemaree for a talk about my book… 2021-07-19 13:01:40 RT @movfamilypower: Decades of scientific studies on prenatal exposure to drugs make it clear: forced family separation, especially among n… 2021-07-19 12:25:23 @_KarenHao @timnitGebru Thank you! Your piece was the first article that got a mass audience to understand the content of the paper early on. Really sets a standard for the kind of science communication we need in tech journalism. 2021-07-19 12:21:25 Please read Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne https://t.co/Y2DBMnBaVw 2021-07-19 12:19:57 This is an advertisement for Ring doorbell, a networked surveillance system criminalizing our neighborhoods without consent. Why do you think this consumer subsidized, policing infrastructure is going viral? https://t.co/mgvAzaRNGS https://t.co/F2v0iQglGb 2021-07-19 12:13:55 @funnymonkey I mean Black Mirror was a good start but we need to hit with the same regularity as these ads. The drumbeat of positive spin is incessant 2021-07-19 12:09:58 RT @suchetaghoshal: We have my movement family doing a workshop w the TOS cohort today, y'all. My last five years of research, community, d… 2021-07-19 12:08:46 @shannonmattern I love that you have read everything lol it’s one of my faves 2021-07-19 12:04:31 @funnymonkey The quest to normalize surveillance and killer robots is not inevitable, our side needs to step up counter-tactics (my 2 cents) 2021-07-19 12:02:10 @funnymonkey I think we need to get better at conveying how cuteness is a dark pattern b/c Boston dynamics is of our nightmares 2021-07-19 12:01:08 @shannonmattern Have you read this book? So good tying together the histories and scandal of the 42nd street library https://t.co/RT0Mxvvzew 2021-07-19 11:49:42 @moiragweigel @timnitGebru The entire school is unrecorded so that people felt comfortable taking risks in their workshops/presentations so unfortunately no. However, most participants chose to publish in a special edition of @interactionsMag so that will offer some insights into the summer for the public 2021-07-19 11:35:29 @cemicool Also reminds me of the use of pellet guns in Kashmir, the idea being to incapacitate families who now have to take care of protestors disabled by “non lethal weapons” 2021-07-19 11:33:38 I’m so grateful to be able to give my kids opportunities that I literally don’t even understand. They be coming home talking about pontooning, deep sea fishing and kayaking. I just smile and nod. 2021-07-19 11:30:30 RT @shannonmattern: @keguro_ I wrote this last fall, which might be of use: https://t.co/hQExo1puOB 2021-07-19 11:30:08 **thrilled to have 2021-07-19 10:22:10 Special shout out to my friend and colleague @suchetaghoshal for co-facilitating The Otherwise School through Inquilab @hcdeUW. In the midst of ongoing COVID crisis in India impacting her family, she has been a solid partner throughout this whole summer. 2021-07-19 10:16:25 Just like that, it’s the 6th week of The Otherwise School: Tools and Techniques of Counter-Fascism ! @timnitGebru is giving the Keynote on Natural Language Processing and Racial Justice https://t.co/LwIACA4vv5 2021-07-19 00:26:48 https://t.co/8UI9xCrzLl https://t.co/GOn6oycUXU 2021-07-19 00:23:51 Please read this thread for surviving the infowars ahead https://t.co/3jeQaDFKSx 2021-07-19 00:20:40 ACAB but I love a Twitter detective https://t.co/BdDqoMMSvY 2021-07-18 23:04:54 this dear affy movie is so chaotic 2021-07-18 17:57:55 @safiyaaaay @Djbawlah Kitfo is a gift from God and I’m devastated that the “I’m not Black I’m Habesha” gang are champions of the cause 2021-07-18 17:45:45 RT @thewire_in: BREAKING | Here's a thread of the #PegasusProject stories we've released tonight. 1. Over 300 verified Indian mobile telep… 2021-07-18 15:45:30 @mer__edith Boston Dynamics is a death cult 2021-07-18 14:46:49 RT @FrankPasquale: “A pandemic response is only as good as its adoption, but pre-existing privacy and technology concerns make it difficult… 2021-07-18 14:35:48 Fair point, my English is also not always grammatically correct either lol. but yes, “I am not Tigrayan” vs Tegaru. Thank you for the correction. https://t.co/jSWrLrs1ac 2021-07-18 14:29:56 @amirmunab @getachew_temare Fair point 2021-07-18 14:24:40 @makeinjera Ofc we just live in a bizarre era where people cosplay identities for clout so I like to be transparent. I will try to get to the bottom of this with Twitter tho. 2021-07-18 13:58:40 Sharing full English translation for your reference. @Twitter @TwitterSafety please provide comment on why African heads of state are not being subject to the same basic regulation as the west? https://t.co/UiMUtuj2iN 2021-07-18 13:51:23 What’s so disturbing about @Twitter’s refusal to address @AbiyAhmedAli’s genocidal statements is that unlike India for example, I doubt the Ethiopian state has a stronghold in the company. This is merely apathy. @TwitterSafety do you even have content moderation in Amharic? https://t.co/maSziJUyKb 2021-07-18 13:45:48 RT @ThaAyantu: @TeklehaymanotG The collapsing of civilians with military has been a disturbing feature of this conflict. Especially since J… 2021-07-18 13:45:19 RT @ThaAyantu: Basic summary of today’s pinned tweet by the Prime Minister: “The enemy we are facing is a cancer/invasive weed/ difficult t… 2021-07-18 13:34:31 Official press statement from @PMEthiopia and nothing, no mechanism for justice or even harm mitigation. No more “strongly worded statements” from the international community. This is so egregious and we don’t even know the full extent due to the ongoing blackout. https://t.co/ksK58ws3GS 2021-07-18 13:24:24 I am not Tegaru, I have no family directly harmed by the war but 8 months of bearing witness to mass atrocities brings an odd survivors guilt. What to do, what to say? The govt is releasing genocidal statements on Twitter and even getting them deplatformed seems unlikely. 2021-07-18 13:11:07 RT @ThaAyantu: I just love that in Goota Koo from his posthumous album Maal Mallissa Haacaaluu Hundessa is straight up like “I don’t like a… 2021-07-18 00:46:49 NDA + 6 figure salary = silence https://t.co/MWkBpeNzdb 2021-07-18 00:33:46 HIV + people are needlessly stigmatized as unhealthy, meanwhile as ppl with chronic health conditions are more likely to know their overall health status https://t.co/xOQuV3WH5M 2021-07-17 23:59:42 African Solutions to African Problems = state sanctioned suppression of dissent in the quest of neoliberalist freedoms aka a relational ethics of AI 2021-07-17 23:57:17 This trend is coupled with the rise in ponzi or MLM/pyramid schemes h/t Cèdric Durand https://t.co/gOdF0gK2AU 2021-07-17 23:42:21 for the record I flagged this when she was percolating on Tegaru Twitter https://t.co/ktfiviEFWz 2021-07-17 23:26:55 **redlining 2021-07-17 23:25:56 But given this statistic model is being deployed in the context of redlinin and based off of extremely racialized features ie proximity to check cashing- it’s very much a re articulation of the racial bias it seeks to respond to 2021-07-17 23:24:23 It’s not coincidence that the original Kaiser Permanente ACE study was completed on predominantly white married college educated parents but the lingo is deployed in service of surveilling low income, Black families w/ a HS degree - 2021-07-17 23:24:22 The problem here w/ RTM in child welfare is twofold: 1) the lack of consent, the people who live in the place subject to RTM inspired modeling were never given a choice to opt in https://t.co/92GfZ2L6f6 2021-07-17 22:38:53 RT @WeBeImagining: @UpFromTheCracks @RutgersUPress @DorothyERoberts @NCCPR @JMacForFamilies @movfamilypower @ACSNYC @safiyanoble We discuss… 2021-07-17 22:37:28 @cmiciek @hypervisible Also from VA where the Child Welfare Commissioner posted this slide in response to the federal family first prevention act https://t.co/VPLSiluBbr 2021-07-17 22:18:26 @RimRK Eugenics was re-articulated as demography post-WW2? 2021-07-17 21:21:51 This particular gem is from @PredictPrevent and @mitcnc. Enjoy the full length film at link below https://t.co/MjA9JVNH82 2021-07-17 21:21:50 It’s the complete seriousness for me. Building code violations, proximity to check cashing place, your next door neighbor-are all features you can select for your place based ML model to predict child maltreatment https://t.co/j8GBdEzrZm 2021-07-17 21:11:33 welcome to my world https://t.co/I5IS38tsGX 2021-07-17 21:06:53 She said their ML model of playgrounds is inspired from Joel Kaplan’s Risk Terrain Modeling?? Counter terrorism, but make it K-5 https://t.co/GUNxszZK7W 2021-07-17 21:01:19 Just your regular reminder that predictive analytics in the child welfare system is absolutely bonkers https://t.co/QrC9m35I8c 2021-07-17 20:07:00 @mer__edith this is not good to say the least 2021-07-17 20:03:37 WTF https://t.co/h8jILFkEfH 2021-07-17 19:44:52 RT @AimiHamraie: What did online teaching during the pandemic teach you about accessibility? Help us make the case for preserving remote an… 2021-07-17 19:02:22 RT @TheFunambulist_: We are beyond excited to share that we are hosting the incredible Zoé Samudzi (@ztsamudzi) as the guest editor-in-chie… 2021-07-17 18:14:26 Day 2 of sickness I’ve binge watched cult docs, global value chain docs, Black Lady Sketch Show, like all 90s Blaxploitation movies…so does anyone have like best of 2021 webinar series curated? Y’all be recording everything, where’s the list?? 2021-07-17 17:51:12 @ThaAyantu @safiyaaaay I always read his tweets in bill gates voice https://t.co/lPyOrVbqRd 2021-07-17 17:48:53 RT @netabomani: today is the last day to apply for a workshop series i'm organizing titled "Reading, writing & 2021-07-17 16:49:32 Cédric Durand on the impact of COVID on Global Value Chains https://t.co/uFoyBT2B8E 2021-07-17 15:58:54 @FhockeyfanSp Well I’d argue that success is not hoarding, it’s hard work to play this game ethically and make sure every time you access funding you’re distributing to as many people as possible 2021-07-17 15:53:35 Anybody who has ever collaborated on a project with me, I try to explain what I know about how the money game works (+ even my positionality limits how much I know) because it’s has nothing to do with hard work at all. 2021-07-17 15:51:35 Yes ofc there’s trust fund babies but I mean start up funds for profs, networks of serendipity that get the cut from NSF grants which require a mandatory percentage to go to DEI, consultancies, paid board seats etc etc 2021-07-17 15:45:09 the only thing I have to say about the trust fund baby acid trip, is best believe there’s a lot of people in the tech space (academia too) seeing these type of numbers and keeping it to themselves- 2021-07-17 13:06:19 RT @ThaAyantu: Yonatan has literally taken the place of the oppressor, so has Soliyana Shimeles & 2021-07-17 00:07:52 RT @upendmovement: Building Power Together: Reflections on family regulation systems across borders and generations I enjoyed tonight's @H… 2021-07-16 23:06:45 Interpretation in ASL and in Español 2021-07-16 23:02:14 Now https://t.co/EPNDl9oPFn 2021-07-16 19:11:30 RT @safiyaaaay: There is much to be said about how the empire has and continues to conscript from the populations it once conquered but it… 2021-07-16 17:56:48 @_jack_poulson solidarity 2021-07-16 17:55:35 @fosterhood this is v f**** funny and am watching now thank you 2021-07-16 15:38:06 s/o to the people who immediately texted me to say they I hope I feel better but it’s probably not the flu just me doing too damn much 2021-07-16 15:34:29 @TIRShowOakland Something that makes me laugh as hard as this https://t.co/ropVhsCUO2 2021-07-16 14:31:05 I am sickkk, please send movie recs (that are funny, I cannot be flu down analyzing dystopian possibilities) 2021-07-16 14:29:46 RT @DrewUniversity: #DrewU’s @BioProfBarker explains breakthrough COVID-19 cases in @voxdotcom story 2021-07-16 01:28:45 @vee_etc 100 2021-07-16 00:52:13 the deeper you go the worse it gets, I suppose this is their response to previous criticism https://t.co/xzQQZMdSEz 2021-07-16 00:49:54 omg they’re extorting parents of children murdered by the police for the revcom tour. https://t.co/08AULnYOyM 2021-07-15 22:54:46 **They shared their insights with us today at the Otherwise School! @rechpauline put an intention in the world that we have an Otherwise internship to support RECH in the future, once we recover from the summer-I hope we can make that happen https://t.co/Y7q8nVnnAy 2021-07-15 22:49:26 @_jack_poulson @ohnobackspace @mer__edith @littlebrown cryinggg, yes ofc I know the first dean of Cornell tech 2021-07-15 22:46:12 Big s/o to @rechpauline and her husband Frederick Rogers for sharing their insights as Mississippi organizers and formerly incarcerated people. Check out the Parchman Prison: Pain and Protest doc they’re featured in https://t.co/lNZte37KYr 2021-07-15 21:17:45 When exactly did the War on Terror become “African Solutions for African Problems”? https://t.co/QqmCYmpoGr 2021-07-15 20:51:01 RT @ZekuZelalem: In a free country, such postings would be dismissed as the ramblings of a fascist. But in Ethiopia, months after making th… 2021-07-15 20:44:37 @bigblackjacobin I wonder how much his political trajectory reflects the political trajectory of Oak Bluffs? 2021-07-15 20:42:56 RT @bigblackjacobin: Spike Lee Did the Wrong Thing https://t.co/jou6ChkepR 2021-07-15 20:41:02 @Disruptia @ThaAyantu risk actualized on this side lol 2021-07-15 20:33:28 **of 2021-07-15 20:20:36 8 months of state sanctioned propaganda deeming all of Tigray enemy combatants-even those who fled into South Sudan as refugees, Ethiopia insisted were junta-do you think their soldiers checked IDs before assaulting kids? Before starving them? Executing their parents? shameful 2021-07-15 20:16:11 As a mother, I’d never wish for my children to be soldiers but there’s a hypocrisy in killing infants, raping children, their parents, producing famine and then turning around to scream about child soldiers. This is a tragedy if your own making. https://t.co/O4sWp66qOm 2021-07-15 20:09:09 For working link to the zine :) https://t.co/7lw95RCVOD 2021-07-15 20:08:29 At every step of this siege on Tigray, the Ethiopian state couples intense violence with communication blackouts. https://t.co/H1NoabOtS4 2021-07-15 20:01:12 @DocDre @DrBiggieShorty nah it’s real in context-if that was the one pull out I would have been loud in your DMs lmao. 2021-07-15 19:56:51 Tomorrow @ 7pm EST Come thru to this deeply needed convo @BenJofaman put together reflecting on the family regulation system across borders @HiARTSnyc. Their thoughtfulness and care really is what made this possible https://t.co/EPNDl9oPFn 2021-07-15 19:50:06 @JasmineMcNealy Thank y’all for making it :) 2021-07-15 19:49:15 This looks amazing ! Check out I, Obscura, a zine https://t.co/qnYvKKrbqm 2021-07-15 19:46:32 @DocDre @DrBiggieShorty I love that section too, I was very concerned until I scrolled because I thought this was the sole quote https://t.co/mW9LflEbiv 2021-07-15 15:21:50 damn https://t.co/lQGcWeuezB 2021-07-15 14:17:42 @acidhorizonpod this is a weird take given many with fervor for “securing conditions that allow for a more collectively autonomous world” have not a day in their life spoken about conservatorships. Why not see this as an oppty to integrate more crip analysis? 2021-07-15 13:52:21 RT @hypotext: Excited to announce Search Atlas, a new project (w/ Rodrigo Ochigame) in DIS '21! We built a search engine that lets you sea… 2021-07-15 13:51:30 Rwandan troops being sent to Mozambique to fight “the war on terror” is a disturbing narrative 2021-07-15 13:39:00 https://t.co/yz8xNBt33s 2021-07-15 13:31:19 WFP insists on experimenting w/ biometrics in a humanitarian context losing any moral ground they claim against Houthis. The ridiculous premise of preventing fraud is undercut by the fact that just like the Houthis they divert aid up + down supply chains https://t.co/Ysu789Cc4a https://t.co/1rDj0sqix1 2021-07-15 12:54:26 RT @kettynivyabandi: Deeply concerned by serious threats and harassment towards human rights activist and @bccla Executive Director @Harsha… 2021-07-15 12:42:32 RT @histoftech: One of the many examples of why the work of @Combsthepoet—who is quoted in the article—is so vitally important: 2021-07-15 11:48:37 RT @_jack_poulson: On the one hand, Microsoft is perhaps one of the biggest contributors to police surveillance dystopias internationally.… 2021-07-15 11:33:12 RT @ThaAyantu: And also, this is not the first time that the empire is deploying youth from historically marginalized groups to die in a se… 2021-07-15 11:33:09 RT @ThaAyantu: I know emotions are high but I just want to remind everyone that whenever the government in Addis decides, the first group o… 2021-07-15 11:08:57 Remember when I was discussing the islamophobia of the EU parliament? Article describes how shocked Norwegians were that the Otoya massacre was carried out by “one of us” aka a white man. H/t @sedyst https://t.co/WnWiNjyM1M https://t.co/QckMuF7Hrs 2021-07-15 01:30:02 RT @tamaranopper: I'm giving an online DATA LITERACY LECTURE on crime stats. July 27. Free. Live CC and ASL.Sponsored by @haymarketbooks,… 2021-07-15 01:29:40 organizers this is why we need to emphasize safe communication with our people. the DMs ain’t it https://t.co/ebabYeHZNS 2021-07-15 01:02:34 RT @swodinsky: twitter friends in the disinfo space: is there any academic research on ad revenue and far-right sites? there's been a ton o… 2021-07-15 00:59:46 RT @ThaAyantu: Mamdanists go on and on about the need to transcend “ethnicity” as a colonial construct but won’t tell us why the hell we sh… 2021-07-14 19:17:05 RT @safiyaaaay: Padmore and Du Bois were generally sympathetic to Somalis (who at the time were focused on campaigning against Italy's retu… 2021-07-14 13:06:56 Villains war mongering unsurprising The Ethiopian state being wholly incapable of finding a coherent comms person for their pinky and the brain ambitions tho, kind of shocking. This tantrum is so self-incriminating. https://t.co/nuyQct554s 2021-07-14 12:41:02 Quartz talking about “Africa’s Unicorns” https://t.co/uNdGW6WvXj 2021-07-14 10:34:42 @blnaveen @schock Thank you!! 2021-07-14 09:45:42 @ShanaVWhite I feel this is deeply connected to how few people in higher education have children (before 35) and live lives largely away from those who do 2021-07-14 00:23:35 @taoleighgoffe with the profile pic this is too real https://t.co/zOwwhCaOz4 2021-07-14 00:05:10 Respectability Politics got you down? this mixtape feat. Andre Brock, Cardi B, Obeezy, Lemonade y extended ratchetery will get you right. Scholarship to a trap beat courtesy of @WeBeImagining https://t.co/LBtq1wtf2g 2021-07-13 23:54:58 it’s not the HoA who has to disentangle our liberation from the elites I see 2021-07-13 23:37:26 underrated tweet https://t.co/C18xNAZDPR 2021-07-13 18:42:59 @FBedaso Fidel be like https://t.co/m3q5WIu6QC 2021-07-13 18:35:37 questions that need answers https://t.co/uQnbGXdL2I https://t.co/uEQXmOHFVa 2021-07-13 16:15:14 Thanking God for @southernmovt Assembly starting off Otherwise right Playing -I Talk Black “aka a sermon over a trap beat” to get us thinking about being in community together- s/o to @suchetaghoshal for sharing her movement home with us 2021-07-13 13:45:29 “self authenticating document” 2021-07-13 13:34:19 so many nouns, pronouns, articles, titles, page numbers and dates…it’s hard to remember this is about a child’s life 2021-07-13 13:31:06 documents exhibits notwithstanding objections to relevance and like to ask for ruling. p121, the parties 2021-07-13 13:29:13 DOE due process hearings have no narrative arc, just bureaucracy and chaos 2021-07-13 12:38:56 RT @gatx_negrx: If you don’t have the range to speak about Cuba, just don’t (including myself). That includes stale theoretical analysis fr… 2021-07-13 12:34:42 they even cite his appearance on another show but can’t bear to mention the @TIRShowOakland episode featuring @FBedaso and Lwam (@SWTigray). Ayzoh, yene fascists https://t.co/UvjDrCEwWt 2021-07-13 12:29:23 #Citation https://t.co/JY6rkBcl0N 2021-07-13 12:26:33 LOL you know they big mad since they left this episode out their newsletter https://t.co/NdC8OCSN2q https://t.co/d2Mmtj4RxY 2021-07-13 12:22:08 Whenever the Blacks 4 Peace puts the Horn of Africa in they mouth it’s to talk about the US. They have no interest in the context or conditions of people in Tigray, Oromia, etc. All they see is “naïve and liberal Africans” who haven’t accepted them as saviors https://t.co/dnpzI6AYIg 2021-07-13 12:13:15 Member when 50 cent was calling people dirt bags that’s how y’all sound calling people imperial stooges while RT’ing the CCP and I’m cryingg 2021-07-13 11:50:52 @blnaveen @schock Do you know of a similar article that’s non paywalled? 2021-07-13 11:48:58 I promise you the primary strategy of three letter agencies isn’t bad takes on the internet. 2021-07-13 11:47:19 RT @madianou: Look forward to this later today - will be speaking on biometrics and ‘digital identity’ as technocolonialism. 2021-07-13 11:44:06 it’s so odd to me that people think the state has infiltrated everything but their own organization 2021-07-13 11:41:04 RT @BlackInNeuro: Our Black In Neuro Week 2021 schedule is here!! Get ready for a week packed with community building, networking, innovati… 2021-07-13 11:26:53 The 3G claim is so reminiscent of Facebook during the Arab Springs https://t.co/0wdEfINNlt 2021-07-13 11:14:11 RT @Nanjala1: Is there anyone who has paid even the faintest attention to EU immigration policy over the last 20 years who doesn't think th… 2021-07-13 10:37:47 RT @vee_etc: I get to spend every Monday speaking with mothers, mostly Black mothers about the child welfare system and so much more. Fck t… 2021-07-13 10:35:31 RT @projectnia: Last Monday, we kicked off our virtual summer Abolitionist Youth Organizing Institute #AYONYC2021 - the first session focus… 2021-07-13 10:28:49 RT @netabomani: graphic notes by @laurachowfun from my talk ‘zine making as a practice of abolition’ in the creative resistance session wit… 2021-07-13 02:13:43 RT @abraham_zere: My sister, @timnitGebru, has beautifully articulated what I have been feeling for long. 2021-07-13 02:13:07 RT @timnitGebru: Have leftist organizations, Black or otherwise, always been staunch supporters of authoritarian rule cause its "anti imper… 2021-07-13 00:12:11 RT @mayameme: If you can't be @ the talk tomrw, do try to follow @RonMorrison_ , @lodeffilms & 2021-07-12 23:12:59 RT @STOPSpyingNY: Join us JULY 21: "Artificial Intelligence & ​ Featuring @hypervisible, writ… 2021-07-12 16:42:35 @LkjonesSOC @Arrianna_Planey “a lot of academics” https://t.co/FXJym3UBdx 2021-07-12 15:48:14 RT @RMac18: One employee says they’ve reported so many racist comments that their personal Instagram account has been rate limited and will… 2021-07-12 15:47:32 @AimiHamraie ^^!! 2021-07-12 15:42:09 RT @hexatekin: A great episode. To draw a connection: well-paid Seattle tech folks are flooding north into where I grew up (Skagit) + crowd… 2021-07-12 14:01:30 @seanmmcdonald Yes, and I’d add that both rights and verification discourse are positioned around the individual when legitimacy and public health are collective. The de-emphasis on collective good loses the plot in my opinion. 2021-07-12 13:50:16 this mirrors the problem with vaccine passports in a way. Incentivizing credentials will incentivize production of fraudulent credentials. Ofc compounded by the subjective nature of Verification, GANs getting blue checks before Black women https://t.co/lhrfI3HIxE 2021-07-12 13:30:12 Lastly, I couldn’t help but laugh at this demonization of Russia and Eastern Europe as especially vulnerable to disinformation while the EU parliament amplifies racialized notions of dangerous foreigners terrorizing and weakening Europe. The lack of self awareness imho 2021-07-12 13:26:06 Implicit to the discussion of misinformation around LGBTQI+ is the white European subject is an enlightened bearer of progressive gender/sexual attitudes victimized by non white, non Christian + regressive “outsiders”. The irony being the gender binary is a european construct. 2021-07-12 13:20:25 This is in part enabled by the vacuous nature of terms associated with platform governance. “Hate speech” + “mis/disinformation” are amorphous concepts easily deployed as a vehicle for War on Terror and Cold War era notions of good and evil 2021-07-12 13:20:24 Speaking at @EP_Democracy was an interesting opportunity to learn how the mis/disinformation is being conceptualized by the EU Parliament but am disturbed by the assumption that foreign interference is the Muslim subject polluting EU progressive values. https://t.co/mI1dqh49B0 2021-07-12 10:34:52 RT @homeless_new: Thread. Those who try to give advice what the homeless should do, or what should be done with them or to them, should spe… 2021-07-12 10:16:43 @ZeerakW https://t.co/q8RgEzLPxP 2021-07-12 00:21:52 last thought on platform governance, is the academic discourse reflects the terms of app design (ie mis/disinfo, hate speech, etc) like why don’t we call public school disinformation? Because intent is secondary to the infrastructure- 2021-07-12 00:15:20 reminds me of @cornell_tech. They were like how can we deal with Brahmin anti-Blackness when Tap is the only person who interacts with Black people https://t.co/F4zjklwhaZ 2021-07-12 00:09:36 @LkjonesSOC Well also rejection should be one potential outcome out of an accountability infrastructure. Platforms try to evade their duty to provide governance on the basis of decentralization but we all centralize onto the damn platform. They need to fund accountability and curation 2021-07-12 00:07:25 RT @LkjonesSOC: THIS PART. Network legitimization but there’s also no way to REJECT someone from the network on the basis that they primari… 2021-07-11 23:56:23 TLDR, I read so much that I’m deeply aware of how little I know. But I try to use my platform to share how these technologies work, b/c I promise you computer scientists do not have the range and we need y’all to co-design public space on the internet. 2021-07-11 23:54:02 we have this double injustice where Black people are over surveilled and dehumanized through consumer dna tests and under seen as we correct the narrative. Imagine a UI where the user was prompted to engage w/ experts like @Arrianna_Planey when biostats claims were made https://t.co/4Lcv24ap8a 2021-07-11 23:50:44 I appreciate @LkjonesSOC dogged refusal to let Kareem’s claims go unquestioned but on a meta level, there’s no allowance for her valid claims to travel with his thread. There should be-this is not even technically hard to make happen https://t.co/a5jpV9yvX2 2021-07-11 23:48:26 As scholars incl Katherine Mckitterick and Tao Leigh Goffe highlight, citational praxis is also about who you are accountable to. 2021-07-11 23:48:25 As per the problem with content moderation which I feel more equipped to comment on, platforms put the burden on end users to report harm or QT and thread take-downs on mis/disinformation. This is not effective or a historic inevitability- 2021-07-11 23:48:24 as per the problems with this thread please read Dorothy Roberts’ Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. https://t.co/aft4sumjQl https://t.co/9QSfyAxjlg 2021-07-11 22:12:43 @ZeerakW Agenda is here, I believe there’s public viewing. I’ll share the link when I have it. https://t.co/SyFBAsP5PZ 2021-07-11 22:08:39 Looking forward to speaking at the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation tomorrow @ 11:45 GMT I will be focusing on content moderation beyond policing + disinformation about the #HoA 2021-07-11 21:44:31 I’m reminded of red nation podcast’s carceral feminism episode, broken down brilliantly in this thread https://t.co/avIf5iVMoz 2021-07-11 21:33:05 @_Almaqah Imagine bringing up Palestine randomly to avoid talking about the Tigray genocide? I swear they resent having to know any context besides the 2 they signed up for 2021-07-11 21:24:33 “Naïveté and liberalism on the part of Africans” this is embarrassing imho. Do you really want to defend this *dark continent* speak? https://t.co/aZLX7SE3hO 2021-07-11 21:19:15 is the thin red line going to die on this hill with the bop it berets or…? If you’re silent we can only assume you endorse this non-understanding of an entire region and peoples https://t.co/x72WIRenHy https://t.co/I0YQgaudn3 2021-07-11 20:38:16 noname at least took this embarrassment out her bio. Be like noname. https://t.co/x72WIRenHy 2021-07-11 20:30:53 @safiyaaaay I mean this puts telephone and Telegraph tech in perspective no? like the asymmetry of disseminating information btwn the state and the people across such a spread out geography was huge then. Who could have blown the whistle and been heard? 2021-07-11 20:26:05 @timmhotep Katherine Mckitterick’s book 2021-07-11 20:21:26 randomly and unprompted, people have been texting me excerpts as they encounter dear science for the first time. 2021-07-11 20:09:22 Remember when Selassie came on a US tour and was like “damn, Manufacturing Consent, this is dope”. The lying < 2021-07-11 20:02:23 @LkjonesSOC thank god, as you know we need you desperately out here. like cops vs alchemists rn 2021-07-11 19:57:34 @Arrianna_Planey @LkjonesSOC < 2021-07-11 19:56:47 @Arrianna_Planey @LkjonesSOC Last comment, I think we underestimate the governance decisions on SM design. ie twitter could design an indicator if a claim is lacking citation, similar to Wikipedia (but paid labor to moderate the community). QT Reacting shouldn’t be the primary mechanism for fact checking 2021-07-11 19:34:21 @LkjonesSOC @Arrianna_Planey Lol thank you imho much would be resolved if reading was prioritized > 2021-07-11 18:23:16 RT @Arrianna_Planey: Speaking as a Black public health researcher, this begs the questions: - why would genetic testing necessarily evade… 2021-07-11 18:20:40 @LkjonesSOC @Arrianna_Planey I once thought about inviting him to come on the podcast and learned he hasn’t written or researched almost at all off Twitter. I think this is a problem when people are not vetting info in any systematic way and being perceived as experts 2021-07-11 18:12:06 @Zemedaye @PatrickWight1 this is your brain on Neamin 2021-07-11 17:48:06 RT @baxterkb: ICYM @StanfordCCSRE & 2021-07-11 17:03:50 I’m guessing targeting hotels is some Fano fantasy of genocidal retribution? imagine if we had had transformative justice proceedings that addressed the harms of the TPLF instead of deeming an entire ethnicity and region enemy combatants. none of this was/is inevitable. https://t.co/QYnynApmPD 2021-07-11 13:55:07 RT @dgolumbia: strongly encourage folks to subscribe to The Hammer newsletter from @techwontsaveus @parismarx. This week's edition skewers… 2021-07-11 04:26:32 Oh and to be super clear, there were definitely Gulags, Stalin murdered a bunch of people and the romantic historical revisionism is why we continue to be haunted by tankies to this day. 2021-07-11 04:24:07 there’s a core set of fossils leading this group but the majority are just passing through looking for a political home that’s not Biden/Harris Dem party nothingness. I think we’ve debunked and can move on now. The fossils will die out and the majority will leave. 2021-07-11 04:24:06 So ADHD problems I forgot the main point…Tales From The Cringe Crypt. I was tasked with putting together this event at Columbia University “setting the record straight” about deaths under Stalin and Mao- https://t.co/8h1luqvQxP https://t.co/UIVSoYUwAR 2021-07-11 02:52:13 @fdbckfdfwd the way my eyes is stuck just like that 2021-07-11 02:28:21 i have so many questions that I’ve been holding for dayssss now https://t.co/p3adLOomVh 2021-07-11 00:34:46 @clancynewyork @nkrishnaswami yeah I’m more on some “yes, and” then “you’re wrong, b/c”. I’m with you 2021-07-11 00:27:24 @clancynewyork @nkrishnaswami I’m vaccinated,my kids are too. I hear the frustration-but there’s a way vaccination status is mediated by class + race (which I know you know fwiw) that forgets the flip side is refusal (by us so called more enlightened) to deal with the ecosystem of reasons people arent vaxxed 2021-07-11 00:21:22 @clancynewyork @nkrishnaswami I suspect vaccination is highest among professionals in urban areas w/ academic medical centers (and notably a lot of what’s reported as vaccine hesitancy is vaccine unavailability) conversely that demographic has done little to address the the plight(s) of everyone else- 2021-07-11 00:10:48 @ChampagneSharks isn’t it basically merch for the Biden Harris crowd? 2021-07-11 00:01:05 @clancynewyork @nkrishnaswami if like 27 things are killing you immediately there a point where anti-Vaxx becomes less an ideological commitment than a byproduct of despair and broken trust imho. 2021-07-10 23:59:12 @clancynewyork @nkrishnaswami Imho also look at Missouri, NAACP came out of its slumber to announce a travel advisory for Black people to there because it’s so white supremacist, the Manhattan project dumped radioactive waste there and it’s public schools are abysmal- this is not happening in a vacuum 2021-07-10 23:54:17 their politics (and maybe this true of many semi-ascendant diaspora) celebrates remote work, complains off hours but kinda ends at skimming think pieces. I now appreciate my HHA aunties, taxi driving and security guard uncles were writing manifestos on late nights 2021-07-10 23:54:16 the other irony is I was smoking weed by 12 and selling it by like a year later while my cousins were going to SAT prep, later off to “good colleges” you know Black Excellence and shit. Now they’re getting high after a long day at a PWI and the hardest thing I hit is Newport’s- 2021-07-10 23:40:58 Post the anti-globalization movement, I notice a turning inwards-this has brought us healing justice but also ethnonationalism. Seemingly disparate but both have impermeability to “outsiders” at times- 2021-07-10 23:36:13 There’s a kind of “impacted people” industry or discursive flex that happens but if you’ve ever been poor and/or incarcerated, it’s clear how shallow, commodified and tenuous that relationship is 2021-07-10 23:34:36 After I left the party, I really got deep into poverty and lived under a lot of state surveillance akin to residential school via welfare, the shelter system, child welfare, friends getting locked up, scammers etc 2021-07-10 23:28:53 when the Jena 6 protests happened, it was one of the largest mobilizations of HBCUs vs an overwhelmingly white anti-Iraq war movement. This racialized division of political consciousness continues even as George Floyd’s murder is legible across society 2021-07-10 23:23:22 @bentarnoff The Jacobin aka what I call white Marxist /tech bro adjacent spaces tend to feel alienated or consciously dissociate from the latter and there are dif dynamics ie Sam Harris/Richard Dawkins were left faves 15 years ago 2021-07-10 23:21:43 @bentarnoff I think (specifically in PoC liberation spaces) care work is considered the primary method to combat the harsh condition of carceral capitalism which is correct on one hand, but problematic for example re:Movement for Black Lives ™ 2021-07-10 23:18:24 The RCP gave me a place to sleep, a sense of strategy and political economy. They were/are cartoonishly wrong about atheism, Blackness, gender and sexuality. 2021-07-10 23:12:22 conversely, it’s a v jarring to encounter almost 2 decades later, some version of what I left-loud and unchanged in the name of anti-imperialism. Particularly, b/c there’s more energy now around healing and accountability in the mvmt than when I became politically active. 2021-07-10 23:06:32 One of the people in my unit, left and went onto write a book about the FBI infiltration of the Revolutionary Union (precedent to RCP), Black Panther Party and Young Lords-fbi files revealed in detail how each was compromised- 2021-07-10 23:02:17 The party is now laughably small and ridiculous. They will die out soon, god willing. …there was a point in time they mattered (kinda), when I joined they had built the October 22nd Coalition Against Police Brutality centering parents of the murdered- 2021-07-10 22:57:57 every once in a while, ppl leave + hit me up. 90% are shell shocked and frozen in time, unchanging key phrases and almost ascetic lifestyle like they can’t move on. The party trains you for rigor, but there’s a point rigor becomes dogma and the body keeps the score as they say 2021-07-10 22:57:56 I credit the RCP w/ inculcating me with a deep internationalist commitment and historical materialist analysis, butttt it was for sure a cult. I was groomed to be a public intellectual but it was at the expense of party members deemed reactionary- 2021-07-10 22:57:55 I joined the revolutionary communist party (rcp) when I was 17. I left the democratic centralist cult of bob avakian by 19 but the lessons it taught me-Machiavellian perhaps- are with me 15 years later- 2021-07-10 22:03:12 @BLK_DJASPORA the majority of the people that have a problem with the statement on Tigray are #HoA who identify as anti-imperialist, so maybe it’s worth engaging with us no? You can dm me or be certain that there’s nothing worth hearing… 2021-07-10 21:36:50 @BLK_DJASPORA What is bad faith? I agree BAP gets a lot right domestically and in relationship to Palestine. If you want to speak further you can DM me, I have hope that the entire organization won’t die on this hill. 2021-07-10 21:28:20 @BLK_DJASPORA if this was Ferguson, Detroit, South Central or New Orleans would you categorize critique as ignorance or bad faith assumptions? I don’t think so. that’s why this is so upsetting, the generosity and nuance extended to the US doesn’t translate to the HoA. 2021-07-10 21:12:12 @timmhotep @BLK_DJASPORA @Blacks4Peace @hoa_pals fair fair sorry 2021-07-10 20:08:43 @BLK_DJASPORA @timmhotep @Blacks4Peace @hoa_pals …old tweets? This assured dismissiveness is how BAP took 7 months to comment on a genocide only to regurgitate PFDJ and PP talking points. I’m not mad that you probably don’t know what either are but I am exhausted by this lack of curiosity. 2021-07-10 19:23:40 @BLK_DJASPORA @timmhotep @Blacks4Peace @hoa_pals https://t.co/gwkRd07fBf 2021-07-10 19:23:24 @BLK_DJASPORA @timmhotep @Blacks4Peace @hoa_pals https://t.co/wkdadnXbtc 2021-07-10 18:56:08 @BLK_DJASPORA @timmhotep @Blacks4Peace @hoa_pals welp, I hate to break it to you but HoA Pals is ran by a well known abuser and both reports echos Isaias and Abiy’s talking points in the name of anti imperialism. Look at the QTs of the statement 2021-07-10 18:53:37 @AmanSium @truthout Good provocation but given recent events it’s worth highlighting that it’s precisely those who’ve read “…Rodney, Fanon, Sankara, Lumumba, Biko, Nkrumah etc. that have taken the most staunch position against African grassroots movements 2021-07-10 18:35:34 @BLK_DJASPORA @timmhotep @Blacks4Peace @hoa_pals Also if I wanted to tag them I would have please do not do that again 2021-07-10 18:35:07 @BLK_DJASPORA @timmhotep @Blacks4Peace @hoa_pals they are a Black organization yes, but as per the QT’d article they’re being amplified by people like Ann Fitz-Gerald and mirroring the position of Bronwyn Brunton and Jeff Pearce. 2021-07-10 18:33:23 @BLK_DJASPORA @timmhotep @Blacks4Peace @hoa_pals Um have you read the report? They literally defend Isaias Afwerki as an anti-imperialist in the midst of his active participation in the Tigray genocide b/c he’s not an AFRICOM member 2021-07-10 16:10:52 @timmhotep yes, I know many know them from good positions on Palestine and prison abolition in the US but they take a pro state position in the Horn of Africa (+ China and Syria) 2021-07-10 16:05:35 this has heavy Ron Karenga vibes, albeit one of the better articles about why Kwanzaa is a hellish non-holiday invented by someone who raped and tortured his followers, is authored by a Black Agenda reporter so https://t.co/Xw26ime2bE 2021-07-10 16:01:31 relatedly, everyday I wonder what Claudette Colvin would say 2021-07-10 16:00:38 I continue to be flummoxed by the nexus of BAP and their Atlantic council, state adjacent counterparts. such a weird mix of cryogenically frozen leftists from ‘68 and white centrist attack dogs 2021-07-10 15:57:22 underrated point https://t.co/OOMB8ShXft 2021-07-10 15:56:22 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @ElleniZeleke @Blacks4Peace “…they invoke Black Lives Matter in order to galvanize support for the Ethiopian governmen… 2021-07-10 15:56:09 @ElleniZeleke @Blacks4Peace “…they invoke Black Lives Matter in order to galvanize support for the Ethiopian government. Referencing a movement against state-sanctioned violence to legitimize state violence against Black people is deplorable.” https://t.co/ZS7yzoFiHe 2021-07-10 15:47:59 RT @ElleniZeleke: I see @Blacks4Peace is being quoted and promoted by stalwarts in Canadian rightwing foreign policy circles. I am sure the… 2021-07-10 13:39:40 The fact that this is a hypothetical example I discuss in my paper on the child welfare’s “prevention” services https://t.co/RztzaqY4Na https://t.co/xCiZz00szz 2021-07-10 00:09:18 carceral capitalist confusion https://t.co/UZZecuOc9T 2021-07-09 21:14:35 RT @bigblackjacobin: A lot of this is by design: A high churn rate deters organizing and preserves misclassification. This makes a large po… 2021-07-09 21:14:28 RT @bigblackjacobin: There’s been a lot of reporting on how the Uber/Lyft driver shortage is because of the pandemic + unemployment benefit… 2021-07-09 20:15:47 fortune cookie truisms are the formula for trending tweets 2021-07-09 20:01:20 RT @akscsfba: On May 11, 2021 FBI raided BAPS Temple in Robbinsville, NJ, USA on alleged wage exploitation human trafficking of Indian work… 2021-07-09 19:59:58 RT @HiARTSnyc: Together they will explore what collaboration between directly impacted parents and other caregivers, adopted, foster, and… 2021-07-09 19:59:45 RT @HiARTSnyc: On July 16, Erin will be joining SKY LAB Resident Artist @BenJofaman, and fellow community organizers, Erin Miles Cloud @mo… 2021-07-09 18:51:12 even though Algorithms of Oppression has been rightfully canonized in a way- idk if we fully appreciate Safiya’s insights. Google’s indexing and algorithmic personalization has circumvented the wandering care work of knowledge production and stewardship- 2021-07-09 18:45:06 Algorithms of Oppression (@safiyanoble) was published in ‘18 highlighting how Dylann Roof googled “white genocide” and was served search results for white supremacist manifestos? we have to engage the information science ecosystem, we can’t win only through corrective content 2021-07-09 18:39:35 i mean, the metrics for memory making in digital space are mediated by search and engagement. It’s a different interaction than the act of study or polemics, that man’s genocide denial wasn’t written to be read-it’s a flag pole settling new territories of the acceptable 2021-07-09 18:32:51 the strategy of the other side doesn’t require truth or ethical commitments- just reach and narrative. The platforms were built for them too < 2021-07-09 15:23:10 “We see this pattern of Amharanization and expansionism…to basically erase the people of Tigray. Abiy Ahmed is targeting civilians and infrastructure like hospitals-placing Tigray into famine…and then he chooses to block humanitarian aid” -Lwam (@SWTigray ) https://t.co/FpYHrWmt6n 2021-07-09 13:02:10 “Are we going to center the people being harmed or the governments who *appear* to be anti-west?…Dictators are claiming African solutions to African problems but it’s really just a cover for their crimes” -@FBedaso Boom! Got em @FBedaso Thank you @TIRShowOakland for hosting ! https://t.co/1HTNzZjJZw 2021-07-09 13:01:20 “The ask is not for western intervention, it’s that the world recognize these dictators are dictators and not anti-imperialist freedom fighters” -@FBedaso correcting false narratives on the Black Left about #Tigray and #Oromia @TIRShowOakland https://t.co/cnfBFGBihv https://t.co/tant2DYGi1 2021-07-09 11:15:50 RT @claireLwilmot: The Ethiopian government's SOEfactcheck has rebranded, from fact-checking the 'state of emergency' to fact-checking 'cur… 2021-07-09 11:15:42 @Habesh_ @claireLwilmot Should be Fact Check: current state is an emergency 2021-07-09 02:26:37 RT @EremiasWmikael: @TIRShowOakland @YouTube @SWTigray @FBedaso @UpFromTheCracks @probert06 You did an excellent job in pivoting to Black o… 2021-07-09 00:57:32 @RahawaHaile @FBedaso @SWTigray @TIRShowOakland They're willing to correct the tankies calling Afwerki a freedom fighter so I'm excited 2021-07-08 23:56:15 @EremiasWmikael 2021-07-08 23:54:43 RT @vimtobabyy: Professor Kuwee Kumsa on true liberation for ALL Oromos https://t.co/XC3ZawHaLi 2021-07-08 23:03:56 RT @TIRShowOakland: Ethiopia and the War in Tigray https://t.co/WoEmnq8hIC via @YouTube At 6pm PT/8pm CT/9pm ET we go live w/ @SWTigray @FB… 2021-07-08 23:03:18 Tune in tonight to hear: @FBedaso + @SWTigray dropping analysis on the Tigray Genocide, Ethiopian Empire, Oromo Resistance and what Black Left solidarity looks like Mad love to @TIRShowOakland for providing a platform for this critical conversation https://t.co/cnfBFGjHpX 2021-07-08 19:40:07 @RLuckom @robyncaplan very interesting provocations! Idk if I’m in the position to offer advice but am excited about having this alumni community to grapple with these questions 2021-07-08 19:38:14 Forgot alt text: orange pamphlet, slightly wrinkled text reads: SAGALEE OROMO, The Voice of Oromo. 3rd Congress political resolutions of union of Oromo students. Organization in Europe. vol. III No. 1 1977. Image in center: torch and book. 2021-07-08 19:35:27 Thinking about the difference between OG Oromo Zines and the uncle list servs. Imagine the care economy of analog polemics when RTs were relational H/t @ThaAyantu https://t.co/GE3Yli4avb 2021-07-08 19:28:14 RT @HiARTSnyc: On July 16, at 7pm Joyce will be joining SKY LAB Resident Artist @BenJofaman and organizers, J. Khadijah Abdurahman @WeBeIma… 2021-07-08 18:00:12 @flytrikeair @mer__edith @madanboukman Thank you! 2021-07-08 18:00:03 @robyncaplan Thank you so so much for coming! @suchetaghoshal + I were super happy to see your work in conversation with this v critical and engaged cohort :) 2021-07-08 17:41:09 RT @robyncaplan: I got to speak with the Otherwise School today! This was such an incredible experience. Everyone asked such smart and fram… 2021-07-08 16:26:06 Super grateful to host @robyncaplan at The Otherwise School to discuss content/context moderation, it’s relationship to Section 230 and SESTA/FOSTA. 2021-07-08 15:43:11 @bentarnoff 2021-07-08 15:35:47 @TIRShowOakland @probert06 @mocombesreading Thanks! 2021-07-08 15:33:20 @nasawiyya @histoftech @BlackPowerMedi1 @blkagendareport @BTnewsroom @Blacks4Peace Thank you. Unfortunately, they’ve produced a lot of pro-state (Ethiopia + Eritrea) propaganda in response to the #TigrayGenocide so I wouldn’t be comfortable using them as a source 2021-07-08 15:23:16 If anyone has bandwidth, can you rec good essays, investigative reporting or podcasts (ideally from Haitians and/or diaspora) that contextualize what’s happening right now in #Haiti? 2021-07-08 13:49:55 @itscrystalgrant Super appreciated :) Thanks 2021-07-08 13:49:42 @commieberry Thank you! 2021-07-08 13:41:30 RT @AINowInstitute: #RashidaRichardson & 2021-07-08 13:32:41 @TovOnTheRove @AINowInstitute Thank you @TovOnTheRove 2021-07-08 13:31:01 @DorothyERoberts @AINowInstitute @UCLA @UWALawSchool Thank you @DorothyERoberts Your work is what makes mine possible, always appreciate you 2021-07-08 12:55:30 @safiyaaaay The [burger] king! https://t.co/ri6ERKiO1v 2021-07-08 12:33:52 This whole article attributes low vaccine rates among Muslim Kashmiri women to Islamic insurgents, patriarchy and low literacy, only to reveal in the conclusion that the problem is actually, THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH VACCINES https://t.co/ZSYhntxuPD 2021-07-08 12:28:18 @andrewhume Thank you 2021-07-08 12:28:05 This is a bizarre framing, what is “militarized” absent mentioning Indian occupation? This is akin to saying “medicalized” to describe the Covid pandemic. How can we speak of disinfo in Kashmir + not mention telecom blackouts, intense political repression, torture and curfews? https://t.co/dItlVCN8oD 2021-07-08 12:19:06 @Arrianna_Planey we need a better funding structures to support this ^^ 2021-07-08 12:11:47 @JulianPosada0 @AINowInstitute @UCLA @UWALawSchool 2021-07-08 12:07:05 @Brooko07 @Refugees Not to mention, $90 million is a lot of money!! They could have given the majority in the form of cash grants so people could have more resources to self-determine their refuge. They invested in more trauma 2021-07-08 12:01:16 “I have never seen a humanitarian response with such little human dignity” -aid official re: UNHCR’s administration of Sudanese refugee camps for people fleeing the war in Tigray 2021-07-08 11:56:06 Humanitarian biometric collection is predicated on “preventing fraud”meanwhile, @Refugees (UNHCR) has administered a geography of new horrors for people seeking refuge from the war on Tigray at $90 million+ (only half of the $182 million secured) -this is an extension of genocide 2021-07-08 11:47:30 “Around 40,000 refugees live in the two camps – previously used by Ethiopians fleeing famine in the 1980s. Another 8,500 are sheltering in transit centres close to the border with Ethiopia.” I can’t stop thinking about this awful repetition, along w/ @ThaAyantu’s archival finds 2021-07-08 11:46:15 adding insult to injury, refugees fleeing from Tigray into Sudan entered UNHCR camps w/ over $90 million in funding but conditions were so dire, that many left for Libya despite the certainty of abuse they’d face en route and once there. https://t.co/JMt79e8Yo1 2021-07-08 11:36:18 To all my new followers, this is not a metaphor. nyc got these rats literally looking like koala bears 2021-07-08 11:34:56 RT @zararah: Hey researchers who are looking for healthy + supportive workplaces with real world impact – you only have 2 more days to appl… 2021-07-08 11:32:15 not these rats having a town hall meeting before 8am 2021-07-08 11:26:28 @miressa_m Thank you! 2021-07-08 11:01:36 @safiyaaaay @larastapleton do you know? 2021-07-08 10:35:25 @Tin_House @NifMuhammad congratulations 2021-07-08 10:33:34 RT @Tin_House: We're thrilled to announce that @NifMuhammad has been named a Tin House Editor-at-Large! He'll acquire three nonfiction b… 2021-07-08 10:32:30 @duresdur @Facebook correct 2021-07-08 10:31:42 some cops are called caseworkers https://t.co/PKCOjv1THl 2021-07-08 09:55:27 @jkeserue @AINowInstitute @schock @AJLUnited @aniacalderon @datasociety Thank you so much @jkeserue ! 2021-07-08 09:54:43 RT @jkeserue: @UpFromTheCracks is a force - I'm beyond excited to see what will come out of this collaboration with @AINowInstitute!! Also… 2021-07-08 09:21:00 @hypervisible https://t.co/Jut8Q1B16f 2021-07-08 09:16:06 RT @AudreyTruschke: Co-authored by @achakrava @sepoy @themodsisyphus @simran, me, Supriya Gandhi, and Purnima Dhavan 2021-07-08 09:16:04 RT @AudreyTruschke: A piece by several of the authors of the Hindutva Harassment Field Manual on why we need this intervention now. #Hindut… 2021-07-08 09:13:47 @HLemu3 @AINowInstitute @UCLA @UWALawSchool thank you so much 2021-07-08 09:13:14 @larastapleton @timnitGebru @AINowInstitute @UCLA @UWALawSchool @cornell_tech I super appreciate the scream caps @larastapleton thanks so much 2021-07-08 09:10:13 @Elinor_Carmi @AINowInstitute Thank you @Elinor_Carmi ! 2021-07-08 09:07:14 @awolallo Thank you @awolallo 2021-07-08 09:06:45 @WorkinehTorben Thank you 2021-07-08 08:37:16 @HornAnarchists @AINowInstitute @UCLA @UWALawSchool Aww thanks @HornAnarchists ! 2021-07-08 08:36:31 @ginasue thanks Gina ! 2021-07-08 08:36:02 @yuoahmed1 @FBedaso I appreciate y’all too. Galatoomi 2021-07-08 08:33:44 @bkeegan Thank you @bkeegan 2021-07-08 08:32:55 @drbrittparis Appreciated 2021-07-08 08:32:18 @chinasza Thanks so much 2021-07-08 08:31:48 @ShrewAnonymous @AINowInstitute @UCLA @UWALawSchool Thank you @ShrewAnonymous ! 2021-07-08 08:31:25 @BiraanuuBiyo @AINowInstitute @UCLA @UWALawSchool Thank you 2021-07-08 08:31:04 @EremiasWmikael @AINowInstitute @UCLA @UWALawSchool Thank you @EremiasWmikael ! 2021-07-08 01:37:09 RT @PalmTreesnGz: My account is one of more established Central American-based accounts #OnHere. I’ve been here sharing what I’ve known for… 2021-07-01 13:24:39 One way to support survivors of assault who are too often criminalized and shamed is by contributing to @survivepunishNY Thank you also to @prisonculture and @dreanyc123 for spending decades organizing and investing in survivors rather than prosecuting harm 2021-07-01 13:08:15 I’ll never forget Tarana Burke started #MeToo to support Black survivors of sexual assault and she was erased from her own movement in pursuit of carceral feminism and Harvey Weinstein. Too much cops and robbers instead of investing in the people harmed https://t.co/APY5x06QFa 2021-07-01 13:05:19 Remember when Zulu Nation claimed Afrika Bambaataa’s assault against all them boys was a COINTELPRO set up? And so called conscious rappers like Q-Tip were as quiet as kept? Just like they were when Maya was repeatedly harassed by Talib Kweli? https://t.co/4yscsWOImZ 2021-07-01 13:00:25 Rape is about control, not sex. I’m sure there are people Cosby assaulted who identify as men or boys who won’t step forward. Non-consent is overwhelmingly exonerated in the court of public opinion 2021-07-01 12:58:09 justice is not prosecution, Cosby rotting in jail does nothing to help the women he violated, the impact of his show which I grew up watching including the obsession over denise’s virginity, the Black boys who are wrongly demonized as rapists while men like him walk free 2021-07-01 12:47:10 And then read this thread. It raises v important points about class in the the LGBTQ community, who’s considered a worthy n why respectability politics must kick rocks https://t.co/ZsBDJquxNs 2021-07-01 12:43:19 If you have time, watch this 4 min interview of James Brown “They Didn’t Caught Me”. https://t.co/kz4jTcJc2i 2021-07-01 12:30:00 watching legend of the underground about the LGBTQ community in Nigeria. Loving James Brown aka “You didn’t caught me” but also so furious about the way religion turns so many people into the police of other peoples lives and bodies 2021-07-01 02:42:09 in case this was unclear, I ducked and dodged Tex Allen’s groping from 3 to 23 < 2021-07-01 02:28:06 RT @safiyanoble: @marylgray @ruchowdh They can’t take away your contributions, despite their getting the facts wrong. You’ve just asked to… 2021-07-01 00:55:08 what a goal… https://t.co/5EqySGoJYS 2021-07-01 00:48:23 RT @mavi4mayor: #1 cutie cc: @KindaNeat https://t.co/GcjSBsIcyP 2021-07-01 00:41:41 Her brother was my neighbor, sadly this does not surprise me https://t.co/7ppv9SoWEe 2021-07-01 00:25:32 @bentarnoff say more 2021-07-01 00:01:37 “In books and articles on the topic of pedophilia published between 1979 and the early 1990s, Sandfort wrote that children as young as age 10 can be in consensual sexual relationships with adults decades older and should not always be labeled as “victims.” https://t.co/vsSKNEsEjq 2021-07-01 00:00:12 I will never get over us all finding out ACS hired Theo Sandfort, a leader of the pedophile movement and nobody did nothing. He’s out here confidently publishing papers on Kenyan sexuality like ain’t a care in the world. https://t.co/J9VV7vHEvI 2021-06-30 23:31:32 We need better words to describe how exhausting the regular drumbeat of white supremacist nonsense is. https://t.co/5mcGDiAyfM 2021-06-30 22:18:52 https://t.co/MMVAzzHoA0 2021-06-30 22:08:59 RT @GetuTeressa: The Deputy to Special Envoy Feldman casually states there was a “measure of support” to Abiy’s securitization response(rea… 2021-06-30 22:06:13 "Time will tell whether Asghedom [Nipsey Hussle] too will continue with his unapologetic critic of the establishment that zombified his community, or be just another name in the commercial rap industry" You say you don't know, but you know. https://t.co/3nLD72eht2 2021-06-30 21:58:32 This is why people are on the TL proclaiming shock at Shaun King like several dozen aunties, mommas and Black kinfolk wasn't screaming he was vampire 90 days after Ferguson. All the influencer radicals dunking on liberals but radio silent when your people pushing genocide denial- 2021-06-30 21:53:24 I'm convinced tankies are hoteps who took the misogynoir off the public facing materials. All of this crying about #HoA is so complex, we're bullied for principled anti-imperialism –but y'all just want Black women to shut TF up so you can cling to nostalgia and call it radical https://t.co/NtQNjyaCpg 2021-06-30 21:41:16 RT @KitchaFitFit1: So if you’re wondering why @/Blacks4Peace isn’t posting about #TigrayGenocide you can thank @Eritreastruggle for that.… 2021-06-30 16:57:27 RT @OromoDiaspora: One year ago our lives changed forever, he was was at his best in front of his people, he never disappointed he gave us… 2021-06-30 16:57:05 RT @awolallo: Read this moving tribute for Haacee from Prof. Kuwee Kumsa "Twelve misty moons, Hacee koo, each new one mistier than the pri… 2021-06-30 15:39:57 RT @GeorgeMonbiot: Not all of you will remember 1984, and the horrendous famine that killed a million Ethiopians. Those who do would prefer… 2021-06-30 15:29:48 @afrosnlipsticks @WeBeImagining Ha! I’m terrible at promotion, thanks for checking it out :) 2021-06-30 13:34:25 So much has happened in the #HoA alone over the last year. Meanwhile, headlines in the western media: In the country of Africa, rebel groups fight over ethnic tensions. US is very concerned. Why are they not dead from COVID yet? In depth profile of one white man who died 2021-06-30 13:21:42 @GetuTeressa For sure. I don’t think anyone realized genocide was rapidly approaching 2021-06-30 12:17:06 In 2020, @endalk2006 was one of the few people examining mis/disinformation networks in Ethiopia. In the wake of @Facebook taking down the INSA CIB networks and 8 months of contesting state narratives about the war, that conversation has broadened https://t.co/46Rli7eb1K 2021-06-30 12:14:30 Similarly, am grateful for @awolallo who came through to @WeBeImagining last year to discuss the #OromoProtests and why he went from being PM Abiy Ahmed’s supporter to one of his most ardent critics https://t.co/9QvJFt81aJ 2021-06-30 12:11:29 I appreciated @GetuTeressa’s insights a year ago but his grasp of the fault lines which PM Abiy Ahmed combusted into war and genocide in the months that followed seem especially prescient now https://t.co/TtCWi5eb1Q 2021-06-30 12:09:55 ** The @WeBeImagining podcast is available on Apple, Google and the Columbia University site as well. Linking @ThaAyantu’s episode here https://t.co/wrxZLyuZni 2021-06-30 12:06:47 RT @UpFromTheCracks: I spoke to @ThaAyantu about the #OromoProtests, the demand for autonomy by Oromos, Sidamas and other marginalized ethn… 2021-06-30 12:06:39 Thread of @WeBeImagining episodes we did last year examining the #OromoProtests, the legacy of #HacaaluuHuundeessa and mis/disinformation in the wake of his murder https://t.co/F1Q0KbLDAE 2021-06-30 11:52:15 RT @TeamFreeOromia: It has been 1 year since our brother & 2021-06-30 00:45:48 when did discourse become things people with 4G+ say? How do we center the majority countryside in our political imagination? 2021-06-30 00:43:41 Thinking about how many of the settings in haacaaluu’s music videos had no WiFi 2021-06-30 00:06:44 imagine the ferengi therapist trying to unpack their first session with neamin 2021-06-29 22:04:22 RT @ThaAyantu: A year ago today Haacaaluu Hundessa was stolen from us. Below a translation of one of his songs in context of all that he… 2021-06-29 22:02:30 Malcolm @Gladwell and “The Patriots” of genocidal empire as @aronsimeneh says https://t.co/TB8rGm5G6P https://t.co/mVjiOAWs8z 2021-06-29 21:17:40 RT @BenJofaman: Responding to @UpFromTheCracks' question about "what terms adoptees prefer:" (Speaking for myself, not for "the community"… 2021-06-29 21:03:39 RT @BenJofaman: @UpFromTheCracks @thesoozmc @marilock @Genev_DelCarmen @_emilyahnnn @LizLatty @SchuylerSwenson CODA: This essay by @lachica… 2021-06-29 21:03:25 Important thread from @BenJofaman on moving past the term #Adoptees and listening to them as they decide which names describe the forced separation from families and their autonomy at the same time https://t.co/QnWEnBb1lN 2021-06-29 20:55:01 @bentarnoff y’all don’t want me to go 2021-06-29 20:48:58 you ever stumble on a receipt in the archive and it’s so good but not the time yet? There has to be a word that describes that exact emotion 2021-06-29 20:07:04 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Lastly, what to the refugee and internally displaced is the state and the nationalist project as a mode of seeking col… 2021-06-29 20:06:55 RT @UpFromTheCracks: This was followed by @AmanSium’s substantive discussion around the formation of the Eritrean state and provocations ar… 2021-06-29 20:06:45 RT @UpFromTheCracks: I don’t have all the words worked out but there’s something similar about how wars produce displacement that is *solve… 2021-06-29 20:04:55 Also while I hate zoom and have spent more time than I have during this whole pandemic on it due to Otherwise school, I’m so so grateful to have this space with such dynamic, brilliant, intergenational folks around the world critically examining every MF thing @suchetaghoshal 2021-06-29 20:00:45 I don’t have all the words worked out but there’s something similar about how wars produce displacement that is *solved* alternately through camps and #adoption. And then everyone else just counts them, but neither #refugees or #adoptees are given the mic in our liberation spaces 2021-06-29 19:57:53 Also, I feel like #Adoptees are using other terminology now and as someone who has mostly organized among impacted parents, I’m not sure what’s the terms of preference. @BenJofaman ? Any Insight 2021-06-29 19:56:36 We’re always hearing from the urban, the diaspora, the older male nationalists. How can we build platforms with and to amplify the rural, the collective and the otherwise in service of building responses in the ground? 2021-06-29 19:56:35 Just thinking out loud about @gleemie’s point that we often don’t associate fascism with this radical shift in privatizing social safety net infrastructure and it’s accompanying sentiments of patriotic “for all” 2021-06-29 19:56:34 Today was a good day at the Otherwise School First up we had a talk w/ @gleemie on Hindutva and Managerialism, tracing the “Steve Jobs Way” of developing infrastructures of control through personal computing and redeployed through demonetization turned e-currency in Gujarat- 2021-06-29 19:18:54 RT @AAT_transcribes: We are looking for any and all projects to provide work for our teams of freelance transcribers and editors for the re… 2021-06-29 17:14:32 @Nanjala1 https://t.co/SL80jlzEDL @demonicground Dear Science Distributed Blackness by @DocDre https://t.co/TNpk26YVyE 2021-06-29 16:38:59 RT @suchetaghoshal: We have @gleemie today speaking on hindutva & 2021-06-29 16:25:19 @ifatgazia @DocDre GIFS are counter fascism https://t.co/3h2mLp3YFv 2021-06-29 15:57:26 **rest 2021-06-29 15:56:44 @ZiryabJ It’s in the beginning sorry don’t have the time stamp off hand https://t.co/hcesFGbpdg 2021-06-29 15:55:06 Idk about the machinations of the test but @MinorityRights and @JoshCastellino were not duped, they willfully put out a false narrative demonizing Oromos early on and refused to retract https://t.co/bRK9Ooi53M 2021-06-29 15:52:15 RT @ThaAyantu: What is notable too is the way @amnesty and @hrw along with groups such as @MinorityRights were instrumental in helping Abiy… 2021-06-29 15:44:09 this confirms all my feelings about the funding landscape https://t.co/bNgQPsdr88 2021-06-29 15:39:24 will be reading shortly https://t.co/I8g6hfrn7Q 2021-06-29 15:35:21 RT @ElleniZeleke: Remember that awful article that @JulieMehretu @whitneymuseum had posted denying atrocities in Tigray in the name of Bla… 2021-06-29 11:48:00 RT @betye_zebib: Some of y’all are talking about invading other countries and lands and my family in Hawzen and Adigrat are still suffering… 2021-06-29 11:45:59 On the plus side, now I get to run Otherwise School with sucheta to start our Black liberation oromo, tigray, indian front and make podcasts, prototype tools for counter-fascism or whatever. https://t.co/5BViAXgpky 2021-06-29 11:40:47 RT @ThaAyantu: There’s a book or two waiting to be written on how generations of Ethio writers have mastered the left's vocabulary and term… 2021-06-29 03:16:26 going to sleep but evergreen message from when I got fired for speaking out against the Tigray genocide. Sadly didn’t age well re: noname https://t.co/bmkk7K6sAq 2021-06-29 02:38:39 @safiyaaaay @_Almaqah I’m so mad at myself for getting a new phone and not saving everything but case in point as she says https://t.co/HjsSejc4VO 2021-06-29 02:15:32 @aslanschild_ @safiyaaaay Ohh nvm mehretu was mad that the African correspondent was white covering the war 2021-06-29 02:13:19 @aslanschild_ @safiyaaaay Wait, wasn’t that Mehretu? 2021-06-29 02:04:51 @_Almaqah This is also the same person who brought us Jeff P3arce 2021-06-29 01:48:04 @safiyaaaay ….no but over here realizing I need more metadata for my time of death post-modernist screenshots. this was when she announced the 5 day adwa tweet storm for the whites 2021-06-29 01:36:45 member when Maaza was like imma do a 5 day tweet storm about Ethiopianists favorite day in the middle of a genocide, got called out and was like “but what really is history?” 2021-06-29 01:03:13 @stealthygeek @DocDre They’re like if NFTs weren’t a ponzi scheme tbf, but peak pogs was slammers tho, and didn’t we keep them in Pringle’s type containers 2021-06-29 00:42:29 @ifatgazia I just try to carry the ratchet as @DocDre has taught me https://t.co/9wbufGbpdr 2021-06-29 00:38:13 @ifatgazia Ayyye https://t.co/4gRNNs1mg9 2021-06-29 00:28:01 I’m ready to talk about algorithmic bias now, or ways in which syllables be like or pogs, who remembers pogs? https://t.co/2lNK2VFi7Y 2021-06-28 23:24:08 @DrDesmondPatton Congratulations! 2021-06-28 21:19:01 RT @safiyaaaay: Someone said "ayzoh yene fascist" 2021-06-28 21:16:59 RT @frannyrecounts: Hey look I wrote another thing https://t.co/b1tDuzym1H 2021-06-28 21:07:48 I promise you there more options than the acronyms 2021-06-28 20:57:17 if y’all would just take a second to realize that prevail and prosper are from the same death cult 2021-06-28 20:51:46 RT @yohannabeee: The ‘stop the war on my people, but everyone else can rot & 2021-06-28 20:47:55 RT @PalmTreesnGz: My family comes from a particular lineage. My family ended up surviving genocidal conquest and is still surviving settler… 2021-06-28 20:32:49 RT @ThaAyantu: The bodies haven’t even been buried and y’all ready for cover up. Will the Horn ever not repeat death making cycles? 2021-06-28 20:28:45 @HabeshaHokage you just be skimming sometimes, Tigray people 100% are being subject to genocide. I am demanding we decouple Tigray as a people from TDF and their aims. And it sounds like you need to divest from ENDF b/c who whole country? Who intelligence are you defending here? 2021-06-28 20:00:40 and I’m stuck on NHI knowing the generosity with which Wynter cited Asmarom Legesse, a curiosity strangely missing from the latest iteration of the Pan African lexicon, but Legesse notable declared Tigray non human months before the war. curious, can we cite beyond nationalism? 2021-06-28 20:00:38 Addis is not just Finfinne, Finfinne is a rallying call against conquest, against forgetting the violence of conquest. Toppling statues is not to unseat a settler icon in order to install our own, it’s to reject the prevailing of icons in favor of the collective,the rural+the NHI 2021-06-28 20:00:36 I have solidarity with Tigray because Isaias and Abiy declared a region and its peoples enemy combatants wholesale. scorched earth. to prevail is to enact widespread force across a particular area, like Tigray, we’re often told those areas are NHI (no humans involved) 2021-06-28 20:00:35 its hard to find the space to say this when male nationalism has convinced so many that there’s no distinction between the people and the militias, freedom and state formation, but prevailing is as settler colonialism as Haile’s shoes 2021-06-28 15:55:54 RT @ThaAyantu: If this news about Mekelle potentially being re-taken by TDF is true what is most concerning to me is what a genocidal gover… 2021-06-28 15:36:11 all my kids are elsewhere for like 8 whole hours, I took a nap and found god, tweeted, ate cupcakes and I can’t believe this is just life for some of y’all 2021-06-28 15:23:46 I be telling y’all is out here like Koala Bears https://t.co/GbUgEtWMVr 2021-06-28 15:21:32 RT @ThaAyantu: Pan-Africanists cannot continue to back the Ethiopian state as it continues to kill and dispossess historically marginalized… 2021-06-28 15:13:42 RT @safiyaaaay: It's 2021 & 2021-06-28 14:54:03 thank you because this is exhausting and you broke it down with precision https://t.co/ibbAk2321B 2021-06-28 14:30:35 not y’all doubling down? I just…s/o to the homie that hand held me through an explanation of sam marcy but using some apriori unchanging theoretical commitment to justify not just your statement but a refusal to deal with the #HoA with any level of care got me in awe 2021-06-28 12:41:28 The Venn diagram between people mad at this thread and who thought Cosby was set up because he was going to buy NBC is an overlapping circle. Should Black women violated by Neil deGrasse Tyson be forever silent cuz Birth of a Nation? That said, not a convo for DEI white ppl https://t.co/wquLWnrTXv 2021-06-28 12:10:46 @MzBerryThrows You’re amazing and beautiful which is clearly why they’re so threatened imho so many white feelings spilling all over no lid 2021-06-28 12:05:24 QT’s got @milsteinprogram energy Anyway, @MzBerryThrows is goals and I hope she bottles up these white tears to season Mondays as needed https://t.co/ZKSmNc17LP 2021-06-28 11:51:00 if social media wasn’t so damn fascistic I would spam you all with pictures of my cute AF kids which maybe is a silver lining depending on your pov 2021-06-28 11:40:19 We’re reading Information Inspirations, chapter 4 of @DocDre’s Distributed Blackness alongside @robyncaplan’s Content of Context Moderation to think about Blackness as infrastructure for platform governance rather than evidence of a digital divide https://t.co/H25BV3JyMR 2021-06-28 11:34:39 Followed by @AmanSium leading a roundtable on his thesis: REVISITING THE “BLACK MAN‟S BURDEN”: ERITREA AND THE CURSE OF THE NATION-STATE https://t.co/IO49CGzCfn 2021-06-28 10:27:49 Sliding into week 3 of the Otherwise School. @DocDre coming through today discuss Black Joy, the libidinal economy of #BlackTwitter and his book Distributed Blackness: African American CyberCultures https://t.co/0W8uj4RtjO 2021-06-28 09:22:30 RT @ThaAyantu: @safiyaaaay This is so ironic given all the recent debate about this term. Also, the Neftenga called themselves that. It’s n… 2021-06-28 09:21:51 RT @safiyaaaay: I can’t believe this is real lmao. Neftegna does not mean boss, it means gun bearer & 2021-06-28 01:01:50 @rzhongnotes , that this needs to be said tho :/ 2021-06-27 23:23:01 @klay_forrest :/ non ideal but would be better than nothing ugh 2021-06-27 23:11:25 if your computer is stolen from your hotel room, is the hotel liable? Ie will they reimburse you for the cost? 2021-06-27 21:57:00 RT @PalmTreesnGz: And it was a historic Chicanx space and I get that. And I wonder how much of the lack of mentioning these spaces is still… 2021-06-27 21:55:51 I notice that prison abolition in the US got smoke for cops but less so for the military and I wonder if this too is a symptom, like the violence of nation state formation is so so foundationally constitutive of resistance elsewhere- 2021-06-27 21:43:55 100% @PalmTreesnGz We gotta address pervasive American exceptionalism, you can’t abolish the police if your politics ends at the US border and intermittent mention of Palestine or ICE does not internationalism make https://t.co/I3EaGDqtkM 2021-06-27 21:37:49 RT @PalmTreesnGz: And I think many Chicano folks in activist and some academic spaces are making efforts and building solidarity. And I won… 2021-06-27 20:04:02 Like Sula, we look from the bottoms to down below, if we got the spoons to look at all 2021-06-27 19:36:34 RT @YinkaWrites: *taps ! Are you our next Africa editor at @restofworld? You: creative, ambitious with deep roots in African storyte… 2021-06-27 15:57:50 these people are so deeply unserious 2021-06-26 21:07:27 @Skaitama Hinduphobia 2021-06-26 20:59:58 @walatstreets @ThatEthiopian #LolSob 2021-06-26 20:46:41 i swear school is a lie because kids perfect the ability to sleep diagonally across your bed at the precise moment you enter REM with no training, as soon as you realize you won’t be falling back asleep they’re snoring resiliently 2021-06-26 20:44:33 RT @timnitGebru: An appreciation tweet for @Combsthepoet who does this incredible work while keeping hope and her faith in humanity alive.… 2021-06-26 19:29:40 RT @edensolomo: This is all very crazy because the MAJORITY of Eritreans both within the country and in the diaspora are against ANY foreig… 2021-06-26 19:27:54 RT @AmanSium: @Blacks4Peace statement names the TPLF as proxy for Western imperialism. But your statement & 2021-06-26 19:25:27 RT @safiyaaaay: The difference is that the Derg was slaughtering people in the center too, in Addis... the people defending war crimes and… 2021-06-26 19:18:55 @gual_erey_ for the record, you’re the only one who made personal attacks but yes we’ve all had the chance to read both reports. I’m happy to facilitate a meeting w/ both tegaru and oromo organizers to discuss this in depth if pals n B4P are willing to reconsider 2021-06-26 15:36:57 like not only would that be misunderstanding the relationship of Black women on public assistance to the state but like that’s what’s you have to say about Samaria Rice? not a word about the cops that’s executed her child? 2021-06-26 15:36:56 the problem w/ the B4P focus on nato is not that we need to rehabilitate US or humanitarian intervention, it’s like imagine if an African based org said Samaria Rice is a lap dog for imperialism b/c she was on welfare at some point- 2021-06-26 14:55:54 @SonofBaldwin obviously I fall into this category, but I’ve just never seen someone declare biracial as a distinct identity and not spew cringe race science or essential oil book table pseudo history. like this is not the only alternative to the one drop rule 2021-06-26 14:49:33 @SonofBaldwin you can be mixed, but there is no mixed race race. I continue to feel this “what about biracials” is a manifestation of anti blackness b/c black people are diverse, why do you need a whole new tent to discuss whatever it is being high yellow w/ a non black parent entails 2021-06-26 14:36:45 @Selam30002512 my point is security forces are responsible for the highest rates of civilian killings, Oromo extremism is a red herring 2021-06-26 14:26:27 RT @DorothyERoberts: …The article about Brittney Spears fails to mention Black activists & 2021-06-26 12:36:48 RT @murakamiwood: With #Amazon #Ring spreading worldwide, at least this article asks the right questions. #surveillance #privacy https://t.… 2021-06-26 12:14:55 “Minneapolis is not a Western exception. There is no such thing as a solely American, European, or Western “race problem”. Accusations of muddying, or muddling, contexts won’t fly any more.” ^^^ 2021-06-26 12:12:36 “Those at the mercy of borders continue to defend the bordering of thought. Irony soaks the page. Increasingly, there is a growing awareness of Orders-within-Orders, of the exhaustive nature of anti-blackness across an undeniably diverse Arab and Arabophone world” https://t.co/XzLZ9KwuFn 2021-06-26 02:17:09 joy james also helped anthologize political prisoners, meanwhile you’re celebrating their jailer as if incarceration hit different outside the US. https://t.co/OU05yNdI25 2021-06-26 02:09:57 @its_Selam invoking US imperialism and non sequitur countries to celebrate Afwerki while omitting the Tigray genocide is not the radical decolonial position you seem to think it is 2021-06-26 01:30:56 I just want people to see how the state is setting us up to fail vs seeking recognition from it-we’d have a fighting chance with a boarder consensus against cops/militias/soldiers. Why is there no cry to end police brutality in the #HoA? https://t.co/fVevoPqJyQ 2021-06-26 00:26:47 like please know, that not everywhere outside of the west are there paramilitary organizations frequently executing people and proclaiming it ethnic tensions to the media they also run 2021-06-26 00:22:07 RT @DocDre: This is the way. 2021-06-26 00:15:22 like 90% of what Amharas produce as evidence of their genocide is cops/militias/soldiers killings and I feel like we could all move forward together if this point was grasped. I promise you the police is not just an american problem. #HoA https://t.co/U4SEbXBYwP 2021-06-25 23:49:29 RT @SamTecle: @AManYouLove_T @AmanSium we have no other conclusion than that Black Western leftists are more invested in the myths they hav… 2021-06-25 23:42:12 I have learned so much, been led by and in kinship with so many Black trans/NB and disabled folks that it’s forever dissonant when people tell me so and so is depressed or insecure b/c maybe y’all just eugenics? They seem like a bird flying high to me on some nina simone 2021-06-25 23:16:36 no the fraud is you skimmed marx to stan hgdef and call it anti imperialism but go off https://t.co/IRCAvlJJZ4 2021-06-25 21:50:17 update: the latest round is fulfilled but ill definitely re:share if more come up, thank you to those who who tagged and ofc to organizers doing the work https://t.co/sEAoQ2bZ9K 2021-06-25 21:18:12 **I believe in self-determination so even if we disagree politically but you fit into categories outlined above, it’s kosher 2021-06-25 21:16:03 hi, like 3 orgs have hmu this week looking for interviews about ethiopia but id prefer to recommend #OromoProtest and #TigrayGenocide organizers, as bearing witness on the TL < can you dm me if you have bandwidth or comment here 2021-06-25 21:09:49 and sorry to bury the lede but you can’t be pro-black and choose my c.o. as the avengers, we specific, we no universal category of usefully oppositional, we flawed and disabled and gendered and from here but sometimes displaced and diaspora and inconvenient truth(s) 2021-06-25 21:06:02 so unlike this bird app, when you be outside, ratchet, refusing respectability politics or nation states or empire, you making food with seasoning and kids and stories, there’s otherwise ways of being and making in the world than seeking recognition by the walls 2021-06-25 21:06:01 blackness is a technology, like yeah yeah white folks are doing nothingness drills while rhythm on strike but no the quiet part out loud is them cornrows- your momma mighta said was dureye- were a map, out of slavery and not just in the americas 2021-06-25 20:55:22 like when im tweeting or capital w working my kids feel excluded n left in silence, but when we do that gendered women work braiding hair and slow cooking, they’re a part of-and in the mix, while we tell stories, make jokes and phone calls and pleas on their future 2021-06-25 20:55:21 and i felt that b/c i don’t give a f*** about discourse,or degrees or nation states or theoretical commitments as an end into itself- but i see how all that gets funding and audience builds the space we raise our kids, how they think about who they are and whether they’ll grow up 2021-06-25 20:55:20 im so disinterested in sectarian squabbles among the left, I missed that half the abolitionists I know apparently co-signed autocracy in the name of anti imperialism 2021-06-25 20:07:36 @safiyaaaay i promise you and it’s genius if you step back to think about it 2021-06-25 19:44:14 “Oromos are guests” says the Unlimited Abyssinia https://t.co/JEQGqF8oyB 2021-06-25 19:23:42 For those interested in learning about Eritrea, the violence of state formation, the interplay between the desires of Ethiopia (as both a colonial and colonizing state) + the Eritrean PEOPLE’s resistance @AmanSium is imho like an underground mixtape https://t.co/IO49CGzCfn 2021-06-25 19:16:14 RT @walatstreets: @AmanSium @UpFromTheCracks this narrative is also curated by gov supporters who hijack leftist language to paint their go… 2021-06-25 19:11:18 RT @slagthompson: @ThaAyantu Ethiopia’s value as a symbol takes precedence over the people who are there, which fits hand in hand with the… 2021-06-25 19:11:01 RT @ThaAyantu: Black American leftists interested in Ethiopia need to start with this: why do the Oromo and the rest of the colonized south… 2021-06-25 18:50:57 RT @FBedaso: Seeing and hearing her speak was so therapeutic. Haacaaluu used to insist that she was stronger and braver than him. I saw a t… 2021-06-25 17:23:06 RT @AmanSium: @UpFromTheCracks The Western left (including global Black left) misread the Eritrean revolution forty years ago & 2021-06-25 17:17:33 RT @AManYouLove_T: When you're young & 2021-06-25 15:14:44 @shiyamalen Sorry to clarify, the linked video provoked an unrecorded conversation that included Sri Lanka. But Notes on the Twilight is fwiw very worth watching 2021-06-25 13:23:13 like how do people examine Afwerki and the takeaway is he says no to AFRICOM so something something anti-imperialism? Eritrea is incarcerating people in shipping containers in the baking sun, for years in a kneeling position wtf https://t.co/qi9cj7HSZv 2021-06-25 13:09:05 what to the eternally conscripted is the Black American left? 2021-06-25 13:07:13 what is happening in these study groups?! I will never get over prison abolitionists stanning Eritrea 2021-06-25 12:35:43 RT @ThaAyantu: Imma try to sleep tonight but I just know I’ll be haunted in my dreams by Black leftists stanning genocidal Ethio government… 2021-06-25 03:10:01 @HabeshaHokage @Blacks4Peace You’re bringing up a separate concern, the main issue I’m raising right now is that the Black American left cannot achieve internationalist and anti-imperial politics by just regurgitating the propaganda of another state 2021-06-25 02:43:10 @HabeshaHokage @Blacks4Peace neither here nor there, the point is that Black anti imperialists in the US should not release solidarity statements that sound like the INSA accounts Facebook took down last week 2021-06-25 02:30:41 @HabeshaHokage @Blacks4Peace I personally have no hope or interest in state formation, but yes that’s what some people want. And more to the point, is saying “hands off” a state that those being harmed by-don’t identify with, is not solidarity 2021-06-25 02:16:27 I have hope here that people I love and respect like @jaybeware and the rest of the @MAKCapitalism fam will connect @noname to survivors of the #TigrayGenocide who know #HandsOffEthiopia is an Ethiopian state sanctioned disinformation campaign 2021-06-25 02:16:26 Can someone add me to the list serv because it took me a ridiculous amount of time to figure out @noname is affiliated w/ the tankie Black internationalist institute amplifying Ethio state propaganda? Imho 2021-06-25 01:47:55 @TsenatSaba @noname @Blacks4Peace Sorry can you point me to what no name has to do with this? 2021-06-25 01:23:40 RT @timnitGebru: If you're talking about the mass starvation rape & 2021-06-25 01:22:21 And ofc the monitor for the Baltimore Police Department’s consent decree is primarily composed of cops https://t.co/rMfNmalHhb 2021-06-25 01:18:14 we need tunnels https://t.co/8CP3XEXkoo 2021-06-25 00:49:43 This is such a good essay (and good thread thank you @ashleyshoo) https://t.co/3qfdVHQFj4 2021-06-25 00:15:59 @rzhongnotes + 1 anddd if you linger in horror at these responses, the algorithm will prioritize that content in your feed to keep you #onhere 2021-06-24 23:36:09 Thank you to @suchetaghoshal for facilitating this with me in the midst of grief, and to the 20 people who took this 6 week plunge with us - building an otherwise community 2021-06-24 23:36:08 Otherwise Roundtable today: provoked by Notes from the Twilight, we discussed Tigray, Sri Lanka, Ida B Wells, Black Trans Women’s in/visibility + whether inclusion into the category of human brings justice or if categories themselves are weapons to disarm https://t.co/cq5O1dHZJP 2021-06-24 23:09:23 @cfresssh You were absolutely phenomenal and the ability to make connections across so many domains was really inspiring, thank you so much for bringing all of that 2021-06-24 17:16:53 They are brilliant and never miss. Thank you @Ryan_Ken_Acts for all that you do https://t.co/m2NB5MiEhI 2021-06-24 15:58:50 RT @lifewinning: "Factory TikTok, in other words, isn’t about workers documenting their own labor, but is primarily a marketing scheme devi… 2021-06-24 15:31:03 @Blackamazon Thank you for your work! I look forward to seeing more heavy hitters with your byline 2021-06-24 13:46:41 S/o also to @lostblackboy who asked where are the Black tech journalists, like 6 months ago. I’m v happy to see @kharijohnson at @WIRED but we need MANY more Black journalists telling these stories AND Black editors to support the craft! 2021-06-24 13:42:53 If you haven’t read and re-read @Blackamazon’s critical essay on the innovation tech cannot crack get your life together lol and here you go https://t.co/Y4Kecxj0SU 2021-06-24 13:40:49 I will say thank you to @blackamazon for ringing the alarm early on how platforms expand on the back of Black creators only to cut them out of the profit via appropriation, shadow banning and suspension https://t.co/3HpGONEIgk 2021-06-24 12:34:34 “Yet, the point is to trace the ways in which racial capitalism connects the poultry plant to the prison alongside the movement for abolition beyond the prison.” 2021-06-24 12:33:53 Looking forward to today’s talk feat. @cfresssh on Poultry and Prisons at The Otherwise School: Tools and Techniques of Counter-Facsism Learn more about her work drawing on the Black radical tradition to analyze the poultry capital of the world here https://t.co/sYZJ2G7k1A 2021-06-24 12:12:49 RT @davidgerard: "An investigation by Decrypt discovered that Zap lacks licenses to operate in most US states. Experts suggest this means m… 2021-06-24 12:09:03 Congratulations @thistimeitsmimi https://t.co/fGZEox2AZ5 2021-06-24 11:54:31 RT @AAT_transcribes: Researchers & Do you have piles of audio or video that would benefit from non-urgent transcriptio… 2021-06-24 11:52:15 very disturbing but v good piece https://t.co/eS77SfoFmu 2021-06-24 03:34:35 RT @timnitGebru: We (@cephaloponderer & I… 2021-06-24 02:31:02 @_Almaqah @ThaAyantu BAR 2021-06-24 02:29:38 RT @ThaAyantu: White leftist journos celebrating the nonelection in Ethiopia is not the woke anticolonial politics you think it is. It show… 2021-06-24 02:00:57 ok no more feeding trolls. onwards 2021-06-24 01:59:07 The irony is not the public, it’s that if Minnesota schools weren’t so deeply segregated maybe the #HoA diaspora would have a better analysis of the police and settler colonialism. 2021-06-24 00:41:45 RT @movfamilypower: Monday June 28 @ 7PM CST, Radical Public Health at UIC School of Public Health is hosting Child Welfare Justice Panel,… 2021-06-24 00:35:26 @jaybeware paw patrol 2021-06-24 00:33:50 ok I tried, that was exhausting and unproductive 2021-06-24 00:28:19 @STOPETHNICBASE1 @HabeshaHokage When does this modern begin? Who gets to decide that the legacy of the neftegna gabbar system has no bearing on the present? Why is it always those traumatized by the word and never those by the system? 2021-06-24 00:20:40 @STOPETHNICBASE1 @HabeshaHokage I too want cops, soldiers n militants to stop killing people but this can only come through confronting the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism that set up regional militias to kill civilians- not by tweeting images of no context dead bodies n screaming elites/diaspora/oromos 2021-06-24 00:15:39 @STOPETHNICBASE1 @HabeshaHokage Y’all are frustrating because you operate on affect no citations no analysis. Militias murdering people (+ notably in the case of Ataye, conflicting reports of which one) does not disprove an analysis of settler colonialism. It proves there’s widespread state violence by security 2021-06-23 23:51:42 RT @AmanSium: @UpFromTheCracks Tell 'em sis! A colonizer, is a colonizer, is a colonizer. History is a scary thing to look in the face. App… 2021-06-23 22:21:55 Tankies are Borkena’s wildest dreams https://t.co/fdriYF55fJ 2021-06-23 19:43:27 @blackflaghag thank you for holding all my 3:41pm on a Wednesday stuff with me 2021-06-23 19:39:45 and a drawer so everyone can have things too- and maybe by then, we’ll know where the tunnel can end 2021-06-23 19:39:35 and we need a place to rest for when we’re tired, and the resting place gotta be like multiple sizes because nobody body is default we need a drawer she can put her things 2021-06-23 19:39:15 and we need narcan, b/c it’s easier to find oxy and dope than somewheres safe to be and resist we need places, and ramps for the tunnels so it’s accessible 2021-06-23 19:39:14 we’re not alone but where can one be together, and radical, and loud and not be locked up-or conscripted 2021-06-23 19:39:12 we need a tunnel 2021-06-23 19:19:46 yo where TF is fanon? 2021-06-23 19:16:25 but idk jaboukie ain’t wrong either, how we out here just raw dogging reality, where’s the palliative care for the resistance 2021-06-23 19:14:01 post modernism is an opiate of the complicit 2021-06-23 19:09:42 RT @thellpsx: and by "people" I mean a lot of kinds of oppressed people, but in particular disabled people are geniuses of staying alive de… 2021-06-23 19:09:31 RT @thellpsx: crip mutual aid isn't always a big public thing, it can be 3 people checking on each other. Friends have a Signal thread cal… 2021-06-23 17:40:39 relatedly, https://t.co/AgjT5s69e2 2021-06-23 17:33:39 the past is not over 2021-06-23 17:30:11 Required reading: India’s Settler Colonial Agenda in Kashmir https://t.co/F62Ktj6dAA 2021-06-23 16:10:08 half these people demanding nuance really want silence 2021-06-23 16:01:30 If Nigerians were governed by Ethio discourse there would have been no #EndSars 2021-06-23 15:00:44 RT @phat_controller: Ethiopian Elections: digital spaces are space of power + resistance. The US trained regime in surveillance. 87,000 sta… 2021-06-23 14:39:02 "In France a biometric system is increasingly being used to register young migrants who want to be recognized as unaccompanied minors. Aid groups worry this will result in more [youth]being sent directly to detention centers and inaccurate assessments." https://t.co/Ku4NYQX8tq 2021-06-23 14:31:12 RT @shannonmattern: @AutoArtMachine @UpFromTheCracks I talk about this in the book! :) Re: de-colonial computing: https://t.co/BtbXDXRFHM 2021-06-23 14:30:22 @shannonmattern @markhurst @WeBeImagining fair, this makes want to go back and watch Hitchcock's Birds 2021-06-23 14:25:44 @shannonmattern @markhurst @WeBeImagining yes for all the weaponizing of cog sci in tech, I'm surprised there's not more of the pscyho-analytic turn in the critique b/c the metaphors are fascinating 2021-06-23 14:23:50 @shannonmattern @markhurst @WeBeImagining https://t.co/3WtW5TKBp5 https://t.co/9sJRiavN9j 2021-06-23 14:20:31 @shannonmattern @markhurst @WeBeImagining idk if you've ever had the pleasure of binge-watching Huawei safe city promo videos, but it's fascinating that they actually describe implementing smart city technology as deploying a new nervous system into the body 2021-06-23 14:13:08 @shannonmattern @markhurst Yes! I want to hear this episode, you can do a double feature, tectonic followed by @WeBeImagining 2021-06-23 14:02:34 Looking forward to reading "A City Is Not a Computer", a forthcoming book from @shannonmattern on what is lost when we conceive of our urban space as computers https://t.co/2Ci4giKVb7 2021-06-23 13:52:32 Interesting that Hindutva and White Supremacist rhetoric overlaps so much, this is why we need a transnational counter fascism movement https://t.co/0I9fVIuJVk 2021-06-23 12:07:12 @HabeshaHokage No people are ignorant, the word neftegna has not killed more people than the neftegna system, and the irony of this is neftegna is not a word oromos or I have created! 2021-06-23 03:46:35 @ibnaliadal @KallieEjigu @Fahmii_Ab ok I think that’s a valid point, as when the neftegna system ended there were a variety of forces that weaponized narratives to serve their own ends at the expense of both Amhara people and the anti-imperial movement 2021-06-23 03:32:55 @KallieEjigu @Fahmii_Ab Much of the reporting on “ethnic tensions” and evidence produced around amhara genocide I see, is basically cops killing people. I 100% agree this is terrible but I think it requires a more rigorous analysis of the state vs saying the word neftegna is a dog whistle to stop it 2021-06-23 03:29:47 @KallieEjigu @Fahmii_Ab Idk if there’s enough space in this app to explain this but critiquing the ongoing legacy of the neftegna gabbar is about critiquing a system and the ongoing legacy of an infrastructure not about individual Amharas-This legacy also harms Amharas, ie via the state security forces 2021-06-23 02:35:40 @my_bear_hands @KallieEjigu Yes I agree with that, there’s like three threads I was trying to respond to here between the QTs and the comments so it might not be linear 2021-06-23 02:34:47 @KallieEjigu @Fahmii_Ab I’m mortified by the murdering of civilians by state security forces but I don’t think the violence documented in those videos can be attributed to scholarship or organizing around decolonization, War On Terror funding or influx of weapons yes but not ppl saying decolonization 2021-06-23 02:21:06 @KallieEjigu I’m saying that they are part of the state security apparatus so them weaponizing decolonial language to justify harm does not mean they’re actually representing the decolonial aims of in this case, Oromo people 2021-06-23 02:19:30 @Fahmii_Ab @KallieEjigu Y’all literally do not read, I’m saying that they are part of the state security apparatus so them weaponizing decolonial language to justify harm does not mean they’re actually representing the decolonial aims of in this case, Oromo people 2021-06-23 02:17:35 @KallieEjigu I’m saying that because no one has an analysis of policing in Ethiopia, regional militias are perceived to be representatives of the ethnic group they’re associated with 2021-06-23 02:14:58 @KallieEjigu No? I’m literally not saying that 2021-06-23 02:04:45 @KallieEjigu I do believe militias weaponize the term neftegna to justify harm but is this because people are talking about settler colonialism or is this because there’s an unregulated influx of weapons into Ethiopia and fractured paramilitary organizations contesting power? 2021-06-23 02:00:44 @KallieEjigu In the US, Nigeria, Uganda, Egypt-we have seen uprisings against state police/militias/soldiers but not in Ethiopia-and I suspect it’s connected to this way we’re talking past each other. Oromo militias represent decolonization as much as Fano or TPLF represent Amharas or Tegaru 2021-06-23 01:55:19 @ZegaRasWork But there’s a limit to how much we can push this on Twitter I appreciate your comments being made in good faith, let’s speak more later 2021-06-23 01:54:30 @ZegaRasWork I agree that we ought not flatten out these histories into populist terms, erroneously allocating blame where it’s underserved…looking thru the angry QTs there’s a way this is complicated by a misunderstanding of militias weaponizing rhetoric vs the project of decolonization 2021-06-23 01:49:18 @ZegaRasWork Fair, I didn’t mean the Qement or the Gumuz were subject to the neftegna system literally in the way southern peoples were but that the demands for assimilation into a unified Ethiopia, or the erasure, echoes that legacy. +imho reflects the word I think really must go-prevail 2021-06-23 00:33:22 @ZegaRasWork Ultimately the rush to defend the innocence of Amharas is frustrating not b/c there’s Amhara guilt to be adjudicated with requisite punishment meted out as some imply, but b/c it’s not about Amharas! It’s about the peoples who are not even named as subjects ie the Qemant, Gumuz… 2021-06-23 00:12:53 @ZegaRasWork That first part is important. There are whole peoples excluded from these histories and categories of being human that others are worried about being flattened out in. We will not have space for nuance and assignation of accountability w/o a recognition of that first claim. 2021-06-22 22:50:36 @ZegaRasWork There’s no evidence to suggest Amharas have been harmed by the word neftegna in anyway commensurate to the harm of the neftegna system or its ongoing legacy + infrastructure on Oromos and southern peoples. Demonizing individual Amhara people is not decolonization 2021-06-22 22:27:20 @STOPETHNICBASE1 the Neftegna system literally killed more people than the word neftegna, this is absurd. Opposition to Abiy originated among Oromos so I have no idea what you’re talking about, and Tigray is experiencing a genocide which Amhara is not 2021-06-22 22:18:36 @ConfusedAfrica2 @LiyaTefferi https://t.co/DcmQxAWZQn 2021-06-22 21:58:01 @STOPETHNICBASE1 yes people from multiple ethnic groups participated in conquest but not every region and by extension, ethnicity has had the same relationship to the state. Neftegna is a term that identifies one relationship to the Ethio state, rifleman is also not gun manufacturer right- 2021-06-22 21:53:01 @STOPETHNICBASE1 I am not making a parallel between American history and Ethiopian here, the parallel is this present day argument against *saying* neftegna and settler colonialism v much sounds like White rage about the 1619 project. 2021-06-22 21:22:56 The Derg did not fall from the sky, the resettlement was sold in the Marxist language of give the land to the tillers, but was a continuation of a plan developed by Haile Selassie to change the economic base in service of dependent colonial rule 2021-06-22 21:22:54 I’m saying that “neftegna is a dog whistle” and “settler colonialism is a long over historic grievance” sounds exactly like the White people mad at 1619. Acknowledging a history of conquest and enslavement does not endanger Amharas but denying it endangers everyone. https://t.co/C8Mqi1Avz1 2021-06-22 20:33:41 ok no “word salad” just pictures… https://t.co/pb9HiAuNZj https://t.co/7vNsalyckV 2021-06-22 20:15:38 No this is the problem, you’re celebrating a monarchy that literally banned Afaan Oromo while people like Getachew Haile got a MacArthur grant for Ge’ez scholarship You cannot have eternal peace on the basis of generational trauma and displacement for others https://t.co/2WCIvMfn3a https://t.co/KRB2W7oGyQ 2021-06-22 18:35:23 TLDR there’s something about how the education arm of colonial governance that has been so effective in making people alternately confused post modernists and dogmatic genocide apologists. The latter encounters resistance as some kind of psychic insult 2021-06-22 18:25:42 I feel like I’m yelling at a brick wall sometimes but praying we can do better than dunking via QT one liners b/c there’s actual stakes to us being able to have this conversation 2021-06-22 18:23:35 B/c settler colonialism is not a life sustaining or generative legacy. Recognizing how some have reaped the benefits of enslavement of others, does not translate to a misguided political project of retribution, it’s a critical step to prevent the cycle of repetition we’re in 2021-06-22 18:23:34 Refusing to engage with how conquest and subjugation of indigenous peoples and indigenous lands made this empire, only works in service of the current regime who has branded a genocidal war against Tigray as a law enforcement action 2021-06-22 18:23:33 We need more space to unpack settler colonialism in Ethiopia, identifying “neftegna” or gun carriers for conquest + how it’s entangled with an Amhara-izing of the dependent colonial administration is not a bio-essential analysis https://t.co/4VCsJdB8m2 2021-06-22 17:40:44 RT @ThaAyantu: This was so generative Thanks for expertly moderating us @UpFromTheCracks & 2021-06-22 14:28:39 RT @jathansadowski: This is a very interesting, original story of labor and automation in the USPS. But it's also noteworthy just how well… 2021-06-22 14:27:31 My one point of confusion w/ S& 2021-06-22 14:20:35 Excellent zine, read it but absolutely dead at the QT that literally is championing someone who they think is a “Good DA” https://t.co/0YL9dLnUPa 2021-06-22 14:05:37 @clancynewyork I mean, I can understand that argument much more than a kind of “keep hope alive” 2021-06-22 14:02:36 meditating on these points by @clancynewyork on academic scholarship and movement politics https://t.co/ijgnxIamk2 2021-06-22 14:00:39 @clancynewyork Connie I don’t know but will check out thanks! 2021-06-22 14:00:18 @clancynewyork Yes job/not going to jail point is generally fair, but left of electoral politics is still w/in acceptable discourse imho 2021-06-19 12:34:34 RT @GetuTeressa: "One of the tenants of the era of Haile Selaisse was to Amharise the Oromos... so that's why you will see a huge urbanised… 2021-06-19 12:33:55 RT @GetuTeressa: "Abiy realised that Amharas control the intellectual power, the media, the plutocracy… he came to realise that the only wa… 2021-06-19 05:00:40 What in the genocide apology is this @angelayee On Juneteenth @breakfastclubam you choose to amplify this confused hotep LLC Twitter mythology, TF?!…Eritrea is not Wakanda, it’s scenes of subjection https://t.co/v608bYfp7r 2021-06-19 01:44:17 RT @bentarnoff: On Sat, July 17, I’ll be moderating a @logic_magazine discussion with @tsnvaa @gonker69 and @abenanav about what a freer a… 2021-06-19 00:14:14 Alcohol is the number one prenatal neurotoxin, making the messaging about women’s behavior is so unbelievably damaging https://t.co/DcnyGJbszJ 2021-06-18 22:25:55 @DocDre “He made fun of Cardinal Cushing and said that he was drunk," Onassis says on the tapes. "Things about 'They almost dropped the coffin.' I mean, Martin Luther King is really a tricky person." I’m dead 2021-06-18 19:58:42 RT @mayameme: How have artists, cultural producers& 2021-06-18 19:31:29 @vee_etc a gift from me to you https://t.co/xkXax2kuvT 2021-06-18 19:28:42 @vee_etc But the EXpeRieNCE Vee 2021-06-18 19:26:52 @vee_etc Maybe https://t.co/JFBoTD7KdQ 2021-06-18 19:07:44 RT @gianfiorella: Two new videos have surfaced today showing civilians being executed near #MahbereDego, in the #Tigray region in #Ethiopia… 2021-06-18 01:11:16 @DocDre Welcome 2021-06-17 23:55:17 RT @halophoenix: Hi hello yes it's true -I'm actually hiring! If you want to help people make better use of their technology, better unde… 2021-06-17 22:16:43 RT @timnitGebru: Very common tactic. 2021-06-17 21:53:54 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @vee_etc systemic anti racism with officer decolonize, lift up, center voice impact harm less feed the children bette… 2021-06-17 21:53:02 @vee_etc systemic anti racism with officer decolonize, lift up, center voice impact harm less feed the children better energy https://t.co/UfsDDpGzZq 2021-06-17 21:45:45 @vee_etc Only for my patreon subscribers, join at Co conspirator level and you too can get one 2021-06-17 21:41:45 Imma cite you in my epitaph @vee_etc you brought me lifeeeee https://t.co/AoXUIhEfe9 2021-06-17 21:29:18 @Sundaykoffron I cannot deal with all this ritual of talking about feelings with people who profit from our destruction 2021-06-17 21:26:52 Do you know the difference between a child welfare judenrat and an abolitionist? #StrengthenedBonds 2021-06-17 21:23:54 We need transformative justice, we need to heal from trauma. When we perform it for white folks on zoom, we’re assisting a family regulation system that’s rebranding itself as racial justice 2021-06-17 21:14:43 The movement to dismantle the system cannot sound like the system 2021-06-17 21:14:42 Imho we need financial disclosures at these conferences, you can’t be on the payroll of ACS and talk about abolishing ACS #StrengthenedBonds https://t.co/XfMlLaBtWa 2021-06-17 18:50:47 RT @AmyMulzer: "We should not be so quick to reimagine with those who have incarcerated us." @UpFromTheCracks #StrengthenedBonds 2021-06-17 18:33:28 RT @andrewhume: I'm appreciating the #StrengthenedBonds Symposium "Abolishing the Child Welfare System and Re-Envisioning Child Well-Being"… 2021-06-17 14:06:41 12 y/o What country do you think is the best in the world? Me: I have no loyalty to nation states, do you? 12 y/o: I do, to the nation of Roblox, millions of people around the world participate and I am a Robloxian Me: … 2021-06-17 13:52:44 Meanwhile… https://t.co/x1FpaJMuZH 2021-06-17 12:56:25 I want to emphasize that a major effect of the #TigrayGenocide has been producing displacement into UNHCR refugee and IDP camps where people are subject to the same forced biometric data collection as the Rohingya. This report should be read carefully by #HoA https://t.co/gpgiZ10IZ1 2021-06-17 00:53:21 RT @HabenGirma: An account with thousands of followers has been spreading hateful lies about me for months. I reported it to @TwitterSafety… 2021-06-17 00:53:16 RT @timnitGebru: This whack a mole is what we have to spend our time doing for @TwitterSafety to do anything, same as the death threats aga… 2021-06-17 00:08:08 RT @RepealASFA: "...Separating and putting children in foster care and permanent severing of family ties for failing to comply with agency… 2021-06-17 00:08:03 RT @RepealASFA: "Any system built to actually protect children should in no way mimic a system that tortures adults." -Joyce McMillan of @… 2021-06-16 23:16:46 RT @zararah: @hrw Concerning highlights: There was no option for #Rohingya to opt out, nor receive the Smart Card without (seemingly implic… 2021-06-16 23:16:43 RT @zararah: Incredibly thorough work from @hrw has revealed what we all feared: UNHCR did in fact share personal + biometric data of #Rohi… 2021-06-16 23:10:18 RT @ThaAyantu: Facebook should not be patting itself on the back. Ya'll fucked up and continue to fuck up and harming the most vulnerable. 2021-06-16 21:53:17 I’ve not done a tenth of the work on #HoA that @L_badikho has identifying mis/disinfo networks in Morocco. Here he highlights, the largest YouTube channel pushing mis/disinfo appears connected to the Moroccan authorities. This is a global pattern that we saw in Myanmar as well https://t.co/Y6tAN19PLH 2021-06-16 21:53:16 Evergreen note about the very newly invented CIB term, it was originally going to be called Coordinated Inauthentic Activity but they decided CIA was probably an acronym to avoid. But also in all seriousness, believe corps when they tell on themselves https://t.co/02gb6iDtoe https://t.co/sn4njRgYr5 2021-06-16 21:53:14 We should be very concerned that @facebook is operating on networks of serendipity to adhoc and piecemeal address the geopolitical destabilization they leave in their wake- 2021-06-16 21:53:13 How do we know this? The same way we know they didn’t have the capacity to do context moderation in the Summer of 2020 beyond automated translation of Amharic-they hired key people from Tegaru, Oromo and Amhara ethnic communities as consultants to identify diaspora networks- 2021-06-16 21:53:12 A few notes on this announcement: https://t.co/GzpvOI9pHZ 2021-06-16 18:28:09 @zeaxumawit @ngleicher Thanks 2021-06-16 14:43:08 @ruchowdh #solidarity https://t.co/1l3JA211RD 2021-06-16 13:35:24 It’s the “Lin Manuel brought Puerto Rico to America” to defend his white washing of Black Dominican Wash Heights for me https://t.co/yqws0YQ4ul 2021-06-16 13:22:39 @tamarajadekaz @sarahchander Dope, btw @tamarajadekaz love that you put communication needs on your site :) 2021-06-16 13:21:44 @chriscorrigan Not in person (and can be done asynchronous) so location doesn’t matter 2021-06-16 13:17:06 RT @cloudquistador: I have much love for the liberals who challenge tech narratives but, the real heart of resistance comes from those who… 2021-06-16 13:17:03 RT @cloudquistador: Excellent conversation with @UpFromTheCracks on the @TIRShowOakland podcast! Going deep into how algos are used against… 2021-06-16 13:16:52 @cloudquistador Thank you for having me on the show :) 2021-06-16 01:05:37 Current situation is in live on @TIRShowOakland https://t.co/VkYp3xh72i 2021-06-16 00:38:21 @ThaAyantu Word this is some Minnesota ish for real tho, the only ardent nationalist I encounter IRL is Voldemort (aka he who shall not be named as it will circulate on the uncle listservs) 2021-06-16 00:34:27 @hypervisible Is the second order effect intentional? Ie this just makes want to live my life in walking distance forever 2021-06-16 00:32:14 RT @NewSocialistUK: The protests of farmers in North West India are historic, but what histories do they challenge? @AmarDeepSinghD on colo… 2021-06-15 23:06:07 Somebody turn Twitter back on in Nigeria so we can trade war stories about the genocidal elites 2021-06-15 23:01:42 “To equate the incidental differences in impact that occur from this type of geographic-based pricing that pervades all American commerce with discrimination misconstrues both the literal, legal, and moral meaning of the word,” the company said in its statement.” https://t.co/lE0oNojOLC 2021-06-15 23:00:23 @rzhongnotes @hypervisible “To equate the incidental differences in impact that occur from this type of geographic-based pricing that pervades all American commerce with discrimination misconstrues both the literal, legal, and moral meaning of the word,” the company said in its statement.” 2021-06-15 22:52:42 **For pay forgot to add that 2021-06-15 22:47:39 Any recs for a Black graphic notetaker? Ideally someone who is familiar with surveillance and abolition 2021-06-15 20:34:04 I know, I know… But it’s still unsettling when I realize someone has worked half as hard to get twice as far 2021-06-15 20:14:56 RT @mer__edith: I'm naming this here because it was a clear pattern, and because I think those committed to opposing fascism in all its glo… 2021-06-15 20:13:30 RT @ruchowdh: We also need to educate on cultural nuances. I'm Bangladeshi. That makes me Muslim. I am not Indian, and i'm not Hindu. That… 2021-06-15 20:12:20 RT @ruchowdh: As someone who has been the target of this group in the past, it is vile and brutal. Their motives are caste-driven, sexis… 2021-06-15 20:09:53 She initiated a coordinated hindutva trolling campaign against me an anyone who supported me. They are anti-Black, Islamophobic obvi and they are -THE BASE of the same damn HAF organization she spent 2 years flying across the country fundraising for. https://t.co/td6RBZEWDm 2021-06-15 20:09:51 As an abolitionist, I don’t feel like we should dispose of people who harm. It’s not too late for Shalini Kantayya to show accountability but when she tagged Hindutva in followed by a *muslim extremism* dog whistle - https://t.co/yrC8bi9IdZ 2021-06-15 19:51:50 Thank you always @mer__edith . Imho I forgot I have a super Muslim name until the Hindutva reminded me 100x over that I’m the left/Islamist axis of evil enacting sharia law onto Big Tech https://t.co/crye5BtXZP https://t.co/1bPJ4O8U7R 2021-06-15 19:38:00 RT @rj_gallagher: Pretty wild to see the CTO of US tech company @Sandvine, which sells internet censorship equipment, openly applauding Rus… 2021-06-15 15:44:23 @solomonmissouri I swear people have just memory holed the whole bush administration, the Jesus Camp alumni are just coming of age now and this is just a continuation of David Horowitz’s “Academic Freedom”strategy 2021-06-15 15:05:42 RT @EremiasWmikael: If you wonder why we can't have innovative tech distupters and entrepreneurs in #Africa, this is partly why. I had so m… 2021-06-15 11:16:14 @cemicool Also can you please drop the link for your piece? Would love to read it:) 2021-06-15 11:15:50 I’m telling you that more and more I’m seeing carceral services being billed as DoH, when all is complete they’ll declare health insurance for all https://t.co/N2EPjNeDN7 2021-06-15 01:50:14 RT @ThaAyantu: All your faves are trash https://t.co/301rmaZTeu 2021-06-15 01:41:38 RT @SunnyJReedABook: To all who think “adopting all the orphans” is THE solution to abandoned children: The actual heartfelt, loving appro… 2021-06-14 21:36:49 RT @TIRShowOakland: Get ready for tomorrow!! We're going to be talking to @UpFromTheCracks about A.I. https://t.co/cEmf6mdRX5 2021-06-14 21:29:28 RT @RepealASFA: We are directly impacted mothers and allied advocates committed to dismantling the harmful Adoption and Safe Families Act,… 2021-06-14 19:14:38 RT @mer__edith: So happy and excited about this! Congratulations and thank you @UpFromTheCracks and @suchetaghoshal 2021-06-14 19:14:31 @mer__edith @suchetaghoshal Thank you 2021-06-14 17:34:08 @suchetaghoshal 2021-06-14 17:33:50 RT @suchetaghoshal: Launch day! Otherwise School is an effort in community building in the face of global fascism. Born out of personal gri… 2021-06-14 15:17:49 realizing pre recording a talk is more work than giving one fml 2021-06-14 12:32:37 @misskitila I double take because I always think GERD as in acid reflux 2021-06-14 11:37:54 I swear they just want New York City to be Argentina. “Idk they just disappeared, it’s a mystery, we had to cast who would be the best at being human and…” 2021-06-14 11:34:47 Meanwhile… Wash heights a musical, …but make it eugenics 2021-06-14 11:27:17 The admission form was like check which boxes apply: African-American Grenadian Jamaican Central African South African East African West African Haitian Afro-Dominican Afro-Brazilian …etc. 2021-06-14 11:21:52 My daughter’s all Black school is very diverse 2021-06-14 11:11:11 @Dhakshayini_S @suchetaghoshal 2021-06-14 11:11:03 The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) producing generations of legal orphans, was signed into legislation in November 1997. A month later, Home Alone 3 was released. https://t.co/4bNykw0UK0 2021-06-14 11:11:01 Home Alone, “A family comedy without the family” was a Blockbuster hit in the 90s aka the era of mass incarceration, super predators, end of welfare as we know it, and height of family separations https://t.co/AZxFgZpPV4 2021-06-14 01:50:09 RT @suchetaghoshal: I have lost so much yet gained so much in 2021 already. While academic gains are hardly ever comparable to the loss… 2021-06-14 01:24:27 My oldest daughter love loves musicals including both of Lin Manuel Miranda’s. Needless to say, there’s some tension as she feels I just rain on her parade but exactly this, we shouldn’t have to settle for colorist, low bar pink-washed, for the white gaze-athon extraction https://t.co/zVbGyM30Ty 2021-06-14 00:45:40 @GarboNoire Thank you, I’m v grateful to reclaim my time from hair straightening tho lol 2021-06-14 00:31:47 2 months ago, @suchetaghoshal became a prof, dropped a syllabus on critical technology practice. The silver lining of the anti-Black rage her work provoked is it inspired The Otherwise School: Tools and Techniques of Counter Fascism which begins tomorrow https://t.co/TPI4ite8Ya 2021-06-13 23:51:04 @jathansadowski @hypervisible I was about to do a wellness check… 2021-06-13 23:31:42 “And when a company like Apple makes plans to let users access the data of loved ones after their deaths — something that there is currently no specific law around — we are ceding key parts of life to private companies who, it bears repeating, have their own agendas.” https://t.co/GhHtklKq1w 2021-06-13 23:30:05 RT @azadessa: Glad to see Al Jazeera stand by @raqib_naik who continues to face endless harassment & 2021-06-13 21:24:34 @Habesh_ Robel Habte wouldn’t even risk his life swimming that but the T shirt is dope 2021-06-13 21:14:47 Walking to Edgar Allan Poe Museum, I’d pass Monument Ave’s stream of confederate statues and so bizarrely, Arthur Ashe! The installation was v Floyd was a martyr/White redemption vibes albeit these whites were like it’s an affront to “hallowed ground” https://t.co/H8XueA4jwa 2021-06-13 21:14:46 Dude’s corrective ghost tour was a big deal at a time when Virginia Commonwealth University demonized those protesting it’s parking lot being built over a slave burial ground. He was unearthing a history that was everywhere but publicly unspoken https://t.co/DIv0xQOyDL 2021-06-13 21:14:45 …side note, after a 6 month bid intensively reading Poe, I’m committed to my conspiracy theory that his whole body of work is about being haunted by Black murder imho 2021-06-13 21:14:44 Procrastinating and stumbled on this picture from me 21 years old going through my Mary J Blige “Not Gon Cry” moment, I had chopped off my hair, moved to Virginia with kid in tow and volunteered at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum to get out of “working for my welfare benefits” https://t.co/QagtIR4n6U 2021-06-13 20:31:43 Literally current situation and one more project due by EOD https://t.co/E7rKBpPJkk 2021-06-13 20:22:31 Me not listening to @TheNapMinistry like I’m sposed to https://t.co/07bW2kMXBf 2021-06-13 15:25:38 Don’t worry I have no promo code and didn’t regress into multi level marketing, just stanning Black girl joy. So much of what’s produced for Black children is still about slavery or the Montgomery bus boycott and this is just the kind of basic we need. 2021-06-13 15:22:16 @SamTecle Bennett’s work never misses, from the sobbing school to Being Property Once Myself to Owed which this poem is from 2021-06-13 15:21:06 RT @digitaldutta: @techno_kavi @UpFromTheCracks This is the entire model of digital identity based vaccination drives. The pandemic is bein… 2021-06-13 14:20:03 “Applying it to service delivery is causing exclusion for many people, especially the poor and the vulnerable," she said, calling on the government to "immediately" end the requirement of the ID card, known as ndaga muntu, to access social rights. https://t.co/8ZrnHy2Xed 2021-06-13 14:17:46 “India’s Hindu nationalist government has said it will deport the Rohingya refugees to Myanmar in contravention of the principle of non-refoulement, which forbids a country from returning refugees to a country where they would face torture.” https://t.co/SLEmpv8UP3 2021-06-13 14:14:36 @SamTecle Ode to the 99 cent store “You a kind of utopia, you know. God’s garage. Counterhegemonic magic, how you tug on dollar bill until it becomes open field,” -Joshua Bennett https://t.co/yYkOYTSh3x 2021-06-13 13:37:53 https://t.co/sT3F19MNSZ 2021-06-13 13:26:02 Long but very substantive essay on the Cobalt supply chains big tech is reliant on in the Congo. https://t.co/JTSnbrDTb9 2021-06-13 12:46:58 “IT all starts with labelling. To anyone familiar with Pakistani Twitter, the semantics of political discourse have become predictable — either you are a traitor or you are a patriot.” https://t.co/c91jpAOOM4 2021-06-13 12:42:32 “Discrediting legitimate media reports as “fake news” has become a key tactic of Pakistan’s ruling party.” https://t.co/Ek3T2oAenM 2021-06-13 00:17:05 What is going on… https://t.co/RckedaX70S 2021-06-13 00:13:54 My 6 year olds’ Brown Sugar Box just arrived and I mean honestly the cuteness overload IDK what IG ad put me on a year ago but so worth the bread https://t.co/9A9Zeq89dk https://t.co/8BkGAOgIjY 2021-06-12 22:31:22 @bigblackjacobin Omgggg, who is the audience for Blackrock sympathy https://t.co/dayabIJahG 2021-06-12 21:37:42 @_Almaqah @KeatonWay @TiffanyHaddish @Twitter @Clubhouse Imho the other problem is American celebrity culture, famous entertainer does not moral compass or critical thinking make…If only we had a bigger platform for the collective voices of people who are back home to tell their own stories 2021-06-12 20:25:39 @Gluonsrule …exactly 2021-06-12 20:02:21 @ZNursinga I don’t! Refusal is a radical act, we can choose more often 2021-06-12 20:00:47 I’m also grateful for @HabenGirma’s consistent advocacy in the course of the #TigrayGenocide. I hope recognition of her will also translate to us holding more space for deaf, blind and disabled people in the wake of this war, including the amputees and the inevitable PTSD 2021-06-12 19:54:45 @larastapleton My son is vaccinated, there’s no logic 2021-06-12 19:53:36 Thank you @KeatonWay for doing the emotional labor to address @TiffanyHaddish @Twitter and @Clubhouse needs to suspend anyone using their platform to coordinate genocide denial https://t.co/CrAz7gXaWJ 2021-06-12 19:44:17 My son’s father said he’s not going to see him b/c he’s vaccinated and I feel exactly the same way about addressing takedowns of CRT 2021-06-12 17:05:45 We’ve actually not stopped recording @WeBeImagining podcast, I’ve stopped editing but prepare yourselves for major drops in the next few days 2021-06-12 16:51:01 RT @darachm: Orchid exists in an ecosystem of racial discrimination (USA, the west, the world today), an ecosystem that maps race to money… 2021-06-12 16:50:57 RT @WeBeImagining: Thank you for highlighting this excellent episode feat. @danbouk and Meagan Wolff on the origins of Insurance Industry r… 2021-06-12 16:50:53 RT @WeBeImagining: Fascinating from @darachm examining the Orchid embryo selection company, why it’s disturbing and how it relates to our… 2021-06-12 14:56:44 Black single parent escaping toxic household and facing eviction raising funds to stay in safe housing. Please contribute if you can to @riconastystan and her 5 year old daughter https://t.co/0cAvuWpblR 2021-06-12 13:06:08 RT @hypervisible: “For a period of over two and a half years, without consumers' permission, Amazon secretly used nearly a third of custome… 2021-06-11 22:14:10 The pulitzer quote tweets are like OJ verdict reacts 2021-06-11 17:50:10 Hero-izing a witness to a police execution feels rooted in a quest to redeem white innocence. Mad love to Darnella Frazier who didn’t ask for any of this https://t.co/GKoj86bIvW 2021-06-11 17:11:22 Without giving it all away, I’m just sitting here so so excited to launch the otherwise school: tools and techniques of counter-fascism with @suchetaghoshal on Monday who has very patiently accepted my need to color code all our materials https://t.co/CDiWqIjogR 2021-06-11 16:46:41 @FBedaso 2021-06-11 15:33:52 Post-Modern Possibilities: Formalizing Diasporic Confusion into an Episteme 2021-06-11 15:33:51 The WaysInWhich Lives, Banal Existence: Intimate Histories of Linguistic Assimilation 2021-06-11 14:36:00 Just going to leave this right here https://t.co/fgubFPPaBp 2021-06-11 14:33:55 Meditating on how James Casey went from managing parcel logistics via UPS to managing children separated from their families. Imagine Amazon opening a foster care agency? And then a foundation to subsidize the intellectual architects of the family regulation system? Wild 2021-06-11 14:17:33 Also comforted that apparently this is a whole thing https://t.co/GTaQ0WqBRm 2021-06-11 14:10:19 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Me mixing up Naomi Wolf with Naomi Klein and cracking up I never heard of Wolf until now but the Eve Ensler feminist… 2021-06-11 14:06:46 @ztsamudzi Yes I went very quickly from devastated to gratitude 2021-06-11 14:01:10 RT @hypervisible: #DigitalRedlining https://t.co/QRtj99uBFN 2021-06-11 14:00:43 Me mixing up Naomi Wolf with Naomi Klein and cracking up I never heard of Wolf until now but the Eve Ensler feminist to anti-Vaxx pipeline is wholly unsurprising 2021-06-11 13:56:32 I spend too much time #OnHere to be 5 days late to this news. Naomi Wolf was peddling anti-vaxx misinfo?? This is very disheartening https://t.co/5UDe2Ei4ei 2021-06-11 13:49:35 @PalmTreesnGz 2021-06-11 13:42:51 RT @anarparikh: Y’all remember when Spivak dismissed a question about caste by saying she was middle-class and “had to make it on her own?” 2021-06-11 13:42:36 This is art https://t.co/AGuH114dMp 2021-06-11 13:03:13 Is there space to demand we Free Mumia and to acknowledge that Mumia means Prince? How our liberation cries can also be translated as Free Monarchy? Can we recognize Nabongo Mumia of the Wanga Kingdom was not an anti-colonialist but a British Collaborator? 2021-06-11 13:03:12 I’m also thinking about this in the context of reading Sylvia Wynter’s No Humans Involved- being grateful for her citation of an Eritrean anthropologist in a field that sometimes ends at the border-but also Legesse denies testimonies of Eritrean refugees https://t.co/r00iXXWyiC https://t.co/3tNKsyYRyg 2021-06-11 12:38:13 RT @Blackamazon: This moment? Especially as someone who sits at intersections of : Mixed documentation Black Woman Working class And wa… 2021-06-11 12:21:07 I want us to be accountable to the mad, poor, disabled, 7 generations deep Black folks, to the diaspora, first gen, back home, rural, indigenous Black folks as we seek to abolish carceral tech Calling in + calling out doesn’t have to be fracture it can be a chance to repair 2021-06-11 12:21:06 But also what does it mean for me to be more rooted in being African when I’m neither born in Oromia or speak Afaan Oromo? I never felt rejected from Black folks because I’m light skinned but I knew I was less likely to be shot when those cops came through the door- 2021-06-11 12:21:05 My great grandfather was born around 1812 on a coffee plantation in Jimma, benefiting from King Aba Jifar’s collaboration with the Ethiopian settler class and enslavement but not knowing Jim Crow, or experiencing enslavement himself 2021-06-11 12:21:04 It’s a lot to hold the babies removed by caseworkers, gunshots in front of the building, brothers converted to Islam while they locked up, shelter bids on top of your own layered trauma-and also not to say it’s all trauma, there’s recovery n graduations too 2021-06-11 12:21:03 I’m trying to de-escalate the cops while calming my daughter who was 3 months at the time, watching the clock because I got to pick up my big kids in another borough from school- but also trying to make sure she doesn’t get gunned down down in the meantime- 2021-06-11 12:21:02 One day my Aunt in Law was having a manic episode w/ PTSD flashbacks and screamed to me, “not only are you half white-you African, and you’ll never understand what it means to Black American”-seconds later 7 cops came through the project door- 2021-06-11 10:52:08 RT @keguro_: it's not unreasonable to say that murderous people who've worked in murderous regimes move into educational institutions so th… 2021-06-11 01:12:51 This slaps https://t.co/gB0MnGmF3p 2021-06-11 00:30:19 Heavy but important thread https://t.co/j52N2AIedT 2021-06-11 00:16:26 RT @bm_kass: I was unethically adopted due to chaos, war & 2021-06-10 20:54:13 @RonMorrison_ @netabomani @thistimeitsmimi 2021-06-10 20:53:56 RT @RonMorrison_: Really excited to be developing this new work with my sibling-comrade @thistimeitsmimi. More to come soon! 2021-06-10 20:52:32 RT @MariusKothor: @AdhiamboKE It’s an imperial audacity 2021-06-10 19:15:12 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 @UNGeneva Idk they’re apparently an award winning team of people that operate the account...they should just take it down and apologize. https://t.co/nfzjLctqT1 2021-06-10 19:13:11 @DocDre @shengokai @SilasLapham Deploying “parasitic” seems especially prescient given he was apparently presenting this paper to social workers. What’s more parasitic than the unbearable whiteness of *saving* the (perceived to be) needy? 2021-06-10 18:10:11 @AmanSium @ThaAyantu no democracy, just vibes 2021-06-10 18:05:21 Um, saying the quiet part out loud? @UNGeneva I’m sure this visual annexation of Tigray into Amhara was neo-colonial carelessness rather than an endorsement of ongoing genocide. Please correct ASAP https://t.co/KDSp7cspFS 2021-06-10 17:50:38 @FBedaso @EthzemaLeader The idea of all live matter Gomes having a homeboy is the only comedic relief in this situation. Thank you Fatuma for narrating the chaos ceaselessly 2021-06-10 17:48:11 @ThaAyantu It’s the amount of mics laid out as props for me 2021-06-10 17:40:14 Reading about obfuscation, contextual integrity, POTS/PETS and such while listening to Pop Smoke is a whole wave 2021-06-10 17:05:12 A suggested exercise, -think of the top 10 famous people in any domain that has financial or intellectual capital -mentally define what each of them do -spend < -bingo 2021-06-10 16:53:54 Like 86% of my unpublished receipts are the product of anti-climactic rabbit holes where people don’t exist beyond their social media, have received nebulous virtue signaling awards for founding dozens of non starter organizations. Yashar Ali is not a unicorn https://t.co/RY5VKvLKU2 2021-06-10 16:40:37 @veenadubal Idk I found this framing odd in that there are many co-dependent boundary-less grifters (and as you commented, Venn diagram w/ intelligence gathering) it could have spent more time on what allows them to thrive vs portraying Ali as a lone unicorn 2021-06-10 14:24:48 @techno_kavi @TheOnion It’s so so good, I mean we couldn’t never imagine anything this on point 2021-06-10 12:27:14 **Black 2021-06-10 12:26:39 I cannot recommend more strongly enjoying this hellscape campaign video as a chaser. @TheOnion: this surpasses my ancestors wildest dreams https://t.co/W0TPx0lKYa 2021-06-10 12:24:19 at the instrumentalizing of Blaxk people, all while hating Black people...A funhouse mirror of inter-fascist disagreement 2021-06-10 12:24:18 The H1ndu American Foundation Executive Director claiming Ann Coulter’s bizarre deployment of ADOS arguments (in response to @aruna_khilanani calling out White Supremacy at @YaleMed) as evidence of their invented Hinduphobia is wild https://t.co/PrmYQbX3Rf 2021-06-10 12:09:04 Can anyone point me to analysis of Cardano that’s not cryptocurrency or blockchain fan blogs? 2021-06-10 12:01:46 Don’t agree w/ all the framing but this captures how even the question of where to bury Haacaaluu emphasized the deepest political fissures in Ethiopia. Oromo nationalist @Jawar_Mohammed has been a political prisoner since demanding his burial in Finfinne https://t.co/H1WjMH8E0p 2021-06-10 11:55:39 S/o to @UR_Ninja for this in-depth coverage of Oromo Protests in the wake of Haacaaluu’s murder. This is one of the few outlets that told the story with political depth instead of parroting lines from the Ethiopian state about his death inciting violence https://t.co/uFOE0sQyeG 2021-06-10 11:51:59 I often go back and reflect on this profile of 5 Minnesota based Oromo youth activists who participated in Justice for George Floyd Protests and organized rallies for Haacaaluu. We need more space to continue these nuanced conversations. https://t.co/rUAyy57RCK 2021-06-10 11:47:17 I eagerly await @ThaAyantu’s essay on Haacaaluu but in the interim, this meditation on his hit song “Malaan Jirra...?” gets a lot right. https://t.co/jdi8A7DufD https://t.co/d5mcsfR1bw 2021-06-10 11:47:14 Thread on who Haacaaluu Huundeessaa (aka Hachalu Hundessa) was, what his music meant for the uninitiated: https://t.co/vFiibc73Hu 2021-06-10 11:30:35 Maalan Jirra...? #RIP #Haacaaluu #Huundeessa https://t.co/4J1kGnJNDp 2021-06-10 11:27:55 How do we celebrate Haacaaluu’s legacy and the resistance distilled in his music? How do we hold room for the joy of refusing settler colonialism, the unmaking of mythic Ethiopia and grieve the unspeakable loss of life and reign of terror that continues? 2021-06-10 11:20:52 @cloudquistador @Grady_Booch Thank you for the shout out @cloudquistador 2021-06-10 01:55:59 @Skaitama It’s so good but that ending shot is priceless 2021-06-10 01:05:32 I had to read this like 5x and suggest a comma after trans b/c otherwise it reads as why some people are “trans burdens” @BostonReview https://t.co/5ivuSxmiF2 2021-06-10 00:09:50 RT @_jack_poulson: I just flipped the switch to make @tech_inquiry's Influence Explorer backend data and code public. I'm not doing any pr… 2021-06-09 23:36:16 RT @hypervisible: “…the ‘free’ tablets frequently charge users above-market prices for services. Oklahoma’s contract with the company allow… 2021-06-09 22:56:55 @Muralisvelan Congratulations 2021-06-09 22:32:25 RT @vee_etc: https://t.co/fmyFJyAOhb 2021-06-09 20:02:20 COVID Relief Donations Are Supporting a Project to “Hinduize” India Why are Twitter, Microsoft, and Google promoting a charity with ties to right-wing nationalism? Critical reading from @pahwa_nitish https://t.co/uIPkAEHKzj 2021-06-09 19:54:47 RT @PalmTreesnGz: I know that @UpFromTheCracks knows who Blackrock is and how they’re hands are in so many things… also, these are the enti… 2021-06-09 19:42:32 RT @mer__edith: The sinophobic "Tech Cold War w China" narrative--in which, by some mystical transitive property, Big Tech infra & 2021-06-09 16:20:21 RT @sedyst: @UpFromTheCracks the data poor in low infrastructure environments...what a way to argue for digitalizing everything or includin… 2021-06-09 14:34:26 In my little subway commute lit review of blockchain based identity management, Georgy Ishmaev has made my whole day. How are they not on Twitter with these quote tweet style takedowns? This paper is https://t.co/KAlVoecRWw 2021-06-09 14:13:06 One “proposal is creating an insurance marketplace for consequential damages related to identity claims... a market mechanism for evaluating the accurateness, trustworthiness and usefulness of various claims associated with an identity” @danbouk we need a sequel https://t.co/FMiFB1KPDc 2021-06-09 14:07:04 “Low infrastructure environments” feels like a notable twist to the digital divide/deficit model of rural life. Curious what @sedyst thinks about this juxtaposition to urban centers in the west where smart phone as infrastructure is uncritically accepted as social good https://t.co/YwrZAiLboY 2021-06-09 13:59:53 Similarly, I have concerns about remedying connectivity and smartphone issues in humanitarian contexts with NGOs being custodians of each recipients public key but appreciate such a detailed overview of WFPs Building Blocks architecture https://t.co/o4h6BS5cec 2021-06-09 13:32:24 I don’t share the optimism about the UN’s quest to produce digital IDs for the unbanked, but this is overwhelmingly a good overview of questions to ask about Digital ID, Blockchain and decentralization as a proposed remedy for privacy concerns https://t.co/TS5y4LqVuV 2021-06-09 12:49:49 RT @Arrianna_Planey: "When Freedmen’s Bureau medical officials reported a slight decline in the # of smallpox cases in 1867, authorities de… 2021-06-09 12:48:56 @ShanaVWhite Ohhh I get that. I’m 100% not an educator but have spent 7 million hours in IEP meetings and this is like the constant refrain so thanks 2021-06-09 12:37:39 @ShanaVWhite I know you’re making a dif point but in all seriousness is there no such thing as learning loss because that’s like the entire argument for 12 month school years for special education students. Is this just nonsense? 2021-06-09 12:19:21 @MediasRage Yep cashless is denying the informal economy any space to thrive by matter of infrastructure 2021-06-09 12:11:19 Not these rats thriving because the city has dismantled sanitation infrastructure but we building up Apple’s ID system. https://t.co/A3Q7W0oBxc 2021-06-09 12:07:14 Is the question whether Apple’s privacy policy is sufficiently robust or whether Apple should be able to govern civic life? 2021-06-09 12:01:22 Lotta responses: fatalism (they already got the bank info so we already lost) optimism (it’s so convenient we should have been did this) Fear (you want me to take out my phone when the cops pull me over?) Me: Why are we expanding private infrastructure for public services?! https://t.co/Hed2zJOl9X 2021-06-09 11:49:00 RT @ashwinjm: By popular demand from about 5 people, here's my take on why large parts of "the Internet" went offline yesterday – a long 2021-06-09 00:50:56 RT @RaeDiamond: We don’t believe you..the foster care system is an extension of both the prison and poverty pipeline 2021-06-09 00:50:04 RT @keguro_: Tomorrow I'll be talking about stuff. I promise to be more interesting than your worst sexual partner. 2021-06-09 00:19:02 @ShanaVWhite it’s the dead ass seriousness for me 2021-06-08 23:37:56 Meg’s corrections here https://t.co/RiC6qwUUBl 2021-06-08 23:37:20 Timnit’s corrections to the article here https://t.co/40Nm5wrmvX 2021-06-08 22:27:40 RT @standwkashmir: “Back-to-back lockdowns have not only affected Kashmir’s people economically, but psychologically too, resulting in more… 2021-06-08 20:03:34 Notably (imho surprisingly) substantive essay that provides a lot of the important context that eluded previous reporting https://t.co/PJgqq5L5ox 2021-06-08 18:12:50 @ZekuZelalem @ThaAyantu Your article is much better than the headline (which I know you don’t choose tbf) My sole question about the election is who is this performance for when it neither has internal or western legitimacy? 2021-06-08 14:41:51 There’s something about inclusion of disabilities in the movement being so hinged on the PTSD of the previously able bodied. It’s not like there’s no neurodiverse or disabled people in academic or activist spaces but it’s def curated around a v specific subset 2021-06-08 14:37:57 Side question, I see abolitionists doing ASL interpretation for the zooming but it feels so random because I never see these events featuring people dropping knowledge in sign language. Like why is the border of inclusion one way access to the verbal? 2021-06-08 14:28:53 If y’all divested from anti-blackness maybe discourse wouldn’t be a mausoleum. 2021-06-08 14:26:22 People be like Khadijah you smart and I’m like maybe but imho I just code switch into academia effectively Black folks you’ve treated as disposable and dangerous. I’m not spitting geographies that haven’t already been laid down in cornrows, footnotes and kites. 2021-06-08 12:17:48 Life is brutal but I love everyone I don’t hate, s/o to the Black folks who continue to hold me down, be in community choosing violence against empire and love for the people everyday. I see y’all 2021-06-08 12:14:55 @gatx_negrx none in my real life but why I mentioned her Tamil Brahmin privilege and stans up in my mentions talking about let’s not dilute caste analysis that’s her Black side 2021-06-08 12:05:34 Looking forward to reading! For those stopped at the paywall, author said you can DM for a copy https://t.co/jNaWNUQ9xG 2021-06-08 11:42:56 @ThaAyantu is King going to talk about the Pretendian collabo 2021-06-08 11:20:30 Randomly watched In Treatment Season 4 episode 1 and it’s Black now?! Feels produced for the white gaze but everyone is so drenched in other meanings there’s like a whole subtext plot which got me reminiscing on Bolaño https://t.co/CABLbZWFCW 2021-06-08 10:58:06 “we plan to use this material to explore how the nation’s wealthiest people — roughly the .001% — exploit the structure of our tax code to avoid the tax burdens borne by ordinary citizens.” https://t.co/7M6P4t4eKI 2021-06-08 10:54:46 Prioritize reading this https://t.co/Rc14gkkelk 2021-06-08 10:26:43 Good morning to @lizar_tistry, I’m sorry the tankies are terrorizing you but the graphic notes are 2021-06-07 22:19:15 @chancepmcmahon @care_it_top This might seem non sequitur but I find this paper v helpful b/c it analyzes how knowledge production infrastructure encourages modularity and enclosure (Dawkins got some deeper issues tho imho) https://t.co/fUv0dsawwF 2021-06-07 19:59:23 @TIRShowOakland Lol I don’t think so but also have no idea 2021-06-07 19:54:56 RT @TigShallPrevail: "She is currently working on a paper about how social media has facilitated calls for genocide in Ethiopia in addition… 2021-06-07 19:54:46 RT @ThaAyantu: Such conversation between @UpFromTheCracks @mathewi on algorithmic amplification of disinformation & 2021-06-07 14:00:45 All to say, Kamau Bobb’s comments are anti-Semitic cut and dry. But the issue is not fundamentally about him, it’s the way DEI forecloses accountability and simplifies white supremacy into census categories. Anddd distracts us from the real ie Free Palestine and Black liberation 2021-06-07 13:54:22 Cannon ignored Jews of Color who reached out and instead sought redemption with the zionist American Jewish Committee. The icing on the cake being @BJEAlliance was launched alongside #TigrayGenocide denier @TiffanyHaddish https://t.co/tiD7TpFRIf 2021-06-07 13:54:21 Kamau Bobb’s clear anti-semitism being misinterpreted as Zionists silencing defenders of Palestine reminds me so much of the Nick Cannon situation. His dialogue w/ Professor Grif was not just anti-Semitic but stupid Hoteptry on steroids https://t.co/qcLzQ0gIZe 2021-06-07 12:23:08 Post Panama Papers and Epstein we got Qanon which imho is tactically brilliant albeit politically f***ed https://t.co/xb5QcV7aja 2021-06-07 11:58:37 RT @min0p0ly: incredible investigative + insightful blog post from @UpFromTheCracks. as she eloquently explains, it’s scary when there’s an… 2021-06-07 11:58:30 RT @snewyuen: much needed thread that unfolds why we need to be consistent in what we're fighting for. As Angela Y. Davis said in _Freedom… 2021-06-07 11:04:20 Sorry I’m late but just FYI this is actually anti-Semitic. We can demand an end to the occupation of Palestine without conflating Jews with the Israeli state. https://t.co/NzjxPQAwC9 2021-06-06 18:05:49 @ThaAyantu Girl idk shorty is straight theater, this poem for her non existent daughter is evergreen, https://t.co/WupIYrNjMv 2021-06-06 18:04:14 @safiyaaaay @ThaAyantu Lol this is particularly good b/c in what universe does one see Fitsum’s dead on arrival genocide apology and think “again but make it carceral feminist” 2021-06-06 17:58:13 @gatx_negrx I love this thank you for sharing 2021-06-06 17:56:18 @ThaAyantu Let’s not forget to give credit where credit is due, Seyoum also has a masters in peace building from both the UN’s universidad para la Paz AND University of Innsbruck, Austria 2021-06-06 15:50:42 @queersocialism Dead didn’t even know it was Budden but lest we forget he’s the same person who graphically explained on air why you need to masturbate your dog and whose wife detailed his abuse towards her n their kid 2021-06-06 15:13:43 A) In the wake is straight I wish more people would talk about the intro and it’s meditation on adoption B) the second best thing to the book is her COVID first quarter email auto reply 2021-06-06 14:33:32 @milaubro Please I need some grown people time and def with collared greens + mimosas 2021-06-06 14:10:18 @_Rawilcox All good, podcast has been on pause as I needed to reflect on some ish. But have been thinking a lot about what an applied Black studies would look like and would love to chop it up with you 2021-06-06 13:32:27 Honestly, I appreciate this clarification because people be confused AF and needed a response besides you didn’t read enough. **People is also me. https://t.co/fNnMCPsISE 2021-06-06 13:22:47 Nobody: Absolutely Nobody: Prosperity Party: TPLF Criminal Clique attacked our base in November. It’s a Law enforcement order /end script @ZainAsher: ... https://t.co/wjgDBHxqzA 2021-06-06 13:19:10 Like she went through all 7 stages of grief in less than 10 minutes. Personally, this one is where I have arrived. https://t.co/sEDPM8I0xh 2021-06-06 13:16:26 @ZainAsher processing the genocide apology and second hand embarrassment that is @fitsumaregaa is a whole mood https://t.co/8KOgjqnnGY 2021-06-06 12:33:16 @milaubro bottomless collard greens Amen 2021-06-06 03:44:37 I also forever respect Katt Williams for parenting his baby mother’s 7 kids-in addition to the son they had together-to keep them out of foster care. That’s real love https://t.co/QOsy5rjoQl 2021-06-06 01:00:40 @histoftech @timnitGebru @jovialjoy @rajiinio @mmitchell_ai @IfeomaOzoma @merbroussard @mer__edith @BostonJoan @_alialkhatib @Combsthepoet @safiyanoble @LatanyaSweeney @veenadubal Thank you @histoftech 2021-06-06 01:00:17 Meditating on accountability from a transformative justice lens, really appreciate the third video from @bcrwtweets but it’s worth checking out the whole series https://t.co/x9lf1Jmkyw 2021-06-05 22:22:47 #Nigeria’s Twitter suspension is the crux of the issue, we’re dependent on private infrastructure, the state regulates use/access in the most basic sense and there’s no real recourse for the public 2021-06-05 19:28:47 **coming up 2021-06-05 18:03:00 at just learning @SarahKSilverman sister @RabbaSusan officiated @TiffanyHaddish’s bat mitzvah. The layers here. Ardent Zionism is a logical precedent for denying #TigrayGenocide. @SarahKSilverman any comment ? 2021-06-05 17:54:39 Everything about this is just so random, like imagine coming in south central, LA going into foster care and third quarter dying on a hill of genocide denial and supporting a dictator. Haddish briefly was a Scientologist tho so... 2021-06-05 17:39:28 a word https://t.co/4CL3iSCqo8 2021-06-05 17:24:54 “A full blown genocide denier shouldnt have the license to play such an important figure,” one person tweeted Tuesday. "[Game1] should seriously reconsider in light of Tiffany’s recent comments on the #TigrayGenocide.” https://t.co/1dbSZG6ocD 2021-06-04 22:31:54 @bigblackjacobin It’s first wave feminism 2021-06-04 22:15:58 @GetuTeressa @EthioHRC @AbiyAhmedAli @DanielBekele Isn’t it nice when there’s a whole phrase to describe this thing you’ve been feeling/experiencing 2021-06-04 21:43:56 RT @biancawylie: lots here that is new to me/a space of learning. set that aside + consider as generosity the way @UpFromTheCracks invites… 2021-06-04 21:41:38 “When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case” https://t.co/IB33DO2Gss 2021-06-04 15:45:38 Correct https://t.co/tIzbdbbHFz 2021-06-04 15:00:08 @TsenatSaba @KeatonWay @franz_kassa Lol I don’t think there’s some CIA agent giving blow by blow directions for their coverage. I’m saying that VOA is literally a mouthpiece for the state department, it’s part of suite called Public Diplomacy, it’s context not exposé of a scandal 2021-06-04 14:56:54 @KeatonWay @franz_kassa VOA was created to push out Anti-Soviet Union propaganda. Times have changed but I don’t think we can skip to it’s outlived it’s usefulness before addressing what it’s intended to be used for. It’s not a wild conspiracy, just part of the power dynamic https://t.co/Gqgb5XjWzX 2021-06-04 14:47:56 @TsenatSaba @franz_kassa If ESAT receives funding from the US government it’s not a result of formal policy. I do not think Tizita is a puppet, things are not that linear, I’d say more that US foreign policy is to protect the interests of who Tizita represents ultimately 2021-06-04 14:45:17 @TsenatSaba @franz_kassa I’m saying that they are not puppets. I’m saying that the US government funding a media outlet that systematically refuses to report on Tigray and then laughs at an employee who does is a bigger problem than bias 2021-06-04 14:42:34 @TsenatSaba @franz_kassa ESAT isn’t funded by the US govt that seems pretty relevant 2021-06-04 14:41:01 @franz_kassa @TsenatSaba Yeah I don’t think the point is people like them are puppets or don’t have autonomy, it’s that there’s meaning to the US providing an infrastructure to amplify their disinformation 2021-06-04 14:37:07 @TsenatSaba @franz_kassa VOA is literally an arm of the US government, Trump politicized it in notable ways but it is v much soft power and the hateful Ethiopianists should be understood in that context 2021-06-04 14:31:51 RT @franz_kassa: VOA is an arm of the US State Department. They use VOA to project "soft power" (think of how they play American pop music)… 2021-06-04 14:22:44 Abandoning the scold/shame strategy for somethings based on power mapping might feel overwhelming but it will reveal new political possibilities. I promise 2021-06-04 14:18:47 VOA is terrible but a US state funded media infrastructure promoting Ethiopian state propaganda is not bias y’all, it’s an entry point into understanding the US’ role in the Invention of Ethiopia 2021-06-04 14:10:20 @frmrlyknownasem @DrStaceyPatton @blacrai @AJNash10 I suggest you learn from #adoptees and #ffy on here. You will find a very different perspective 2021-06-04 14:08:48 @frmrlyknownasem @DrStaceyPatton @blacrai @AJNash10 Devonte Hart and his siblings are the most infamous case but adoptive parents murdering, starving and abandoning adopted kids is a whole phenomenon nationally https://t.co/1Mc1pHQdnj 2021-06-04 14:06:10 @frmrlyknownasem @DrStaceyPatton @blacrai @AJNash10 Awareness is not widespread because society doesn’t listen to #adoptees at the rate it produces them. The original post is about being gaslit by an adoptive parent who permanently scarred her face with an extension cord so Im not seeing the disconnect https://t.co/hgr5db1EN3 2021-06-04 13:59:35 @frmrlyknownasem @DrStaceyPatton @blacrai @AJNash10 An adoptive parent and first parent do not have the same issues at all. APs on the whole have access to financial subsidies and an array of resources to get help that the latter doesn’t. That’s not the posters duty to hold, it is important context tho 2021-06-04 13:57:28 @frmrlyknownasem @DrStaceyPatton @blacrai @AJNash10 To clarify, First parent is a preferred term for birth parent by a lot of #Adoptees it does not mean “first time” per se. I’m not justifying anyone harming a child, I’m saying the adoption industry is horrifically violent and predatory 2021-06-04 13:40:42 @frmrlyknownasem @DrStaceyPatton @blacrai @AJNash10 Everyone ought to be accountable for harm they’ve perpetuated but a first parent is more likely to have their child removed than be the abuser is what I’m saying, particularly if non white or middle class 2021-06-04 13:38:42 @frmrlyknownasem @DrStaceyPatton @blacrai @AJNash10 In NYC, kids in care are 2.5x more likely to be seriously injured or murdered than w/ their first parents even controlling for SES and substance use. Everyone must be accountable for harm but the positionality and frequency of harm by Adoptive Parents is dif 2021-06-04 13:19:02 @slagthompson In all this myth making, somehow they drove past how League of Nations was a mechanism that helped produce the dependent colonial state they’re so nostalgic for. Not to mention half the problem with the UN is the biometric collection of refugees annexed from everybody’s analysis 2021-06-04 13:15:00 @slagthompson So much shucking and jiving for a white gaze that still thinks Africa is a country 2021-06-04 13:07:30 RT @PatrickWight1: @TiffanyHaddish It's funny seeing Ethiopian monarchist sympathizers and Dergists aligning with HGDEF like Tiffany Haddis… 2021-06-04 13:06:30 I know people are hurting rn, but sometimes we have to laugh to keep from crying. Haddish simping for PFDJ, citing Jeff P3arce the white protector of the Black empire, with Prevail being co-signed by Maaza Mengiste is icing on the comedy cake https://t.co/bdOXYGdZgK 2021-06-04 12:59:23 @DrStaceyPatton @blacrai @AJNash10 Adoptive mother feels like important context here, I’d have more time for a first parent who failed to protect you but may have had legit barriers to. That’s horrific tho, wishing you healing 2021-06-04 12:48:38 I’ve known @larastapleton since she was sneaking me into @BlueNoteNYC at 17, putting me on to @CarlHancockRux and dissecting Bolaño, Tremé and BK gentrification by Habana Outpost. Her latest book is a brilliant tour de force on racialization, brokenness and repair @NewYorker https://t.co/esMRVYwU0D 2021-06-04 12:48:36 An unanticipated benefit of being an RCP drop out is I got to keep the literary geniuses in the divorce. The ever brilliant @larastapleton dropped The Ruin of Everything, a short story collection feat. tales of abandoned children living in adult bodies https://t.co/ThwIWMsjmI 2021-06-04 12:36:16 Yes @bigblackjacobin please get @Slavojiek on the pod to psychoanalyze tech. His philosophy > 2021-06-04 12:30:48 Liara’s points about tech worker clients having no social skills and poor hygiene tracks imho. It’s not just the social sciences left out of STEM 2021-06-04 12:15:02 Refreshing because sex workers have more expansive expertise than explaining tech policy’s harm... 2021-06-04 12:15:01 There’s something lacanian-ly refreshing about the angle of this @machinekillspod on #SexWork. I really appreciate Liara’s libidinal insights on Silicon Valley, ie what are the desires of employees enclosed in tech campuses run like a Nanny State https://t.co/RoBqzqUfCG 2021-06-04 12:01:37 Rats are New Yorkers, a lot like us,” she said. “Their priorities are food, housing, family, and a short commute.” https://t.co/Y5D9I6cD0Q https://t.co/7r1nhxBg1E 2021-06-04 11:59:59 I’m now enrolled in Rat Academy shout out to the NYC Dept of Health. Looking forward to building a network of rat specialists https://t.co/jzLzjnhp50 https://t.co/tae4dXUmru 2021-06-04 11:54:23 He says “well if you feel so strongly you can adopt a litter basket” ...there’s something meta here about adoption functions as a way for governments to outsource care of unwanted aftermath 2021-06-04 11:49:58 In my quest to defeat the rats, I’ve learned that each section of the sidewalk and street is run by different agencies which is wild. 2021-06-04 11:46:55 Can we talk about how Giuliani’s Broken Window policing and Bush’s War on Terror is the cause of the rat siege because they took all the garbage cans away like Brooklyn was a target?! 2021-06-04 11:24:53 @Brooko07 Absurdity abounds https://t.co/AZ7IB2bRt4 https://t.co/1TlhTEoHFB 2021-06-04 11:19:49 I know I’m late to comment on Haddish but just wanted to add that she’s a trifecta of disappointment b/c as a Black Jewish icon not only did she ignore Palestine, endorse Isaias Afwerki but she has a partnership with Oprah working w/foster care agencies instead of abolishing them 2021-06-04 11:17:03 This reminds me of when the PP announced a hotline for Tegaru to report ethnic discrimination. https://t.co/i8mSTV4POk 2021-06-04 11:14:26 I cited @poetbadri in Encoding Hindutva, he elaborates further on key themes of his book, Republic of Hindutva: “The RSS benefits from their ideas to reframe its way of working, its strategies and its future agenda while building an organization of the 21st century.” https://t.co/vU5kw5ZQGU 2021-06-04 11:10:01 Look at Black folks in tech sending me updates last night https://t.co/thjvbjwgqP 2021-06-04 10:38:12 Not these rats trying to kill mufasa before 7 am 2021-06-04 00:30:42 @ifatgazia I didn’t event bother, content moderation is like cops. They’re not here to protect us 2021-06-03 23:52:35 @ThaAyantu Candace Owens looking at this like goals 2021-06-03 23:50:59 I scrolled from hindutva apologist Twitter to see what’s up with #HoA Twitter and wasn’t ready Did she say my settler colonialism is intersectional 2021-06-03 23:08:50 @caffeneko Friend, idk what to tell you yo, they are not governed by logic. 2021-06-03 22:39:05 @caffeneko child welfare does not ever make sense but I'm guessing they use this to say race is unknown due to abandonment 2021-06-03 22:04:59 E40_child_and_children_together 0= No 1 = Yes 9= Not Applicable https://t.co/QXk3ewuzRs 2021-06-03 22:02:25 < detainment_deportation” =“acf:noYesNumeric” /> 2021-06-03 22:02:24 A12_child_race_abandoned How the federal database recognizes a child removed from their family into foster care https://t.co/Zx6GawJLqJ 2021-06-03 19:34:59 XML guidelines for child welfare data *Removals = separating a child from their family and placing into foster care https://t.co/T4yIRYEAxl 2021-06-03 19:32:01 RT @AyantuRegassa: @ThaAyantu Lol the idea that imperialism is good because “it’s not just white” and some black people also support it and… 2021-06-03 13:31:30 RT @vishalkswamy: South asian diaspora need to bring receipts for having worked on dismantling caste before they can co-opt other identitie… 2021-06-03 13:16:25 RT @UpFromTheCracks: **Addendum, do you really Believe/Stand With/Love Black women or do you consume model minority merchandise? Do we ge… 2021-06-03 13:01:51 If you can’t tell the different btwn Black folks who Stan empire and those who bang for liberation you don’t really #ProtectBlackWomen 2021-06-03 13:01:50 **Addendum, do you really Believe/Stand With/Love Black women or do you consume model minority merchandise? Do we get to be complex human beings or just excellent Blacks for purchase, products to redeem you as innocent? 2021-06-03 12:52:27 This whole dynamic is a litmus test, will we fortify our community so that the movement is clear enough to not be hijacked by sophisticated far right agendas? Or regress into neoliberal concerns about reputational damage? 2021-06-03 12:52:26 Is caste an issue just over there in India? Because I could of sworn VP Kamala Harris and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are Tamil Brahmin. Can we understand Kamala’s quest to incarcerate Black mothers or Pichai’s disposal of Black employees without reckoning with caste? 2021-06-03 12:52:25 Like in this cynical calculus no one has even reckoned with the fact that #CodedBias is sinophobic AF. @angelaxiaowu breaks it down better than I ever could but how many people felt they had to be silent until now? https://t.co/0Tj5cfU7Za 2021-06-03 12:52:24 I’ve received a variety of backchannel responses along the lines of “it’s very complex to take a woc down” or “who are you to demand Shalini disavow an org you think is bad?” and “who are you to demand we read long articles about hindutva?” 2021-06-03 12:52:23 Thank you @Anasuyashh for your thoughtful thread, I was uncharacteristically emotional yesterday, despairing at our side overwhelmingly fumbling the ball in the face of a very real threat- https://t.co/dVBGn5Hk5s 2021-06-03 00:33:00 @SASIinNYC Thank you 2021-06-02 23:37:54 RT @LkjonesSOC: For those of you struggling to understand why South Asian scholars of race and caste stratification are sounding the alarm… 2021-06-02 23:24:01 RT @angelaxiaowu: I showed #CodedBias 1st day of my Algorithmic Cultures class as it 1) includes works of scholars I assigned as readings… 2021-06-02 22:28:57 RT @lksriv: More on the need to disavow Hindutva. Those of us with platforms, those of us who shape narrative and discourse, those of us wh… 2021-06-02 22:00:15 @zeaxumawit She’s such a disappointment all the way around imho 2021-06-02 21:28:54 RT @Anasuyashh: But when I read the brilliant @UpFromTheCracks's critique of the film, and her discovery that the director @shalinikantayya… 2021-06-02 21:28:40 RT @Anasuyashh: Just as I have supported, celebrated, amplified, fought for the work of @jovialjoy @timnitgebru @safiyanoble and other inc… 2021-06-02 21:28:33 RT @Anasuyashh: You can't be a crusader for Black women’s scholarship in one space and an apologist for Hindu supremacists attacking Dalit… 2021-06-02 21:27:42 RT @Anasuyashh: This is about the film #CodedBias and its director @shalinikantayya. It's a painful and poignant thread for me because I… 2021-06-02 21:09:26 RT @mer__edith: @amitava_physics @CodedBias Yes. Given that we're up against the power of empire in the fight to ensure tech's tools social… 2021-06-02 19:27:15 RT @amitava_physics: Sad! Many @CodedBias fans will not even get the context of it! Wish @shalinikantayya makes a documentary on how surve… 2021-06-02 19:05:31 @racheladamsward Thank you for taking the time to read it 2021-06-02 19:05:18 RT @racheladamsward: A profoundly important piece from ⁦@UpFromTheCracks⁩. Encoding Hindutva: Shalini Kantayya and Coded Bias | by J. Khadi… 2021-06-02 17:03:00 RT @mer__edith: This is troubling. We need to be carefully attending to the entanglement of the global far right, which is very well funded… 2021-06-02 16:59:37 RT @mer__edith: @mutalenkonde @shalinikantayya I worry about "rules for Twitter" that allow platforming & 2021-06-02 16:42:49 RT @mariamnotmiriam: i really, really, really, really need hci folks to understand what propaganda is and how it works 2021-06-02 16:42:32 RT @alexhanna: Moreover the way that the movie portrayed Chinese citizens as totally fine with the mass surveillance state? 2021-06-02 16:38:30 RT @_alialkhatib: the narrative of how the west needs to win (???) confusingly showing up in various places in coded bias was... confusing,… 2021-06-02 16:37:16 RT @azadessa: Hindutva-fascist alert 2021-06-02 16:05:10 @ricangius @shalinikantayya Why are you spamming me with her refusal to disavow her role in fundraising for HAF? Do you have evidence to support her claims of oblivion despite 2 years of nationally fundraising in person for HAF and sitting through talks by infamous Hindutva leaders? 2021-06-02 16:01:54 @sarahchander Thank you, the silence rn is very loud 2021-06-02 16:01:20 RT @sarahchander: Important piece @UpFromTheCracks on support for Hindutva /fascist orgs and dalit erasure. A call for all in "AI ethics"… 2021-06-02 15:33:38 RT @DrSyedMustafaA1: Latest piece from ⁦@UpFromTheCracks⁩ Encoding Hindutva: Shalini Kantayya and Coded Bias | by J. Khadijah Abdurahma… 2021-06-02 14:57:54 @sreekotay The only person in this whole scenario who is Jewish is me and I literally have no idea what you’re talking about. I’d be very satisfied with her acknowledging and disavowing her role fundraising for a Hindutva think. 2021-06-02 14:37:11 At the end of the day, I am a Black scholar who has spent years studying the racial implications of predictive analytics in child welfare. You just showed up to use a discourse Black women built as a vehicle for your own hindutva agenda and won’t even acknowledge it. 2021-06-02 14:35:13 RT @thaiyaan: @UpFromTheCracks @mutalenkonde @gleemie @shalinikantayya Calling out these privileged brahmin savarnas who any day align with… 2021-06-02 14:34:25 If you are sincerely apologetic for fundraising for a hindutva think tank w/ ties to the RSS, please be explicit about what they represent and disavow it, rather than attempting to reframe it on terms of your liking https://t.co/cRdZgJDsxt 2021-06-02 14:22:21 RT @PalmTreesnGz: Encoding Hindutva: Shalini Kantayya and Coded Bias https://t.co/npCMJfIzxr 2021-06-02 14:22:18 RT @PalmTreesnGz: Neoliberal multiculturalism has been mobilized in US in a number of ways. Strategically, it was deployed as a way to map… 2021-06-02 14:18:19 @mutalenkonde @gleemie @shalinikantayya Hindutva using a critique of anti-Blackness in technology as a vehicle for their agenda is extremely dangerous. Revealing Shalini has nationally fundraised multiple times for a far right organization with ties to RSS is not “violence against women” it’s a canary in the mine 2021-06-02 14:13:35 RT @PalmTreesnGz: Neoliberal multiculturalism obfuscates while simultaneously maintaining a racialized social order to protect global capit… 2021-06-02 13:13:09 In case you thought Hindu fascist was an exaggeration, these are the people @CodedBias producer and director @shalinikantayya dragged in and fundraised for https://t.co/HXe12Enh7z 2021-06-02 13:05:40 I respect most of the scholars who are featured in the film and I began to wonder how a storyline ripped from former Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter’s mouth ended up superimposed onto their work. https://t.co/QE4zsq6hpa 2021-06-02 13:05:39 The producer + director of @CodedBias, Shalini Kantayya is a poster child for the Hindu American Foundation’s (HAF) fundraising efforts. The Hindutva think tank’s “janus faced multiculturalism” has open links to RSS, a right wing paramilitary organization https://t.co/NSL00pSa3m 2021-06-02 11:22:50 Please hold brb 2021-06-01 12:43:47 RT @RumUndRaisin: Hoooo my gosh. what a disappointment. https://t.co/xyYDjMDlS2 2021-06-01 12:43:23 RT @RumUndRaisin: this is so unfortunate but not surprising. far too many brown-pride desis dont denounce extremist orgs & 2021-06-01 12:41:17 RT @PatankarPrachi: @shalinikantayya @azadessa @UpFromTheCracks @suncatchermovie @shalinikantayya this is not any advocacy organization. HA… 2021-06-01 12:36:50 Hindutva is not just a problem in India, Kashmir or the US, a perhaps under appreciated point is there are RSS training camps in #Kenya and #Trinidad https://t.co/T3Mhdi0aiZ 2021-06-01 12:27:18 Hindu nationalist organizations have historically portrayed themselves as liberal social +religious groups that denounce bigotry and uphold equality...while developing and maintaining close ties with Hindu nationalists in India who are openly hateful and violent toward minorities https://t.co/S2MggEp5Rj 2021-06-01 12:27:17 ““Hindu nationalists in America have utilized their minority status to protect themselves while supporting a majoritarian supremacist movement in India,” Friedrich said.” https://t.co/oiDdxZfTdu 2021-06-01 12:19:22 “The rise of HAF and other organisations linked with Hindutva has emboldened Hindu supremacist organizations in India, while also stifling the moderate Hindu voices here in the US,” said Rajagopal. **Note, HAF is now suing @Hindus4HR https://t.co/c5v5Ul88WX 2021-06-01 12:14:45 “Though the HAF claims to be a “non-partisan organisation”, it has open links with RSS members. Ramesh Bhutada’s son Rishi is a member of the HAF board of directors and its treasurer.” https://t.co/b5FqJw9lwc https://t.co/qxuOFwzaOb 2021-06-01 12:04:56 RT @tressiemcphd: If you find yourself arguing that something is klan-like and possibly klan-adjacent but not actually the klan, might intr… 2021-06-01 11:59:30 RT @Muralisvelan: "To the best of my knowledge"... from a documentary film maker on race and automated inequalities about Hindu American Fo… 2021-06-01 11:32:57 FWIW This shouldn’t need to be said but, being the poster child of a quasi-state Hindutva think tank’s funding drive is mutually exclusive with being anti-racist. https://t.co/Jq0BB9q03Z 2021-06-01 11:28:01 “Extremism in all forms” is a far right talking point, evoking an apocryphal genocidal Muslim organization irrelevant to this is islamophobia It’s not too late to denounce Hindu American Foundation, but pretending like you’re unaware is just digging yourself deeper into a hole https://t.co/HTgfsyyCKB 2021-06-01 11:28:00 Shalini is counting on White liberals who are unaware that Hindu American is an infamous hindutva think tank with ties to the RSS. November 2017 was the Santa Clara Hindu Textbook battle, you spoke in January ‘18 in what was ostensibly their victory party. https://t.co/wfcEw8z23i 2021-06-01 11:18:33 RT @standwkashmir: Surely if you claim to be against fundamentalism and racism, you should also be against the rabid anti-Muslim racism tha… 2021-06-01 11:18:27 RT @standwkashmir: Hey @shalinikantayya, seems you need to read this thread before you start gaslighting & 2021-06-01 11:07:11 RT @fireflyclass: Ya know I really don't think any Indian in the US should be able to get away with "oh I didn't know H@F was a m0di-suppor… 2021-06-01 10:51:52 RT @Muralisvelan: a dominant caste & 2021-06-01 10:50:42 RT @anoushnajarian: Reading this thought-provoking piece for the first time today -- thank you @UpFromTheCracks. ...gave me a lot to think… 2021-06-01 01:39:42 Imperialists and fascists have an analysis of power. They have the capacity to mobilize and coordinate. A resistance predicated on specious liberalism is a vehicle for their agenda. 2021-06-01 01:28:32 RT @keguro_: "it's more complicated than that" is not a useful response to polemic I wish more people understood this this is why we need… 2021-05-31 22:20:49 @tarciziosilva Obrigada 2021-05-31 22:19:59 RT @tarciziosilva: Relembrando do excelente texto "FAT* Be Wilin’ - A Response to Racial Categories of Machine Learning" da @UpFromTheCrack… 2021-05-31 22:19:55 RT @tarciziosilva: IMPACTO DE ALGORITMOS É UMA QUESTÃO POLÍTICA E SOCIAL ANTES DE TÉCNICA IMPACTO DE ALGORITMOS É UMA QUESTÃO POLÍTICA E S… 2021-05-31 19:23:51 RT @suchetaghoshal: Reducing the analysis of surveillance capitalism and anti-Black AI to an anti-China narrative is 1. factually incorrect… 2021-05-31 19:23:32 RT @azadessa: @shalinikantayya @UpFromTheCracks @suncatchermovie Hi @shalinikantayya I am very confused. could you clarify- 1) were you una… 2021-05-31 18:53:14 I guess this is confirmation that it’s all just a big misunderstanding, that your prior film wasn’t funded by the US State Department and you weren’t raising money for hindutva... https://t.co/ue5eQITWiM 2021-05-31 18:16:26 To clarify @shalinikantayya, accountability is acknowledging your role in harm ie being the poster child for a hindutva think tank. Not responding as if this is all a benign understanding in public and DM’ing me w/ non sequitur comments about Dalit rights crying slander. https://t.co/zot8VadXTE 2021-05-31 17:58:02 @shalinikantayya @suncatchermovie The question is how can you actively fundraise for Hindu American Foundation as their keynote speaker in at least 4 different occasions and talk about Coded Bias. Can you please clarify where you stand on their “advancing Hindu American advocacy, policy, and education”? https://t.co/Q7rpwVIfPw 2021-05-31 16:14:09 Ofc there’s direct health correlations here but it’s not that middle class white folks don’t smoke or use other substances, they just specifically don’t on the whole smoke menthol cigarettes outside 2021-05-31 16:14:08 Was talking about this w/ @ilan_mandel and he made this point that regulations on Big Tobacco were so effective because they controlled public space ie banning people from smoking in public parks, restaurants etc 2021-05-31 16:14:07 If you know know me, you know that I love (and maybe this is some meta AP but it is what it is) Newports. Forgetting a pack in white Manhattan is down bad because almost no one smokes publicly and few stores sell them- 2021-05-31 15:47:12 I see people valorize @Twitter as morally superior to @Facebook but this elides how Kashmiri resistance against the Indian occupation is silenced by @Twitter and @TwitterIndia. If your politics cannot expand beyond the Americas, it’s just an accessory to political repression. https://t.co/xQUNMTK9RG 2021-05-31 15:42:55 RT @ifatgazia: Kashmir has been silenced for too long. Big tech platforms must stop catering to the demands of authoritarian governments.… 2021-05-31 15:41:45 RT @ifatgazia: I second Khatijah. I respect the scholars in Coded Bias including @jovialjoy but how can the director make a film about algo… 2021-05-31 15:41:37 RT @ashwinjm: I've stood against Hindutva-led attempts to rewrite Indian history in California textbooks - which is why these connections a… 2021-05-31 15:33:10 @ztsamudzi I think about this a lot too, do you think it means we need an Applied Black Studies? Or a more expansive notion of Black studies in some other way? 2021-05-31 15:29:56 It’s very disconcerting that hindutva and indigenous survival of residential schools in Canada are branded with the same orange 2021-05-31 14:04:56 RT @demonicground: the 215 (and more/the data cannot hold) indigenous children were purposefully harmed and killed and discarded and marked… 2021-05-31 14:02:42 RT @demonicground: there are more than 215. this number cannot hold the loss. 2021-05-31 14:02:12 RT @BertramBernard: “It will be your privilege this year to have your children spend Christmas at home with you.” #215children https://t.co… 2021-05-31 14:00:07 Dr. Niigaanwewidam Sinclair describes the effects of residential schools on First Nations peoples. Survivors Riley Burns and Ed Bitternose recount their personal experiences at Gordon’s Indian Residential School in Punnichy, Saskatchewan. https://t.co/eAkhwHYafK #215children 2021-05-31 13:41:34 RT @N8V_Calgarian: Canada, get it together. https://t.co/ugTQEBYmAj https://t.co/rxdNqQRwGE 2021-05-30 23:54:27 @anoushnajarian Thanks for taking the time to read it 2021-05-30 20:12:21 @sreekotay @dgolumbia I think the issue with *bias* is it transposes political projects for individual prejudice. I can’t speak to the level of intentionality by Shalini but appropriating social justice language for state propaganda is a well worn strategy of hindutva, ADL etc 2021-05-30 19:07:01 This is such an odd article, Taiwan celebrates Somaliland mandating NJ based biometric data collection to vote? Yay democracy... https://t.co/cHP8AJdwlK 2021-05-30 18:19:12 There’s something about fascism in Ethiopia that weaponizes the sea, it’s alternately deployed as something that ought to be dried up to catch the “fish”, a site to buoy a genocide and a quest to own the Nile https://t.co/YhVCN0xKtW 2021-05-30 18:12:08 As they aim for it to, but those of us who are safe to take the risk must raise the alarm https://t.co/zxkpsv8MXv 2021-05-30 17:49:46 @dgolumbia I hear you @dgolumbia 2021-05-30 17:49:03 RT @dgolumbia: oh look, more #fascism at the heart of the promotion of digital technology, even in its "resisting bias" form. i've been s… 2021-05-30 17:25:19 There has to be someone who specializes in framing tweets, leads anyone? 2021-05-30 16:53:06 RT @tarciziosilva: O foco não deve ser "superar viés do aprendizado de máquina", mas criar sociedades que possam recusar tecnologias com ma… 2021-05-30 16:52:05 RT @brandontlocke: Amy Webb's clients include Chevron, the Gov of Dubai, US Air Force, US Federal Reserve, US Dept of State, The White Hous… 2021-05-30 16:49:55 RT @suchetaghoshal: Relatedly, how did you make sense of "Western democratic ideals being baked into algorithms" as our solution to evil AI? 2021-05-30 16:49:52 RT @suchetaghoshal: So I have snarky comments to make about this all saying the same thing: I'm not shocked. But that's not useful. I act… 2021-05-30 15:12:01 RT @sivavaid: Whoa. I had no idea. This is a serious problem. I would suggest that @shalinikantayya explain this affiliation fully. If sh… 2021-05-30 14:46:08 The Hindutva analysis of power divides the world into the supreme, the terrorist and the non human. It seeks adjacency to whiteness while claiming to disavow it, so it now makes sense why this reverberates through Coded Bias (and got a Melinda Gates endorsement) 2021-05-30 14:46:07 Samir Kalra also led a lawsuit against Dalit and other lower caste tech workers in Santa Clara who filed a suit against Cisco for caste discrimination. He claims adding caste to anti-discrimination policies will produce Hinduphobia https://t.co/vwXYQrDexV 2021-05-30 14:46:06 Lo and behold, the producer @shalinikantayya was a keynote speaker for Hindu American Foundation’s (HAF) 2018 gala https://t.co/NGag7L3liv 2021-05-30 14:46:05 I’m going to preface this with, I respect 90% of the scholars in Coded Bias which is why I’ve been trying to understand the source of its super problematic framing. It is clearly not endogenous to their work. https://t.co/nkgn40UsYu 2021-05-30 04:25:02 When you’ve stumbled upon something just so so good. Ugh, I could cry this is such validation https://t.co/tZLEOyR3hk 2021-05-30 01:53:18 RT @linguangst: take note of all the CS professors who are normally profilic tweeters but mysteriously silent this week. maybe they're al… 2021-05-30 01:46:18 RT @ATuin_Express: What does that mean for the field? What kind of work wasn't done or published, because it made shitty people uncomforta… 2021-05-30 01:44:07 RT @ATuin_Express: Our field works around social issues, how can this work be done if the field is half run by predators? 2021-05-30 01:38:52 RT @erinleebrady: Even knowing what I knew, I excused his behavior at conferences. Sure, he got drunk and flirty - but I did too, so it was… 2021-05-30 01:38:19 RT @erinleebrady: So many people let his questionable behaviors slide. So many people saw him being handsy or overly intimate with women an… 2021-05-30 01:37:57 This is the real https://t.co/fvNmaQqJgW 2021-05-30 01:26:32 RT @amyxzh: How we got here is people take advantage of ambiguous settings, silence, and the inexperience of newer community members to mov… 2021-05-30 01:03:37 RT @dmetaxak: Since 2016, I have been so careful, so patient, so diligent about the process, but @UMichCSE's statement yesterday—so inadequ… 2021-05-30 01:02:21 Many people who survive assault are made to think there’s something wrong with them, meanwhile cishet, white able-bodied men “just try not to be guilty of whatever they’re charged with” https://t.co/zrrjfxcQXW 2021-05-30 00:56:19 I don’t think enough of you have sat with this thread,(incl but not limited to @cornell_tech) Walter is not the exception to the rule, he is the rare person who gets caught and however ephemeral-publicly shamed. How many victims does it take before real accountability comes? https://t.co/lblbdgHybB 2021-05-30 00:56:18 I realize academia has some weird familial nomenclature, PhD students but if you interacted with and at best paved the way for access for someone to prey on dozens of people, silence is not accountability... https://t.co/L5fzvQRehE 2021-05-30 00:45:58 I wish I could drop some life altering receipt but imho it’s this basic, empty phrases of “collaboration, critical thinking, diversity etc.” at predator conferences. Precarious people are groomed for all types of violences in these spaces and many (maybe most) are complicit https://t.co/oq6RFBdgFn 2021-05-30 00:40:09 I combed through @wslasecki Twitter as much as my attention span would allow, I’ve never spent so much time on no seasoning Twitter. Violent irony being this is the Blackest tweet I encountered https://t.co/jx4pCtkLf1 2021-05-30 00:35:10 academic institutions are so brutally violent, mad love to @genevievemp for speaking the truth. I’ve never met or heard of Walter Lasecki until this came out but I’ve heard stories of sexual assault repeatedly from junior faculty and PhD students. outrageous this is the default https://t.co/Pz8lTWiOab 2021-05-30 00:27:56 RT @genevievemp: Walter Lasecki assaulted me. He pinned me against a bar, he put his hand up my skirt and his fingers in my underwear. He g… 2021-05-29 17:47:17 Frankly, between the post-modernists dissociating into silence or liberalism or the neftegna (and their rainbow coalition beneficiaries) choosing violence- I am most disturbed by the Afro-pessimists who think they’re the spook who sat by the door. 2021-05-29 17:47:16 Post-modernism is the settler class choosing a maladaptive coping mechanism. The dissociation in the face of benefiting from conquest to Tigray genocide apologist pipeline. 2021-05-29 15:32:30 @Dhakshayini_S 2021-05-28 20:48:00 RT @THEEBlackleftie: This never gets old. They ATE. https://t.co/Tg6HuJFC4l 2021-05-28 16:54:05 @DocDre What about the global south? https://t.co/3ULmxGjdZw 2021-05-28 16:25:35 RT @bentarnoff: This piece has everything: the birth of the zip code, shitty handwriting, neoliberalism, neural networks, and the largest… 2021-05-28 13:44:21 -the implications of Facebook and Google laying undersea cables in Djibouti - the way Big philanthropy’s funding strategy prevents research that’s not constrained by liberal notions of bias -the way Pay For Success/Social Impact Bonds are funding public sector adoption of ADS 2021-05-28 13:40:11 -the rebirth of broken windows policing in facebook’s content moderation strategy - Indian IT Cells mobilizing against Kashmiri activists - the impact of block chain digital ID on student autonomy in Addis -Facebook’s informant network 2021-05-28 13:40:10 Thread of what I wish #tech journalists would cover: 2021-05-28 11:54:24 The other sign up and down crown heights say “don’t have experiment on our children” idk if this is gesturing towards anti-vaxx or what because the 3rd sign is text heavy on yeshiva rights 2021-05-28 11:50:43 So is anyone talking about how Brooklyn orthodox are going Yang Gang b/c of the Yeshiva regulation issue and their messaging is oddly Qanon v2.0...? https://t.co/qNmCtZDwen 2021-05-27 23:35:02 @DocDre Also this is an odd move given Twitter discourse is hardly the zoom problem. The major problem is recording as default 2021-05-27 23:33:58 @DocDre I don’t have a problem with anyone tweeting what I say but I haaaaaate when people no consent post awkward zoom screenshots of my face that must die 2021-05-27 12:21:34 This Ted talk by Susan Simard is much shorter and a good intro to tree communication-lots to consider in relationship to trees in Oromo philosophy https://t.co/DkU4S7XD6m 2021-05-27 12:19:48 @AmanSium Grateful we got to collide in real time Aman! Looking forward to more brunches on mycelium and moving beyond the dead end of state formation as a solve for Black indigeneity 2021-05-27 12:18:27 Paul Stamets is one of the most famous ppl in this world and this is one of my faves, but much of his work is actually based off the indigenous people called Haida in British Columbia https://t.co/CN7OweRMmF 2021-05-27 12:16:16 #Mycelium are the root systems of mushrooms, they have a symbiotic relationship with trees root systems and collectively transmit information, memories and nutrients that live react to the rest of the environment https://t.co/Bt0EINGvpI 2021-05-27 12:12:36 Excerpt from sacred knowledge traditions of the Oromo, sorry no alt text because I cannot type this whole page but am searching for a pdf to share. https://t.co/gWhnwAcjpI 2021-05-27 12:09:05 Settler colonialism produces this myth of urban superiority. The rural ways of knowing are not a problem to be solved with “development” and “modernization” rural elders are stewards of deep otherwise ways of knowing imho. Not to romanticize but we need more thinking with them 2021-05-27 12:04:55 The deeper I get into #Oromo philosophy, the more it resonates with my mushroom obsession. If you haven’t already gone down this rabbit hole, I deeply encourage you to learn about mycelium, mycorrhizal highways and the “wood bound web” seriously 2021-05-27 11:57:08 This has had a profound impact on me, as I’m disabled too but ADHD doesn’t have the same stigma and assumptions as other cognitive disabilities. Now I can’t unsee how eugenic out society is, how many spaces are you w/ someone who is intellectually disabled as a peer 2021-05-27 11:57:07 I attended training years ago to get him the OPWDD self direction Medicaid waiver (thanks to the de-institutionalization movement you can get funding to live w/ autonomy in the community) they had adults with ID speak to us about how their parents f**** up and what they wanted- 2021-05-27 11:52:30 Raising disabled kids is so hard only because our society die hard wants to cure or exclude them. The best thing ever for one of my kids was he went to a disability summit in 3rd grade, came back like I’m Autistic, accommodate me MFs, more of this please 2021-05-27 11:48:52 @rctatman This is exactly what I’m looking for thank you, do you know if there’s something similar that could be used for street signage? 2021-05-27 01:16:34 Lol How you run your state like military AirBnB and condemn an occupation https://t.co/JpWjY2PaIQ 2021-05-27 00:06:15 Does anyone have assistive tech recommendations for people with severe #dyslexia? Not to cure or fix the dyslexia but to help navigate tasks that require minimal reading ie a math word problem Ideally non-screen based (distracting) 2021-05-26 23:27:44 @markhurst @hypervisible @shannonmattern @LMSacasas @ubiquity75 @safiyanoble @STOPSpyingNY @FoxCahn @FrankPasquale @themarkup @swodinsky Honored to even be adjacent to the tagged thank you mark! 2021-05-26 21:31:37 RT @JulianPosada0: Thanks to @UpFromTheCracks, I came across @balagonline’s work: “The Interminable Catastrophe.” It addresses “catastrophe… 2021-05-26 21:04:27 Say you partner with a university developing weapons to maintain the Israeli occupation without saying it #FreePalestine https://t.co/sREocAK1V5 2021-05-25 18:48:32 RT @FBedaso: Although it doesn’t make the news, the level of extrajudicial killings, kidnappings, collective punishment, harassment, destru… 2021-05-25 13:25:17 How do we clock the 60 minutes erasure of Black computer scientists alongside those getting 60 years? How do we build a resistance that doesn’t reify the divisions imposed onto us as a form of social control? How do we build up our capacity to mind the gaps while exhausted? 2021-05-25 13:05:58 And it still does. I have no smoke for Tegaru people who morally appeal to the west for intervention, because to be human and facing atrocities is to not give up, to bang on the cargo container baking in the sun w/ 7 others because one has died- to try and mark the dead 2021-05-25 13:05:57 Plus, Meles Zenawi being a model for how authoritarian dictators can “economically advancing a country while denying democracy” Davos didn’t see a different side of him, they saw profit in brutality and thought “do Black African tribal savages know what to do with rights anyway” 2021-05-25 13:05:56 It’s about understanding how the state sanctioned atrocities unleashed onto the Oromo people (and other southern peoples) was the process by which Ethiopia built up the capacity to unleash mass atrocities onto Tigray. Its about the echoing legacy of histories hidden from us- 2021-05-25 13:05:55 How do we mark the expanse of so many violences layered on top of one another, each woman raped, the scale of people’s displaced? How do we cherish resistance that continues and has always been, for all of those whom the Ethiopian state and its mythology has only meant sorrow? 2021-05-25 13:05:54 The affordances or properties of social media environments (+discourse) allow us to choose from an ever present, the algorithm amplifies the now, the new and the more. It in this context, I think about how do we grieve an *official count* of 1900 dead in Tigray- 2021-05-24 00:47:41 FYI I locked myself out of signal 2021-05-20 00:10:00 We already live in a horror movie, we could use more comedy ijs < 2021-05-20 00:07:42 I tried to sell Paul Mooney an RCP newspaper on 125th and park in front of some juice spot that’s long gone in 2007, he said he don’t want that Avakian paper 2021-05-16 13:03:39 Thank 2021-05-16 12:54:14 Last time I took a twitter break y’all thought I was assassinated so fwiw I’m taking a leave of absence *will stop by in the coming weeks to deliver some good news that will devastate the fascists and podcast backlog but dassit 2021-05-16 00:51:04 @HornAnarchists I mean writers don’t choose their headlines, the entire article is about the absurdity of totalitarianism in Eritrea. So I don’t get your critique ? 2021-05-16 00:09:07 RT @UpFromTheCracks: If y’all don’t want to take the time to understand Ethiopian nationalism and its genocidal aftermath, I’m going to nee… 2021-05-16 00:02:26 RT @SteezyMario7: A genuine letter from someone who's committing Nazi-like atrocities on our families? What's wrong with you? How hard coul… 2021-05-16 00:00:21 RT @embAradom: @UpFromTheCracks This! I was/am so confused by some AI researchers of Ethiopian descent who claim to be "advocate of equalit… 2021-05-15 23:58:27 RT @RNesrudin: Well, if it’s only *occasionally* that one sides with the powerful & 2021-05-15 23:54:24 RT @lital_kh: Going to re-share this @briarpatchmag article on Canadian research & 2021-05-15 23:50:50 RT @UpFromTheCracks: What is a relational ethics in AI that ardently supports #TigrayanGenocide and declares “Stop saying #StopTheWar” ? Th… 2021-05-15 23:47:24 RT @UpFromTheCracks: the Ethio professional class that has perfected a performance of diversity for the west while condoning and in some ca… 2021-05-15 23:43:28 RT @zeaxumawit: .@abebab is so mad that the world is talking about #TigrayGenocide. But go on and complain about white people to people wh… 2021-05-15 23:39:36 RT @FBedaso: Lol is it really the Western white men who are bothering you or the fact that said white men are out here exposing the crimes… 2021-05-15 23:26:10 RT @meazaG_: @Abebab Hypocrites like you would go out of their way to “advocate” for black women while ignoring or justifying the haunting… 2021-05-15 22:30:28 This goes for people supporting the #TigrayGenocide too. Everybody want to be pro Black and relational ethics until Africa is more than an idea. FOH 2021-05-15 20:39:26 Everybody wanted to be about ethics until Palestine came up. I see y’all, don’t try to shuck and jive for Black folks either https://t.co/s6KusCxrER 2021-05-15 20:22:23 As your friendly receipt custodian, I sure do have notes on all the fairness/accountability/transparency scholars, AI/CS Ethics tweeps who have been actively silent or actively in support of the occupation 2021-05-15 20:06:56 RT @mer__edith: Misinfo/disinfo people, time to bear witness. https://t.co/Foo6PaJyt0 2021-05-15 20:06:35 RT @tsnvaa: Using the platform to lure people out to defend their home so you can cluster bomb them and their children seems like it shoul… 2021-05-15 19:59:43 State power claims the right to enact violence with legitimacy. In the West Bank, Gaza and Tigray the powers that be will not tolerate us bearing witness to how their nationalist mythology reeks of blood and death and inhumanity. We’re only allowed to watch them remove the option 2021-05-15 19:51:46 Hours after Abiy Ahmed declared war on Facebook,a complete telecommunications blackout was ordered in Tigray, in this shadow, genocide began followed by executions, deportations and terrorizing of journalists. Israel live-streamed the detonation of infrastructures to bear witness 2021-05-15 19:35:38 Not these rats working overtime on a Saturday 2021-05-15 18:33:34 Abiy ofc congratulating President Ismail Omar Guelleh who won his fifth term in Djibouti where the only thing allowed to publicly assemble is foreign military bases and Big Tech’s undersea cables. No independent media, no political opposition, just ballot stuffing https://t.co/1Hz3fGbRiG 2021-05-15 16:58:35 RT @misskitila: “It’s a pure asymmetry relationship, and the question is ‘rights or not?’ So that’s it, it’s not complicated.” As an Oromo… 2021-05-15 16:51:07 RT @suchetaghoshal: It's been announced before elsewhere, but it's (past) time I pinned it. My first project at @hcdeUW is a collab w/ the… 2021-05-15 14:22:38 Shout out to the over 100 people who applied to The Otherwise School: Tools and Techniques of of Counter-Fascism from every continent except Antarctica Super grateful to collab w/ @suchetaghoshal organizing this community of scholarship and resistance 2021-05-15 14:17:58 “With its dismissal of the mass detention of Uyghurs as western propaganda...Qiao seems to have deeply internalized how Han Chinese are a minority in western contexts, then applied this view of Han Chinese in western contexts to China...” https://t.co/jFeTyU41Ga 2021-05-15 14:14:04 It’s a long read but the subheading “A Failure to Note the Political Convergence of American and Chinese Empire” both highlights parallels to #HoA dynamics and demonstrates how entwined this inter-imperial conflict is w/ “development strategies” in #HoA and Latin America https://t.co/I1njK3mZl4 2021-05-15 14:14:02 Such a helpful essay from @newbloommag on Diasporic Chinese nationalists trying to package pro-state agenda as a critique of western imperialism. Provides the analysis to cut through sinophobic US propaganda + CCP apology h/t @ilanmandel https://t.co/BFMbziqmVE 2021-05-15 11:53:58 @safiyaaaay congratulations! 2021-05-15 00:29:43 @veenadubal the labia library is an affirming resource for teens and adults alike with labia questions https://t.co/uXKMW830p4 2021-05-15 00:20:01 @nkrishnaswami Ah that’s actually v good 2021-05-14 23:26:11 RT @WeBeImagining: Applications due by End of Day Today!! 2021-05-14 23:13:35 RT @bm_kass: Last day to apply! Hurry!! 2021-05-14 21:44:57 RT @GSOCUAW: WE WON!* We have a tentative agreement with NYU that will: - Raise the minimum rate for hourly workers by 30% in the firs… 2021-05-14 20:08:02 “Jewish communities must make a choice. Do we accede to a future rooted in denial and continue to allow apartheid, ethnic cleansing and massacre in our names? Or do we engage with hard truths and bring our whole selves to the struggle of teshuva, of repair for these harms? “ https://t.co/0JouI9eRhy 2021-05-14 20:05:27 ... https://t.co/6RCzFBAjpg 2021-05-14 20:02:32 Shout out to my Kashmiri and Indian peeps who are too exhausted with grief to psychoanalyze the Hindutva repackaging their supremacist desires as a phobic object to be sold on the solidarity marketplace https://t.co/S3l3DyXKte 2021-05-14 19:09:04 @_Rawilcox Let’s not forget Talib Kweli imho 2021-05-14 18:52:14 It’s a lot of “well meaning”, “good intentioned” technologists that can’t tell the difference between an Atlas and a Green Book 2021-05-14 18:48:43 @FBedaso 2021-05-14 17:26:52 RT @ruchowdh: I am concerned at how much we have absorbed our privilege if we are celebrating people joining a paper talk during genocide.… 2021-05-14 16:06:54 RT @mer__edith: “It sounds like a very desperate cover-your-ass move from a company that is unsure about how to continue to do business as… 2021-05-14 15:28:53 Remember 2010, when first wave feminists were “saving oppressed muslim women” from hijabs and niqabs 2021: all non white people, loving these masks and y’all could still stay six feet away until the end times, thank you 2021-05-14 15:19:21 @tsnvaa Also I be failing sometimes too, but friends let’s put alt text on screenshots so Blind people can access our horror 2021-05-14 15:15:03 @tsnvaa And ofc they’re formerly Cornell Tech https://t.co/un4oyPo7tD 2021-05-14 15:07:49 So #Chi2021 are y’all going to address this or tell us “it’s very complex” https://t.co/I4dIUfuRjv 2021-05-14 14:47:00 @Maverick_Cupid I’m not the junta but why do you need me to be? Do you hear yourself right now? “Parasites” and “inventing rape” but there’s some Other out there that’s the problem, ok 2021-05-14 14:38:30 RT @UpFromTheCracks: The US and Israel funded the Ethiopian military on and off from the 60s claiming War on Terror and Eritrea represents… 2021-05-14 14:33:37 What’s happening in Tigray is unspeakable atrocities. Appealing to Trevor Noah who is currying to Zionist desires and is not in anyway advocating for the end to occupation in Palestine is undermining the potential for solidarity. Stop it https://t.co/hNq4AJ7zcU 2021-05-14 14:28:10 The US and Israel funded the Ethiopian military on and off from the 60s claiming War on Terror and Eritrea represents a dangerous arabization threatening Israel’s security (yes this makes no sense, yes it is also true). Everything is absurd 2021-05-14 14:25:40 “a clash between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the region's ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF)” 7 months into a genocidal campaign and parroting ridiculous “both sides clash” continue along with “despite US saying not nice” https://t.co/vmXgGSwPgU 2021-05-14 14:17:45 And not for nothing F*** @Facebook who has done absolutely nothing but profit from and recommend genocide. Everybody taking that $500K+ check to look the other way, I hope you can’t sleep at night 2021-05-14 14:14:00 We need to be in solidarity w/ Palestine b/c they’re humans facing immense brutality + Oromos could call out the #TigrayGenocide post-Zenawi TPLF b/c we know nation states claiming rights means murdering Oromos as it now also murders Tigray in a quest for westephelian legitimacy https://t.co/G6sWRujjxA 2021-05-14 13:50:28 Oh I’d be remiss if I didn’t include the image of Addis post-destroying Iftar, turning Eid into a prosperity party jubilee. Also it should go without saying, but we should not assume Muslims in Addis endorse this genocidal regime and were used as prop regardless https://t.co/RSWtbg7uJ9 2021-05-14 13:41:21 Also Me: Now do Africa, like the place not the idea Read Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman they say Me: ... 2021-05-14 13:41:20 Me: Black Radical Tradition holding it down https://t.co/l1Cov3ha5F 2021-05-14 13:37:36 Lemme see what Beta Israel peeps is talking about, Finds dope acct posting article on Palestinian solidarity w/ Ethiopian Jews murdered by Israeli police Me: < 2021-05-14 13:37:34 Amharas who were very silent on the TL about the Tigray Genocide except to say “neftegna” (rifleman) was a dog whistle for Amhara Genocide: End Settler Colonialism and murderous occupation #FreePalestine #FreeSheikhJarrah 2021-05-14 13:37:33 As someone who grew up in a tight knit Oromo Muslim community attending anti-Black Islamic schools who converted to Judaism after leaving the RCP at 19 pregnant and later found out I’m part Beta-Israel let me tell you what yesterday was like, 2021-05-14 12:31:14 @ProfDancy Everybody viral critique on the “if you’re not talking about rockets you’re not intersectional” ML: center intersectionality as we develop automated decision systems for missiles. No Google tho. 2021-05-14 11:59:49 RT @ollaaOromo: Such an important point. The legacy of settler colonialism, land theft, and military occupation are so often reduced to "et… 2021-05-14 11:33:35 LAST DAY TO APPLY Come develop tools and techniques for counter-fascism at the Otherwise School -6 weeks, 10 hours/week (60% synchronous) -$2k Stipend, Free Tuition - Open Globally -No academic or work experience required https://t.co/TPI4ite8Ya https://t.co/PvIRKGGiYZ 2021-05-14 11:28:46 Not these rats winning gold metals on the block at 7am 2021-05-14 11:07:12 I’ll never forget when I told a group of CS PhD students to be creative with their org name, it doesn’t have to be like “X” in AI, gave Rage Against the Machine as an example and they were like “Research Against the Machine”? - https://t.co/y7rIihVqz2 2021-05-14 10:02:25 @Combsthepoet Good luck Tawana 2021-05-13 23:44:38 RT @peoplesbubbie: Calling all Jewish New Yorkers! Have plans tomorrow night? Cancel them. All out tomorrow at Grand Army Plaza. No one o… 2021-05-13 22:52:45 Anti-Zionist #JewsOfColor how y’all doing because Idk if I can ever pray outside my house again. Where is left to be Jewish in community, with kids, that is not foaming at the mouth endorsing this genocidal occupation of Palestine? 2021-05-13 21:23:06 @jaybeware They’re out here looking like Nat GMO 2021-05-13 21:07:09 Not this rat looking like it ate a raccoon 2021-05-13 19:47:11 The way our sense of time and being is being eroded into an ever-present is very disconcerting 2021-05-13 15:13:22 RT @pettter_e: @marian_croak @UpFromTheCracks @mariancroak Social media absolutely existed, what are you talking about? Just because Facebo… 2021-05-13 15:04:54 Marian, I’m not doing piecemeal, partial claim, no evidence, whack a mole with you. Respond with something besides a burner account to the scope and stakes of the thread or retreat back to ethics washing the surveillance state. Take care, Khadijah https://t.co/GBHsYSqi9y 2021-05-13 13:54:22 @Skaitama Girl 2021-05-13 13:51:22 What’s up with Cornell Tech[nion]? https://t.co/YqU6VRE3Bq 2021-05-13 13:48:41 @1Africanlady I feel you 2021-05-13 13:37:46 @1Africanlady Saying elections may be undermined by “unpredictable security forces” is nonsensical, there actually is analysis about why and who is doing what incl the relationship to this sham election, it’s not like a ouiji board 2021-05-13 13:35:13 @1Africanlady His liberalism projects both sides-ism where it does not exist but in this particular article the issue is it actually presents Fano killing Oromos as some issue inherent to Amhara-ness rather than them being armed agents of the state/regional elite interests 2021-05-13 13:23:50 @marian_croak https://t.co/T5yCUe4mjV 2021-05-13 13:21:24 @MCroak Why do you keep spam posting this inane response and deleting it? https://t.co/qLqGtLpxrr 2021-05-13 13:11:35 I’m very sad to report that it appears that this is the only Condoleezza Rice GIF. https://t.co/YSmhkh8Lxd 2021-05-13 13:03:56 What form did this support take because I see no record of it? Are you alleging that you were not aware of AT& 2021-05-13 13:00:35 I thought that the only silver lining of this era was that it would produce great absurdist novels but how can art catch up to the levels of absurd reality... https://t.co/d7EyqROj2i 2021-05-13 12:53:13 @MCroak @mariancroak What form did this support take because I see no record of it? Are you alleging that you were not aware of AT& 2021-05-13 12:49:29 https://t.co/d7EyqS5UqS 2021-05-13 12:42:13 @MCroak CALEA was not a necessary precondition for emergency alerts, 911 or expanding VOIP capacity. But “Assisting Law Enforcement saves lives”, please say more 2021-05-13 12:35:53 @MCroak @mariancroak Also can you please provide some verification to your claim b/c OG Croak account and your New Money Croak account both appear like burners 2021-05-13 12:34:41 @MCroak @mariancroak https://t.co/P6m0hRYtxF 2021-05-13 12:09:44 @nkrishnaswami @mer__edith Followed by https://t.co/WsW8VvCRP8 2021-05-13 12:06:11 @nkrishnaswami @mer__edith Of course 2021-05-13 12:02:21 RT @DrMonicaCox: With all my heart, I wish my discipline had more people this bold about calling out injustices. It is scary to be THAT per… 2021-05-13 11:23:39 Refusing an analysis of the state is not journalistic objectivity or neutrality, it is just creating total confusion and reducing this to “savage, quick to anger Africans killing eachother again as they’ve always had” 2021-05-13 11:23:38 You know I’ve appreciated you Z, but what the hell is this? “Ethiopia is now synonymous with instability and bloodshed.” What is this refusal to distinguish regional militias, state military and civilians? Fano killing Oromo people is not “ethnic tensions emanating from March” https://t.co/ep9Ys73134 2021-05-13 01:48:06 new Croak is deleting all her tweets, the plot thickens ! 2021-05-13 01:45:30 Ok I have to log off for like a wholeee 24 hours Lmk if y’all find out who’s the real Croak https://t.co/F9MaOfWs11 2021-05-13 01:40:27 @MCroak I’m aware a) I disagree that CAELA was a necessary precondition,like the Crime Bill passed by Clinton the same year it fundamentally changed our civic infrastructure for the bad b) the concern is someone like you would be no buffer in the face of CAELA expanding beyond telephony 2021-05-13 01:28:55 @MCroak @Google @timnitGebru Why are you spamming this response across my timeline instead of engaging with the content in full? As the declared leader of Ethical/Responsible AI you should be more than capable of understanding the scopes and stakes at hand. 2021-05-13 01:10:44 The issue wasn’t IP Marian and BLM is not the counter example to Red Cross you think it is https://t.co/peKPo5Z4NG 2021-05-13 01:07:16 RT @_jack_poulson: @mer__edith @UpFromTheCracks Google's head of Research defended complying with authoritarian demands from the CCP by say… 2021-05-13 01:03:52 Wondering who is the real Croak or if both Croaks are actually just Croak 2021-05-13 00:48:52 Thank you for the clarification, we’ll make sure to direct our questions about three letter agencies to the real @MCroak. Beginning with, can you elaborate on why you didn’t provide public support to AT& 2021-05-13 00:44:59 RT @mer__edith: Very strange "pass the buck" response to @UpFromTheCracks's powerfully researched thread. So, given that you're now helpin… 2021-05-13 00:44:46 Lol forcing telephone companies to redesign their network architectures to make it easier for law enforcement to wiretap digital telephone calls is not necessary which is why the FBI’s efforts to expand CALEA to all online communications failed in 2010 https://t.co/0CU9wYzRuL https://t.co/xMBgGdwHTt 2021-05-12 23:20:40 RT @MxAbdulAliy: HARM REDUCTION IS NOT A METAPHOR Living in the 21st Century with Drugs, Intimacy, and Activism A zine by What Would an H… 2021-05-12 22:45:10 @ireneista @Google @mariancroak Everything about this whole situation is wild lol I have no idea 2021-05-12 22:42:11 Have to take a live tweeting beak because kids and tantrums and bedtime but don’t take my word for it yo, listen to this episode 2021-05-12 22:38:22 MC: I've received a very strong endorsement from @sundarpichai on down, You used the term "clean up job", what is remarkable is the amazing work that these researchers have been doing, they're very high performing, very engaged...it has been an honor to support and promote them. 2021-05-12 22:33:12 Q: There was this reaction to the news at the time, that Google was only interested in this kind of research if it did benefit its bottom line. What's your outlook on how to reconcile doing really ethical good work in contrast with what Google's business model? 2021-05-12 22:24:38 MC: ...I care a great deal about societal issues. So, you know, once, what happened, occurred. I believe, I like to say it was a tragedy, it was a very distressing time, but nevertheless... I thought maybe I could have a larger impact than what was happening 2021-05-12 22:20:36 Um did she just place disasters and disability in the same category? Did she just call disabled people, "people with accessibility problems?" This is very turn of the 20th century progressive movement eugenics vibes https://t.co/cMzqNlBN9p 2021-05-12 22:20:33 Q: Ethical AI, a term that can be confusing, is this a sports drink? What is Ethical AI and what does it mean at @Google @mariancroak : What we're trying to do with AI Systems is ensure sure they have a positive impact for everyone using 2 different service streams https://t.co/lLwPyyKfV1 2021-05-12 21:34:08 For those of you still using “bias” to describe these algorithmic infrastructures of control, highly recommend 3% on Netflix https://t.co/BlmEK5Zrls 2021-05-12 21:09:13 “Among the event’s attendees were military officials from Myanmar, South Sudan, and the Philippines—just a few countries Israel sells to that have been accused of wholesale violations of human rights” https://t.co/0JVt3cyDf0 2021-05-12 21:07:42 Excellent article from @lital_kh on Israel’s re-branding as a “start up nation”, it focuses on Israeli weapons development to maintain the occupation partnering w/ Canadian think tanks to *manage* indigenous peoples but the phenomenon is global https://t.co/q5HLNexMUJ 2021-05-12 20:59:53 Imho yes these corporations and academic institutions are racist but race is a technology in the service of settler colonialism and techno-capitalism, not an end in itself ijs 2021-05-12 20:56:39 I swear they see DEI scandals as an ultimately useful concession diverting us from the massive ad infrastructure they’re building since FB and Google don’t have access to iOS data. Apple’s privacy protections are like the Casino plot https://t.co/kfHKjXuFLq 2021-05-12 20:05:51 “they don’t understand woke jargon” -The Techno-Capitalism Sequel https://t.co/HqelsFWTX3 2021-05-12 19:48:44 The Ethiopia Prevails Starter Pack https://t.co/3TW7yIumS5 2021-05-12 18:52:34 RT @miles_k: People get quite wealthy keeping their heads down in companies with very little track record of accountability to communities… 2021-05-12 18:45:25 RT @RaminZareian: not even just palestinians but ANYONE who is known to be critical of israel. just look at this profile they made for me h… 2021-05-12 18:44:42 @histoftech +1 2021-05-12 18:43:09 @keguro_ Harar, Ethiopia was proposed too 2021-05-12 18:42:00 RT @HalfAtlanta: paypal stole $$$ from me and locked my account two years ago for raising money for cubans. they've done the same with two… 2021-05-12 18:41:57 RT @HalfAtlanta: if you are sending any funds to Palestinian or Haitian causes thru paypal/venmo/cashapp please be careful when writing the… 2021-05-12 18:28:33 RT @awolallo: Eritrea's army still occupying Tigray, continuing to perpetrate atrocities with impunity. Another powerful reporting by @nim… 2021-05-12 18:23:40 RT @ztsamudzi: Palestinians have been bombed in Gaza for hours and hours by one of the most powerful militaries in the world and there’s no… 2021-05-12 18:17:06 And the loud and slow speech as if he’s dropping bars not Genocide apology is the crescendo in this liberal trash fire #FreePalestine #FreeSheikhJarrah 2021-05-12 18:15:43 I usually say Trevor Noah’s bad takes are because he’s South African commenting on US racial issues but being South African is exactly why his both sides-Ing of Israeli Apartheid is so nauseating here wtf https://t.co/b6sfFBM7YN 2021-05-12 18:03:16 #TigrayGenocide unfortunately knows this all too well https://t.co/dSf8PsjMuq 2021-05-12 18:01:29 RT @UpFromTheCracks: APPLICATIONS OPEN: The Otherwise School: Tools and Techniques of Counter-Fascism, a 6 week project based summer instit… 2021-05-12 17:04:18 Marian Croak liking the thread is just chef’s kiss imho https://t.co/nEeonR8kT2 https://t.co/Z0N2MjDtr8 2021-05-12 17:00:35 @mariamnotmiriam I think it’s far worse than that, Google hired Croak to mitigate reputational damage, knew they were hiring an architect of mass surveillance and were like DEI logics will prevent further questioning, and until now it did 2021-05-12 16:30:49 RT @sh4keer: The new head of Google’s AI ethics team: 2021-05-12 16:27:29 RT @mariamnotmiriam: #CHI2021 2021-05-12 16:27:16 RT @ruha9: @UpFromTheCracks Intro available for free! https://t.co/y6di6kDIUM 2021-05-12 16:22:29 y’all be sleeping on Captivating Technology edited by @ruha9 Andrea Miller’s essay, Shadows of War, Traces of Policing: The Weaponization of Space and the Sensible Preemption got all the receipts on the Atlanta PD to Israel Occupation pipeline #FreePalestine 2021-05-12 16:04:50 RT @wagatwe: Companies see Blackness as fungible. At my last job, they hired anti-Black Black people to start replacing workers like me who… 2021-05-12 16:03:35 RT @wagatwe: "Marian Croaks is not just a testament to all your skin folk ain’t your kinfolk, from 1982-2014 she worked at a company infamo… 2021-05-12 15:05:21 RT @UpFromTheCracks: I’ve decided receipts are a form of mutual aid, I’m finna have giveaway https://t.co/1rfieGfB1U 2021-05-12 15:03:42 RT @seanmmcdonald: Thank you @UpFromTheCracks for your receipt stewardship. This was really helpful background on Google’s newest “AI Ethic… 2021-05-12 15:03:36 RT @timnitGebru: Well damn. This whole thread. 2021-05-12 13:57:38 RT @murakamiwood: A reminder, from the excellent work of @NafeezAhmed: https://t.co/ULXj75o6hI 2021-05-12 13:48:03 RT @nullvoidstar: Important context on the person google put in charge of “AI Ethics” (after firing the existing team leadership @timnitGeb… 2021-05-12 13:44:35 RT @murakamiwood: New Google #AIethics hire is up to her neck with the intelligence services... not hard to see how Google sees its bread b… 2021-05-12 13:36:24 RT @charlescearl: I haven’t watched “Judas and the Black Messiah” but apparently this is how it rolls out at Google 2021-05-12 13:35:10 RT @akrambenaissi: Fascinating is the right word. A must read. It seems that hiring a women in tech formerly cooperating with NSA is the n… 2021-05-12 13:32:37 @hypervisible https://t.co/s8gq8qwyJb 2021-05-12 13:26:51 Lol it hit different now right? https://t.co/GqMSXb3NQQ 2021-05-12 13:21:17 RT @UpFromTheCracks: The first step of accountability is acknowledging harm, Croak worked at the same company for 32 years and never ever s… 2021-05-12 13:21:14 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Is Croak soley responsible for the warrantless wiretapping of American citizens and foreign nationals? No, did she not… 2021-05-12 13:21:01 RT @UpFromTheCracks: First, let’s remember that AT& 2021-05-12 13:20:54 RT @UpFromTheCracks: A friend asked from and academic/industry perspective aren’t these acts innocuous or defensible in a field where work… 2021-05-12 13:19:35 We don’t know if AT& https://t.co/A2RPtfeO6M 2021-05-12 13:14:30 Is Croak soley responsible for the warrantless wiretapping of American citizens and foreign nationals? No, did she not just look the other way as SVP of AT& 2021-05-12 13:14:29 Croak’s whole thing basically was developing classing and sorting mechanisms based on mining data communication systems, phone calls have meta data like internet traffic so then “personalizing” based on those insights incl to customize how ads were served 2021-05-12 12:52:00 RT @baahemian: Worth a read. Don’t be evil they said… 2021-05-12 12:38:55 RT @mutalenkonde: @drbrittparis https://t.co/vS5CMg4XEI 2021-05-12 12:38:45 RT @drbrittparis: Technically she replaced Margaret Mitchell and Timnit Gebru’s leadership of Ethical AI at Google 2021-05-12 12:12:08 @mutalenkonde @Google @timnitGebru https://t.co/pOLPNZRSWt 2021-05-12 12:07:55 I had to bring receipt custodian back imho 2021-05-12 12:04:37 RT @drbrittparis: Take a few minutes with this thread 2021-05-12 11:49:13 **someone who 2021-05-12 11:45:26 Marian Croak also developed multiple patents for enabling Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act Services (CALEA) CALEA forced telephone companies to redesign their network architecture to make digital surveillance of phone networks easier https://t.co/pyGgclhoJB 2021-05-12 11:45:25 This generation of computer scientists like @timnitGebru and @alexhanna talk about the social implications of AI and LLM but we forget how new that it is. We didn’t have the words for how Croaks technical “invention” would exacerbate neo-colonial dynamics https://t.co/AA97ytA1Vp 2021-05-12 11:45:24 This is a woman who saw the Black people left to die while labeled looters during Hurricane Katrina and thought, let’s invent a way to text money to enormous non-profits- 2021-05-12 11:45:23 Marian Croaks is not just a testament to all your skin folk ain’t your kinfolk, from 1982-2014 she worked at a company infamous for eagerly partnering w/ law enforcement to the total disregard of public interest https://t.co/KI14n1SLyc https://t.co/v8wWrMByTI 2021-05-12 11:45:22 Fascinating because Hossein Eslambachi while not totally forthcoming with @theintercept did acknowledge he lead the project allowing the NSA to do warrantless wiretapping of American citizens through AT& https://t.co/9pNXxKhfBw 2021-05-12 11:45:21 So it’s fascinating that @google hired Marian Croaks to replace @timnitGebru on the AI Ethics team stating she’s a Black history icon with so many patents but no one talks about what exactly she was patenting beyond VOIP 2021-05-12 00:21:52 +1 you stay killing it @netabomani congrats https://t.co/zuH8iFmnlD 2021-05-11 21:00:01 https://t.co/nTeP1do6zY 2021-05-11 20:29:23 @ProfDancy GIF choice is perfection here @ProfDancy 2021-05-11 20:28:42 RT @PantheaLee: what an inspiring global lineup for this tech x racial equity event next week with luminaries & 2021-05-11 20:21:21 How it started ——-> Lol I’m now understanding why Google hired Marian Croak to run the AI Ethics team https://t.co/k2PRtNK4xg 2021-05-11 20:09:01 How it started——> Marian Croak’s patents are like some dystopian Jeopardy question https://t.co/m3z4R7n5Kx 2021-05-11 19:45:05 This is an incredible sentence: “CEO will boost operating budget of team tasked with evaluating code and product to avert discrimination and other problems” https://t.co/aFHahEixGx 2021-05-11 19:37:57 @PrimroseE8 @Gluonsrule I hear you, and I think revealing how much money is invested in producing poverty could be a way of reducing that stigma. This is an industry 2021-05-11 19:35:49 RT @netabomani: correction 4:48pm est 2021-05-11 19:35:39 RT @netabomani: my thesis "dark matter objects: technologies of capture and things that can't be held" will be live at 5:48pm est time at… 2021-05-11 19:33:05 @Gluonsrule @PrimroseE8 sorry I haven’t even been on welfare in years but still traumatizing plus it’s like no one talks about these systems 2021-05-11 18:52:10 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Poverty is billion dollar blocks “Over the next 7 years, the city will spend more on operating shelters than the am… 2021-05-11 18:52:06 RT @UpFromTheCracks: This report on the “work experience program”(WEP) where people *work* for their welfare check (below minimum wage) eli… 2021-05-11 18:51:30 Evergreen story about ACS sending parents to IQ evaluations that deemed them intellectual disabled and incompetent of parenting based on “projective drawing” https://t.co/QFtzJVtXfr 2021-05-11 18:48:49 @Gluonsrule @PrimroseE8 How about them making people on welfare do WEP and giving the city agencies and non profits tax breaks plus bonuses for providing them “experience” ?! 2021-05-11 18:47:22 Poverty is billion dollar blocks “Over the next 7 years, the city will spend more on operating shelters than the amount of city subsidy required to create new housing for every single homeless household in NYC.” https://t.co/Yt1z8IVl3G 2021-05-11 18:44:11 This report on the “work experience program”(WEP) where people *work* for their welfare check (below minimum wage) eliminating Union jobs is from 2000 but the practice continues https://t.co/3J5IZxTB0i 2021-05-11 18:39:13 RT @PrimroseE8: I knew it many of us saw that it was a scam and we always talked about it and them pretending to have access to jobs when i… 2021-05-11 18:39:01 As head of The Department of Investigation, Mark Peters was on DeBlasio’s neck particularly about ACS and DHS https://t.co/pxGUnSe3Nk 2021-05-11 18:33:33 Or remember when DeBlasio fired the head of DOE busing which revealed that many of the vendors were being run by “organized crime” aka the mob? https://t.co/S2zEcCZnv9 2021-05-11 18:28:16 Following a scandal where she used her position to earmark funds for fake non profits, City Council Speaker, Christine Quinn became the CEO of Women In Need (WIN) the largest shelter provider in NYC. Everything in this city is a joke. https://t.co/8MUuYptQMJ 2021-05-11 18:21:33 There’s like a million programs/researcher/clinicians theorizing Black deviance and pathologies of poverty but all these savior services are just elaborate Ponzi schemes https://t.co/oDMumxLhNf 2021-05-11 18:18:49 “Between 2008 and 2014, we find that more than 72 million was expended from FEGS for IT services into… AllSector, Instead of making money for FEGS, AllSector sucked funds out of the charity.” https://t.co/meLfdoyxAv 2021-05-11 18:15:13 Schwab’s fourth industrial revolution meets the NPIC’s Fourth Sector https://t.co/B1coUGXd3r 2021-05-11 18:13:01 In my 6 years on and off welfare in NYC, I spent significant time at the FEGS “Back to Work Program” , due to the mandate that public assistance recipients spend 30 hours a week in a “work like activity” https://t.co/NLV0s6Oqs3 2021-05-11 18:04:25 “Welfare Queens” was a myth, but they ended “welfare as we know it” in order to renegotiate the terms of engagement for families (particularly but not only Black families), the myth was to prop up this new incarceration up as a hygienic necessity for *good Americans* 2021-05-11 18:04:23 We learn towards the end of this article that Ma’Khia was disabled, the anecdote is about older women shaming her for a speech impediment but it’s likely she didn’t receive a full eval in Ohio who just settled a class action suit for stealing SPED student funding+not meeting IDEA 2021-05-11 18:04:22 Gig work in many ways is a descendant of welfare reform, coercing marginalized people into below minimum wage, just in time scheduled *jobs* that replaced and diminished the power of unionized labor- 2021-05-11 18:04:21 I think this story perfectly illustrates the “regulation” aspect of CPS which maybe is obscured by the valid comparison of caseworkers to cops- https://t.co/Vym47EIiLj 2021-05-11 17:16:27 @AmanSium gracias 2021-05-11 17:02:27 Paging @AmanSium, I just read most of your masters thesis answered so many questions for me re formation of Eritrean nation state and yes the curse of the nation state, can we zoom brunch ?! My dms are open 2021-05-11 15:56:48 And lol I do not mean making counter claims about who is the real “criminal clique” dear god let that phrase die 2021-05-11 15:56:47 Articles on Wollega be like “state media said, that the police said the other militia killed them people (links Facebook press release) anonymous person said Oromos are terrorists b/c their hair” 2021-05-11 15:56:46 Thinking about how so much of Ethio discourse lacks an analysis of state violence (ie police, military, regional militias, informant networks etc) and how that leaves narratives of “ethnic tensions” relatively uncontested 2021-05-11 15:31:48 The British imprisoning Zionist paramilitary forces during Nakba in Eritrea is such an odd and under discussed event. **this article is not critical at all but sharing b/c provides a lot of images and detail which is hard to come by https://t.co/AlfLi7uivR 2021-05-11 15:16:53 @PalmTreesnGz I called 311, they said someone will be assigned to investigate in 30 days... 2021-05-11 15:15:51 “If, on the other hand, Abiy repeats his predecessors’ mistakes of smothering opposing voices, this could spell further catastrophe.” “If” is doing a lot of work in this sentence https://t.co/lOfLKOW0zo 2021-05-11 15:11:23 @PalmTreesnGz My soul leapt out of body when I saw only one but heard the whole squad 2021-05-11 15:10:02 Out of the frying pan into the fire https://t.co/hqirqPNTop 2021-05-11 14:54:28 @_VCopeland This haunts me https://t.co/sYh55FnI7I 2021-05-11 14:44:20 Tfw when you realize that Rottweiler is not on a leash because it’s a rat 2021-05-11 14:22:02 RT @jkpuar: Today emergency rally NYC #palestine #SaveSheikhJarrah #gaza https://t.co/7CRyCnaR8J 2021-05-11 13:15:15 RT @MAKCapitalism: Stefano Harney hit us up this morning with a copy of 'All Incomplete', the new book by Fred Moten and Harney. If anyone… 2021-05-11 12:59:26 Op-Ed from last week but the way the “war on terror” narrative has been deployed to justify increased western military presence alongside private mercenary armies in Mozambique is relevant to the whole continent https://t.co/kNeInYXard 2021-05-11 12:50:31 @Mical_Raz #LolSob that’s like their whole new wave, preventive services as “attachment training” for “at-risk zip codes” 2021-05-11 12:48:59 @tarekzismail I mean I know we all know it’s racist but my shock is continuously renewed 2021-05-11 12:48:07 Justifications for biometrics consistently reveal the whole thing is about social control https://t.co/1kRKof0Y5T 2021-05-11 12:48:05 “Understandably, many professional sports teams and leagues prefer the use of biometric data in their ballparks for a variety reasons. “ https://t.co/3bmFl3Y4c7 2021-05-11 12:40:18 Was on the phone with a white middle class parent under a child protective services investigation for biting their kid in anger. The caseworker shows up (Announced!) , is told to remove the kid from their doorman condo, says “there is love here, I’m not removing the child” 2021-05-11 11:42:36 RT @ztsamudzi: Re: the apartheid analogy, an important historical note about solidarity between black South Africans and Palestinians that… 2021-05-11 01:43:02 The extracting Black culture to supporting occupation pipeline. Also makes me think of Andrea Miller’s Shadows of War, Traces of Policing: The Weaponization of Space and the Sensible Preemption, she describes how Atlanta PD trains in Israel-#CaptivatingTech https://t.co/VNPbgy5dgt 2021-05-11 00:33:33 RT @awolallo: Muslims in Ethiopia went to the Revolution square today to hold a public Iftar Abiy's prosperity regime sent tanks & 2021-05-11 00:16:10 H/t @PalmTreesnGz for putting me onto Instagram and Twitter censoring information about #SheikhJarrah and Colombia Protests https://t.co/FbmePIVltT 2021-05-10 23:24:19 Evergreen reminder that the “tech” in @cornell_tech stands for Israel’s Technion University which has a partnership with Elbit designing weapons to maintain the Israeli occupation (and contracts w/ ICE) https://t.co/ZNcOzA0sJx 2021-05-10 23:18:26 November, Zoom cancelled Leila Khaled’s event due to Zionist demands April, Google disabled an acct w/ Palestinian content An anti-colonial mvmt must also dismantle private infrastructures. this digital is very much on land in service of settlers https://t.co/kz3zi3nuvq https://t.co/IPTa4z8v5J 2021-05-10 22:49:46 RT @criticaldesignl: How have disabled people used remote access, both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic? Submit to the Remote Access… 2021-05-10 22:49:38 RT @AimiHamraie: Announcing the Remote Access Archive! We want to learn about how disabled people have used technologies like Zoom, phone t… 2021-05-10 22:39:19 Idk why this is provoking an existential crisis imho. The cisgendered general anxiety disorder Latinx woman is also a CIA agent with blood on her hands. Intersectionality doesn’t foreclose a critique of the state. https://t.co/z84Sttw3No 2021-05-10 22:32:58 @balagonline Okk gracias 2021-05-10 22:32:36 @_Almaqah The bigger point is amnesia, empathy requires remembering 2021-05-10 21:45:59 @balagonline Sorry I mean what is the text from wynter directly influenced by legesse’s work? 2021-05-10 21:07:28 ICYMI: four more days until the deadline for The Otherwise School ! https://t.co/PvIRKGGiYZ 2021-05-10 21:04:49 @balagonline ...@balagonline could you point me to the texts on liminality directly influenced by legesse tia 2021-05-10 20:06:45 How am I just now noticing Sylvia Wynter cites Eritrean Scholar of Oromo Governance, Asmarom Legesse in No Humans Involved? https://t.co/51zNHCPjlP https://t.co/8NzGAO39oK 2021-05-10 19:50:38 RT @_alialkhatib: hi! i recorded a talk about my paper at #chi2021 - "To Live in Their Utopia: Why Algorithmic Systems Create Absurd Outcom… 2021-05-10 18:10:33 Reading about Ethiopia’s post-9/11 strategy of instrumentalizing western aid for internal political repression by positioning itself as a key ally to the US for the War on Terror. https://t.co/XQt7TbLgin https://t.co/JDCySsYbcT 2021-05-10 17:25:01 @ZegaRasWork @the_etheropian I’ll add it’s important to remember who also lionized Zenawi in the name of “development” and “counter-terrorism” Actors like Gates produced this historical revisionism and the capacity to terrorize Tigray today https://t.co/lPyOrVbqRd 2021-05-10 16:46:35 RT @AbolishAcs: If it was about keeping kids safe, they would investigate the cops that kill us, not work with them to break us #AbolishACS… 2021-05-10 14:02:20 Underrated tweet https://t.co/pDqMB41ucn 2021-05-10 14:00:32 Hmm @sedyst ? https://t.co/WIxLtFEPc0 2021-05-10 13:59:21 @hypervisible This is post structuralist Marxist, new school media studies saying gotcha to a strawman’s crude economic analysis of Facebook, cue the follow up article that reveals profit and social control are not mutually exclusive categories but something something China 2021-05-10 12:30:40 RT @kullee_j: Let us never forget the unspeakably atrocious ways that Oromo children, youth, women etc. were brutally murdered for supporti… 2021-05-10 12:21:56 @jathansadowski Not media studies per se but maybe of interest, Ingrid Burrington’s analysis of CompStat https://t.co/PuFiW4rIAS 2021-05-09 23:49:39 @DocDre 90% not thinking about it at all 10% think they teach it the best I’d put money on it 2021-05-09 23:19:30 RT @JMacForFamilies: EPIC fail for @ACSNYC when they tried to destroy this family. #ABOLISHNYCACS https://t.co/EHXOYkClq3 2021-05-09 22:05:22 Lol, I grew up going to the 96th street Mosque founded by Kuwait. The assumption that Black and Muslim are mutually exclusive categories was the governing philosophy and I see it lives on https://t.co/A4EgAU1fkK 2021-05-09 21:54:20 @jaybeware @MAKCapitalism @ztsamudzi For sure, like the Eritrean diplomats go to the UN saying it's racist for yt ppl to accuse them of human rights abuses while they're literally storing a huge section go the population into coffin like cargo containers. 2021-05-09 21:52:52 @jaybeware @MAKCapitalism @ztsamudzi This context collapse is a deep problem and I just reject that we have to accept the League of Nations framing and by extension the idea of "unequal integration" as a starting point in order to critique it. 2021-05-09 21:50:51 @jaybeware @MAKCapitalism @ztsamudzi I know less about Liberia but imagine Garvey tried to mobilize African Americans to join the Ethiopian Army in the 30s, an army that was murdering Oromo and other indigenous southerners while Kelley writes in Race Rebels simultaneously inspired internationalism in the Black US https://t.co/8WXs9xkeVi 2021-05-09 21:41:40 @jaybeware @MAKCapitalism @ztsamudzi fair fair, mainly I don't think its a critique of you (or the show) and WaE is not the cause. This valorization of Ethiopia as a pan African symbol of freedom and pinnacle of anti-fascism is everywhere relatively uncontested on the surface 2021-05-09 21:36:54 @MAKCapitalism @ztsamudzi I'm a major Millenials are Killing Capitalism fan, loved the episode overall. I just think the stakes of this question and it's framing are buried by the Ethiopian myth, which is both everywhere and nowhere at the same time 2021-05-09 21:33:22 @MAKCapitalism @ztsamudzi but I'd argue the question of "it being on the fly" is a product of the ever pervasive romanticization of the Ethiopian empire and erasure of its ongoing legacy of settler colonialism and enslavement (these omissions also echo in the citation, Worldmaking as Empire no?) 2021-05-09 21:30:52 @MAKCapitalism @ztsamudzi I hear you, this is similar to International Criminal Courts going after African nations systematically for crimes against humanity. We can critique the western opportunism of international law w/o foreclosing indigenous claims of harm and demands for self-determination 2021-05-09 20:47:02 Rat tail combs should only be neon so I don’t keep losing them in the couch in this quest to finish the kids hair before Monday 2021-05-09 20:01:09 Discussing Tree and Delish Africa, murdered in the MOVE Bombing and how the two children's remains were used as a teaching aid without the consent of the family, "the necrophiliac/psycho-sexual gratification of owning, collecting and classifying bodies and bones" ZM 2021-05-09 19:36:34 @ztsamudzi @ThaAyantu As an Oromo diaspora, I know more from that angle but there's 83+ languages in Ethiopia which indexes to some degree to ethnicity and histories. Not least of which are the Tegaru (from Tigray) who are currently experiencing genocide (in the name of unifying Ethiopia) 2021-05-09 19:33:38 @ztsamudzi Between Rastafarianism and the politics of exile we're all in process of debunking Ethiopian mythology imho. H/t @ThaAyantu put me onto Sacred Knowledge Traditions of the Oromo, The Invention of Ethiopia by Holcomb and Ibssa. https://t.co/zj7MG5CH0y https://t.co/BjtNHy4Xjq 2021-05-09 19:21:40 Q: What are the ongoing issues with white settlers in Africa? ZM: Land https://t.co/ypoJ4lcuHl 2021-05-09 19:19:22 "understanding fascism is so much bigger than understanding 'the golden age of World War II'...anything Focault said worth listening to about colonialism was plagiarized from the Panthers so you could just listen to Black people" whew a word 2021-05-09 19:16:23 I'm very appreciative of @ztsamudzi intervention around the American Exceptionalism preserved by the left in the attempt to show the globality and bigness of violence, an American exceptionalism that renders each local context an interchangeable blip 2021-05-09 18:59:20 "What about the Boors? Is a way of positioning the Afrikaaners as native, fighting the imperial encroachers on their land. What about the Boors? Its an interesting myth making by settlers fighting over African land" ZT 2021-05-09 18:57:05 Zoe might not be addressing Ethiopia directly but this violent omission of enslavement, colonization and foundational violences as the basis for "rights, freedom and universality" is so much the signpost for understanding the Making Ethiopia Great Again lexicon 2021-05-09 18:41:58 "there's all of these ways of understanding these crimes that completely erode foundational violences of colonial domination but that's how we understand rights and humanity, contrived idea of brotherhood and universality" 2021-05-09 18:41:57 Second rec, Dirk Moses' The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression. "He describes how Raphael Lemkin simply did not acknowledge aerial warfare, in thinking of genocide as this singular crime-" https://t.co/tM4BD4z71X 2021-05-09 18:33:17 Zoe's answer doesn't directly respond to the specificity of Ethiopia but she recommends Keguro Macharia's piece critiquing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which completely omits the violence of colonization def reading next https://t.co/UtWmT6h6TZ 2021-05-09 18:33:16 this ahistorical exceptionalizing of Ethiopia as "never colonized" sets up a faux pan African solidarity with Black emperors who violently produced the Ethiopian nation state incl via enslavement of indigenous peoples- 2021-05-09 18:17:15 Me listening to this episode: yesss Ethio twitter needs to hear how the west weaponizes recognition of genocide for inter-imperial fighting Me listening to following question about League of Nations calling out Ethiopia for slavery as an example: Jesus take the wheel https://t.co/y2p4YtBcuo 2021-05-09 17:20:36 RT @dreanyc123: Resharing a piece on policing of Black mothers & 2021-05-09 16:55:57 RT @FBedaso: It’s from a fundamental understanding that Tegaru & 2021-05-09 16:43:14 RT @ctrlzahra: if you don’t know what’s currently happening in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah please watch this!!!!! i’m goi… 2021-05-09 14:33:22 eugenics all the way down, logging off 2021-05-09 14:29:47 If child protective services improved lives it would come with a test only white people would pass like Gifted and Talented https://t.co/8T0L1dZiEG 2021-05-09 14:04:24 Even as a parent I’m like fuck Mother’s Day after spending 5 in a place that disregarded any familial bonds 2021-05-09 14:02:56 Some had no disability, they were just removed from their parents and no foster homes were available. Many were international adoptees whose parents suddenly could have a biological child and couldn’t “deal” with the adoptee 2021-05-09 14:02:55 There were people with high support needs in residential, they were drugged into obesity and near coma states, we were all frequently restrained. Some died, some committed suicide, many were sexually assaulted. High support needs doesn’t justify clinical terror. 2021-05-09 13:58:55 **correcting that everyone in these age ranges are not children but also worth nothing how disabled people are infantilized, put into extended guardianship that removes their autonomy and in places that deny childhood all the while 2021-05-09 13:54:14 RT @Communica1st: "I want people to understand that speech does not make someone more human." - Jordyn Zimmerman, CommunicationFIRST Board… 2021-05-09 13:39:06 I was in residential centers from 2001-2005. Twenty years later, the unregulated industry continues to chew up children 4-21 years old and spit them back out without repercussion https://t.co/rVzQLVCKh5 2021-05-09 13:27:59 @Yohannes_T_M Yes. If you’re not aware of those murdered, imprisoned and terrorized under Zenawi I suggest you think about why that is. 2021-05-09 12:45:40 RT @curateoromia: “I lived everything Ethiopian. I loved the food, the flag, the music, the diversity, the eco-system, the history, the peo… 2021-05-09 12:38:32 @Yohannes_T_M Watching those experiencing genocide, give best wishes to genocidal Zenawi is wild. Let’s remember tho who twitter makes louder and doesn’t serve at all. I’m too shocked to say more. 2021-05-09 12:32:02 I have been binge reading @abraham_zere since watching Escaping Eritrea. The way he describes the “disfigured Dadaist reality of present-day Eritrea” through everyday encounters is so spot on- https://t.co/pEL3yLtAr3 2021-05-09 12:09:05 As we process anti-war Zenawi stans, just a reminder that the affordances of this platform privilege urban over rural, diaspora over back home, alive over dead, affect over analysis, always present over past 2021-05-09 11:55:39 @DocDre This is the meme lol 2021-05-09 11:37:09 RT @MAKCapitalism: Zoé also shares some history on the Nama/Herero genocide & 2021-05-09 11:36:54 RT @MAKCapitalism: NEW: “There's No Such Thing as a Decolonized Museum” - @ztsamudzi on southern Africa, settler colonialism, genocide and… 2021-05-09 00:20:44 Does Fanon have a grandchild because, the levels... I’m just...dear god, I understand why people be choosing post modernism...adsjks 2021-05-08 21:47:39 @jklmd123 @nytimes it got a lot right, I’m just exhausted thinking about how much of this is connected to welfare reform, the class action lawsuit Ohio just settled for stealing money from kids with IEPs and placing kids systematically w/ cruel foster parents directed to call cops all the time 2021-05-08 21:41:37 I do appreciate the article, I just wish poor people got to be more than subjects so you could see the system didn’t fail, it did what it was designed to do. https://t.co/s3i6VWU3oX 2021-05-08 21:41:34 Who cannot supervise the kids she’s collecting a subsidy for because she’s working but we find out is getting food stamps and cash assistance only when she accuses the kids of stealing her card? https://t.co/lNGL08qoMZ 2021-05-08 21:41:33 A foster parent that was calling cops REGULARLY on disabled kids placed in to her “care” including a 10 year old for knocking down Christmas ornaments ? https://t.co/UWKhLgldYU 2021-05-08 21:41:31 How is the only time you mention Ma’Khia was disabled in an anecdote about her being humiliated by people she was left with by the foster parent? https://t.co/zKLhThTQHp 2021-05-08 21:41:29 There’s a lot of things @nytimes gets right in putting the murder of Ma’Khia Bryant by a cop in the larger context, beginning with Ohio removing children from their families at 10 times the national average but- https://t.co/3iCNuwF8FV 2021-05-08 18:11:14 @33550336_ @NeuroRebel A) If disability categories had nothing to do with race you wouldn’t have assumed non-white middle class = poor Black in the US B) Ppl who are phenotypically similar get widely different classifications b/c they’re subjective and associated w/ different benefits, stigmas +access 2021-05-08 18:01:24 RT @thotscholar: because erotic laborers (mainly speaking on sex workers here) are often excluded from processes of knowledge production ab… 2021-05-08 17:45:49 “The increasing expansion of algorithmic reason-which, as we know, serves as the crucial basis for financialization of the economy- goes hand in hand with the rise of mythoreligious-type reasoning” Ibid, p51 https://t.co/DdIhFFZE8b 2021-05-08 17:19:22 Necropolitics by Achille Mmembe (p34-36) https://t.co/arcnZumOaO 2021-05-08 16:34:13 @NeuroRebel Autism is still a diagnostic label far more often given to Middle class white people than anyone else, I wonder how much the defense of ABA is bound up with thinking it’s better than the Carceral settings non white disabled kids end up in (which ironically are often ABA style) 2021-05-08 16:18:18 I love @3blue1brown videos, the one on artificial neural networks is so helpful for lay people who want to learn how AI works, not just who it harms but how it functions https://t.co/vGnNrf3Oul 2021-05-08 16:16:24 RT @ahmedallibhoy: I’m having an especially hard time concentrating on research this week, but instead of doomscrolling on twitter I guess… 2021-05-08 15:53:26 I can’t help but feel the shock at these CIA videos is b/c the PMC has such a different relationship to the state. Yeah they updated their style book from 90s multiculturalism but nothing is new here. Unlike your start up, the federal government has to be compliant w/ ADA https://t.co/1uEorQ8JzH 2021-05-08 15:43:57 RT @SangerNYT: In a year of accelerating cyberattacks, this may rank as one of the most notable. So far the company has given few of the cr… 2021-05-08 15:42:23 It’s easy to do a takedown of anyone doing a moral appeal to Biden, but to whom ought we cry out to? 2021-05-08 15:39:07 Thinking about the different intensities of state violence, in Palestine, Eritrea, Myanmar broad daylight executions, maiming and incarceration (where notably prisons are more so like overstuffed coffins than the deathly isolation here) vs dividuation n dispersion of surveillance https://t.co/hlO6TRBVMA 2021-05-08 15:28:07 https://t.co/frg0Fo84Pc 2021-05-08 15:17:54 Trying Differently Rather Than Harder: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders by Diane Malbin argues for a similar approach (like not from any kind of organizing perspective just the day to day) https://t.co/u5qGTbZmJa 2021-05-08 15:17:53 As someone who’s skeptical about how little abolition seems to be applied beyond study groups, I love how Against Punishment, a zine by @projectnia @interruptcrim edited by @prisonculture addresses everyday life https://t.co/P0AvBsH0p3 2021-05-08 01:36:55 RT @robinberjon: @mikarv also mentions the need to include browsers, user agents, etc. in our regulatory thinking. Here is a first draft of… 2021-05-07 23:37:29 @angryliddlecrab @milsteinprogram This is solidarity, I appreciate you https://t.co/YYOEqHJ6DS 2021-05-07 23:32:00 @netabomani https://t.co/WFFzdLenjA 2021-05-07 23:24:56 @angryliddlecrab @milsteinprogram https://t.co/Vz1Fk3tMth 2021-05-07 23:20:53 If red is a flavor certainly receipts could be too? Maybe I should drop one for every week of the program...#FridayThoughts https://t.co/CjmcjtRkE0 2021-05-07 23:17:59 The Cornell Tech @milsteinprogram could only coerce the two very most random white men to rush produce their summer curriculum and I’m at a loss for which popcorn to pair with the show 2021-05-07 23:08:09 RT @mims: Ultimately, public will make its own decision about participating in Apple's, Amazon's wireless networks. Meanwhile, it's one mo… 2021-05-07 22:57:57 Shout out to the people who figured out my profile name, extended notation coming soon ! 2021-05-07 21:47:25 @MarshallProj @TheJusticeDept How does one produce so much research on policing and prisons and then come up with this article? 2021-05-07 20:00:19 Assumes you are fine 2021-05-07 20:00:18 Asks you for recommendations for good Ethiopian restaurants, them and their wife love spicy food. This is the only conversation they’ve ever had with you 2021-05-07 19:56:12 Wants to have more Black people come, asks you to get them 2021-05-07 19:56:11 Refuses to have an analysis of power until it’s time to develop a budget 2021-05-07 19:56:03 Asks you to speak with white women who are cartoon villains 2021-05-07 19:56:02 Is non-Black, states their pronouns are they/them as direct evidence of their commitment to Black Lives 2021-05-07 19:50:34 Invites you to talk about paper, clearly has never read your paper 2021-05-07 19:50:33 Says your writing has a lot of potential but doesn’t adhere to genre conventions 2021-05-07 19:50:32 Invites you to give a talk on your technology research but proceeds to interrogate you about whether policing is actually harmful and you never get to share your actual research on this technology 2021-05-07 19:43:49 @Arrianna_Planey Nothing beats, “did I ever tell you about my nanny who raised me? I’m not Black Black but I was raised partially by a Black woman”- white person I’ve never interacted with at an institution we’ve both been at for years 2021-05-07 19:41:55 Doesn’t accept paper by Black scholar because “cites example of terrible paper they accepted from Black first year student” as evidence 2021-05-07 19:41:54 Can’t tell a Black person is having a nervous breakdown despite being in a violent PWI that constantly produces breakdowns 2021-05-07 19:41:53 Just checking in to see how you’re feeling (every time a Black person is murdered...really just when the news has a lot of stories about the murders) 2021-05-07 19:41:52 Scrambles to find poor people for the community service photo op. #TechForGood 2021-05-07 19:33:36 Thinks standpoint epistemology is the solution to western rationalism embedded in tech, so systematically excludes Black people who have been here for multiple generations (while claiming that’s too nuanced for them to get) 2021-05-07 19:31:34 Think adding technology is racist to the STEM catechism = Black studies https://t.co/RkkaSK5jNO 2021-05-07 19:28:03 Lol they love saving or standing with, not you know having a whole actual ass relationship with Black people https://t.co/ithQSj6v53 2021-05-07 19:24:09 RT @outtherejch: 48/can’t tell Black ppl apart in the wild. 2021-05-07 19:21:24 RT @Dill__Does: @UpFromTheCracks lol when "Diversity" really means "we're gonna try to find many Diverse ways to avoid directly confronting… 2021-05-07 19:20:40 White people prefer their diversity H1B https://t.co/xlsCPIuuh0 2021-05-07 19:18:06 RT @outtherejch: 17/like the police (as an institution). 2021-05-07 19:17:55 My fave, y’all will keep adding letters to POC all to avoid saying Black https://t.co/ccsEXApXtL 2021-05-07 19:16:55 RT @outtherejch: 26/consistently fail to call out racist actions of colleagues. 2021-05-07 19:16:43 And using AAVE all the while cuz you think Blackness is something you can try on and play with when you feel like it https://t.co/WHfzBu7RmZ 2021-05-07 19:15:23 RT @outtherejch: 35/act genuinely surprised when a racism, any racism, happens. 2021-05-07 19:15:09 + don’t know that Black Twitter will come for you, (whispers plus thinks that Andre Brock’s book is about fun things the Blacks do online that you’re protecting with your real work on antitrust/regulation/policy...) https://t.co/ZPKO21sbVp 2021-05-07 19:12:53 RT @outtherejch: 42/use the term “dialogue” when talking about DEI. 2021-05-07 19:12:39 Yooooo @suchetaghoshal https://t.co/qtmanE29jf 2021-05-07 19:12:20 RT @outtherejch: 53/think you’re a competent academic, but this thread is reading you for filth. 2021-05-07 19:12:13 RT @outtherejch: 56/think diversity statements in job ads do anything other than privilege white men who can write semi-coherently about DE… 2021-05-07 19:10:53 I love us, we know them so well and they don’t even know what “read your whole card” means https://t.co/wKyI8PI6TR 2021-05-07 19:09:43 < 2021-05-07 19:06:34 The “but we have so many {white} women in positions of power, diversity is not just race, 53 languages are spoken in our campus” starter pack #CornellTech https://t.co/rtQ9ddYWMe 2021-05-07 19:03:39 @mariamnotmiriam LMAO they actually don’t like Tap or Black people so they thought it was killing 2 birds with one stone. I guess that didn’t play out well... 2021-05-07 18:58:34 Maybe I should grieve but I can’t stop laughing at faculty afraid to call out Tap for being anti-Black because they don’t know any Black people personally But s/o to the professor who cited him as their Martin Luther King Jr. when asked about community outreach 2021-05-07 18:55:12 I’d like to Toast to Ibram X Kendi (aka they should have deliberated at the Chauvin trial for a second less than it took to kill Floyd cuz Black Death Is a metaphor) Cuz everyone at @cornell_tech apparently gets a copy of How to Be An Anti-Racist now... 2021-05-07 18:49:12 Also I’d be remiss if I didn’t recognize @GMorrisett for sending out Sunday morning emails about how they actually do care about diversity so they’re going to listen to everyone except the person who got fired for calling out anti-Blackness? (Oh and genocide) 2021-05-07 18:47:10 S/o to the person who asked at @cornell_tech’s diversity listening session “How do we ensure diversity while protecting other races?” https://t.co/KGXyrd5Scw 2021-05-07 18:44:00 RT @markhurst: @UpFromTheCracks @_alialkhatib https://t.co/OwDV1Kbz91 2021-05-07 18:37:01 @_alialkhatib HCI is woeful 2021-05-07 18:28:43 If you’re not doing a Mean Girls remake or dropping an album reviving 90s Hip Hop, I promise you that calling the enemy a “clique” is not communicating what you think it is. Let it go, let it goo https://t.co/pibKyvfr89 2021-05-07 18:14:48 @CopyrightLibn I can’t figure out if Baldwin saying he ain’t joining nothing, he can only bear witness is brilliant or a cop out 2021-05-07 18:11:31 And then be relieved with the critical theorists until you realize “the ways in which” they’ll never organize anything but a study group? Yelling Free someone who’s been locked up since you came up- 2021-05-07 18:11:30 Does anyone else take two steps back to the Jacobin leftists b/c they be understanding political economy and leave again cuz they’re like “Malcom X died before he became a revolutionary” while crying about Graeber every quarter? 2021-05-07 17:45:27 Why does so much of the opposition sound like a remix of the state? Repetition all the way down... https://t.co/rDcDuzZxT3 https://t.co/0V2cx7mG8t 2021-05-07 17:04:01 RT @nullvoidstar: An uncomfortable, but necessary, question for many of us (myself included) to reflect on. As much as I want it to be the… 2021-05-07 16:57:55 Blackness is not an instrument for your supremacy 2021-05-07 16:54:25 this is why I don’t want to live in Park Slope with white people eagerly propping Black Lives Matter and Rainbow Flags reading no human being is illegal in their window 2021-05-07 16:46:47 When signifying solidarity hails liberalism, who is solidarity actually being sought with? 2021-05-07 16:45:01 Signifiers < 2021-05-07 16:43:54 Do we want to dismantle systems of harm or build up a cottage industry regulating, critiquing and raising awareness of harm? < 2021-05-07 16:40:54 Do we really want to get free or do we want to criminalize those who harm us? 2021-05-07 16:14:55 @GGHaile2 @wdavison10 Please don’t come on my timeline dry snitching I would have tagged him if I desired. Thank you 2021-05-07 14:33:19 I just...people love seeking justice using the model of criminal courts. Harm happens for all type of reasons, people get labeled as “perpetrators” for all types of reasons that have nothing to do w/ harming a child. Can we divest from carceral logics please? https://t.co/MksEKhqX2a 2021-05-07 14:27:54 @robynallison And not for nothing, parents and/or children with disabilities are over represented in removal. Providing supports to a parent w/ an intellectual disability for example is wayyyy less harmful than removing a kid into foster care or residential 2021-05-07 14:25:35 @robynallison I think specificity matters, the intervention required when a parent is slapping a child as a form of discipline vs slapping a child in rage vs putting cigarettes out on their flesh are different even if all are harmful 2021-05-07 14:20:41 RT @jklmd123: @UpFromTheCracks Yep, and in adoption, and foster care, they blame the child's "attachment issues" with no consideration of t… 2021-05-07 14:20:34 RT @jklmd123: @UpFromTheCracks It's not surprising. Who controls the narrative, and who benefits from this industry? 2021-05-07 14:20:32 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @jklmd123 Yes it’s interesting how this rising tide revisiting childhood norms is totally sidestepping FFY and adoptee… 2021-05-07 14:14:28 @jklmd123 Yes it’s interesting how this rising tide revisiting childhood norms is totally sidestepping FFY and adoptees... 2021-05-07 14:11:44 RT @EricPSB: .@UpFromTheCracks thoroughly captures what makes #WoO3 so distinct and simultaneously so powerful. 2021-05-07 14:08:34 I have one kid who “exhibited very difficult behaviors”, the best treatment we got was dyadic therapy where I learned to become more attuned to his needs through play since his verbal expression was limited Repairing relationships> 2021-05-07 14:02:33 “Perpetrator” same carceral matrix. That does nothing in service of children. Carceral systems individualize, it makes “perpetrators” and “victims”. It presents the only solution as demanding “children’s rights” but rights are about an individual when kids live in families 2021-05-07 13:55:17 Legally, huge difference b/c child welfare will snatch up your kid for a spanking, put them into places where unspeakable things happen and prescribe them antipsychotics for the aftermath. Ijs “Abuse” is a policing category we can center kids w/o using cop language https://t.co/6EbI2NtcC8 2021-05-07 13:31:35 @FBedaso It’s the “an Ethiopia analyst.” for me...like he’s a letter away 2021-05-07 13:29:06 RT @mikarv: Meanwhile the @ObfuscationWS, happening now, runs entirely on the open source @bigbluebutton 2021-05-07 13:28:59 RT @mikarv: Privatised scholarly infrastructure can vanish before your eyes. 2021-05-07 13:22:35 @lifewinning https://t.co/mhoEeWnqyM 2021-05-07 13:12:39 @Leberlaus @EvaFitMiller sometimes it might seem like why is an adoptee sounding like the system and it’s because they’re an employee of the system. Foster/adoption agencies spend lots of money on “advocates” 2021-05-07 12:55:34 RT @Combsthepoet: Check it out!! 2021-05-07 12:55:17 @zararah Thank you 2021-05-07 12:53:10 The pressing challenge for Abiy is the people resisting state violence not the state violence? Make it make sense. 2021-05-07 12:50:16 “With the conflict in Tigray set to continue, and many people there supporting armed resistance and even secession, the pressing challenge for the prime minister is holding the country together rather than how to further unify it,” William Davison https://t.co/kSvgRERvmO 2021-05-07 12:45:57 @robyncaplan LOL no, no they do not 2021-05-07 12:36:42 @llmunro @jklmd123 Sent! 2021-05-07 12:20:56 @jklmd123 @llmunro Also this is open access, incredible article he wrote about invoking the 13th amendment in child welfare. https://t.co/zHTbg4Ra52 2021-05-07 12:19:17 @jklmd123 @llmunro This is an excellent book that shows the systematic transfer of children from a protected group to another is a violation of article 2(e) of the genocide convention. If you want I can email you a pdf. https://t.co/N6TkjKFS1d 2021-05-07 12:04:34 @EvaFitMiller (Non adoptee disclaimer) foster care/adoption agencies pay for their own resistance ie advocacy is a line item on their budget so some divisiveness is just the continued reach of the multi billion $ industry 2021-05-07 11:52:05 @AvieGravey Let me tell you in 1999, the empire felt otherwise... 2021-05-07 11:44:01 Did you really have oppositional defiant disorder or were you just a gender non compliant Loving v Virginia abomination w/ a super Muslim last name in the wake of Columbine + 9/11 with zero f***s to give? 2021-05-06 22:08:30 @aurabogado Congratulations!! 2021-05-06 22:08:11 RT @ASME1963: Ellies 2021: . . . @reveal "U.S. Detained Migrant Children for Far Longer Than Previously Known," co-published by the @latime… 2021-05-06 20:23:11 RT @hcdeUW: The Otherwise School, a new summer program aimed at developing tools and techniques of counter-fascism. Led by HCDE Prof @suche… 2021-05-06 20:11:20 @jathansadowski @mer__edith Fair fair, sorry not an attack on your larger point maybe was making more of an *in group* comment- not about adjudicating anyone’s goodness but more like gig work is people who must leave home to work and asking what is the relationship to those who are forced to be home to live 2021-05-06 14:52:21 @mariamnotmiriam Yes and did you see the whole thing about ADL designing “diversity curriculum” for Bay Area schools? The layers... 2021-05-06 14:45:59 @Dill__Does Yes I normally don’t play pitty pat w/ trolls but I legit was curious at first about what the reasoning of someone from academia who is liking abolition and deleuze . But this was v anti climactic 2021-05-06 14:36:23 The fact that you can only imagine me being in the university if I’m on my knees, licking boots... https://t.co/7bvEb0h5X6 2021-05-06 14:29:57 It’s the “my readers” for me. Like white leftists really out here w/ Substack/Patreon political subjectivity, I’m dead at leaving academia to crowdfund Spinoza writings as evidence of some moral high ground against me siphoning money from the academy to everyday people https://t.co/crFw5nWAf8 2021-05-06 14:17:44 @ft_variations Lol I was hoping this wasn’t just a white leftist academic who thought they have some moral high ground b/c they transitioned to crowdsourcing their Spinoza reflections, if you only knew how ridiculous this entire line of inquiry is 2021-05-06 14:12:06 RT @jararocha: thank you so much for your kind words and political appreciation of our endeavour, @UpFromTheCracks! Certainly a pleasure to… 2021-05-06 14:09:01 @ft_variations Ok in all seriousness, you QT’d an ad hominem attack based on it being university affiliated, you seem to be connected to the academic world and your bio is linked to Patreon which suggests you think that’s the more ethical route. Ijs what’s the reasoning here? 2021-05-06 13:56:47 @ft_variations Lol imho just curious on your rationale here, all of our mutual seem to be academics. Should people only learn about counter fascism from programs supported by Patreon? 2021-05-06 13:41:42 @mer__edith @jathansadowski 1000% which is why I think just focusing on the behavior of elitist white women let’s a lot of other factors off the hook. The solution is not primarily more benevolent consumer behavior, but a functioning social safety-which would undermine private platform exploitation of gig w 2021-05-06 13:30:00 @mer__edith @jathansadowski There’s for sure white women out here acting like cartoon villains but I think vilifying white women has more currency than highlighting racialized disability/access questions. This is a v common thread in Black n disabled spaces 2021-05-06 13:21:47 @mer__edith @jathansadowski Yes I guess I’ve also experienced Uber drivers calling my kids niggers and forcing us to get out in the middle of the street so I think a relational lens is needed here. Like it’s not just Becky wanting door dash to come faster 2021-05-06 13:15:51 RT @zararah: Incredible opportunity to dive into issues of tech and power with super thoughtful collaborators 2021-05-06 13:15:44 @jathansadowski “Gig Work” is basically what home attendants have been doing, they’re not generally considered tech workers but are also subject to Electronic Visit Verification (EVV), The ways disabled ppl and Home Health Aides have resisted together offers a potential model of solidarity 2021-05-06 13:12:31 @jathansadowski My 2 cents, Codifying all forms of reliance on others for logistics as entitled demands for servants assumes this is always optional or based on convenience. Gig work is coupled w/ dismantling of social safety net, many people who rely on these svcs are also marginalized 2021-05-06 12:56:43 RT @DrKimSue: Bad drug policy. These state “drug paraphernalia” laws that criminalize equipment - sometimes including fentanyl test strips,… 2021-05-06 12:51:36 Still cracking up at the Ethiopianist who wrote Columbia HR claiming I was failing as their “preeminent diversity tsar” (which was my user name #onhere for a minute). The best part is imagining HR desperately scrambling to figure out whether they have a diversity tsar 2021-05-06 12:47:41 @veenadubal @mer__edith “Domestic violence prevention” reads v different based on class, for poor people that’s like an immediate red flag cuz DV shelters are ran by policing agencies and the Non profits are like investment vehicles ran by post-scandal city officials 2021-05-06 12:42:15 @ObfuscationWS Lol gracias (my bad) 2021-05-06 12:41:01 RT @ObfuscationWS: Thanks @UpFromTheCracks for the heads up. We encourage those joining us tomorrow at the workshop to check out the pre-re… 2021-05-06 12:40:50 RT @ObfuscationWS: @UpFromTheCracks and the link to the website of the third iteration 2021-05-06 12:40:39 @FBedaso The documentary was devastating yet it also left me wanting analysis, it depicted all this wanton suffering and UN/western apathy w/ no historical context or curiosity about how this coffin like existence is maintained (n by whom b/c Afwerki could easily be deposed by the west) 2021-05-06 12:34:11 “YouTubian beta males” https://t.co/bdG4SicMUd 2021-05-06 12:22:00 TLDR you know @ObfuscationWS is dope if I’m out here willing to promote something CT adjacent LOL. Come through, check out their resources, tour the platframe and take notes b/c this is what we need more of in the world https://t.co/CsyRVQwVGP 2021-05-06 12:19:17 Super excited today to do a workshop on sound design with @reni_tentia for the @ObfuscationWS study group. We’ll be discussing our tech stack (and what’s the furthest possibilities when avoiding commercial cloud based software) 2021-05-06 12:15:34 questions of access, sustainability and the cost/benefit analysis of various obfuscation strategies are explored in a report from the second annual Conf. Def recommend reading for #abolitionists and activists thinking thru privacy +counter-surveillance https://t.co/69HeFaioph 2021-05-06 12:15:33 In an era where default is recorded Zoom lectures, chat turned off, moderated QA and no clear archival plan beyond save to YouTube- the thoughtful intentionality of @sedyst @jararocha and other organizers really stands out 2021-05-06 12:15:32 the @ObfuscationWS is doing something really unique that I don’t think we’ve fully reckoned with yet When I’m moaning about mutual aid reliance on private infrastructure, it’s b/c we need to take the risk of building our own, applying a critical praxis-which is what they did 2021-05-06 11:56:11 RT @mayameme: The 3rd workshop on Obfuscation is the tech conference you want to be at all day May 7, Friday, at your local internet. I lov… 2021-05-06 11:39:38 @netabomani Or did they tell you to fix your face and it’s stuck like that to this day... 2021-05-06 11:37:11 I don’t play video games but yeah the idea that people are out here adhering to fictional laws afraid of the unspoken possibility of breaking them to benefit another player’s life tracks https://t.co/inKgESrr28 2021-05-06 11:33:30 RT @BostonJoan: I keep trying to reason with myself that eventually people will stop parroting the PR line on this Oversight board and star… 2021-05-06 11:33:22 Ameen https://t.co/pNmRQ6wj0p 2021-05-06 10:25:31 @FBedaso Thanks 2021-05-06 10:24:21 RT @FBedaso: Great opportunity especially for activists from Historically marginalized communities in Ethiopia & 2021-05-06 01:37:47 RT @PalmTreesnGz: This is so incredible. An amazing opportunity. Check this out @itsmonakhalil 2021-05-05 22:23:21 @Combsthepoet Thank you 2021-05-05 19:27:51 @MistressSnowPhD Long day lol 2021-05-05 19:27:22 @MistressSnowPhD Lol my bad I thought that was for otherwise school. Deleted 2021-05-05 19:24:08 RT @alexhanna: Amazing looking summer school! 2021-05-05 19:24:01 @alexhanna thank you 2021-05-05 19:14:37 @hypervisible I mean why does their resurrection of historically failed approaches not produce a legitimacy crisis for the broader public? Like the issue isn’t that it won’t *work* but that the “nudge” theory of social change is what produced the very problem it’s claiming to solve 2021-05-05 19:07:19 @hypervisible https://t.co/Z6jhju7TXA 2021-05-05 19:04:29 @hypervisible Same wave, I just am caught between pointing out these v obvious problems and wondering why they continue to deploy failed political projects without any real loss of legitimacy? Like what’s not clicking for people 2021-05-05 19:01:25 @hypervisible I bet this produces more administrative overhead for Black users whose language gets inevitably encoded by NLP lexicons as “mean” at higher rates 2021-05-05 18:59:25 @hypervisible Social media companies addressing structural problems with behaviorism for the end user is not an encouraging direction 2021-05-05 18:35:57 Gut wrenching and am meditating on many things incl. who gets to tell the stories, who does the UN and ICC serve, what are the remedies beyond relying on the same actors that got us here? https://t.co/2h39nzmzXC 2021-05-05 17:12:29 RT @mariamnotmiriam: this is honestly such a dream opportunity– 9 days left to apply! 2021-05-05 16:08:02 @bigblackjacobin Thank you for sharing :)) 2021-05-05 16:07:49 RT @bigblackjacobin: This is open to everyone! No degree or institutional affiliation required! Virtual as well! HIGHLY recommend applying… 2021-05-05 15:54:21 This is why counter-fascism is both deeply needed and hard to deploy, the communities we’re most deeply accountable to (and a part of) are under attack. https://t.co/xoCqAMWadA 2021-05-05 15:51:33 RT @suchetaghoshal: If I wasn't constantly worried about losing family back home and tweeting about oxygen cylinders and necropolitics in p… 2021-05-05 15:50:55 RT @UpFromTheCracks: If you have any questions please contact us at Otherwise@uw.edu Please share widely #onhere and IRL More info avail… 2021-05-05 15:48:05 RT @balagonline: this has been in the works for almost a year! I’m so excited to finally share this news with everyone!! Honored to co-edit… 2021-05-05 15:42:08 RT @UpFromTheCracks: This 6 week intensive will include keynotes w/ @timnitGebru +@DocDre Workshops w/ activists + scholars incl. @southe… 2021-05-05 15:42:05 RT @UpFromTheCracks: This is a collaboration between @suchetaghoshal’s Inquilab @hcdeUW and @WeBeImagining. We’ll be analyzing tech and pow… 2021-05-05 15:39:55 PS https://t.co/AFqNMeEyOq 2021-05-05 15:39:18 Lol I forgot to add this is VIRTUAL no expectations to be moving to the Pacific Northwest for 6 weeks https://t.co/QX1ZJTBD7q 2021-05-05 15:24:03 @amanjeev There’s no requirements beyond like not being a fascist. Plus having availability, so please apply 2021-05-05 15:21:21 @movfamilypower Thank you !! @movfamilypower 2021-05-05 15:21:10 RT @movfamilypower: Amazing opportunity alert! 2021-05-05 15:14:49 If you have any questions please contact us at Otherwise@uw.edu Please share widely #onhere and IRL More info available on our site https://t.co/oe8yjT8p2w 2021-05-05 12:09:47 https://t.co/dM2sT5HAzv 2021-05-05 11:30:48 RT @JMacForFamilies: After Mungai's daughter was immediately placed in an foster home. She had weekly one-hour visits with her daughter in… 2021-05-05 01:52:57 RT @cemicool: "From the time it started sharing stats last April, Cuomo’s Department of Health had only shared numbers of those who died wi… 2021-05-05 01:44:07 @safiyanoble +1 I stand by your work n many of the academics featured which is why I question what feels like a sinophobic framing superimposed on top of the film. I’ve read Algorithms of Oppression, Weapons of Math Destruction, Gender Shades etc. and it’s not DoD Stan fiction so I’m curious 2021-05-05 01:36:16 @DocDre https://t.co/JfZnRJzetN 2021-05-05 01:22:48 RT @misskitila: “applicable to organizations and individuals who collaborate, have links with or RELATE TO THE IDEAS...” Is it 2021 or 198… 2021-05-05 00:13:50 Zizek’s philosophy > 2021-05-04 22:35:32 @SanNuvola @fdbckfdfwd It’s problematic to have the only Chinese national or person of Chinese descent for that matter on camera be uncritical. This was not the only option. 2021-05-04 22:31:04 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @SanNuvola @fdbckfdfwd My concerns are: a) the only Chinese national featured was a consumer who was like “yay facia… 2021-05-04 22:29:34 @SanNuvola @fdbckfdfwd My concerns are: a) the only Chinese national featured was a consumer who was like “yay facial recognition” And b) most of the academics featured are not pumping out red scare narratives so it begs the question why this story arc was superimposed onto their research 2021-05-04 22:13:55 @jklmd123 Yes ! They’re the homies, that’s one of the best articles to come out 2021-05-04 22:11:42 @Schedule2CD 1000%, and am also saying we (collectively not individuals in the moment of crisis) can build public platforms/infrastructures for crowdfunding in the absence of like seizing state power/revolution etc 2021-05-04 20:40:37 @jathansadowski @bigblackjacobin +1 and the impulse that produces the signifier is always more important (and always breaking out of that wrapper anyway) The question for the left is can it see that possibility fast enough and break through the nihilism to do anything + thank you for reading moral collapse :) 2021-05-04 20:36:59 @bigblackjacobin @jathansadowski I think D& TLDR abandon fidelity to signifiers vs function 2021-05-04 20:20:36 @bigblackjacobin Deleted and corrected the typo which would have rendered this whole comment even more indecipherable lol 2021-05-04 20:19:57 @bigblackjacobin Idk isn’t this deleuze’s whole thing about post ideology there’s only desire, all signifiers will be captured we just have to seize the opportunity in its latency effect something something a schizophrenic politics 2021-05-04 19:49:59 @suchetaghoshal @mayameme Imperialism: https://t.co/REx33xmHdL 2021-05-04 18:07:57 @netabomani teamwork makes the dream work 2021-05-04 17:57:18 @netabomani Also clear your cache and cookies regularly b/c I find it integrates your behavior with contacts on other platforms. So if you’re emailing some politically painful person for a grant for example, suddenly their social network is first up in the feed 2021-05-04 17:53:27 @netabomani Fwiw I find if I deliberately engage w/ content creators I like outside of the liberal sphere at regular intervals ie penguin twitter, it produces a feed that serves me curated readings on topics of interest. 2021-05-04 17:50:57 @netabomani Imho tho I think the problem is also the algorithm encodes any micro interaction so if you pause in horror at colonial apology, it then prioritizes that in your feed 2021-05-04 15:50:02 Stares in “venn diagram between white supremacists appropriating Black language and claiming we cannot grasp theoretical language” https://t.co/kHWyKAz2Pl 2021-05-04 15:47:15 @JulianPosada0 Super substantive research my friend, thank you! 2021-05-04 15:44:02 Through @WeBeImagining’s nascent collaboration w/ @logic_magazine, I have learned first hand what a labor of love this magazine is. Subscribe, support and check out their latest issue: Distribution. https://t.co/cS9v031xzP 2021-05-04 15:32:22 @bsonenstein This is such an odd list, like Bensonhurst is v cop/caseworker vibes but increasingly Chinese immigrants. ENY is the closest signifier for "Black" n both v middle class + densely in projects. Then Flushing or Far Rockaway? Has this person been to NYC? what is this randomness? 2021-05-04 15:13:55 Platforms consider workers "micro-entrepreneurs" Payment is as low as US$0.5/hour and US$0.01/task. Wage theft is common, some are paid in cryptocurrency or gift cards https://t.co/kvNwoBhS9f 2021-05-04 14:43:26 Data annotation is the bedrock of tech, each of these platforms are coupled with NDAs and wage exploitation. The work they produce is used for NLP algorithms, IoT and Search Engines https://t.co/eEfqkj9h1H 2021-05-04 14:41:11 Posada examines the Venezuela case and identifies the economic, political and social basis for its over representation in data annotation. The hyperinflation and social crisis are exacerbated during COVID-19 https://t.co/Nq427aldAY 2021-05-04 14:41:09 Venezuela has the second highest percentage for web traffic of data annotation platforms. While Amazon Turk workers are underpaid, wages are significantly more depressed outside of the US https://t.co/ffcESZw0Ly 2021-05-04 14:29:22 Really enjoying this talk on Disembeddedness in Data Annotation for Machine Learning by @JulianPosada0 Provides a very rigorous economic analysis to situate this tech labor sector https://t.co/rAGRsDsWmd 2021-05-04 13:51:10 Are we ever going to talk about the way Coded Bias both shows the dangers of facial recognition and promotes US State Department propaganda with a framing of we need to hurry up and civilize AI before we end up living in a Chinese dystopia? https://t.co/qZOizSOqJz 2021-05-04 13:31:35 Most of the casework supervisors (and ACS middle management) be Russian and Italian from Bensonhurst, Staten Island or the white working class parts of Queens. The commissioners and directors are like 60% WASPs and and 39% Ashkenazi Jewish. They have this down to a science. 2021-05-04 13:27:46 The model encounter for ACS is a Nigerian caseworker removing a Black American child in the projects who’s 2 generations from the great migration. And then placing them into a Pentecostal Caribbean woman’s house who is on SSI and 55+ 2021-05-04 13:24:15 Everyday I have a new appreciation of why PWIs elect first gen African and Caribbean immigrants to be the spokespeople of a *universal* Blackness (and caseworkers, cops, correctional officers etc.) to the exclusion of Black Americans 2021-05-04 13:12:34 @franz_kassa Everyone is Black but where do you think those features associated with “Habesha” come from? How did light skinned, looser hair, more Eurocentric features -become the beauty ideal ? How do you get “Galla” from a homogeneous population? 2021-05-04 13:01:49 @franz_kassa and my point is also that this grasping at some kind of post or alternate racial schema in Ethiopia, is a liberalism that obscures an internal history of enslavement n indentured servitude in service of forming a nation state that has been a proxy from jump 2021-05-04 12:22:39 @franz_kassa Those classifications in Latin America are due to transatlantic slavery and colonization (and also do not map so neatly to complexion). All to say, in the #HoA “colorism” is a symptom not an explanation. We don’t talk enough about enslavement, indentured servitude and conquest 2021-05-04 12:08:51 @franz_kassa Mmm, are Ethiopians and Eritreans not Black everywhere else? 2021-05-04 12:06:55 @franz_kassa I binge watched their whole channel, they talk about race like white liberals which I wonder how connected it is to housing segregation between immigrants and AA peeps in places like Minnesota. Like in NYC, you’d go to at least HS in Harlem, you couldn’t be this separate from AA 2021-05-04 11:58:11 @TovOnTheRove I will say when my other kid was in EI he got “ABA” but it was really floortime. Sometimes due to Medicaid billing people brand it as one thing when it’s another. 2021-05-04 11:52:08 RT @awolallo: Today marks 6 months since the war in Tigray began. The Ethiopian gov't told the world that it will be a short operation with… 2021-05-04 11:43:58 @franz_kassa It’s the legacy of silence in the archives, how does this anti-Blackness get perpetrated so systematically among a Black people w/o a deeper history 2021-05-04 01:06:31 I found one in color...”I’m Black for the scholarship not like pant sagging Black. That’s African American, not Ethiopian or Eritrean” https://t.co/841EeDwL2Q 2021-05-03 21:57:30 RT @ninamonei: I think the most fundamentally harmful and anti-Black idea that people seem to struggle the most with letting go of is that… 2021-05-03 21:50:22 @undersequoias Phantom empathy for call center employee scarcity #Optimization 2021-05-03 21:47:22 And this cross account drop like the needed to beat the tabloids? I’m dead 2021-05-03 21:46:18 Why does this sound like a shareholder update? https://t.co/cWvN3ZwSPo 2021-05-03 21:09:09 @ninamonei The struggle is also the coordinated funding. people have whole dissertations, foundations, nonprofits on “fixing” Black people 2021-05-03 17:50:20 S/o to @opendoorsnyc for hooking me up with a Nursing Home Lives Matter Hoodie!! and check out these survivors of gun violence w/ spinal cord injuries who formed an artist and activist collective at HHC Coler Nursing Home #NHLM https://t.co/RqSFqZ5g3c https://t.co/CieN09qnkL 2021-05-03 17:44:57 RT @UpFromTheCracks: I want to create a public repository of the vast archives I have on ACS (ie contracts, procurement policies, concept p… 2021-05-03 17:22:45 RT @mer__edith: I woke up to about 5 NYU emails about talks, etc. this week. What on EARTH?! If you're speaking at @NYU know there's a st… 2021-05-03 15:03:21 RT @movfamilypower: We are now tweeting LIVE from the #ReimagineSupport press conference, which will run from 10AM-12PM Eastern. Join us,@J… 2021-05-03 15:03:15 RT @movfamilypower: We are now joined by activist Joyce McMillan of @JMacForFamilies, whose life was torn apart by the family regulation sy… 2021-05-03 15:02:53 RT @movfamilypower: ...This undermines the importance of trust-building between health and social service providers and patients that can i… 2021-05-03 15:02:50 RT @movfamilypower: “Every day, new parents are being separated from their newborns due to drug and alcohol treatments that are not consen… 2021-05-03 13:04:03 @rzhongnotes Solidarity. Ethiopian nationalists wrote to Columbia HR claiming I was failing as “the preeminent diversity tsar” (was my twitter name at the time) 2021-05-03 12:54:45 I should say attempted to silence her as she is very vocal about the ongoing harm of Big Tech. However, asking these big questions in the absence of institutional support undermines our ability to mitigate harm. Google’s firing of leading AI ethics researchers compromises us all 2021-05-03 02:21:20 RT @GebrekirstosG: Help me list Tigrayan initiatives, organizations or associations that sprung up after the start of the war on Tigray. @… 2021-05-03 02:15:09 For sure, this is not to say “gotcha” to people just trying to survive (and those coming together to assist as we always have) but private infrastructure for mutual aid is not inevitable. I do think (collectively) we can try to build something for and by the people https://t.co/7VSy3hZHl6 2021-05-03 02:12:06 RT @JJRodV: This is likely a very unpopular opinion. I also want to hold in tension that we use the systems available to us to survive and… 2021-05-03 02:09:42 @AFDudley0 @DanRaile I don’t know what the answer is at that level but I think we have to be critical about what we’re ceding ground to in relying on GFM/Cash App etc. yes to mutual aid but we have to build a public infrastructure somehow before it’s too late 2021-05-02 22:46:14 @SalmaanFarooqui Thank you for sharing this -is a very substantive piece on what institutional memory likes to omit 2021-05-02 22:42:32 RT @SalmaanFarooqui: I wrote about this a couple years ago, but couldn’t have imagined how much vaccines would make headlines around the wo… 2021-05-02 22:28:13 RT @CrumblesWithJoy: AND this is why, among other reasons, there's such a strong resistance to vaccination within Pak. only Pak and Afghani… 2021-05-02 22:18:33 Ten years ago, the CIA ran a fake vaccine drive to catch a villain of their own making https://t.co/O5PhC0pwOv https://t.co/inGRDehg7C 2021-05-02 22:08:45 @commieberry Also https://t.co/74aHNxydHV 2021-05-02 22:07:45 @DanRaile Rhetorically no, in practice everywhere 2021-05-02 21:20:21 @commieberry Have you seen the personality test movie on HBO? I feel like that captures the point of "services" classifying and sorting greater percentages of the population via a mechanism that will not produce the same backlash as removal/detention 2021-05-02 20:32:42 India has the largest diaspora. The reality that remittances can’t save us from COVID necropolitics is not surprising but overwhelming nonetheless 2021-05-02 20:28:29 RT @pfeil: they need fluent speakers of: Arabic Bengali Chinese Greek Haitian Creole Hebrew Russian Polish Spanish Urdu Yiddish 2021-05-02 20:28:20 RT @mirafahrenheit: New York friends/friends of New York: There is a dire need for bilingual support at vaccination sites all over the city… 2021-05-02 20:21:55 @PalmTreesnGz Office hours are like my entire relationship to the academy LOLOL altho I’ve never went to any for the few classes I’ve signed up for in life 2021-05-02 20:19:16 @noname FWIW,I found this v helpful context to Afropessimism, b/c there’s strands of nihilism that are nonsensical to me and feel v related to class (w/in the Black community), the mini-biography of Wilderson here had me like ohhhh ok I get it now https://t.co/NyA0LOGylv 2021-05-02 20:07:01 @PalmTreesnGz Office hours > 2021-05-02 19:51:38 RT @NAPW: May 3 @ 10am ET | Join the Reimagine Support Press Conference to support the Informed Consent Bill & 2021-05-02 19:48:39 But unlike the ER we’re not receiving state funding,we’re not developing more sustainable infrastructure b/c we thought it was just temporary,just a stopgap for each individual until the check come,or release from jail,or remission from cancer,but it’s not temporary or individual 2021-05-02 14:04:10 In the wake of the MOVE bombing remains being held by the Penn Museum and reading the Lost Children of Wilder, I’m reminded of the bizarre role the Museum of Natural History continues to play in legitimizing “Black deviance” a kind of therapeutic eugenics. This continues today https://t.co/kGx2fvx4GP 2021-05-02 00:36:03 RT @jewishsf: Not long ago, Gugulethu Moyo, a Black Jew and genocide survivor from Zimbabwe, was celebrated as the ideal new leader of Tucs… 2021-05-01 23:43:14 @mer__edith “I skimmed critical race theory and added it to this CS conference” merging w/ “what about China” is the interdisciplinary paper 2021-05-01 23:25:42 @slagthompson Rastafarianism is problematic in the US b/c Hoteps basically but the colonial mindset in the Ethiopian context is striking. Did you find any evidence otherwise? 2021-05-01 23:09:50 Imho the Obama years were hard, but imagine if self proclaimed Pan Africanists moved into your neighborhood claiming him as God and savior of all Black people. The world is such a strange place. 2021-05-01 23:09:49 Watching this doc on Rastafarians in Ethiopia. Yo their children explaining how the parents avoid Oromo people in Shashamane because they keep talking about his imperial majesty murdered so many people is so tragic comic https://t.co/ZgpRdiDjP3 2021-05-01 17:33:48 RT @DorothyERoberts: American Psychiatric Association apologized for psychiatry’s racist past, including diagnosing enslaved people with “d… 2021-05-01 17:30:35 RT @BlackStarFest: The application for this year's BlackStar Pitch is now open! 8 filmmakers will pitch their nonfiction shorts during this… 2021-05-01 17:26:50 RT @mer__edith: Thinking about the sacrilege Janet Monge & 2021-05-01 17:14:54 RT @suchetaghoshal: Sustaining a public hospital w worker-centered health infra has forever been key for survival. Many in India have been… 2021-05-01 17:14:52 RT @suchetaghoshal: The way my father & 2021-05-01 17:14:48 RT @suchetaghoshal: Some news re: apocalypse back home. I am amazed at the level of work mutual aid infrastructures and care networks are… 2021-05-01 17:14:40 @DainaRameyBerry @mer__edith Loved your work @DainaRameyBerry since I saw your speak at Dorothy Roberts’ UPenn Slavery Symposium 2021-05-01 16:37:48 People going to jail on the back of presumed guilt in the UK, pass through liability in contracts, Toronto making payday type loans...academics never cover this much ground in 3 minute intervals lol https://t.co/Va9LB7wZdf 2021-05-01 16:31:26 Imho this is a deep ass clip on public service, privatization, automation and care. Worth taking the 5 minutes even if you’re not Canadian https://t.co/N8mPqWehsi 2021-05-01 16:09:19 https://t.co/EWRRZyjTDr 2021-05-01 14:31:53 Nvm the American lobbyists hired by the PP in the wake of this war (and its failed branding as law + order), the eager privatization that has been in lockstep with political repression or the template for authoritarianism often credited to Afwerki but v much George Bush 9/11 flow 2021-05-01 14:31:52 Headlines of strongly worded *concern* about “the Tigray situation” by US senators are bitter irony. Like Facebook who claims they’re investing significant resources to tracking mis/disinfo for the upcoming Ethio election, the US would like us to attend to the immediate- 2021-05-01 14:31:51 The US funded Ethiopia for years as its ally on the War on Terror, knowing those funds were siphoned to torturing and executing Oromo dissidents. This legacy echoes in the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Tigray, repression against the Oromos and the lexicon deployed here by Abiy https://t.co/NCwx0sKow8 2021-05-01 13:40:35 He stormed always saying “no justice, no peace” followed by “it’s time for retaliation” omg 2021-05-01 13:36:47 My son over here talking about “the oppression, the deprivation, he demands equal rights to get on Roblox” 2021-05-01 12:58:11 @EremiasWmikael Oof, also Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism is damning in this way. The way financialization produces dispossession and captures it as product to be sold as form of “inclusion”... 2021-05-01 00:58:16 RT @WIRED: WIRED’s Resilience Residency is a unique opportunity for non-journalists to report on powerful stories from their changing profe… 2021-04-30 22:39:58 Late but happy to have made it https://t.co/pN2EVKiUCl 2021-04-30 20:50:42 RT @BxRebirth: We are so grateful for all the support we have received in the last year! We ask folks to continue to support this work whet… 2021-04-30 20:50:28 RT @BxRebirth: Today is our One Year Anniversary!! Here is a thread of the work we’ve done over the last year https://t.co/nGn9LA5rtl 2021-04-30 20:34:43 What’s sick about how evil ACS is, it incentivizes you not to help a parent with an ACS case because you don’t want to deal with caseworkers at your house, strip searching and traumatizing your kids 2021-04-30 19:29:03 Can we extend this demand to the “Global south”? so many videos of rape, torture, execution circulating and reproduced in decontextualized articles where the plot is reduced to the moment of Black death and violence as if Blackness (and by extension African-ness) was the cause https://t.co/xdYDGckY8s 2021-04-30 17:55:55 @ninamonei Please do, only people who have actually been through these systems understand how much money cities invest in producing this cycle of displacement. 2021-04-30 17:53:37 RT @ninamonei: I could write a book on the uselessness of these laws + the programs that spring from them. The number of rapid rehousing pr… 2021-04-30 17:44:49 the social safety net is not an addendum to the carceral continuum but central to it. Please fund more Black women like Nina who are/were poor so we can go beyond the webinar echo chambers + expand our implementation of abolition https://t.co/1reRx82hHm 2021-04-30 17:19:12 What I know too, is a lot of foster parents maximize their checks by getting an older foster child to watch the rest. Whether you think it was safe or not for the mom to leave the children alone, the idea that this wouldn’t happen in foster care is delusional. https://t.co/ZoJWTNQdcs 2021-04-30 17:14:59 All of this, and to those saying CPS should have been called, we don’t know why an adult wasn’t home but we know certainly kids are at risk for serious injury or murder when placed into foster care https://t.co/gXR2e5vrSm 2021-04-30 16:05:13 Def want to read this and thought might be of interest to your work/research @ninamonei https://t.co/GTB3dfUaMn 2021-04-30 16:02:56 h/t @nkrishnaswami for putting me onto this piece. Very critical component to understanding anti-Blackness' central role in child welfare post-reconstruction to the present #AbolishACS #AbolishCPS https://t.co/YNGpdHM5Ui 2021-04-30 13:59:31 @eripsa Lol also tripods should not tend to vital infrastructure 2021-04-30 13:23:25 @BurukAregawi Look at @/motembi1’s followers, on here. It’s Likely that’s the answer to who started it 2021-04-30 13:13:14 @BurukAregawi Prior to the protest they had a donation link in their IG bio, if anyone has that link DM me maybe we can figure out who is behind this. 2021-04-30 12:41:33 @BurukAregawi Is the name of the organization Motembi? I cannot find them beyond social media, would be helpful to know who is funding this shameless disinformation campaign 2021-04-30 12:35:06 Exhibit C of what @sedyst always reminds me, cellphones are not our individual devices, they are a node in a privatized ICT infrastructure subject to state and multinational surveillance 2021-04-30 12:35:05 “Advocates also worry that the NYPD is illegally cracking into devices even amid mounting demands to scrap what they called the department's opaque and bloated gang and DNA databases.” https://t.co/HNL1JpqAA6 2021-04-30 12:30:12 NYPD using the Boston Dynamics robot was viscerally horrifying but the critique needs to be deeper than it looks scary b/c National Grid deploying the same robot is less visible to the public and still horrifying https://t.co/X47lM8cj5v 2021-04-30 12:25:35 RT @funnymonkey: It's not often that you get this succinct a summary of our failures on gun control, our failures to protect students, the… 2021-04-30 11:59:32 on one hand I cannot just share endless articles that feel like souvenirs of the lynchings, but on the other hand how does ethnic cleansing become transposed as “the Tigray situation” verb “put off” given to the subject, telecom companies. https://t.co/u3S8BLivRM https://t.co/F7dQXPYHad 2021-04-30 11:48:47 RT @rapturemyles: @museummammy every they ain’t we 2021-04-30 11:45:36 @franz_kassa Or to just be Black and/or Trans since facial recognition is notoriously bad at recognizing both and sex offender registries are also used to criminalize Black and/or Trans people 2021-04-30 11:43:53 Worth noting that Verkada is the same company that had a major security breach earlier this year https://t.co/NkxAwIKL95 2021-04-29 23:45:08 “The student union took action to confront the pressure cooker environment that drives so many students to despair [at Stuyvesant]” But Black people are supposed to be having some kind of existential crisis for not getting in. Y’all could have that https://t.co/mrKiFF6Tdu 2021-04-29 23:36:24 If middle class white people would put their fly in the buttermilk quest down for one second, maybe we could get the article on how specialized high schools are undesirable STEM factories dragging cattle to be slaughtered for techno capitalism. https://t.co/EEa8hsaEtd 2021-04-29 20:47:43 RT @vauhinivara: Which literary agents have consistently been sensitive and successful in representing non-white writers? Let's make a list. 2021-04-29 20:44:37 RT @JuliaAngwin: This week, Facebook VP Monica Bickert told Congress that financial service ads can't use microtargeting. But we found tha… 2021-04-29 19:57:11 RT @m_schachter4: “I never met one single Black family that asked me, ‘What’s ACS?’” she said. “There’s one group of people walking around… 2021-04-29 19:51:48 Reviews are one of my favorite genres of internet writing. Couldn’t have said it better myself. #AbolishACS #AbolishCPS https://t.co/q4rHyvUvfB 2021-04-29 17:06:33 Aside from bookmarks, twitters’ discovery function and curation through hashtags is excellent. Look up #CAPmonth and the network of policing is neatly curated for you https://t.co/XLZTC4Ul7L 2021-04-29 17:03:20 Everyday I’m reminded why Sorry to Bother you is such a prophetic documentary 2021-04-29 16:55:23 RT @balagonline: Im back at it! Thursday I’ll be talking about sylvia wynter, cedric robinson, and world systems. 3pm CT! https://t.co/4z… 2021-04-29 15:00:46 @chicanocyborg Thank youuuu 2021-04-29 13:23:29 The idea that the same Ethiopian government massacring, detaining indefinitely without charges and systematically raping Tigrayan people is setting up a hotline to report ethnic discrimination is too Kafka-esque to process https://t.co/zqaajCvape 2021-04-29 13:18:55 @RLuckom I think it’s so inconceivable for most people what public space on the internet would even mean. It’s not just that the “how this works” is hidden but privatization is so deeply default people can’t conceive of the alternative 2021-04-29 12:54:46 A less technical summary of the paper by @Ana__Bastos and @kaaze7 available here “Fungi are Key to CO2 response of soil” https://t.co/f0qI3F9jzE https://t.co/qR6C98VLzi 2021-04-29 12:49:19 Fascinating paper - reveals the limitations of computational modeling of soil/plant biomass relationship (overestimating the soil organic carbon sequestration potential of forests)vs a rhizosphere model (that shows fungi are key to CO2 response of soil) @chicanocyborg https://t.co/VVdZ9kCMu7 2021-04-29 11:23:20 I think quitting social media does not address the fact that we need to build public space on the internet (beyond magazines as is suggested) but this is an excellent primer on social media algorithms https://t.co/6wmkYVnhD7 2021-04-29 11:15:34 RT @movfamilypower: Black and brown parents bear the brunt of the family regulation system and they and their newborns are targeted by hosp… 2021-04-28 23:09:39 @DocDre @JoelakaMaG Your precision here @JoelakaMaG is art 2021-04-28 22:06:39 @misskitila Their style is more along the lines of “we are currently looking to hiring @oliviasolon as a consultant, b/c that’s how you neutralize critics” 2021-04-28 21:49:43 RT @jathansadowski: Extremely dark omen for the economy and society when every quarter for Alphabet and Amazon is now "record breaking" and… 2021-04-28 21:48:39 wE ARe LOokINg InTO wHAt haPPEneD https://t.co/5U6t34nHPh 2021-04-28 21:47:16 RT @azadessa: Modi shut the internet down in Kashmir for around 150 days, cutting off 7 million ppl from the rest of the world, impacting h… 2021-04-28 21:41:26 RT @NeerajKA: Twitter is complying with takedown requests from the Indian government https://t.co/RtqlzVv2os 2021-04-28 21:39:26 RT @oliviasolon: Some context https://t.co/s1WLfGShXG 2021-04-28 21:38:54 @DocDre Have you met a caseworker or correctional officer 2021-04-28 21:37:45 @fosterhood @NYSOPWDD I don’t ever trust quiet rooms, I used to be in there for hours for refusing to drink milk at each meal. Plus, any special Ed NPS in NYC where white people are a minority is abusive. There’s a lack of programs so if white people are not trying to get in, there’s a reason 2021-04-28 21:27:55 @fosterhood @NYSOPWDD The League is exactly like the residential school I grew up in as a kid, I was so traumatized I left mid tour. It was so horrifying to see nothing has changed in 20 years 2021-04-28 21:24:30 @fosterhood Ding ding 2021-04-28 21:21:43 @fosterhood I just...the options if he gets labeled as “aggressive” or SED are indistinguishable from prison. I still have nightmares from the school where all 3 “quiet rooms” were full during the 9 am tour 2021-04-28 21:19:29 Yo @facebook has show us repeatedly that they are willing to silence political dissent to make nice with (and profit from) authoritarian regimes. We have to develop new strategies to weaken their grip. #ResignModi https://t.co/Lk7V7R1EGV 2021-04-28 21:17:27 The way @facebook will profit from and promote genocide while banning @standwkashmir from digital resistance against Hindu fascism and military occupation is unspeakable. We need #PublicInterestTech https://t.co/Oi0fwflXLc 2021-04-28 21:13:33 “We’d like to schedule an exploratory meeting about comparative settings” translation for non parents is therapeutic words for “we gon kick his ass out so you need to find another school” 2021-04-28 16:31:12 RT @SBSNews: Stolen Generation survivors in the Northern Territory are suing the federal government for their forcible removal from family… 2021-04-28 15:41:51 Honored to be included in the @NCCPR news round up. Wexler's blog was one of the very first resources I found when I began my journey to dismantle the family regulation system. Follow them :) https://t.co/A7joaaV8DS 2021-04-28 14:07:17 This is precisely why we have to complicate our use of “hate speech” as a site of content moderation (typically in the form of policing). The term depoliticizes speech in service of reactionary politics, here Ethiopia but is notably the strategy of the ADL https://t.co/LDMTOiXUUo https://t.co/kxZrFsUiXj 2021-04-28 13:57:21 @Teknoethio @DocDre @timnitGebru @SWTigray @ThaAyantu @awolallo Where is your concern for the colonized + indigenous descendants in this ethical appeal? What are the set of assumptions leading you to claim an academic naming real histories of settler colonialism in Ethiopia is the problem? As if the famine wasn’t too part of that legacy? 2021-04-28 13:43:28 Who’s going to write the essay about how this also serves as a slideshow of academic burner account profile pics? Can we please protect whistleblowers because Alphabet and it’s apologists/critics will not be stopped by just created accounts and their landscape pics? https://t.co/bLwgajEQOi 2021-04-28 13:26:03 amhara resistance discourse can easily be summed up by “Why didn’t infiltration of area studies also capture Black studies?” 2021-04-28 13:16:02 What is the most expedient way to inform #NotAllAmhara twitter that the idea that “critiquing settle colonialism is hate speech” has no currency outside of their old men listservs? 2021-04-28 12:51:41 It’s fascinating to me that we block spam calls but voluntarily enter into these gameified forms of extraction . This is always the dichotomy no ? 2021-04-28 12:50:26 Pro tip, viral tweets asking anodyne questions are crowdsourcing for empire or mobsters 2021-04-28 12:43:36 I’m positive that if Condoleezza Rice was born in the 80s she would have been a computer scientist 2021-04-28 12:35:55 I have a dream that one day the truth won’t be relegated to Easter eggs on the TL 2021-04-28 12:26:03 subtweeting is the language of the oppressed 2021-04-28 11:58:52 Y’all don’t know the difference between mapping white settlers and Black Geographies and it shows. *shrugs* 2021-04-28 11:47:16 PS Equality Labs put together a comprehensive report on Corona Jihad: “Hate speech and disinformation targeting Muslims during COVID originated in India from Hindu Nationalists, but has been amplified by global Islamophobic actors, starting on twitter” https://t.co/Bz1IB8TgA0 2021-04-28 11:47:11 PS Equality Labs put together a comprehensive report on Corona Jihad: “Hate speech and disinformation targeting Muslims during COVID originated in India from Hindu Nationalists, but has been amplified by global Islamophobic actors, starting on twitter” https://t.co/Bz1IB8BFbq 2021-04-28 11:39:44 Captures so well this phenomenon of the “We are the world” post modern ethos espoused by genocidal world leaders practicing vaccine diplomacy on one hand and presiding over mass avoidable death and Corona Jihad on the other https://t.co/iPQYJpZHmN 2021-04-28 10:19:28 https://t.co/gYTydh2HsS 2021-04-28 01:01:00 RT @gkarwasright: @G_Padraic If you want a great book on this history of how the criminal legal system has been deployed to police and puni… 2021-04-27 23:17:37 RT @ztopiapub: Bravo @hcdeUW for helping to create this impressive, community building, practical global opportunity! It’s competitive plu… 2021-04-27 21:51:42 RT @PalmTreesnGz: Interestingly enough in that very great list she recited she occluded the militarization of civil society in #Guatemala t… 2021-04-27 21:28:09 RT @ztsamudzi: I hope people realize Erdogan’s threat to recognize the US’ genocide of indigenous people is nothing to celebrate because it… 2021-04-27 21:01:31 @hypervisible This is child welfare’s whole schtick, preventing children from being removed (by them) 2021-04-27 19:21:54 Featured keynotes, talks and workshops include: Andre Brock (@DocDre ) Timnit Gebru (@timnitGebru ) Stand With Tigray (@SWTigray) Ayantu Tibeso (@ThaAyantu) + Awol Allo (@awolallo) https://t.co/LwIACA4vv5 2021-04-27 19:15:31 RT @suchetaghoshal: Home has triggered many questions for the last couple of weeks. What is the role of diaspora in transnational solidarit… 2021-04-27 19:12:44 S/o to @mayameme whose twitter feedback informed this paragraph on Accountability and Diaspora. https://t.co/TFEAqBWsZh https://t.co/Suc8Lnf9WB 2021-04-27 19:01:57 This way history has become only the ever present is so ominous, as if the US funding Ethiopia’s military for years as its “ally on the war on terror” funding used to brutally repress Oromo dissidents is somehow removed from the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Tigray https://t.co/m6rpoNExpa 2021-04-27 18:58:48 RT @kkarahal: Join us TOMORROW 4/28, 12 CST for @gleemie's #JustInfrastructures talk on Claiming Democracy and Digital Infrastructure! Nex… 2021-04-27 18:58:21 RT @mer__edith: NOPE. Can we convene some abolitionists and tech labor people around fighting this travesty? 2021-04-27 18:57:35 RT @essaysmythe: Read Cesaire in class today: "And of the museums...not for one minute does it cross his mind that...it would have been bet… 2021-04-27 18:51:54 RT @raxsha: Hi is anyone in my tech labor sphere doing anything about JPay??? A tech company using barely-paid incarcerated labor to profit… 2021-04-27 18:07:59 RT @sedyst: This amazing program now has more spots available! Make your anti-fascist summer come true... :) 2021-04-27 18:03:16 @oyveyistmir_ @suchetaghoshal @hcdeUW @WeBeImagining 2021-04-27 17:55:23 RT @hypervisible: “Let’s talk fascist to fascist.” #PublicInterestInternet 2021-04-27 15:47:35 @WombatLiberalsm idk what you mean but adults generally have 32 teeth, so its not just molars that aren't covered for restorative dentistry , it's half of all your teeth. This results in many people opting for extraction or too often death https://t.co/CpDEc9AXMA 2021-04-27 14:55:04 Policing is not the solution to libertarian platform governance by corporate monopolies who optimize for engagement over everything. The wedding of Cold War logics to nouveau broken windows policing is giving me angina #PublicInterestInternet https://t.co/6LT2IVbQ7u 2021-04-27 14:40:19 RT @BostonJoan: For the Senate hearing, please back me up by tagging your comments with #PublicInterestInternet. While it might feel like… 2021-04-27 14:39:30 RT @hypervisible: Sinophobia unfortunately is a common feature of these hearings. Harris just said the “rise of China” is an existential th… 2021-04-27 14:37:38 @WombatLiberalsm In New York they’ll only do crowns/fillings/root canals for center 8 (on top and bottom) although apparently that more than most states. 18 states only cover emergency dental care through adult Medicaid https://t.co/xNHujVhtvr 2021-04-27 14:25:31 Lol at academics discovering poverty, wait until they find out about Medicaid dentistry only covering “Employment Teeth” https://t.co/Wvq3aiNAou 2021-04-27 14:15:27 Church https://t.co/20tZBdMCI6 2021-04-27 13:34:27 The COVID-19 pandemic underscored that NYC ACS will use the motif of “struggling families” to expand family surveillance in the name of “preventing” kids from being removed by ACS Catching a case for referrals to Medicaid clinics and pantries is not help David https://t.co/Z87gduKAXO 2021-04-27 12:50:34 About to tell these bills I’ll be right right back 2021-04-27 11:48:50 RT @kim_penn: One day maybe people will be ready to have the conversation about the intersection of the two communities, and why it's more… 2021-04-27 10:59:52 @donovanxramsey Bo bos! NYC 2021-04-27 10:09:12 RT @standwkashmir: In the midst of a Covid apocalypse when they could be using their time to address the crisis, Indian diplomats are busy… 2021-04-27 01:43:53 some weird convergence of hindufascism, portlandia and impossible burger style venture capital https://t.co/GtZzxHfgT6 2021-04-27 00:33:12 Expanding surveillance is not some kind of Civil Rights victory. Are you news or just a mouthpiece for NYC ACS? @CityLimitsNews https://t.co/Gxu3pg3HR1 2021-04-27 00:17:27 You cannot tell me that “Break The Glass” does not sound like a Broken Windows policing nostalgia session https://t.co/74cGmD4E55 2021-04-27 00:01:59 This whole article feels like Facebook suddenly discovered CompStat as a model of governance 2021-04-26 23:51:13 “We’re also working on a set of cases in Ethiopia and Myanmar to test the framework in action. We’re working with BONJOVI to put together protocols for investigators” Facebook thinks experimenting on regions they’ve promoted genocide is accountability https://t.co/Nuo4eAyQbh 2021-04-26 23:38:02 If Cornell Tech was a person https://t.co/XdZ5xerBB2 2021-04-26 23:07:57 @ztsamudzi Congratulations 2021-04-26 22:01:24 @braunestahl @machinekillspod Lol I don’t want to set up expectations now but Mask Off is def his catch phrase 2021-04-26 19:05:22 RT @UngratefulAdopt: @UpFromTheCracks You know what it felt like? It felt like we just make it so hard for our poor put upon adopters that… 2021-04-26 18:57:17 @hypervisible The real question is who’s going to commission this piece... 2021-04-26 17:28:15 RT @HoGuramayle: @UpFromTheCracks @farisgezahegn thank you, dear. as historically not recognized marginalized community in #ET with absol… 2021-04-26 16:44:09 Shouting this from the rooftops https://t.co/4DXPnnuk3l 2021-04-26 16:35:12 @UngratefulAdopt @kharijohnson @WIRED We’re on the same vibe this morning @UngratefulAdopt , I dm’d Khari about your story the moment I saw his tweet! More soon :) 2021-04-26 15:25:17 RT @kharijohnson: :) it’s my first day at @WIRED so feel free to ping me and tell me what stories you think I should be writing 2021-04-26 14:11:55 Exciting announcement pending 2021-04-26 14:10:51 @AimiHamraie Thank you for sharing @AimiHamraie 2021-04-26 14:10:19 RT @AimiHamraie: Wow, this looks great! The Otherwise School, addressing fascism and technology https://t.co/in9Xp5Dgbd 2021-04-26 13:59:03 S/o to @farisgezahegn and the @HoGuramayle team for sharing resources on LGBTQIA analysis and experiences in Ethiopia. My god, the juxtaposition of even the term "intersectionality" and anything #HoA is such an anomaly. 2021-04-26 13:48:45 RT @Blackamazon: Ooh thank you ! And yes the story of how tech platforms AND JOURNALISM strategically silence and abuse the extant racis… 2021-04-26 13:48:40 RT @moyazb: In addition to Trudy, some of my favorite folks have been shaping the conversation around #misogynoir. Today I salute @Blackama… 2021-04-26 13:47:47 RT @mayameme: To my friends, thank you for your messages. I am fine ofc, but my people are not. Please, even Eur US$ GBP CA$ Aus$ 30-50 wil… 2021-04-26 12:37:34 Similarly, foster care, group homes, residential centers, Limited Secure Placements (Juvenile detention centers in single family homes transformed to decentralized jails) are all around you. 2021-04-26 12:37:33 Make no mistake that ableism is not just a box to check of things self identified progressive people are against, it is a litmus test to see how acceptable society feels it is to dispose of those deemed a burden 2021-04-26 12:37:32 The decisions of who should die, were made entirely through questionnaires. Including to parents asking things like “Would you like to be informed if your child dies?” The propaganda largely centered around the disabled being a burden to *good* German citizens 2021-04-26 12:37:31 We should see this pandemic as a litmus test, as it was not just the trade unionists and the socialists that the Nazis came for first. During the rise of the third reich, there was a targeted campaign to legitimize euthanizing kids with disabilities, framing it as feminism 2021-04-26 12:37:30 Due to organizations like Autism Speaks shaping the narrative as searching for a cure, the idea that it’s ok to kill autistic children is a legit discourse https://t.co/pOOFKYKa4u 2021-04-26 12:37:29 An horrific overlap between the #disability and #adoptee community is the amount of caregivers who murder their children. In the wake of these murders, media coverage often focuses on how hard it was for the parents, endorsing the decision ie Devonte Hart and his siblings https://t.co/pG5tgqpAaK 2021-04-26 12:12:11 Crip Camp is super dope, among many things a lesson on how abolition is building environments that show people another world is possible. Let’s also hold,that it de-centers the most marginalized parts of the disabled community. Learn more about Willowbrook https://t.co/nkeG4IDwVy 2021-04-26 12:12:10 I was at OPWDD for a “Front Door” training which is the first step in a caregiver getting what’s called Self-Direction (of a Medicaid waiver). My son is autistic and due to Bernards activism, in lieu of institutionalization he gets funding for supports to live in the community 2021-04-26 12:12:09 I met Bernard at the Office of People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) where he shared his story of having cerebral palsy, being left on the ground no wheelchair at Willowbrook since a toddler while misdiagnosed w/ an intellectual disability 2021-04-26 02:29:57 @BiraanuuBiyo @oromo_studies Thank you for taking the time to listen 2021-04-25 22:18:34 ICYMI: you can catch my talk at #OSA2021 at this link. Time stamp: 04:20:00 S/o to the whole @oromo_studies family, I’m grateful to be in community and encourage people to check out the full conference as well https://t.co/REDaWvjhRI https://t.co/Xx7RMiiRLX 2021-04-25 22:01:01 RT @misskitila: Shoutout to @rootedroute for live tweeting! (Not to mention giving an amazing presentation on conference Day 1.) For anyone… 2021-04-25 21:38:29 To those new to the quest to abolish the family regulation system (child welfare), beware that they pay for their own resistance. Advocacy is literally a line item for foster care agencies, this is beyond co-option. 2021-04-25 21:36:11 RT @jklmd123: To those who "whatabout" regarding "orphans" and neglect, remember kids are abused and killed in adoptive and foster homes, t… 2021-04-25 21:18:06 @AberaabayAbay @noname Sorry that came off negative, thank you for asking :) It’s hard to be harassed via millennial references and also have no one recognize millennial references 2021-04-25 21:16:10 I had a long convo w/ an #FFY today and it was devastating to explain that I know they’re telling the truth about the abuse, the gaslighting and the abandonment from both the system and the activists because I see it everyday 2021-04-25 21:11:13 @AberaabayAbay Just in case you are serious, she is a Black Rapper and Abolitionist who runs an abolition book club for Black folks. Context I was told that “me and @noname should start a Black liberation Oromo front podcast remix or whatever” by a Cornell Professor https://t.co/63Wv8K3FVE 2021-04-25 21:01:51 RT @misskitila: The @oromo_studies mid-year conference just concluded! S/o to the presenters & 2021-04-25 21:00:51 RT @ThaAyantu: Modernity is bastardization of native values says @NativeLandgrab 2021-04-25 20:58:30 RT @rootedroute: Oromo Studies Association has been my favorite conference series since I started attending. I loved all the women’s leader… 2021-04-25 20:57:48 RT @slagthompson: @ThaAyantu @UpFromTheCracks the biometrics and "datafication" of refugees and people from rural areas just sounds so unse… 2021-04-25 20:57:30 RT @rootedroute: “The modern nation-state in Africa... is a machine for making poverty” -Kalundi Serumaga (@NativeLandgrab) #OSA2021 2021-04-25 20:57:27 RT @rootedroute: Oromo Studies Association MidYear 2021 Day 2! (#OSA2021) Some notes: @NativeLandgrab gave a talk titled “Stop trying to be… 2021-04-25 20:57:20 RT @rootedroute: “I hope we have some really good speculative fiction that comes out in the next couple years. We just need to process this… 2021-04-25 20:57:13 RT @rootedroute: Abdurahman shared a photo of UNHCR employee using a selfie stick to collect biometric data from refugees, adding that “thi… 2021-04-25 16:30:07 ICYMI check out this episode of @WeBeImagining with NYU and Columbia Grad Student Union members describing why their striking and giving an in depth description of their demands https://t.co/KqZNQHNOix 2021-04-25 16:28:23 RT @GSOCUAW: We’re going on strike tomorrow. NYU has refused to bargain with us this weekend to settle a contract before the deadline. So… 2021-04-25 16:19:14 @TovOnTheRove @oromo_studies 2021-04-25 15:43:11 @nullvoidstar Lol sorry these are their points form the podcast I was just live tweeting 2021-04-25 15:39:50 RT @AliviaBlount: Looks awesome 2021-04-25 15:27:44 @TeamFreeOromia Honored to be in community and learn from y’all 2021-04-25 15:15:29 If you’re looking for more resources on tech, power and possibilities of Oromo liberation in Ethiopia. Def recommend this episode of @TeamFreeOromia https://t.co/QTixigjwsW 2021-04-25 14:54:24 Today! 1-2pm PST @oromo_studies Conference Beyond Hate Speech: Opportunities for Indigenous Platform Governance If you’d like to attend, check the link https://t.co/z8EiFARvS1 https://t.co/axyuEv37jU 2021-04-25 14:36:50 This 100 day of zine making by @netabomani is incredible. Follow her, hit that cash app and check out the incredible breadth in this thread https://t.co/JNarCWnx79 2021-04-25 14:27:06 Personally, I’m not sure the concern trolling is the primary issue w/ pseudo woke liberals. In the level of racial and class apartheid we navigate, I’m not convinced that there’s enough real ties in the superstructure to the conditions of somewhere like the Bessemer warehouse 2021-04-25 14:24:31 “You can’t persuade people to a political tactic by top down clearing their wrong, it doesn’t start from abstraction but the material conditions of workers aka concern trolling” lol 2021-04-25 14:18:28 “There is a tendency of the left to reach towards history or the past” 2021-04-25 14:14:37 Yo my only issue with this whole episode is how you say Mask Off like every other minute and not even a side joke or musical interlude from Future @machinekillspod https://t.co/2yaBmcvQWG 2021-04-25 14:12:17 Dead at auto correct changing propaganda to pro pigs real quick 2021-04-25 14:11:16 How do we talk about a company that is killing, maiming and then gaslighting people? We have investigations, testimonies verifying this but mainstream business press produces institutional memory as Union busting propaganda 2021-04-25 02:30:30 RT @azadessa: Indian govt routinely kill youth, burn homes & 2021-04-24 21:02:09 https://t.co/X6ctnJOfRJ 2021-04-24 20:44:25 TFW when this got no likes and 500 engagements. Y’all want include and diversify everything but the evidence https://t.co/VDXDPhMmYh 2021-04-24 20:38:07 I’ve decided receipts are a form of mutual aid, I’m finna have giveaway https://t.co/1rfieGfB1U 2021-04-24 20:32:20 the emperor out here dead naked, nothing but a DEI statement in his white hand #SweaterGawd 2021-04-24 20:16:00 @EremiasWmikael @DocDre Idk about corporations but def institutions 2021-04-24 19:36:50 RT @AbolishAcs: This was just the pilot, we hope to make this happen at least monthly and eventually in every borough. Building up networ… 2021-04-24 19:36:47 RT @AbolishAcs: Thank you to everyone who came to volunteer, spread the word or showed up for the diaper drive today at First Baptist Churc… 2021-04-24 18:52:08 @DocDre Not for nothing I’m helping @logic_magazine curate a Black ass special edition rn (w/ @DocDre as a feature) this could be the springboard 2021-04-24 18:36:21 @DocDre We need a Black Tech media outlet 2021-04-24 15:19:36 Boost! https://t.co/7N30DsToai 2021-04-24 12:47:06 @fosterhood @ACSNYC CPS is cops, we can’t want them to be better cops who remove more accurately. Did this help Devonte Hart and his siblings? 2021-04-24 11:47:30 RT @AbolishAcs: Today! 2021-04-24 02:42:47 @robyncaplan This is my second biggest issue next to the ban on revising posts. whyyyyy 2021-04-24 01:43:52 https://t.co/mqS7TgMzz2 https://t.co/b4CLU9aaFO 2021-04-24 00:55:14 @ChampagneSharks Yes but also I don’t think that’s going to take me out of analysis work brain rn 2021-04-24 00:51:44 Netflix/HBO recs? (no trauma porn, Brutes or Q Docuseries) 2021-04-23 23:49:01 @megpillow 2021-04-23 21:42:19 @DocDre Lemme hold somethin 2021-04-23 21:28:26 @carefree_ebony @syardi @MichiganESC appreciated 2021-04-23 21:11:34 @syardi @MichiganESC Thank you 2021-04-23 21:04:21 @dope_fresh_ill @niftyc @MichiganESC It will soon be available through Columbia Law Review, publication was pushed back until June :/ Thank you for coming! 2021-04-23 19:06:55 RT @UpFromTheCracks: TODAY @ 4pm EST Come Through! Predicting Prevention: Algorithmic Logics in the Child Welfare System I’ll be in conv… 2021-04-23 17:50:24 @DrSyedMustafaA1 @yardenkatz Grift thrives adjacent to the state (+as its enmeshed w/ multinationals) but knowing the difference between grift, liberal complicity, cops, handmaidens of empire, and tactical compromise seems pretty important no? 2021-04-23 17:03:22 @DrSyedMustafaA1 @yardenkatz Idk we can critique the political economy of public intellectuals but knowing who is the enemy is important for power mapping, some of these people are handmaidens for empire but many are not and knowing the difference matters. 2021-04-23 16:23:32 @NyashaJunior @dopegirlfresh Ooh thanks will check out their work 2021-04-23 16:04:21 Peer to peer cash transfer on private platforms is not a sustainable infrastructure for mutual aid ijs 2021-04-23 15:59:28 If I get locked up for my politics please don’t hashtag Free Khadijah for decades, break me out or throw a webinar about why freedom is not in reach rn. Branding loss as a call for liberation is a politics of nihilism imho 2021-04-23 15:52:24 RT @funnymonkey: Shout it from the rooftops. 2021-04-23 15:38:37 Idk who needs to hear this but care work as praxis and refusing to work with the enemy are not mutually exclusive propositions 2021-04-23 15:36:47 RT @MichiganESC: TODAY at 4pm Eastern: @UpFromTheCracks joins @niftyc to discuss the new algorithms that help decide when a child should be… 2021-04-23 14:55:47 RT @netabomani: day 85 is an accordion zine on yellow paper pastel featuring pencil drawings of women and men by Langston Hughes (1951-67)… 2021-04-23 14:43:37 RT @PopTechWorks: @UpFromTheCracks Thinking this morning abt what great organizing spaces welfare offices are, too. Everyone frustrated & 2021-04-23 14:31:13 @HangatuOromo @WeBeImagining Likewise 2021-04-23 14:31:00 RT @HangatuOromo: .@UpFromTheCracks is a treasure trove of intersectional knowledge & 2021-04-23 14:04:43 @prisonculture Agreed and, I think we have to reflect on how the family regulation system is also about disability (who is hyper-targeted + how it produces disability) tbh, a lot of ppl want to deal w/ advocates n academics not the raw emotions of everyday people who are in it 2021-04-23 13:55:58 @prisonculture I feel you, and it’s easy point a finger at someone else’s work and say “whatabout” xyz. At the same time, there’s something about Kalief Browder, Malcom X, Erica Garner, Ma’Khia etc being in foster care and us (collectively) not seeing it as integral to the analysis/work 2021-04-23 13:43:50 RT @jklmd123: @UpFromTheCracks Whenever I argue that ACS does more harm than good and that we need to focus on family support, someone what… 2021-04-23 13:43:12 RT @SandhyaKaj: The family regulation system is designed to punish poor parents, not help them parent. The system provides public funds to… 2021-04-23 12:28:21 RT @aboutkenisha: @UpFromTheCracks You can stay connected with me by subscribing to https://t.co/9thHv87ASj. My memoir is available at your… 2021-04-23 12:26:41 Please follow @aboutkenisha and buy their memoir Labeled: Ward of the State In our quest to abolish Carceral systems, we need to elevate the perspectives of #FFY like Kenisha Anthony, #Adoptees + those currently caught up in the foster system https://t.co/i4y1x06Q0y https://t.co/FbCfnm9mM8 2021-04-23 12:20:10 RT @aboutkenisha: @UpFromTheCracks Hey Kadejah, my name is Kenisha. I’m a person with lived experience in foster care: a child that aged o… 2021-04-23 12:20:04 @aboutkenisha Happy to amplify @aboutkenisha , can you please drop a link for the memoir and share alt-text for your image so Blind people and those w/ low vision can access? 2021-04-23 12:18:26 -Alt text always on the images -I know some people have negative experiences with church but @justrashad (Rev Moore) is a dope abolitionist who is leading his congregation to accept people as they are and help w/o judgement 2021-04-23 12:12:39 Also wherever you are, please steal/copy this model. I guarantee you that there are families in every neighborhood looking for basic forms of support that are not connected to policing systems or requiring mad paperwork 2021-04-23 12:04:08 Abolishing the family regulation system does not just look like “raising awareness” its about building IRL networks of support. Tomorrow 12-2pm Please share widely w/ parents in Brooklyn, NY who need free diapers, wipes, onesies and more. First Come, First Served https://t.co/3hjkoVq3JJ 2021-04-23 11:59:44 RT @AbolishAcs: Next Saturday, April 24th 12-2pm Free Diapers, Wipes, Baby Soap and More at First Baptist Church in Brooklyn 450 Eastern P… 2021-04-23 11:33:26 RT @Freakademic: @ISASaxonists God, SO MANY people who think they are progressive also think it is okay to report vague suspicions and mino… 2021-04-23 11:30:34 RT @TeamFreeOromia: Let us know what you think of the discussion below , drop us a DM, or call us on (+1) 430-755-0727 (voicemail or text… 2021-04-23 11:29:45 RT @WeBeImagining: Listen and subscribe to @TeamFreeOromia podcast! Director of @WeBeImagining J. Khadijah Abdurahman is convo w/ @HangatuO… 2021-04-23 11:27:10 RT @s_phia_: I turned on that NYC mayoral debate and within first few mins the moderator was talking about defunding nypd as an imperative… 2021-04-23 11:27:03 RT @ISASaxonists: Important thread about foster care and how this feeds into a sad and sometimes dangerous cycle for children (and young ad… 2021-04-23 11:19:01 On this episode of the @TeamFreeOromia podcast, I got to vibe out w/ @HangatuOromo and @misskitila. Unsettling the myth of Ethiopianism, they asked provocative questions about Oromo Liberation and technical infrastructures https://t.co/TMUqt9ZYT6 2021-04-23 10:59:56 TODAY @ 4pm EST Come Through! Predicting Prevention: Algorithmic Logics in the Child Welfare System I’ll be in conversation with @niftyc @MichiganESC #AbolishACS #AbolishCPS https://t.co/nsA1Xg4Gyr 2021-04-23 00:29:50 RT @heenasharma_: @UpFromTheCracks @JMacForFamilies I've worked with high school age young people in nyc for years, inc undocumented teens… 2021-04-23 00:28:59 @Peace4all17 We right now have a large population of children stuck in abusive FOSTER HOMES, Residential and Detention Centers + group homes. Child protective services does not target or prevent *abuse* it targets poverty, Black, indigenous and disabled people and places them into abuse 2021-04-23 00:19:02 Always @JMacForFamilies is the homie https://t.co/4fdHTDLdgT 2021-04-23 00:17:15 RT @MarshallProj: “It’s really messed up to steal money from kids who grew up in foster care. We get out and we don’t have anybody or anyth… 2021-04-23 00:12:47 RT @silkys13: So much of this thread had me thinking about child detention and also case management of families seeking asylum. I hope we c… 2021-04-23 00:11:05 RT @DianaJoy23: I was in the adolescent residential school system in the '90s. Many of the kids I lived with were Black and Brown. Those pl… 2021-04-23 00:06:27 Reminder to please listen to #adoptees #FFY and people currently in the foster care system (of which I’m not but am always down to amplify those who are) https://t.co/Okg4SdBxpI 2021-04-23 00:02:28 Also pleaseeeee listen to #adoptees , former foster youth (#ffy) and people currently in the foster care system. If you’re in these categories I’m always down to amplify. I just don’t want to subject you to unwanted following by tagging all the time 2021-04-22 23:54:18 @netabomani subtweeting can be an emancipatory praxis 2021-04-22 23:51:53 RT @cemicool: I'm excited about "Cosmic Possibilities" this resource from young people who were part of AYO, NYC and worked with @projectni… 2021-04-22 23:50:55 RT @cemicool: ...activating massive protests by pursuing neoliberal agricultural policies, to throwing journalists and protesters in jail b… 2021-04-22 23:50:51 RT @cemicool: The I*dian government created the circumstances for mass death and now act like they don't know why it's happening. From last… 2021-04-22 23:49:31 @cemicool Thank you I need that “tag universe” energy @cemicool 2021-04-22 23:43:24 RT @zeaxumawit: Amele's brother was among those massacred(with my cousin) in Edaga Berhe, Adet. As we go through this unbearable and diffi… 2021-04-22 23:31:43 RT @abolitionistfem: @NYGovCuomo MUST RESIGN for all the harm he has done to criminalized survivors and incarcerated ppl across NY. In the… 2021-04-22 15:11:47 Just putting this wish in the universe: my personal dream has always been to be on Jeopardy. If you got the plug, put me on 2021-04-22 15:07:43 RT @DUPWorkersUnion: @DukeU, we need to talk. This is the law firm you've hired to combat @DukePress's union. Is this what you stand for? … 2021-04-22 14:29:36 RT @shifta409: @cornell_tech is trash for this. Yet another institution I’m telling the young black women in my life to avoid. 2021-04-22 14:29:13 RT @Spkr2Managers: Short thread. I guess there’s not much to say here except, Cornell really blew it. 2021-04-22 14:25:09 @kiwi_kd This long history has culminated recently in the most egregious ethnic cleansing of Tigray. This history predates Abiy but he consciously weaponized all of this in pursuit of power 2021-04-22 14:20:38 @kiwi_kd Am currently reading this. I really appreciate Megerssa’s intervention in the beginning where he highlights that in our rush to celebrate each violent rulers’ downfall we’ve skipped over the depths of history that produced cycles of unfreedom https://t.co/BjtNHy4Xjq 2021-04-22 14:11:01 @AmyMulzer I be telling people Zoom is the counter revolution 2021-04-22 13:55:31 @1Africanlady Let me dig it up, but there was a whole series of #SaveAmh*ra tweets explicitly stating that Black power fist should be the symbol of Amhara resistance, which ironic b/c agreed on the anti-Blackness 2021-04-22 13:52:15 @fosterhood Not to mention that they’re not directly providing anything. Their model is care coordination ie making sure they sign up for welfare, food stamps, Medicaid etc. 2021-04-22 13:43:37 RT @safiyaaaay: This is stunningly poor journalism that somehow manages to frame the wannabe dictator president of Somalia as a saviour for… 2021-04-22 13:43:35 @safiyaaaay Omfg the headline 2021-04-22 13:39:04 The Family Regulation System aka NYC ACS here, is trying to sell “catching a case” as a consumer choice. Accessing therapy or any medical care should never require *voluntarily* signing up for POLICING https://t.co/8zeiXmurb6 https://t.co/ntJFtu7sBI 2021-04-22 13:26:18 Can we talk about the Amhara protests using the Black Power Fist while demanding ICC prosecution of Abiy (where ICC also has no jurisdiction)? Plus the claiming victimhood as a political identity while their incoherent logics are empowered thru adjacency to the state? https://t.co/Hup9DELs0q 2021-04-22 13:13:57 RT @fosterhood: I’m glad @UpFromTheCracks resigned from @NYSOCFS. I feel partially responsible bc I pushed her to apply believing BIPOC voi… 2021-04-22 13:13:38 What in the necropolitics is this? So much fascism, so much covid, so much Oromophobia and misogyny. Unpacking this video and tweet requires a whole essay, but just want to highlight “not a beauty or a protest contest” whew https://t.co/tgBehdmNfu 2021-04-22 12:15:06 RT @seanmmcdonald: This, as @biancawylie would say, “on levels.” 2021-04-22 12:09:28 The IRL harm is not my hurt feelings,or even primarily my loss of income and stature-it’s the knowledge that doesn’t get produced b/c Tegaru, Oromo, Dalit, Kashmiri ppl see institutions of power siding w/Brahmin Anti-Blackness n silencing the truth about the Tigray Genocide 2021-04-22 12:03:56 When an climate of political repression, misogynoir and genocide apology in higher education as re-framed as a some kind of dispute between individuals, readers are not made aware of the grave threats to academic freedom and the IRL harm it produces 2021-04-22 12:00:28 I’m grateful that my unjust termination is getting coverage, but journalists please know that when you hedge in the name of objectivity and neutrality, you’re undermining trust. This is not “a he said, she said” issue, evidence is in the public record imho https://t.co/wCvvnfL3oo 2021-04-22 11:44:45 They made us sign an NDA so technically I can’t tell you anything about what we discussed but I can tell you i have no idea why we needed to sign an NDA to protect less information than is publicly available 2021-04-22 11:44:44 I resigned this week from the NY Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS) Parent Advisory Board (PAB) b/c life is short and 4 hour zooms with slow motion slides and non violent communication (NVC) from the genocidal system are not good for my mental health 2021-04-22 10:51:25 @hypervisible I had to read this like 3 times. This is why we need to stop saying bias, this is intentional 2021-04-22 10:50:21 @ThaAyantu This is why public technology matters 2021-04-22 10:48:45 RT @bets_z_: .@cornell_tech not only allowed visiting researcher @UpFromTheCracks to get fired for speaking on anti-blackness and Tigray Ge… 2021-04-22 01:30:35 RT @GeorgeAumoithe: I realize many may not even know what the MOVE bombing was and why it remains a telling part of the history of late 20t… 2021-04-22 01:22:27 RT @insidehighered: Former employee at Cornell Tech says she was fired for calling out racism online and for speaking out against ethnic cl… 2021-04-22 00:50:29 @LtotheLA @cornell_tech Sorry am not trying to gatekeep, but yes sometimes my writing is dense b/c I’m using Twitter to work out my thoughts live and no reference is universal 2021-04-22 00:28:53 RT @FrankPasquale: The important work of @mmitchell_ai & 2021-04-22 00:19:15 @hypervisible at the Ed tech company taking the time to surveill you but running with the twitter handle 2021-04-22 00:00:03 Just seeing this now from @Ahighervision and am at this response from Tapan Parikh, this paper we co wrote is about the relationship between the university and the community ie it needs to be less violent and extractive https://t.co/zhdyRG0T25 https://t.co/gNHUXHM0YZ 2021-04-21 23:52:51 RT @Blackamazon: So @CornellTechNYC is going with the Black women have to accept abuse and no one will defend them ans the only thing more… 2021-04-21 23:41:09 RT @DocDre: Ooooo this is a WORD 2021-04-21 23:40:19 @csdoctorsister Thank you @csdoctorsister likewise :) I hope we can do more of this bridging from inside and outside the academy. It’s like the whole world is trying to dispose of us so we have to hold eachother down n make these connections 2021-04-21 23:35:40 RT @DocDre: My collaborator got “both sides”-d. You’re really, really foul for this @CornellTechNYC Locking your account won’t help.… 2021-04-21 23:34:58 @mutalenkonde @timnitGebru @cornell_tech When you figure out how to divest from all these racist institutions please put me onto game @mutalenkonde 2021-04-21 23:31:58 Not for nothing @timnitGebru is really loyal, see solidarity is not a metaphor. What’s more disrespectful than @cornell_tech deeming me as not even worthy of response? I can’t wait on white supremacy to show human decency, but I’m grateful for those like her who show me love https://t.co/rl3EeODO6k 2021-04-21 23:13:44 RT @timnitGebru: "a Milstein student who was also present at the meeting, said while Morrisett spoke about promoting diversity and inclusio… 2021-04-21 23:13:41 RT @timnitGebru: I'm really at a loss. @SergeBelongie @Jimantha This is your dean? I am so exhausted. What are we supposed to do really ju… 2021-04-21 23:13:38 RT @timnitGebru: "“Cornell Tech is deeply dedicated to making the campus and our industry more inclusive and equitable for everyone, and th… 2021-04-21 23:13:34 RT @timnitGebru: https://t.co/WZHy8vgATZ Dean Morrisett said...“both parties involved in this matter did not act appropriately and will no… 2021-04-21 18:04:17 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @RockyAllinger @hypervisible why are people exhausting? DEI needs to DIE and its b/c it produces inane commentary tha… 2021-04-21 17:59:06 @RockyAllinger @hypervisible why are people exhausting? DEI needs to DIE and its b/c it produces inane commentary that assumes disability and gender, sexual identity are not also racialized. It assumes that when we center Blackness we somehow yearn for white people to vocalize their WhatAbout-isms 2021-04-21 17:06:26 RT @so_treu: Also make sure you spell that baby's name right: Ma’Khia Bryant. Cause I know how y'all suddenly lose all reading capability… 2021-04-21 16:59:49 @queersocialism Yes and I truly hope more abolitionists will recognize and articulate the significance of Ma’Khia being in foster care, she was in the *care* of the state while murdered by the state 2021-04-21 16:53:57 @safiyaaaay It’s this for me, ugh imagine how much funding he’s received https://t.co/oAxVPIFWHZ 2021-04-21 16:52:10 @commieberry This tweet is so evergreen and takes on new meanings for me each day 2021-04-21 16:47:28 RT @morcette: @UpFromTheCracks @sarahnmcbee She was not living with her mother - YES it does 'matter'. 2021-04-21 16:47:21 RT @JenLingeman: @UpFromTheCracks @sarahnmcbee Polices Black (and indigenous) families on so many levels. Family separation happens in the… 2021-04-21 16:41:14 RT @ZoziInTheMetro: Protect foster kids, they are everything 2021-04-21 16:40:56 RT @PalmTreesnGz: This whole thread and this tweet in particular are something many of us have to continue to sit with. Some of us who come… 2021-04-21 16:26:14 RT @UpFromTheCracks: We need to rally around Ma’Khia Bryant’s family. @FCCSnews “continuing their involvement with the family during this d… 2021-04-21 16:26:01 It matters she was in foster care because being placed into foster care makes you significantly more likely to be seriously injured, murdered or incarcerated compared to being with your birth parents. 2021-04-21 16:26:00 A lot of the quote tweets are saying that Ma’Khia being in foster care didn’t matter, we have been socialized to see foster care placement as an indictment of the teenager instead of a system that polices Black teens on multiple levels. https://t.co/LOM97XHATP 2021-04-21 16:19:34 RT @jbirchlove: Foster youth are overpoliced at a rate I can't even begin to explain. They are both told to go to cops for support and cons… 2021-04-21 15:59:27 This fwiw is what half of western intervention into *the global south* looks like, Dutantist humanitarian language to rescue the “underserved/underdeveloped/at-risk” aka investing billions Into long term infrastructures producing permanent precarity 2021-04-21 15:59:26 The family regulation system don’t want to prevent child abuse they want to prevent kinship ties, they want to violate article 2(e) of the genocide convention and systematically transfer children from a protected group into another in order to destroy us. 2021-04-21 12:13:53 RT @MicrobiomDigest: New research shows that members of a bee colony all have the same gut microbiome, which controls their smell—and thus… 2021-04-21 12:12:56 RT @sedyst: when your "personal device" is in fact @apple's infrastructure! I tell our students to imagine companies as entities that see u… 2021-04-21 12:11:07 RT @UpFromTheCracks: What kind of resistance is possible to connect the tech labor struggles of engineers tasked with developing algorithmi… 2021-04-21 12:11:02 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Friday, April 23 at 4pm EST Predicting Prevention: Algorithmic Logics in the Child Welfare System Thank you @nift… 2021-04-21 11:54:58 You might not care or know who I am, but your colleagues, your students and the world is watching. The silence speaks volumes and is widely noted https://t.co/hGGb9xvA6Y 2021-04-21 11:49:22 RT @GregCfollows: @UpFromTheCracks @cornell_tech Performing false hope in setting up a meeting, does not give students any more confidence… 2021-04-21 11:49:12 History is not something happening to other people elsewhere. We are living at the intersection of 2 pandemics, COVID-19 and state violence-both impacts shouldered most heavily by Black people. Racism requires complicity, silence in the face of injustice is not neutral 2021-04-21 11:45:10 I’ll never forget that undergrads, PhD students, post docs and alumni demanded justice while the entire faculty @cornell_tech (with the notable exception of @grimmelm) has been silent https://t.co/hIEKEVI3WQ 2021-04-21 11:35:55 Cornell Tech: We Affirm Diversity and Inclusion Also @cornell_tech:We will not listen to the 25 undergrad students demanding we address anti-Blackness. We will not hire tenure track Black faculty. We will not acknowledge how we produce racial terror but but but we are not racist https://t.co/YJILKDgCLR 2021-04-21 11:28:40 **one note, I think we can all agree that Tapan Parikh and @cornell_tech’s actions are racist. I understand journalistic objectivity but saying *alleged* racism when time stamped receipts are publicly available undermines the truth and gravity of the situation 2021-04-21 11:26:24 Mad love to Cornell Tech Milstein Students.!! @cornell_tech doesn’t feel their opinion matters, but watching undergrads stand up against anti-Blackness is so heartening. https://t.co/FuVJaQvoqD https://t.co/tqFKBHr6Cm 2021-04-21 10:05:43 RT @bigblackjacobin: As long as the critical discourse doesn’t commit to breaking some of these systems, outright banning others, and rolli… 2021-04-21 10:05:32 RT @bigblackjacobin: One reason Luddism is appealing to me is media coverage of harmful tech goes into detail explaining its grave threat,… 2021-04-21 01:01:30 RT @vapegxd69: (OP added alt text in a reply, adding here) Abolition in Our Lifetime Grant Apply now to a new fund supporting Black and I… 2021-04-21 00:23:17 Not @ImprintNews giving us reacts from family regulation system CEOs and *progressive prosecutors* https://t.co/MKYAM6iqYd 2021-04-20 23:49:44 RT @lynneedenise: Thanks for not blowing my 4/20 high America...for at least five minutes. I reached for one of the most important essays I… 2021-04-20 22:07:51 This symphony for a guilty verdict makes me think of Jackie Robinson’s tour of Black churches campaigning for more policing in Black neighborhoods as a Civil Right, am wary of this victory’s afterlife https://t.co/CAkehvWwTX 2021-04-20 21:59:05 Incarcerating killer cops won’t dismantle the systems of policing that murdered < 2021-04-20 21:52:36 @EmaTigi @MTekuya @KasayeRH Thank you 2021-04-20 21:52:20 RT @SeeTedTalk: AI in the Global South is a field of power. Term operates according to white multicultural attitudes - there is one "slot… 2021-04-20 21:52:00 RT @SeeTedTalk: senses of #GlobalSouth : 1) resistance - thinking from difference 2) manual v. mental labor - natural costs of computing 3… 2021-04-20 21:51:58 RT @SeeTedTalk: The South should be expressed as a relation, not a fixed geography. The South is a standpoint to think about power. https… 2021-04-20 20:48:10 RT @ThaAyantu: Let me tell you I cannot get over the injustice of this problem that exists in almost every African country. And I wish we t… 2021-04-20 20:47:26 RT @ThaAyantu: We don’t talk enough about how the existence/identities of entire Indigenous groups in Africa (Baganda in Uganda, Oromo in E… 2021-04-20 20:39:12 @carefree_ebony @oromo_studies It should be available soon on their website! I will also post more info as soon as it’s public :) 2021-04-20 20:00:23 Deeply honored to speak @oromo_studies conference this Sunday, April 25th 1-2pm PST on Beyond Hate Speech: Opportunities for Indigenous Platform Governance. I’ll be sharing some of my preliminary findings on social media, war and mass atrocities in Ethiopia. More details soon https://t.co/vXAktGazzY 2021-04-20 16:43:59 RT @stoplapdspying: Tues 4/20 @ 6PM: #KnowYourFight Webinar #54 Police State & 2021-04-20 16:38:33 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Pay attention, it’s common knowledge that the author of the ‘94 Crime Bill is President but Kamala co-authored a “prev… 2021-04-20 16:38:27 RT @UpFromTheCracks: I put money on the Biden/Harris administration claiming they’re opening “trauma informed” detention centers for kids. 2021-04-20 16:16:27 RT @PalmTreesnGz: We been joking about this for a while. We knew it was coming. Please understand that some of us don’t just critique for t… 2021-04-20 15:05:09 Yoooooo @PalmTreesnGz it’s here https://t.co/beWEiJFjDx 2021-04-20 15:03:45 RT @jathansadowski: Excited to share my new article—written with / led by the inimitable @claudiakincaid—on how platforms like Deliveroo go… 2021-04-20 14:59:19 @AdhanomAzeb Mexicans and increasingly #CentAm peeps are making all the food in New York City imho 2021-04-20 14:56:04 RT @CUNYLaw: On April 20 Profs @JMHernandez126 @tarekzismail host Forever Surveilled: The New York Statewide Central Register, bringing tog… 2021-04-20 14:35:55 @lapshiii @mayameme much appreciated 2021-04-20 14:35:23 RT @scott_a_ross: Interesting look at Bridgeway Foundation's recent work going all-in on "ADF is the Islamic State" narrative, including ap… 2021-04-20 14:34:15 RT @scott_a_ross: Unmentioned here is that, in the early 2010s, Bridgeway not only worked w/ Invisible Children to implement humanitarian/d… 2021-04-20 14:33:53 Menelik II savagely amputated the arms and legs of Eritrean war prisoners. Never mind that these poor Eritrean peasants were violently forced to fight under Italy, just as other European colonialists used...colonial subjects as cannon fodder for their wars of conquest everywhere. https://t.co/2RSHka3qxO 2021-04-20 14:31:23 “if his objective is to promote a unified pan-Ethiopian nationalism, it seems to have backfired by provoking ethnic nationalism among the Oromo who do not share similar conceptions of these rulers ­– and rather view them as the reason for their oppression and suffering.” https://t.co/bdBBJyvl9v 2021-04-20 14:27:20 Yohannes Woldemariam’s essay: The romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop- offers an important intervention to those who worship Black Kings including Bob Marley and Teddy Afro Black studies can unsettle these myths of benevolent empire https://t.co/hjYpdy21es https://t.co/gzZShB9YuB 2021-04-20 14:01:56 My ADHD Brain today https://t.co/eoBYWPsH39 2021-04-20 12:46:49 RT @taoleighgoffe: Check it out! Episode 2 of my #podcast #GetFree with visual artist Andrea Chung on Caribbean Chinese intimacies and crit… 2021-04-20 12:38:43 @lapshiii @mayameme I will read this! Thanks for the Rec. Do you feel like Roy donating her royalties and prize money addresses at all some of this problem (albeit insufficiently) ? 2021-04-20 12:36:48 @lapshiii @mayameme as an Oromo diaspora who works at academic institutions, I feel the tension btwn using your privilege to amplify the stories of back home (even those that are layers of not your own) and not commodifying them at the expense of people we have-at least geographically-left behind 2021-04-20 12:21:14 Like what are we even to make of this photo? What is the message of Black child cooling by camouflaged gunmen? Ethio soldiers voguing juxtaposed to headline of “What is the cause of ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia?” 2021-04-20 12:17:18 Whether Ethiopia, DRC, Mozambique etc, its like they have an Africa template n just move the dates and names around to produce “Foreign Correspondence” Acronymed Blacks are killing themselves again,don’t pay attention to the privatization, the wests are just here to save/help 2021-04-20 12:13:42 This excerpt pretty much sums up the state of media analysis for the continent: “Conflicts have been largely fuelled by groups demanding more land and power, with attempts to drive out people they regard as outsiders.” https://t.co/9Svt9AjMRd 2021-04-20 12:07:41 This framing is so dangerous: “Political and ethnic violence has become a major challenge for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, whose political reforms have also emboldened regional powerbrokers after nearly three decades of iron-fisted government.” https://t.co/ypFU5vFoqi 2021-04-20 12:02:26 Coverage of Ethiopia is maddening, how many headlines can we have saying the US/UK/west etc is “raising alarm”? 4 months ago AP “Extreme Urgent Need: Starvation Haunts Tigray” at a certain point *alarm* sans meaningful action is normalizing devastation https://t.co/ypJElNUSu5 2021-04-20 11:52:48 @keguro_ Yes 2021-04-20 11:45:27 @mayameme Fair, have been just stewing on this particularly those who have been indefinitely detained for academic lectures deemed anti national https://t.co/D5mnnG4aV2 2021-04-20 11:36:39 @mayameme Thank you , I didn’t know the details 2021-04-20 11:34:17 Nepalese government to implement the biometric system for identification of unclaimed bodies https://t.co/FbTxB4rHiH 2021-04-20 11:26:10 I do hear through the grapevine that the Hijra protagonist was based in full on a real life person who lived in the graveyard etc and never gave consent for her story (and if so never credited). What is an accountable diaspora ? 2021-04-20 11:26:09 I enjoyed the novel v much in particular the story about the family who writes in detail about being tortured in Kashmir to come to America < 2021-04-20 00:03:42 RT @lizar_tistry: Another interesting panel from @lausanhk! My notes focus more on the part about the interaction between “diaspora” and “m… 2021-04-19 23:52:03 Coverage on Mozambique is so wild, like the people funding the insurgencies, mercenary armies and LNG are treated as tangential and in lieu we get these essays on the psychology of Mozambicans “why are they so prone to violent extremism etc etc” 2021-04-19 23:38:58 I used to work at an Ethiopian restaurant, the first cook was from Puebla, Mexico < 2021-04-19 23:30:17 Love to see more people grappling with this, we gotta rebuild from CIA infiltration of area studies in the 70s. Black studies has sooo much to bring but is also v grounded in the Americas n invested in Africa as an idea rather than real places n peoples https://t.co/gzZShASn61 2021-04-19 23:14:34 Kategna and ater kik just rewrote my whole day, so good 2021-04-19 20:14:53 Leave that Habermas aloneeeee 2021-04-19 19:32:54 @ZegaRasWork I mean sure, but more to the point is that congressional hearings do not public accountability make. The state’s relationship to tech monopolies and the set of interests it acts in service to are not aligned w/ the vast majority of the population 2021-04-19 16:20:48 RT @CUNYLaw: This week, join Profs @tarekzismail @JMHernandez126 for a series on the family policing system's targeting, surveillance, and… 2021-04-19 14:49:40 Idk who needs to hear this but the relationship between the state and Big Tech is not best understood by a lack of regulatory frameworks 2021-04-19 14:33:22 S/o to @suchetaghoshal who told me the CDC is now recommending subtweeting for our mental health in these pandemic times 2021-04-19 14:30:58 @amanjeev Nah just Neoliberalism god tier trolling us 2021-04-19 14:28:11 When did “red scare” become part of the algorithmic bias ontology? Is this some function of Ash Carter= enemy of my enemy is my friend thing? 2021-04-19 14:22:12 @DocDre @cornell_tech Wym? Like go on tour for our collective amusement? 2021-04-19 14:05:47 RT @hipsterelectron: @UpFromTheCracks this is literally just https://t.co/hUn4s18zSy 2021-04-19 14:05:33 RT @DocDre: https://t.co/Aox6JZigzl https://t.co/Z6FSBwVo7X 2021-04-19 13:57:14 Former Dean Dan Huttenlocher (now at MIT): "we have to broaden the attractiveness of tech to diversify" cuz yeah, the problem is Black folks aren't interested in tech, not that they get terrorized and forced out from tech whether industry or academia https://t.co/2vnzS9gLxc 2021-04-19 13:53:53 Morrisett...hopes to further the institution by focusing on three main components in his leadership philosophy: DiVErsITy And InCLuSioN, interdisciplinary training and the pursuit of research and training connected to society today... https://t.co/LHjHIOt2fp 2021-04-19 13:47:24 and best paired with https://t.co/zTBfxdLfKb 2021-04-19 13:47:23 #LolSob https://t.co/Tb7vTKX93C 2021-04-19 13:47:22 Ok this is too precious and am going to do a thread on @cornell_tech + *diversity* lmaoooo "From start ups to big tech, discover what diversity enables at each step" Diversity that Scales... https://t.co/MmgvXwPLJg 2021-04-19 13:18:38 LOLOL https://t.co/MmgvXwPLJg 2021-04-19 02:01:31 RT @thewire_in: From books being banned to students and faculty facing criminal charges and being jailed, the past few years have been espe… 2021-04-18 21:24:19 Netflix needs a chat function because I know I’m not the only one crying out during this unintentional horror flick 2021-04-18 21:11:40 can I sue Netflix for the angina this movie is giving me 2021-04-18 02:03:19 RT @Imani_Barbarin: This is why anyone in communications needs to provide alt text in their toolkits. Non negotiable. I’m tired of gettin… 2021-04-18 00:02:44 RT @JulianPosada0: Many crowdsourcing companies also use payment services that compel users to verify their identities with selfies. There'… 2021-04-17 19:39:10 RT @TeamFreeOromia: Such a pleasure to have you! Episode 26 will be released on Thursday, April 22. Stay tuned, listeners! #FreeOromia… 2021-04-17 18:38:07 RT @FrankPasquale: Many people end up disabled after Amazon stints, “with chronic knee, back, or foot problems. That's whole future lifetim… 2021-04-17 18:36:03 **Thank you @TeamFreeOromia for having me on the show! @misskitila and @HangatuOromo asked so many provocative questions that I’m still stewing on about technical infrastructures, Oromo liberation and indigenous knowledge production https://t.co/rt9MLwXyTr 2021-04-17 18:34:27 Follow @TeamFreeOromia and subscribe to their podcast for long form discussions examining political possibilities for the Oromia region and Oromo Diaspora https://t.co/34DibPA2hi 2021-04-17 18:34:26 Thank you @TeamFreeOromiafor having me on the show! @misskitila and @HangatuOromo asked so many provocative questions that I’m still stewing on about technical infrastructures, Oromo liberation and indigenous knowledge production 2021-04-17 18:19:07 RT @sedyst: Super important! Also because computational infrastructures renders humans, things, animals and plants as interchangeable and p… 2021-04-17 12:52:17 RT @garrett_felber: Excited to give this talk on abolition, universities, and the state next Wednesday, hosted by the Humanities Institute… 2021-04-17 02:13:21 can we rethink how we protest b/c it just be looking like OT for 12 sometimes 2021-04-17 02:09:41 So much police outside it look like July 4 2021-04-17 01:43:32 RT @jaboukie: yes bc w/o cishets clouding our energy reserves we could discover inter dimensional travel 2021-04-02 17:06:16 RT @xrw: "I want a live, joy, let's take care of each other movement"- @UpFromTheCracks . thank you for being the first person to respond… 2021-04-02 15:43:26 RT @ClarissaRedwine: "I want a live-joy-let's-take-care-of-each-other movement." @UpFromTheCracks 2021-04-02 15:23:05 Ethio twitter this is for y’all, I was cracking up for 15 minutes by myself at this sign “high in Ethiopia Amhara plateau exists a rare community of special animals” https://t.co/5vuFrbFPO0 2021-04-02 15:23:04 We went because like I said ain’t shit open rn and I will not be spending my Middle Ages saying stop doing flips on the couch to infinite. In the reptile house, a man was in the case (cleaning it) All 5 now: “We told you, they tryna put us in the cages!” 2021-04-02 15:23:03 I took my kids to the Bronx zoo last weekend, to which they mocked my hypocrisy b/c I’m always talking about animal jail but yo like there’s nothing open but different prisons nowadays 2021-04-02 15:13:02 @slagthompson I mean ultimately the tragedy is that we rely so heavily on these 1950s clips because even tho the language and the worldview are very current, there’s so little written as concisely as this for the present 2021-04-02 14:48:06 RT @ninamonei: To clarify my thoughts on this: whiteness is anti-Blackness, but anti-Blackness is not inherently whiteness. Whiteness susta… 2021-04-02 14:45:18 RT @ninamonei: @thurgoodhamer Hmm.. That makes sense. I think of whiteness as power system sustained via anti-Black racism and genocide of… 2021-04-02 14:35:14 Amhara exceptionalism is very much rooted in the mythology of Ethiopian nationalism which claims to be anti-imperialist yet Menelik, Selassie and now Abiy violently subjugated other ethnic groups into nation building-but I don’t want to hijack this thread so QTing https://t.co/2N74JUqlwG 2021-04-02 14:18:46 @JasmineMcNealy It’s truly Black girl magic but not in a Green Mile/magical negro way, plus the vision of collective resistance (and winning)...Really underrated flick 2021-04-02 14:16:27 @ninamonei @thurgoodhamer If of interest, this reasoning is very prevalent today (and think, Ethiopia is simultaneously promoted as the “symbol of Black Pan-African freedom b/c it was never colonized”) https://t.co/yDHfmD35C4 2021-04-02 14:06:38 @noahfeehan I think it still is was just thinking about the movie this morning 2021-04-02 14:05:24 @ninamonei @thurgoodhamer Ah sorry wasn’t claiming that you were, was trying to speak to the point about POC who are allying with whiteness 2021-04-02 14:04:22 @thurgoodhamer @ninamonei 2- As someone who is Ethiopian diaspora, I very much live in the land of Amhara elites (who are the ethnic group most closely associated w/ nationalism) distancing themselves from Blackness while making their brand in the West based on being hyper vocal about Anti-Blackness 2021-04-02 12:48:11 Very interesting, looking forward to reading #Chad #Biometrics https://t.co/pNHYH89Ue3 2021-04-02 12:43:17 Hmmm https://t.co/PYHf3S6guw 2021-04-02 12:40:01 RT @mtlaiethics: Under the guise of a “Safe City” project, facial recognition has been deployed in 2 major cities in Myanmar. The tech was… 2021-04-02 01:18:53 @ThaAyantu The way this looks just like Obama’s change stickers 2021-04-02 01:07:39 @CountAightBlah @xrw I'm good for it (for better or worse) lol 2021-04-02 00:58:55 @netabomani A word 2021-04-02 00:58:06 I had sooo much fun presenting at Logic School thank you @xrw for birthing this beautiful project into existence 2021-04-01 22:52:52 https://t.co/04l8NVRUKf 2021-04-01 22:29:52 RT @ZekuZelalem: "George Bolton" & 2021-04-01 22:27:06 RT @GWCUAW: BARGAINING QUOTE from @columbia’s lawyer just now: “We do not agree with you that graduate students generate revenue for the Un… 2021-04-01 18:24:52 RT @awolallo: We should all condemn the callous attack against ethnic Amhara civilians in the Western Wallaga zone in the strongest possibl… 2021-04-01 18:24:45 RT @FBedaso: This government’s war against its opposition started in Wallagga, under a complete media black out. All the crimes committed i… 2021-04-01 17:41:31 I feel like I live in some kind of experimental MFA workshop come to life 2021-04-01 13:40:51 RT @mediaghosts: @WeBeImagining @GWCUAW @GSOCUAW Given my position and research in higher ed, I would say the latter is very much the root… 2021-04-01 13:40:35 RT @asmhardin: This episode is illuminating & 2021-04-01 11:41:02 RT @JonathanNealeA1: Here is an article by Nancy Lindisfarne and me in Britain on the international implications of the Columbia strike @GW… 2021-04-01 11:37:46 @fickleRover @WeBeImagining @Columbia @yasepin @GWCUAW @DylanIannitelli @GSOCUAW Thank you ! 2021-04-01 11:27:48 RT @womenoftigray: #WarOnTigray has shown what an exceptional courage & 2021-04-01 11:04:48 RT @rcoreyb: "The epidemic of sexual assault [in Tigray] is exacerbated by a collapsing health system. Many victims have contracted sexuall… 2021-04-01 10:46:22 RT @fickleRover: @WeBeImagining podcast is super amazing and so is Khadijah @UpFromTheCracks Listen to why @Columbia is refusing to agree t… 2021-04-01 10:46:15 RT @tobyssium: This is important. And also an opportunity to say how much I deeply appreciate @WeBeImagining and @UpFromTheCracks 2021-04-01 00:17:13 @essaysmythe I LOVE THAT BOOK! 2021-04-01 00:07:07 RT @mer__edith: Microsoft has the $10b JEDI contract, providing AI + computational infra for war & 2021-03-31 22:57:12 Thank you @tarekzismail for making the intros for this @WeBeImagining episode. I learned so much from @yasepin-a Columbia Student Worker Union Organizer and @DylanIannitelli organizing at NYU https://t.co/KqZNQI5pa5 2021-03-31 22:54:45 RT @WeBeImagining: Grad students are the lifeblood of academic institutions, so why are universities refusing to pay them a living wage? Y… 2021-03-31 21:20:38 @andrewhume @Elinor_Carmi @WeBeImagining 2021-03-31 21:20:33 RT @andrewhume: “Why can’t rhythm be the sign of epistemic authority? Why is it always text?” @UpFromTheCracks with @Elinor_Carmi on @WeBeI… 2021-03-31 20:08:07 https://t.co/rwpdVz6xzq 2021-03-31 18:41:38 @womenoftigray @SelamLTekie @Up_yours_Haftar @Selkid @FBedaso @Lindarefugee Thank you 2021-03-31 17:27:56 I’m also interested in what is “national security” given how privatized infrastructure has challenged the regulatory frameworks and social services of the nation state https://t.co/R5ubnc2LsH 2021-03-31 16:00:12 When did accountability in tech or platform governance become synonymous w/ policing? This notion that safety is achieved exclusively through identifying, removing and regulating bad behavior is so pervasive. https://t.co/3D5MdwZcn1 2021-03-31 15:53:09 @DataRenee @Uber @Uber_Support LOL “The selfie feature does not use facial recognition technology, but simply detects the mask as an object on the face, Kansal said. Uber stores selfie photos for 96 hours to settle potential disputes, but then permanently deletes them, a spokesman added. 2021-03-31 15:48:47 @2beornotbeing @Uber @Uber_Support @MTA Imho Uber is garbage, we need a reinvestment in public services. A lot of these platforms filled a gap for disabled people failed by the city yet now the same platforms are presenting bigger and more dangerous problems 2021-03-31 15:44:06 @2beornotbeing @Uber @Uber_Support @MTA I have 5 kids so ordering a TLC car even prior to Uber was very challenging and expensive. We also faced frequent refusals once they arrived to pick us up. 2021-03-31 15:38:18 @2beornotbeing @Uber @Uber_Support Unfortunately @MTA is not accessible for my kids with disabilities so we rely heavily on @Uber but this really underlined how mobility is being stratified on a whole other scale 2021-03-31 15:34:17 What percentage of Black riders are reporting racist encounters with drivers during trips? What is the rate of driver cancellation for Black riders compared to White? @Uber Why is there no way to log this information in the app? @Uber_Support 2021-03-31 15:31:45 “Unlike for drivers, the rider app will only prompt a passenger to take a selfie if a driver previously reported they were not wearing a mask.” Funny how “being Black” can get reported as “not wearing mask”. https://t.co/9cjYGNViH6 2021-03-31 15:26:23 Yo, I ordered an @Uber on the UES, homeboy saw my whole Black family and canceled the ride. When I went to request another ride, it’s suddenly demanding my face @Uber_Support wtf?! https://t.co/LvzyDsKb1j 2021-03-31 14:18:35 The military had identified a “narco-terrorist-neo-communist alliance 2.0” as its new bete noire. Left-wingers, drug traffickers and criminal gangs had been folded together to form a unified threat to Brazil that only the army could stop. https://t.co/Hn8OhvabT6 2021-03-31 14:18:34 Excellent essay by @DarrenLoucaides situating Bolsonaro’s coordinated dis/misinfo campaign into a larger analysis of the Brazilian military’s political agenda. https://t.co/5eyDSaJxAs 2021-03-31 14:05:20 Israeli security forces are relying on “technological means and developments that facilitate a continuation of the [Israeli] occupation with less manpower and government support.” https://t.co/KCPpxnbstj 2021-03-31 14:04:55 “Cornell NYC Tech representatives have been very careful to avoid discussing Technion’s role in Israeli militarism. Technion will be discussed in a positive light to make the campus look good.” https://t.co/a9qEvKrCon 2021-03-31 13:55:31 “Just as contemporary activist movements rely on platforms, so too does authoritarian populism. Platforms have played such a significant role in the success of this current wave of global authoritarianism that one might even call it platform authoritarianism.” https://t.co/2nXFiw5LZY 2021-03-31 13:55:29 “If we understand platforms as, simultaneously, an economic, political and social phenomenon — in other words, as emerging alternatives to nation-states — we will be able to confront them better.” https://t.co/JUj507k7Ip 2021-03-31 13:35:18 RT @CyberAlexi: This is a fantastic thread, one that really needs reading. 2021-03-31 00:04:36 RT @awolallo: My latest for @AJEnglish calling for inclusive national dialogue The violence in Tigray and the broader political crisis gr… 2021-03-30 21:48:43 RT @hackinghustling: This panel explores how sex worker activists navigate hostile tech policies while trying to organize. Speakers include… 2021-03-30 16:51:19 RT @standwkashmir: “ @Twitter’s suspension is a continuation of a campaign of suppression against Kashmiri activists and information on Kas… 2021-03-30 16:51:15 RT @standwkashmir: Coverage of assault on free speech on #Kashmir in @AJEnglish: ”In one such case, the account of Kashmiri diaspora-led gr… 2021-03-30 16:48:12 RT @SirJoshBennett: Adrienne Rich https://t.co/dR8zlovlja 2021-03-30 16:35:34 RT @Broggly: @BadChinaTake As though the problem with the Cold War wasn't the atrocities, but that people were talking about the atrocities. 2021-03-30 16:35:25 RT @BadChinaTake: New Cold War Obsession is a hell of a drug. Just ask the people at Heritage convinced BLM is a CCP plot, or Prof. Parikh… 2021-03-30 16:08:23 RT @standwkashmir: Kashmir’s government is sharing people’s private health information w the police, an entity that regularly commits human… 2021-03-30 16:07:20 RT @kharijohnson: Personal News I'm heading to @WIRED, where I’ll be a senior writer focused on AI. I start next month and am excited to… 2021-03-30 16:07:05 @kharijohnson @WIRED @ScottThurm @tsimonite @willknight Congratulations! 2021-03-30 14:50:11 RT @GualJeganu: Wait, what? You were fired for speaking up about a genocide? Say it isn't so @milsteinprogram @tap2k #TigrayGenocide 2021-03-30 14:49:53 @EremiasWmikael @tap2k @milsteinprogram Imho this is so bizarre b/c it’s hard for me to understand why someone who is not Ethiopian is even so invested in this...I guess some universal alliance with nationalism? Am going through his dozens and dozens of messages to make a timeline 2021-03-30 04:33:04 RT @timnitGebru: @UpFromTheCracks @tap2k @milsteinprogram @cornell_tech @SergeBelongie @Jimantha as far as I can see Cornell Tech has zero… 2021-03-30 04:31:28 I’m about to fall asleep but just wanted to say thank you to everyone worried about me but I’m fine and in fact just got a new position to co-lead a radical tech organizing summer fellowship 2021-03-30 02:27:23 RT @Slangdini: I use nah as “well actually “, “I am in disbelief “, an evaluation metric and “I politely decline “ .off top of my head 2021-03-30 02:24:43 RT @DocDre: Eye LOVE this question!!!! 2021-03-30 02:24:05 @zeaxumawit Thank you, seriously I’m still relatively privileged and my only objective is to keep working on this b/c Tegaru, Oromo and other people are losing a lot more than jobs 2021-03-30 02:14:53 RT @dex_eve: Cornell firing someone for (checks notes) bringing attention to ethnic cleansing 2021-03-30 02:04:27 Apparently “outrage is a festering ground for narcs, fash and ethno nationalism” so I’m supposed to be silent in the face of mass atrocities. Silence that somehow prevents a US proxy war? Wtf https://t.co/vUNAMCkoRg 2021-03-30 02:04:26 I just can’t get over that @tap2k had the audacity to say tweeting about the #TigrayGenocide is the true reason I was fired from @milsteinprogram 2021-03-30 01:39:44 @liberatetigray Apparently, but imho I’d speak up again. We cannot be silent and that’s a small price to pay. 2021-03-30 01:32:15 not Tap trying to say the reason he fired me from Cornell Tech was “incendiary social media comments about ethnic conflict brewing in Ethiopia” I guess I’m not allowed to speak out against ethnic cleansing 2021-03-30 00:49:30 RT @jathansadowski: Amazon’s security staff reported its own tweets for being so “unnecessarily antagonistic” that they feared they’d been… 2021-03-30 00:47:16 https://t.co/e8lXivOn0m 2021-03-29 21:54:45 RT @mutalenkonde: My good sis @timnitGebru just put me on @UpFromTheCracks is brilliant simply brilliant. Where can we work exactly???? 2021-03-29 21:44:06 @mutalenkonde @timnitGebru Thank you for the love y'all, imho this is just a really depressing sign of the times. I don't even know what to say :/ . I guess we can work anywhere we're silent and compliant... 2021-03-29 19:28:20 @andrewhume Thank you Andrew will catch up with this whole thread v soon :) 2021-03-29 19:28:01 RT @andrewhume: (An aside: @upfromthecracks has been my go-to for better understanding the dangers of the for-profit predictive analytics m… 2021-03-29 16:46:19 @mariamnotmiriam It’s only missing an out of context MLK quote to be fully realized lolol 2021-03-29 15:01:24 @cemicool @milsteinprogram @tap2k It's truly awful not just for me what it represents. Tbh so many thoughtful people offered to circulate a petition and that just feels exhausting, I'd really love to learn what ideas ppl have to counter this repression of radical Black thought beyond petitions 2021-03-29 14:24:41 And “On Media Distortions with @Elinor_Carmi “ https://t.co/7qFv9yRiUP 2021-03-29 14:23:50 ICYMI @WeBeImagining dropped 2 episodes this week “On Them Goon Rules:Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism w/ Marquis Bey” https://t.co/fONF3euK6z 2021-03-29 12:48:21 Forgot to add alt text, graffiti on apartment complex featuring from left to right a Chasid white cis male on a subway car, Black woman facing forward but head turned toward white cis male hipster with tattoos and orange beard. Beneath says love, equality and respect 2021-03-29 12:46:17 Who trust fund baby made this? Imho liberalism in a nutshell, Equality for a Black woman being sandwiched between a cis white male chasid and hipster with their backs to her. https://t.co/dvnOaShnCX 2021-03-29 11:29:06 RT @abraham_zere: My reading of the fast-changing developments in #Ethiopia mainly from the #Eritrean side: "Can #Eritrea’s Afwerki hold o… 2021-03-29 11:25:55 Separately, why does setting up a lane require entering the gender of each player? What possible reason is this needed?! 2021-03-29 11:24:17 I took my kids bowling yesterday, a 20 something Black woman introduces herself, says “I’m Sierra and I’ll be your host” as she walks us to our lane. Here go my son “the host will start the meeting!, the host will start the meeting!” Zoom has defined these kids’ whole world 2021-03-28 23:49:01 RT @taoleighgoffe: People want Black theory to work for them just like they want Black people to work for them. 2021-03-28 23:13:20 “You’re not just the dividual, in debt, credit scored -you’re also mobilized into being these sovereign citizens who are therefore morally responsible, capably of poorly managing finances which forecloses some of these possibilities for thinking and acting” 2021-03-28 23:10:53 “Foucault found discipline intolerable not just because it is morally wrong but because it’s rendered imperceptible, he wrote to expose, if he was to see the society of control he’d emphasize its intolerable, it needs to be exposed” 2021-03-28 23:07:49 “Potentiality to be disorganized and reorganized, maybe we can appropriate a society of control for a society of self control, the new weapons can be what we need to re-appropriate this-an explosive plastic modular assemblage in the spirit of Minecraft” 2021-03-28 23:05:49 “We lose the collective worker identity but a possible way out is the opportunities of mass communication and collaboration. But Deleuze is skeptical, there’s too much communication, maybe we need new vacuoles or silence.” 2021-03-28 23:04:02 “Functioning in this society or participating in it requires debt, our whole basis in society is “who do you owe”, a series of dif debts, you enter a new one as you exit the old” 2021-03-28 22:59:30 @_VCopeland I’m enjoying it very much as a Deleuze Stan but I’d love the Wynter-ites or Lil Nas X to jump in on this, idk tho where are the Black folks who mess with D& 2021-03-28 22:56:17 Individuals are acting as though the panopticon is still valid, so it’s not just to dispose of Foucault, what are ways to disrupt new societies of control that don’t just rearticulate new subjectivities 2021-03-28 22:53:02 The question is not “do you work here?” Looking to your uniform, your speech to confirm your identity (as disciplined in the factory, the school or the hospital. It is “can you work here?” it is a probability based on the collection of the data extracted from you as a population 2021-03-28 22:53:01 the dividual refers to a post mass/individual pair that has turned individuals into “masses, samples, data, markets, or “banks”. 2021-03-28 22:46:04 “Deleuze’s political ontology is a continuous surface w/ breaks and folds vs the disciplinary notion of enclosure or molds” 2021-03-28 22:43:00 “enclosure pairs w/ modulation, discipline is not obsolete under advanced neoliberal capitalism it’s an intermingling of intensities” 2021-03-28 16:51:48 I know I post a lot but y'all slept on this tweet. #Fauxbolition Starter Pack + Bingo Game #AbolishACS @JMacForFamilies @movfamilypower https://t.co/IRpdKoewpa 2021-03-28 16:49:25 They'll have you catching a Case(y) https://t.co/yhpmSmOrJB 2021-03-28 16:47:52 RT @JMacForFamilies: This is why the family regulation system must be dismantled. There is no fairness, transparency or justice. There’s on… 2021-03-28 16:34:58 @JMacForFamilies This is why it needs to be dismantled 2021-03-28 15:46:54 Eddie + Nekayba had their children taken for daring to question the OBGYN while Black. The same outlets that refused to cover their quest for justice are now complicit in spreading ACS’ propaganda. Their story is the first episode on @webeimagining S3 https://t.co/lbuHxU4Xbu https://t.co/pAlP9hnuXy 2021-03-28 15:26:01 “The impacts cut across the entire public system, from lifesaving emergency care and reproductive health, to medicine imports and treatment for what should otherwise be manageable diseases.” https://t.co/QKSxoH01aI 2021-03-28 15:00:25 @_TigrayGenocide There’s just something alarming about how their defenses are self-incriminating. Like in showing their true colors, they’re normalizing this whole fascist project as deserving of respect. 2021-03-28 14:57:39 @thurgoodhamer I appreciated Bey’s willingness to say “I don’t know”. There’s a mobilization of possibility that gender abolition seems to point to but at the same time, I struggle w/ claims of certitude that are removed from the indeterminate realities of people lives (outside of the academy) 2021-03-28 14:20:16 @thurgoodhamer @WeBeImagining @thotscholar @jatella @RonMorrison_ @DaShaunLH Thank you for the love @thurgoodhamer 2021-03-28 12:58:35 Alemayehu Tegenu- the Ethiopian ambassador to Russia responds to RT’s coverage of protests demanding “Stop rape, send aid” in #Tigray w/ a demand to “respect our leaders” and remove this tweet” (**notably conflict is misused given its a war and act of ethnic cleansing) https://t.co/zGgvXGIMpZ 2021-03-28 01:59:48 @ShanaVWhite I’d love to to learn more, please Lmk when it’s in the world 2021-03-28 00:40:18 We need a critical computer science program for K-12 because b/c the US military is out here training “Cyber Patriots” Is anyone working on this (in a non “digital divide” way) https://t.co/vk3mV535Op 2021-03-28 00:24:43 RT @LilNasX: i spent my entire teenage years hating myself because of the shit y’all preached would happen to me because i was gay. so i ho… 2021-03-27 21:37:53 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @mer__edith The global right is powerfully organized + represented in tech industry and academia. The asymmetry of pow… 2021-03-27 21:35:10 @mer__edith The global right is powerfully organized + represented in tech industry and academia. The asymmetry of power keeps me up at night. How can we build a serious, alternate beacon to resist Hindutva, White Supremacy and fascism basically ? 2021-03-27 21:14:17 RT @mer__edith: This is extremely troubling. We're seeing the spaces for genuinely critical work narrowing rapidly, especially around tech… 2021-03-27 20:29:11 RT @DrSyedMustafaA1: Call for Papers to CIS’2021: Critical Approaches to Informational Phenomena – Past(s), Present(s) and Future(s) https:… 2021-03-27 20:10:29 RT @demonicground: #blackfuture Simone Browne is making connections between state surveillance and corporate technology industries--the lin… 2021-03-27 20:10:23 RT @demonicground: #blackfutures Simone Browne is talking about her ongoing research on seeking FBI files--Lorde, Naylor, Fanon--the work o… 2021-03-27 20:00:58 RT @StuFlemingNZ: There is so much to value here. The systemic reinforcement of elite power in CHI/HCI research goes way back. I love the… 2021-03-27 19:48:23 RT @timnitGebru: What’s going on at Cornell Tech? Did you decide having even 1 Black woman is too much? 2021-03-27 19:37:52 RT @Blackamazon: OH WORD ?!? 2021-03-27 19:18:57 In addition to reading Marquis’ work this @WeBeImagining episode was informed by @thotscholar @jatella Nina Monei, @thurgoodhamer @RonMorrison_ @DaShaunLH I really be learning from Black Twitter Thank you for putting in the labor 2021-03-27 19:06:39 @timnitGebru Thank you @timnitGebru for the support! I’m so disgusted w/ Tap and the pervasive anti-Blackness of CS education. Luckily I can disengage, but many Black + Dalit students are suffering or giving up due to the toxic dynamics 2021-03-27 19:02:41 Tech, gender and Black studies collide as we consider the implications of facial recognition, mutual aid on privatized infrastructure, Black feminist refutations of categorization and predictive analytics’ desire for interagency data. 2021-03-27 19:02:40 What’s the difference between “nah” and Bartleby the Scrivener’s “I would rather not to”? In other words, how does Blackness modify refusal? 2021-03-27 17:37:58 RT @Elinor_Carmi: A week ago @UpFromTheCracks interviewed me for @WeBeImagining podcast & 2021-03-27 17:37:50 RT @ZeerakW: I am eeeeeexcited to listen to this one!!!! 2021-03-27 17:12:05 @ThaAyantu I think they’ve moved onto transhumanism which is basically the cybernetic version 2.0 2021-03-27 17:11:00 RT @GiselaFWilson: “It's all too common to let those moments blur, All that simple song turning into Ambient noise to be brushed aside, Alo… 2021-03-27 17:04:21 Unsettling the myth of “organic content” @Elinor_Carmi came on @WeBeImagining dropping knowledge on Spam who gets to decide which media is categorized as deviant and the layers of content moderation infrastructure that are invisible to most end users. https://t.co/1rN0xKdoF2 2021-03-27 15:19:40 @only_awet Fair on both counts. Thank you for replying. I’m listening. 2021-03-27 15:07:29 @only_awet Can you share what you think is the model or path towards independence? I can only speak for myself but as an Oromo diaspora I support the demand and want to learn more about the “how” since ethnic federalism is basically a failed project to reconcile this desire 2021-03-27 13:03:01 @EremiasWmikael Fair, I don’t think anyone would say Zionism and occupation is a rallying cry of the Tegaru people. Am interested in learning more about what a people who have also experienced Ethnic cleansing and statelessness view as an alternative road to independence 2021-03-27 12:57:48 @PatrickWight1 Separately, it’s fascinating to me that European Jews actually requested Harar as an autonomous region from Selassie. https://t.co/NHu60LVRD4 2021-03-27 12:55:40 @PatrickWight1 Yeah I’m not a geopolitical expert, I’d be curious to learn more about viable paths to independence. 2021-03-27 12:45:15 @atrizzlee Look, I support Tigray independence and self determination 100%. How could Tegaru demand anything less at this point? This is one person, one quote but it has meaning in the world beyond what the man may have intended and the journalist would have known. 2021-03-27 11:54:18 @atrizzlee @eedeen_ You’re right, I am projecting b/c this is a heavy statement to write in WaPo w/ no explanation. The man could have meant a thousand things but evoking Israel as a model is not neutral which the journalist knows. 2021-03-27 01:58:31 RT @kjuanitabrown: Trust me. You want to make time for this event. Next Friday, via Zoom: https://t.co/kfKEeFdPHB 2021-03-27 01:35:22 @edsbbyyy He literally said “We will be the next Israel”, what is the reach? 2021-03-27 01:32:00 @eedeen_ If I was in him, I’d want to burn down the whole army. The point is that wanting retribution is a normal response to horrific violence but it is also what will repeat the cycle. I don’t think we should equate rural w/ not knowing, if anything it’s urban elitism that got us here 2021-03-27 00:57:44 “Devi claimed she could not feed her daughter because she failed to link her food rationing card to Aadhaar — the government's biometric identity scheme — through an official website.” https://t.co/BewOGV2cs7 2021-03-27 00:57:42 https://t.co/RgD4nkGFdx 2021-03-27 00:47:13 https://t.co/UDO4D2XNxq https://t.co/H70G3h57WH 2021-03-27 00:44:41 Apple Forbids Facial Scanning of Employees—But Not Factory Workers https://t.co/Sgfq9vjOUb 2021-03-26 23:55:27 y’all didn’t ask about me on the back channel? You not going to intimidate me into silence https://t.co/FwExZVe0L8 https://t.co/2mtWco6yN7 2021-03-26 23:47:15 My problem is with Anti-Black upper caste, cis Indians who seek to weaponize the term “Global South” in service of their elitist agenda. But go off, nothing says innocence like trolling from a burner @OurVoices15 https://t.co/5uTaJudYqp 2021-03-26 22:35:48 RT @Combsthepoet: Born Petty https://t.co/zz8MRcQ750 2021-03-26 22:16:17 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Don’t let nobody tell you petty ain’t an emancipatory politic 2021-03-26 22:06:19 Black going to be listed like a MF 2021-03-26 22:04:43 TFW when so many anti fascist programs are about to drop that will be paying and connecting people from the hood, Kashmir and Oromia #gratitude 2021-03-26 20:23:20 RT @MadMarx37: IMPORTANT: Do any of you know any Dalits who've received the national overseas scholarship from MOSJE ( https://t.co/wArz6YM… 2021-03-26 17:45:05 RT @PalmTreesnGz: For my fellow faculty and laborers in higher Ed who can please consider donating and/or share to support #CUonStrike! 2021-03-26 17:40:32 Maybe of interest cc: @profvrr @BioProfBarker @KizzyPhD #Virology #Wuhan @BlackInImmuno 2021-03-26 17:33:53 The link to donate to the Columbia Graduate Academic Student Workers is here (and in our show notes) @GWCUAW I’m happy to promote other mutual aid calls on @WeBeImagining . DM me if you’d like to be included next episode. https://t.co/jHRWD9XjBT 2021-03-26 17:26:22 Strongly recommend this episode to people who are thinking about digital mutual aid infrastructure, how masks became racialized during SARS-COV-1 as “Asian” and the intersection of occupation and Blackness in who has been abandoned during COVID-19 @WeBeImagining 2021-03-26 17:26:21 Drawing on the xiao qu or auntie run WeChat groups that fact checked public health rumors, coordinated mass orders for neighbors w/ local butchers etc on WeChat, @triciawang developed a template for people to start their own hyperlocal groups in March ‘20 https://t.co/6XyyHDTylf https://t.co/3sYfa9YM4g 2021-03-26 17:26:19 We were told China’s authoritarian, top down yet repressive measures is what mitigated transmission of COVID-19 but digital ethnographer @triciawang joins @WeBeImagining to complicate that narrative, highlighting the hyperlocal networks built in Wuhan https://t.co/egeSCEtsc7 2021-03-26 16:16:05 Have been sitting with this all morning, unspeakable mass atrocities are happening in Tigray- state sanctioned and extrajudicial. I’m also concerned about a desire for independence that articulates Israel as a model. https://t.co/57Yu8Qk3Wp https://t.co/bmM6DdCDNu 2021-03-26 15:01:51 RT @AcademiaAnon: There is so much of accumulated caste and class privilege and social capital at work here. Not only does it allow some to… 2021-03-26 14:46:10 white supremacy (and it’s multiracial coalition) hinge their violence on perceived innocence. It’s always illegible, hard to parse, they can’t figure it out -yet somehow always they’re always able to systematically reproduce Black erasure and occupation 2021-03-26 12:05:41 Black imperialism, nothing like being violently ruled over by people who look like you https://t.co/eLqbpnEsxJ 2021-03-26 12:00:47 @Habesh_ What are these words? “Temporary hurdles precipitated by the reality that will further bolster...” https://t.co/oD1GUzDY8s 2021-03-26 11:37:12 These press releases are always so self-incriminating and oddly sound like a Wu Tang Clan album, every time I hear “criminal clique” I just can’t get over what a bizarre and murderous time we live in https://t.co/D6M8yDqVyS 2021-03-26 11:20:47 RT @movfamilypower: UPDATE! In solidarity with the Columbia Academic Student Workers, MFP will no longer be presenting at the Columbia J… 2021-03-26 03:50:22 RT @_VCopeland: 2021-03-26 03:49:57 https://t.co/vSf5SAHIzt https://t.co/VvZq5Jycsy 2021-03-26 03:36:58 @OurVoices15 ...given you created a whole burner account for the sole purpose of asking this question, I suppose you know better than me 2021-03-26 01:08:20 RT @dude_crooks: My NSF CAREER project, "Community Organizing for Datafied Worlds," begins with a simple premise: what if academics acknowl… 2021-03-26 00:47:15 RT @hypervisible: Can’t fully express how badly it sucks to see the exodus of so many stellar journalists from @ozm They have been doing… 2021-03-26 00:28:19 RT @knifegames: shoutouts forever to the brilliant Khadija Hussain, who did some amazing reporting on this: https://t.co/NJ2TmbHZqj 2021-03-26 00:26:29 RT @MWebbWords: Proud to stand in #solidarity with @GWCUAW Columbia University Graduate Student Workers. Not crossing the picket line. Prou… 2021-03-26 00:22:47 RT @ThaAyantu: Abiy officially selling neoliberalism and privatization as a virtue to the public. That parliament speech came straight from… 2021-03-26 00:19:42 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Encore: “Without the pipeline of support they receive from networks of upper-caste Hindus in the diaspora … the Modi g… 2021-03-25 23:55:30 Encore: “Without the pipeline of support they receive from networks of upper-caste Hindus in the diaspora … the Modi government would lack the financial support they need to distribute their fascist ideologies. “ https://t.co/TJs7p2LURO https://t.co/IUnh0o9wGK 2021-03-25 23:55:29 Act 3: The Advisor “racism, slavery, colonialism - none of its rocket science” https://t.co/2NePkrtcJL 2021-03-25 23:55:28 Act 1: Straighten Up and Fly Right: Rethinking Intersectionality in HCI Research https://t.co/Ov3PuRMZRp https://t.co/r5YCLZRajr 2021-03-25 21:52:29 RT @_alialkhatib: this whole thread is fucking surreal. i'm reeling right now 2021-03-25 21:43:11 @SteveTrush Thank you 2021-03-25 20:32:49 RT @mariamnotmiriam: i love it when tenured R1 professors use their power to *checks notes" take resources away from a Black scholar after… 2021-03-25 19:56:12 RT @gleemie: I wonder how long until kashmiri activists are targeted under CVE, or are they already? @SaibaVarma do you know? 2021-03-25 19:56:09 RT @gleemie: A lot of these funds go into placing spies in Muslim communities and even encouraging muslims to express desire for violence a… 2021-03-25 15:53:24 RT @tarciziosilva: @DocDre The different takes are veeery interesting. Here the white-"i'm not racist"-left uses white mexicans, white arge… 2021-03-25 15:50:33 @suchetaghoshal Hahahah I was actually trying to find a rupi kaur gif drinking tea but no dice 2021-03-25 15:49:17 @suchetaghoshal They love to talk about *global south representation” until Kashmir come up https://t.co/ZSMxQc8jHO 2021-03-25 15:37:25 @suchetaghoshal but we know damn well that my thread is only what the whisper network been knew. They want to relegate the real to whispers FOH 2021-03-25 15:31:20 RT @AmyMulzer: Just an FYI, the Strengthened Bonds conference on the abolition of the family regulation system is being postponed in solida… 2021-03-25 15:29:40 And this is how the academy disciplines subjectivity from the junior faculty, adjuncts and by extension the “public” who receives scholarship once those deemed ungovernable have been silenced or removed https://t.co/3zIVftjXp2 2021-03-25 15:26:29 RT @gleemie: @UpFromTheCracks @taoleighgoffe If we're concerned that HCI/IS has radical teachers and conservative policy advisors, how we *… 2021-03-25 15:26:20 RT @gleemie: @UpFromTheCracks @taoleighgoffe Claiming that actively working against anti-Blackness makes one dangerously radical is essenti… 2021-03-25 15:25:53 threatening junior faculty who dare to call out anti-Blackness, Ethiopian + Hindu nationalism is part of a larger fascist project. organized nationalists silence #OromoProtests and @standwkashmir from @Twitter and @Facebook @instagram https://t.co/soBNJzNjho 2021-03-25 15:06:45 RT @FBedaso: I personally am looking forward to you & 2021-03-25 14:41:54 Tfw when your ears are ringing because the hindutva caravan is debriefing on what’s app back channel. Yes y’all could get it too 2021-03-25 14:25:48 RT @DocDre: welp, i guess now y'all have context for my wish last night ¯\_()_/¯ i don't like when senior folk fuck with my students or… 2021-03-25 14:24:58 RT @sayashk: I love it when Savarnas, who are themselves here as a result of extreme social stratification, claim to speak for Asians. Espe… 2021-03-25 14:20:32 @tap2k @taoleighgoffe Take off private if you want to comment publicly, not only did you call @taoleighgoffe slow but said she’s a “traitor to your pirate ship” and pushed your only non racist Phd student to a nervous breakdown https://t.co/7A9j4MVOiZ 2021-03-25 14:14:17 RT @DocDre: this thread makes me furious and makes me weep at the same time. 2021-03-25 12:49:27 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Tune into Black Families Matter: Ending Family Regulation Systems feat @DorothyERoberts + Lisa Sangoi (@lks221) of @mo… 2021-03-25 12:47:57 RT @UpFromTheCracks: I hope this year to see the movement of parents impacted by child services converge with the movement of #adoptees who… 2021-03-25 12:47:55 RT @UpFromTheCracks: I have learned so much from Black women in this fight against the New York City Administration of Children’s Services… 2021-03-25 12:47:49 RT @UpFromTheCracks: In the spirit of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare by Dorothy Roberts- the 20th anniversary that inspired th… 2021-03-25 12:46:00 **resources to learn more 2021-03-25 12:34:55 @BenJofaman Likewise Grateful to be in collaboration and learning with you :) 2021-03-25 12:33:15 RT @BenJofaman: As someone who was formerly separated from family in Colombia through a transnational adoption process, this book has been… 2021-03-25 12:15:32 RT @democracynow: Over 3,000 @Columbia grad student workers are 10 days into a strike for their union’s first contract. “This university do… 2021-03-25 12:13:31 I have learned so much from Black women in this fight against the New York City Administration of Children’s Services (NYC ACS) including @JMacForFamilies @movfamilypower @MsBrewNYC Halimah Washington and so many more. 2021-03-25 12:02:59 Many people DM me looking for resource me to learn more, I highly recommend reading Shattered Bonds as well as Dorothy Roberts’ article in @TheImprintNews https://t.co/XU0I6XvEbQ 2021-03-25 12:01:06 There is no movement to abolish the family regulation system w/o #adoptees, former foster youth and impacted parents. These systems also target the most vulnerable and Dorothy Roberts pathbreaking analysis published 20 years ago, gave us a path forward https://t.co/TkYuC4qqmR 2021-03-25 11:55:07 In the spirit of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare by Dorothy Roberts- the 20th anniversary that inspired the conference-I’d like to share 2 of my slides: the Fauxbolition Starter Pack + Bingo Game #AbolishNYCACS #AbolishCPS https://t.co/ZUdFlNZCrr 2021-03-25 11:55:06 The political right and the academic institutions of power have taken COVID as an opportunity to enact repressive austerity measures that are highly coordinated. It is troubling if the left fails to extend solidarity to those on its side. @GWCUAW 2021-03-25 11:55:05 Academia has been complicit in expanding all forms of policing against Black and poor communities. This can only be disrupted if poor and of color graduate students who must work (and strike to gain fair wages) are able to participate in knowledge production. 2021-03-24 17:07:53 @azraism @suchetaghoshal @ishtiaqueSIA @hcdeUW @tap2k https://t.co/iCPW4G4AjT 2021-03-24 14:35:14 @ihateadoption1 Not a stupid question at all 2021-03-24 14:34:54 @ihateadoption1 Ethiopia like India and other authoritarian governments shuts down the internet to silence dissent and prevent the global public from seeing the mass atrocities the state is committing 2021-03-24 12:51:26 The fact that impact of internet shutdown is measured in dollars and not lives... https://t.co/7sF9rrDNn2 2021-03-23 18:01:54 the scale of coordinated fascist violence in Ethiopia, the deeply implicated role of FB/Twitter et al, and the anemic, signifying yet never substantively intervening against power “tech resistance” is haunting me rn so I’m taking a twitter break https://t.co/bbJh50EbqK 2021-03-23 01:46:54 RT @netabomani: day 54 is zine with a black hardcover on perfect, drum leaf bound seafoam green paper and newsprint featuring “The Plot of… 2021-03-22 22:17:49 @hypervisible Low bar 2021-03-22 18:50:26 RT @WordyRamblings: When someone that wants to have a baby and raise a family and be a parent discovers they cannot, the last thing you sho… 2021-03-22 18:24:32 Important thread on #adoption as a “win-win” for couples unable to have their own baby due to infertility https://t.co/FBqN9WEtM5 2021-03-22 18:14:59 RT @antiracistsouth: This is why it’s “abolish policing” and not just “abolish the police.” 2021-03-22 17:39:42 For those who are not familiar with the tee Protest Psychosis, sharing this evergreen archival image featured in Jonathan Metzl’s Book “Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease” https://t.co/VEqbnrcaWs https://t.co/0xuL17zSJJ 2021-03-22 17:34:36 RT @ztsamudzi: Acknowledging all your violences except the things you’ve done to black people is “reckoning” and that’s why I wrote a disse… 2021-03-22 17:34:28 RT @ztsamudzi: Germany has really truly won the post-colonial PR war, because from the brutal suppression of the Maji Maji rebellion to the… 2021-03-22 17:31:31 No https://t.co/ZmYkiNn6K2 2021-03-22 17:18:46 RT @TrialByTruth: While the other half of my brain is screaming: What kind of variably subjective lifelong labels are you pinning to these… 2021-03-22 17:18:09 RT @ruchowdh: New York City 2021-03-22 16:40:33 Cc @movfamilypower @DorothyERoberts @JMacForFamilies @PopTechWorks 2021-03-22 16:39:01 What does this have to do with predictive analytics? Predictive risk modeling is predicated on massive amounts of administrative data, the danger is not the algorithm as much as it’s using Machine Learning to legitimate “protest psychosis” 2021-03-22 16:39:00 S/o to @claritycgc for saying the quiet part out loud. Why do we need CASII: JUSTIFYING FUNDING FOR SERVICES https://t.co/OYQ2yDmsGC https://t.co/ZmSsOshDp1 2021-03-22 16:38:59 Extreme risk of harm incl “constant and uncontrolled use of alcohol or other drugs, resulting in behavior that is clearly endangering.” Importantly, no criminal charge or even child welfare case is required to make this claim, only the judgement of person filling out the scale https://t.co/d6ao8MJF2S 2021-03-22 01:57:37 @jaybeware @JordanPeele It’s like any other small town in America, albeit with one street in the middle of the East River 2021-03-22 01:34:03 @jaybeware @JordanPeele I got out! 2021-03-21 22:21:37 @mer__edith And the framing allows both to thrive 2021-03-21 21:51:50 @DocDre @DavidNeiwert @nberlat Would you look at that? Mhmhmhm 2021-03-21 20:24:12 RT @awolallo: Important thread by @ZekuZelalem. Acts of ethnic cleansing in Tigray were foreseeable. Any govt could have anticipated the co… 2021-03-21 20:23:32 RT @HarshaWalia: I can't believe I got to be on @MAKCapitalism! this podcast is 2021-03-21 20:15:38 RT @PalmTreesnGz: I have been studying Guatemalan history for a good 20 years now. I don’t even know shit tbh. I have done so from a very p… 2021-03-21 20:15:25 RT @PalmTreesnGz: Decade of spring as it’s called from 1944-54 in #Guatemala was not 1 w/o it’s own contradictions. There were and continue… 2021-03-21 20:15:22 RT @PalmTreesnGz: The Guatemalan genocidal civil war lasted officially for 36 years from 1960-1996. The US government intervened to disru… 2021-03-21 20:14:07 If y’all have not had the pleasure of watching @MeekMill Oodles O’Noodles Babies, it poses the age old question: “Who TF gon’ babysit?” https://t.co/s7AcGTYWte 2021-03-21 20:09:39 Yooo @PopTechWorks Can you believe how long ago this was? Tech, Race and the Planet-wish we caught the beginning where Meek Mills Oodle of Noodles Babies played https://t.co/Npwy86iMug 2021-03-21 20:07:35 Reflecting on the Word2RI project i cofounded w/ @tap2k and realizing those events in ‘18 laid a blueprint for understanding the pandemic. Our second event w/ @Lets_Reimagine End of Life and @opendoorsnyc at Coler Nursing Home is really heavy now https://t.co/evGD6SRq3P 2021-03-21 20:00:59 @PalmTreesnGz @JordanPeele I mean...where the lie at? 2021-03-21 19:54:52 Organizing a public screening of @JordanPeele’s documentary, Get Out for my entire town was the beginning of my academic career https://t.co/CtRLxPIDoA 2021-03-21 19:16:57 RT @_jack_poulson: Thinking about how Oracle bragged about it taking less than a second for someone to hit 'Send Tweet' before it ended up… 2021-03-21 12:11:59 RT @jkpuar: Queering Authoritarianisms, Mon 1 pm EST/5 BST w/keynote by @thariel + my response. We r talking about Out of Time, relationshi… 2021-03-21 12:06:03 Idk it sounds like if we could “turn back the hands of time” a lot of y’all would have beat Shaun King to the punch b/c you’d give the money to the families rather than stop the police from killing their kids in the first place 2021-03-21 12:06:02 It’s been days of people arguing over who commodifies Black Death more and I’d just like to say wherever there is the state, there is grift but the point is who will organize with and in service of the alive Black people 2021-03-21 11:38:21 It’s refreshing to see accountability, we cannot pretend like the Tigray Genocide isn’t happening or that selective outrage is neutral https://t.co/KKx7pO7Vda 2021-03-21 11:30:39 RT @BeverlyOchieng: Internet outage in #Congo. Very reminiscent of the 2016 communication shutdown during that presidential election. Presi… 2021-03-21 11:18:30 RT @ElleniZeleke: @AdomGetachew When you make your voice heard on a particular issue while choosing to remain silent when serious allegatio… 2021-03-21 00:16:28 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Hidden Fibers: Mapping the Intimacies and infrastructure between information capital and policing with Brian Jefferson… 2021-03-21 00:15:32 The Gary Webb Story https://t.co/soCJ6byaAO 2021-03-21 00:06:44 RT @xrw: still processing an incredible week 2 of @logic_magazine school, w/guest prof. brian jefferson, author of digitize and punish. o… 2021-03-21 00:01:16 Hmm seems to be a theme: “I believe the authorities sympathise with the attackers,” Damtew alleged. “Police don’t show up until after the attackers leave, or sometimes not at all,” he added. “The government knows about the problem. Nobody has ever been arrested for these crimes https://t.co/o15P0pss7I 2021-03-20 22:55:03 RT @awolallo: A deeply personal and reflective thread. Highly recommend 2021-03-20 22:53:17 @Ben39364789 Now that you replied with state sanctioned clip art I’m totally converted 2021-03-20 20:46:54 RT @cedric_durand: Thanks @WeBeImagining and @UpFromTheCracks for the invitation and the inspiring discussion! 2021-03-20 18:14:30 What are the limitations of the anti-trust in confronting Big Tech’s monopolization of quasi-public infrastructure? For example Amazon replicates the United States Postal Services (USPS) in some sense https://t.co/atoHYojER6 https://t.co/JFr0hxlx4t 2021-03-20 18:07:21 Imho we got to cover a lot of ground here from shadow banking, my existential questions about mutual aid, cancelling debt in the global south, the connections between dispossession, parasitism and incarceration etc etc. really worth the time 2021-03-20 18:04:54 How do we reconcile the political contradictions wrought by financialized tech companies? How can we plan and re-organize the economy towards the public good rather than towards the desires of capital? 2021-03-20 18:04:53 How can the Left respond to the declining hegemony of finance and the rising hegemony of Big Data? @cedric_durand comes through on @WeBeImagining to discuss fictitious capital’s role in financialization y mas! https://t.co/atoHYojER6 2021-03-20 17:46:43 Have been super backed up with editing episodes but should be releasing 3 this weekend, first up is really substantive convo with Cedric Durand around financialization 2021-03-20 16:36:36 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @tap2k Which is how we got Rawlsian fairness scholars expanding technical eugenic projects in the name of accountabili… 2021-03-20 16:35:49 @tap2k Which is how we got Rawlsian fairness scholars expanding technical eugenic projects in the name of accountability and transparency 2021-03-20 16:15:46 @HabeshaHokage Ah, well I think your first and second claim need to be decoupled as each requires like a separate essay length response. To the first point, genocide is more common than the world would like to believe. We have to deal w/ it irrespective of the US’ agenda 2021-03-20 16:13:34 @HabeshaHokage The US’ reservations on the Genocide convention originate from “We Charge Genocide” where Dubois and other Black American political leadership went to the UN to argue the US committed genocide against Black ppl-their choice of terms is not mainly about adjudicating this situation 2021-03-20 16:10:21 @HabeshaHokage Lastly idk what is “w/h” ? 2021-03-20 16:09:31 @HabeshaHokage My comment about AI Ethics is in relationship to this paper b/c it makes a rigorous critique of CS but preserves the authors ardent justification for the war https://t.co/PMQ7Bw9wXW 2021-03-20 16:07:07 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @HabeshaHokage I concur tho with the sentiment that we need further investigation, this is not just about Tigray. Like… 2021-03-20 16:07:05 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @HabeshaHokage The litmus test for genocide is not complete extermination, the convention is intent to destroy, “in wh… 2021-03-20 16:06:49 @HabeshaHokage I concur tho with the sentiment that we need further investigation, this is not just about Tigray. Like Rwanda, complex political dynamics that include western agendas get flattened into simple and useful narratives 2021-03-20 16:05:02 @HabeshaHokage The litmus test for genocide is not complete extermination, the convention is intent to destroy, “in whole or in part” and includes via Article 2(e) the forcible removal and transfer of children from a protected group to another culture not just death. https://t.co/BfzcZ9UhLV https://t.co/bQWIujigz9 2021-03-20 16:00:23 This tweet is about you, no sub https://t.co/E3gSlHkHAK 2021-03-20 15:58:27 RT @UpFromTheCracks: I don’t even need radical, just less complicit would do at this point... 2021-03-20 15:52:40 Ethiopian Nationalism critiques Enlightenment’s epistemic claims embedded in computer science while legitimating genocide. 2021-03-20 15:47:42 What is a relational ethics in AI that ardently supports #TigrayanGenocide and declares “Stop saying #StopTheWar” ? There is blood on your hands too if you refuse to acknowledge this. https://t.co/puyuG84SFk 2021-03-20 13:32:24 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 @Facebook https://t.co/keHRkMaWg5 2021-03-20 13:28:04 @Galaxy2Galaxy5 @Facebook Facebook and Google notably are major funders of Atlantic Council and similar western state backed think tanks. Following the money points to your Steph Jay article’s point about a Trojan horse 2021-03-20 12:38:51 @dannyrih Does religion exist in a vacuum? Are religious subjects not also racialized? I think we can hold both no? 2021-03-20 12:34:57 @HabeshaHokage Idk about labeling anything “social disease” but we need to normalize asking these questions 2021-03-20 12:29:19 RT @Smith_JeffreyT: Friends: Our next @ResistBureau show is going to be epic. We have featured speakers @TsedaleLemma (Ethiopia), @NancyGEO… 2021-03-20 12:24:22 RT @hackylawyER: "#Google is not ending tracking 2021-03-20 12:18:39 @HabeshaHokage I think colorism is a feature of a larger project that includes indentured servitude, enslavement, conquest etc. but I’m still learning b/c the truths are not as accessible as the myths https://t.co/DMRiiFGito 2021-03-20 02:48:42 Tranae !! https://t.co/MA1bmYsvDG 2021-03-20 01:01:35 @jaybeware @queersocialism @PalmTreesnGz I told you that you need to rock out with Penguin twitter 2021-03-20 00:43:21 @queersocialism @jaybeware @PalmTreesnGz LOLOL I didn’t know you cohosted but explains so much b/c we be mad at the same things. But I meant I didn’t know y’all knew @PalmTreesnGz 2021-03-20 00:28:02 @jaybeware @PalmTreesnGz @queersocialism Yo everyone knows everyone mind blown 2021-03-20 00:22:41 @RendonRachael @ninamonei Idk a lot about ICWA b/c I’m in New York but this might be of interest to you https://t.co/4rTYseZQug 2021-03-19 23:13:46 RT @ninamonei: Folks talk a lot of good shit about what folks in the hood are ~doing wrong~ but ain't none of em ready to put their money,… 2021-03-19 21:35:45 @Dannyagame I mean that the anti-war camp is a politically mixed bag that includes those who use the same exact language and framework as the state to oppose the state. You can’t fight fascism with fascism. 2021-03-19 21:11:05 RT @williamcson: Episode 4 of the Black Autonomy Podcast is here for you! It's about Black anti-fascist formations and armed self-defense.… 2021-03-19 17:18:01 “And y’all gonna get in y’all’s cars and drive the fuck home. I apologize. I apologize, but check this out: you can’t be no more offended by my cursing than what’s really going on. That’s real. That’s real, y’all. Because we letting the media--and the white man--turn us off. “ https://t.co/5ENu1tZxwn 2021-03-19 17:15:59 While everybody else wanted to go to college, and, you know, “everything has changed,” they were the ones telling you, “The white man ain’t shit. Here you go, check this out, young blood: You take this product, you switch it, you make money, and that’s how you beat the white man https://t.co/wHelEzaWgq 2021-03-19 17:06:40 This is how I feel about the intersectionality wars. This excerpt of Tupac speaking to the Malcolm X grassroots dinner is very much worth the 6 minutes https://t.co/34eBgU045r 2021-03-19 16:45:51 RT @NoTotally: I also think that that, conscious or subconscious, was a huge reason why Black sex workers were swift and not willing to neg… 2021-03-19 16:43:29 RT @movfamilypower: FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY! 2021-03-19 16:33:40 RT @Brooko07: @UpFromTheCracks The word 'barya' meaning slave is synonymously used to mean black skinned, its horrifying when u think abt i… 2021-03-19 16:20:46 @Brooko07 And there’s widespread indentured servitude now. No one gets on a boat to Yemen because it’s safer on land 2021-03-18 03:38:52 RT @ChanceyFleet: MTA Refuses To Disclose Legal Cost Of Fighting Accessibility Lawsuits - Gothamist https://t.co/ozrLOqL5HB 2021-03-18 01:42:17 RT @JMacForFamilies: @UpFromTheCracks Yes @UpFromTheCracks is my people’s - and we’ve already began the dismantling process 2021-03-18 00:26:11 @tap2k @jjoque @npseaver I’m not at that stage of my political development sir 2021-03-18 00:22:16 @tap2k @jjoque @npseaver I’m not anti raccoon in my personal space, just like squirrel in the park is v dif than squirrel in your sheets 2021-03-18 00:15:35 @jjoque @npseaver I mean NPR had some episode about how they are some pivotal part of the ecosystem but that’s how I like my nature, on the radio lol 2021-03-18 00:10:48 @DocDre Patriotic I guess with crime bill as POTUS 2021-03-18 00:08:50 @jjoque @npseaver you won 2021-03-18 00:08:08 RT @markhurst: @mathewi love to see Silicon Valley funded startups pretend to be the little guy /cc @ubiquity75 https://t.co/v8xoO8wood 2021-03-18 00:04:20 @jjoque @npseaver You can’t leave cliffhangers on the TL 2021-03-18 00:02:01 @jjoque @npseaver I haven’t even seen a raccoon outside of a book I think I’d be over 2021-03-18 00:00:50 @npseaver We had a squirrel infestation in our old apartment . I found a nest in my room and just abandoned the room til the lease was up 2021-03-17 23:59:19 @MsBrewNYC It damn near went over my foot and I’m like how am I going to get a whole new foot during covid ?! 2021-03-17 23:58:16 LOLOL https://t.co/uZ5YC47873 2021-03-17 23:55:13 you ever have your whole soul jump out your body as a rat leap out the garbage ? 2021-03-17 21:59:54 @Skaitama I’m old as dirt now 2021-03-17 21:59:29 RT @movfamilypower: Q: In what ways does the family regulation system need to be changed,A: It needs to be done with. It needs to be gutted… 2021-03-17 21:49:42 Lol at my typos, forever editing and forgetting to delete the darlings during the rewrite 2021-03-17 16:18:48 I mess with this Follow @theannalytical for more vids breaking down data science concepts accessibly https://t.co/WJhe9U7OBE 2021-03-17 16:16:42 @theannalytical I am a fan We desperately need more public education around data science and you do it so fabulously thank you 2021-03-17 16:11:33 More of this please https://t.co/T3CGRiIXFd 2021-03-17 15:37:12 RT @zararah: Library nerds, news nerds, rejoice! A browser extension which uses your (currently free of charge!) public library account to… 2021-03-17 15:36:09 LOL twitter will beta test anything but accountability https://t.co/owcwzbhnT5 2021-03-17 15:31:26 RT @zeynep: Tens of millions of AstraZeneca vaccines that won't be approved here soon enough are languishing in US depots. Our supply alrea… 2021-03-17 15:30:41 RT @MadaMasr: Seif was convicted of publishing false news regarding the spread of the coronavirus in Egypt, of using a social media account… 2021-03-17 15:30:29 RT @MadaMasr: Film editor Sanaa Seif was sentenced to 18 months in prison by a Cairo criminal court on Wednesday, according to her sister M… 2021-03-17 15:24:24 RT @taoleighgoffe: honestly so much about non-Asian people not wanting to wear masks is also anti-Asian, I’ve been thinking about this a… 2021-03-17 13:56:08 Feeling insufficient vocabulary and framework outside of the US for violence at scale and depth by military forces and militia groups 2021-03-17 13:56:07 Thinking today about the terms “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” What’s an abolitionist response to genocide? 2021-03-17 12:55:33 RT @WeBeImagining: Go off @mjunaidr calling out Indian academics “Under whose watch are these everyday pogroms against Muslims, Christi… 2021-03-17 12:04:19 RT @NMRLPH: When I’m not on twitter I spend my life training activists, campaigners and change-makers on how to make effective, strategic a… 2021-03-17 12:02:16 RT @taoleighgoffe: what disturbs me is how quickly the world can forget centuries of anti-Asian violence, each time the cycle of forgetting… 2021-03-17 00:11:15 Imho my personal hypothesis is Shaun King is an informant for Internal Affairs. Like wouldn’t this be the level up for infiltration 2021-03-16 23:58:01 RT @MorePerfectUS: Amazon hired a union avoidance firm to defeat the union drive in Bessemer, Alabama. Russell Brown is paid $3,200 a day… 2021-03-16 23:14:37 RT @JMacForFamilies: If you missed yesterday’s panel with @limahthegreat bringing POWER ADVOCACY you can watch it here  https://t.co/U0rPG… 2021-03-16 20:57:02 @_TigrayGenocide I’m disturbed by the fact that we have like 40 Mutuals almost all people who talk about anti-Blackness in medicine. People need to deal w/ their favorite professional anti-racists being a fascist 2021-03-16 20:52:26 Yo you really can’t make this up what level of Anti-Blackness is this... https://t.co/498TNUhW4S 2021-03-16 20:49:14 ...she seriously invoking #BreonnaTaylor and other names of Black people murdered by the police in the United States to say we should ignore people being murdered by the military in #Ethiopia. Wtf #TigrayGenocide https://t.co/fltMENHLzx 2021-03-16 20:08:38 I know it took y’all 5 years to realize Aimi Hamraie’s book is but we cannot afford to wait another five for y’all to catch up to Distributed Blackness https://t.co/mAFHiN5cmO 2021-03-16 19:33:54 RT @FrankPasquale: We all increasingly rely on tech that uses autocorrect. "Yet autocorrect incorporates a set of defaults—including dictio… 2021-03-16 18:32:24 @Jasmyne Hey I can’t DM you but a friend sent me your tweet and I thought this thread I made yesterday might provide some helpful context: https://t.co/keHRkMaWg5 2021-03-16 18:05:49 RT @jaybeware: Samaria Rice isn't cynical, she's correct 2021-03-16 17:55:25 We need a public space to debrief, grieve and reflect on all that’s happened...I’m down to help make this happen or amplify if there’s something planned already #TigrayGenocide #Ethiopia #OromoProtests https://t.co/8oIlVTlUV4 2021-03-16 17:53:45 @tessalaprofessa Lol aren’t Blue checks still on Blue State/electoral politics tho? 2021-03-16 17:48:17 Working on a diagram of the Fauxbolition starter pack. So far, I have a non violent communication handbook, image of rushing off the abolition wagon to catch the Reimagine bus, close up of investments in the 990. What else should I add? 2021-03-16 17:41:20 @nigigebi @KeatonWay All good, we gotta keep ourselves honest no? ...I think we need to invest resources in learning the layers of histories. It’s easy to find the myth, much harder to find the truths 2021-03-16 17:35:54 RT @ZekuZelalem: Today @HRW calls for a UN investigation after determining that the March 7 Yemen prison fire, was caused by reckless firin… 2021-03-16 12:27:17 RT @plimsoll_punk: He also became a billionaire from running a private sector mercenary company but who’s splitting hairs 2021-03-16 12:10:06 RT @cemicool: For everyone receiving stimulus checks this round, who has their needs met and can redistribute: 2021-03-16 11:43:36 RT @sedyst: One year into the pandemic, in Germany we are encountering debate around apps (see #LucaApp or #ImmunityPassports) that promise… 2021-03-16 02:33:11 a short history of the present https://t.co/ATzxdDiotv 2021-03-16 01:44:48 RT @carltakei: "[R]obots that can be deployed into dangerous situations to keep police officers out of harm's way" is such a tidy euphemism… 2021-03-16 01:01:08 Searching for OG citation on history of Black Box as a term, stumbled on Building the Black Box: Cyberneticians and Complex Systems down the rabbit hole (QT is open access link) and realizing how little I knew about the term https://t.co/Uvbe6SLFFN https://t.co/S4eARm02Av 2021-03-16 00:59:31 Sharing an open access link for the global majority living outside the paywalls https://t.co/736dZfVZxC 2021-03-16 00:43:45 @SteveTrush LOL it’s for publication so I can only procrastinate so much but I wish tweeting had the same currency as peer review journals to evade this process into infinity 2021-03-16 00:32:40 @SteveTrush Ooh I like this interpretation 2021-03-16 00:30:11 if I told them I’d submit this paper tonight, that means I have until 11:59pm right ? 2021-03-15 21:53:47 Sorry I’m working on this y’all but thank you for the honesty I be trying to fit my memoir into these character limits https://t.co/56pNbVtoRo 2021-03-15 21:51:58 @nigigebi @KeatonWay LOLOL sorry I’m wordy TLDR version is Ethiopianism is also these messed up family dynamics, the silences, the arguments...being anti US white racism while celebrating Tigray genocide cuz Black Power 2021-03-15 21:46:08 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @HabeshaHokage It’s patriarchy that relegates the family, the personal and intimate outside of politics. It’s all toxi… 2021-03-15 20:20:14 RT @tarekzismail: @UpFromTheCracks @jkpuar thank you so much for pulling on this thread, khadijah ... so so crucial. on a global scale, @… 2021-03-15 20:15:44 @HabeshaHokage It’s patriarchy that relegates the family, the personal and intimate outside of politics. It’s all toxic, the question is how can we repair. And it’s by starting to name it not rushing to move on 2021-03-15 20:04:17 S/o to everyone hitting me up on back channel like I need to break up with my father/mother/auntie/uncle etc too. These family arguments, traumas and silences are what lies beneath the nationalist mythology https://t.co/Uv94fiLlER 2021-03-15 18:30:58 One of the things I respect about @awolallo is that he acknowledged his role in endorsing Abiy Ahmed and changed his position. I see unpacking our allegiances, mistakes and mythologies as central to the quest for justice. Why were the early dissenters silenced and ignored? 2021-03-15 18:25:25 In order to dismantle the lie that is #EthiopiaPrevails we have to divest ourselves of “prevailing”. When you’re on the bottom, imagining us as Kings, as triumphant, and expansive can seem cathartic just like my fathers Battle of Adwa painting... 2021-03-15 18:25:24 The point is not my family dysfunction as much as to say, the personal is political. We saw the same dismissing of Minnesota based activists, a decade younger than me, who quickly led George Floyd protests and just as quickly took up #OromoProtests https://t.co/rUAyy57RCK 2021-03-15 18:25:23 I was 10 years old, rocking Marcus Garvey T shirts from 125th street where I’d pick up the latest mixtapes next to the essential oil dude and was politically somewhere hodgepodge of Ready to Die and Brenda’s Got a Baby. All I knew about that painting was who didn’t have the gun. 2021-03-15 18:25:22 One of my father’s proudest moments was purchasing a painting from EBay of the Battle of Adwa, depicting sharecropping Italians in the background of victorious Ethiopian riflemen. For him, it was a mega clap back to the unbearable whiteness of America. 2021-03-15 18:25:21 We have never gotten along so the idea of declaring a permanent rift when I’m 32 years old is laughable but I will say now more than ever, I feel like I have deep political context to his patriarchal neo-colonial (yet notably self described anti-imperialist) POV 2021-03-15 18:25:20 7 weeks ago, my father wrote me an email stating my rejection of Ethiopian nationalism (allegiance to an empire that neither of us live in!) is creating a permanent rift. https://t.co/eZaf7X2ZUf 2021-03-15 16:40:41 Reading Queer Times, Queer Assemblages by @jkpuar - these parallels between the post-9/11 American exceptionalism and the family regulation system’s rainbow flagged removals make me also think about @tarekzismail work https://t.co/qF1TBQ5mCZ 2021-03-15 16:30:07 Sometimes academia be coming thru, S/o to @jkpuar because I needed a framework to understand @ACSNYC LGBTQ re-branding of Black family policing, “Queer Necropolitics” https://t.co/dpSNQCW8XZ https://t.co/BTtRlJRcnO 2021-03-15 16:22:47 https://t.co/1ygij9QyuU 2021-03-15 16:16:13 ACS love to talk about any and everything but how they violated Article 2e of the Genocide Convention by systematically removing and transferring Black children out their culture. https://t.co/6D206KCew3 2021-03-15 16:09:37 RT @JMacForFamilies: This panel made clear @ACSNYC will never be accountable. They say they know and understand but then goes on to promote… 2021-03-15 14:30:49 I’m in yet another DOE impartial hearing and wondering if the IHO is playing candy crush 2021-03-15 13:38:34 RT @movfamilypower: We're honored to speak in the presence of experts and visionaries at @nujlsp's Radical Reimagining: The Carceral State… 2021-03-15 13:24:29 RT @misskitila: Check this out—it’s worth a read! Absolutely on point 2021-03-14 21:32:44 RT @ubiquity75: Substack HAS editorial culture and practice, making it (just like other SV firms) very much _not_ a neutral provider of spa… 2021-03-14 21:32:33 Did anyone caption the Kirk Franklin audio leak? I can’t understand WTF they saying. #Access #BlackTwitter 2021-03-14 19:32:25 This sums up my lit review of foundation 990s https://t.co/Bs6iBIzMYk 2021-03-14 17:27:59 RT @glichfield: With all the pushback from Facebook against @_KarenHao's recent story, and as one of the editors on the piece, I thought it… 2021-03-14 15:12:55 RT @BenJofaman: ISSUE 001 of "You Are Holding This: an abolitionist zine for and by adopted and fostered people" is now in print! Featuri… 2021-03-14 13:26:18 https://t.co/DHFq9qdB7N 2021-03-14 03:56:00 RT @jeffjarvis: @DocDre @erik_kaars @NYUpress Copy ordered. https://t.co/8kUymT0wIW 2021-03-14 03:54:28 Thank you for dropping hits https://t.co/SsqdQXw6yx 2021-03-14 01:18:55 RT @DaShaunLH: like, we can hold the complexity of parenthood—especially for Black parents—and still name the power dynamics of continued a… 2021-03-14 00:50:23 RT @BernardHarcourt: Visions for the future: powerful photo essay by the brilliant @AnitaYandle on family policing and @DorothyERoberts fro… 2021-03-13 23:32:28 RT @_alialkhatib: if someone paid in FB stock that vests over several years spends their friday trying to discredit a journalist's reportin… 2021-03-13 23:13:18 RT @UpFromTheCracks: TW: Child Abuse March 2018 Jennifer and Sarah Hart drove off a cliff murdering their 6 adopted children including Dev… 2021-03-13 23:09:40 Rest in piece to Markis, Hannah, Jeremiah, Abigail, Ciera and Devonte. You deserved care and family but you got policed into #adoption and death. https://t.co/1m9ZHSJOCh 2021-03-13 23:09:38 Our government (inextricably linked to policing of which one mode is the child welfare system) supports White middle class people saving Black kids no matter the evidence but refuses to reunite Black families no matter the evidence. 2021-03-13 23:09:37 “Each time a concerned person reached out or investigated, Jennifer and her wife had an explanation: It was the kids’ traumatic childhoods before they were adopted that led to their strange behavior and eating habits” https://t.co/cmPa8hHiG0 2021-03-13 23:09:36 There’s not as much on Devonte’s adopted siblings but @theappeal wrote an excellent piece about his birth family’s failed quest to get them back. https://t.co/2F6U9VfD61 2021-03-13 23:09:35 TW: Child Abuse March 2018 Jennifer and Sarah Hart drove off a cliff murdering their 6 adopted children including Devonte Hart. I cannot get over this headline, so much of the coverage claims they were saints “vegetarians adopting disabled Black kids” https://t.co/O7TLAnhGQT https://t.co/w1WxRycUkt 2021-03-13 23:09:33 They act as if cis male gay professionals need to rescue the unenlightened Ghetto Blacks from their homophobia when in all reality the violent enforcement of heteronormativity is part and parcel of the anti-Black family regulation system that they run! 2021-03-13 23:09:32 The LGBTQ survey elides that ACS has historically recruited Pentecostal, transphobic older (~55 y/o) Caribbean women to be foster/adoptive parents. This is a big reason why kids come back into care on PINS petitions post-adoption. https://t.co/5PIUSGTWSM 2021-03-13 23:09:31 NYC ACS isn’t pro LGBTQ, they’re pro middle class cis gendered same sex couples adopting and regulating policies around Black families. 2021-03-13 20:22:48 Boop https://t.co/sb7A89TbOU 2021-03-13 20:22:35 RT @_KarenHao: A very important distinction to make: Facebook has teams that work on catching misinformation. It does not have a team that… 2021-03-13 20:21:30 RT @netblocks: Confirmed: Internet is cut off in #Myanmar from 1 am Sunday local time, the 28th consecutive nightly shutdown imposed by the… 2021-03-13 20:19:14 #MedTwitter has there been a reckoning with how public health communication around #COVID19 has been weaponized against nursing home residents? Particularly those in predominantly Black Medicaid funded facilities ? 2021-03-13 20:17:13 Tonight @ 6PM EST Support @opendoorsnyc and the #NursingHomeLivesMatter #NHLM vigil. #IsolationKills and they’ve been involuntarily locked up by Health and Hospitals since the shelter in place order. #DisabilityTwitter https://t.co/NB66GL5XEF 2021-03-13 19:09:25 RT @robinbaci: @UpFromTheCracks Arendt + Orwell = Corporate diversity jargon 2021-03-13 19:09:22 RT @robinbaci: @UpFromTheCracks the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackney… 2021-03-13 16:28:45 @lopalasi @BonyoLinda I don’t mean to say there are no remaining challenges for this agenda- we’re still in a relatively early stage of implementation but it’s just a notable shift 2021-03-13 16:08:31 @lopalasi Regulating families in the way it’s done in the US/EU requires centralization and is designed primarily for an urban environment. Centralizing biometric data and particularly connecting it to fintech merged identity and geolocation in a way that wasn’t possible at scale b4 2021-03-13 16:03:11 the most disconcerting part of National ID (mandatory biometrics collection) in Africa, is it removes historical infrastructure barriers to child welfare’s bio power 2021-03-13 15:36:52 Touch points, voices (include/raise/lift/center them), debrief, review, feedback, affirm, thank you for bringing that up, oversight, monitoring...Arendt be right when she right #MundaneEvil 2021-03-13 15:33:37 Murderous inclusion!! (H/t SA Smythe) 2021-03-13 15:32:40 I can’t help but wonder if this is just KPMG in both cases 2021-03-13 15:30:58 The way big tech and the child welfare system use this *non violent communication method* while circumventing their role in genocide... 2021-03-13 14:37:10 Is it just me or does anyone else notice so much reporting has become latent Twitter aggregation? 2021-03-13 12:32:08 RT @ThaAyantu: Amhara region spox dismisses accusations of ethnic cleansing: “These areas are not Tigrayan areas, in history...Our forces a… 2021-03-13 01:06:06 I can attest to witnessing situations just like this when my kids have needed emergency psychiatric help. #MedTwitter Mental Health care is not accessible. https://t.co/sEYiFj3Y7r 2021-03-12 23:19:21 RT @hypervisible: “Facebook has 2.45 billion users. And every time its platform creates or exacerbates a problem for one of those users, it… 2021-03-12 22:57:30 America looking at the “global south”: jkcdsjkkk https://t.co/LqHmj1ElRl 2021-03-12 21:36:51 @Mooski_Official A remix w/ @DocDre on @WeBeImagining https://t.co/Ghbp8IMCYy 2021-03-12 21:26:38 zombie movies are the flipside to necropolitics, they so Edgar Allen Poe afraid we ain’t dead and disposed of 2021-03-12 21:22:08 who goin to come through to play spades and drink margaritas 2021-03-12 21:17:52 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Reading #CaptivatingTechnology struggling not to annotate every damn line...R. Joshua Scannell on the ontological wage… 2021-03-12 20:55:47 ambiguous subtweeting is a spiritual practice 2021-03-12 20:55:09 screenshots live forever 2021-03-12 20:23:49 I’m going to make a book of all my tweets with 3 likes and 1000 engagements 2021-03-12 20:22:19 Underrated tweet https://t.co/s2YIhC5Vkr 2021-03-12 18:44:32 RT @JulianPosada0: Data annotation is an example of the “coloniality of power” described by Quijano. Instead of harnessing the “wisdom of c… 2021-03-12 18:42:09 RT @awnnetwork_: Next in our #LiberatingWebinars series: "Disabled, Crip, and Mad Perspectives on Wellness, Healing, and Trauma" (Mar 28 at… 2021-03-12 18:40:13 RT @ishtiaqueSIA: “If your answers just differ a little too much from everybody else, you may get banned,” https://t.co/EGfAKi9wcR 2021-03-12 18:26:49 This is undeniably true-of Cuomo but also of the NY political class in general - Which is why I can’t help but wonder, who is playing this particular card? And why now? https://t.co/ZO6JzELSny 2021-03-12 18:01:05 RT @_KarenHao: Facebook communications sent me a long list of so-called "factual errors" after the piece. @glichfield & 2021-03-12 16:49:26 RT @ZekuZelalem: Latest w/@are_eb on the Yemeni prison fire for @MiddleEastEye: news of Ethiopian migrant deaths in the fire was watered do… 2021-03-12 16:47:07 RT @ubiquity75: There was a time when everyone laughed when AOL tried to be the Internet. Now people are like, “Stop being mean to MyCorp… 2021-03-12 16:47:01 RT @ubiquity75: Good morning. It occurs to me that what I’ve been encountering of late on this website and in unsolicited comms the resul… 2021-03-12 15:44:01 RT @safiyanoble: Looking forward to listening to this! 2021-03-12 14:01:00 Black folks always held me down, always claimed me, so I’m Black when it’s on trend, when the cops come, when the money up and the account overdrawn. I might get a chance before my darker skinned cousins so I’m always pirating from the undercommons 2021-03-12 14:00:59 Obvi this overlaps w/ the convo on colorism. The hegemony of representation politics loves to nominate the Alicia Keys as mascots of #GirlBoss racial progress. What is upwardly mobile respectability politic if not the fetish w/ light skinned phenotypes and the NPR dialect? 2021-03-12 14:00:58 Belated thread on biracial bullshit, I claim Blackness all day long. I’m high yellow AF, my momma white, I’m fully aware and accountable to my adjacency to whiteness butttt I cannot with the “I’m half white, half Black, ethnically ambiguous angst” 2021-03-12 13:17:37 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @niftyc @fatconference @ginahelfrich can’t go to these things but if you have some power: I’d discussion of the lat… 2021-03-12 13:11:09 TFW when you see a squirrel about to stick you up from the corner of your eye and you ready to fight but it’s just weave blowing in the wind 2021-03-12 12:02:08 RT @taoleighgoffe: Anti-Asian hate is not “un-American,” it’s the very formation of the US as a gatekeeping nation, designed to keep Chines… 2021-03-11 21:32:38 RT @PhiloSofiar: most powerful text-based convo I've *read* in a long time: "They cannot just "connect users," they've made a decision to c… 2021-03-11 21:00:23 RT @MaywaMontenegro: Tryna make some connections between pandemics, food systems, and abolitionist world-making https://t.co/6yJTOR82Ps v… 2021-03-11 20:01:09 RT @samuelwoolley: More on algorithms & 2021-03-11 19:51:52 .@DatapolicyProf just won the internet in stanza form. Come through https://t.co/oU5McvH0a0 2021-03-11 19:49:06 RT @L_badikho: @timnitGebru @schrep @_KarenHao I'm a very optimistic and solution-oriented person, but on handling authoritarian regimes mi… 2021-03-11 19:48:52 RT @timnitGebru: @schrep @_KarenHao have not faced the very real consequences of misinformation and all other issues that have been fueling… 2021-03-11 19:47:10 Very necessary shots fired https://t.co/Gjuph0anRY 2021-03-11 18:19:09 @DocDre Robin D’angelo ready for the hesitation lmao https://t.co/VJ5asOXMOz 2021-03-11 18:17:21 RT @DocDre: @UpFromTheCracks ITS THE HAT TOSS FOR ME! surrender to the muthafuckin joy 2021-03-11 18:14:21 @DocDre https://t.co/ujJrh2V6FM 2021-03-11 18:08:19 @DocDre wya 2021-03-11 16:48:41 I’m not trying to minimize the danger of Qanon but the idea that it’s a novel phenomenon also feels like a very class based assumption. 2021-03-11 16:40:54 Facebook is promoting and recommending genocide! Repeatedly! We cannot lean on “they were just following orders” just because there’s no mechanism for external accountability. ... S4 of Snowfall is out tho fwiw 2021-03-11 16:40:53 I liked this piece but comments like these make me painfully aware that the PMC doesn’t have first hand memories of the crack era aka “good people” will sell poison decimating your whole community and their plug is CIA. https://t.co/rVreZ4xB8V 2021-03-11 16:24:01 RT @thotscholar: URGENT/PLZ RT: queer nb mom who is a sex worker was doxxed by her ex and needs funds to pay overdue utilities. she is now… 2021-03-11 15:03:19 Lol and it all falls down https://t.co/1AJmZ7VgB5 2021-03-11 14:58:49 RT @ekverstania: [THREAD] For autistic children, many therapists design therapy to bring about change, because change is what they measure… 2021-03-11 14:52:32 The family regulation system is 1000% a #DisabilityRights issue. It pathologizes people who are #ActuallyAutistic and partners w/ eugenic groups like Autism Speaks. Threatens DV survivors into compliance or face #adoption Must read story Cc @JMacForFamilies @movfamilypower https://t.co/YojN3EeHEh 2021-03-11 14:31:42 Also notable point as we think about platform governance, how do we protect those who speak truth to power on these apps https://t.co/vseyw72pLA 2021-03-11 14:31:41 Framing VC funded apps as ambassadors of democracy/free speech is a pet peeve of mine but worthwhile read about Clubhouse in Saudi Arabia https://t.co/81ludLFntq 2021-03-11 14:06:48 Impunity is the the word of the year #FreeSenegal https://t.co/nBtXSuUYFg 2021-03-11 13:51:47 RT @_KarenHao: Reporting this thoroughly convinced me that self-regulation does not, cannot work. Facebook has only ever moved on issues be… 2021-03-11 13:41:01 RT @mathewi: What should we do about the algorithmic amplification of disinformation? I talked about this on Galley this week with @BostonJ… 2021-03-11 13:39:37 “Facebook leadership has also repeatedly weakened or halted many initiatives meant to clean up misinformation on the platform because doing so would undermine that growth.” #Tigray #Ethiopia tweeps, long but worth reading to understand @Facebook role in #TigrayGenocide https://t.co/M0C1XKMtTR 2021-03-11 13:22:29 “Russia's media watchdog has said it is slowing down the speed of Twitter, accusing the US social media company of failing to remove 3,000 posts relating to suicide, drugs and pornography.” https://t.co/P7JNjWSwtU 2021-03-11 12:17:16 https://t.co/wtS3gcYbTy https://t.co/R4inWp9fvA 2021-03-11 11:35:49 RT @AgroecologyNow: WBI Podcast: Connecting the dots of agroecology across the global south. From poultry plants in the US South to the s… 2021-03-11 03:28:44 RT @farisgezahegn: @UpFromTheCracks this is such an important & th… 2021-03-11 01:24:01 RT @zeaxumawit: Thank you @UpFromTheCracks https://t.co/rjNC4VCGxU 2021-03-11 01:03:08 @TigShallPrevail Thank you for the love @TigShallPrevail also people who would like to share archives of tweets or events on social media that might be relevant can email me at jka2148@columbia.edu 2021-03-11 01:01:46 RT @TigShallPrevail: "She is currently working on a paper about how social media has facilitated calls for genocide in Ethiopia in addition… 2021-03-11 00:49:29 RT @ThaAyantu: Such conversation between @UpFromTheCracks @mathewi on algorithmic amplification of disinformation & 2021-03-10 21:55:27 As much as @ACSNYC loves to talk about ACE Scores, they never mention the original Kaiser Permanente study was 71% white and majority had some college education. These stats are not reflected in who ACS serves (read polices) https://t.co/1seEy8ZsNo 2021-03-10 21:52:23 LOL non incidentally the acronym for Community Optional Preventive Services is COPS. ACS stay trying to trauma-wash their expansive surveillance programs as some Black baby rescue mission #AbolishNYCACS shame on you @JabariBrisport @AndrewHevesi This needs to be defunded https://t.co/RgrV6OmUC7 https://t.co/gE90Vbrlw9 2021-03-10 21:25:53 RT @opendoorsnyc: At the beginning of the pandemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that #covidpositive patients would be placed in Coler wh… 2021-03-10 21:25:48 RT @opendoorsnyc: Coler nursing home residents on Roosevelt Island have been #lockeddown for over a year now. They only receive 45 minutes… 2021-03-10 21:03:11 Big Tech Governance: putting people who have never taken the humanities - in charge of humanity 2021-03-10 20:54:37 https://t.co/igu8iPyzhL 2021-03-10 20:44:32 RT @DocDre: This is going to be so dope 2021-03-10 20:43:59 @HabeshaHokage **were 2021-03-10 20:41:10 @HabeshaHokage This is not “leadership” but do we need him for that? We’re ambassadors ever where that came from? No, grassroots movements and civil society orgs will have to seize on this and redirect towards something meaningful 2021-03-10 20:40:02 @HabeshaHokage To be honest, IDGAF about political purity. My politics are pragmatic, I don’t emotionally invest in Cops, but I’m here for the ones who whistleblow quotas...w/e his agenda this contributes to delegitimizing the current govt 2021-03-10 20:32:54 @HabeshaHokage Everything is dinged, he would have been aware of war crimes months before any public report and we in March. W/e the agenda and intentions this is positive movement in the face of overwhelming despair 2021-03-10 20:10:12 This is a big deal, may we see more representatives of the Ethiopian state become moral objectors, publicly disavowing the #TigrayGenocide and abandoning their post https://t.co/pSkXFzpLzk https://t.co/WKf1XAoKEX 2021-03-10 19:51:49 @claireLwilmot @mathewi Thank you @claireLwilmot 2021-03-10 19:51:37 RT @claireLwilmot: A really important conversation with @UpFromTheCracks & 2021-03-10 18:22:50 RT @abraham_zere: Interesting and eye-opening conversation with @UpFromTheCracks on big tech-companies and algorithms, (mainly about the un… 2021-03-10 18:10:41 Yeah I don’t think we have the same agency as when Black studies was founded. The large scale Ford/Knight/Mellon abolition subsidiaries seem blatantly counter revolutionary. It’s notable that it didn’t go to somewhere like @bcrwtweets which has actual ties to abolitionists https://t.co/gd1R1HU39C 2021-03-10 18:03:18 RT @turkopticon: NEW: We are launching a #fundraising campaign for Turkopticon, to help Turk workers share info about exploitative practice… 2021-03-10 17:19:37 RT @netabomani: i’m so grateful for @bxmani’s rigorous code notation practice because i’m looking at code we worked on over a year ago and… 2021-03-10 16:44:24 RT @ambaonadventure: Sign up for this @AINowInstitute webinar// March 25// on the legal stakes of tech worker whistleblowing in the US + hi… 2001-01-01 01:01:01