An excellent description of the experience of so many of us who has tried to keep an organisation running in the Global South. #philanthropy #movements

#mustread Every day I wish there was a way to keep all the AI generated content out of my IG feed. So tired of seeing 'people' who don't actually exist.

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Survivor AI Launch Party (In-person) · Luma On 30 September, Chayn will launch Survivor AI, a groundbreaking feminist AI tool that empowers survivors of image-based abuse to request takedowns of harmful…

🇩🇪 Hey Berlin friends 👋
Chayn is throwing a little party for the launch of our feminist AI tool - Survivor AI - which helps survivors of image based abuse take content down. Come for the AI hype, stay for the drinks and good company.
Register here: luma.com/rg71dkhb

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

Oh wow. So good to finally have some good news 💜 #freeAlaa

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Kptn Cook

Gen Z stands up to expose corruption in Nepal Youth-led demonstrations against corruption erupted throughout Nepal on Monday September 8, 2025, resulting in at least 19 deaths and over 350 injuries.

The protests in Nepal, and the governments violent repression of them, are an increasingly important story right now. @globalvoices.org has reporting from Nepal on the "Nepo Kid" movement, including what the "international media" are getting wrong

📣 TIMEP is recruiting for an in-person Bassem Sabry Fellow to spend six months working full-time in our Washington, DC office.

Check out this rare opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of MENA policymaking! Applications are due August 28: timep.org/2025/08/08/o...

'Out of space: Picturing the big, crowded business of satellite internet' - a gorgeously visualised, superinformative story by @restofworld.org. Impressive restofworld.org/2025/satelli...

Very insightful piece by @scotttimcke.bsky.social, with lessons valid across the Global South. #aigov

Congrats, Prateek ! That is great news. And I am glad you decided to stay in the space, for a moment there I was worried we had lost you forever!

Israeli military says airdrops of aid into Gaza set to begin tonight amid increased starvation deaths For months, the U.N. and experts have warned that Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine, with reports of increasing numbers of people dying from causes related to malnutrition.

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke."

www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

'The bench also stated that the foreign policy of the country differs from the stance the party has taken and warned it of potential diplomatic consequences of such protests.' 'Our country has enough issues. We don't want anything like this' .

Send these monsters to the Hague

France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says The announcement sets France apart from the United States and most of its close allies, and could cause friction with President Trump.

Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize the state of Palestine, making it the first of the G7 nations to do so.

Starving people to death is terrorism.

A front page of the Guardian newspaper is entirely given over to the famine in Gaza. A large photo shows a mother holding her emaciated child’s body. The banner headline says, “We have faced hunger before, but never like this'

Tomorrow’s Guardian front page

#BREAKING

Slovenia has imposed sanctions on Ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, declaring them persona non grata due to statements "that encourage genocide"

This is the first European Union country to impose sanctions on Ben-Gvir and Smotrich

Me neither.

Same question here.

Caferati Listings The essentials. Caferati Listings carries opportunities for writers — calls for entries and submissions to contests and anthologies...

Hey Bluesky.
If you come across opportunities for writers (calls for submissions, contests, jobs, gigs), please send them my way?
I send out listings via Google Groups (when I have time to do a collection) and Telegram/WhatsApp (when I spot them).

More: zigzackly.blogspot.com/2022/02/cafe...

How can you talk about AI for Good if you won't let one of the most visionary thinkers on AI (and a keynote YOU invited) speak about the way AI is being used for evil?

Total farce.

The Guardian view on Egypt and Alaa Abd el-Fattah: Starmer and Lammy vowed to do all they can. So do it | Editorial Editorial: The UK still has ways to press for the release of the British-Egyptian writer and bring an end to the hunger strike endangering his mother’s life

The Guardian view on Egypt and Alaa Abd el-Fattah: Starmer and Lammy vowed to do all they can. So do it
#FreeAlaa
#SaveLaila

Hi Amba, we used to follow each other on Twitter, good to find you here too 😊

Thanks for the shout-out, Ingrid 😊

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook Forced Consent & Consent Bypass / 16 June 2025 Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

245 Days Without Justice: Laila Soueif’s Hunger Strike and the Fight to Free Alaa Abd el-Fattah Laila Soueif has now been on hunger strike for 245 days. On Thursday night, she was taken to the hospital once again. Soueif’s hunger strike is a powerful act of protest against the failures of two go...

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has confirmed: Alaa Abd el-Fattah is being held unlawfully. Egypt must release him, and the UK must use every tool to bring him home www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...