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curious about critical geopolitics, development, digital surveillance & data ethics.
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In Hong Kong open Internet has to an extent escaped the worst of the suppressions (some notable things like real name sims reg & increased monitoring). However more & more websites are being blocked & recently the 1st domestic site was blocked. Worrying development. hongkongfp.com/2024/10/12/i...

Explainer: Websites blocked in Hong Kong – when, how, and why the list is growing
Explainer: Websites blocked in Hong Kong – when, how, and why the list is growing

A key feature of Hong Kong’s business environment that differentiates it from mainland China is its free and open internet. However, the city is not immune to internet controls, with a growin


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Han Kang, the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in literature, has declined to hold a press conference, citing the global tragedies of the Ukraine-Russia war and the Israel-Palestine conflict

Han Kang declines press conference, refuses to celebrate award while people die in wars
Han Kang declines press conference, refuses to celebrate award while people die in wars

Han Kang, the South Korean author behind unflinching and provocative tales that deftly explore the depths of human violence and its impact on identity, has clinched the 2024 Nobel ...

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Rrinel.bsky.social

just wanted to post that my boss has discovered my podcast and he loves it 😅🧿

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over the weekend X / Twitter took the @America handle from the original user who registered it the handle now belongs to Elon Musk and his Super PAC set up to support Donald Trump here's everything we know: www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musk-...

Elon Musk takes @America handle from X user to promote Donald Trump
Elon Musk takes @America handle from X user to promote Donald Trump

The original @America user was a critic of both Musk and Trump.

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Rrinel.bsky.social

sometimes after i record an episode of diasporas speaking, i close zoom and cry. the late 1980s & 1990s for the kosovar-albanian diaspora were something else. asking myself how my parents must have felt throughout.

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Happy to share Episode Four of the Diasporas Speaking Podcast: Border Tongues | 'Searching for Language', where I spoke with Jonë Zhitia about her essay 'Nadryw | Feeling Language' & explored how language becomes a mirror of the experience of migrants and refugees. linktr.ee/diasporaspea...

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After one year of hard work, so happy to see my friend, Arber Gashi, publish the first issue of Balkanism, ‘Diversity As Strength’. Get your copy here: balkanism.com/collections/... Must read!

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At the Labour party conference Keir Starmer claimed there’d been a “23% increase” in immigration returns compared to last summer. But this is based on immigration statistics that have not yet been published, which means we’re not able to verify it. (1/2) https://buff.ly/3BgMgMO

PM’s conference speech claim about ‘23% increase’ in immigration returns based on unpublished data - Full Fact
PM’s conference speech claim about ‘23% increase’ in immigration returns based on unpublished data - Full Fact

Sir Keir Starmer claimed there’d been a “23% increase” in returns compared to last summer. But the data this is based on hasn’t been published, so we’re unable to verify it.

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@rinel.bsky.social
curious about critical geopolitics, development, digital surveillance & data ethics.
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