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mastodon 4.7.3Nerd with narrative disorder ◦ Humanitarian ◦ Sociopunk ◦ Evidence-based creativity ◦ #SpeculativeResistance ◦ Predictive Fictions ◦ INFOMOCRACY ◦ THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES ◦ Opinions: NYT, FP, etc
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Finally, we're back to #statelessness with this story, from India but extremely relevant elsewhere, about passports and the difference between citizenship and nationality https://globalvoices.org/2026/07/13/beyond-the-passport-the-legal-ambiguity-of-indian-citizenship/
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If you follow me even casually, you will know I am not in favor of AI anything, so I'm reading this fascinating story in the context of the rent-a-white-man trend, Dear Abby, and other ways to try to make people hear by shifting the spokesperson: https://globalvoices.org/2026/07/12/the-fake-parenting-expert-chinese-daughters-invented-to-talk-to-their-parents/
I have seen so little about the lived experience of Iranians, & I'm very glad @globalvoices@mstdn.social was able to publish this piece.
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The world often describes these children as the “lost generation.”
That phrase reflects the tragedy of their displacement, but it does not reflect who they are.
Thrilled that @charliejane@wandering.shop will join @annaleen@wandering.shop @drkarenlord@instinctd.com and myself at our WE WILL RISE event at the American Book Center in Amsterdam on April 10th! https://abc.nl/events/event-details/an-afternoon-with-malka-older-karen-lord-and-annalee-newitz/3576
"Puerto Rico’s grid crisis is not unique. Around the world, energy systems face mounting pressures from climate change, outdated infrastructure, and rising demand. The difference is that most grids do not get a Super Bowl moment. Bad Bunny did not lecture audiences about climate change or energy policy. Instead, he showed what vulnerability looks like — and sometimes, that’s the most powerful communication of all."
The "Don't Ask AI, Ask A Peer" series collaboration between @globalvoices@mstdn.social @APC@mastodon.social and GenderIT continues with this excellent piece on the need to generate more questions than pleasant answers: https://globalvoices.org/2026/05/05/on-the-need-to-generate-more-questions-than-pleasant-answers/
loved this idea when @mollytempleton@birdsite.wilde.cloud told me about it, so excited to see it coming out and to have a reading in it! https://reactormag.com/in-your-spare-time-ursula-k-le-guin-podcast/
I'm rereading The Pushcart War for reasons and am reminded again how it is not only science-fiction (set in the future!) and formally inventive, but also is a manual for collective action, resistance, protest, that is very relevant today. So here's a thread:
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Help us keep covering the issues that matter to you with perspectives you rarely get to hear! support our AI Spotlight: https://globalvoices.org/2026/04/03/support-our-first-global-voices-spotlight-issue-human-perspectives-on-ai/
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For all my Agamben-reading #sociology peeps (iykyk) and everyone thinking about the intersection of "security" and "development", this important story from the Caribbean: https://globalvoices.org/2026/07/12/states-of-emergency-and-the-caribbeans-development-challenge/
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Disaster coverage can make readers feel helpless & distanced, especially when the coverage is filed by outsiders focusing in only because of the disaster. This piece points you to the VENEZUELAN sources you want to follow to stay informed after the earthquakes there https://globalvoices.org/2026/07/11/follow-the-story-local-journalists-media-and-advocates-covering-venezuelas-earthquakes/
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If you're looking for some hope and insight on the state of literature in the world, a beautiful interview with Nepali poet, novelist, lyricist, translator, and former journalist Viplob Pratik
https://globalvoices.org/2026/07/11/nepali-poet-viplob-pratik-on-literature-language-and-a-life-shaped-by-words/
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For more stories like this one, check out our May spotlight on local action on climate: https://globalvoices.org/special/positive-action-on-climate/
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Beautiful story here from our partners at Agência Mural, about collectives working on environmental education and direct action in Brazil:
https://globalvoices.org/2026/07/10/in-brazil-initiatives-in-peripheral-communities-seek-to-expand-environmental-education/
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read more in our ongoing, month-long spotlight on statelessness! https://globalvoices.org/special/statelessness-spotlight/
When the country you're a citizen of ceases to exist: "What followed was not a dramatic event but something far stranger. Nothing happened. My status remained unresolved for years, then decades." An essay from our partners at Global Movement Against Statelessness:
https://globalvoices.org/2026/07/17/nowhere-to-belong-after-the-ussr-collapsed-i-became-stateless-in-estonia/
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