If you want to ask Euronews to report about our quest to get Mastodon onto the European Commission web site footer and remove X:
https://www.euronews.com/contact
"I think you should report on this Mastodon thread urging the commission to not promote a hostile algorithmically distorted social media platform whose owner wants to break up the European union and participates in extreme right election rallies in Germany and UK https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115762395377663131"
@gael @e_mydata @murena I'm a big fan. I use eOS every day many hours on my Fairphone. I gladly contribute via Patreon. I recommend eOS everywhere and to everyone.
But you can't use PayPal for payments and X slapped on to the Patreon page. Makes me sick to my stomach. Please switch those options. They are US big tech and stand for everything I try to avoid by using eOS. It feels like being punched in the gut that you're using that.
@EUCommission lovely! You've included Mastodon on the page for the Directorate-General for Communication!
Now we just need you to add it for the general footer and we have half of our #ChristmasMiracle as put forward by @_elena in https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115762395377663131
When Blaise Metreweli, the newly appointed Chief of MI6, addressed the nation in her inaugural speech, she did not simply outline the threats of espionage or cyberwarfare. Instead, she mapped a new, unsettling terrain—one where the gravitational center of global power is shifting away from nation-states and toward the sprawling dominions of technology corporations and the individuals who helm them.
#decolonialization
I'm loving this new book I treated myself to: Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname. The perseverance of Surinamese culture (and cultures, plural) against all the ways colonizers tried to destroy it is incredible. Being a quarter Surinamese, I'm sad I've had to learn about some of my culture from a book, not my family. Assimilation is a hell of a drug, folks.
"Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too"
https://aeon.co/essays/generative-ai-has-access-to-a-small-slice-of-human-knowledge
Detesting the Myth of “Biology is Destiny”
Although society has often expected stereotypical paths to result from every interaction, numerous communities across the United States, Canada, and possibly other countries and regions are developing violations of these societal stereotypes, expectations, and scripted rules in every possible way. Within the United States, all six of the New England states and certain portions of New England are no longer discriminating based on numerous characteristics that may or may not be identified as […]
https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/detesting-the-myth-of-biology-is-destiny/
Does anyone know of any discords or GCs I can join about decolonising and developing a decolonising mindset? I have a few things I want to improve at when it comes to dealing with family members who have strongly instilled white coloniser mindsets 🫠 #decolonialization #SocialJustice #Activism #politics
"Recently, the notion of artificial intelligence for development (AI4D) has been mobilized by various actors in the global South and North. We identify five analytical categories to help us understand the different and often contested perspectives on AI4D. They are (a) a developmentalist framework that emphasizes discourses around modernity and progress through a technoliberal lens of ‘catching up’; (b) an economic development framework taken up by African states, private sector and civil society, highlighting a positive and more future-looking outlook on AI's potential for development; (c) an international policy framework tied to globally agreed on policies such as the Sustainable Development Goals; (d) a colonial and extractivist framework that articulates how AI4D reinforces old processes of oppression in new ways; and (e) decolonial AI discourses grounded in Latin American, African and Indigenous approaches. Our critical review of literature on AI4D and related expressions shows that while the notion applies broadly to the global South, the majority of publications use the term in reference to AI development on the African continent. This commentary enriches our understanding of the plurality of meanings, where they come from, what they do, and what they leave unaddressed."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241304678
#AI #AI4D #GlobalSouth #Africa #Developmentalism #Decolonialization #SustainableDevelopment #Extractivism
Burkina Faso plans to take control of more foreign-owned industrial mines, its prime minister said, as the West African nation seeks a bigger share of revenue from its resources.
Like neighbours Mali and Niger, Burkina Faso is pushing for greater control over its resources and revised its mining code last year, creating a new state mining company, Société de Participation Minière du Burkina. 🔥
"...The climate crisis is shaped largely by #inequality and the still-undisputed dominance of patriarchal and colonial structures," Climate change is not just a problem of physics but a crisis of justice says Friederike Otto in her new book, #decolonialization, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/18/climate-change-is-not-just-a-problem-of-physics-but-a-crisis-of-justice
Join "Towards a Decolonized #ArtificialIntelligence" 🤖, an online seminar series hosted by the Università degli Studi di Milano. This series critically examines how biased data, unequal power dynamics, and exploitative practices amplify structural discrimination and colonial logics. The seminars will explore strategies to rethink technologies through alternative approaches. 💡 https://philtech.unimi.it/2025/03/09/towards-a-decolonized-artificial-intelligence-online-seminar-seriers
#AI #Decolonialization #DigitalAutonomy #SocialJustice ✊ #EthicalTech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsLLgKDfaOo
Possibly a minor audience for this but Sami Abu Shamays talking about #decolonialization of #musicology with heavy reference to #Arabic #music. Well worth the time if you've got your foot in music as a well as #politics
(2/2)
...never be owned by private citizens or companies.
#NativeAmericans had the correct concept regarding this before the #European colonists arrived.
(And even there, it is a huge problem in some countries that did privatize, e.g. the #UK:
"UK water sector faces biggest crisis since #Thatcher’s 1989 #privatisation"
https://www.ft.com/content/43ab72de-c8c9-4088-bc20-d0301f5b2cfb
@yamainu @SallyStrange@strangeobject.space
...The generally well-minded people in the #Fediverse, who are mostly white so far, or #Asian, but using their own language for a big part, so you will not reach many of them.
As I explained in a yhread yesterday, #denazification worked *comparatively* well in Western #Europe. But #decolonialization is, in comparison to pre 2016 #USA, in its infancy. "#Diversity" is being embraced by #European companies, as they ran..
Deconstructing ‘Canadian Cuisine’: Towards decolonial food futurities on Turtle Island
Hana Mustapha
Sharai Masanganise
#SettlerColonialism #Neoliberalism #FoodSovereignty #Decolonialization
Dig into #Cuisine #FoodCulture and #CriticalFoodScholarship without paywalls!
CFS is proud to be #OpenAccess #OpenScholarship #KnowledgeSharing
https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/563
Reading the section in the #PaloAlto book about #decolonialization makes me think how so much digital media is a form of #colonialism of our personal relationships, education, and even thought processes. It is driven by companies with the mentality of extracting profit from mining resources, in this case, the resources our human relationships and education.
Deconstructing ‘Canadian Cuisine’: Towards decolonial food futurities on Turtle Island
Hana Mustapha
Sharai Masanganise
#SettlerColonialism #Neoliberalism #FoodSovereignty #Decolonialization #CanadianCuisine #Food
CFS is proud to be an #OpenAccessJournal #KnowledgeSharing #OpenAccess #OpenScholarship
Please boost!
https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/563
First was an excellent event from The Africa I Know, covering topics from #AIEthics and #entrepreneurship to #decolonialization. The entire event was great, but I particularly recommend the panel on #AI in #Africa and the discussion with Souleymane Bachir Diagne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PLsjbOoMjE (2/4)
