Happy “Sunday,” y'all! This week, Dip wrote a piece responding to an article in The Economist about precolonial Africa's statelessness. Continue reading for more, including urgent crowdfund requests, additional resources to dive deeper on this week's topics, and other stories that we missed. That&
Dip discusses a recent Economist article and thinks through the implications of the Continent being seen as a “model” for elsewhere.
Another Sunday, another roundup! There're lots of celebrations today, from Ancestors Day to National Deep-Dish Pizza Day, alongside (the potentially obvious) Easter. This week, we've started to explore the world of visual art with an essay on Artemisia Gentileschi. Continue reading for more, including urgent crowdfund
Dip discusses the ways that Artemisia Gentileschi’s paintings exemplify resistance to domination so well that it turns the canvas into a refusal–while grappling with the impotence of such a “powerful” move.
Happy Sunday 🐉! This week, we put out two pieces. One is theory-oriented, discussing the activities that social movement orgs can do. This is part of the ongoing Organizing 100 series that discusses foundational ideas around making the world suck less. The other piece is about the Abundance thing Ezra Klein
Dip discusses ways in which organizations of activists can think about their activities.
Dip talks about how AI sucks again. This time, they focus on how data centers are encroaching on tribal lands.
Hope you all are doing well this Sunday! This week, we talked about two very interesting topics: outer space and "artificial intelligence." The essay and the podcast on the topic are linked below. Some crowdfunds to contribute to * Support Hawaiʻi Families Impacted by Storms & Flooding * Support Oahu
Dip discusses the intertwining of the space economy with the AI economy. They think both are shit.
On this episode of Chaos and Conviviality, Dip and Scooter discuss current proposals to put data centers in space, an idea which would seem to be a win-win for communities and data center developers. They analyze the push to adopt "artificial development," what it means for our communities,
The Prairieland Eight were found guilty of domestic terrorism. C&C is in solidarity with the defendants and rejects this sham trial on its anti-"antifa" terms, alongside the general illegitimacy of jurisprudence. We also situate this verdict in a wider tradition of lawfare, where even mild
Dip discusses recent tenant movement developments in the area near the soon-to-open Obama Center in Chicago.