Notices by Elia Ayoub (he/him) (ayoub@spore.social)

Erik of When/If joins @margaret to talk about the state of the apocalypse

https://pca.st/episode/b1a49b06-080b-49e6-a7f0-bc4785c3acf5

It's the same for me. I dk why I expected smarter villains in this story but instead we have the most pathetic men imaginable destroying everything in their paths to avoid dealing with the fact that they lead a meaningless existence and have no actual friends https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers

You’ll also get early access to the upcoming podcasts Hidah which explores decolonial Jewish conversations and the Inconvenient Revolution which explores the Syrian revolution

https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery

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Zuckerberg continuing his long tradition of monetizing mysoginy

https://www.404media.co/instagram-ads-send-this-nudify-site-90-percent-of-its-traffic/

Interesting webinar ahead: "From political assassination to assassination of politics in Syria" by the Syrian poet and former prisoner Faraj Bayrakdar organized by the Lokman Slim Foundation and MENA prison forum

https://lokmanslimfoundation.org/outreach_detail/26/

I think it’s incredible that there are so many CEOs still comfortable being public all the time post-Luigi

Indigenous data sovereignty https://pca.st/episode/9ba0a224-b3a0-4097-adb1-90c998c73257

The current US ambassador to Israel supports killing kids. It’s very straightforward.

He’s a Democrat.

That’s not even the next one yet. What sort of monsters do the Americans keep on sending?

I just found out that the Proton people are all in for MAGA and that’s just depressing

The fact that I know folks who are very aware of how bad Trump is and still hope that he won’t be as bad as Biden speaks volume to just how catastrophic the Biden administration has been for us. Tbc I think they’re very likely wrong, but I can’t blame them for thinking that.

A ceasefire was reportedly reached in Gaza https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jan/15/israel-gaza-war-live-ceasefire-hostage-deal-benjamin-netanyahu-hamas

Normal stuff

https://futurism.com/the-byte/zuckerberg-automate-coding-ai

Who needs AI tech bros waging a war against human creativity when other humans are actively discouraging other humans from doing anything actually meaningful in their lives

“Don’t think like a journalist. Think like an influencer” - he tells a young journalist.

A little girl burried under the rubble in Gaza after an Israeli airstrike was thought to be dead but incredibly opened her eyes during the rescue

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEx8HQ4SIKS/?igsh=aGNhaHJ3OWswaWh1

I'm here trying to compute the fact that Lebanon has a prime minister - you know the position previously held by one billionaire after billionaire - who seems to be, afaik, an actually decent person

Where are the Arabs?

Premiers in 41 minutes on YouTube by our very own @Ayman Makarem

https://youtu.be/lx1AU8jndi8?feature=shared

@rra I listen to them from time to time but sometimes feel like they’re not critical enough and take power too much for granted - will check those out though!

@CedarTea Oh didn’t know he did those too

@Stoneshins That pisses me off so much