phatcontroller
phatcontroller@mastodon.social

No bail-out for tech billionaires when the bubble bursts on their false claims for AI profitability. AOC goes on the record to say that there must be #NoBailOut for tech bros while the USA cuts back on Medicare and food stamps.
https://youtu.be/UA2b81C2SAs?si=VRt3odzjR9kpeFRW

January 03, 2026
phatcontroller
phatcontroller@mastodon.social

When Musk says his mission is 'sustainable abundance' ask, for whom? When he closed down USAID he was not trying to create abundance in the global South. According to the Lancet that act alone will result in 14 million deaths globally. Despicable dishonest person. https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/USAID-cuts-global-impact-14-million-deaths

December 20, 2025
phatcontroller
phatcontroller@mastodon.social

Coke-snorting prostitute-abusing
ex-Brexit economy minister
to lead OpenAI into stock crash.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6xz1jv4ezo

December 17, 2025
phatcontroller
phatcontroller@mastodon.social

The Tony Blair Institute is selling Oracle data extraction & surveillance to the UK & African governments. Larry Ellison wants nations to use digital-ID & centralised civil registries to facilitate his corporate data extraction. Explained in this video. https://youtu.be/Q2k3BviEW1A?si=BroGFdtqcgJxsoDD

December 13, 2025
phatcontroller
phatcontroller@mastodon.social

Our new open access free-to-download book is published today. What a great way to round off the year learning from activists across the continent using digital tools and spaces in creative ways to fight the patriarchy. #DigitalRights
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/feminist-digital-citizenship-in-africa-9781350500488/

December 11, 2025
phatcontroller
phatcontroller@mastodon.social

Internet shutdowns in Africa: Technology, rights and power - Institute of Development Studies. Register Now
https://www.ids.ac.uk/events/internet-shutdowns-in-africa-technology-rights-and-power/

November 25, 2025
phatcontroller
phatcontroller@mastodon.social

The Digital Africa series explores how the use of digital technologies has opened new civic space for the exercise of democratic rights and freedoms in Africa and how repressive regimes have used digital technologies to deny, diminish, or remove those rights.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/digital-africa/?s=08

October 16, 2025
phatcontroller
phatcontroller@mastodon.social

The hidden physical infrastructure of the cloud and wi-fi. How the internet is reproduced, manually.
https://restofworld.org/2025/africa-internet-cable-repair-ship/

October 12, 2025
phatcontroller
phatcontroller@mastodon.social

Q&A-Africa's internet shutdowns double in less than a decade. Our new book (free to download) documents the history of digital authoritarianism in eleven countries.

https://www.context.news/digital-rights/q-and-a-africas-internet-shutdowns-double-in-less-than-a-decade

September 30, 2025
phatcontroller
phatcontroller@mastodon.social

Africa’s internet shutdowns double as digital crackdowns rise. First ever book on internet shutdowns published this week. #DigitalRights
https://www.cajnewsafrica.com/2025/09/16/africas-internet-shutdowns-double-as-digital-crackdowns-rise/

September 18, 2025