October’s spotlight on Big Tech and Authoritarianism explored a range of relationships between tech companies and political actors across the global majority.
Some unmarried Chinese women are actively challenging the social stigma associated with being “leftover women” by questioning family pressure, sharing ways to escape it, or reframing the discussion…
Institutional injustice, such as political nepotism, legal discrimination, and cronyism, is a far worse abusive use of power that creates systematic injustice.
"Four years later, after witnessing so many painful stories, I have learned that telling other people’s stories also requires learning how to care for myself."
The tech allows students to generate personalized stories on China’s “holistic approach to national security” – a framework advocated by President Xi Jinping covering areas from politics and economy…
"The project highlights not only the continued vitality of Chavacano as a language, but also the efforts of its speakers to create new literature and preserve the language through writing.”
The growing importance of subsea cables in military and economic policy offers an entrypoint into understanding the corrosive, yet dependent, relationship between AI and oil infrastructure
DoD’s public document describes Alibaba as indirectly affiliated with China State Council's supervision body, and a “military-civil fusion contributor to the Chinese defense industrial base”.
"It has not only been used to confine peaceful gatherings and demonstrations to Freedom Park, but increasingly, the very use of Freedom Park has been restricted and denied."
Beijing is carrying an older geography of extraction into the AI era, turning Uyghur land, energy and labour into computing power while remaining silent about coercion and surveillance.
