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Green Debt Bondage: How Indonesia’s Electric Transition Deepens Platform Driver Exploitation developingeconomics.org/2026/05/05/gre… via @CriticalDev

🇮🇳🩸👩🏽‍🌾Les travailleuses de la canne à sucre en Inde SE FONT RETIRER l’utérus pour ne plus manquer une journée de travail. Dans le district de Beed (Maharashtra), des ouvrières de la canne à sucre subissent des hystérectomies pour ÉVITER LES ABSENCES liées aux règles, aux grossesses ou aux fausses couches. Dans le système de travail « jodi », les couples sont surendettés et TRAVAILLENT jusqu’à 14 HEURES PAR JOUR, sans congés ni protections, poussant certaines femmes à voir cette opération comme une solution pour continuer à travailler. Malgré des enquêtes menées en 2019 révélant plus de 13 000 HYSTÉRECTOMIES dans le district de Beed et des promesses de réformes, les militants dénoncent un manque de changements concrets. Les conditions de travail extrêmes, le MANQUE D’HYGIÈNE et la pression de certains médecins FAVORISENT ces opérations. Les autorités locales, sous pression médiatique, ont lancé de nouvelles enquêtes et PROMETTENT DES MESURES, mais les activistes estiment que le système reste inchangé. (The Guardian)

Kenda Mutongi’s work on the Matatu industry (2017) is such a fascinating study on this exact moment rn. I tweeted about it last week but I’m combing through my notes on it rn na she’s analysed so much of the political potential of the sector already.

log (😅) = 💧log 😄

Sons of the soil, 2026. Photographed by Edwin Maina.

omg this title, this paper

For BA or MA students from low- & middle-income countries: My course “Global Policy Analysis” will again be open to a number of remote students via Zoom. Course starts on Feb 17th, application deadline is Feb 10th. More information & application form here: forms.gle/GGNyai3eG3pwnp…

How to speak Davosian — for beginners ft.trib.al/DxuVHoS | opinion

👋🏼 My new book “Brothers in Arms” just dropped from @JahaziPress! It is available for 1.5K in bookstores in Kenya—including Prestige, Nuria, Yaya Centre, TBC, JKIA—and on @amazon in a few days.

A massive new study on peak performance included 34,000 international top performers: Nobel laureates, renowned classical music composers, Olympic champs, and the world’s best chess players. It shows early specialization is a trap, and the road to greatness is long and varied.

If you’ve lost your ability to imagine a better world, don’t stand in the way of those who still have it

The NY Post knows that a visual like this can create a false and harmful narrative. They know people will see a picture of a Black man above a picture of the suspect and assume he’s the shooter. He’s NOT. Joseph Oduro was the instructor and he’s a survivor.

Our final piece on labor migration in Kenya -- and East Africa -- is out now. It centers Kiana Hayeri’s powerful photography, with whom I had the privilege of traveling as she sensitively captured the stories of these women and their families. nytimes.com/2025/12/14/wor…

The Kenya-US health deal is pragmatic, but could have been done better devex.com/news/the-kenya… #Devex via @Devex

This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics. - At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled - At Amherst: more than 30 percent - At Stanford: nearly 40 percent Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving [disability] accommodations than not, a scenario that would have seemed absurd just a decade ago." As students and their parents have recognized the benefits of claiming disability—extended time on tests, housing accommodations, etc—the rates of disability at colleges, and especially at elite colleges, has exploded. America used to stigmatize disability too severely. Now elite institutions reward it too liberally. It simply does not make any sense to have a policy that declares half of the students at Stanford cognitively disabled and in need of accommodations.

Shawry for the trees #NewProfilePic

unbelievably grim that you can ignore the prompt of an assignment to go on a barely coherent screed where you call your professor a "demon," then when your professor gives you undeservedly thoughtful feedback and a bad grade you can run to the media and get her placed on leave

Some news: Open Philanthropy is now Coefficient Giving! Our mission is unchanged but the new name reflects our growing work with other donors to multiply the impact of their giving. 🧵 on our work to make philanthropy a more efficient "market" and plans going forward:

The latest installment of our investigation shows how Kenya’s government functions as an arm of the labor-migration industry, with officials likening workers to dogs and blaming them for not being servile enough when they face abuse. nytimes.com/2025/11/14/wor…

Slope so gentle if it were a wheelchair ramp it'd be ADA compliant