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steve sharra retweeted
Massive congrats to my friend @IsabellaMWeber for her excellent new book out in the UK this week. We need it today more than ever. As many of us have been arguing, a different economy is possible—-but it must be fought for. Also great review in the @guardian today: theguardian.com/business/202…
steve sharra retweeted
Penguin has moved up the publication date of my new book with Patchen Barss called "Smarter Than Us". The book explains how AI works for a non-technical reader and then talks about the myriad risks and what to do about them.
steve sharra retweeted
50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring 👇🏼
1. zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. flightradar24.com — See every plane currently in the sky
3. marinetraffic.com — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. windy.com — Live map of winds and storms
5. lightningmaps.org — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space
9. worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second
10. internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago
13. davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers
15. window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities
17. mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser
23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data
26. ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data
27. gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data
29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data
30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database
31. archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world
34. loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. dp.la — America's digital library collection
37. artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home
38. rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution
39. wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education
42. metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection
43. musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres
44. radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well
47. timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. sciencedaily.com — Live stream of science news
49. arxiv.org — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. observablehq.com — Visualize data with live code
Save this list. You’ll probably come back to a few of these later. 🔖
Follow @stevencoder9 for more useful websites, AI tools & tech resources.
steve sharra retweeted
Every human being has equal value. Every single one.
At the United Nations General Assembly, I challenged a world that still decides whose lives deserve protection and whose suffering can be ignored.
No race is superior. No people are disposable. Until we honour that truth, "everywhere is war" remains a warning we have failed to heed.
What the world needs now is love, with the courage to confront injustice and defend our shared humanity.
Love and a little kindness. For everyone.
steve sharra retweeted
Korea’s economic miracle convinced economist Ha-Joon Chang that developing nations need time and policy support to nurture new industries, he tells F&D magazine in an interview. imf.org/en/publications/fand…
steve sharra retweeted
$40,000 worth of GPUs
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗔: the largest African language model ever trained from scratch, at 1.5 billion parameters. Not a fine tune, this was trained from the ground up for Africa. 🌍
Trained on 12 African languages, it beats models from Google, Meta, Alibaba and HuggingFace on African language modelling and translation while being up to 8x smaller.
𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗔 doesn't belong to us. The weights are open and free to use commercially, so researchers can build on a base that doesn't treat African languages as an afterthought.
Weights in the comments.
Thanks to @UNDP, @AIHub4SD and CINECA for the GPUs and the support. None of this happens without them.
steve sharra retweeted
Ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York next week, I joined more than 1,500 academics and economists from 100+ countries in calling on global leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality (IPI), modelled on the IPCC, as recommended last year by the G20 Committee on Inequality led by @JosephEStiglitz.
On September 23, South Africa, Brazil, Norway, and Spain will convene, together with the UN Secretary-General and heads of state and government, to discuss the creation of the IPI.
The World Inequality Lab is actively supporting this initiative, which aligns with and can build on the work we have been doing for more than a decade.
Inequality is a political choice. It is shaped by the policies, institutions, and governance systems we build. In an increasingly chaotic world, establishing the facts and cooperating across borders remain our best tools for tackling it.
Please share.
theguardian.com/inequality/2…
steve sharra retweeted
"If we want to oppose this new fascist strain, we really have to get a move on. 'I don’t tend to use this language, I try to be measured, but I think I’ve earned the right to escalate,' she says. 'The moment we’re in, people are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough.
Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.' theguardian.com/books/2026/s…
steve sharra retweeted
While US universities have put out studies that the US is no longer a democracy, poll after poll after poll in China finds that Chinese citizens find their government very democratic.
It's just not accurate to call China "authoritarian" when police in the USA kill 3 people a day on average, and the police in China generally don't even have guns.
Moreover, China has half as many prisoners as the USA, while China has 4 times the population.
AND, one is 13 times less likely to be the victim of a homicide.
I'm SICK of hearing Western media and academics malign China when they should be trying to learn from China's successes. It's biased; it's ignorant; and it's racist.
These are the facts, and facts matter.
steve sharra retweeted
Dear African academics,
cite 👏🏿 each 👏🏿 other’s 👏🏿 work. 👏🏿
Context matters. Representation matters. Citation matters.
Let’s build African scholarship by making African scholarship visible. 🌍📚
steve sharra retweeted
My friend Ha-Joon Chang explaining industrial policy at the IMF: apparently, after decades of structural adjustment, the IMF is finally adjusting itself. 😂
imf.org/en/publications/fand…
steve sharra retweeted
Acemoğlu & Robenson'un "Uluslar Neden Başarısız Olur" kitabına yanıt niteliğindeki kitap, "Uluslar Neden Başarısız Olur"un, Çin'in ve diğer D. Asya ülkelerinin büyük başarısını veya Almanya, Japonya ve ABD'de olduğu gibi 19. yüzyıl başarılarını açıklayamadığı iddiasında.
steve sharra retweeted
A stunning set of essays on the shameful xenophobic pogroms against black immigrants in South Africa. These essays by a leading set of public intellectuals and academics are worth a read! theideasletter.org/issue/sou…
steve sharra retweeted
This book is a must read for anyone trying to understand Xi Jinping’s vision for China’s role in the world. Chapter 7 lays out a clear Chinese strategy for weaponizing its supply chain, something that businesses ignore at their peril.
steve sharra retweeted
164 votes in favour! 🌍🗺️ This is an emotional day for me. After making this case in three books and countless contributions over many years, the world has finally agreed: Africa must be seen in its true size. We did it! ✊🏾🎉
#CorrectTheMap @SelmaHaddadi
@rdussey
#Togo
@_AfricanUnion
@africanofilter
@mokymakura
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steve sharra retweeted
Francis Fukuyama tells Jacobin that decades of suspicion of the state, from both the Left and the Right, helped produce America’s current crisis. jacobin.com/2026/09/fukuyama…
