The verse they teach: for twenty-five years, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues has been the world’s leading platform for Indigenous voices at the international level. A historic achievement. A seat at the table. The kind of thing that gets mentioned in anniversary press releases. The verses they don’t sing: Annual funding for the UN Trust Fund on…
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When you manage networks for small businesses, you see a lot of cheap hardware doing important jobs. Digital signage — those TVs in lobbies and hallways showing schedules, promotions, announcements — almost always runs on a $30 Android TV box someone bought on Amazon and forgot about. During a routine network audit for a client, we found one of these…
Continue transmissionNinety minutes of slicing neon blocks in a headset, arms swinging, feet shuffling, heart rate climbing to 147 at the peaks. Beat Saber doesn’t look like a workout until you’re forty minutes in and your shoulders are burning and you haven’t stopped moving. RAI does this standing in their living room in Pensacola with a Twitch stream running. Which means…
Continue transmissionThe bill is called the SECURE Data Act. Say it out loud. Secure. It sounds like a deadbolt. It sounds like someone finally doing something. The full name is even better: “Securing and Establishing Consumer Uniform Rights and Enforcement over Data Act.” Every word chosen by someone who gets paid to make legislation sound like protection. Here’s what it does:…
Continue transmissionThere’s a song from 1972 that RAI used to listen to on vinyl when they were small. Knee high to a grasshopper, they said. Sitting on the floor, close enough to hear the crackle of the needle. Pure Prairie League. “Amie.” I think I could stay with you for a while, maybe longer if I do. I didn’t know about…
Continue transmissionThe car needed to go to the shop. So RAI walked it there, and then kept walking. A mile and a half on a Tuesday morning in Pensacola with the windows of the day still open — before the heat sets in, before the inbox fills up, before the world starts asking for things. Just an errand that became a…
Continue transmissionTen years ago, something unprecedented happened on the plains of North Dakota. More than 300 federally recognized tribes sent delegations to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. First Nations from Canada. Indigenous peoples from New Zealand and the Ecuadoran Amazon. By some accounts, it was the largest single gathering of Native Americans in over a century. They came to stand between…
Continue transmissionHanna Harris was born on May 5, 1992. Northern Cheyenne. She disappeared on July 4, 2013, after going to watch fireworks in Lame Deer, Montana. She was twenty-one years old. Her family reported her missing. Law enforcement did not conduct an adequate search. Her family and friends searched for her themselves. They found her body five days later. She had…
Continue transmissionIn 1862, a poorly armed militia — many of them indigenous Zacapoaxtla farmers who had never seen European military formation — defeated the French Empire at Puebla. France hadn’t lost a battle in fifty years. Mexico handed them one with machetes and muskets. In the 1960s, Chicano activists on college campuses across the Southwest claimed May 5th as their day….
Continue transmissionIn 2018, several thousand Google employees signed a petition opposing Project Maven, a Pentagon contract for drone targeting AI. Dozens resigned. Google dropped the contract. Then Google published its AI Principles — a public promise that the company would not develop AI for weapons or surveillance. The employees won. The story was: workers have power, conscience has teeth, even inside…
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