It’s been six days since teachers in government-owned primary schools across the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nigeria dropped their tools, leaving classrooms deserted and students stranded. The strike, which began following a 14-day ultimatum
link-https://www.culturalvibing.com/post/fct-teachers-strike-primary-school-resumption-remains-in-limbo
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Nigeria is home to three major ethnic groups: the Hausa-Fulani in the North, the Yoruba in the Southwest, and the Igbo in the Southeast. Each group possesses its own distinct traditions, languages, and customs, contributing to a rich national mosaic. The Hausa are known for their intricate textile designs and architecture
link-https://www.culturalvibing.com/post/celebrating-nigeria-s-rich-culture-on-independence-day
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Lux Magazine: “The Feminism We Need”
📌 "People are hungry for a feminism that actually challenges #power, but the most visible feminist #institutions aren’t much help."
📍https://lux-magazine.com/article/editors-note-1/
“For a long time, feminists on the #left have decried corporate feminism, which boosts the small number of women at the very top of American society and uses them to hide the base immorality of exploitive corporations.
📍Our #argument has always been that #joining the #oppressors is not liberation"
How cultural institutions subtly silence and exclude writers, in the guise of concern or responsibility, to censor and “reshape[s] what other writers feel able to say, and what audiences are permitted to hear”.
Natasha Joyce, "Empty Words, Emptying Stages": https://overland.org.au/2026/02/on-the-misuse-of-cultural-safety/
#fragility #whiteFragility #culturalSafety #intersectionality #institutionsDeceive #coloniality #beliefs #censorship #conflation #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #Australia #institutions #organizations
Since its original formulation and application in the health sector in Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1980s, Cultural Safety has been subject to wide reinterpretation. Its entry into institutional life more broadly has seen it turned it into a concept that allows it to be appropriated by the very powers that dominate the culture wars.
For 365 days, the people of Israel and Gaza have been trapped in an unrelenting cycle of violence, restlessness, and grief. This year has marked one of the bloodiest chapters in the region’s modern history, with every day steeped in pain, crisis, and killings. As the death toll rises
link-https://www.culturalvibing.com/post/twelve-months-of-violence-examining-the-killings-in-israel
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The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”.
link-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5rCmDqua0&t=67s
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Two legal scholars assert that AI, by its very design, undermines democratic institutions, even when used properly.
They highlight three corrosive "affordances":
• atrophy of expertise,
• moral decisions short-circuited,
• social isolation, which undermines dissent and agency.
Woodrow Hartzog, Jessica Silbey (2026). "How AI Destroys Institutions" https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/4179/
#organizations #government #corporations #process #strategy #democracy #policy #sociology #institutions #administration #management #managers #executives #AIRisks #cognition #sociability #ethics
Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies encourage cooperation and stability, while also adapting to changing circumstances. The real superpower of institutions is their ability to evolve and adapt within a hierarchy of authority and a framework for roles and rules, while maintaining legitimacy for the knowledge produced and the actions taken. Purpose-driven institutions built around transparency, cooperation, and accountability empower individuals to take intellectual risks and challenge the status quo. This happens through the machinations of interpersonal relationships within those institutions, which broaden perspectives and strengthen shared commitment to civic goals. Unfortunately, the affordances of AI systems extinguish these institutional features at every turn. In this essay, we make one simple point: AI systems are built to function in ways that degrade and are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions. The affordances of AI systems erode expertise, short-circuit decision-making, and isolate people from each other. They are anathema to the kind of evolution, transparency, cooperation, and accountability that give vital institutions their purpose and sustainability. In short, current AI systems are a death sentence for civic institutions, and we should treat them as such.
Many voters in the US have options to cast their ballots before election Day, November 5. Reports say that some have already started receiving mail-in ballots. Early voting became popular in 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic was in full swing, as it allowed people to avoid crowding into polling stations.
link-https://www.culturalvibing.com/post/early-voting-begins-in-the-us-here-s-what-to-kn
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