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#space #africa
African Space Agency takes flight
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/african-space-agency-takes-flight
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Can't emphasize enough how much I enjoy reading the @thecontinent - it's a Saturday morning highlight, even when the stories are dark, there's always hope in it. These days it feels like a minor act of resistance to seek out news from new places where people are doing their best to build up the bulwark of solid information against the power of manipulated narrative.
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Flipboard@flipboard.social - What is the most inclusive film festival in the world? @thecontinent says it’s the Berlinale, which this year supported multiple African movies and auteurs. The Golden Bear — the festival’s grand prize — was won by Senegalese-French Mati Diop for her art reparations documentary, “Dahomey.” She is the first Black person to win that award.
https://continent.substack.com/p/the-berlinale-is-getting-it-right
#Cinema#Film#Movies#Africa #Senegal #Berlinale#Newstodon#NewstodonFriday#FollowFriday
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@georgetakei
EURO-ZONE!!!! (...fuck yeah! 🦅)
Coming to save the mf day, yeah~
EURO-ZONE!!!! (...fuck yeah!🦅)
Freedom is the only way, yeah~
Imperialists, your game is thru,
cus now you'll have to answer to~
#Europe...?
EURO-ZONE!!! ( I guess... ( ･ั﹏･ั) )
( yeah, we can't believe it either, #Africa )
@feralthoughts Part of this is connected to webhosting, but not entirely. Due to debt crises (which are neocolonial in nature), many Southern countries place currency controls to ensure that foreign reserves do not flow outward, worsening debt crises and other financial structures. As a result, it can be difficult to register a domain and hosting with an outside company, the bulk of which are in the US, EU, or East Asia, and nearly all of which require dollars, Euros, yen, or renminbi.
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@feralthoughts The lack of connection that the #Fediverse has to the #GlobalSouth is a symptom of largely infrastructural disparities between the North and South vis-à-vis telecommunications and financial instruments. There's been some written on technological leapfrogging, esp. in parts of Sub-Saharan #Africa, but the jump is more often to centralized, #BigTech social networks, not to the sort of decentralized connectivity that the #Fediverse values.
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in the #arXiv
Revealing hidden structures in the Zone of Avoidance - a blind MeerKAT HI Survey of the Vela Supercluster
by Sambatriniaina H. A. Rajohnson and co-authors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07084
#galaxies #cosmology#VelaSupercluster#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics#MeerKAT #telescope #radiotelescope#SKA#Africa #radioastronomy #science#STEM
