Nicholas Dawes

@NicDawes

Journalism, the media business, human rights. Persistent traces of South Africa, India, and New York City

New York, NY

Joined June 2009

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Nicholas Dawes
@NicDawes
6h
If you were at Bahrisons when this happened, post pictures!
Shashank Mattoo
@MattooShashank
Sep 13
NEW: "I told PM Modi that I tested our trade in local currencies. I bought some books here and I paid in local currency. My payment on the card went through in rupees and it translated in South African rand. It doesn't get any better than that," says SA President Ramaphosa
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Nicholas Dawes
@NicDawes
12h
This is enormously rich, recognizing what makes the South African configuration exceptional while undoing South African exceptionalism.
Panashe Chigumadzi
@PanasheChig
Sep 13
In my new @ideasletter essay, "The Hinge of the Modern World," I show that Afrophobia in South Africa is not a tragic national failure of sentiment and solidarity — it is a structural feature of the modern world racial-capitalist system expressing itself at its historic limit
Nicholas Dawes
@NicDawes
Sep 13
Baltimore?
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Nicholas Dawes
@NicDawes
Sep 12
When you invite a bunch of world leaders around, but mainly want to send a domestic signal
Sidhant Sibal
@sidhant
Sep 12
Menu for the BRICS leaders dinner this evening in Delhi
Nicholas Dawes
@NicDawes
Sep 10
There are so many mind-boggling details in this report that some crucial asymmetries are likely to get missed. It has slightly more on US-aligned states - notably UAE - than comparable OpenAI documents, but goes into much greater detail about adversary state operations and
Anthropic
@AnthropicAI
Sep 10
We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date. It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them. We disrupted every operation in the report,
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