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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 23h

Homer was more like “This is my main character Sadman. He is a sad man. I tell his story in my new epic Sadmantimes.”

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 1d

"Emails from Heriot-Watt University (HWU) suggest Raytheon UK asked the university to “monitor university chat groups”" Oh
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 2d

I'll look forward to a take on this book

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

New from @jeremymberg.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern:
"Silence may protect an institution from becoming an early target, but history shows that it increases the likelihood that that institution (and many others) will be become targets over time."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/deafening-...

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Next week in NY! Would love to see folks come out. www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/rif...

Poster for a talk at city college NY that reads, “Stripmining History:
How the 'Al' Industry Extracts the Past & What Scholars in the Humanities Can Do to Stop It
IN-PERSON & VIA ZOOM
OCTOBER 16 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM | NAC 6/316
Universities and museums have recently begun partnering with technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who have promised that their Al products will enhance both historical research and accessibility to historical collections. These promises, however, are not supported by the reality of what computer vision-a foundational branch of Al-can achieve.
This talk provides an introduction to computer vision's origins in military surveillance, an overview of its development under late capitalist regimes of exploitative micro-labor, and an orientation to how computer vision works. This vision has relied on extracting history, and Drimmer argues that it is the responsibility of scholars in the humanities to be knowledgeable about the forms this extraction takes.
Sonja Drimmer
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst”

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Patricia Stoop @dr-patriciastoop.bsky.social · 3d

Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access.

Looking much forward to your reactions!

www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 2d

News coverage: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 2d

"Some evenings, we speak of 'after the war.' But 'after' soon dissolves into questions that answers cannot quell: If the bombing stopped tomorrow and children could return to school, would their childhoods await them?"

A Time That Refuses to Pass

While the world marks two years since October 7th, 2023, those of us in Gaza have been living inside one long night.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

The bar is on the floor, but it is striking to see the New York Times candidly and forwardly acknowledge that Mamdani's views on Palestine were formed out of an explicitly anticolonial framework, by way of his father's explicitly anticolonial intellectual work, by way of being from the Third World.

How Zohran Mamdani Came to Embrace the Palestinian Cause

www.nytimes.com

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 2d

When you ask yet again for the Baileys’ phone number or address

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 2d

you're welcome

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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 2d

This is what happened at UCLA. They couldn't allege discrimination based on race, due to the pesky fact that large numbers of the encampment protesters were Jewish, so they created "pro-Zionist" as its own protected class.

To me, that sounds like it's based on political belief, but what do I know.

Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 3d

My read on this is that as schools found themselves pressured to investigate Jewish students for antisemitism, there was a scramble to come up with other forms of discrimination charges, incl “Veteran status” and adumbrating “pro-occupation American Jews” under “Israeli” as a nationality group.

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 3d

An entire conceptual and legal apparatus – flawed as it is/was – designed to protect historically excluded and vulnerable groups, and hard won in struggle, repurposed to protect those doing the exclusion and imposing vulnerability. Is what we’re looking at.

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 3d

My read on this is that as schools found themselves pressured to investigate Jewish students for antisemitism, there was a scramble to come up with other forms of discrimination charges, incl “Veteran status” and adumbrating “pro-occupation American Jews” under “Israeli” as a nationality group.

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 3d

An underreported part of US campus repression post-2023 was the pivot to making “[IDF] military veteran” a protected class coterminous with “[pro-occupation Israeli/Jew]”. Students protesting the Gaza war were charged with *discrimination based on veteran status*. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 3d

Watching state electeds in CA and VA respond to this compact BS in ways state electeds in Mass and NY very much did not for the ivies hit first kind of baffles me but I’ll take it

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 3d

I still don’t quite understand how the most repressive of these outgoing elites were smart enough to see the flip coming and freak out about it but not smart enough to see that repression would only accelerate it. But maybe they just couldn’t imagine any other response.

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 3d

And my take:

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 3d

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 3d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 3d

'By applying protections meant for vulnerable groups to shield government actors, Apple has created — within its own ecosystem — a new kind of protected class: state power itself."

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 3d

never noticed how he has like. one big middle tooth

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 3d

there he is

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 3d

yassified Justinian looking very pleased and also very unsettling

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 3d

@catacalypto.bsky.social display name idea "justified yassinian"

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