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Dimitra Kotouza

@dimiktz.bsky.social

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Psycho-tech-sci-biopolitics, reproduction, crisis capitalism. Wrote Surplus Citizens (Pluto, 2019). http://www.plutobooks.com/9781786803672/surplus-citizens/

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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · Mar 20

Just published: ‘Equality’ has been mobilised (in nuanced and less nuanced ways) to support the genomics of who ‘makes it’ economically and educationally, drawing long-fraught links between cognitive ability, class and, potentially, ‘ancestry’. doi.org/10.1177/0952...

Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics - Dimitra Kotouza, 2025

Educational genomics is an emerging field of research that analyses associations between vast samples of human DNA and educational outcomes. I trace how this fi...

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Matt @itsmattagain.bsky.social · 10d

I am no Zionist, massively disagree with the Netanyahu government, and want to preface what I say with that.

This is no place to be debating the ethics of Israel. Innocent Mancunians were murdered on Yom Kippur because they were Jewish. There can be no equivocation about that. It's not the place.

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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 9d

Please avoid Gen AI as a default position. Not only does it have dire environmental and mental health implications, not only do we grant enormous political knowledge-power to these giant companies by using it, it also destroys and disorients thinking. 4/4

Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 9d

Even sooner, the sycophantic language and flatteringly selective information it presents drove me off the wall. Telling it to stop the flattery just did not work. No wonder it drives vulnerable people psychotic(including family of people I know). 3/4

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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 9d

Soon, I realised it was just disjointed verbosity and that I’d wasted too long with it when I could be using my own mind and credible information sources, literatures and and tools to have gone much further. 2/4

Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 9d

AI chatbots — A technology of disorientation. At first, I thought it may be good for brainstorming and fast text editing. It was useless with anything to do with data processing — it was making data up and lying about it. 1/4

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish).

Zack is spot on.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10d

Now obviously, the British political/media class have enthusiastically frog-boiled themselves into believing that dragging off two hundred old ladies is just normal, regular centrist moderate politics. But you are not them, you should recognise that this is absolutely deranged authoritarian lunacy.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10d

I urge you to note that “The government today arrested 400 anti-genocide protestors, The Ministry For Crackdowns said those committing terrorism would be crushed by the full force of the state” is the kind of thing you see in background news reports in scifi movies about future dystopias.

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🏹🐦‍⬛Katniss Everdeen🐦‍⬛🏹 ❌👑 @p-r333.bsky.social · 10d

ARE YOU READY YET⁉️⁉️⁉️

NOBODY IS GOING TO COME AND SAVE US, WE HAVE TO SAVE OURSELVES‼️‼️‼️

THE ONLY WAY TO STOP THEM IS TO SHUTDOWN COMPLETELY‼️

BY👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 10d

Some people (a lot!) want this to happen in the UK as well, sadly. And nobody is stopping them. They are walking on eggshells around them.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 10d

this is as open an admission that an entire agency is engaging in routine constitutional violations that I can imagine

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10d

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · Sep 2

www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

UK: Arrest of Palestine Action solidarity protest leaders 'a clear violation of international law'

We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · Aug 27

Newnham College, Cambridge. Horrifying. We have to stop this happening in other British universities

ding @not.dingherself.com · Aug 27

An actual job ad: “When we refer to ‘women’ we mean those assigned female at birth. . . . Successful candidates will be asked to produce [a] passport or full birth certificate. . . . It is expected that this documentation will be in the female gender.”

What a disgrace @newnhamcollege.bsky.social

Screenshot of part of a job ad posted on the website of Newnham College, University of Cambridge:

“Following the Supreme Court’s decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025], when we refer to ‘women’ we mean those assigned female at birth. . . . The successful candidate will be asked to produce identification documentation (e.g. passport or full birth
certificate). It is expected that this documentation will be in the female gender.”

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our esteemed expert here appears to have gone from just innocently asking (in 2018) “Is Rising Ethnic Diversity a Threat to the West?” to answering (in 2025) that yes, the degenerate races pose an terrible threat to the herrenvolk and should be driven out en masse.

Its not 'a grift'. Its who he is.

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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · Aug 15

There is NOTHING about #Gaza in my @bsky.app feed. Even if I search for “Gaza” or “Palestine” I get 2-3 day old posts. One has to go back to fascist X to get Gaza news and commentary. The exit happened a while ago when Gaza accounts were being deleted but it’s long lasting and deeply depressing.

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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · Aug 15

How long before they start shooting? It’s a wonder this hasn’t happened yet. Wonder if they are already using an AI algorithm that systematically prevents POC from having a license (not that human agents wouldn’t be doing the same).

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 15

The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.

The
WHITE HOUSE
The White House V*
@WhiteHouse
X.com
OPERATION MAKING D.C. SAFE & BEAUTIFUL
ARRESTED
CARRYING A PISTOL
WITHOUT A LICENSE
The WHITE HOUSE
2:01 PM • 8/11/25 • 1M Views

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Jun 29

I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legalrestraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Aug 9

So far, we know that the Americans sent neo-Nazis, Christian Zionists and anti-Muslim Christian Nationalists to Gaza - and it’s those men that have been opening fire on Palestinian civilians along with the IDF.

Patrick @ps-on.bsky.social · Aug 9

"A leader for a contractor providing security to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site operation allegedly serves in a role in the Infidels Motorcycle Club..."

SCOOP: Contractor Leading Security for Gaza 'Aid' Sites Part of Infidels Biker Group That Seeks to Fight 'Islamic Extremism'

The US contract leader, who is supposed to help deliver aid to Palestinians, once promoted Israel as “God’s Chosen Nation" and was previously debarred from contracting with the government.

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David Traynier Ⓥ @dtraynier.bsky.social · Aug 9

History will one day record that while the UK Govt continue to facilitate the worst genocide of the 21st Century, ordinary people protesting against it were subject to 'the greatest mass arrest in history'.

#Israel
#Gaza

news.sky.com/story/police...

Police make arrests at protest in support of proscribed group Palestine Action

Legislation to proscribe Palestine Action came into force on 5 July, making it a criminal offence to show support for the organisation, carrying a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.

news.sky.com

Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · Aug 9

Protesters at London’s Parliament Square for the right of Palestine Action to protest are being arrested one by one now.

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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · Aug 9

Exactly. And, with the expulsion of critical humanities, it turns out casual academics can offer more to public intellectual life outside academia than inside universities that reduce all thought to ‘high tech innovation’, alongside senior colleagues who don’t understand the basics of solidarity.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · Aug 9

Though tiny, pathogens could become Israel's deadliest weapon in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/though-tiny-pathogens-could-become-israels-deadliest-weapon-gaza

Though tiny, pathogens could become Israel's deadliest weapon in Gaza

After surviving nearly two years of genocide, Palestinians forced into a guarded zone on Rafah's rubble could face infectious disease likely to kill more people than the bombs

www.middleeasteye.net

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Aug 6

The Terrorism Act 2000 specifically ensures that it is lawful to organise for the de-proscription of a group.

There should be no law in democracy that cannot be opposed. That is the very mark of democracy itself.

Help us share legal info elsewhere:
www.wedonotcomply.org

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Aug 6

BREAKING

Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors.

This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent.

www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!

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Dimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · Aug 2

Published this doi.org/10.1177/0952... at @histhum.bsky.social striving to fairly represent SSGAC’s apparent efforts to be ethical and progressive while pointing out contradictions. Feels like time wasted! How swiftly eugenics was unmasked under a ‘fair-wind’ far-right govt. The future looks grim.

Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics - Dimitra Kotouza, 2025

Educational genomics is an emerging field of research that analyses associations between vast samples of human DNA and educational outcomes. I trace how this fi...

doi.org

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · Aug 2

The startup named Herasightm after the goddess who threw her disabled child off a mountain, seems focused on public outreach using embryo selection for IQ to win over far rightwing pseuds & techbros

A tweet "Elon Musk thinks our new embryo screening startup,
@herasight, is "cool". Cool." with a picture included in the tweet of a web widget showing an embryo selected for IQ.

A quote tweet of Cremieux a pseud who "tweets about race & genetics"
see here for more background on Cremieux/Lasker: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/natal-conference-austin-texas-eugenics

Text reads:
"The widget pictured below gives you the expected range of predicted IQs (or disease risks) for the number of embryos. The difference between the average and the highest gives you the expected gain in IQ if you were selecting the embryo with the highest predicted IQ. "

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