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Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 8h

Britain’s Immigration Panic Is Manufactured | Deputy Green Leader Mothin Ali Interview

YouTube video by Novara Media

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Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 9h

BBC Asian 60

The story of South Asian programmes across the BBC, over the last 60 years.

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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 13h

This coming Sunday, three historic performances of the late, great Tony Harrison's masterpiece "v." in the Leeds graveyard where it's set. I'm speaking before the final reading. Please come. slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
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Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 9h

Disappointing. Horrible AI sequences. Footage of hospitals and Orwell's words well used. More simplistic than Manufacturing Consent. Rehash of superior and dated film and television Orwell adaptations.

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 1d

Guardian journalist Matthew Cassel visited Tel Aviv - known as Israel's liberal capital - to ask people what they think of the suffering in Gaza. It's truly depressing. Even at an anti-war march. It just proves that propaganda really does work. Kudos to the guy at the end.

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Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 2d

Anne Salmond: Academic freedom and its enemies

In NZ there are chilling moves towards illiberal democracy. While they are being strongly resisted so far, political leaders and others must wake up.

newsroom.co.nz

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 6d

From The Times, 4 April, 1974

Newspaper article from UK Times, 4 April, 1974

‘Universities “Exploiting Students as Cheap Staff”’

from Tim Devlin, Education Correspondent, Liverpool, April 3

Postgraduate students, it was alleged here today, are being exploited as cheap labour by the universities and their ‘appalling’ rates of pay are being used to keep down the wages of other staff, particularly laboratory technicians

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 9d

“Instead of being enthralled by its wan superficiality, we would be better off looking beside and beneath it at the extractive project that machine learning serves in its expansion into humanistic research and education”

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11d

Read the long version here. www.artforum.com/features/gen...

MACHINE YEARNING

Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historians’ recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research.

www.artforum.com

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 9d

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

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Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com · 9d

It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism"

www.routledge.com/Contemporary...

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 10d

Vile. Recognising a Palestinian State is NOT a convenient get out clause for allowing and enabling a genocide. Also ‘We are a party of government, not a party of protest’ - exactly you fucking ghoul, so you have the ability and responsibility to do something about it

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Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 10d

it's the US, UK, Germany and their genocidal allies that are the terrorists, not these other nations and continents. The west has no moral or ethical superiority.

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Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 10d

Orientalism 101

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Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 10d

How Israeli Football Culture Became a Weapon of Genocide

Football is supposed to be a game that unites people. In Israel, it has become something darker: a stage for racism, militarism and propaganda. From the stands of Beitar Jerusalem to the ruins of...

www.hindrajabfoundation.org

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Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 10d

Burden Of Shame

Questioning our failure to recognise Palestine.

open.substack.com

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Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 12d

Compliant state for the US and the Zionists

New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice

Winston Peters promised that New Zealand’s recognition of Palestine was a matter of 'when, not if', which has a real deadbeat-dad-promises-he’ll-have-his-shit-together-next-week air about it.

thespinoff.co.nz

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 13d

Netanyahu had fewer attendees than an 8am panel at the MLA.

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Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 13d

US marketing companies are helping to rebrand the genocide in Gaza | Arwa Mahdawi

Reports say PR teams are busy rewriting history in real time – not that the American media needs the help

www.theguardian.com

Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 15d

'Trump boys' in NZ classrooms: Teachers warn of rising student extremism

While Netflix series Adolescence highlighted the effect of extremism among teens, one teacher says “a spirit of inhumanity has arrived in our classrooms on a scale we haven't seen in our lifetimes”.

www.thepress.co.nz

Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 15d

I came to UK from Gaza seeking hope. Instead, I found complicity

After a lifetime under Israeli siege and shelling in Gaza, Saher Safi built a life of his own. He expected Israel’s cruelty, but not the UK’s indifference.

www.newarab.com

Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 15d

The Stupidest Speech in UN History

Everyone's saying so!

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 16d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...