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British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

No money for jobs. Plenty of money for spying.

Many of the 12 universities who paid private intelligence to spy on pro-Palestine activists are forcing through major job cuts.

@drjogrady.bsky.social it's "shameful", universities have "wasted hundreds of thousands spying on their own students"

A little clip from Palestinian Prisoners Day on coloniality and why we should not be so bold as to assume that we are free. ✊🏻🇵🇸

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And a little bit more analysis here 🤓🏺 (I don’t know why I start every video with “ok so…” 🙈)

I did a little explainer over on TikTok last week on a new French law relating to historical objects stolen under colonialism - and why it’s unlikely to bring about the anti-colonial revolution we really need in how we think about the past. 🏺

🇵🇸 Inculpez nous pour apologie de la Libération

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Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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Tufts University student targeted by Trump administration completes PhD Rümeysa Öztürk, who faced deportation over pro-Palestinian op-ed, travels back to Turkey to begin career

Rümeysa Öztürk, who the feds detained and tried to deport over pro-Palestinian op-ed, completed her PhD and now travels back to Turkey to begin her career

This message is relatable to precisely no one but since the Swifties had their summer in 2024, you all should know that 2026 is the summer of all the girlies who grew up within cheese-throwing distance of Belgium and the Netherlands (“ik ben een klein geel visje in een zee van blauwww” 🐠🎶)

I’m on the mic here today talking Palestinian prisoners and why solidarity with them means freeing all of our minds from the prisons of coloniality. See you there? 📣🇵🇸

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Great Question, Winona.......

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Mock up of Donald Trump’s plans for an enormous classicising triumphal arch

Me: well that’s it, I’ve finally finished the draft of my book on the murderous imperialism and Islamophobia of Classicism.

Donald Trump: Not if I can help it!

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I’ve even started a fiction WiP because out here in the world of children’s non-fiction it didn’t seem likely 🤭 (I still love you non-fiction don’t worry 🥰)

Well...

Sprayed edges. I don’t care that I’m several lifetimes away from that kind of production costs being spent on a book I have written. Let a girlie dream 😊📚

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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣
🧪 #MedSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Settler colonisers being settler colonisers…

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Copie d'écran de la titraille d'un article paru le 9 novembre sur le site de RFI. Titre : "L'Inde envisage d'utiliser des serpents et des crocodiles à la frontière avec le Bangladesh." Sous-titre : "En Inde, face à l’immigration clandestine, les autorités étudient une stratégie de contrôle peu conventionnelle. Le gouvernement envisage de lâcher des serpents et des crocodiles le long de sa frontière avec le Bangladesh, notamment là où le terrain marécageux empêche de bâtir des clôtures. Le ministère de l'Intérieur pousse les garde-frontières à tester cette « barrière biologique »."

La frontière, ce laboratoire de la barbarisation des États.

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There’s a new season of Radio ReOrient in town from @reorient.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! In this first episode we discussed the Islamophobia of the war on Iran with our guests. 🌙

Listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts): newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-... 🎙️

Set your watches, everyone: Radio ReOrient is coming back tomorrow iA!

Listen in: newbooksnetwork.com/category/up-... 🎙️

For those interested there’s a great rejection of (gross) idea that pedagogy is erotic in @platanoclassics.bsky.social’s chapter for the CAWS volume - to be read in conjunction with the review Goldhill wrote of Classicism and Other Phobias which is… telling.

Res Diff 5: Marchella Ward, “Sabians, Muslims, Greeks and Romans" Res Diff 5: Difficult Conversations in Classics Marchella Ward, “Sabians, Muslims, Greeks and Romans: Doing (Critical) Ancient World Studies beyond the Classical Tradition” March 22nd 2024. Video edited by Kayla Andrade. resdifficiles.com "Critical Ancient World Studies" (2024), M. Umachandran and M. Ward, eds.: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86175

Marchella Ward, “Sabians, Muslims, Greeks and Romans: Doing (Critical) Ancient World Studies beyond the Classical Tradition” #ResDiff5 youtu.be/IqDegB4D8GE?...