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Z Nicolazzo, Ph.D.
trans_killjoy
Given that a transcript will most certainly not be coming (because optics), and given the questions/text/reaching out from some folks, I figured it may be worthwhile to take a bit
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Meghan Benton
meghan_benton
How has COVID affected migrants in the gig economy? – I've been putting together a reading list and some reflections. Thought I'd share. Please add sources I missed in comments.
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Kelly Swope
kmsswope
1. THREAD: Posting a piece I co-authored in 2019 with @anacidcommie in @timeshighereducation about the grad student mental health crisis. Below, I review the argument and situate it in context
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
It's been 13 years since @NaomiAKlein's Shock Doctrine described the neoliberal playbook: crises are seized as a moment to smuggle in policies that could not pass public muster under normal
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John Stoehr's Editorial Board
johnastoehr
White liberals must face the truth by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/white-liberals-must-face-the-truth?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. Ezra Klein, a prominent white liberal, is the top
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Sun-ha Hong
sunhahong
1/n In my new book, Technologies of Speculation, I talk about 'control creep': data surveillance justified for one purpose is inevitably repurposed elsewhere. Exhibit A: Self-tracking & Internet of Things,
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Jasbir K Puar
jkpuar
Where to begin. "The right to maim" is the production of certain populations--racialized, occupied, exploited, disposable--whose availability for injury is necessary to sustain capitalist narratives of progress, neoliberal racial
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Ayesha A. Siddiqi
AyeshaASiddiqi
Engaging with their terms legitimizes them. I’m not going to use “cancel culture”, it’s an unserious aspiration to victimhood by those who the status quo benefits and protects. It’s term
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RoyScranton
#Doomer? Thread, from conversations with @_ppmv @theresphysics @kalahar1 @cosaingalway @aschmittner @ccolose @past_is_future @huntercutting @climateben @drkatemarvel et al. 1/35 My core message, consistent through my published work on clima
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pdffucker666
oracles
i have accumulated an ungodly amount of nieyao hot takes/speculation/etc over the past six months as a side effect of writing fic & while i'm waiting for this video to
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wilfred chan
wilfredchan
should i even do it...all right let's do it. https://twitter.com/ProleLumpen/status/1250256775741239296 A thread of @lausanhk articles that have called out anti-Mainland xenophobia among Hongkongers and Hong Kong protesters, from August 2019
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
antigravitymag
More on Ordinance 33,021 and local resistance to surveillance, of interest to anyone who would prefer to move about the city without being treated as a prospective criminal. http://antigravitymagazine.com/column/new-orleans-looks-to-ban-fac
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Dan Hicks
profdanhicks
AFTER THE UNIVERSAL MUSEUM (Thread)My op-ed for @artnet published today #MuseumsUnlocked 1/ In the early evening of Wednesday Feb 26 the crowd thronged the opening of “Young Rembrandt” at Oxford’s
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Mark Pendleton
mark_pendleton
It’s @UCUYorks_Humber hustings tonight for our next VP (from HE) and a casual NEC vacancy for LGBT+ members (from FE). I’ll try to live tweet as I can. Remember there’s
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Chad Loder
chadloder
cw: coronavirus, pandemic, death.Coronavirus real talk time. Within 3 weeks, we will be seeing videos of overwhelmed hospitals in the US, with hundreds of deaths.Here’s the director of one of
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Meyer Memorial Trust
meyermt
Today, Meyer Memorial Trust announced Justice Oregon for Black Lives, a five-year, $25 million investment in Black leadership, Black-serving organizations and systems-level change, the largest initiative the foundation has ever
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