Dr Syed Mustafa Ali

Why not? Or is this space so white (supremacist) and liberal that entertaining such activism is precluded? 🤔

Surviving Israel's genocide. Please correct, @nytimes.com .

In the 21st Century Water and Electricity could and should be free.

Instead they are more expensive than ever.

"Belief in progress is the Prozac of the thinking classes." (John Gray, Heresies. Granta Books: London, 2004)

The UK Media can have constant coverage for weeks of a 'farmers' protest with less than 10,000 people, and about 20 farmers.

But it ignores protests of hundreds of thousands or millions for Palestine or against Brexit.

They don't care about the truth.

An international arrest warrant has been issued for Netanyahu.

If you want him arrested, Like.
If it needs to be right now, RT.

ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged Gaza war crimes Warrants for Israeli PM and former defence minister put them at risk of detention if they go to some other countries

The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for Gaza war crimes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

"Get real": talking AI (ML/DL, LAWS), tech, regulation, political {economy, ecology, theology}, Luddism, abolitionism etc. | Listen to "Episode 17: #Decolonising #Computing, Part 2" by Diversifying and Decolonising the University | creators.spotify.com/pod/show/div...

Elric by Frank Brunner from Heavy Metal Feb 1979

Episode 16: Decolonising Computing, Part 1 Diversifying and Decolonising the University · Episode

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Except that Columbus was no explorer. He was a self-styled Christian millennialist Crusader whose aim was to ‘liberate’ Jerusalem from the infidel Muslims, and who inaugurated the genocidal conquest of the so-called ‘New World’…

Epistemicide/Scholasticide: Similar to the "Reconquista," when the Spanish destroyed hundreds of thousands of books in Al-Andalus, in 1948, Israel destroyed tens of thousands of books that were deemed 'inappropriate' for containing 'material against the state' (Maya Wind).

Having read a bunch of really sharp critiques of AI, I’ve found myself assuming that AI entrepreneurs must have equally smart arguments. I’m always astounded to find that they don’t: it’s just easily disproven boosterism. But then, of course it is. It doesn’t matter, because capital is behind them.

Towers of Ivory and Steel and the Coloniality of Curriculum I’m currently re-reading Maya Wind’s Towers of Ivory and Steel, and this book has made me reflect on the geopolitics and coloniality of curriculum across disciplines.

Check out my new substack post. I reflect on Maya Wind’s Towers of Ivory and Steel and make connections to the coloniality of curriculum.
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Don’t stop talking about Palestine

Don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Don’t stop organizing.
Don’t stop fighting.

The entanglement of settler colonialism, political theology, and white supremacy.