The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched an online publication, and the intro essay is worth your time. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
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The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched an online publication, and the intro essay is worth your time. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
🇦🇹 An on-site protest against Israel's Eurovision 2026 participation on 16 May, the day of the final, has been announced by Palästina Solidarität Österreich.
It will take place between 14:00 and 17:00 CET and head from Christian-Broda-Platz to Vogelweidpark/Wiener Stadthalle.
Except, this isn't a boycott. This is a mass transfer from one war loving brand to another war loving brand, enacted by a pro-AI faction of centrist effective altruists.
New today in TIW: Historian @cjdenial.bsky.social on teaching about AI. "in every iteration of this conversation I have had with students in the last two years, there is one constant: almost no one knows about the ethical issues surrounding GenAI before they delve into the readings I’ve assigned."
“unbridled convenience rots the soul” goes so hard, need the student to print it on billboards around the world
like sorry for the shameless cross-promotion of my new paper but it literally is relevant 😅
thank you Pat ☺️
apropos claims that AI is “inevitable”, i just wrote something about how complicity is often driven by capitalist claims that harmful stuff is “efficient” and “convenient”. it’s about mega-events but the argument is clearly relevant to the proliferation of AI.
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This piece is disturbing because it reads like a press release that had to include a bit of journalism in it. There’s virtually no critical analysis of the danger of what’s happening. The only mention of the word “law” is a UN quote.
one of many many reasons why the only ethical response to AI is full throttled opposition
“some of you may lose your jobs to the vacuous plagiarism military snitch robot but that’s a sacrifice i’m willing to make”
he literally admits that academics will lose their jobs and that he no longer sees the point of research assistants - a crucial early career and skills development role. not just not caring about lack of jobs, actively contributing to the problem. selfish arrogant shitcunt.
exactly. it’s so insulting that one of the main arguments seems to be “academics already write like shit so why not have a machine write like shit instead”. i put a lot of work into writing to make it clear and enjoyable to read; to be surrounded by people who think that’s useless is so offensive
i’m dead serious, this deranged insistence that everyone “must” use ai is a labour issue and academic unions should be working to protect dedicated research, writing and thinking time, not staying silent while these losers cheat their way into ever scarcer available positions
if you think this or are acting upon it you don’t deserve an academic job. people who boast publicly about how they’re too lazy to do their own research and writing and by extension make it harder for anyone else to do it properly are scabs and should be shunned by any serious researchers
[moving to the Geopolitical Conflict Region] there better not be any fucking geopolitical conflict here
We published SIX new research articles and the first issue of volume 52 in February! An excellent way to start the year. Reminder that ALL our latest articles are online first: buff.ly/9uj6xnX
Really necessary set of essay about this moment:
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192
🚨New First View Article🚨
"‘If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad’: Liberal enjoyment and complicity in popular culture" by @zoecharlottejay.bsky.social is now available #OpenAccess. It's a must read, so check it out on our website!
📄 ➡️ buff.ly/8O9Jq1S
If you're concerned about climate / environment impacts, do not listen to this random account
Anthropic (a) discloses no env or energy data of any kind and (b) has been urging the US gov't to build out fossil fuel infrastructure for their data centres
might be especially useful reading if you’re following any of the national selection shows this weekend and want to think about how seemingly harmless entertainment feeds into the bigger political picture
#eurovision #umk2026 #sanremo2026 #melfest
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thank you! also thank you for such a smooth and supportive publishing process, would gladly publish all my work in RIS if i could 😅
omg you read that so fast! i’m so glad it resonated, my aim was to shed light on the factors shaping our choices so people can think about the wider consequences of seemingly personal choices, so the point about how complicity and resistance are connected is an important one to me
many thanks to everyone who read or commented on earlier drafts of the work, to the eurovision fans who participated in the study this article is part of, and also to sheryl crow for the title inspiration
my article on how #eurovision fans navigate complicity re israel’s participation in the contest is out now in @risjnl.bsky.social
relevant if you’re interested in the politics of mega-events, fan consumer practices, and the politics of enjoyment.
read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
'For too long, the threat of the far right and reactionary politics has been externalised and exceptionalised. It is time to accept that the current system can indeed accommodate the far right if its survival is threatened by other crises'
This is why we need Red Lines
reacpol.net/why-red-lines/
Why is Ireland boycotting the Eurovision but not the Nations League?
in other circumstances i would have been very fond of the sydney 2000 one!
bsky.app/profile/zoec...
it’s shown here as “out of stock”, which may or may be a euphemism for “shit what have we done” shop.olympics.com/en/olympic-g...