zoid
@edwardtzoidler.bsky.social
Reposted by zoid
Bernie Sanders is making one of the worst decisions of his political career by not calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Luckily, he can remedy that by calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. www.discourseblog.com/p/just-say-c...
Just Say Ceasefire, Bernie
NOW.
www.discourseblog.com
October 30, 2023 at 5:34 PM
Bernie Sanders is making one of the worst decisions of his political career by not calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Luckily, he can remedy that by calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. www.discourseblog.com/p/just-say-c...
the GOAT is on this website now
To the people in Gaza and all of Palestine...
To the People in Gaza and all of Palestine - Steve Salaita
To the people in Gaza and all of Palestine: we have no platitudes, no pity, no piety, no passivity; we pronounce instead our sadness and rage. To the people in Gaza and all of Palestine: we vow never ...
stevesalaita.com
October 29, 2023 at 3:01 AM
the GOAT is on this website now
what’s up with this new genre of post that’s about famous guys who get paid six figures to post complaining that people on their posts are rude to them. it’s the internet bro ppl are rude on here
October 28, 2023 at 5:52 AM
what’s up with this new genre of post that’s about famous guys who get paid six figures to post complaining that people on their posts are rude to them. it’s the internet bro ppl are rude on here
Reposted by zoid
When we decide on a larger socio-political scale that the personal matters as much as, or even more than, the systemic in issues that are clearly systemic in nature, we'll always default to prioritizing those who are more valued in society. We'll default to humanizing one, & dehumanizing the other.
A letter to the friendships I have lost and will lose
This letter is not to those who I do not know, and yet claim to know me. The people who have followed me on social media just to say that they are unfollowing. The people I’ve never met or interacte...
ijeomaoluo.substack.com
October 20, 2023 at 3:12 PM
When we decide on a larger socio-political scale that the personal matters as much as, or even more than, the systemic in issues that are clearly systemic in nature, we'll always default to prioritizing those who are more valued in society. We'll default to humanizing one, & dehumanizing the other.
Reposted by zoid
The only democracy: "At least 100 Israelis have been arrested for social media posts supporting Palestinians & 70 remain in detention, according to a legal advocacy group in the country. Adalah said the arrests are part of an unprecedented crackdown on freedom of expression in Israel."
Dozens of Israelis arrested for social media posts defending Gaza, advocates say
“Anyone who wishes to show solidarity and support Gaza is invited to board the buses heading there now,” the police commissioner said.
forward.com
October 20, 2023 at 2:44 PM
The only democracy: "At least 100 Israelis have been arrested for social media posts supporting Palestinians & 70 remain in detention, according to a legal advocacy group in the country. Adalah said the arrests are part of an unprecedented crackdown on freedom of expression in Israel."
Reposted by zoid
From Rufo to Friedersdorf to Douthat, the “use the ongoing genocide in Gaza to attack the decolonial left” strategy is reaction at its most ghoulish, generously platformed by The Atlantic and The New York Times
October 15, 2023 at 8:41 PM
From Rufo to Friedersdorf to Douthat, the “use the ongoing genocide in Gaza to attack the decolonial left” strategy is reaction at its most ghoulish, generously platformed by The Atlantic and The New York Times
Reposted by zoid
“What we are seeing now is a soft knock on over 2,000,000 people living in one of the most densely packed areas on the planet.” Really good @jscros.bsky.social essay:
The Rules of War
They are being broken profoundly and openly right now. But they still offer a reminder that, despite being capable of horrific violence, human beings are not helpless in its path.
www.discourseblog.com
October 14, 2023 at 3:20 PM
“What we are seeing now is a soft knock on over 2,000,000 people living in one of the most densely packed areas on the planet.” Really good @jscros.bsky.social essay:
Reposted by zoid
One million people voluntarily signed up for Biden's new SAVE plan. The servicers miscalculated the payment amount for approximately 420,000 of them.
Payments never should have been turned back on and it's not too late for Biden to issue a new pause + cancel.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Payments never should have been turned back on and it's not too late for Biden to issue a new pause + cancel.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Rollout of Biden’s new student loan repayment plan hits early snags
Behind-the-scenes calculation errors are resulting in student loan borrowers receiving inaccurate payment amounts.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 12, 2023 at 1:48 AM
One million people voluntarily signed up for Biden's new SAVE plan. The servicers miscalculated the payment amount for approximately 420,000 of them.
Payments never should have been turned back on and it's not too late for Biden to issue a new pause + cancel.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Payments never should have been turned back on and it's not too late for Biden to issue a new pause + cancel.
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Reposted by zoid
Been going through some old work and remembered this blog post I wrote a few years back about @blacklikewho.bsky.social and Derrida on cosmopolitanism, I need to return to some of the threads I left dangling but I believe it holds up relatively better than I thought it would!
Cosmopolitanism and New Humanism
In what follows, I wish to read the work of Rinaldo Walcott with an eye towards the problematic of cosmopolitanism offered by Jacques Derrida. In doing so, my hope is twofold. Firstly, I endeavor ...
antiauthentic.wordpress.com
October 11, 2023 at 10:57 PM
Been going through some old work and remembered this blog post I wrote a few years back about @blacklikewho.bsky.social and Derrida on cosmopolitanism, I need to return to some of the threads I left dangling but I believe it holds up relatively better than I thought it would!
Reposted by zoid
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
October 9, 2023 at 8:39 AM
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
Reposted by zoid
how do you leave your home
fly to another country
move into someone else's house
and think "god wanted this for me"
"i'm the good guy here"
fly to another country
move into someone else's house
and think "god wanted this for me"
"i'm the good guy here"
October 8, 2023 at 7:05 AM
how do you leave your home
fly to another country
move into someone else's house
and think "god wanted this for me"
"i'm the good guy here"
fly to another country
move into someone else's house
and think "god wanted this for me"
"i'm the good guy here"
Reposted by zoid
Every "leftist" thing Biden has done has been straightforwardly commonsensical, something that scans as "left" because our discourse and politics are so broken we can't imagine actual progressiveness, and yet he is treated in certain circles as if he is the second coming of Lenin. Meanwhile
every day there's a huge discourse about why leftists aren't more appreciative of the Biden administration and: its making me go fucking insane
President Biden campaigned against building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. But his administration filed notice on Thursday that it was waiving more than 20 federal laws and regulations, including environmental ones, to build additional barriers along the Southern border. nyti.ms/3titIaN
October 6, 2023 at 2:19 PM
Every "leftist" thing Biden has done has been straightforwardly commonsensical, something that scans as "left" because our discourse and politics are so broken we can't imagine actual progressiveness, and yet he is treated in certain circles as if he is the second coming of Lenin. Meanwhile
@mrxmrt.bsky.social what’s a good email I have something I wanna send you and this site lacks DMs
October 7, 2023 at 6:32 PM
@mrxmrt.bsky.social what’s a good email I have something I wanna send you and this site lacks DMs
Reposted by zoid
A blockade of 2 million people is by any definition collective punishment, not merely something that “aid groups say.”
The Palestinian territory of Gaza has been under an Israeli blockade since Hamas seized control of the coastal strip in 2007. Israel says it's necessary to stop the flow of arms into Gaza, but Palestinians and aid groups say it is collective punishment.
Gaza Has Suffered Under 16-Year Blockade
Held in place by Israel and Egypt, the blockade restricts imports to the region and prevents most people from leaving.
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2023 at 4:15 PM
A blockade of 2 million people is by any definition collective punishment, not merely something that “aid groups say.”
Reposted by zoid
There has only ever been one real solution to this conflict, and that is the end of the occupation, the end of the apartheid state, the honoring of the right of return, and the creation of a truly equal society. There is no other way through.
October 7, 2023 at 12:03 PM
There has only ever been one real solution to this conflict, and that is the end of the occupation, the end of the apartheid state, the honoring of the right of return, and the creation of a truly equal society. There is no other way through.
so the Biden administration can't follow up on its own campaign promises because it's complicated but it CAN build Trump's wall thus fulfilling HIS campaign promises? am I missing something?
October 6, 2023 at 3:14 PM
so the Biden administration can't follow up on its own campaign promises because it's complicated but it CAN build Trump's wall thus fulfilling HIS campaign promises? am I missing something?
I'm not gonna go into detail on how i feel about it cause I'll have to delete this app again but uh yea that wasn't very chill of Bernie Sanders
October 4, 2023 at 10:36 PM
I'm not gonna go into detail on how i feel about it cause I'll have to delete this app again but uh yea that wasn't very chill of Bernie Sanders
Reposted by zoid
“…a clear exercise in intimidation and endangers the safety of all 116,000 residents who have elected to participate in our democratic process.”
Scathing statement from New Georgia Project on the City’s deliberate doxxing of Cop City referendum signatories.
Scathing statement from New Georgia Project on the City’s deliberate doxxing of Cop City referendum signatories.
September 30, 2023 at 2:54 PM
“…a clear exercise in intimidation and endangers the safety of all 116,000 residents who have elected to participate in our democratic process.”
Scathing statement from New Georgia Project on the City’s deliberate doxxing of Cop City referendum signatories.
Scathing statement from New Georgia Project on the City’s deliberate doxxing of Cop City referendum signatories.
AI is famously unable to express negative emotions or engage in hate speech so idk how they will be able to come up with an AI generated Reviewer 2 lol
“Good news! I have secured 2 AI-generated reader reports on your manuscript. Can you please write a response to the reports for me to share with the editorial board? The board is also AI. And so am I—generated from analysis of Rebecca’s inbox. Real Rebecca lives in a van down by the river now.”
This proposal for how to move towards 100% AI peer review seems like a fork in the road for scholarly publishing. This is more than a difference over technology. This is a more fundamental difference over what knowledge is and how to evaluate it.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/09/29/e...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/09/29/e...
September 30, 2023 at 5:29 PM
AI is famously unable to express negative emotions or engage in hate speech so idk how they will be able to come up with an AI generated Reviewer 2 lol
i graduated high school when i was 15 thus making me the final boss of not being cool in high school
I can’t imagine any Bsky early adopter was cool in high school, so what kind of loser were you?
September 30, 2023 at 3:42 PM
i graduated high school when i was 15 thus making me the final boss of not being cool in high school
the worst part is that if you do this for a little while on social media somebody will eventually offer you a 6 figure job at a made up research institute to do it professionally
September 30, 2023 at 2:04 PM
the worst part is that if you do this for a little while on social media somebody will eventually offer you a 6 figure job at a made up research institute to do it professionally
the thing about people dunking on this is that at least half the "leftists" on this website basically agree that the left/democrats should be "more normal" to appeal to "the working class"
September 30, 2023 at 2:01 PM
the thing about people dunking on this is that at least half the "leftists" on this website basically agree that the left/democrats should be "more normal" to appeal to "the working class"