Ramsha Qaiser

Lecturer @FASS Air| V.Faculty @Qau & @Comsats | Mphil @Spir_qau | Researching Non western IR | Indigenizing Policy | Decolonizing Global South| Fempower joy ♀️

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

On one side, you have pedophiles and war machines that target children. On the other side, you have a breathtakingly courageous nation standing its ground in the face of horrendous violence. The Epstein class is destined to receive an exemplary humiliation in this war.

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

This massive rally by Iranians against foreign intervention will not even be acknowledged by the Western media. For CNN, BBC and other imperial outlets, "people" constitute only those elements that participate in Washington's regime change agenda.

[Adil @adilsultan]

The cat is out of the bag - finally!
Starting from Iran - Israel war, Pak-Saudi SMDA, Qatar-US defense pact, the Gaza (no)peace plan, the upcoming US-Saudi defense pact, and then finally the Abraham Accord.
All this to secure one country - Israel!

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Associated Press vs. The Onion

[FASS - AIR UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD @fass_air]

@fass_air is kicking of the Fall Semester with a seminar on "🇵🇰's role in the Evolving #Geostrategic Environment" with Amb. Zamir Akram as our speaker.

A comprehensive and multifaceted approach to learning through varied engagement formats is the hallmark of FASS & our.

[Ilhan Niaz @IlhanNiaz]

“Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence” by Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar and Ruyu Chen is a very instructive paper about how AI is reshaping the job market and the workforce. You can read the paper for free via the link below. And you can watch two of the authors discuss the paper on CNN via the link in the third tweet.

So, the big takeaway is that AI is, in fact, cutting into jobs available to new graduates especially in fields related to software and sales. At the same time, more senior workers can for now leverage their experience + position in existing hierarchies to avoid being hurt by AI. And then, there are fields where the AI “augmented” worker can enhance productivity by using AI as a tool without being replaced by it.

The data is based on the United States and so may not be representative of many other countries. But it does show that since the 2022 roll out of AI programs like ChatGPT, total job availability for fresh graduates has fallen.

There is also a lot to reflect upon. I think that that AI is dividing work into what it can replace in the present and short-term and what it will be able to replace as it gets better. So the folks thinking they are blazing a trail by using AI to augment their productivity are perhaps unwitting Trojan horses – training AI to eventually replace them while enjoying benefits in the medium-term.

The impact on people who do creative work is harder to quantify, especially if they are self-employed or do gigs. One of my favorite radio hosts complained about how he is getting much less voice acting work as companies shift to AI. AI “art” and “music” and generated videos are all over the place. https://t.co/zzHDSF3kS7 now offers to generate a podcast version of your research papers and uploads.

At the same time it is clear that AI will become better and better at replacing jobs that require a large amount of formal learning or were presumed to be best filled by people with general or specialised college degrees. So whether you have studied software engineering or the humanities, AI can replace you. In some ways the automation cycle has come full circle – initiated by capitalists and white collar professionals to reduce the need for factory workers, AI is now gunning for those who work with their minds.

What AI cannot replace are people with jobs that involve a high level of real world interface and service. So, if you are nurse, or a skilled aristan, or have mastered a practical trade like plumbing or masonry, or you are in a public service profession (like a police officer or a diplomat) you can’t be replaced. Medical doctors are well-placed to be in an AI-augmentation position, lawyers, especially those at the entry level, are likely to suffer greatly.

For academics like me, the consequences are already pretty unwholesome. What’s the point of sharing knowledge or perspective when students can just learn from a machine? If you work in a descriptive field like I do, why bother to work hard to write a couple of papers a year based on your reading and understanding when you can outsource much of the work to AI and then check the results to ensure the AI did not hallucinate? Is that the historian or social scientist of the future – a proof reader for AI?

What’s the point of evaluating students when those who use AI will easily outcompete those students who actually try hard and hone their own skills and intellect? And, as a young person, what’s the point of spending at least 4 years and a lot of money, hanging around a university listening to obsolete professors like me, only to end up in a job market that has moved on from needing graduates? Doesn’t it make sense to AI-proof your future by learing a craft or a practical skill if you can’t become a medical doctor or civil engineer? 1/3

https://t.co/rEyBgQZiA1

[Ramsha Qaiser @RamshaQaiser]

For those who teach Postcolonial Theory; how do you help students not just learn, but unlearn years of mainstream IR assumptions?
What’s your go-to activity or assignment that truly shifts perspectives?

[deeñ @deenarmani_]

Astaghfirullah for when I've felt superior to others.

Astaghfirullah for when I struggle to forgive someone for the wrongs they've done to me.

Astaghfirullah for the sins I've committed, both those I remember and those I've forgotten to seek repentance for.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

111 years ago today, Franz Kafka summed up adulthood

[Abier @abierkhatib]

The narrative is falling apart, they are fuking panicking

Watch

[Goddess Graveyard Punany✨ @xm_muva]

I have been saying from day one why the global north cannot stand up for Palestinians. If they acknowledge Israel has unethically occupied Palestinian land, then all indigenous people in the global North will ask for their land back too. She said the quiet part out loud.

[Folkloristan @folkloristan]

No @prada - these aren’t “leather sandals” - this is a kolapuri.

You do not get look down upon our traditions, only to repackage them, and sell them as your own.

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

Its not Trump who is unstable. Its the empire he leads that is falling apart due to intensifying contradictions, both internally & externally. The mad man is a reflection of a system incapable of coherence or rationality. We are in the "dark comedy" stage of a dying imperialism!

[steff @moonandmouth]

feeling totally helpless at the darkness that's swallowing us--war, genocide, climate collapse, nukes, AI, a generation's cognitive capacity decimated by screens and failing education systems. i know things feel existential every era and hope ours isn't special. but i fear it is

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

Not Qatar being like “oh no! Our sovereignty!” while hosting a US airbase….

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

Last week, we were in negotiations with the US when Israel decided to blow up that diplomacy.

This week, we held talks with the E3/EU when the US decided to blow up that diplomacy.

What conclusion would you draw?

To Britain and the EU High Rep, it is Iran which must "return" to the table. But how can Iran return to something it never left, let alone blew up?

[Eva X. @PresidentXiCHN]

The West has abandoned its humanity.
They brand killing as defense.
They parade bombing as peace.
They disguise genocide as justice.

[hamza @nothamzafr]

Was reading Surah An’am and there’s a verse that translates to “your Lord has made it obligatory on himself to be merciful to you” and I put my Quran down and took a deep sigh. A higher being who has nothing to gain from me has made it compulsory on HIMSELF to be merciful to me?