We’ve done the impossible - almost. We build a desalination plant in the middle of a genocide. Now we need your help to for its daily expenses. Donate to do the “impossible” - https://t.co/naUewmm9jH
Mahmoud’s posts are being hidden by this platform. if you are in the west every aspect of your society is structured to ignore and erase this family. show them the dehumanization won’t work on you, that you have not forgotten our brothers and sisters in Palestine
https://t.co/Tdy8GKzeRB for those following the genocide I can understand feeling overwhelmed by the scale of loss and not knowing where to begin, begin here. helping someone secure their next meal, some medicine. you’d be helping yourself stay human
“Every donation, no matter how small, had a profound impact on my heart and life… and was a clear message that goodness still exists.”
Maryam in Gaza is close to reaching her modest goal! lets start our week right and help her save her family https://t.co/l28QQWtM8s
I promised Sanaa I would make sure she reached her goal, there are enough of us that for the cost of a cup of coffee or a takeout order we could collectively make a difference in someone's life when they need it most https://t.co/ArRLYakgU0
yes and this dynamic is a major driver of the "movement" to "streamline" environmental reviews and regulations so we can "build" and "grow" and have "abundance" or some such. We can't have local communities getting in the way of Meta's infinite growth projections
[Rockwell guy standing up meme] That senior scholars face no professional consequences for actively damaging universities and attacking colleagues, like Ira Katznelson union busting at Columbia and Sean Wilentz cosigning the rightwing trash Vanderbilt report, is a major problem.
thinking about tainter on diminishing returns of knowledge production under conditions of civilizational complexity, evans on third reich disinvestment in basic science, and the bitterness of former dialectics professors after the fall of communism. what if all that but this
Smug academics lazily reject out of hand the idea of eating senior management instead of having a sober, civil, productive discussion of the best recipes for the preparation of human meat.
you pro-AI academics always position yourselves as rebellious, beleaguered outsiders going against the current. but, even if faculty were broadly anti-AI (spoiler: they're not), you're insiders doing the boss's work. the university administration must love you very much
This one is personal.
Ayman was the younger brother of Mustapha, a dear friend of my daughter Jessie—they met when she worked in the camp.
Please support his family if you are able.