Nicholas لوكا Simcik Arese

Urbanism, Ethnography, Social Theory |
Chair of History & Theory @ Architectural Association | (stream = archive) | (sinseñalista📵 - acc basically deactivated)

[Nicholas لوكا Simcik Arese @inplainsite]

Let me save everybody some time:

Informal/formal (urbanism, labour, etc.) is just gemeinschaft/gesellschaft (urbanism, labour, etc.).
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Simcik Arese, N. (2024) [Twitter/X] 31 January. Available at: https://t.co/jr9XHjT79T (Accessed: Day Month Year).

[Julián Macías Tovar @JulianMaciasT]

Vaya fotón de Reuters en el día del aniversario 250 de la independencia de EEUU, una mujer negra va sola junto a decenas de supremacistas blancos en el transporte público preparados para marchar por Washington.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

History is inexorable. Never fight time.

[Enzo Rossi @enzoreds]

“Intuitively the intuitionists seem right.”

That is an actual sentence from the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent UN inquiry said https://t.co/61poVhRzmR

[LUMUMBA VEA 🇨🇩🐆 @JumbaDrc]

WE ARE READY 🇨🇩🐆🐆🐆
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[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Eric Schmidt saying the quiet part out loud: "What I don't like about [China's AI] is that it's all open source which means it's largely uncontrolled and not controlled in any way by us."

He adds, "if that makes you feel any better," that only 2 or 3 countries can be independent AI powers.

In other words, it's all about hegemony: the ideal scenario is a world where AI is controlled by the US - and the fewer countries that can resist that, the better.

Src for the video: https://t.co/Gk5iAMtBqa

[Kara @UTDKarra]

🚨This Congo supporter who poses like a statue and doesn’t move for the whole 90 minutes will be at the World Cup game against Portugal 😭🇨🇩

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel responds to Iran's retaliatory strikes by cutting off all aid to Gaza.

This is a state which routinely collectively punishes civilians as a tactic of war.

This is monstrous, and it is also a grave war crime.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The most darkly funny aspect of this video is that Ivanka Trump speaks as if she went on some profound, prolonged spiritual and philosophical journey to ascertain the meaning of life, and concluded that the most elevated human state is to live on a gigantic private island in the Mediterranean, in a sprawling mansion paid for with the billions of dollars given to her husband by the Saudis and Emiratis to ensure favorable treatment by him and by her dad in their exercise of the powers of the American Presidency. Real uplifting stuff. 🙏

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Their absence of self-awareness is a serious pathology. They just killed 3k civilians (really, civilians) and are complaining that their invading soldiers are facing some risks WHILE INVADING.

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

Reporter of China State Television CGTN, broadcasting in front of Gaza Shifa Hospital:

"I saw with my own eyes that there were at least 10 Palestinian children under the age of 5 without heads." https://t.co/I3Ib44eV66

[The National @ScotNational]

Tomorrow's front page 📰

Labour condemned over "attack on freedom to criticise Israel" after banning pro-Palestine commentators from entering UK

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

In what lexicon is ethnically cleansing one quarter of a neighbouring state "taking a much tougher stance". Shameful complicity in war crimes by @SkyNews @adamparsons

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Note that the UK Government just banned entry of two American citizens -- @cenkuygur and @hasanthehun -- not because they criticized or worked against the interests of the UK.

It was solely because they criticize and oppose the one country deemed sacred and off-limits in the UK and so many other wester countires: Israel.

The UK under Labour is also regularly arresting its own citizens for peacefully protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza (including old British ladies and countless Jewish activists at these protests, though they remain free to protest *in favor* of Israel or against any other country).

This is all driven by the same dynamic that caused the Trump Admin -- as one of its very earliest top priorities last year -- to force US universities to expel American students protesting Israel, to deport others who merely criticized Israel, and to implement aggressive speech codes to protect Israel from common criticisms (even though one is free to say all the same things about any other country, including the US).

Why does this one small country command such special, elevated, supreme status and attention in so many western countries? It's way past time to give that question the attention it deserves and to finally put and end to it.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Banning Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker from entering the UK is an absurd and cowardly decision from an increasingly authoritarian government.

Let us call this what it is: an attack on the freedom to criticise Israel, as well as the UK government’s own complicity in genocide.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

the uk has revoked my visa as well. all at the behest of israel. the west is betraying "liberal values" for a genocidal fascist foreign government. soon we will all become israel.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Gad Saad's Rate My Professor page is hilarious.

Nearly half of the students give him a one, the lowest possible score.

Apparently, he doesn't teach anything and just rants about wokeness in his marketing class, sometimes digressing to brag about his book sales. The material is two decades old and he hasn't bothered to update it.

Some examples:

"I once asked the professor why he couldn't keep politics out of the discussions in a marketing class, at least during the lecture hours. Afterall, I told him that I had no interest in his diatribe for feminist hatred or woke-liberal bashing. He told me I was free to drop the class. Avoid this class. Biggest mistake of my life."

"All the professor do in class is complain about feminists and woke and liberals. Like c'mon at least teach some of the course material please!! What a waste."

"Easily the worst class that I have taken in my life. Professor is in the wrong profession. He does not want to teach the students anything relevant to the course material during the lectures, and I have serious doubt if he is even qualified to do so. This class should be avoided at all costs. Total waste of time and money."

"This class is a total waste of time & money. Professor doesn't come prepared to class, has not updated the course material in two decades, and simply talks about random things not at all related to the course. Avoid this class."

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC, says Visa and Mastercard blocked all his cards, leaving him unable to make purchases.

He says judges, lawyers, & politicians are being intimidated & treated as criminals.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I'm trying to imagine Muslim kids chanting something similar about the Jewish or Christian faiths at a rally in London. The Prevent folks, counter-terrorism police, the entire British media would be all over the story, asking why Muslims are so extreme & brainwashing their kids.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Wild to think about how if Kristof lived in Gaza or the West Bank, the Israeli military would likely by now have just announced he was aiding terrorism and blown him up with guided missiles, as they’ve done to countless Palestinian journalists over the last three years.