Don Juan DeLexapro

co-editor @overlandjournal, lecturer Deakin, writer, [email protected]

[Nick Riemer @NickRiemer1]

Everything is ready for tomorrow's symposium, 'Free Palestine, Free Speech. Political expression and the contemporary university'. The response has been overwhelming - a sign of the severity of the censorship crisis in universities. Details: https://t.co/RjMTFyjo3u.

[Winter Pallaksch @pallakschh]

"Homer calls kings 'devourers of the people'" (Ludwig Börne)

[Fremde Gaest (0) 0 @fremdegaest]

Has anyone read the Wycliffe Middle English Bible?

[Audrey Kaufman @KaufmanAudrey]

This what companies adopting AI sound like

[Overland Journal @OverlandJournal]

“CALENDAR is a unique object in and of itself as much as it is about objects.”

Courtney Powell on Vanessa Berry’s new book, its origins in zine culture and the material world as an ecology of signs.

https://t.co/gU3evwdCTj

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

This is the best review yet of Suicidal Empathy, the new book by Elon Musk's pet demagogue.
In this review @MattPolProf clearly demonstrates how utterly vacuous Gad Saad and his books are.
What remains missing in this and other reviews, although hinted at by @MattPolProf , is a discussion of the outright fabrications and other falsehoods in Saad's book.
This strikes me as more important than the insufferable narcissism that is Saad's trademark, and his kiss up kick down persona, both brilliantly exposed in this review.
I have been going through the text and footnotes, and will have more to say on this in due course.
Will the fraudulent "free speech absolutist" Saad now also refer @MattPolProf to the FBI?
https://t.co/beuIiYxlfs

[Jeff Sparrow @Jeff_Sparrow]

Astonishing!

https://t.co/0AVxYbFiHW

[Alex McKinnon @mckinnon_a]

I've sent questions to the ABC asking if they intend to counsel or discipline Charlie Pickering for giving an interview to someone who:
- pled guilty to unlawful assault in 2019
- describes Islam as a “barbaric ideology”
- was banned from Facebook for doxxing an ABC employee.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

This editorial seriously asserts that it's fine for billionaires to manipulate our minds using their vast fortunes, because "If a billionaire pushes a perspective that is out of touch with the majority, the marketplace of ideas will eventually filter it out." Which probably sounds like a really solid argument to anyone who was born five seconds ago.

[John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd]

Charlie Pickering calling Grace Tame ‘problematic’ while chatting to a domestic abuser is certainly a choice

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

AJA presumes the right to comment on this appointment- to record a series of 4 podcasts (about being neurodivergent !) So threatening to social cohesion- unlike the censoring of universities & research topics!

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Words have lost meaning.

[Winter Pallaksch @pallakschh]

Kostas Axelos (1969 but could be now): "We live in a world of ruined concepts, used-up words, emptied conceptions of the world. We live in & build agitated necropolises, we populate & mobilise deserts. All horizons seem blocked, the very question of the horizon becomes enigmatic"

[Winter Pallaksch @pallakschh]

"The ideology in a great work reflects and justifies its times, the Utopia in it rips open the times, brings them to an end, brings them to that end where there would no longer be a mere past and its ideology, but where it could be shown: tua propria vera res agitur" -Ernst Bloch

[El Jones @ElJonesPoet]

Take a slave owner or residential school founder’s name off a street or remove a statue and there’ll be endless screaming about preserving history. But when Israel destroys Tyre - older than all European capitals - in Lebanon and destroys ancient monuments it’s silence.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

The thing about libel is it has to be untrue.

A Jewish baby born today in a West Bank community will have full rights in Israel, a vote in national elections, and access to civilian courts; a Palestinian baby born in that same community will have no democratic rights, tight restrictions on their movement, frequent harassment from settlers, and no access to justice beyond what Israel’s unaccountable military courts mete out.

That’s apartheid. It’s just literally apartheid.

If you think apartheid is really evil, such that it’s a terrible thing to say about a country, well, you’re right, it is. That’s why we have an issue here.

[Overland Journal @OverlandJournal]

“GeoCities remains an important reminder that collective labour on the internet is not new — and that recognising ourselves as workers is the first step towards organising as such.”

Maria Dudko on social media as work.

https://t.co/TK41Xo8z3J

[Dave @withsobersenses]

One of the tedious features of contemporary Australian nationalism is just how shallow it is - there is little to no engagement with actual Australian culture or history. It’s not like they are sitting around reading Voss……

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

I can’t see you how you can possibly avoid using the term ethnic cleansing, without losing your last remaining shreds of integrity as a journalist, @adamparsons.

Lebanon's internal displacement rate is now 22.6 percent — more than one in five of its people. Over 1.2 million people, including 350,000 children, have been forced from their homes, with the IDF launching more than 1,840 attacks on Lebanon since March 2, killing more than 1,497 people and injuring more than 4,639.

Moreover, the language used by Israel Katz to describe his aims in Southern Lebanon is extraordinarily explicit and self-incriminating. He has confirmed that Israel's military would establish a permanent "security zone" inside Lebanon up to the Litani River, that hundreds of thousands of displaced residents would be "completely prevented" from returning, and that "all the houses in the villages adjacent to the border in Lebanon will be demolished in accordance with the Rafah and Beit Hanoun model in Gaza."

The targeting of civilians for displacement specifically identified by their religion (Shia), combined with the destruction of their homes to prevent return, combined with the explicit statement that they will not be permitted to return — these are precisely the elements that international law identifies as forcible transfer and ethnic cleansing. Human Rights Watch has said that "the displacement of the Shia population looks less like a temporary military necessity and more like a move to permanently displace the civilian population based on their religion."

Its not complex, Adam. You just haven't got the balls to say it straight, and that failure makes your reportage worse than worthless. It makes it morally bankrupt.

[Winter Pallaksch @pallakschh]

data centers are the architecture of the primitive accumulation of language