a fellowship, a fellowship, a fellowship of lies

this was supposed to be for my art

[a fellowship, a fellowship, a fellowship of lies @smallthingsart]

Something tells me that this will be more & more important as time goes on. Resources about Alan Turing 🧵

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Israeli defence minister Katz has issued a decree to execute any child flying a kite.
Don’t forget to remain silent about this!

Silence is complicity.
Silence is taking the side of the psychopaths.
Silence is taking the side of those committing genocide.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[Mikey Reid @themikeyreid]

Dawg what

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: The Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism on Ivy League campuses pressured universities into punitive settlements despite little to no evidence of systemic abuse, according to a whistleblower. https://t.co/0vbEpCGCsq

[dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 @DandyGeorgism]

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[a fellowship, a fellowship, a fellowship of lies @smallthingsart]

@windinthemeadow But also like, the actual numbers of men vs women who survived were about even. It’s only 19% of the men because men vastly outnumbered the women. There was just no way they were going to get all of them off the boat. Especially if they were crew

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

"Ben-Gvir's statements do not reflect the policy of the State of Israel." He's the national security minister!!!

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

Mark my words here. I'm not exaggerating. Nathan Cofnas is a Zionist, a hereditarian supremacist and part of the heavily-funded 'Dark Enlightenment' movement, initiated by Nick Land and fronted by Thiel, Yarvin and Tech Bros. They seek the end of democracy and a shift to technocratic population control. Jason Arday was a carefully selected vulnerable target, the first of a campaign designed to discredit the university system and eventually all public institutions. This system, poorly managed by naive, comfortable liberals, is currently being targeted by private equity. It will take more than DEI vanity to defend it. The left must toughen up its intellect and its politics. This is a serious, rich and powerful enemy operating at a global level, probably more powerful, and certainly cleverer and more insidious, than anything we saw in the 1930s. https://t.co/ziYvckbHup

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

Here is the deed of ownership and here is Elias, the rightful Palestinian landowner.

His home was stolen by Israeli settler-terrorists, just like thousands of others across Palestine.

[Shehab Khan @ShehabKhan]

The full quote is even more disgusting:

“I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night. Not just those who pose an immediate threat – there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.”

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Seems pretty Antisemitic to me.

How have we got to the place that they feel so emboldened to write this shit?

[B-Day Yvie❣️ @AdamantxYves]

This is a threat BTW.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

In the UK you can harass a Black professor to death, but you can’t protest a genocide

[Un Étrange En Terre Étrange @LoinDuTribu]

Mate, this is Britain.

We have white men who invented patients, fabricated clinical trials, faked archaeological discoveries, manufactured quotations and generally treated reality like an optional fucking extra.

Malcolm Pearce invented a patient and a three-year clinical trial involving 191 women.

Piltdown Man conned British science for decades with an orangutan jaw and some DIY dentistry.

Johann Hari treated interviews like fan fiction.

Boris Johnson was sacked for inventing quotes and eventually became Prime Minister.

And yes, people exposed them. Journalists investigated them. Academics condemned them.

Fraud did not magically become acceptable because the fraudster was white.

But here’s the funny bit.

The people now circling Jason Arday’s corpse are largely not the people who spent their careers heroically rooting out white establishment bullshit.

They are culture-warriors who suddenly developed a throbbing, almost erotic interest in academic integrity the moment the alleged fabulist was a Black progressive associated with DEI.

The Times didn’t look at Pearce and announce that whiteness had corrupted medicine.

The Spectator didn’t conclude that public schools were destroying meritocracy.

The Daily Telegraph didn’t treat a white fraudster as empirical evidence against white doctors.

Andrew Neil didn’t look at Boris Johnson and demand an inquiry into whether Oxford had been lowering standards for Caucasians.

Those men were fraudsters.

Individuals.

Embarrassments.

Sometimes symptoms of institutional failure.

Jason Arday allegedly tells tall tales and suddenly he becomes a fucking demographic theory.

DEI.

Black professors.

Lowered standards.

Institutional capture.

The entire progressive project hauled into the dock because one Black academic may have been a blagger.

That is the tell.

A white fraudster can embarrass an institution.

A Black fraudster apparently indicts an entire philosophy of racial inclusion.

And before everyone starts engraving FABULIST onto Arday’s tombstone, perhaps separate what was actually demonstrated from what remained disputed, inconsistent or unresolved.

Because if one Jason Arday disproves DEI, then Malcolm Pearce should have disproved white men in medicine sometime around 1995.

Funny how collective guilt becomes such an irresistible intellectual tool only when the collective is somebody else’s.

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

This Cambridge story is bigger than we all think: https://t.co/B0MDJtDuhe

[Jeff @_Jeffery0]

“Do You Support Israel’s Right to Exist?” Mehdi Hasan FIRES BACK

Mehdi Hasan: I've been debating hardcore Zionists, Israeli supporters of Israel, for years. And the conversation always comes back to one talking point:

“Do you, or do you not support Israel’s right to exist?”

If you don't, you're an extremist, you're an anti-Semite, you want to wipe Israel and millions of Israeli Jews off the map.

But you don't have to concede on this point. It's a bullshit argument.

Number one: Right to exist where?

Israel is the only country in the world that refuses to define its borders.

So if you want me to recognize Israel's right to exist, does that extend into Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem all considered illegally occupied territory under international law?

So, right to exist where?

Number two: What is this right to exist? Where does it come from?

States don't have a right to exist. People, individuals have a right to exist. Human beings have that right. Not states, not countries.

The USSR broke up into Russia and 14 other states. Yugoslavia broke up. Czechoslovakia split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
What happened to their “right to exist”?
People have rights, not states.

And number three: If there is a right to exist, does Palestine have a right to exist?
Israel exists. It's a country with sovereignty, it's on the map.

The idea that in a world where Israel is genociding the Palestinians in Gaza, ethnically cleansing them in the West Bank, and blocking their legal right to return the idea that Israel's right to exist is the one we should be concerned about, and not Palestine's, is both ridiculous and, let's be honest, racist.

[Un Étrange En Terre Étrange @LoinDuTribu]

Oh it’s absolutely a public-interest story now, Adam. Your profession saw to that.

But you don’t get to demand a fucking panoramic lens for Jason Arday and Cambridge, then suddenly switch to portrait mode when the camera reaches Fleet Street.

If we’re examining Arday’s alleged bullshit, the institutions that promoted him and the people who enabled it, then congratulations: the story also includes the journalists who hounded him, the culture-war entrepreneurs who milked him for content, the editors who kept the conveyor belt moving and the newspapers that helped turn one academic scandal into a national feeding frenzy.

You lot spent weeks asking WHO ENABLED JASON ARDAY?

Fine.

Now we get to ask WHO ENABLED YOU?

How were these narratives selected, amplified and monetised?

Who decided another former student, another anecdote, another humiliation was “in the public interest”?

What role did ideological networks play?

What responsibility does a newspaper have once it stops merely reporting a spectacle and starts helping manufacture one?

Funny how “public interest” apparently covers every fucking molecule of Jason Arday’s existence but becomes terribly delicate the moment journalists themselves enter the frame.

Leveson 2 is so overdue it should arrive carrying fucking archaeology equipment.

[BellhopDrew! @BellhopDrew]

the yeti, after 20 years:

[Lewis @L_A_D_J]

Nathan Cofnas who "broke" the story about Jason Arday.

He says Arday gave him the chance for a story to retaliate for being fired & start a "revolution" against Black people in academia.

"After the revolution, I'll be the head of the dept of eugenics & race science at Harvard'.