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Literal genocide.

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This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

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Senior UNRWA emergency officer on the genocidal conditions imposed on Gaza rn: “The situation now is so beyond imagination, so beyond words at this point, because people are being starved, basically… children are now starving. People are surviving on one meal a day. People are without medicine.”

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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

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If you don't want your kids and grandkids to ask you how you allowed an entire people to be forcibly starved to death live streamed in front of your eyes, you have to do something now. Anything. Not just Americans. Everybody everywhere around the world.

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If you’re holding a Democracy Sausage sizzle on Saturday make sure you register it here: democracysausage.org/federal_elec... #auspol

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🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 The Liberal Party gave more money to anti-Welcome to Country disinformation group “Advance” last financial year than Federal Government spent on the ceremonies over its entire term. Advance has been aggressively attacking the $450k Government spend… theklaxon.com.au/sa2o

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"This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs... we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%." @afenizia.bsky.social Evidence that administrations that reject WFH harm efficiency. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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🚨Liberal Party-funded disinformation group “Advance” sent an email to tens of thousands of Australians sowing division over ANZAC Day just hours before Friday’s dawn service. Advance and Coalition running campaign together against Indigenous ceremony... theklaxon.com.au/x37s

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🚨Melbourne Storm director & co-owner Brett Ralph is one of the biggest funders of hate group "Advance" - which has been aggressively attacking the Welcome to Country. Ralph was Advance's second biggest funder in 2023-24 & has given at least $275,000... theklaxon.com.au/e11o

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#Ubuntu is an African value system that upholds #humanity, interconnectedness and collective #wellbeing. Its philosophy can help lecturers to humanise the classroom, particularly when tech risks depersonalising #learning, explains Chipo Simbi of the University of Southampton: ow.ly/kw7950VGVA6

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Only just catching up with the chunts at Coles locking themselves in with Palantir to monitor their staff and customers. Palantir that has the contract to support ICE in the efficient but illegal deportation of Americans www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02... #coles #palantir #AusPol

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‘Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg combined during the Second World War. More than fifty thousand Palestinians have been killed.’ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Thanks to my friend Harriet for pointing out that the women went to Christ's tomb and saw he was not there, the angels showed up to describe what happened, & the women then told the apostles, who dismissed them. A Biblical account of women not being believed.

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50th! Feels like we should have it a party.

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The first edition of Dialogues on Digital Society is out at last. It features an editorial by the Editorial team, @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, @pinkydigital.bsky.social, Jing Hiah, and @steelecat717.bsky.social .... 1/7 #DDS @journals.sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com/home/DDS

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“Public sociology is a form of education: speaking out beyond the university also performs an educative function.” Just before he died, Michael Burawoy talked to @michaelacbenson.bsky.social about his career-defining evangelism for public – or, alternatively, a living – sociology. buff.ly/6WD2fzQ

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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. Populations get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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This looks to be an excellent new journal from @bupjournals.bsky.social, edited by @sumingkhoo.bsky.social, Harriet Shortt, @sophierwoodward.bsky.social, consulting editor @drhelenkara.bsky.social #Academic #ResearchMethods #Creativity bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...

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Opinion: “In Australia politics and society tend to shun the extremes. We don’t believe in miracles and we don’t believe in devils. We believe in a fair go.” Australia must avoid a US-style culture war over EDI, writes Merlin Crossley #highered #EduSky

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DEALING WITH INSECURE REASONERS: 🧵 1/ When people feel insecure about their beliefs or identity, they’ll often rely on fallacies like ad hominem, strawman arguments, or appeal to emotion to protect themselves from uncomfortable truths.

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1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵

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Really excited to see this volume coming out! It has been a long time in the making and brings together excellent contributors, check it out:

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Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

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Important and courageous leadership defending academic freedom in this column by my colleague @lanatatour.bsky.social who with Geoffrey Levey and A. Dirk Moses shows how to have frank and fearless discussion without having to agree with each other’s positions.

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“After 20 years working on inequality, I can confidently say that class - indeed class war - has never been more evident in my lifetime” – @faizashaheen.bsky.social in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979. Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth. Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

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Perfect #iwd

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Also important, the tactic of weaponizing civil rights against equality movements is identical: "protecting" Jewish people requires punishing pro-Palestine "protecting" women requires eliminating trans "protecting" white + Asian students requires eliminating Black and Latin affirmative action

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Nothing has given me more consolation in these unworlding times than Maya Angelou's poem "A Brave and Startling Truth," which flew to space to hold up cosmic mirror to the best in us and the worst in us and the possible in us

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The Indue Cashless Debit Card (CDC) was officially scrapped in March 2023, yet its replacement – the SmartCard under Enhanced Income Management – works with identical restrictions. theaimn.net/how-the-smar...

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While Vice-Chancellors rake in millions, young researchers & teachers struggle! Australia’s university VCs are among the highest paid in the world. You'd be forgiven for thinking that this should result in better outcomes, but it turns out paying Vice-chancellors more than 7 times as much as ... 1/

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🇰🇪’s P Gathara: “Septuagenarian strongman Donald Trump once again took the oath of office, in a ceremony witnessed by a small group of aging elite members of the oligarchy that has ruled the United States for decades. Shortly after the traditional oath rituals, Trump declared expansionist plans”

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You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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This is so sad. Michael Burawoy was one of the most impactful sociologists of the past half century. He worked in and studied industrial workplaces and the oppression and struggle of those working.

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I can’t believe one of the most impactful sociologists of our time was taken away in an instant by some idiot driver racing through a pedestrian intersection. I hate 2025 so much. Rest in peace, Michael Burawoy. www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...

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I've been right so long, I've been done wrong. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...

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