Oscar James

A good week to be teaching about transnational repression and democratic authoritarian convergence

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more

that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

• Professors should never put a student's words or work into an AI software without their consent. • Professors should also be transparent about their Al usage with grading, curriculum building, and any other way they might use it in their teaching. • If a professor does use Al chatbots in the classroom, they should explain their reasoning behind this decision and how its usage will help students meet learning outcomes. • Professors should additionally respect a student's choice to refuse Al. To do this, it would be ideal that they have assignments that students can choose from that do

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

More and more I think of these AI proselytizers as caught up in a religious fervor.
‘have you heard the good word of AI’
‘AI will revolutionize your work/life if you only give it a chance’
‘AI is the one true technology, nothing else will be required’
‘Disbelievers will be shunned and derided!’

what else is there to say really

Jesus my husband just showed me a photo someone he went to elementary school posted of her child dressed as ICE for Halloween — complete with face mask. What the absolute fuck.

What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times

‘We are all in danger’. This is excellent on Pasolini by Olivia Laing.

“Socialism doesn’t work” say the people who are stripping people of health insurance, food benefits, and busting unions fighting to institute a living wage. Who have us drowning in debt.

One challenge with pattern recognition is seeing stuff like a plenary discussion with no journalists of color, followed by a panel about podcasting that only has male speakers. In New York City. In 2025.

Whenever I post about my disdain for Usha Vance, a lot of White people come up to tell me how she's akshually a victim, and is "suffering". I don't know about that, but you Americans need to maybe learn about the Indian diaspora's deep rooted conservatism, anti-Blackness and yearnings for fascism.

I think one of the greatest and consequential failures of 21st century education systems globally has been the collective refusal to understand that reading books, watching films and learning to appreciate art are necessary for ALL fields, but especially STEM, and especially tech.

Remarkable that Powell said AI boom is not a bubble because productivity gains ...
Maybe Trump finally got to him.

Why does the winner of The Block get their prize tax-free but the Archibald winner doesn’t? This year, the winners of The Block took home $520,000 in tax-free prize money. Meanwhile, the winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award paid at least a quarter of the $60,000 prize to the tax of...

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lorax may be the greatest costume i’ve ever seen tbh

An Andrew Tate insider is helping Australian Nazis recruit teens Neo-Nazis are targeting the rich and the young to fill their ranks – and coffers. And one of Andrew Tate’s right-hand men is helping them draw boys in.

Followers of rapist and sex trafficker misogynist influencer Andrew Tate have been responsible for multiple rapes and murders. Now his right-hand man, Stirling Cooper aka Nigel Clifford, is helping recruit teenage boys for the National Socialist Network. www.smh.com.au/national/an-...

This soft pedaling of Hitler and the Nazis among the American right pre-dates Gaza. I had a student who once urged me to acknowledge that ‘Hitler was a misunderstood historical figure and was great for the economy.’

In 2015.

Pretty impressive - if you believe Wikipedia, that would put it in the top 20 largest quarterly losses of all time.

Still well short of AOL-Time Warner, tho - Sam has still got some work to do. www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...

Our icon of "unrelenting justice":

Head of UK government’s anti-Islamophobia partner ‘refused service in shop for being Muslim’ Akeela Ahmed, of British Muslim Trust, says experience is part of a wider rise in anti-Muslim hatred

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This piece also reminds me of why I detest gAI use in reading, writing, thinking, art: I’m epileptic & often have to deal with cognitive issues.
And every single second of time I CAN use my own brain, epileptic foci and all, to read, write and think, I will.
I value that in a way abled people won’t

Western governments preferred to break the world, destroy every institution that uplifted human rights in some capacity, just so they didnt have to extend those human rights to us. Think about that.

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For those on the left who are not socialists, or who do not ally with socialist parties, I don't really understand: what exactly is the project? What is the plan?

Had a great time recording this conversation! Check it out

It's in every palestinian faction's interest right now to unify, but the PA/Fatah have an incentive to undermine all of this. All because the US will never allow the Palestinian ppl to vote for their own leadership

The PA wants to stay relevant & in charge, with the help of their American backers

Rachel Reeves should not appease bond market vigilantes In preparing her inaugural Budget, she would do well to ignore advice from market sages

3. Ignore bond vigilantes - the advice of ex vigilante:

financiers push for austerity and low growth, because bonds have highest returns when economy slumps

'greatest compliment the bond market can give a chancellor aiming for economic rejuvenation is a mild sell-off'.

www.ft.com/content/41de...

Dying of tetanus FOR WHAT

IN THE RICHEST FUCKING COUNTRY IN THE PLANET

"create “public media centers”—publicly-owned hubs in every community federally guaranteed but locally governed+democratically operated. establish new anchor institutions universally available to everyone—not unlike the ideal version of public schools+libraries."

publici.ucimc.org/2025/10/the-...

Best version to cross my feed so far…