Nabeel Zuberi

We’ve forgotten what universities are for With New Zealand universities facing not only a funding crisis but a philosophical challenge to their role, the soul of tertiary education is at stake.

Opinion: We’ve forgotten what universities are for

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education by Olivia Guest, et al

YouTube video by Marcin Kardolini Mark Fell – Nite Closures EP (2025)

Groovy

Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: how US artist Kara Walker transformed a Confederate monument

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university

This coming Sunday, three historic performances of the late, great Tony Harrison's masterpiece "v." in the Leeds graveyard where it's set. I'm speaking before the final reading. Please come. slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
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Disappointing. Horrible AI sequences. Footage of hospitals and Orwell's words well used. More simplistic than Manufacturing Consent. Rehash of superior and dated film and television Orwell adaptations.

Guardian journalist Matthew Cassel visited Tel Aviv - known as Israel's liberal capital - to ask people what they think of the suffering in Gaza. It's truly depressing. Even at an anti-war march. It just proves that propaganda really does work. Kudos to the guy at the end.

Newspaper article from UK Times, 4 April, 1974 ‘Universities “Exploiting Students as Cheap Staff”’ from Tim Devlin, Education Correspondent, Liverpool, April 3 Postgraduate students, it was alleged here today, are being exploited as cheap labour by the universities and their ‘appalling’ rates of pay are being used to keep down the wages of other staff, particularly laboratory technicians

From The Times, 4 April, 1974

“Instead of being enthralled by its wan superficiality, we would be better off looking beside and beneath it at the extractive project that machine learning serves in its expansion into humanistic research and education”

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ta-Nehisi Coates not saying anything

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism"

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Vile. Recognising a Palestinian State is NOT a convenient get out clause for allowing and enabling a genocide. Also ‘We are a party of government, not a party of protest’ - exactly you fucking ghoul, so you have the ability and responsibility to do something about it

it's the US, UK, Germany and their genocidal allies that are the terrorists, not these other nations and continents. The west has no moral or ethical superiority.

Orientalism 101

New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice Winston Peters promised that New Zealand’s recognition of Palestine was a matter of 'when, not if', which has a real deadbeat-dad-promises-he’ll-have-his-shit-together-next-week air about it.

Compliant state for the US and the Zionists

Netanyahu had fewer attendees than an 8am panel at the MLA.