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Dr Syed Mustafa Ali

@drsyedmustafaali.bsky.social

Lecturer & Convenor of Critical Information Studies (CrIS) @OpenUniversity. Transdisciplinary research into race, religion, politics & computing. Views my own.

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Why not? Or is this space so white (supremacist) and liberal that entertaining such activism is precluded? ๐Ÿค”

29.11.2024 17:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Surviving Israel's genocide. Please correct, @nytimes.com .

26.11.2024 07:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 71    ๐Ÿ” 46    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the 21st Century Water and Electricity could and should be free.

Instead they are more expensive than ever.

24.11.2024 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 688    ๐Ÿ” 132    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

"Belief in progress is the Prozac of the thinking classes." (John Gray, Heresies. Granta Books: London, 2004)

23.11.2024 11:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The UK Media can have constant coverage for weeks of a 'farmers' protest with less than 10,000 people, and about 20 farmers.

But it ignores protests of hundreds of thousands or millions for Palestine or against Brexit.

They don't care about the truth.

21.11.2024 20:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 884    ๐Ÿ” 198    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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An international arrest warrant has been issued for Netanyahu.

If you want him arrested, Like.
If it needs to be right now, RT.

21.11.2024 13:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7758    ๐Ÿ” 2309    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 264    ๐Ÿ“Œ 48
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ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged Gaza war crimes Warrants for Israeli PM and former defence minister put them at risk of detention if they go to some other countries

The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for Gaza war crimes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

21.11.2024 13:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 137    ๐Ÿ” 55    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Episode 17: Decolonising Computing, Part 2 by Diversifying and Decolonising the University In this episode (the second of two parts), โ Catarina Carvalhoโ  talks to โ Mustafa Aliโ  about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big tech. This picks up from where the first part left off, s...

"Get real": talking AI (ML/DL, LAWS), tech, regulation, political {economy, ecology, theology}, Luddism, abolitionism etc. | Listen to "Episode 17: #Decolonising #Computing, Part 2" by Diversifying and Decolonising the University | creators.spotify.com/pod/show/div...

21.11.2024 11:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Elric by Frank Brunner from Heavy Metal Feb 1979

20.11.2024 01:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1787    ๐Ÿ” 202    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 34    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Episode 16: Decolonising Computing, Part 1 Diversifying and Decolonising the University ยท Episode

I edit/produce this podcast, and we have an amazing two-parter with @drsyedmustafaali.bsky.social talking about computing, big tech, AI etc. Please subscribe on your fave app, and give these two a listen ๐Ÿ™

open.spotify.com/episode/0Lu9...

21.11.2024 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Except that Columbus was no explorer. He was a self-styled Christian millennialist Crusader whose aim was to โ€˜liberateโ€™ Jerusalem from the infidel Muslims, and who inaugurated the genocidal conquest of the so-called โ€˜New Worldโ€™โ€ฆ

20.11.2024 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Epistemicide/Scholasticide: Similar to the "Reconquista," when the Spanish destroyed hundreds of thousands of books in Al-Andalus, in 1948, Israel destroyed tens of thousands of books that were deemed 'inappropriate' for containing 'material against the state' (Maya Wind).

20.11.2024 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Having read a bunch of really sharp critiques of AI, Iโ€™ve found myself assuming that AI entrepreneurs must have equally smart arguments. Iโ€™m always astounded to find that they donโ€™t: itโ€™s just easily disproven boosterism. But then, of course it is. It doesnโ€™t matter, because capital is behind them.

20.11.2024 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 216    ๐Ÿ” 66    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Towers of Ivory and Steel and the Coloniality of Curriculum Iโ€™m currently re-reading Maya Windโ€™s Towers of Ivory and Steel, and this book has made me reflect on the geopolitics and coloniality of curriculum across disciplines.

Check out my new substack post. I reflect on Maya Windโ€™s Towers of Ivory and Steel and make connections to the coloniality of curriculum.
open.substack.com/pub/jairofun...

19.11.2024 16:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Donโ€™t stop talking about Palestine

Donโ€™t stop talking about Palestine

Donโ€™t stop talking about Palestine.
Donโ€™t stop organizing.
Donโ€™t stop fighting.

19.11.2024 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 747    ๐Ÿ” 252    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The entanglement of settler colonialism, political theology, and white supremacy.

19.11.2024 19:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 72    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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