Josh Bowsher

A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...

And this is even more grim www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

So this is grim.

www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

So pleased to see this letter from MPs in support of students in Gaza with offers at UK universities. It's been signed by over 100 MPs and is a real cross-party effort. I hope now that Starmer will respond to our requests.

JFC

Palestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms | Letter A letter from 47 scholars including Tariq Ali, Judith Butler, Angela Davis, Naomi Klein and Avi Shlaim

Proud to see my former PhD supervisor Gilbert Achcar here, alongside some of the biggest names in progressive academia. Every one of us needs to raise our voice in this moment. Its a matter of basic moral obligation and civic duty.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Do Artifacts Have Political Economy? - Kean Birch, 2025 Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology

#STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Herbert Marcuse: Theses on Postwar Critical Theory (1947) + Adorno & Horkheimer's Fragments on Freedom of Spirit (ca. 1949/50)

Link: open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

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This letter is already at over 1000 signatures, showing the level of support in UK academia for these students - and hopefully increasing pressure on the Home Office and FCDO. Still open to sign.

'I have a lifeline scholarship to study in Scotland - but I'm trapped in Gaza' Shaimaa Abulebda has been given the chance to reclaim some of her old life - but remains stuck in Gaza because of government red tape.

Shaimaa has a funded place at Edinburgh to study for a PhD with me, but is stuck in Gaza due to Home Office restrictions. I'm proud of her for speaking about her situation on TV and grateful to reporter Paris Gourtsoyannis for covering her story. news.stv.tv/east-central...

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Zionism, or Racism with(out) Borders – Spectre Journal Rawan Abdelbaki and Rana Sukarieh argue that Zionism is a project of bordering that is both materially embedded in, and helps proliferate, global racial capitalism.

This is, frankly, an incredible piece that connects the carceral logic and violence of the border to the Israeli genocidal project in Gaza and beyond.

I am dead serious when I say anyone who is teaching in any of these areas needs to have this on the syllabus this year.

'My latest' an attempt an conceptualizing a critical eviction-logistics as the allocation of loss, at the convergence of mobility race and housing, while trying to follow the moving parts of Eviction in Cape Town (and working within the complexities of a pandemic where eviction was paused):

OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services The US tech firm behind ChatGPT say it will work with the UK government to

Well this will be totally fine I'm sure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Informational Logic of Human Rights The Informational Logic of Human Rights

My book is on sale for just £12 online on the @edinburghup.bsky.social store right now. If you want a critique of the digitality of human rights politics and it's imbrication with capitalism, this is the book for you.

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-inf...

The Informational Logic of Human Rights The Informational Logic of Human Rights

My book is on sale for just £12 online on the @edinburghup.bsky.social store right now. If you want a critique of the digitality of human rights politics and it's imbrication with capitalism, this is the book for you.

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-inf...

If you've ever said this to a twin btw I guarantee they hate you.

I'm obviously not comparing this to structural violence or anything of the sort but the pathway from oddity to object of violence is shockingly fast.

CrowdScience - Why are twins special? - BBC Sounds Why are we fascinated by twins?

IME, mentioning I'm an identical twin often stirs up a latent fascistic violence. 'if I hit you, will the other one feel it,' is a regular response I've come to expect. Setting me up from the outset both as science experiment and legitimate object of violence.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is really very funny. Centrist politics and neoliberal capitalism created such a high trust society that its legitimacy is *check notes* yep, currently falling apart at the seams..

Bob Vylan statement on the fallout from their Glastonbury performance

On point and should put all the monetised right wing shitpilots to shame… sadly they don’t do shame

#FreePalestine

Congrats Ioana

"antisemitism campaigners" will make a formal complaint about Bob Vylan and ... Errr... in so doing do something remarkably antisemitic by conflating a genocidal military organisation with "the Jews"

If you think chanting death to a military *organisation* is antisemitism do yourself a favour and give your head a wobble, I beg you. Cheers.

Zionism Breaks • Protean Magazine From Issue V: Philosopher, theorist, and critic Alberto Toscano reads the works of Italian thinkers and Jewish leftists Franco Fortini and Furio Jesi, who grappled with the ethical necessity of confro...

On Gaza now I keep thinking of Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social on Fortuni in @proteanmag.com: ‘“If I have changed, I owe it to this—to the way in which great world events forced me to interpret myself differently.” In this view, the political break is always also inner’ proteanmag.com/2025/06/22/z...

Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy

Should say I very much appreciate the bravery and pedagogic value of the OP - just don't think it's necessary to hedge your bets on AI

Oh I dunno actually. Maybe it's good to warn people off an environmentally destructive infrastructure based on highly exploited labour that often can't do even the basic things its creators put on the 'tin'.

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney is lucid about everything- her rake on pretry much any rooc is always spot on www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by NowThis Impact How Racism Fuels Religious Opposition to Abortion

Your regular reminder that the anti-abortion, 'pro-life' movement in the US (which has infected the UK) exists because of racism...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpNe...