Joel Maddock-James

Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm Police officer was concerned ex-army chief, a Teledyne adviser, sought to have ‘input’ into factory attack investigation

Another deeply concerning allegation, the latest in a long line of apparent commercial and political lobbying against protest movements, some of which has led to the extremely repressive legislation we now face.
Powerful lobbyists are the bane of democracy.
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International Sociological Association bars Israeli public institutions from membership over refusal to condemn genocide The suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society by the International Sociological Association marks a significant milestone in the international academic boycott of Israel.

BIG: The International Sociological Association has suspended Israeli public institutions over their refusal to condemn the genocide in Gaza — a major win for the academic boycott movement.

Sociologists are saying: silence is complicity.
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Day in Trump's economy: > Wake up, check the news > BLS: "10 billion new jobs created" > Check my phone to see what today's tariff rates are. > Norway up 20%, Cambodia down 5% > Go to my iphone assembly line job where I make $7.25/hour > Spend next 4 hours putting chips inside phones > Take 15 minute break > Check my shitfartpisscoin holdings > Rugged > Watch the FOMC meeting > FOMC is just Trump > Trump goes on stage and announces he's raising rates from -10% to -5% > Also announces date of Jay Powell's public execution > AI manager scolds me for taking 16 minutes on my 15 minute break > It's only been 12 minutes > Call employee help line to complain > It's also AI > Go home frustrated > Complain to my girlfriend about my job > She's also AI

Many professors lean into this "intentionality" bit, wherein they believe that their attitude and approach to AI as a teaching tool can subvert or endow it w "goodness." The articulations & ethos of AI-enhanced EdTech are extractive. You engage with it - you give to it, no matter your intentions.

The hubris is extraordinary, turning recognition of Palestine into a bargaining chip w/ a genocidal state.

Starmer thinks this is good enough to hide his complicity. We want recognition, trade sanctions, arms embargo, end of military assistance/training + expulsion of the ambassador!

When he reached the Israeli prison, U.S. human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals. They choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back.

When his lawyer met with him, Chris was surrounded by six members of Israel’s special police unit. This level of force was not used against other abducted activists.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalitions condemn this violence against Chris and demand accountability for the assault and discriminatory treatment he faced.

At the Israeli prison, US human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals. They choked him and kicked him in the legs.
We condemn this violence against Chris and demand accountability for the assault and discriminatory treatment he faced. #BreakTheSiege

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From Farage to Starmer, the political establishment smears people of conscience trying to stop a genocide in Gaza as terrorists.

We say: not in our name.

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A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

Why zero-hours contracts could be here to stay in new blow to workers’ rights Plans by the Government to crack down on zero-hour contracts in the workplace have suffered a setback

Last night the Lords amended the Employment Rights Bill to massively water down plans to scrap zero hours contracts

"Lords voted 264 to 158, majority 106, to change the requirement for an employer to offer guaranteed hours, to an employee’s right to request [it]" - which could of course be rejected

Again Forensic Architecture provide detailed data/visual understandings of the genocide in Gaza.

This work documents how the militarised system of 'aid' operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) acts to accelerate ethnic cleansing + kill

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Trigger warning here

Palestinians in the Rafah concentration camp in southern Gaza being shot at by the Israeli army

They’re waiting for ‘aid’. This is Israel’s favorite method of the past several weeks to trap civilians and then open fire

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It is Walter Benjamin's birthday. He famously wrote that "The work is the death mask of its conception." By that standard LLM like ChatGPT are quite literally zombies, reanimating the dead letter of the works without the lifeblood of thought

I'm trying to think about how I would have reacted if shown this headline five years ago

Everything in the UK is punishingly expensive. But at least the politicians are cheap.

Moodboard Summer 2025

This large complex would be built “on the ruins of Rafah”, Israel Katz said at a security briefing with army chief Eyal Zamir and members of the far-right government, according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, which published images and footage of the meeting. The aim of the complex would be to “concentrate the population of Gaza and separate it from Hamas”, Katz said, adding that the Defence Ministry is looking at the possibility of partnering with an international entity to oversee its management. He again encouraged “voluntary migration” of Palestinians to other countries and said the government wants to maintain a military presence in Gaza “until all hostages are returned” regardless of any ceasefire agreement.

I’m sorry, the “ceasefire” Israel and the US want Hamas to sign demands to “concentrate” the population of Gaza on the ruins of Rafah and maintain IDF military presence?

Why would anyone agree to this monstrosity?

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just want to live in a world that is not barreling full steam ahead towards apocalyptic hypernormalized AI fossil fascism is that too much to ask

Sutton Trust research has consistently shown that the most significant impact on graduate income remains… their parental income and upbringing. We still have a class system in this country and even the most universal and comprehensive university system would not entirely undo that!

In one video, what appear to be heavily armed American security contractors at one of the sites in Gaza discuss how to disperse Palestinians nearby. One is heard saying he has arranged for a “show of force” by Israeli tanks. “I don’t want this to be too aggressive,” he adds, “because this is calming down.” At that moment, bursts of gunfire erupt close by, at least 15 shots. “Whoo! Whoo!” one contractor yelps. “I think you hit one,” one says. Then comes a shout: “Hell, yeah, boy!”

American contractors are murdering Palestinians at ‘aid’ sites and they are treating it like a fucking game.

“I think you hit one.”

“Hell, yeah, boy!”

Monstrous.

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Quote: Outlining the government's case to MPs, the Home Office minister Dan Jarvis said: "By implementing this measure, we will remove Palestine Action's veil of legitimacy, tackle its financial support and degrade its efforts to recruit and radicalise people into committing terrorist activity in its name.

Dangerously disingenuous but also strangely clear from this cowardly minister: the British state is willing to abuse its power to defend against attempts to materially degrade its own enablement of this century’s most heinous historical crime. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Yesterday it was confirmed by Israeli media that IDF soldiers had been ordered to shoot into crowds of Palestinians queuing for aid. Airstrikes killed a further 81 people in 24hrs. While UK media and politicians clutch pearls about whatever Kneecap have said, remember this is the real story.

“My greatest fear is that this is in fact a genocide sanctioned at the highest levels.”

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

I don’t understand how you can read this report and come to any other conclusion. Palestinian’s are homo sacer and Gaza has become a playground for the IDF to kill with impunity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I think a lot of people, possibly including most decision-makers in higher ed, have effectively stopped believing in subject-matter expertise. It certainly does make education simpler and a lot cheaper if you stipulate at the outset that there is nothing very difficult or complicated worth learning.

Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

Gaza Strip was approximately 2.227 million. The Garb report includes maps displaying IDF estimates for the populations remaining in what are considered the three primary enclaves. The numbers are as follows: Gaza City: 1 million Mawasi: 0.5 million Central: 0.35 million The total of these official estimates is 1.85 million people. Simple arithmetic reveals a horrifying gap: 2.227 million minus 1.85 million leaves 377,000 people unaccounted for.

A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza.

That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed.

Genocide.

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This is why the Fash love AI generated art and aesthetics. It projects fascist imaginaries onto everything existing, out of which comes their own uncanny hyperreality.