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Postdoc at ANU working on politics of expertise and emerging weapons tech, political economy of militarism, Australian foreign & defence policy. Views my own
A historical photo of Ivan Illich being interviewed by a camera crew. Speech bubbles have been added to the image. The speech bubble from the interviewer says "The role of the university is...?" and the speech bubble from Illich says "...to resist AI".
I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar...
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“Most infuriating was that as long as Israel said it was adhering to IHL and taking measures to mitigate civilian harm, that was enough for not only U.S. politicians but U.S. lawyers.”
nymag.com/intelligence...
Text from al jazeera article quoting from Israeli news "Israel’s Channel 14 is reporting that Netanyahu’s government is “actively working to destabilise” the Iranian government in an escalation of its military offensive. Tamir Morag, Channel 14’s diplomatic correspondent, says that the “newly approved strike plan” authorised by Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz aims to trigger a “mass exodus” of civilians from Tehran."
Tehran's population is ~9million... there is no way for Israel to do this that isn't an outright war crime.
Once again Israel is announcing it's atrocities to the world, knowing that leaders in the west will side with them and pretend it's "self defence". Something has to give.
A short op-ed I wrote today. theconversation.com/iran-war-fro...
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I've got a new article out that speaks to the flaws and weaknesses of the campaign against autonomous weapons and of humanitarian disarmament narratives in general. In this one I'm specifically concerned with the use of 'human dignity' as a reason to ban or regulate AWS. doi.org/10.1163/2772...
28.05.2025 22:43 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
“The Silicon Valley right doesn’t just borrow from Tolkien; they reforge his moral vision into a weapon for a new age. They envision a new kind of privatized national-security state, … a military-industrial complex with Tolkienesque characteristics.”
06.05.2025 01:52 — 👍 51 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1"Select all the numbers that feel like enemy combatants"
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Going to be doing a lunch time seminar online tomorrow on AUKUS - looking at what sustains it, the thinking and interests behind it, and why for both Australia and NZ it's working as a distraction from the broader issues of being tied to the US events.humanitix.com/why-aukus-ex...
14.04.2025 06:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Going to be doing a lunch time seminar online tomorrow on AUKUS - looking at what sustains it, the thinking and interests behind it, and why for both Australia and NZ it's working as a distraction from the broader issues of being tied to the US events.humanitix.com/why-aukus-ex...
14.04.2025 06:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Fascinating piece on how the politics of disinformation expertise reifies the power of US platforms -"Disinformation expertise is a practice that remains within the spatiotemporal power of platforms as Silicon Valley coheres the academics and NGOs that define the field, through access and funding."
27.03.2025 23:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
