A good episode of Know Your Enemy dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your…

The fact that a senior civil servant who specialised in assessing arms exports to Israel has ended his 18-year career because he thinks the Foreign Office "may be complicit in war crimes", and not a single national outlet has reported it, is frightening. We have a captive media.

Bernard Williams writing in 2000, on the perils of enculturating a scientistic and ahistorical vision of education

Zygmunt Bauman writing about the buoyant industry of "Habermasology" in 1983

There is a move to push AI management strategies into universities. The virtue being you can inflict harm without facing real humans. Here is a chilling example from Victoria Uni Wellington. (Since deleted due to backlash)

The corporatised vulgate of university “change management” rhetoric, with a new smiley robotic face

The great Nell McCafferty has died...rest in power. A great journalist and feminist who confronted the bullshit of the Irish establishment at a time when it was not easy to do rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

These disparaging stereotypes are partly down to journalists' antagonism to research traditions that interrogate their own narratives about their practice. Not as strong today as in the past. But they endure & are sometimes still nurtured in the university training of journalists

Fuck this political cowardice. The affective charge of the spectacle can only take you so far. And America and the world needs so much more

Some TV news: I think the writers of The Bear have been reading Hartmut Rosa...

so happy to be still around for the Oasis revival...I'm gone to live forever! May the "long 1990s" Jeremy Gilbert never die!

There is a lot of dodgy fuckers selling their wares in the gamified academy. But one has to somehow admire the companies who email you offering to turn your poxy little journal article into a 3D animation video for the discount price of $2,000. High grade chancers 😅

We, colleagues of Bahruz Samadov (the Lack Observer) have written a statement demanding his release and urging governments and representatives to do all they can. Please consider signing the letter via shorturl.at/NZf0v

Job up for grabs with a great media and communication studies crew at University of Otago

inspiring note to self from yesterday to guide this morning's writing: "stop getting bogged down in stupid shit, and bring the central argument into view"

Our letter has 123 signatures so far. Please sign and spread to maximize pressure for the release of Bahruz Samadov Bahruz Samadov (the Lack Observer).

Good to see Amnesty International pick up the case of Bahruz Samadov amnesty.org/en/latest/news… A letter demanding his release can be signed here shorturl.at/PCNCU

Read an early version of this paper by 🇵🇸ojutel.bsky.social 🛹 and Leon Salter. It’s a sharp and necessary antidote to the overblown moral panic about “disinformation” that has been nurtured in Aotearoa and elsewhere in recent years