Faisal فيصل
@faisalhamadah.bsky.social
House Arab migrant academic in the low countries Critical theory, cultural studies, still can’t call it west asia with a str8 face He/they views my own and not my employers
70,000 is the number i’m hearing for people directly stripped of citizenship/nationality - not the people indirectly affected i.e. if it happens to your grandfather, the whole line loses it. am hearing closer to 200,000 these days, unverified.
The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 2h agoOver the past two years, more than 70,000 people in Kuwait have been stripped of their nationality, according to the UN - that’s 4.5% of the population:
i have stopped wholesale using the term slop for llm produced garbage anymore after learning the current usage of the term stems from 4chan antisemitic conspiracy lingo for processed food.
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The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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Faisal فيصل@faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 21h agoMm department discussion of jason arday rip in a room of primarily white people after a bad day of teaching and a 10 am exercise where we discuss our utopian and dystopian vision of the university lol, as the gulf lights ablaze again and my parents are flying back today ummmmmmmmm am utterly cooked
Mm department discussion of jason arday rip in a room of primarily white people after a bad day of teaching and a 10 am exercise where we discuss our utopian and dystopian vision of the university lol, as the gulf lights ablaze again and my parents are flying back today ummmmmmmmm am utterly cooked
Luckily am quite used to being an ogre at the faculty due to palestine stuff so water off a duck’s back as they say, but frankly am tired of bein an ogre.
Reposting because my uni has properly decided AI is ‘inevitable’ this school year.
Faisal فيصل@faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
only reactivated because i cant be alone at dolly’s funeral.
We are in the timeline where the most exciting political prospect of today is ed milliband as home secretary just shoot me now
Does anyone have favorite references on the interdisciplinarity penalty (people doing interdisciplinary work are underrewarded in their appointing departments, run centers and degrees without resources or dedicated hires, go to double committee meetings, etc.)?
When a package arrives from the US these days it feels like an actual miracle
aljazeera dropping news so quick they're reaching grauniad levels of bad copy editing and typos.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_L... started watching this for research for my street fighter paper and am lowkey obsessed. a sapphic romance (written by a woman no less!) set in an elite boarding school where the protags are obsessed with street fighter 6. it's perfect.
Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games - Wikipedia
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'The European intellectual who produces a meticulous, footnoted, beautifully reasoned case for Israeli complexity exhibits a stupidity that has learned to speak the language of thought so fluently that it can no longer be distinguished from it.' cc the AI boosters + doormats in the academy
Faisal فيصل@faisalhamadah.bsky.social · last mo.www.equator.org/articles/mor... i really love this piece, not least for its theorization of political stupidity as a deliberate, willful, cowardice in the face of reality.
www.equator.org/articles/mor... i really love this piece, not least for its theorization of political stupidity as a deliberate, willful, cowardice in the face of reality.
Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
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Ok the voice actor for the videogame Bond is irish i’m so sold on this game…
Over the next few months I’ll be putting together a reading guide to “value form theory.” What contributions, extensions, critiques and secondary literature should I include?
Got the new 007 video game and its surprisingly well written so far!! Hes on his first mission and its set in the present, revolves around mi6 developing a quantum AI minority report style thing, which your young slutty headstrong bond refuses to listen to. Its great!
Why are universities pushing AI when it's demonstrably terrible for education? Why is AI being integrated into everything when it's plainly error-riddled? Why are AI's malign social and environmental consequences being papered over even by people who should know better? Oh hey
Chris Nolan adapt the maqamat of al Hamathani you fucking COWARD
stuart@shwinchester.bsky.social · 2mo agoChris Nolan adapt House of Leaves you fucking COWARD
The retaliation against professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is disgusting. Please support her during these draconian sanctions imposed by the UCI Chancellor. chuffed.org/project/1562...
Mutual Aid for Tiffany
Our colleague, friend, and justice-devoted loved one Tiffany is facing significant financial burdens as she defends herself against potential punitive disciplinary actions from the University of Calif...
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I see that many on the left continue to support explicit war crimes if its ‘our side’ doing them.
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4748... This 5 part roundtable on denaturalization in kuwait, which predates this war but is exacerbated by it, is vital reading for everyone. Excellent work by comrades involved…
Denaturalization in Kuwait (Part 1): Understanding Citizenship
In March 2024, four months after the accession of Mishal al-Ahmed al-Sabah (b. 1940) as the new ruler of Kuwait, the Kuwaiti government embarked on a mass denaturalization campaign that has since impa...
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PLANETARY WARSCAPES ABLAZE: IMPERIAL MUTATIONS IN INFERNAL TIMES The annual @histmat.bsky.social title has 0 chill this year but fuck me if it isn’t the most apt conference title.
Gulf countries depend FAR more on desalinisation plants than Iran does. This isn't going anywhere good.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2mo agoPreventing some Iranian villagers from getting drinking water does nothing to prevent the IRGC from firing missiles and drones. Water is a red line. I know those of you who hate the US military and US foreign policy won’t care about the difference, but it’s significant, with very bad implications.
