Vagabond Pasaway

“For the death of man in a world dominated by things, a death prophesied, is now in the full sweep of its realisation.” - Professor Emerita #SylviaWynter, 2022

Sorry I’m depressed, it’s just that we’re in year 5 of a global pandemic and day 89 into a genocide and nothing is affordable and the world is dying.

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about a thousand times more important than anything having do with Harvard is keeping places like Internet Archive alive, a corner of the internet that holds out at a glimmer of that old internet utopianism - providing astounding resources to specialists and lay people alike.

It's day 90 of Israel's war on life in Gaza (About 100,000 Palestinians killed, injured, & under the rubble). This is the most documented genocide in history. Still, I feel that there are some basic issues that need to be spelled out again, so here we go 🧵:

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@kareem_carr We tend to flag this as “poor academic practice”

In a technical class, assuming this was a small part of the overall report, I would warn a student about this, but I don’t think I’d call it plagiarism.

Adding quotation marks around the sentence seems silly because it’s not worth repeating somebody else’s words just to communicate that idea. If you already cited the source, I would argue it’s not necessary to rephrase this simply to be different.

all the shadowbans, suspensions, threats, bans, and here we are. in our thousands, in our millions, we are all palestinians.

🚨🚨Update on Shifa: Doctors at AlShifa hospital were forced at gunpoint to leave the hospital along with 450 patients along with thousands of the displaced. 5 doctors incl director of Shifa & some nurses remain with 150 patients, including the preemies inside the hospital. 1/3

This headline has ms FLOORED. vice.com/en/article/wxj…

it is extremely wild to watch "liberal" universities and public defender offices threaten their staff and students with punitive bans on using terms like "settler colonialism" and "genocide." the very same people feigning horror at the right's CRT bans are now imposing them.

This Palestinian genocide has ripped the mask off of a deep divide in the Jewish community that many of us have witnessed for a long time: The split between Jewish folks who align with whiteness/empire, and those of us who align with oppressed people of the global majority

ACTION: Everybody needs to contact their MP by Wednesday let them know we want immediate ceasefire. Right now we need all the strategies including demanding action from your MP given this countries govt active role in this genocide on Palestinians.

I'm really proud to publish/edit this essay & haven't seen any op-eds or essays by disabled people on #FreeGaza. This is why I do what I do. For more, check out this @hrw report: hrw.org/news/2023/11/0… #FreePalestine #AltTextPalestine #CripTheVote #DisabilityRights

"do you think... i went to med school, to think only about my life?" we should all be ashamed. everyday for the rest of our lives.

Atlanta is full mask-off fascist. My comrades and I got tear-gassed at 11am by hundreds of military-grade police while peacefully marching to defend the Weelaunee Forest

*anti-tech histories* the armed feminist group 'rote zora' bombed the tech firm nixdorf in 1983. they denounced the computational counter-revolution: “the vision of horror of a state monitoring & controlling everything must take away from men all the courage to live & fight.”