Jewish filmmaker Sarah Friedland accepts award at the Venice Film festival. “I am accepting this award on the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76th year of occupation…I stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle for liberation.”

Jasbir Puar wrote a whole (amazing book) about Israel’s deliberate maiming of Palestinians, and this Zionist dude just casually tweets this out:

Martha Schoolman and I with an op-ed on Florida's antisemitism textbook review

Timely. Une étrange défaite - Didier Fassin editionsladecouverte.fr/une_etrange_de… via Éditions La Découverte

Framing the recent Arnold Palmer story as confused or senile continues to miss how Trump uses profane language to deliberately break of the rules of democratic civility. I attempted to offer an analysis of this rhetoric in Going Low cup.columbia.edu/book/going-low…

⁦Shirin Vossoughi⁩, a ⁦Northwestern⁩ professor, was among 52 faculty who signed an open letter opposing the school’s new demonstration policy as caving to political pressure to silence certain types of activism. ⁦@shirinblue⁩ ⁦ apnews.com/article/campus…

Very thankful to learn that Perilous Intimacies was selected as a finalist for the American Academy of Religion book award. My extensive gratitude to the jury for their time in engaging the book and for this recognition. aarweb.org/AARMBR/Publica…

American Religion is delighted to announce that our journal is now open access! All of our past and future issues are now freely accessible through our website and Project Muse! american-religion.org/home/journal

We are moving over there. Slowly but surely. We got shit brewing. bsky.app/profile/class2…

A flute that toots and a bee that stings, Class 200 is here when you need it most…. bsky.app/profile/class2…

Twitter dead tech; gather here

On Wednesday, Microsoft’s scientists said they had built what is known as a “topological qubit” based on this new phase of physical existence, which could be harnessed to solve mathematical, scientific and technological problems. #ellul

a calculation that most supercomputers could not finish in 10 septillion years youtu.be/CTXbi-bchIk?si…

When it is cooled to about 400 degrees below zero, it exhibits a kind of otherworldly behavior that might make quantum computers possible. youtu.be/wMsazR6Tnf8?si…

Something for these times podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/new…

A Letter From Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil aclu.org/news/free-spee…

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