Graphic Designer / Educator | @_undt | https://teapawt.org/t.co/RMjNYuiTQs
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Marcus • Leis Allion retweeted
Columbia University, once the academic home of Edward Said, has chosen to become the canary in the mine of neofascist, zionist, Trumpist bullying. In so doing, Columbia has ceased to be a university. Goodnight Columbia. No amount of luck can save you now. theguardian.com/us-news/2025…
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"There is a decimation of higher education taking place, the government has a role to play in this and MPs need to start asking questions in Parliament. Otherwise, real damage could be done to higher education in this country."
@johnmcdonnellMP at our #STOPtheCUTS rally 👇
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My new article on the Frankfurt School debate over totalitarian state capitalism under the Nazi regime (Neumann, Pollock, Adorno) titled "The Will to Chaos" just published in @HarvardHBS's Business History Review and is available in Open Access online here doi.org/10.1017/S00076805230…
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If it's not valuable, why are you stealing it?
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“There is a pervading, top-down and patronising mythos of the ‘general reader’ – an idea peddled about who can tolerate what under the premise that general audiences aren’t able to manage complicated concepts”: Rachael Allen on class and publishing: tlth.co.uk/difficultandbad
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The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price.
My column on a modern-day Scrooge
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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✎ Ⓐ ✄ NaNtxt006
« A Critique of Critiques of Blandification »
by Marcus Leis Allion @_Undt
↳ nan.xyz/txt/a-critique-of-cr…
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#THREAD
Because it's paywalled, & with apologies to author of 'Tory Nation: How one party took over', @swajcmanearle, & to the NYT, I reproduce below his accurate, insightful, & generally excellent recent article, which every UK voter should read. 🙏
nytimes.com/2023/04/27/opini…
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This article well explains why teachers in the UK are on strike. (Forget the first paragraph.) ‘The Market’ has wrecked our academic life. opendemocracy.net/en/ucu-str…
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The 1970 Equal Pay Act.
Higher wages.
A shorter working day.
Strikes have secured victories for us all. Today, a worker's fundamental right to withdraw their labour is under threat from arcane Tory legislation.
Sign the petition to fight back. wesayenough.co.uk/petition/
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The original sin of tech boosters and critics is an undue focus on what a technology *does*, rather than who it does it *to* and who it does it *for*. When it comes to technology's effect on our daily lives, the social arrangements matter much more than the feature-sets. 1/
ALT An altered version of J.C. Leyendecker's Labor Day 1946 cover illustration for Hearst's 'American Weekly' magazine. The original features a muscular worker in dungarees sitting atop a banner-draped globe, holding a sledgehammer. In this version, his head has been replaced with a faceless hacker-in-a-hoodie, and his sledgehammer has been filled with Matrix code-waterfall characters. Leyendecker's signature has been replaced with an IWW graphic depicting workers with upraised fists all joining together to form a gigantic fist.
Marcus • Leis Allion retweeted
This is how we fight the cost-of-living crisis:
1. A real pay rise
2. Slash energy bills
3. End food poverty
4. Decent homes for all
5. Tax the rich
Join the campaign: wesayenough.co.uk
Marcus • Leis Allion retweeted
Just so we're clear: Sunak, Javid and all the other Tory MPs abandoning Boris Johnson aren't acting from "principle" or "honour".
They've known what he's like from the beginning.
They're abandoning him because they now think his leadership threatens their interests. That's it.
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Stealing the Common
A seventeenth century folk poem against the English enclosure movement – the process of fencing off common land and turning it into private property.
Typeface: Viggo by Addi Copas, a graduating BA Graphic Design student from KSA.
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Right in front of our eyes, Britain’s entire political order is being demolished
My column
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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🚨 James Wharton, Chair of the Office for Students (@officestudents), recently addressed a hard-right conference in Budapest, where he praised the Orban regime.
He must resign: an open admirer of racist authoritarianism is unfit to oversee UK higher education.🧵
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Divide-and-rule tactics by politicians and management can't hide the obvious truth – when university staff are overworked and underpaid, their students suffer too.
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/11/stu…
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Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81
theguardian.com/technology/2…
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Making the 1st digital fonts for Chinese in the 70s & 80s was EXTREMELY HARD.
Each character = 256 bits
256 choices: to put a pixel, or not, inside a tiny grid.
1000s of characters, 100,000s of choices.
My latest @techreview --A dream come true, thx 2 @AmyNordrum
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NEW: Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts bit.ly/3c6s5BE
