gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025If the space rocket blows up in space, then it is not the most powerful space rocket ever built, sry. 030
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Really can't downplay the seriousness of this for all of higher ed. But at the same time you wonder how putting powerful enemies into an unmistakably existential crisis will pay off for a regime still consolidating power 351122247
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21/05/2025One day after being booed, Columbia President Claire Shipman at university-wide graduation says international students shouldn't be targeted by government for free speech. "And let me also say, that I know many in our community today are mourning the absence of our graduate, Mahmoud Khalil." 614435
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Tomorrow I get my PhD conferred (cheers) at Columbia University (booing) and now I'm reading beautiful novels again (greater cheering). Please recommend me new beautiful novels! 010
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialNPR @npr.org · 29/04/2025Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."npr.orgDetained on verge of U.S. citizenship, Mohsen Mahdawi speaks from Vermont prisonSpeaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise." 310161314300
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialSam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 25/04/2025In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation... 311206518328
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialTomásï @necalli24.bsky.social · 20/04/2025ojala.mxDrought and violence plague Nuevo León — OjaláReportag e • Chantal Flores • April 17, 2025 • Leer en castellano From Highway 54 in Nuevo León, Mexico, around 70 kilometers south of the United States border, you can catc... 011
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialKatherine Franke @katherinefranke.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it - a premier teaching and research institution. I explain it here: youtube.com/shorts/W7Rr7...youtube.comColumbia University may have signed its own death notice.YouTube video by Katherine Franke 0314145
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/04/2025A huge honor to get to write something with my hero @naomiaklein.bsky.social. We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one. We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... 25917217
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialLaila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 10/04/2025"When mass protests broke out against his policy, Biden repeatedly condemned the activists as violent and antisemitic, responding to outlier actions that didn’t represent the movement. Biden’s slander helped splinter the Democratic coalition, giving Trump a potent wedge issue." shorturl.at/K4cPIthenation.comThe New McCarthyism Was Started by LiberalsAs with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent. 32477155
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/04/2025New ACLU video shows the moment ICE arrested Georgetown Scholar Dr. Badar Khan Siri. Masked agents accosted him on his way home from an iftar. In just 4 days, he was transferred among 5 different facilities across 3 states. Multiple refused him food or water to break his fast. 451422640
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialPhil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 07/04/2025We've finished scanning CD-ROM Today! This was an influential magazine from the height of the multimedia era, and a great record of what was happening in the computer games/software industry in the mid-90s archive.gamehistory.org/folder/f8071... 520543
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialaustin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Reading Phil Spencer talking about how maybe "AI" can help with ports and preservation and feeling my blood boil. What a fundamental misunderstanding of not only this tech but how games WORK. 201314113
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialTomásï @necalli24.bsky.social · 05/04/2025democracynow.org“Un ataque contra la sindicalización”: detienen al líder de los jornaleros agrícolas de Washington Alfredo “Lelo” Juárez en la avanzada represiva de Trump contra la inmigración“Un ataque contra la sindicalización”: detienen al líder de los jornaleros agrícolas de Washington Alfredo “Lelo” Juárez en la avanzada represiva de Trump contra la inmigración 011
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialKarl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Harvard tries once again to outdo Columbia--this time by dismissing the leaders of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies without the Trump administration even asking them. So much for not obeying in advance. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...thecrimson.comHarvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard CrimsonInterim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist... 0124
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialAlex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 27/03/2025 3238061326
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Wow the exact thing genAI creators intended, for their users to become psychologically dependent and chemically addicted to their product, is happening, who could have seen this coming futurism.com/the-byte/cha...futurism.comSomething Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a LotChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot. 381763623
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialKarl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 25/03/2025My colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over & faculty fired." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comDoes Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid KhalidiColumbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson 7396192
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Ah look, the rapid rise of the German armaments industry during a lil Transatlantic far right conjecture, I'm sure everything totally okay and chill; no bad vibes or premonitions at all! 020
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025it's so cool how nazis are going to raze an ivy league school and turn it into a snowflake safe space camp for chud student athletes like they did ito third rate florida schools and its own trustees don't even care because the new york times convinced them the students were baader meinhoff 251590214
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialJules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 25/03/2025He is still missing after soldiers abducted him, injured and bleeding. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers took him from an ambulance. This is what "No Other Land" is all about. www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...middleeasteye.netPalestinian Oscar winner 'lynched' by Israeli settlers, colleague saysHamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning 'No Other Land', returned from Los Angeles three weeks ago 6418248
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialDaniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 25/03/2025European Commission, I am told, is ready to rip (already fraying) social contract in its enthusiastic march towards the armament economy. at Social Europe event recently, two punchlines: European SMEs have a bright future in arms manufacturing chains. Forget welfare, we're in the age of warfare 3209
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I don't really have a lot of comrades active here but it's nice to scroll thru a dumb media app that isn't all nazi AI stuff. 000
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 22/03/2025This year Columbia University's "anti-discrim + harassment training" is especially egregious. Not only CU's collaboration with ICE to exile Ranjani Srinivasan and disappear Mahmoud Khalil, but also how the training uses cartoon images of protestors in slides that describe forms of harassment. 001
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialmerritt @merrittk.com · 20/03/2025society erred when we removed the computer from its honored place in the home and ushered it into every part of our profane world. we must rebuild the temple of the Computer Room 47113252213
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 13/03/2025We really need a new Arcades Project about dead tech, but I'm not sure our generation currently has the melancholic-messianic grasp of revolutionary communism to do it right. 020
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialVeena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Potential revised Muslim Ban coming. @aaup.bsky.social 9186119
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialMiguel Ibáñez Aristondo @mibarizt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Hyper-Imperialism is a militarized form of imperialism marked by the US's declining hegemony and growing reliance on military power and sanctions to maintain its dominance. This dossier remains a nice read for understanding current shifts in U.S. foreign policy. thetricontinental.org/studies-on-c...thetricontinental.orgHyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage 15415
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025"...there has been no mass organizing movement as many had hoped. One reason is the absence of a practical alliance between Mexican independent unions and the U.S. and Canadian unions in the same industries." labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...labornotes.orgInternational Solidarity Is the Union Answer to Tariffs and DeportationsUnited Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has recently expressed the UAW’s readiness to “work with Trump on trade.” Teamsters President Sean O’Brien spoke on a podcast against “illegal immigrants that ... 211034
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Currently chasing bad vibes (reading a lot about Hsinchu) 020
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025One of the greatest insights I received from growing up on the border in the Bush years was the intimate and early understanding that the U.S. is a disgusting, reactionary, war-hungry country built on a big bundle of terror and bones, but also, uniquely endowed with great hamburgers. 010
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialRob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 08/02/2025We have to face facts: WW2 combat flight sims disappeared from the mainstream and fascism began making a return. Indeed they were replaced by their Wario / Scratch: the live service combat arcade game, where military hardware was stripped of context and rendered morally neutral and brand safe. 15813130
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025I wish there were more Bolsheviks on bluesky 000
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025In Taiwan, always more fun to buy tech stuff in person. Even if I'd save like 10-20 bucks online, no one can convince me it's better than buying stuff from a random uncle in a cubicle on the fourth floor of a Taipei electronics market, who will let me play with 30 gadgets before buying them. 000
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025National Day of Mourning for weird videogame handheld and IEM headset aficionados throughout the gringo continent. 000
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025in better news 739456
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Showing this to my gf, who keeps asking me when Skyrim 2 is coming out. 000
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialWario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Video Game History Museum Library Digital Archive is now available to the public archive.gamehistory.org 191041406
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025this seems significant 1224219
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left." on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comLeft Organizing Is in Crisis. Philanthropy Is a Major Reason Why.Progressive philanthropy lacks good strategy, so too many of our organizations are hollow—and that left us unable to prevent a second Trump term. 31897235
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Brb gotta figure a way to make my dissertation about a murder 000
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025I really wanna know who in the Taiwanese gov manages their list of b list homophobic far right American political figures to visit the island 000
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Re: maquilas and destruction of the world. From Bowel et al 1995 study that tried to estimate maquila waste and contamination. In 1991, JRZ government made public that US maquilas in the city produced roughly 35,000 tons of toxic waste per year, only 35% returned to US. 010
Reposted by @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 14/01/2025blogged about Xiaohongshu and why i thought about that time chinese people were on Clubhouse for a week ko-fi.com/post/Xiaohon...ko-fi.comXiaohongshu and the Cross-Pollinating Nature of US-China connectionsBeanPaste published a post on Ko-fi 615443
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Coming to terms that in my research on the maquila in Taiwan and Mexico, industrial poisoning is huge issue for workers and their communities. What's your fav readings on labor and ecology? 000
gabantoniosolis.bsky.social @gabantoniosolis.bsky.social · 13/01/2025A great interview with Rebecca Karl on the importance of the AHA vote against scholasticide in Gaza: truthout.org/articles/sch...truthout.orgScholar Says AHA’s Vote on Gaza Scholasticide Shouldn’t Be ControversialProfessor Rebecca E. Karl explains why she voted in favor of the American Historical Association’s resolution. 000