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Mark Libin

@marklibin.bsky.social
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Professor, Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at University of Manitoba. Union thug. Fighting commodity fetishism one class at a time.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always funny when ostensible liberals are like "You see, this postcolonial conflict is actually very nuanced and complex, because what makes it so very unique is that the majority ethnic group doesn't want to share power with the minority ethnic groups." Oh wow, I didn't know that, that's wild man.
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Mark Libin @marklibin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Overheard just now: "Is Scott Gillingham running again? I think I'll just vote for him. It's nice to have a mayor you don't hear about so much."
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Marx described commodity fetish as the imaginary of capital being more alive, having greater agency, and requiring more deference than the worker who produces it
For people who deny Al personhood for any Al model at any point in the future, you're going to need better arguments than this. There are arguments out there, but once agents can solve Navier-Stokes, write music and poetry, and provide people with seemingly fulfilling life advice, this kind of line is just not going to be persuasive. "YOU'RE CRAZY" no longer lands.
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Thinking Al might be conscious is like thinking that there are real people talking to you from inside the
TV, or that there is a tiny band playing music inside the radio....
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Why? Do you think it's insane to think Al might be conscious?
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey real quick what's the dictionary definition of a "chillul hashem"
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In the last decade, the IDF prosecuted one (1) soldier for unlawfully killing a Palestinian in the occupied territories. Elor Azaria served 9 months in prison. Today Israel's president, Yitzhak Herzog, pardoned him and expunged his criminal record. A clear message of 100% impunity.
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Jack Farrell @jack-farrell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Alberta First Nation aims to set up safe haven for gender-affirming care Saddle Lake has set up a GoFundMe to pay for expected legal challenges and develop the health law it says it needs. It’s also trying to recruit doctors. By @reportrix.bsky.social www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
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Alberta First Nation wants to set up safe haven for gender-affirming care
EDMONTON - An Alberta First Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.
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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
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Report – AI and Education
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
weird how you never hear about police department layoffs
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Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So much of our policy doesn’t directly address what we claim we want to solve. Instead we try to police and punish people out of the thing we don’t like, and then act surprised when that pressure doesn’t actually do anything to solve the problem.
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Mark Libin @marklibin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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The context missing from the CMHR Nakba debate
Mark Libin argues that the “important facts” and “context” consistently cited as “missing” from the Palestine Uprooted exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights obscure the history that actually...
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Gwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME
democrat is socialist and socialist is communist
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The canard that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are inseparable is being used to sideline pro-Palestinian voices, reshape debates over academic freedom and protest, and blur the distinction between criticism of a state and hostility toward Jewish people.
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The ‘we’ of anti-Zionism
At a Winnipeg lecture on antisemitism and Israel, Dr. Rachel Fish argued that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are inseparable. Too often, writes Professor Mark Libin, that conflation is being used to si...
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Mark Libin @marklibin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This article is just beautiful. Thanks so much @raphaelmagarik.bsky.social and @jewishcurrents.bsky.social ! Kol hakavod!
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ETX Gov @etxgov.myatproto.social · 15/07/2026
It can still come home if the British Museum has the courage!
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Mark Libin @marklibin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
For some reason started thinking of this song... vt.tiktok.com/ZSXYMTYdE/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Schrödinger's Diaspora Jew: Simultaneously existentially threatened as a Jewish minority always on the verge of extermination without a Jewish state to keep us safe, and yet also too pampered in our comfortable homes in New York to lecture Israeli Jews facing constant danger on how to keep safe.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Yesterday's pipeline announcement is yet another reminder that Prime Minister Carney cares more about lining the pockets of his corporate friends than upholding the Constitutional rights of Indigenous peoples and protecting the public from the escalating climate emergency. (1/6)
"Sign 350 Canada's Petition to Call for Real Climate Action" "1.  Stop fast-tracking environmentally catastrophic fossil fuel projects" "2. Protect the health and wellbeing of all those impacted by climate change.""3. Invest in a worker, community and Indigenous-led green energy transition that benefits everyone in Canada - Sign today!"
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Elon Musk is being a disgusting Nazi bitch, so instead of punishing him, we're going to punish YOU instead and take away YOUR freedom. Because we would never play hardball with a billionaire."
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Mark Libin @marklibin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Just back from Dublin, and I gotta be honest. Great city, but did anyone ever offer me a cockle? No. Nary a cockle. Not on any menus, certainly not in any wheelbarrows to speak of. Don't care how many times they sing about it -- I'm calling bullshit on the whole cockle scam.
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Béal Feirste ❤️
WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH EVERYONE WHO WAS IMPACTED BY VIOLENCE, INTIMIDATION, THREATS, AND FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN BELFAST YESTERDAY. 

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THIS DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITY AND ARE MOTIVATED BY RACISM.

THEIR AIM IS DIVISION. AS PEOPLE FROM DERRY AND BELFAST, WE KNOW ONLY TOO WELL THE HATRED BEHIND DRIVING FAMILIES FROM THEIR HOMES.

AND THE UTTER HYPOCRISY OF POLITICIANS OR PEOPLE IN DISTANT LANDS, AGITATING FOR DIVISION AMONGST THE WORKING CLASS.OUR COMMUNITIES HAVE STOOD AGAINST THIS BEFORE AND WILL STAND AGAINST IT NOW.

WE HAVE MORE IN COMMON WITH EACH OTHER THAN ANY RACIST OR WEALTHY AGITATOR EVER WILL.
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Seven scenes from the anti-anti-Zionist symposium. jewishcurrents.org/scenes-from-...
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/06/2026
The arc of the moral universe only bends towards justice if we bend it. There's no karmic comeuppance for fascists. There's just us. Community and hard work and a willingness to to take risks and fail.
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Mark Libin @marklibin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“Unfortunately talking about ethnic cleansing in Gaza is not necessarily something that will hurt you in domestic politics. In fact it might even help you.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Israeli minister confirms goal of large-scale expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza
Human rights groups and lawyers say ‘voluntary migration’ policy amounts to ethnic cleansing
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
faking an assassination attempt so you don't have to go to a wedding sounds like a curb your enthusiasm episode
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Mark Libin @marklibin.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Israelis enjoying their right of return... f24.my/BwLV
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Focus - Germany becomes destination of choice for Jews leaving Israel
Last year, for the first time in its history, Israel recorded a negative migration balance. In 2024, 82,700 Israelis left the country, an all-time record. In Europe, Germany is benefiting the most, at...
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The lesson I would take from this is that solidarity across ranks and including students works.
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CU delays ChatGPT rollout after backlash over $2M OpenAI deal
After announcing a systemwide ChatGPT partnership, CU delayed student access following backlash over governance, academic integrity and transparency.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Strong evidence that the shooters at the mosque in San Diego yesterday held both Islamophobic and antisemitic beliefs. Our safety is bound up together, no matter how much politicians may try to divide us.
"NBC News: Investigators are trying to authenticate a 75 page document possibly left behind by the suspects involved in yesterday’s shooting at a mosque in San Diego.

If true, the documents are hateful, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, and espouse the views of accelerationists."
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is one of those situations where getting on board and getting run over are the same thing.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Israel expands death penalty regime in the occupied West Bank - www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-e…
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Israel expands death penalty regime in the occupied West Bank
Law mandates death penalty in military courts while excluding Israelis from prosecution under the same system
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Mark Libin @marklibin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This sucks. But wait.... what if I tricked NordVPN into thinking I WASN'T in Canada...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/05/2026
JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.
Two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in first for Scottish parliament
Dr Q Manivannan and Iris Duane secured regional list seats for the Scottish Green Party.
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Friday 08 May 2026 17:52 EDT
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Mark Libin @marklibin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy Wicker Man Day to all who celebrate!
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a man in a red shirt is standing in front of a group of people
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/05/2026
Mental health is part of your health. It should be part of our publicly-funded healthcare system. What do we think is worth spending money on in this country? Why does this government have billions available for major projects and for bullets and bombs but not for projects that benefit all of us?
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
with the lights out it’s less dangerous from the icebox plums cry “save us” “we’re for breakfast” “please don’t take us” but we ate them we feel heinous they were tasty please don’t blame us
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19/04/2026
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
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Mark Libin @marklibin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Face meets leopards.
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a man with a mustache is talking to another man in a movie .
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Mark Libin @marklibin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Hitler, of course, famous for taking advice from Muslims. His final days in the bunker were spent yelling, "Bring me a Mufti!"
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Mark Libin @marklibin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Lot of people in town for the big Roland Barthes convention...
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