Zeynep Arsel 🍉

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Researcher of consumption, markets, & internet. Not a thought leader. Killjoy. Post-Ottoman subject. Feels alterity sickness everywhere.

She/her/cis EN/FR/TR/ND

Background: still from Killer of Sheep
Profile: a woman wearing a respirator mask

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Today’s listen is the eponymous (and unfortunately the one and only) album from The United States of America It might be the first ever electropsychedelia album in history, or at least the most influential. Then came Broadcast and Portishead Obviously, the year is 1968 youtu.be/j_v8WPxsgf8?...

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -1968youtu.be 1 the american metaphysical circus2 hard coming love3 cloud song4 the garden of earthly delight5 i won't leave my wooden wife for you, sugar6 where is yester...

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don't think trump would be better did feel more solidarity from liberals in the streets, who disappeared as soon as it was their guy putting the kids in cages this isn't an argument for accelerationism as much as a suggestion for what liberals could do if they want to erode the argument for it

I will ask you the same two questions that I ask everyone who says they're on the left but opposes Biden b/c of Gaza: How do you think the Gaza situation would improve if Trump got reelected? If you admit "it wouldn't," then why do you think Trump would be better on any or all other issues?

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Public Health On Call: Special Series: Racial Bias and Pulse Oximeters publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/pulse-o... And the podcasts, which I'm just listening to now, are linked in there

Pulse Oximeters’ Racial Bias | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Healthpublichealth.jhu.edu How did a racially biased medical device become the standard of care—and what’s being done to fix it?

I just realized I had already blocked Keir Starmer on the hell site. I wonder what he did.

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Hitler Tamed by Prison, 1924- The New York Times. The New York Times caping for Nazis for a full hundred years.

Saying hitler was retiring to a private life after he got out of jail

I thought I'd never agree with something coming out of Goldman Sachs

Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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I miss living in a world that is as small as my imagination and with a conviction that it was designed for me because I navigated it with the lightness of unreflexive privilege

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I don't know why Vive La France is trending. This does not really erase all the violence and colonialism in the name of the country, nor guarantees that it will be better. It is the people who said no to fascism are those that must be celebrated.

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Bucking pressure from the Biden administration, the new Labour government of the United Kingdom is expected to drop its objections to ICC arrest warrants being issued against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. The UK will also contemplate whether to restore funding to UNRWA in the near future.

Labour expected to drop challenge to ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrantwww.theguardian.com Exclusive: UK government appears unlikely to go ahead with legal bid, while Keir Starmer has spoken with Israeli PM over Gaza ceasefire

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the tenth doctor's three modes of existence: - adorable goof, eyes sparkling with genuine love for the cosmos and all within - externalising a sadness and grief so deep and cold that the bottom of the mariana's trench seems cozy in comparison - "do not make me do the things i could do to you"

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imho this is still the rawest line in any piece of media ever

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“The dogma is that every time you get COVID, it’s milder. But I think we need to keep our minds open to the possibility that some people have worse symptoms,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a UC San Francisco infectious diseases expert." #Covid19

'Playing COVID roulette': Some infected by FLiRT variants report their most unpleasant symptoms yetwww.latimes.com COVID cases and hospitalizations rise in L.A. County — and some of those recently reinfected with the FLiRT variants are finding the latest bout the worst yet.

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That this is the first time anyone has tested got this is unconscionable.

There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested. There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic. Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃 www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox... Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Officially kicked off the waitlist. Their response: when you are ready for surgery call us and we put you back on the list Besties, you should be the one ready and prepared. I am ready when you are ready to not infect your patients

Thrilled to announce that I canceled an upcoming surgery in 2 weeks because nobody was able to tell me how they will ensure I do not get COVID while recuperating after full anesthesia as this week's positivity rate is 12% and increasing. In fact, they did not even understand what I was asking about

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New heroes emerges

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This from Mount Sinai really made an impression on me. Really smthg that even being sufficiently aware of symptoms as to report them on a questionnaire does not necc make a dent in ppl’s self-conception as unaffected by Covid—some so convinced of it that they offer to help research in that capacity!

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Honestly, what kind of bananas frame this story like this? Is shit serious or not, fucken freaks?

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Italian prosecutors in Milan investigated how Dior is producing their handbags. They found that the workers were sleeping in the facility so bags could be produced around the clock. Consumers pay $2,780 per bag. The production of the bags costs Dior $57. Ht: @maxroser.bsky.social

Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bagwww.businessinsider.com In recent months, Italian authorities raided Dior subcontractor workshops where people were working around the clock, they said.

A grad student is looking for ciswomen (and not on hormone therapy, such as those for cancers) residing in Canada to talk about their experiences with menopause. This is for her thesis. The participation entails a Zoom or in-person interview. Pls contact Alana Matos [email protected]

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Haaretz reports that the Hannibal directive was used systematically on October 7th against at least three of Israel’s own military bases, civilians hiding in open areas between kibbutzim and the Gaza fence, and hostages being taken to Gaza. Use of armed drones, tank shelling, apaches. Gift link:

IDF ordered Hannibal directive on October 7 to prevent Hamas taking soldiers captivewww.haaretz.com ***

I lost career opportunities for my support of Palestine and my resistance against eugenist politics around Covid and watched white able bodied people who privately supported me do nothing publicly as it happened, staying quiet. Some of them even had the guts to tell me to move on and try again.

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I am more harsh in my assessment and instead think that this is what the US wanted and it is rather content with the result.

Perhaps more than anything else in this war, Rafah's destruction and depopulation is a resounding US failure to stand up to its words www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/w...

In Rafah, We Saw Destruction and the Limits of Israel’s Gaza Strategywww.nytimes.com Months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “victory is within reach,” the Israeli military escorted journalists into parts of a devastated Gazan city.

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such fun watching terminally centrist “never bernie/corbyn” UK and US accounts getting all excited by the actual left routing fascism in France

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"Weeks before his death, he was on an organizing call about defending Columbia University students who had been arrested for protesting the Gaza war." A hero for our time. I wish there were many more like him.

“Marty was one of the last of an amazing generation of movement lawyers who stood with demonstrators, protesters and dissenters for decades as they fought for a more just world,” said Ron Kuby Gift link

Martin Stolar, Lawyer Who Fought for Social Justice, Dies at 81www.nytimes.com His clients included antiwar protesters and Black Panthers. His practice “not only defended needy people, it propelled social movements,” a colleague said.

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In-person and online ME/CFS & long Covid conference this October in Sweden. Looks like all the talks will be in English. Automatic translation: rme-nu.translate.goog/aktivitet/ko... #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #LongCovid

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Left-wing parties banded together in France, even though they disagree over many policies, to push down the fascist right-wingers and keep them from power. It's a template of sorts for what we should do come November.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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To be clear: a coalition of the Left — the socialists — and the Greens were able to block the far Right in France. And there is a lesson here for the US: voters across the West want the neoliberal experiment to end. We CAN and we MUST end it to save the future & improve people's wellbeing to boot!

Well France apparently just collabed between everyone else to kick a far right party out of the chance to take power, it can be done if enough people want it to be, folks

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Sometimes it doesn’t matter if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel if you’re fired of walking and sick of the god damned tunnel

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Macronʻs gamble did not pay off but he may have done a good think in spite of himself. When he called called snap elections for who knows what reason, he only succeeded in mobiling socialists, greens, communists and the hard left to come together into one camp, forming The New Popular Front (NFP).

A huge gamble. Center right is going more right and center left, along with left, are ticked off with him with him. He is paying the price for his King Macron tactics to force pension reform. A million people set France on fire for 6 months. This election should have come as a surprise to noone.

Unions buoyant as 1.27 million French protest pension reformapnews.com French authorities say an estimated 1.27 million people have joined in nationwide protests against the government’s planned pension reforms.

France exit polls show left-wing alliance in lead, far right in third placewww.aljazeera.com Loose alliance of left-wing parties on course to become biggest parliamentary bloc and beat far right, projections say.