Thank you so much Nisrin for writing this excellent essay! I've learned a lot from it.

Talk about disgraceful. It's also remarkable how completely this sort of discussion ignores that this is counterrevolutionary war-you don't have to endorse SAF to decry the RSF.

This. I've found that there's often a downside to strict policies in high achieving environments, even on things that are important. Students who you need to be firm with don't necessarily respond better to harsher policies, but the students who are rule followers end up getting VERY stressed.

Some forms of automation are useful. Others aren't. All should be understood as tools with limits, advantages, and disadvantages.

One thing that gets lost is that people have called things "AI" for a long while, and in many ways, all it means is "automation." Translation via machine learning can be really useful-and it also functions differently than LLMs.

Obviously it won't come to that extreme in the US with cutting SNAP benefits. But I wouldn't be surprised if poor people made homeless end up taking up poorly paid jobs that they otherwise would have passed on due to poor working conditions or insufficient pay for commute, etc

I don't don't remember if it discusses methods extensively, but Liat Kozma's Policing Egyptian Women used 19th c police reports as sources for social history and changing gender and state roles/powers in a really fascinating way.

Fun doesn't take away from the seriousness nor does it nullify the anger. But joy goes much further in sustaining long-term action than anger and seriousness alone.

This isn't a commentary on Machado, it's a criticism of the prize itself. If the ERRs in Sudan had won, it would have been good for their access to funds and leverage re armed parties. But *they* would have given the Nobel foundation prestige as far as I'm concerned, not the opposite.

the people at the institutions they are admitted to are unwilling to help them find funding, or even write letters in support of their visa applications. Without that support, it’s almost impossible to get a N. American visa. (2/3)

Push your institutions to designate scholar at risk funds + other support that may already exist for Ukrainian students. It’s heartbreaking to see how many Sudanese students exhaust all their resources w/o any support from the institutions and faculty who admitted them. (3/3)

For sure. But the speed at which Giles could find stuff on his own vs having to walk 16 year olds on how to skim things and then trust that they didn't miss critical info would be such a huge risk. Once they got good, it'd be okay, but the learning curve at the beginning is what gets me.