Friends, a 🧵— projects from my Spring 2024 #generativeArt #plotterTwitter course at CMU, 'Drawing with Machines'! I'm privileged to work with brilliant students from College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Mellon BXA CMU IDeATe—and generous support from Bantam Tools, makers of the world's best plotters😊

At San Francisco State University, students built a democratic pro-Palestine protest movement — convincing the university president to engage in open bargaining and to work on a proposal for divestment with the protesters.
jacobin.com/2024/05/san-fr…

No cops. No arrests. No violence inflicted on students. Just a university administration listening and doing the right thing. Imagine.
theguardian.com/world/article/…

They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either. interc.pt/3Us0bFA by @mazmhussain interc.pt/3Us0bFA

We’re so back… autonomous New School faculty, in support of our students and their demands, the first faculty solidarity encampment in the nation, named after Refaat Alareer ♥️…

I teach digital media production and tablets are the #1 reason for computer illiteracy in recent students. My job now involves deprogramming app consumers so they can use professional software.

Flashlight Gun!
kottke.org/24/05/the-flas…

Israel shuts down Al Jazeera offices.

Earlier today GW instructed staff to hang this giant American flag behind the encampment. This is how the encampment responded. These young people are awe inspiring. A historic image.

📣VICTORY FOR PALESTINE AT GOLDSMITHS📣

Goldsmiths management has conceded to Goldsmiths for Palestine demands‼️

We have won the first undergraduate Palestinian scholarships at a British university and huge wins on all of our other demands.

An email from a UCLA professor

I guess universities opening themselves up to all sorts of lawsuits for injuries and unlawful disciplinary actions is ONE way to reduce student debt...

All these universities cracking down on their own students could have just said:
'Sure, we will vote to form a committee to make a report on our investments and blah blah'
and swamp everything in bureaucracy till the end of the semester/war but nope, not when it's about Israel.

Me, a wise old leftist: our repertoire of protest has become so routinized and non-threatening as to risk legitimating the system it means to challenge

University administrators: these dangerous kids in tents must be annihilated at all costs

Italian communists led the anti-fascist resistance that overthrew Mussolini and helped end WW2. Today, Italy celebrates “Liberation Day” to commemorate the resistance’s victory.

BREAKING: A group of students are organizing a “liberated zone” inside the Cathedral of Learning in support of Palestinians and demanding Pitt disclose its investments in Israeli organizations.