Maria W. Norris
Asst. Professor; Security Studies; Political Violence; Genocide; Pop Culture;
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- Reposted by Maria W. NorrisIncandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.
- Reposted by Maria W. Norris'As the regulator for all higher education providers in England, the outcome of the challenge against the OfS will have far-reaching implications for its ability to enforce freedom of speech and academic freedom at universities.' Abolish the OfS, the metastisising cancer of English HE.
- It also has an effect on international solidarity efforts. I'm in the UK and I've paid for filament and shipping. I know many friends here and in other countries have done the same too. The fight against ICE is a global fight.
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- Thinking of @contrapoints.bsky.social latest video when she says that conspiracy theories get the feeling right, but the facts wrong. Also @naomiaklein.bsky.social in Doppelganger: there is a difference between a system working as intended, and and a secret nefarious cabal pulling the strings.
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- Reposted by Maria W. NorrisLiam was taken from Columbia Heights, the town just south of my high school in Fridley and just north of the Arts district in NE Minneapolis. I spent a lot of time with friends there after extracurriculars. News of his abduction completely broke my heart. I’m glad he’s home. #Comics4Liam
- Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
- Reposted by Maria W. NorrisNoam Chomsky and Stephen Pinker say Epstein was an intellectual force with a mind like steel trap and then his e-mails read like the ending of Flowers for Algernon.
- Reposted by Maria W. NorrisThousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
- Reposted by Maria W. NorrisNEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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- Does your robot writing sound robotic? There's a robot for that!
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- Reposted by Maria W. NorrisThere is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
- BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
- If you build a business model that relies on income from international students, then you go ahead and drastically slash that source of income, then surely you want that business to fail. Right? I can't help but see this as another deliberate attack on education.
- UK institutions suffered a record fall in international student numbers last year, with significant drops in enrolments from India, China and Nigeria at some universities #highered #Edusky ow.ly/aesG50Y4hh0
- You know what every adult in the UK needs? Media literacy. But we've spent decades defunding the humanities and ridiculing Media Studies degrees hallucinating robots it is.
- BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
- UK Academia right now: 1- Being told to make our courses more generic and 'less aligned' with our expertise. 2- Compelled to incorporate AI into our teaching design and delivery. 3- Widespread redundancy. And now this. If they could replace us all with AI, they would.
- BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
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- Reposted by Maria W. NorrisThe government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.
- Reposted by Maria W. NorrisTraining courses on how to write prompts for AI are not training courses. You can learn nearly everything you need to learn about writing a prompt in 2 minutes & by trying it. The AI ‘training courses‘ the govt. is rolling out are just advertising.
- I am genuinely surprised the levels of trust are so low considering how ubiquitous it is.
- Reposted by Maria W. NorrisI wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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- Reposted by Maria W. Norristhey didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
- I talk about the Mercator Vs Gall- Peters projection in my classes on War Crimes and the ICC. This is why.
- Reposted by Maria W. NorrisBlack people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
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- That's how fascism works. It denies reality while forcing you to live in that denial. As E. E. Schattschneider argued: ' the definition of the alternatives is the supreme instrument of power'.
- I will say this until I am blue in the face: both the US and the UK have tried to criminalise protest and dissent for years under the guise of countering terrorism. This is the end game of the National Security State.
- Further adding to the depravity, this was the first comment on the tweet by reporter Kaitlan Collins.
- I'm a terrorism scholar and this is exactly what we warn about when we say terrorism functions as a shibboleth, a password, a magic word which unlocks unprecedented state power and in turn excuses any state action.
- We do not get to where we are today without the War on Terror. Everything that ICE is doing, the war in Venezuela, everything is being justified using the language of terrorism.
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- Just got an email from the VC telling us one of the main 2026 goals is to 'further embed AI into our teaching provision' and honestly I just despair.
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- Fascism is inherently absurd. It denies reality and reason and then forces you to live in that denial.
- Reposted by Maria W. NorrisIn 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.
