Celebrating the life and work of Michael Parenti, a towering figure in Marxist scholarship and activism.

We will discuss Parenti’s profound impact on the study of imperialism, war, propaganda, fascism, and the difficulties of socialist construction, as well as his unwavering commitment to the global class struggle.

Speakers

• Ali Kadri (Professor, Sun Yat-sen University)
• Ben Norton (Editor, Geopolitical Economy Report)
• Corinna Mullin (Associate Editor, Middle East Critique)
• Immanuel Ness (Professor, City University of New York)
• Gabriel Rockhill (Author, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?)
• Sara Flounders (Co-director, International Action Center)
• Shiran Illanperuma (Researcher, Tricontinental Institute)
• Barry Lituchy (Professor, City University of New York)
• Chair: Carlos Martinez (Co-editor, Friends of Socialist China)

Organisers

International Manifesto Group / Critical Theory Workshop

Co-sponsored by United National Anti-War Coalition, Iskra Books, Manifesto Press, Friends of Socialist China

idk what the republicans are so afraid of it's pretty sexy.

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Students and faculty at the public university say that an unofficial policy is in effect to automatically reject students from China and a number of other countries altogether.

The alleged shift in admissions practices at Purdue followed a letter sent last year to six universities by the US House’s select committee on the Chinese Communist party (CCP), demanding they turn over data about Chinese students, a population they say jeopardizes national security.

“Our nation’s universities, long regarded as the global standard for excellence and innovation, are increasingly used as conduits for foreign adversaries to illegally gain access to critical research and advanced technology,” the committee wrote, adding that the admission of large number of Chinese students into science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs came “potentially at the expense of qualified Americans”.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials this week reported that the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at a detention facility in El Paso was the result of the staff’s “spontaneous use of force” to “prevent him from harming himself.” Officials quietly updated the cause of death after previously declaring last month that the man died of “medical distress.”

De-paywalled archive link: https://archive.is/4zw1m

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• National IDs
• Phone numbers *Genders
• Email addresses
• Telco metadata
• Breach status and social profile annotations

Good luck everyone.

Any experiences with a self-hosted assistant like the modern Google Assistant? Looking for something LLM-powered that is smarter than older assistants that would just try to call 3rd party tools directly and miss or misunderstand requests half of the time.

I'd like integration with a mobile app to use it from the phone and while driving. I see Home Assistant has an Android Auto integration. Has anyone used this, or another similar option? Any blatant limitations?