Deathnography

🇵🇸New episode of the podcast🇵🇸
Free Palestine
Featuring Tara Alami, Rawan Nabil, Dalia Awad, and Ben Dickey
All eyes are on occupied Palestine. The zionist entity has been expelling Palestinians from their lands for a century, and have been perpetrating an outright genocide for a half a year now, supplied by western weapons and western excuses. While protestors gather in the tens of thousands in Toronto, the Canadian media industry works overtime to vilify them, and police conduct pre-dawn raids on the homes of those who stand against prominent local zionists.
In this episode, my guests and I discuss the history of zionism, the way mainstream media outlets try to obscure the material reality of colonization, “purplewashing” tactics, and how you can help fight for Palestine.

EPISODE LINKS
https://open.spotify.com/episode/56iXVx0o6Han5Oj1A7Nudb?si=8b49701d558d4ebc
https://deathnography.libsyn.com/10-free-palestine-featuring-tara-alami-rawan-nabil-dalia-awad-and-ben-dickey

Link to Tara and Rawan’s Briarpatch article:
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/imagining-palestinian-feminist-futurities

More on Canadian media bias against Palestine:
https://breachmedia.ca/how-canadian-media-distorts-the-truth-about-palestine/

Palestinian Youth Movement
https://palestinianyouthmovement.com/

Palestinian Feminist Collective
https://linktr.ee/palestinianfeministcollective

"After the world's governments began their above-ground nuclear weapons tests in the mid-1940s, radioactive particles made their way into the atmosphere, permanently tainting all modern steel production, making it challenging (or impossible) to build certain machines (such as those that measure radioactivity). As a result, we've a limited supply of something called "low-background steel," pre-war metal that oftentimes has to be harvested from ships sunk before the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, including those dating back to the Roman Empire.

Generative AI models are trained by using massive amounts of text scraped from the internet, meaning that the consumer adoption of generative AI has brought a degree of radioactivity to its own dataset. As more internet content is created, either partially or entirely through generative AI, the models themselves will find themselves increasingly in**ed, training themselves on content written by their own models which are, on some level, permanently locked in 2023, before the advent of a tool that is specifically intended to replace content created by human beings.

This is a phenomenon that Jathan Sadowski calls "Habsburg AI," where "a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AIs that it becomes an in**ed mutant, likely with exaggerated, grotesque features." In reality, a Habsburg AI will be one that is increasingly more generic and empty, normalized into a slop of anodyne business-speak as its models are trained on increasingly-identical content."

Are We Watching The Internet Die? Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual price,

PODCAST UPDATE!
With my regular work season over, I now have the time to work on a brand new episode. After some deliberation, I've decided it only makes sense to focus on Palestine. I am not an expert on the region, but I have been doing my best to educate myself over the past few months, reading books and articles, watching interviews, and keeping up with the news. It's that last activity that has convinced me that a podcast episode is needed, as the Canadian news media has been incredibly biased in its coverage (see https://breachmedia.ca/ctv-bell-media-forbids-palestine-suppresses-criticism-israel/ for an example). Even the biggest Canadian news media criticism podcast, Canadaland, has failed in its mandate, barely glossing over the lopsided pro-Israel coverage from CBC, CTV, the Globe, and the National Post. Host/boss Jesse Brown has decided to use his time and energy to make bad-faith twitter screeds about pro-Palestine journalists and activists.

So, despite being just a little one-man podcast with a limited audience, I would like to do my part in shedding light on the ongoing atrocities and their historical roots. I believe my analysis, and more importantly the analysis provided by my guests, will be helpful to listeners in making sense of the current crisis.

For my upcoming episode, I will (hopefully) be interviewing members of Palestinian Youth Movement's Toronto Chapter https://palestinianyouthmovement.com/
specifically about this article in Briarpatch magazine:

https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/imagining-palestinian-feminist-futurities

, which I recommend reading. And if you have any questions or comments about it, I can discuss those on the show. I am also open to speaking with other guests, if you have specific suggestions about authors or activists I should talk to.

If you would like to learn more about the modern history of Palestine, I highly recommend reading the 100 Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred_Years%27_War_on_Palestine.

At this moment, especially, we need to read about history in order to properly understand the present. You will not receive the necessary context and analysis through legacy news media.

Talk to you soon,

Henry

The birds shall return: Imagining Palestinian feminist futurities Envisioning a liberated Palestine means imagining liberated Palestinian women. What is a Palestinian feminist future, and how do we get there?

nice concise takedown video

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Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Thank you for all your listens

Are they even allowed to say "Palestine" in the CBC newsroom

I don't use Apply Music/Podasts (I'm a Spotify guy) so I didn't see these cool reviews. Thank you for listening!

"Back in the 1970s, Indigenous policing might have seemed like progress, the same way many once believed that Black police officers would transform law enforcement (instead of just acting like their pre-existing co-workers). Indigenous peoples would have the opportunity to police their own communities, a privilege previously reserved for white interlopers. Some thought that Indigenous cops would behave differently than settler cops. Some were also led to believe that forces like the Amerindian Police would be part of a transition toward local control over the administration of justice.

Canada’s legal system, founded on punishment and deterrence, is incompatible with the traditional practices of many Indigenous peoples, who largely maintained order through reparations. Some believed Indigenous policing was a step on the road toward re-establishing those traditions.

But Indigenous policing has proven hard to distinguish from regular settler policing. Indigenous police forces are trained at a Canadian police college to enforce Canadian laws. They have good relations with settler forces, frequently collaborating on police work and hiring each other’s personnel. Indigenous police forces have even expressed interest in helping the state manage Indigenous protests, offering intel on local Indigenous activists. The vague promise that Indigenous policing would be “culturally appropriate” has ultimately meant only that the police officers arresting Indigenous people are Indigenous, too."

Indigenous cops are cops, too To stifle Indigenous organizing, the Canadian government is investing in Indigenous police officers.

"The political party in power, the Progressive Conservatives, contends that mining will be a key part of the just transition in Ontario and that in centering mining, First Nations in Ontario are also centered. These conversations often focus on the possibility that fossil fuel workers will get left behind; in Canada the concept of a ‘just transition’ is often shorthand for justice for these workers. These debates assume that mineral extraction is both a necessity and a realistic solution to the climate crisis – assumptions that our collective, the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, has been challenging through interventions at the world’s largest mining conference for the past two years (2022, 2023).
Unions can make efforts to build deep solidarity with First Nations. This might look like unions supporting Indigenous calls for action with the expertise of their members, such as the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) expressing support and offering to work with the City of Winnipeg and provide expertise to organizations searching for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S) at the Brady Road Resource Management Facility, including the landfill where their members work. This could also look like unions advocating for employers to approach First Nations as sovereign nations, outside of the “duty to consult” framework. This is a difficult playing field for unions to navigate, especially when these “moves” are often co-opted by a profit-driven industry, and in a context where First Nations are already overburdened by requests for consultation on new resource developments, and often lack basic infrastructure and necessities."

Just Transition Politics in Ontario and the Potential for an Anti-Colonial, Anti-Capitalist Labor Movement · BG · berlinergazette.de · 1999-2023 The labor power of indigenous peoples is a political issue that leftist, anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist unions must always reflect on, because it is not only about exploited workers, but also about illegally annexed territories, as Sydney Lang and Merle Davis Matthews argue in their contributi...

when people ask me to make memes again

🎞️ Cinema Paradiso (1988)

When people say "why don't you make memes anymore" it's because I'm busy doing this. Also I'm mentally stable now. Hope you're all well

Cool Ontario native spring ephemerals

Trillium erectum (red trillium) and trillium gradiflorum (white trillium), erythronium americanum (trout lily)
All native here
Did you know that trillium seeds are dispersed by ants by ants (they ear the coating of the seeds and discard the seeds themselves, typically quite close to the parent plant)
Trout lily seeds are dispersed by the same mechanism ! 🐜 🐜 🐜

(If you're wondering what I'm up to these days, aside from the podcast, I am a landscaper full-time and doing a college program in garden design. I've fallen in love with plants, and I'm considering doing a podcast episode about ecology and horticulture as they relate to politics and ideology.)

CALL FOR PAPERS

1st international symposium on freedom of religious expression in death



18-19 September 2023, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (hybrid format)



In an increasingly multicultural and multireligious society, religious freedom is one of the main problems modern nations must face. If in life many minorities are struggling to live their religion, the situation is even more drastic in death, an element of life too often ignored or marginalized.

Many minorities, and especially migrants, are unable to officiate their funerals according to their traditions. This poses a concrete obstacle in their integration process, forcing them to send their loved ones “back home”, even if they have died in countries where they have lived for decades, and started businesses and families. Moreover, as the Covid-19 pandemic made evident for everybody, being denied the right to a traditional funeral poses many interferences to a healthy grieving process, creating many emotional and psychological wounds that affects many citizens and their well-being.

The Freedom of Religious Expression in Death (FRED) project aims to explore this too often overlooked issue, and to bring together scholars from the many fields involved in this phenomenon (law, migration studies and religious studies to name just a few) to converse with each other and to work together to explore this understudied - but crucial for a true multicultural society - reality.





Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2023

Conference fee: None

Info on FRED: sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/fred

Abstracts (max 300 words) should be submitted by E-mail to [email protected]

Papers will be considered for an edited book for the Death and Culture book series at Bristol University Press or a special issue for SMSR (Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni) religious studies journal.

👋👋CALL FOR PAPERS - LAST FEW DAYS💫💫🤓🤓
Death, Dying and Disposal (DDD16) theme is related to what the recent crisis – wars, climatic catastrophes and Covid-19 pandemic – have taught us in managing the danger of dying. Not only academics, but professionals and clinicians will participate. The hybrid conference aims to involve artists, sociologist, thanatologists, psychologists, sociologists, physicians, nurses, social workers, art therapists, historians, archaeologists, funeral workers, and many others.
The main potential issues (non-exhaustive) are the followings:
Systems in crisis, suffering and fear of death;
Terror of death and dysfunctional human relationships;
Death Education and normalization of death;
What history and archaeology teach us around the management of death from catastrophes, wars and pandemics in the past;
Death between religion, faith, science and common sense;
Critical stories of life and death in families and workplaces;
Social networks and help to support people and communities;
Arts as a remedy against fear of death and anxiety;How to describe feelings about trauma and loss with art languages;
Experiences of arts therapies can help to manage loss, grief and trauma;
Funerary religious rituals and strategies;
Management of corpses in health care and in the rites;
Stressful situations in hospitals in dealing with death;
Hospital departments stretched to the brink and the stress of health professionals;
New measurement strategies for assessing clinical staff experiences with sustained stress;
Strategies to improve resilience and empowerment in facing death;
Psychological bereavement support at a distance and in presence;
Palliative care and the management of the end-of-life;
The form of spirituality between culture and naif narrations;
Bioethical and bio-juridical dilemmas;
Biopolitical management of the pandemic control strategies;
Telling about death from Covid on social media;
Interprofessional collaboration for the optimization and implementation of aid and support actions.
DDD16 will accept both papers and posters. Each paper presenter will be given approximately 20 minutes to present and take questions. It will be possible to present the papers in-person, online or with recorded presentation. The programme chair will be responsible for organising paper submissions into coherent panels based on a common theme, and appointing a chair to manage each paper session. The programme chair will schedule as many parallel streams of papers as required to manage demand. University of Padua has ample room capacity to house multiple, simultaneous sessions.
Poster DDD16 submissions are designed to encourage participation from a broad audience, and particularly to appeal to ECR, postgraduate students, and those in the early stages of a research project. To ensure wide visibility, the posters will be placed in wide rooms, close to refreshments and lunch facilities. Dedicated poster presentation sessions will be scheduled in the programme.
Submission of ABSTRACTs should be done through the FORM at the end of this page or at this link.:
https://endlife.psy.unipd.it/Conferenza_LSFDD/submit-abstract/

Deadline Abstracts: 20 February Anywhere on Earth

If you've never listened to cursed with good ideas it's a good podcast about theory, anthropology, tech. I'm teaming up with them to do a fun collab - an advice show. So give me your questions here and we will try to help you. As unserious or serious as you want

"The Weibo page Green Hat Society is an online society for people who have been cuckolded: ‘green hat’ is the symbol of victimhood for someone afflicted by an adulterous relationship. As submissions to the account stockpile, the Green Hat Society page is becoming a wild confessional society, with its posts, thousands of replies per day, and avid fandom across the country.
There is an inexplicably strange pleasure from reading these banal or exotic tales of cuckoldry – especially the anonymous public confessions of secretive desire, anticipation, thrills, anguish, jealousy, callousness, frenetic boredom and remorse – and there is an equal amount of exasperation from reading the comments generated by patriarchy, nosophobia (fear of contracting a STD), and internet vigilance. Hence, the Green Hat Society is not only a confessional (in the sense of providing psychological as opposed to religious comfort), but also a hall of mirrors, reflecting gender roles, tensions, and the total dysfunctionality of the patriarchal economy."

The spectacle of cuckoldry and the crisis of the libidinal economy Image Credit: Weibo phone by bfishadow/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Dino Ge Zhang. The Weibo page Green Hat Society is an online society for people who have been cuckolded: ‘green hat’ is…

"The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs considers the online propaganda war a top priority. Winning that war requires messaging that appeals to an edgier, progressive sensibility and speaks with the lingo cribbed from Tumblr, Tiktok, and years of self-consciously feminist or anti-racist media consumption, in order to reconcile Israel’s PR goals with its real-world actions."
https://www.gawker.com/politics/the-new-social-justice-zionism?fbclid=IwAR3px_lLB9MazmK3ASW4Vq4xv8iGWMFdx1OmHTASWK-Jaw2dUEox6vJBS14

The New Zionism Why people with cartoon avatars are calling themselves "indigenous to Judea"

I'm releasing about 1 full episode a year at this point, with some shorter interviews in between. Quality>quantity I guess! I am also now a member of the Harbinger Media Network :o

Please enjoy this special edition LUNAR/CHINESE NEW YEAR / TET EDITION OF THE DEATHNOGRAPHY PODCAST:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EvWHEcI17gZcmp3PuXfZp?si=709222aab7d641f3
or
https://deathnography.libsyn.com/9-housing-charity-and-justice-with-lorraine-lam?_ga=2.133257094.94364496.1675073852-530459115.1669878138
(or wherever you get episodes of podcasts)
Toronto's police budget has increased by nearly 50 million dollars, while shelters and warming centres remain critically underfunded. I speak with Lorraine Lam, from the Shelter and Housing Justice Network about the current crisis, and together we tackle some myths about homelessness.

LINK FOR LORRAINE AND EVY’S LNY DRIVE:

linktr.ee/lnygiveback

LINK TO UNITY KITCHEN:

https://holytrinity.to/2021/04/toronto-kitchen-provides-fresh-meals-for-homeless-in-the-city/

LINK TO ALL SAINTS TORONTO:

https://allsaintstoronto.com/

LINK TO DISPLACEMENT CITY (BOOK):

https://utorontopress.com/9781487546496/displacement-city/

LINK TO SHELTER AND HOUSING JUSTICE NETWORK:

http://www.shjn.ca/

Contact Lorraine Lam on instagram, on twitter

To Tranjan, politicians have been calling the housing crisis by a misleading name.

“We’ve convinced ourselves that the problem is supply when the problem is profit. Yes, more housing helps, build more housing,” he said. “But there’s profiteering in housing and that is the central problem and to address that, you need regulation.”

Tranjan added that there needs to be community driven political solutions before there are policy solutions, and pointed to the emerging tenant rights movements as something to be optimistic about. ""

The Hoser | The Myth of Affordable Housing in Toronto Housing almost entirely out of reach for full-time minimum-wage workers

The word lives.
Admin receives a shoutout in Deathnograpy: Writing, Reading, and Radical Mourning. The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-first Century by anthropologist Casey Golomski

BOOK GIVEAWAY

It has been 3 months since The Ponies at the Edge of the World was published! I am overwhelmed by all the love and support my book has received.
To celebrate I am giving away 2 signed copies. To enter just like and share this post.
The Ponies at the Edge of the World tells the story of Shetland ponies and the people who love them. Based on my PhD research, and journey to live in Shetland, it refects on how our relationship with others, human, animal and landscape, affect how we feel at home in a place.
I will do the draw on Wednesday to pick the winner and will tag winner in the post with a screenshot from number generator. Book and postage free for winner

"As the movement gained strength and support, ideological disagreements over tactics, strategy, solidarity, and coalition-building increasingly plagued the group. These disagreements reflect some of the limitations of “momentum-style” organizing. The lack of a collective conceptualization of “climate justice” was at the epicentre of many of these disagreements. For example, there were frequent disagreements over how and to what extent to build solidarity with Indigenous communities and ally ourselves with the pro-Palestine boycott, divestment and sanctions movement on campus. Some organizers argued at meetings that certain types of solidarity work and direct action would alienate the public and hurt our reputation. So, while organizers shared a common goal of achieving fossil fuel divestment at U of T, there were differences in how they thought we should get there."
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/divestment-and-beyond

Divestment and beyond Lessons for the climate justice movement from the University of Toronto fossil fuel divestment campaign.