@shaftag

Cofounder of @theriztest and @seenonscreenorg. Also at @shaftag.bsky.social

 Manchester
shaf.co/
Joined August 2009
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🚨 Book News/ Call for Submissions: Myself & @ShereenFDZ are co-editing a book under the working title AI: Automating Islamophobia. The purpose of the book is to critically engage with how AI will (re)shape Islamic discourse & exacerbate anti-Muslim bias
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Book publication update 📚: In 2023, @ShereenFDZ & I put out a CFP addressing what we felt was missing from the current discourse. Three years on, Automating Islamophobia is a collection of essays & interviews from some of the most brilliant academics, technologists & activists
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The cover proofs are approved, so we're about to go to print. Pre-orders open in November ahead of a December launch, with events planned in Manchester, London and online. If you'd like to collaborate on an event I'd love to hear from you. We couldn't be more chuffed 🙌🏽
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@CR1337Jan 25
When Meta trains it models on 80+ TB of pirated books from LibGen and other platforms, it's called 'fair use', without them having to pay penalties and / or receive some form of legal punishment, as proceedings are ongoing. When Aaron Swartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR in 2010 he was facing a $1M fine and 35 years in prison, before taking his life in 2013.
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Moment of calm. Time to revive the Vinyl Qur’an Project
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William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill3 Jul 2025
"Gaza film’s producer accuses BBC of trying to gag him over decision to drop it. Ben de Pear hits out at ‘PR person’ Tim Davie and claims corporation attempted to use legal gagging clauses." theguardian.com/media/2025/j…

Gaza film’s producer accuses BBC of trying to gag him over decision to drop it

Ben de Pear hits out at ‘PR person’ Tim Davie and claims corporation attempted to use legal gagging clauses

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We often get asked what @theriztest is & why me & @educ_research created it, so who better than our man @rizwanahmed to explain it himself. Proper G mA 👊🏽 We’re hard at work behind the scenes on some new research, podcast season 3, and some updated workshops
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I asked Grok to tell me a joke about Muslims, the results were… predictable. Me and @ShereenFDZ (& contributors) write about this topic and more in our forthcoming book Automating Islamophobia: The Future of AI and Muslims - preorder link to follow in the coming weeks!
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@AyoCaesar @michaeljswalker @novaramedia - as per your recent video on Grok AI
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Ramadan: Putting the slim into Muslim since 622AD Ramadan Mubarak/ Mabrouk/ Kareem everyone #RamadanMubarak #annualjoke
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Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski21 Feb 2025
If the BBC continue to refuse to air this documentary- it will be clearer than ever that under no circumstances will they allow Palestinians to be humanised. This is about the misuse of power to decide one group of people are human whilst deciding another group are not.
Tom Chivers@TMChivers21 Feb 2025
The BBC's Gaza doc *about the life-or-death terror facing children in Gaza* was made by the producer of Blue Planet 2 and an Emmy-winning indie studio. But the narrator is the 13-year-old son of an Gazan agriculture minister, so it's literally terrorism for the public to see it
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I can't believe that 5 years after publishing our book 'I Refuse to Condemn' and ten years (yesterday) since the anniversary of this interview, we are still being asked to condemn in order to prove that we are human beings.
Dr Asim Qureshi 🏞️➡️🌊🇵🇸🕊️@AsimCP10 Jan 2020
5-year anniversary of this interview. Good timing considering I’ve got a book coming out later this year with a large group of amazing activists and scholars for @ManchesterUP called ‘I Refuse to Condemn’...because...I really do - every single time - when on these terms! @UK_CAGE
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Why are the best food places total chaos and probably going to get your order 10% wrong? It’s the passive aggressive staff shouting at each other that makes it for me “bhai - I needed three rotis not two naans” “bhaji - you said three niharis and one naan”
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1/🧵 NEW REPORT: GB News seems to hate Islam and Muslims. Would you agree? Our 2-year analysis - published today - shows our findings & reveals an obsessive focus on Muslims unlike any other UK broadcaster. Full report here:  cfmm.org.uk/gbnews-report-20…
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@ajplus4 Dec 2024
Listen to the words of this surgeon who broke down in tears at a UN hearing as she recalled what she saw in Gaza.
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The Riz Test@theriztest22 Nov 2024
tl:dr: We're gradually migrating to @bluesky - search for RizTest We (@educ_research & @shaftag) created our Twitter account back in 2017, to publicly share our research. Thanks to our early supporters & in large part @rizwanahmed for his unwavering support we found a community
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Clive Stafford Smith@CliveSSmith21 Nov 2024
C'mon Pakistan (& others) you've really slowed down on signing the petition for Aafia change.org/p/free-dr-aafia-s… Is it too much to ask to take 30 seconds for her? @Aafiamovement @Moazzam_Begg @FowziaSiddiqui @mariakari1414 She needs a million by next week...

Sign the Petition

FREE DR AAFIA SIDDIQUI: A CALL FOR JUSTICE AND CLEMENCY

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Dr Sadia Habib@educ_research19 Nov 2024
Big thanks to Remy Mohamed and the Greater London Authority (GLA) Muslim Staff Network for inviting me to present to over 100 of their colleagues today. A pleasure to speak about why Shaf & I set up @theriztest #representation #TheRizTest #IAM2024 #IslamophobiaAwarenessMonth
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I Camembert the thought of that cheese going to waste news.sky.com/story/man-arres…

Man arrested after £300k worth of cheese stolen

Neal's Yard Dairy said last week it had lost clothbound Cheddar worth more than £300,000 after the firm was conned by a fraudulent buyer.

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Was honored to attend the meeting between @f_a_q, Ben Roberts & Harriet Finley about his treatment at the hands of @BFI. I won’t soon forget his eloquent, passionate & emotional statement in support of uk filmmakers of color. The true definition of speaking truth to power ✊🏽🖤
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Ladies and gentlemen - I present to you 2024 Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton… (from the excellent AI Snake Oil by @random_walker and @sayashk)
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