Actor Pedro Pascal, who has a trans sister, is not going to allow JK Rowling to celebrate her "victory" over trans people at the UK Supreme Court without issuing a challenge to her:
“I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorising the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.”
Columbia rolled over like a trained dog, so they’re trying it elsewhere — and scaling it up.
This ends if and only if academia bands together, says NO, and fights even when they’re not the targeted institution.
https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/114305065926515126
ICE is terrible etc and also, white Europeans and white Americans are finally learning what your countries do to brown and black people / has been doing to / have always been doing to / still do to
No individual should have to suffer this sort of inhumanity; I hope all of this galvanizes you to speak up against inhumane immigration detention for *all* people
Interested in #PublicHistory? We, a team of authors, deal with some key terms (e.g., #authenticity, #experience, #performance, #heritage, #memory) and conceptualize a theoretical foundation of public history. You can read the book here (open access!):
Im Kampf gegen #Aberglauben unterzeichnet Kaiserin Maria Theresia heute vor 270 Jahren den #Vampir-Erlass: Bei Grabschändung, Leichenfledderei & Vampirexekution drohen künftig harte Strafen.
Zum Kontext:
▶ Christoph Augustynowicz, Verwesung, Exkommunikation und Heiligkeit zwischen West und Ost. Der #Vampirglaube als religiös-synkretistisches Phänomen, #WerkstattGeschichte 72/2016, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-72-christoph-augustynowicz/
Adieu, X! – Endlich, Fediverse!
Wir sind der #Fachinformationsdienst für die Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, kurz: FID Media. Unter fid-media.de gibt es für diese Fächer das zentrale Portal zum Recherchieren und Publizieren im #OpenAccess. Wir unterstützen Forschende aller Karrierestufen mit tollen und kostenfreien Services.
Hier teilen wir neue Angebote für die Fachcommunity, tröten ausgewählte #Neuerscheinungen und sonstige News.
Schön, jetzt hier zu sein!
Want to know what US government workers actually do, vs. the propaganda spewed by DOGE? This incredible website, "We the Builders," is full of first-person testimonials from government workers about their actual jobs, and how they make the government work for the public. https://www.wethebuilders.org/
📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order!
This a speculative index of communications networks, a love letter to experimental art & technology, & a liberatory guide for escaping the corporate present. Many of you know that, for years, I have been compiling and cataloguing a history of communications networks, one full of alternatives to the monolithic, surveilled internet as we now know it. The result is this compendium of possibilities that existed before or outside of the internet and a tribute to their experimental use by artists, covering everything from pirate radio to barbed wire telegraph, from synthesizers that transmitted over the telephone to encoded messages bounced off the surface of the moon.
Because of the hard work and creative genius of Mark Iosifescu, Jesse Pollock, and everyone at Anthology Editions; Robert Beatty who made the breathtaking cover and section designs; and Ella Gold for book design, OTHER NETWORKS is also a feat of beautiful design. And as if that weren't enough, the talented @jomc wrote the Foreword and the legendary @hrheingold wrote the epilogue. So, so many people to thank, including many of YOU, for making this happen! https://shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898-lori-emerson-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook
Den Entwurf des „Gebäudeenergiegesetzes“ habe das Kanzleramt an die „Bild“ durchgestochen.
Das Papier war noch in der „Frühkoordinierung“, weil das zugehörige Förderprogramm noch nicht fertig war.
Die SPD wollte demnach den beliebten Habeck zurechtstutzen
@tante Da das die einzige Partei ist, die Chancen (gute, mittlerweile) auf den Einzug in den Bundestag hat und sich von der Ausländer-Raus-Mode ferngehalten hat, bleibt mir da ja wenig anderes übrig.
What Europe should do RIGHT NOW: Make it extremely easy for US scientists to get long-term visa, create as many additional research jobs in key areas as possible, create new, generous science and research funds. People are losing their jobs over there NOW. Let‘s welcome them.
"Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Hannah Arendt warned us that the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act. More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action.
The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them."
https://www.404media.co/you-cant-post-your-way-out-of-fascism/
❄️ Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #AnnArbor MI USA 🇺🇸 01/2025 - Title:
🟡 "Benny's tree-climbing days are
behind (and soon to be beneath)
him." 🎈🐿️
🔴 "Bennys Baum-Kletter-Tage liegen
hinter ihm (und bald unter ihm)."
#StreetArt #Art #Chalkart #Artist #SidewalkChalk #Squirrel #Ballooning #GoodMorning ☕🥐
Fast 13.000 Kinder und Jugendliche wachsen in Österreich in Fremdbetreuung auf. Sobald sie die Volljährigkeit erreichen, fallen sie aus der Betreuungspflicht.
Die sogenannten “Care Leaver:innen” sind danach großteils auf sich allein gestellt. Wir berichten.
https://www.moment.at/story/care-leaverinnen-mit-18-auf-sich-allein-gestellt/
"Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret
Last month, #OpenAI chief executive Sam #Altman finally admitted what researchers have been saying for years — that the artificial intelligence (#AI) industry is heading for an #energy #crisis."
#DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-00478-x
#aimastodon #Energieversorgung #sustainability #Wasserverbrauch #EnvironmentalCosts
Wir gedenken:
Gökhan Gültekin
Sedat Gürbüz
Said Nesar Hashemi
Mercedes Kierpacz
Hamza Kurtović
Vili Viorel Păun
Fatih Saraçoğlu
Ferhat Unvar
Kaloyan Velkov
Sie wurden vor vier Jahren, am 19. Februar 2020, bei dem rassistischen Anschlag von #Hanau ermordet.
#KeinVergessen
„Was mich bei Hoss und Hopf – eigentlich bei allen diesen Männlichkeitsinfluencern – so kirre macht, ist ihre demonstrative Eindimensionalität. Mit ihren Lambos und ihrer geldfixierten Statusidee wirken sie wie zugespitzte Karikaturen von Männlichkeit und die Tatsache, dass ihnen dabei jede ironische Ebene fehlt, macht das ganze so gespenstisch wie Sora-Szenen.“ https://mspr0.de/newsletter-no-3/ /via @mspro
