Elite tech billionaires, who went down the rabbit hole of right-wing paranoia and see anything that would allow society at large to have a say in how their tech-supremacist elite agenda shapes society as 'censorship', are a threat to democracy.

A hotel in Germany uses 3D carpets to prevent guests from running in the passage...

I will believe that #Iran’s religious police has been disolved when civil society in Iran confirms it — and not because the regime claims it

If you listen to the news, you could be forgiven for thinking that everything is shit.

It’s not.

One example, Humpback Whale numbers are growing massively.

#whales #goodnews #humpbackwhales #beautifulnews

It's official: France bans short haul domestic flights ✈️ in favour of train 🚆 travel 👇👇
https://buff.ly/3gVzNUR

Was reminded of this during a #Microsoft event this morning. Still great.

#Africa #jobs #academic :

We have a couple of exciting #career opportunities!

Help us advance African security by designing policy-relevant programs that promote understanding and equip African security professionals to address insecurity effectively.

Positions include;

Assistant/Associate Professor, African Security Studies

Professor of Practice for Security Studies

https://africacenter.org/career-opportunities/

@webradius it does still work, thankfully!

Either someone is really attacking me (which has never happened before) or the security infrastructure is starting to deteriorate.

I've been doing background research and interviewing people on individuals that focus on extremism/terrorism and their accounts and content being taken down from social media and storage sites.

To help with this further, I was wondering if people could fill out this survey (should take 5-10 mins).

It is for a future journal article.

Thank you!

https://forms.gle/pb8rdedfterQgSeu6

#polisci #politicalscience #histodon

The DIA is struggling to retain support personnel (like HR & IT) because those folks can jump to other government agencies or the private sector and work remotely. The IC is going to increasingly face this problem…even for some analysts.

In the private sector I’m hearing anecdotally that remote #IntelligenceAnalysis jobs attract multiple times the number of applications vs in office positions.

https://www.defenseone.com/defense-systems/2022/11/pentagons-lead-intelligence-agency-has-hr-problem/380273/

@matthewrodier thanks! just shared with him.

I've been doing background research and interviewing people on individuals that focus on extremism/terrorism and their accounts and content being taken down from social media and storage sites.

To help with this further, I was wondering if people could fill out this survey (should take 5-10 mins).

It is for a future journal article.

Thank you!

https://forms.gle/pb8rdedfterQgSeu6

#polisci #politicalscience #histodon

3 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill and later becomes the first confirmed case of COVID-19. More than 6.6 million people have since died.

@MAArgentino and IS guys were just as effective lol

In an interesting turn of events, a network of neo-fascist accelerationists had been moving digital assets to TamTam, in light of Telegrams continued efforts to shutdown their channels; however, this morning TamTam nuked all their channels and chats. TamTam is a messaging service developped by VK, that is similar to Telegram but with less of the functionality. TamTam is one of the platforms that ISIS supporters moved to in 2019 when telegram became to hostile for them.

@p_vanostaeyen 🦗

Professors in August //
Professors in late Nov

An update on how the "Twitter amnesty" is going https://jmberger.substack.com/p/hug-a-mole