"Bislang durften Polizeien Kamerabilder nur rückwirkend mit Fahndungslisten abgleichen. Nun soll das in Echtzeit möglich sein – der Albtraum aller Bürgerrechtler*innen, denn dabei werden alle erfasst, die sich dort aufhalten."

CCC@ccc.de · 4w ago

Das Gesicht ist wohl das sensibelste biometrische Merkmal, wir tragen es offen herum: Bundestag stimmt für #Gesichtserkennung mit Live-Internet-Abgleich www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1201...

Made me curious about film screenings, which continue to happen in Gaza.

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 4w ago

This image.

I wrote a piece a few years ago as a sort of primer that tries to historicize and contextualize the current counterrevolutionary war in Sudan. It’s basic and is meant to give folks who haven’t been following closely a sense of what and why it is happening.

Critical Times@criticaltimes1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

From our new issue: "Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War" by @nisrinelamin.bsky.social traces key elements of the political economy of Sudan's war and situates it within a longer history of state violence. Freely available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

A tremendous loss. Muzan was a dedicated writer and activist of the Sudanese Revolution. Her writings and talks are invaluable portals of radical, liberatory, and transformative political thought. Here is a thread of some them:

Nisrin Elamin@nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On this third year anniversary of the war in Sudan we woke up to the devastating news that our friend and comrade Muzan Al Neel has passed away. She was a brilliant revolutionary thinker, writer and organizer and a wonderful human. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un

On this third year anniversary of the war in Sudan we woke up to the devastating news that our friend and comrade Muzan Al Neel has passed away. She was a brilliant revolutionary thinker, writer and organizer and a wonderful human. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un

I cannot keep track with how many notifications I'm getting from all over Beirut and south Lebanon right now of the places that Israel is obliterating. There are multiple reports of multiple massacres in the past hour alone.

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

Liberals love this idea that they can just sit back and not be part of the socialist movement and one will just magically appear

"Palestinians across the occupied West Bank observed a general strike on Wednesday in protest against a new Israeli law allowing the execution of prisoners, as international condemnation mounted." www.middleeasteye.net/news/general...

Palestinians in West Bank strike after Israel passes death penalty law

Families of detainees vow to resist, while human rights groups and multiple countries denounce the law

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Some thoughts on bitterness and the lived experience of time in fascist times. + the wonderful work of Jennifer Packer

Caribbean Philosophical Association@caribphil.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our new posting of “Caliban’s Readings” is now available. Please join Aisha P. L. Kadiri in exploring the timeliness of bitterness: "It is precisely this refusal to move on that lays bare structures of white ignorance and can manifest as a feeling of having been 'too early.'"

Das Feuilleton wärmt sich schon mal auf für den «Vibe Shift», vulgo Faschisierung, nach Mariam Lau in der ZEIT entdeckt nun auch Springers WELD die literarische Produktion aus dem völkischen Jungeuropa-Verlag. Wann Buchpreis?

Louis Berger@ajournomento.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In der WELT: Eine geradezu hymnische Besprechung des Romans „Herrengedeck“, dessen Verfasser der rechtsradikale Aktivist Volker Zierke ist. Rezensent Krause selbst schrieb 1994 beim Sammelband „Die selbstbewusste Nation“ mit.

I have another new piece just out, considering the intersection of #surveillance and #ScienceFiction, this time in the context of the the ideologies of tech oligarchs, in Science as Culture, edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social and Les Levidow... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Total surveillance as a civilizational stage? Science-fiction, religion and the tech oligarchy

Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Die #Brandmauer ist passé: Rechtsradikale und Konservative haben sich durchgesetzt und die Mehrheit errungen. Der Aufbau eines EU-weiten gemeinsamen Abschiebe-/ Haftregimes ist ins Rollen geraten. Der Weg in den #Autoritarismus ist gepflastert mit rassistischer #Migrationspolitik - alle schauen zu.

EU verschärft Asylpolitik: Brüssel stimmt für Abschiebezentren in Drittstaaten

Das Europäische Parlament stimmt für eine Verschärfung der Asylpolitik. Unterstützt wurde das Gesetzesprojekt auch von rechten Parteien wie der AfD.

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Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...

Texas State Fires Philosophy Professor Over Off-Campus Talk on the Israeli-Palestine Conflict - Daily Nous

Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights after they told him he would h...

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Stockholm: Join us April 1st for a seminar on AI before the ruins! Anne Pasek, visiting us from Trent University where she is associate professor, will dive into what might happen to the massive rollout of datacentres when the AI bubble bursts www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Officially released today!💥Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine💥 Tracing the refusal that haunts the history of tech, my book offers a source of inspiration for those looking for a new tech politics beyond reform/acceleration. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773... Buy w/ discount👇

Philippe Chancel's photos of the Nazi hunting Rockabilly street gangs of 80s Paris.

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in Lebanon: HRW

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

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How does earth system modelling limit what stories about planetary change can be told? And can the lens of the Plantationocene help us answer this question? That’s what I am asking in a new paper in The Anthropocene Review doi.org/10.1177/2053... 1/

"The Pentagon began to integrate Anthropic’s Claude chatbot into [Palantir] Maven in late 2024... The system has been used to generate proposed targets, to track logistics and provide summaries of intelligence coming in from the field." The result? www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’

Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.

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Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 5mo ago

Interesting! Anthropic's Claude, the AI tool that the Pentagon famously banned last week, continues to play a crucial role in the U.S. military campaign in Iran, three people familiar with the situation told the @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

How does earth system modelling limit what stories about planetary change can be told? And can the lens of the Plantationocene help us answer this question? That’s what I am asking in a new paper in The Anthropocene Review doi.org/10.1177/2053... 1/

This includes the the entire city of Sour (Tyre), one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, with a population of ~135,200 people

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

„Auf Anfrage teilt ein Sprecher des Staatsministers mit, dass man sich entschieden habe, die drei Buchhandlungen nicht auszuzeichnen, weil man über ,verfassungsschutzrelevante Erkenntnisse’ verfüge.“

Philipp Hölzing@philipphoelzing.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Buchhandlungen werden jetzt in Deutschland vom Verfassungsschutz geprüft! www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/wolfr...

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

The phrase “preemptive strike” is as insulting as when we were sold “humanitarian pauses” in the middle of a live-streamed genocide. The powerful looking you straight in the face and telling you your common sense simply doesn’t matter.

@danielloick.bsky.social and I wrote a thing: "Surplus Fascism: Reflections on Current Tendencies of Abandonment in Germany and Beyond", for a SI in New German Critique. @robin-c.bsky.social and H. Kundnani also contributed some really good pieces, among others! read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...

Surplus Fascism: Reflections on Current Tendencies of Abandonment in Germany and Beyond

Given the current rise of right-wing authoritarian and fascist movements and political parties all around the world, not to mention the recent success of the AfD in Germany, there is a renewed debate ...

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German Memory Politics at a Crossroads Very happy to be part of this new special issue I wrote my article “Staatsräson as State Racism: Notes on the Authoritarian Turn in Contemporary Germany” last spring … and the authoritarian turn hasn’t slowed down read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...

Volume 53 Issue 1 (157) | New German Critique | Duke University Press

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And now we officially have a cover dukeupress.edu/the-business...

re: Kansas today, but everything generally—I don’t repeat what’s become a talking point about the number of trans people being so small to be so targeted. The number of people harmed is not a fight I want to have when that number could be one and the harm would still be wrong.