Right. And let’s award research grants in BitCoin.

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 11mo ago

AI could be used for REF, says Royal Society president. The president of the Royal Society has suggested that artificial intelligence could ease the burden placed on academics by the Research Excellence Framework and peer review. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

“The pretext for [Kristallnacht] was the assassination, on 9 November 1938, of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old German-born Polish Jew living in Paris.”

I’ve changed my header photo to this one. It shows my father Herbert and his sister Lotte with their parents Fritz and Marta in their Frankfurt apartment before Herbert and Lotte were sent to England on the Kindertransport, and later Fritz and Marta transported to Lodz Ghetto, final fate unknown.

Vor etwa einem Monat habe ich einen Text geschrieben, der sich mit den Videos der FPÖ-Tirol und dem breiteren Phänomen auseinandersetzt. Hier nachzulesen: campus-a.at/2025/07/15/s... oder auf meinem Substack: kreuzspiegladrian.substack.com/p/skifahren-...

Wie die FPÖ TikTok nutzt: Nazi-Codes, Memes und Skifahren | campus a

Der Fall Abwerzger: Skifahren als rassistischer Code, Nazi-UFOs und Memes. Wie die FPÖ Tirol TikTok nutzt – und rechtsextreme Inhalte viral gehen

campus-a.at

Ingrid Brodnig@brodnig.bsky.social · last yr.

In Tirol tragt der FPÖ-Chef Markus Abwerzger in einem Video die Burger-King-Krone - die ein einschlägiges Symbol in der rechtsextremen Szene ist Hier lohnt es sich einmal mehr, den Begriff „kalkulierte Ambivalenz“ zu verstehen

My people know how to enjoy ourselves.

Vor etwa einem Monat habe ich einen Text geschrieben, der sich mit den Videos der FPÖ-Tirol und dem breiteren Phänomen auseinandersetzt. Hier nachzulesen: campus-a.at/2025/07/15/s... oder auf meinem Substack: kreuzspiegladrian.substack.com/p/skifahren-...

Wie die FPÖ TikTok nutzt: Nazi-Codes, Memes und Skifahren | campus a

Der Fall Abwerzger: Skifahren als rassistischer Code, Nazi-UFOs und Memes. Wie die FPÖ Tirol TikTok nutzt – und rechtsextreme Inhalte viral gehen

campus-a.at

Ingrid Brodnig@brodnig.bsky.social · last yr.

In Tirol tragt der FPÖ-Chef Markus Abwerzger in einem Video die Burger-King-Krone - die ein einschlägiges Symbol in der rechtsextremen Szene ist Hier lohnt es sich einmal mehr, den Begriff „kalkulierte Ambivalenz“ zu verstehen

Nicht viel Licht am Horizont

Jay Rosen@jayrosen.bsky.social · last yr.

Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.

“For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.” Adam Smith

Elizabeth Warren@elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · last yr.

House Republicans are racing ahead with their “Billionaires Win, Families Lose” plan. Millions of people wouldn’t get the health care they need. Millions of little kids would go hungry. And it would fund tax handouts for billionaires and billionaire corporations.

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who died on this date 1832

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

Once again, "we should raise tariffs on all goods to insane levels" is one of Trump's only consistent econ policies, but everyone with basic knowledge knows that's a moronic idea, which leads to Trump staffers repeatedly sanewashing it, only for Trump to go "no I want the insane version"

@paigeambr.bsky.social · last yr.

It is. And Bloomberg already has an US official saying Trump didn't mean the 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico, he meant the reciprocal tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ich mein ja, Strolz dies, Strolz das, aber dafür werde ich ihm für immer dankbar sein.

Germany needs a public investment boost, and this can only happen with a reform of the debt brake. I signed this call for debt brake reform - alongside Blanchard, De Grauwe, Galbraith, Eichengreen, Pagano, Piketty, Posen, Rodrik, Weber, Zucman and several well-known 🇩🇪 economists

people who know me IRL have mostly heard some variant of my inception thesis: the way to get an idea to catch on in these circles is that it has to make you *sound* clever when you repeat it without requiring any deeper knowledge.

'where do key US political and economic actors actually get their information from' is a deeply understudied issue, because the real answer is largely through an oral culture, not literature

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · last yr.

Re: consensus types & looking to their peers, I feel like a lot of folks who have not worked in the corporate exec world don’t realize that 95% of the information these guys act on comes from their golf buddies

Children to grow up in pleasant surroundings with good educational opportunities. Adults to be protected in sickness and adversity. Pensioners to take untroubled ease. Economist Arthur Lewis’s sketch of a socialist society. AKA woke nonsense.

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them

In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

nbcnews.com

Europe not on the table, but on the menu

Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovilė Šakalienė: “Putin won’t change. We have 3–4 years to fully prepare for a major war in Europe.”

In this last month I have made the mental transition from "air travel is very safe" to "at least it would be a relatively quick way to go"

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Chris Muravez@chrismuravez.bsky.social · last yr.

Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.

That of all the tea at #MSC2025 it is camomile that is out also tells us something…

Federal employment peaked over 30 years ago. The headcount of US federal government has barely increased since 1970 despite a two-thirds increase in population. More from Chartbook: tinyurl.com/4myu898d.

It appears our entire national security apparatus is now owned by Vladimir Putin As Trump waxes poetic about Russia The Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard-who spouts Russian talking points And Pete Hegseth sells out Ukraine This begs the question What will be the long term ramifications for NATO

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Hegseth: "We must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective ... the US does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement."

One of my favourite thoughts from Engels, tragic though it is, from Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. "No nation will put up with production conducted by [monopoly firms], with so barefaced an exploitation of the community by a small band of dividend-mongers." Oh yes we will, as it happens.

„Besser als Bankenabgabe“: ÖVP entscheidet sich für Aushöhlung der Demokratie und Bankenabgabe dietagespresse.com/besser-als-b...

"Besser als Bankenabgabe": ÖVP entscheidet sich für Aushöhlung der Demokratie und Bankenabgabe

Die FPÖ fordert in den Koalitionsverhandlungen neben einer Aushöhlung demokratischer Institutionen jetzt auch eine Bankenabgabe.

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