D Greenwalt

@dgeezy.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Communication @ SIU Carbondale. Climate justice, food autonomy. MUFC. Some reality TV. For academic info: www.dustinagreenwalt.com

Today Germany remembers Kristallnacht, so I'd like to share my latest essay, "Refusing the Economic Enthymeme: Bishop von Galen's Sermons against Aktion T-4," published in Argumentation & Advocacy. I closely read von Galen's sermons decrying the Aktion T-4 program, a precursor to the Final Solution.

Refusing the economic enthymeme: Bishop von Galen’s sermons against Aktion T-4

This essay critically interprets a set of 1941 sermons delivered by Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Münster, in opposition to the quasi-secret Nazi T-4 program that authorized the execution...

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AI labs writing 400-page threat models on how a superintelligence might socially engineer humanity while the guy holding the entire planet's GPU supply folds to a regular 1962 honeypot

NEW: Organizers with Appalachians Against Uranium rallied today in the 2nd action of a pressure campaign to stop the expansion of the nuclear industry in Tennessee. A caravan protested Summers-Taylor, a concrete and paving contractor working with the nuclear tech company BWXT Technologies, Inc.

a whole lotta people got killed to answer the question of slavery in the US, and later a whole lot more people got killed to answer the question of global fascism. but the slaveholders and the fascists managed to claw their way back. this election isnt a major victory. its a very narrow opportunity

Very little discussion about the Trump using a tac nuke rumors over here.... His threats will probably just amount to conventional horrific war crimes if we even have the ammo. Nuclear anxiety on the up nevertheless

The glory of being in a deep blue state is that the campaign ads I see and hear are mostly for other states, other than the occasional unhinged Darren Bailey commercial, of course. Such a relief after living in Pennsylvania.