I hate to say it, but the colleagues positioning themselves to be pro AI in teaching and curriculum, are probably also positioning themselves to be administrators, and probably aren’t thinking about or don’t care how it will affect teaching, learning, or the careers of those around them.

Happy pride! For those "can't change biology" types:

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

More specifically: Orange clownfish are all born male and live in groups led by a single dominant female. When she dies, the top male changes sex to become the primary female. www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fis...

Immer wieder hört man "Die AfD entzaubert sich schon, wenn sie mal regieren muss", ob in der privaten Diskussion oder selbstbewusst vorgetragen von Leuten wie Richard David Precht. Die Hoffnung tröstet viele, sie stimmt nur leider nicht. Hier drei Gründe, warum das Regieren sie nicht entzaubert. 🧵

It's a huge mistake to "adjust to" or "adapt" to generative AI. There's rarely been a more clearcut situation to reject vehemently for so many reasons. One reason beyond those that apply now is the future capacity for proactive manipulation and distortion. We need less outside interference not more.

Recently @correctiv.org have been publishing some important investigations into chemical pollution in Germany and the Netherlands. We are very pleased to publish this translation of their article "The pact with the chemical industry". corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/c...

CORRECTIV: "The pact with the chemical industry" | Corporate Europe Observatory

Tens of thousands of unknown, sometimes toxic, chemicals are floating in the Rhine. Why is industry allowed to discharge them unhindered? A top manager of a major corporation reveals how industry cont...

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Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

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

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Es waren schlimme Ostertage. Letzte Woche wurden 19 Leichen geborgen, am Samstag ein Schiffsbruch mit 70+ Toten & heute beobachteten wir aus der Luft mehrere Entführungen von Flüchtenden durch libysche Milizen. Ertrinken ist nicht die einzige EU-gemachte Gefahr auf dem Meer.

And like at least two thirds of these fucks didn't stay cancelled, they just wrote books and went back out on the circuit with a different grift!

After revelations that companies like Ring have been selling home security footage to ICE, the most common defense of keeping a camera up seems to be, “But what if I’m stalked?” And as a violence researcher, I’m just here to state for the record that police do not care about your security footage.

Allerhöchsten Respekt vor der Hartnäckigkeit der ORF-Journalist:innen. Sie haben unter schwersten Bedingungen versucht, Spuren der ersten nach Syrien abgeschobenen Person zu finden und massive Ungereimtheiten des Innenministeriums aufzudecken. orf.at/stories/3423...

Verschwundener abgeschobener Syrer könnte in Haft sitzen

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Reminds of the time I tried to help Caitlin Flanagan of the Atlantic understand that Khomeini and Khamenei were two separate supreme leaders and she absolutely refused to accept it and then blocked me

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Mullin: We are not wanting regime change, but the person that's leading this effort is the ayatollah. Remember in 1979, when he came to power, he was saying that he wanted to be a nuclear Iran

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Hätte tatsächlich nicht erwartet, dass OpenAI so dumm agiert. Unabhängig von den realen Auswirkungen, alleine die Symbolkraft ist verheerend. Eigentlich müssten sich außerhalb der USA jetzt sehr viele fragen, ob sie wirklich weiter die Services von OpenAI nutzen wollen.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 7mo ago

My goodness.

From The Archives:

Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’

WASHINGTON—In a pointed critique of President Trump’s foreign policy leadership, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated to members of the press Thursday that “the American people deserve a presid...

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Whenever an institution announces that it has "banned DEI" at Trump's request, it is now an explicitly white supremacist institution. Just remember that and plan accordingly.

Die slowenische Präsidentin Pirc Musar besucht den Peršmanhof & kritisiert langsame Ermittlungen. Außerdem gibt es ein Urteil des Landesverwaltungsgerichts, das Fragen zum Polizeieinsatz aufwirft. Denn die Bezirkshauptmannschaft hat keine Aufzeichnungen zum Einsatz. kaernten.orf.at/stories/3343...

BH: Keine Aufzeichnungen zu Peršmanhof

Die slowenische Präsidentin Pirc Musar besucht am Donnerstag den Peršmanhof in Bad Eisenkappel. Sie kritisiert langsame Ermittlungen. Außerdem gibt es ein erstes Urteil des Landesverwaltungsgerichts, ...

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kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition)@firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This a great piece of investigative journalism. @rollingstone.com This should be required reading for scientists and ethicists. Ethics matter, especially in science. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

So, the US govt approach is: *We are going to scan tourists social media accounts and deny visas because of content we dislike, like mocking Trump and *We are going to allow foreigners a work-around to consume social media content their governments have banned, including hate speech

Reuters@reuters.com · 7mo ago

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

"[Europe's] empires extending out across the globe. But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, it was contracting. Europe was in ruins. [...] The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by [Communists] and by anti-colonial uprisings" (Rubio, MSC '26)

yes hello im a citizen of this nation called europe and i dont wanna live under an atomic american umbrella that sounds dangerous thank you

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 7mo ago

NATO chief Mark Rutte said he has nothing against emerging talks on a European nuclear deterrent — as long as the initiative doesn’t seek to replace the American atomic umbrella 👇 He was speaking on the sidelines of #MSC2026. Follow our blog for more: www.politico.eu/article/muni...

I was in Geneva last week to attend the first plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals Waste and Pollution (ISP-CWP) as a delegate for @ipcp.bsky.social. We wrote daily briefs about our experience..it was quite something... www.ipcp.ch/geneva-brief...

Imagine not only admitting this, but pitching it to a prestigious journal because you want a lot of people to know about it.

Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Rojava konnte bisher existieren, weil es geschickt eine Politik des Dritten Weges zwischen den Machtblöcken verfolgte. Das Zusammenfallen der Interessen von USA, Türkei und syrischer Übergangsregierung stellt nun eine existenzielle Bedrohung dar. Dabei spielt auch der Zugang zum Öl eine Rolle.

Für Rojava geht es um alles

Den aktuellen Angriffen auf die Selbstverwaltung von Nord- und Ostsyrien ging eine Reihe internationaler Entwicklungen voraus – dabei geht es auch um den Zugang zu Öl

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Anlässlich des wichtigen Ausstiegs der @bpb.de bei X hier nochmals der (zuerst im Research.Table @table.media erschienene) Artikel von @zolke.bsky.social & mir, der Argumente zusammenträgt, warum Wissenschaft raus muss aus X. Viele der Argumente gelten auch für andere Bereiche! Ohne Paywall lesen:

Wissenschaftskommunikation auf X: Elon Musk gefällt das

Von Amrei Bahr und Achim Zolke Erstmals erschienen am 17.12.

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I really need folks to stop acting like Trump's goons are somehow emotionless terminators. They are super insecure bullies who desperately want to seem strong and powerful and popular and it kills them inside when they're not. Like Trump.

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.” Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

foxnews.com

kann das alles nur noch mit einem müden schulterzucken quittieren

Arne Semsrott@arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 11mo ago

NEU: Die Wirtschaftsministerin persönlich hat der Stiftung Familienunternehmen Lobby-Tipps gegeben. Ihr Ministerium könne das Vorhaben dann "flankieren". Und ihr Staatssekretär hat die Milliardärslobby gebeten, Druck auf die SPD auszuüben. @fragdenstaat.de: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 12mo ago

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.