Bullish monolingualism is a little discussed element of fascism. The ‘supremacy’ of English, and visceral hatred towards other languages, has always been key to the versions rampant in the US, UK and Australia.
el uso de tecnologías de vigilancia en la Argentina de Milei potencia el poder de represión estatal y tiene efectos disuasorios sobre el derecho a la privacidad y a la libertad de expresión, de reunión pacífica y de asociación. Informe de @amnistiaar.bsky.social amnistia.org.ar/noticias/arg...
Argentina: vigilancia con IA y riesgos para los derechos humanos
Amnistía Internacional alerta sobre la expansión de la vigilancia con IA en Argentina y sus riesgos para la privacidad y las libertades.
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Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...
danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.
Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026
When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
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“The most terrifying question of Garcia’s book is a simple one: can we, how can we, live with men after the Pelicot trial?” Los Angeles Review of Books (@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social) review Manon Garcia's Living with Men lareviewofbooks.org/article/gise...
Before and After the Pelicot Trial | Los Angeles Review of Books
On Manon Garcia’s new book about the recent case, and what it tells us about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and the complicity of men in general.
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How do we navigate the semantic labyrinth of sex in biology? doi.org/10.1093/icb/icag093 In developing a @treeofsex.bsky.social 2.0 ontology, we have encountered many versions of sex. In this paper, we come together to explore places of contention and make connections across concepts of sex.
Navigating the Semantic Labyrinth of “Sex” in the Study of Reproductive Trait Evolution
Synopsis. “Sex” is a compound of many different concepts that contribute to a multiplicity of meanings. As a result, “sex” appears in a wide range of scien
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I disagree. Le Pen hasn’t instigated a coup d’état. Meloni does not have track record of openly racist remarks. And Orbán accepted his electoral defeat. Not to say that Europeans would no longer vote for these leaders if they did, but we simply don’t know yet. Trump is much more extremist!
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 5mo agoTl;dr: Americans have trouble understanding there is ~nothing unique about Trump. He is part of the broad wave of far right parties/politicians since 2008 across rich democracies. Our institutions just suck more. Europeans have trouble understanding there is ~nothing unique about Trump. See above.
Una banda de Gandalfs esta tarde en la puerta de la casa de Peter Thiel en Palermo Chico. 😁
¿Ecoansiedad? La combatimos en #LaUniClimática, una formación que se celebra en octubre y ofrece una guía práctica para la transición ecosocial. ¡Matrícula abierta!
Contra la ecoansiedad: La Uni Climática 2026 presenta su guía práctica para la transición ecosocial - Climática
Esta nueva edición se celebrará los días 7, 14 y 21 de octubre. Será 'online' y, por primera vez, en directo. Como todos los años, hay descuentos en la matrícula.
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Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Butler, "From Game of Thrones to Steven Pinker: Just how Lawless were the Middle Ages?" (2017) legalhistorymiscellany.com/2017/08/15/f... via @legalmiscellany
From Game of Thrones to Steven Pinker: Just how Lawless were the Middle Ages?
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 15 August 2017. Game of Thrones (GoT) season is here again, and along with it comes the perpetuation of an image of the Middle Ages as a lawless society in which violence i...
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Coming in October! Bloomsbury's six volume set on A Cultural History of Violence. Yours truly is the editor of the medieval volume. Has your library ordered a copy yet? www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-...
A Cultural History of Violence
Tracing the cultural history of violence through the ages, these six volumes explore how it has been understood, created, carried out and controlled from the an…
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In episode 619, I talk with Dr. Philip Dwyer about his fascinating book, The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence. #History #Science youtu.be/BoZNJRytTsw
#619 Philip Dwyer The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence
YouTube video by The Dissenter
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I love sending people this because we’ve all internalized a cultural idea about violence and animal behavior that’s probably not true courier.unesco.org/en/articles/...
The origins of violence
Our image of the wild and warlike prehistoric human, which persists even today, is actually a myth, devised in the second half of the nineteenth century. Archaeological research shows that, in fact, c...
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🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 Very happy that our article @alvarooleart.bsky.social and @juanroch.bsky.social "The Dehumanization of Palestinians by European Commission President von der Leyen: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis" is out Open Access at Middle East Critique: doi.org/10.1080/1943...
The Dehumanization of Palestinians by European Commission President von der Leyen: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis
The unconditional support of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Israel following the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 2023, and Israel’s ensuing genocidal aggression on Palestine, ...
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Recoleta: El gobierno de la ciudad de Buenos Aires concesiona una bóveda del Cementerio para instalar un local de gastronomía.
Recoleta: la Ciudad concesiona una bóveda del Cementerio para instalar un local de gastronomía
La licitación permite utilizar una bóveda “deshabitada” para la instalación de un local de merchandising, venta de productos alimenticios y servicio de turismo nocturno.
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In my paper, I show how binary sex classification is that shoddy foundation (the master's tool), tracing the history of sex across and between politics and science. I argue that in order to create LASTING change, we scientists must create our own radical sex imaginary. (4/6)
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Why is there "no consensus" about sex in biology? Turns out, we're using seven different concepts. In "Evolution, development and the incoherence of sex" we name & elucidate these concepts. With Karen Warkentin and Jay Falk @jjinsing.bsky.social @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Really interesting discussion about how to think about sex as a category and concept, and whether it's better to drop the concept from biology (similar discussions have been ongoing about race). It's not as bombastic a claim as it seems, so give it a read!
Mike Dietrich@mikedietrich.bsky.social · 2y agoWho needs sex? Sex concepts that is. Get your mind out of the gutter and into Biology and Philosophy. doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Welcoming Musango matusadonaensis, a new sauropodomorph dino from the Late Triassic of Zimbabwe found by our team back in 2018. Read about it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and have a look at this lovely reconstruction by @markwitton.bsky.social (1/2)
I'm actually playing with the idea of teaching a class on 'new work on togetherness', based on these sorts of papers: James Lewis, What is togetherness and why is it good? Vida Yao, Grace and Alienation Quinn White, Honesty and Discretion Anna-Bella Sicilia, Love, Fairness and Sharing a life
‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...
🎯¿Por qué surge la derecha radical? Se dice: 1️⃣nuevo clivaje 2️⃣ normalización ("el despertar del facho dormido") 3️⃣ polarización Estudiamos #Vox y encontramos que ni 1 ni 2 y 3 hasta ahí. Proponemos una explicación menos lineal y más atenta a la contingencia y la política. 👇 rb.gy/0zjzbx
Today, in "Transformations of European Politics", we are discussing the "p-word". We do this by reading and discussing this fiery polemic by @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
What Is Populism? – Penn Press
Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez—populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who ...
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De lo que vemos en las caminatas paisajeantes y mucho más podrán encontrarlo en este libro, que pueden adquirirlo aquí: tienda.futurock.fm/productos/me...
ÚLTIMA HORA | Sube a 67 el número de personas migrantes que han muerto tratando de llegar a Ceuta desde Marruecos www.eldiario.es/politica/ult...
The "mainstream" discourse on Ceuta shows quite clearly how the discourse has shifted, how norms and humanity have eroded, and how fear of (or perhaps, agreement with) the far right shapes the politics and discourse of the day.
My new contribution. Ideological and Affective Polarization in Argentina to be published in the forthcoming Handbook of Argentine Politics. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Fires in Europe are breaking records: here’s what the future holds www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Fires in Europe are breaking records: here’s what the future holds
Countries such as Spain and France can expect fire regimes more like those of California as climate change favours hot, dry conditions, scientists suggest.
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