Frederik Forrai Ørskov
@oerskov.bsky.social
Historian of literature, Nazism, cultural diplomacy, the Nordic countries, and a bunch of other things. Post.doc at Nordic Humanities Center, University of Copenhagen
We should be outraged not only about Ceuta and the cynical reactions of European governments, but even more so in the face of the tens of thousands who have died in the Mediterranean, most of them without a trace. AI #Slop, however, only serves those who want to make their suffering invisible 4/
Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...
The photo “confirms what thousands of testimonies from Palestinian detainees have exposed, and what we and other organisations have been reporting for nearly three years now: Israeli detention facilities are torture camps for Palestinians.”
Photo of bound Palestinian detainee corroborates Israeli torture reports, say rights groups
Image of man in underwear, blindfold and bound to iron rod has been widely shared on social media
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Someone on a podcast I watched the other day said that the less skilled a person is the more they seem to be excited by AI, and I can’t stop thinking about that. And of course, it makes sense, because there is a point at which you are skilled enough that AI cannot do a better job than you can.
This for me is the big issue in journal editing now. Not just obvious fabricated content and references but empty automated research text overwhelming our knowledge production, review and publication systems. 6/
He had no satisfactory answer, but the answer is this: Academics who play along with automating various parts of our jobs are partaking in our own industry's destruction. When it comes time for these companies to begin charging real money for their devastatingly high compute costs, university (cont)
“Jeg synes ikke, det er for meget at kræve, at bøger skal være skrevet af mennesker, oversat af mennesker og anmeldt af mennesker, hvis de skal læses af mennesker. Det er faktisk det absolutte minimum.” Amen! @atlasmagasin.bsky.social atlasmag.dk/kultur/b%C3%...
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In Israel’s descent into fascism there appears to be no bottom. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...
Israel Passes Law to Hang Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks
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The fact that fewer and fewer people are willing and/or able to read say 1000 words at once seems as dangerous to liberal democracy as anything else that might be happening but that is where we are
Et pro-tip til danske politikere, der forbereder sig på valgkamp: www.theguardian.com/environment/... #dkpol
‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals
Exclusive: From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus
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Mette Sandbye vil have dig til at gemme dine gamle familiealbum og printe de bedste billeder fra skyen. I sin nye bog skriver fotoforskeren om en uddøende praksis.
At sætte familiens fotos i album er en ekstrem kærlighedsakt
Mette Sandbye vil have dig til at gemme dine gamle familiealbum og printe de bedste billeder fra skyen. I sin nye bog skriver fotoforskeren om en uddøende praksis, der rummer både kulturhistorisk…
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This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
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Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Home as a Site of Exclusion: The Nazi Occupation, Housing Shortages and the Holocaust in France - Shannon L. Fogg, 2022
During World War II, France faced a housing crisis with over 1.2 million dwellings destroyed or damaged. In addition to the destruction, the German occupiers re...
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoJD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
"'We’re seeing a velocity of killing that can only be compared to the Rwandan genocide,' Yale lab executive director Nathaniel Raymond told CNN this week, saying sources had told his lab that thousands of people were dead." www.smh.com.au/world/africa...
In fallen city stained by blood, latest images reveal grim development
New satellite images taken over El Fasher suggest the next step of a large-scale massacre is under way, as international pressure grows.
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“In a world on fire, how can we concede so much power to an exploitative technology that produces questionable results, operates in opaque ways, deepens social precarity and fuels the planetary emergency?” On academic publishers and the AI hype drb.ie/move-over-fo...
Move over for AI - DRB
Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...
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Academics in the US are increasingly under threat. Mark Bray is a great scholar who has made substantial contributions to the critical study of antifascism and fascism. Threats and intimidation cannot be accepted as the new normal.
Mark Bray@mark-bray.bsky.social · 11mo agoThinking of my former Hungarian language teacher today who was greatly upset when Dylan won the Nobel prize - not because a singer had won the prize but because Krasznahorkai hadn't.
Me and a bunch of brilliant colleagues got an op-ed responding to the recent political attacks on Roskilde University in the Danish newspaper Politiken today.
RUC-ansatte reagerer på statsministerens kritik: Angreb på universitetet er et angreb på hele samfundet
Debatindlæg | Læs Politikens mange forskellige debatindlæg. Det enkelte indlæg er udtryk for skribentens holdning. Du kan også få bragt dit debatindlæg.
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Mikkel Flohr@mflohr.bsky.social · 11mo agoDanish social democratic PM apparently upset with migrants and my current place of employment (Roskilde University). No surprise there. One of the few things that consistently inspires me about my place of employment is the fear and hatred that it consistently appears to evoke on the right.
Det her er en vild og temmelig foruroligende afdækning fra vores gravergruppe. Gennem en unik samkøring af data fra flere forskellige kilder kan de nu kortlægge, hvordan arealerne, hvor danskernes drikkevand bliver dannet, bliver sprøjtet med pesticider.
CfP i TEMP: Litterære interventioner i historiske konfliktsituationer. Deadline for abstracts: 1. november. Del gerne!
There are no words left for what the Israeli government and IDF are doing to Gazans. And yet we must still keep finding the words to say it loudly: they are actively committing genocide and the our governments are letting them. @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hvem kan dog stiltiende se til at flere og flere børn dø af sult i Gaza ? Menneskeskabt grusomhed udfoldes for vores åbne øjne. Grænserne må STRAKS åbnes for uhindret nødhjælp.
My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
Aaand today is officially publishing day, request it at your favorite university library before your neighbor!
Frederik Forrai Ørskov@oerskov.bsky.social · last yr.My book exists!
