Raus auf die Straße - sonst ändert sich gar nichts! Denn #Reiche will keinen #Klimaschutz! bsky.app/profile/klim...
🚦- Tierchen ¦¦ #SystemChangeNotClimateChange@klimahoelle.bsky.social · yesterday„Hamm ist der Ground Zero der deutschen Klimapolitik“ Aufruf für die Kundgebung am Gaskraftwerk in #Hamm am 13.09.2026 Wir gehen da hin, wo der Widerstand hingehört! #Klimakatastrophe #Artenkollaps klimabuendnis-hamm.de/pm-fuer-die-...
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CFA 2026-27 RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellowship McGill's Research Group on Constitutional Studies brings together the study of political theory, political and legal philosophy, constitutional and p...
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Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, @fragdenstaat.de! Heute vor 15 Jahren wurde FragDenStaat gegründet. Damit es noch viele weitere Jahre werden, beschenkt uns die Tagesschau mit einem ausführlichen Beitrag über unseren aktuellen Kampf zur Rettung des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes.
The same pattern is playing out at universities around the world. IT units parrot industry talking points oblivious (or defiant) of scholarship. Cushy platforms, speaking gigs, and political capital for those who push uncritical adoption, and abundant marginalizing tactics against critical scholars.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2mo agoPlease see this as a general reminder that you're not alone. Many of us reject, refuse, repudiate artificial intelligence and the technology industry: Guest et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
The world changed its norms to be pro car because of a huge campaign to damage public transport and force the car on us. Not only that but cars and especially the petrochemical industry are literally destroying the planet fully. AI is copying their playbook because it works. olivia.science/before
We've been here before!
Parallels between AI and tobacco, and other warnings.
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We know how to decarbonise our energy systems. We know how to decarbonise road and rail transportation. We know how to produce low carbon cement and steel. Humanity doesn’t have to suffer ever worse heatwaves and droughts. We can avoid this.
Suresh reports on his experience talking with hundreds of executives (and, more importantly, their subordinates) about what (if anything) AI is doing for business in an essay entitled "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking": hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... 11/
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
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"Die Europäer haben auf eine Bedrohung von außen nicht gemeinsam reagiert, sondern sind übereinander hergefallen. Der gestrige Tag war ein schwarzer Tag für Europa und ein Fest für seine Feinde." www.zeit.de/politik/2026...
Ceuta: Ein Fest für die Feinde Europas
Die Reaktionen auf den Ausnahmezustand in Ceuta? Teils faktenfreies Spanien-Bashing. Man muss festhalten: Friedrich Merz fiel hier beinahe positiv auf.
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Aus der Reihe: "Stell dir vor, Friedrich Merz macht einen Brandstifter zum Feuerwehr-Chef", heute: Stell dir vor, Friedrich Merz macht die Hauptgeschäftsführerin der "Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände" zur Chefin der "Abteilung für Soziales, Gesundheit und Arbeit" im Kanzleramt.
Die BDA dankt Christina Ramb und wünscht ihr viel Erfolg im Bundeskanzleramt
Christina Ramb wechselt ins Bundeskanzleramt...
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So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al
The making of critical data center studies - Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Mél Hogan, 2025
In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. Whil...
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“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard Paid McKinsey $250,000 For FAS Consultation, Internal Documents Show | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.
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sakura christmas@prof-christmas.bsky.social · 6d agoUnsurprising that all these cuts being made to #Harvard —from the Office of Student Services to the Writing Center to now the Dudley Co-op—are happening with input from McKinsey, a firm made up of The Second Worst People I knew in college there
Αφιερωμένο σε όλους τους «δεν με πειράζει να μαζεύουν στοιχεία για εμένα, δεν έχω τίποτα να κρύψω».
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 6d agoWith "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/
Es ist wirklich faszinierend, wie sich die Haltung zu den Medien seit der "Democracy dies in Darkness"-Romantik von 2016 gewandelt hat. Es ist kein rein individuelles moralisches Versagen, die Medienkrise ist der wichtigste Faktor.
The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to it, as a way of diffusing responsibility, but the self-perpetuated intelligence myth has them convinced they have no choice.
Anna Mills@annamillsoer.bsky.social · 7d ago"They don't realize the debate inside the companies is if AI will be advancing itself past our control in two years or four." www.pacingthefrontier.com
In the future, people’s fate will be dictated by which side of the camera they are on.
I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots
A German startup sent a camera-wearing chef to my apartment. In exchange for a free lunch, I let them record every chop and stir to train future humanoids.
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🚨 New episode on YouTube with Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net! 🚨 We discuss: ➡️ The Real AI Threat ➡️ The Reverse Centaur ➡️ Capital vs. Labor ➡️ 107 Days till the Midterms? Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=-dAIJRjb-Bw&feature=youtu.be
AI and the Enshittification Era w/ Cory Doctorow | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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Daher ist die Verwendung von "umstritten" eben nicht nur ein "sich nicht positionieren", sondern es ist eine klare Entscheidung des "alles Sagens" ohne kritische Einordnung. Dies ist eine ideologische Praxis. Aufgabe der Wissenschaft ist, dies klar zu benennen, v.a. wenn die Medien es nicht mehr tun
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In Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig.
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Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past
KI-Müdigkeit: Fast drei Viertel wünschen sich die Arbeitswelt vor ChatGPT zurück Eigentlich sollte sie die Produktivität steigern – inzwischen sind Mitarbeiter frustriert von KI. Viele würden die Technologie am liebsten abschaffen […]
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This is such a loss for the Harvard community. Jane has been a leader and a steady voice in the conversation about university writing and AI nationwide but especially in New England. Carnegie Mellon did the exact same thing with our Writing Center while I was a grad student there... (1/2)
Seth Kahn (he/him)@badpacifist.bsky.social · last wk.Sending vibes to @janerosenzweig.bsky.social. What an appalling decision.
Assistant or Associate Professor, Ancient Greek Literature at University of Toronto www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSK114/a...
Assistant or Associate Professor, Ancient Greek Literature at University of Toronto
An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant or Associate Professor, Ancient Greek Literature is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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In der FAZ wähnt Juli Zeh in der privaten Finanzierung des örtlichen Spielplatzes die Vorstufe zum Bürgerkrieg. Wie all diese autoritären Opfererzählungen ist auch das gelogen, das Land hat 50.000 Euro für den Spielplatz bezahlt.
This politician in Canada used ChatGPT to write his speech and then just directly read out loud the AI prompt without realising it, announcing to legislators “Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points." Glorious!
unbreaking.org/about/ Umm, also if that doesnt fit your niche. If you want to make your own this looks interesting too. raft.foundation GL
About Unbreaking — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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A question: does anyone know about communities or groups for scientists who are committed to writing without the use of LLMs / genAI?
This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame
Hallo #Berlin! Wer weiß ein #WGZimmer vom 01.09.2026-31.08.2027 für eine FSJ-lerin (K1)? Sie hat eine Stelle bei der Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung des SED-Unrechts und ist klug, nett, kreativ, musikalisch und politisch interessiert. Weiß wer was? #Followerpower
