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da ist definitiv was dran: man wählt nicht die afd, weil man etwas positives für sich oder die gesellschaft will, man wählt sie, um anderen weh zu tun. jeder mag dabei andere menschen, institutionen oder gruppen im kopf haben, aber einig ist man sich in der ausübung der rache.

Krsto Lazarević@krstorevic.bsky.social · 8h ago

Toller Text von Seeßlen in der @taz.de. Er zeigt, warum es so schwer ist, „Onkel Ernst“ vom AfD-Wählen abzuhalten: Er hat es halt zu seiner Identität gemacht, ein Rassist zu sein und über alle Anderen zu schimpfen – obwohl es ihm eigentlich ganz gut geht. taz.de/Krise-der-De...

There's something diminishing about living in a world where men's abuse is so ubiquitous and unimpeded, and still women are chided for not thinking enough of men's woes, men's harms, men's feelings. We're constantly asked why we don't tolerate our endless violation with more dignity.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h ago

It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.

by request i'm going to share a quick thread of collections where people have pulled together articles / resources / arguments about ai harms and how to resist them this is by alphabetical order in my bookmarks, it's not comprehensive, feel free to add to the list of lists

A lot of the AI risk guys putting out stunned reports on the models doing things they couldn’t expect comes down to nobody understanding how subtext works when prompting. I’ll write more about this later but in sum:’These labs need more people with literary degrees.

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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"Those in favour of women's rights versus those in favour of trans rights" - 5 minutes on the BBC and it's really not a surprise that the UK has turned into one of the most transphobic countries among developed democracies

LRP: The vertical view of gender—with men at the top as the "full, complete" human gender—is a much older way of understanding gender than "the gender binary" and remains a big influence on how we see the sexes today. Women have long been viewed as defective, inferior versions of men.

a lot of people seem to think there is a fundamental inferiority to women that simply isn't true and a lot of those differences are less your biological makeup and more the fact that boys get so much more support, food, and training than girls, that gulf vanishes the more you equalize those things

Micah@rincewind.run · 23h ago

it's the old serena williams tweet in action, that there is a physical difference between the top tier of male athletes and the top tier of female athletes gets taken by far too many delusional men as "I can beat a woman at anything" no, you cannot beat a decent athlete of either gender at anything

here's another evil female classicist being cruelly critical of poor innocent genius white boy nolan, more specifically commenting on the portrayal of female characters including helen's complex sexual agency in the poem vs nolan's beaten & broken version of her brocku.ca/brock-news/2...

Opinion: Allison Glazebrook discusses the portrayal of women in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

This piece written by Allison Glazebrook, Professor of Classics and Archaeology at Brock University, originally appeared in The Conversation. Casting Lupita Nyong’o as Helen and Elliot Page as Sinon t...

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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

there's various pretenses that patriarchy sometimes upholds in order to make the degraded role look more appealing or "honored"--e.g. the madonna archetype--but like. it's a wink-nudge smokescreen for what they actually believe, which is that you are subhuman sexual property and so are your children

the point is that women and other people with uteruses are objects for sex and reproduction AND that it's men's right to humiliate and ridicule them for occupying that required role. it is, to them, an inherently degraded & degrading role. also they don't see children as people but as property.

There’s no contradiction between this kind of pornographic misogyny and puritanical misogyny of the old Christian right. Both use sexuality to enact men’s domination over women. That one sect forces sex and the other prohibits it is largely a matter of taste.

To be clear, I think "machine learning" is as anthropomorphic as "artificial intelligence". Learning and intelligence perform the same role, they imply uniquely biological or psychological capacities to the machine or artifact through their use in the phrase. See table 1: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Table 1 in https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.19960
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 8mo ago

Humbly I think it's all a dead end. I offer this instead on the topic of AI as a concept. bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Wenn ein neuer Faschismus entsteht, wird er Merkmale des aktuellen Kapitalismus enthalten, daher spreche ich vom "fordistischen Faschismus" (Mussolini, NSDAP...) und vom zu verhindernden "postfordistischen Faschismus". Ein Merkmal ist des neuen Faschismus ist Outsourcing. www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Recht auf Asyl ausgelagert? - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Die Auslagerung von Asylverfahren in Drittländer ist umstritten. Trotzdem unterzeichneten Großbritannien und Italien zu diesem Zweck Abkommen mit Ruanda und Albanien. Diese wurden zwar von nationalen ...

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