«Wir gehen davon aus, dass sich die Kosten für die Olympischen Spiele irgendwo zwischen 6 und 16 Milliarden Euro bewegen werden. Die letzten Winterspiele in Cortina waren 85 Prozent über dem geplanten Budget.»
Den Berliner Hochschulen fehlen pro Jahr rund 150 Millionen
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
Now me: I think it’s in many ways an *astonishing* technology that has the unfortunate downside of being in the hands of some truly heinous people who are at the top of industry and government policy making, and I don’t see this changing any time soon.
New issue out! Krisis Vol. 45 No. 2 (2025)
Follow the link to our home page (krisis.eu), or check out the table of contents in the thread below"
While in the US it has become an obvious default by now, Dutch media maybe even earlier stopped caring about (and shaming) outright lying by leading politicians
Wichtiges Statement der GfM: «Die Autonomie von Kunst, Wissenschaft und öffentlicher Debatte ist gerade in konflikthaften Situationen zu verteidigen. Kulturelle Institutionen und Hochschulen sind Orte, an denen gesellschaftliche Widersprüche sichtbar werden müssen, um verhandelbar zu sein.»
new to me: AI-faked book clubs that offer to discuss your academic book ... "It is a small step from what we used to call vanity publishing to DIY, web-based marketing. And the bots approaching us make a dangerously compelling case; we feel seen, but we are scanned and then scammed."
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman died today at age 96. "At a moment when many of the institutions he documented are being decimated and our attention is divided," Natasha Lewis wrote last year, "Wiseman’s films are out of time and completely timely." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Stop supporting ed tech or predatory platforms like academia dot edu. Start supporting community-led initiatives like Knowledge Commons (Humanities Commons), built by academics *for* academics.
A case of “operational maps” maybe?
New Special Issue! Krisis Vol 45 No. 1: Radical Aesthetics
We are delighted to present the latest edition of Krisis. This special issue, which focuses on the theme of Radical Aesthetics, has been edited by our guest editors @viktoriahue.bsky.social and Tanay Gandhi.
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The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.
My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
I'm so happy this paper is out, and feel humbled to publish with Hypatia. Thank you so much @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social for the superb editorial guidance!
In case Zohran's just too exciting for you, here's our room-temperature take on last week's Dutch election: jacobin.com/2025/11/neth...
Wenn schon nicht Trump direkt den #Friedensnobelpreis erhält, dann offenbar wenigstens eine Verbündete im Kampf für Autoritarismus mit losen Übergängen zum Faschismus...
Podcast over hypotheekrenteaftrek. Linkse partijen zijn voor de afschaffing zodat de woningmarkt afkoelt, mensen toegang tot huizen krijgen en er meer gebouwd kan worden. Meeste rechtse partijen natuurlijk tegen want de rijken moeten rijker worden over de rug van huurders.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
In het nos journaal net gaat het alleen over het geweld. Geen woord over het uitgedragen gedachtegoed, de vlaggen, de leuzen die ermee gepaard gingen en die dat geweld zoveel zorgelijker maken. Dat weglaten is echt kwalijk.
I think framings of the issue along lines of hype/snake oil/con/etc were always inviting this kind of bullshit pushback, because they're operating under the question raised by the PR machine (something like "how powerful are the models?" etc). We're letting them set the question. And then "hype" 1/n
Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
What would be earlier examples of top down, epistemically motivated Luddites?
Mont Vully, now.
An important (German language) take on Adolescence: a complex and productively ambivalent story is very much reduced to one simplified message … not least to trigger social media buzz (about the dangers of social media, of course)
All of that 👇 … very helpful. Especially the critique of ‘humanist‘ AI criticism
Side note: media “ecosystem” now fully naturalized (!) as PR term
Ik ben eigenlijk wel blij met deze nieuwe duidelijkheid.
Traditioneel slachtoffert D66 migranten pas na de verkiezingen, om zo haar neoliberale beleid door te kunnen voeren met de VVD. Nu is het dus vooraf al bekend.
Geen excuses meer voor de "sociaal-liberale" kiezers.
2019, G Geltner wrote this helpful blog post on the developments back then: guygeltner.squarespace.com/blog/2582019... it was also published (in Dutch) by @foliacivitatis.bsky.social www.folia.nl/opinie/13133... I hope Folia will pick it up again
Six years ago, 2019, AUP was privatized; the name ‘AUP’ remained property of the University of Amsterdam and had been licensed out to AUP for, we were told back then "a fixed period of time with the possibility to renew". Would be nice to hear more about the new deal.