Nicolai Tangens utspill bør vekke alle KI-kritiske røster i hele landet Les innlegget.

www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc.

Rubio just cancelled all of them
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Elon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—and It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid Apartheid was, first and foremost, a business plan—one that the South African–born Musk seems to be reworking for the modern age.

Today's #MustReads:

Elon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—and It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid www.thenation.com/article/poli... by @elienyc.bsky.social

Trump’s Stunning Order on College Students Will Reach Further Than It Seems Democrats must speak out against this.

Everything @emilyctamkin.bsky.social says here about Trump’s executive order on antisemitism is correct. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump’s Attacks On DEI Are a Green Light for the Government to Discriminate Under the guise of eliminating racial discrimination against white men, the Trump administration is launching a frontal assault on the country’s civil rights infrastructure.

As of this moment, the entire federal government is in violation of the Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment —not b/c the government has ended DEIA programs, but b/c the government is discriminating against employees and new hires based on the color of their skin.
My latest in @thenation.com

I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget

and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education

Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities

Israel strikes Yemen’s Sanaa airport, Hodeidah power plant Israeli military attacks several sites, including airport in Yemen’s capital as the WHO chief boards a flight.

Fucking hell

"The head of the World Health Organization...said he and his United Nations colleagues were preparing to board a plane at Sanaa airport when it came under Israeli bombardment.

"One of our plane's crew members was injured. At least two people were killed."

Three Palestinian babies freeze to death in Gaza - as it happened - Region - World As Israeli aggression in Gaza, Lebanon, and Post-Assad Syria deepens human suffering and regional instability, and amid growing international calls for ceasefires and de-escalation, Ahram Online cover...

The genocide continues

Egypt under Sisi: Will repression and stagnation continue in 2025? As the state rounds up dissidents and dodges economic reforms, there is little hope for a course correction in the year ahead

Egypt’s secret police, Homeland Security, continued throughout the year targeting all forms and shades of dissent, both online and offline, keeping citizens incarcerated in an endless labyrinth of fabricated cases, dubbed by rights lawyers as a process of “rotation”.

@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social

Savcılık İstanbul Barosu hakkında soruşturma başlattı İstanbul Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı, Baronun "terör örgütü propagandası" yaptığını ve “halkı yanıltıcı bilgiyi yaydığını” iddia ediyor.

The board of the Istanbul Bar Association is under investigation for statements regarding the killings of Daştan and Bilgin, as well as the memorial in Istanbul, where lawyers from the Bar Association were also detained.

bianet.org/haber/savcil...

Seyhan Avşar ve T24 sitesindeki haber hakkında resen soruşturma başlatıldı Gazeteci Seyhan Avşar ile T24 isimli haber sitesi hakkında "terör örgütü PKK üyeliği bulunan firari sanıklar övüldüğü" gerekçesiyle resen soruşturma başlatıldı. - Anadolu Ajansı

News site T24 and journalist Seyhan Avşar are under investigation for a news story and a social media post, respectively, related to the deaths of Daştan and Bilgin.

www.aa.com.tr/tr/gundem/se...

İstanbul'da Nazım Daştan ve Cihan Bilgin protestosu: 30 gözaltı Nazım Daştan ve Cihan Bilgin'in katledilmesini Şişhane Meydanı'nda protesto etmek isteyen 20'si gazeteci 30 kişi gözaltına alındı.

Dozens of people, including journalists, were detained during memorials in Turkey for Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin, two Kurdish journalists killed in Syria by an alleged Turkish drone attack

bianet.org/haber/istanb...

#BREAKING Kurdish journalists Nazim Dastan and Cîhan Bilgin were killed in a Turkish drone strike while travelling in their car in the Sirrin (Sarrin) district south of Kobani (Kobanê), northeast Syria, yesterday, on 19 December 2024.

Kurdish journalists Nazim Dastan and Cîhan Bilgin were killed in a Turkish drone strike while travelling in their car in the Sirrin (Sarrin) district south of Kobani (Kobanê), northeast #Syria, yesterday, on 19 December 2024 #Rojava

PhD scholarships at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

No less than six (!) PhD scholarships announced at our fantastic department. 2 are open calls for anyone (+1 open call for Danish MA’s) and 1 is reserved for Turkish Studies in our Mid East Section. Please spread the word!

employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Ph.D. Research Grant Announcement 2025/26 The Orient-Institut Istanbul is pleased to invite applications for Ph.D. research grants for 2025/26. The purpose of the grant is to provide support for research in Turkey to Ph.D.

PhD research grant from Orient Institut Istanbul
#menasky

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Terrific keynote address by professor Thomas Diez on why “normative power Europe” failed in the Turkish case (& beyond) at the opening of the 9th CEST Symposium in Copenhagen yesterday. Props to my co-convener @joakimparslow.bsky.social & symposium coordinator Reuben Silverman for making it happen.

What made normative power Europe fail in TR-EU relations? In a keynote at #CEST today, I argued one overlooked aspect was the EU actors' mishandling of hegemonic strategies. Thanks @paultlevin.bsky.social @joakimparslow.bsky.social for the invitation (and the photo) @iratut.bsky.social

Israel’s war on Hezbollah takes terrible toll on Lebanon’s children At least 231 children have been killed and 1,330 injured, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

Important, devastating reporting by @cheesemanab.bsky.social

"The disruption suffered by children in Lebanon goes far beyond the physical, emotional and psychological ravages of war...The UN has warned of a “lost generation.”

Big news! We’re ready to launch first call for book proposals in our new Modern Iran series at Bloomsbury/IB Tauris. DM me if you have questions. Look forward to strong proposals 🙏📚

All US based?

Israeli drones shooting children in Gaza deliberately 'day after day', UK surgeon tells MPs Nizam Mamode, a retired NHS doctor who recently returned after working at Nasser Hospital, said he had 'never seen anything on this scale ever'

Israeli drones shooting children in Gaza deliberately 'day after day', UK surgeon tells MPs - www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-war-british-su...

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese: “Israel’s executive & military leadership & soldiers have intentionally distorted jus ad bello principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.”