[B] Stiftung Topographie des Terrors: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit zu NS-Zwangsarbeit in Berlin (m/w/d) und stellvertretende Hausleitung, 28.5. #job @dznsza.eurosky.social
topographie-des-terrors.kenjo.io/wissenschaft...
Interview by @pkrugman.bsky.social of @kimlanelaw.bsky.social about Hungary is superb; well worth 30min (on 2x). Thanks to @hertieschool.bsky.social I had the privilege to hear and & meet her in Berlin not too long ago, but this is just INCREDIBLE analysis about #democracy and how it has been gamed.
I would like some thoughts on ⬇️ from people who work on these issues or have followed longer than I have. If you have time, of course. Merci! (@bildoperationen.bsky.social @unddieregel.bsky.social @rheinze.myatproto.social @ardenthistorian.bsky.social @drkeichhorn.bsky.social @amreibahr.bsky.social)
A new research project at Bielefeld University, funded by the @volkswagenstiftung.de, has officially launched.
Led by Professor @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social, the project develops a Material-Oriented Theory of History (MOTH), exploring how matter and materiality can reshape approaches to the past.
Gender Studies an der Universität Bielefeld: Interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung "Soziale und Ästhetische Artikulationen von Geschlecht"
SoSe 2026, dienstags 16.15-17.45 Uhr, X-E0-224
Zum Programm: www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/c...
Ich finde das wirklich beunruhigend. Eine kleine Gruppe sehr lauter, sehr emotionalisierter Leute gibt inzwischen den Ton an, unterstützt von Millionärsgeld und Fachleute werden schlicht nicht mehr eingebunden.
Alles fürs Gefühl.
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
A line of Nazis at the Nuremburg rally, throwing Nazi salutes. Their backs are to us. Facing them is a hand-tinted group of child laborers from the early 20th century, squinting suspiciously at them.
I'm worried about AI psychosis. Specifically, I'm worried about the psychosis that makes our "capital allocators" spend *$1.4T* on the money-losingest technology in the history of the human race.
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Zwei Monate lang zahlen die Mineralölkonzerne (das sind die mit den Übergewinnen) nun weniger Steuern, was uns alle 1,7 Milliarden Euro kostet; auch autolose Bahn-, Bus- und Radfahrer. Zum Vergleich: Der Bundesanteil des Deutschlandticket liegt bei 1,5 Mrd. pro Jahr, und das ist jedes Mal ein Drama.
A discussion of the current situation based on Edward Said's work on Palestine (hence the title).
If you're in or around Bielefeld tomorrow 16th April, it takes place in the Bielefeld Stadtbibliothek.
This is organised by Bielefeld Nahost Initiative
bielefelder-nahost-initiative.de/do-16-04-202...
#AI is “an insult to life itself”
Hayao Miyazaki ❤️ (already in 2017)
#ContraAI🤖
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0...
'Ah but you're cherry-picking excellent writers. Surely the average person benefits? I myself found it useful this one time'
No. None of us benefit from dragging down the level of writing to some lowest common denominator. Have some self-respect. Be ambitious. ideophone.org/find-your-ow...
"It is not about whether AI will help itself to your job. It is about whether the people who make AI are helping themselves to your country."
Joep Schuurkes On the acceptance of GenAI Joep Schuurkes — 5 April 2026 By using GenAl: • I accept the models were trained on stolen data. • I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers. • I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models. • I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company. • I accept these companies don't have a viable business model. • I accept that I am granting more power to big tech and their vision for the world. • I accept that I am granting more power to the United States. • I accept that all this effort could have spent elsewhere
New syllabus extension just dropped: #ContraAI🤖 #GenAI #highereducation #teaching (by Joep Schuurkes)
Though OpenAI’s new policy doc is being taken seriously by some in the media, it's ultimately a "policymercial": a document that tells us far more about how the company wants people to think about OpenAI than what it wants us to do about OpenAI. My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social --
![Six-panel composite figure. Caption: Interactive artifacts always rely on people’s interpretive and interactional practices. Rowwise from top left to bottom right: A. Aegeus consults the oracle at Delphi (cup from Vulci, 440-430 BCE). B. Byzantine mosaic depicting the zodiac, from the floor of the 6th century CE Beth Alpha synagogue. C. One-sided sense-making in an experimental psychotherapy session, (McHugh 1968). D. Still from a BBC documentary showing a person interacting with ELIZA via a computer terminal, late 1960s. E. Researchers interacting with the PARC copier (Suchman 2007 [1987]). F. Screenshot of large language model chat interface, 2026.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tfyqeo3tprov5lejatxoi6lb/bafkreidiwulbxshg5plxdu6ryxklje4zljxlakzdjxcgekentekonkrlwu)
Six-panel composite figure. Caption: Interactive artifacts always rely on people’s interpretive and interactional practices. Rowwise from top left to bottom right: A. Aegeus consults the oracle at Delphi (cup from Vulci, 440-430 BCE). B. Byzantine mosaic depicting the zodiac, from the floor of the 6th century CE Beth Alpha synagogue. C. One-sided sense-making in an experimental psychotherapy session, (McHugh 1968). D. Still from a BBC documentary showing a person interacting with ELIZA via a computer terminal, late 1960s. E. Researchers interacting with the PARC copier (Suchman 2007 [1987]). F. Screenshot of large language model chat interface, 2026.
New! Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Why do Anthropic engineers talk to Claude as a witch-doctor to his potions? How is prompt engineering like spider divination? Can one reason without reasons?
ft. Lovelace, Adorno, Suchman, Weizenbaum & many more ☺️
Does anyone happen to have access to the IBM 59 card verifier reference manual and could provide a scan (it's 38 pages)? Archives only seem to have the physical exhibit. It needs to be the manual for that particular model, not the 56, not the 129. (Boosts welcome)
In der Debatte zum AfD-Gesetzentwurf „Thüringer Gesetz zur Beseitigung rechtsfreier Räume im Asylbereich“ am 27. März 2026, muss Wolfgang Weißkopf (CDU, Sprecher für Migration) Björn Höcke erstmal unser Grundgesetz erklären.
Tolle Doktorandenstellen im Forschungsprojekt «Fascism in Switzerland (1918–1945): New Perspectives on Mobilization, Culture, and Transnationality»
am Departement für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Fribourg
www.unifr.ch/histcont/de/...
Seit ich dieses Zitat gelesen habe, denke ich quasi unablässig darüber nach. Es kommt mir in seinem Bekenntnis zur Hoffnung auch sehr österlich vor, deshalb hier ein verspäteter Reskeet mit Quellenangabe, die der Autor evtl aus Bescheidenheit weggelassen hat. www.gsi.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wis...
Cover of book 'Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815' by Morgan Golf-French
My book is Online! 🥳🥳🥳
Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 represents the culmination of ten years' work.
In it, I try to peel back our assumptions about how historiography worked in the German Enlightenment, situating it between the...
academic.oup.com/book/62547
Und das sollte man kontextualisieren damit, dass die Bundesregierung das Programm „Queer leben“ beerdigt hat. Man kürzt bei Menschen, die von Rechtsextremen angegriffen werden, sodass sie noch einmal schutzloser sind.
Das sind keine „anderen Prioritäten, wie Prien es nennt, das ist bösartig.
Während die EU-Kommission zum Sparen aufruft, zu weniger Mobilität, um die Energiekrise zu bewältigen, will das Bundeskabinett heute eine Senkung der Luftverkehrssteuer auf den Weg bringen, damit Leute mehr fliegen.
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
Just read an essay that ended with (paraphrased so you can't search for it) "I can trust my colleagues here at Cambridge University to use LLMs correctly. But can I trust people at lesser universities?" and oh fuck off lmao
Picture of Paris, from a deserted quarry in the foreground to factories beyond
Van Gogh made this large-scale watercolor of the rapidly industrializing outskirts of Paris from the base of the hill of Montmartre where he lived with his brother Theo. It shows the rapid changes the city was undergoing, from the deserted quarry in the foreground to the numerous factories beyond it
You don't think of something and then write it down, you think by writing
Working on a train, so I'm curious: do y'all listen to music while writing, and if so, what pieces/genres? I'm mostly a symphonic music listener while working, I feel like it helps me structure sentences and layer ideas. But there's music I love to work to that I don't actually listen to otherwise.
No, but seriously. This year I am including a paragraph in all my syllabi on having to be offline during my seminars. I will explain to them why and stuff, but we need to do sth. to get them back to old-fashioned reading.
