in 1986—peak AIDS crisis; only 6 months after reagan admitted AIDS was real—the NYT ran a william f buckley op-ed calling for all HIV+ people to be tattooed on the arm & the ass for the greater good anyone giving the NYT the benefit of the doubt about trans coverage: this is who they’ve always been
German academia, alongside the government and media outlets, is misusing legacies of the Holocaust "to silence dissent while fostering xenophobia and Islamophobia." You can still sign this open letter here:
We, as academics from various global regions, wish to voice our concerns: The recent censorship, persecution, and threats faced by both German and non-German academics in Germany due to their critiqu...
Are you researching TikTok? Or do you want to? Major update to #rstatswww.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2023-12...
I’m happy to announce that traktok, my package to get content from TikTok, has returned from the dead. That’s slightly exaggerated, because it actually always worked in some shape or form, but up ...
It is not normal to absorb this much info about extreme violence. It is not normal to constantly think that only by pure chance, you could have been subjected to the same. I feel like something is eroding in our humanity, because we numb our feelings to deal with the terrible reality we live in
📢 Interested in how online censorship influences offline protests? Join us for Dr. Lisa Garbe's talk at @hertiesecurity.bsky.socialwww.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
Lisa Garbe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), presents her research on the consequences of sudden restrictions on internet access for mobilization.
The utter stress of living in Germany these days I swear. On the bright side (other foreign) friends who were previously less outspoken on Palestine are becoming radicalized.
If you’re in Berlin or even just Germany can you sign this open letter supporting Oyoun which is having their funding pulled because they hosted a vigil led by a Jewish group docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
10. Nov., 2023 Um sich den mehr als 9000+ Unterzeichner*innen dieses offenen Briefes anzuschließen, tragt euch bitte unten ein. Die vollständige Unterzeichner*innenliste ist hier zu sehen. To...
i am less convinced that AI is going to replace jobs than i am that companies are going to cut jobs on the premise of AI replacing them and then hire those people back as contractors for less money and fewer protections, because that’s what’s happened a *lot* in the last 20 years.