I've had a lot of convos w/ folks confused about the crackdown in Germany against the most basic support for Palestinians. This is deeply tied to Germany's Holocaust remembrance culture, which happens to be something I study. Here's a thread of resources in English for those who want to learn. 1/
So wait lemme get this straight: Anti-zionist Jewish ppl in NYC protest for Palestinian rights NYPD detains 100s of these Jewish ppl, including *forcing them onto busses* And now the NYPD and Mayor Eric Adams are telling Jewish ppl to stay away from pro-Palestine demonstrations FOR THEIR SAFETY?
Horrific xenophobic language from the leader of a purportedly center-left party, mirroring the Tories in the UK and Trumpists in the US, and a reminder that racism and white supremacy benefit white liberals & leftists as much as the right.
Die neue Härte des Kanzlers: Olaf Scholz macht die irreguläre Migration zur Chefsache und erklärt, wie er die Zahl der Flüchtlinge reduzieren will. Außerdem hat er eine Botschaft an die Jüdinnen...
This sort of language legitimizes the racist policing of brown/queer bodies in Berlin that has escalated over the last few days. It’s always been complicated to be Jewish and racially ambiguous in this city. Things are getting worse.
Internet Archive Scholar? YES PLEASE! scholar.archive.org
More and more reports of violent spillovers from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are coming in. My research together with Jakob Enlund shows that the conflict violence does indeed increase hate crimes against both Jews and Muslims in the US. WP: lovechristensen.com/files/christ...
NEW: The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has faced criticism from advocates who say Republican politicians could weaponize it to target LGBTQ+ content. But the ACLU, EFF, and Fight for the Future said state AGs could also use it to censor info about abortion. 22 Democratic Senators cosponsor the bill
The Kids Online Safety Act is “a blank check” for Republican AGs to "intimidate any way they can," a digital civil liberties advocate told Jezebel.
This looks fun: Massive fast fuzzy joins with {zoomerjoin}, a Rust/R package from Beniamino Green. statsky polisky
Zoomerjoin empowers users to fuzzily-merge dataframes with millions or tens of millions of rows in minuites with low memory usage. The package uses two locality sensitive hashing algorithms to avoid ...