I have the hunch that Wilson's "self-determination principle" and the nation-state ideal have a nudge towards the empire, provincializing the other empires to make them their dependencies. As the idea does not apply to the US empire, it feels very pro US. Any reading on that?

In a different form of tech governance, a foundational model, Grok is banned in Türkiye.

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Sholem für Kurden und Türken, Ende einer Zeit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkp4...

There is this Turkish joke: A creditor takes the debtor to court, claiming that the debtor did not pay his debt. The judge asks him if that is correct and, if so, why. The debtor answers; - When my creditor wanted the money back, I asked for a month to collect the money +

Most unexpected take of all:

There could be much more engaged discussion about this with respect to discourse openness as well, but well, still a step forward I guess?

Literaturtipp: Ein Band von Corinna Klingler, Anja Pichl und Robert Ranisch zur "Ethik der Partizipation". Die Beiträger*innen befassen sich mit theoretischen Grundlagen einer Ethik der Partizipation und geben Hinweise zur Umsetzung in der Praxis. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6...

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If they do not have TvL 13, let them eat W2

Recently I presented my work on using evolutionary medicine and niche construction theory to translate perspectives from disability studies to neutralistic accounts of disease at Boston University, center on forced displacement I realize it was lacking here, please: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How is patient consent is made within imaginations of technoscience and how much responsibility should we carry thereof in the making of imaginations? Now out link.springer.com/article/10.1...

As the old pragmatist saying goes, true if big! And this looks, well, sizeable?

Very happy to see this article published, it's been a long process and not always easy. Kudos to @anjapichl.bsky.social for seeing this through, to @robranisch.bsky.social and to all the authors for their contributions. www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Hello World; This is finally out! Thanks to all who have been helpful in making, editing, advising, and publishing it. Love to hear some feedback about it from people who read it, please write me up in case! Now it is time to write how the challenge is accepted. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...