Die Bundesregierung entscheidet in den nächsten Tagen. Hier gibt es Tipps, was Menschen jetzt sofort tun können, um die #Chatkontrolle noch zu verhindern. chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20...

Ich war neulich so aus Jux-Nostalgie bei Hagen Rether, den ich vor zwanzig Jahren schon mal in Marburg gesehen hab. Muss sagen, dass ich zutiefst beeindruckt davon war, wie extrem solide der Typ sich alles in allem gehalten hat. Beachtliche intellektuelle Leistung, echt ernsthaft vorbildlich.

Needless to say: if you're in Berlin next Saturday and have a conscience you should join either of these marches! (or organize you own if, for whatever reason, you feel you cannot even march with @amnesty.de)

Alas, I did not see this in time, but here is how to delete an academia edu account without agreeing to their appalling new TOS:

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Wie lange wird es dauern bis ein sog. Legacy-Medium das Wort "Trans-Terror" aufgreift? Ich gebe der Angelegenheit maximal 2 Monate.

Cf Kate Beaton…

🎶 World was on fire, ich schreib Habil-Exposé.. 🎶

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now. www.weherepress.org

CALL FOR TEXTS: I'm asking your help to find texts for the 2026 Reading Group that help us to have conversations about 'Cripping Methodology' (working title). Can you fill in this form to give your suggestion(s)? (required: full reference / PDF) docs.google.com/forms/d/1bMW...

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

The foundation funded my PhD project; we’ve been informed about this attack a couple of days ago. Still early, but whoever did this would/ might have had access to personal data of thousands of students and academics who are/ were members of German trade unions (or otherwise politically active).

Same but with me as somebody working on critical editions who hangs out with the rest of literary studies a lot. My people are unraveling & I don’t necessarily only mean ‚text’.

her link is here, if you can’t donate please share thank you so much for your help. i just can’t stomach the thought of getting her into this room for one month only to them evicted right after xoxo gofund.me/9d3083c9

Sure true, but also plenty academics & ppl with lived experience have been fairly correct in their early assessments re: Trump, Covid or Gaza. And that’s bc they’re thinking in terms of overarching dynamics as opposed to specific things: WWW & AI are new, yes, but so were radio & cinema ‚back then‘.

Day 2 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference @durhamimh.bsky.social and REALLY looking forward to this presentation from my brilliant @ndhumanities.bsky.social colleague @ainokash.bsky.social

There is a GFM set up for Helen De Cruz‘s family. 🖤

@mommunism.bsky.social is a good place to start & look for vetted accounts of people in Gaza; not everyone can always send money, but there’s plenty of GFMs and stories to share (as well as people to talk to) – and every little thing might count towards somebody being able to buy some food!! 💸 🕊️

i need to spend more time amplifying people in Gaza – for example Sakher & Reem via @mercy89y9.bsky.social 🕊️❤️‍🩹 Not everyone can always send (a lot of) money, but surely we can all like and share (more of) their posts & GFMs!!

A fake version of the Disability Studies Reader 6th edition has been put up on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The 6th edition was never published. Routledge is working to get the listing taken down. Please do not order it because this is a scam. All the previous editions 1st through 5th are genuine.

Anyway, use some pirated version if you must but please don’t assign and make your students buy a text that quite literally knowingly profits off marginalized disabled writers who have asked our work be taken out of the book. api.pageplace.de/preview/DT04...

I am reading several different kinds of writing this month, mostly first and second drafts: dissertation chapters, qualifying exams, edited volume chapters, and article manuscripts. I'm also reading non-federal grants, which are final versions of scholars' work. I can't feed any of that into a LLM.

🇩🇪 Germany’s intelligence agency has officially labeled the far-right AfD as an extremist threat, enabling expanded surveillance powers. AfD is now fully classified—not just “suspected”—as extremist. Authorities can use informants and tap communications. Civil servants may be barred from joining;

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Bisher kann man ohne Überweisung durch den Hausarzt zur Psychotherapie. Im aktuellen Koalitionsvertrag steht, dass sich das ändern soll. Diese Petition möchte das verhindern:

🚨 get your Mastodon accounts ready, and choose a secure server not in the US

Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border

Additionally … this place doesn’t have too many unique norms and standards but alt text is one of them.

Arendt 101

As the late Ron Numbers always said whenever a physician approached him about hobbyist history, "What a coincidence—I've been thinking of taking up surgery!"

As of 29Jan2025, victims of ‚euthanasia‘ and forced sterilization have been recognized by the Bundestag as victims of Nazi persecution. www.gedenkstaette-hadamar.de/blog/2025/01...

Btw, POLITICO was acquired by Axel Springer in 2021 for 881 mill.€ – appears different from BILD & WELT, but is part of M. Döpfners strategy just the same (jup, the dude that endorsed the AfD via Musk recently; strong Thiel ties as well + look up Springer’s Israeli subsidiary Yad2). BLOCK THAT SHIT!

Well, I suppose the sooner we collectively stop fucking kidding ourselves about this term being quadrennial, the better.

FYI re: that M*sk Tweet about Germany: Blue = the federal states in which the far-right „AfD“ is classified as „suspected right-wing extremist“ by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution; brown = „confirmed right-wing extremist“ (= Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia).

Oh *hell* no. #ActuallyAutistic

Extremely important! (I’m so fucking glad I don’t work in an office/ together with people right now; the thought of sitting in some Mensa with mostly-offline-boomers or sometimes-online-profs –––)

women in STEM (semiotics, Textkritik, epistemology, and mythography)