Zum ChatGPT-"Interview" in der Sonntagszeitung. Es hat mich unglaublich fest aufgeregt. Vielleicht merkt man es. Ich poste aus Platzgründen meinen Rant von Linkdin als Screenshot. Zum "Interview" (Paywall): www.tagesanzeiger.ch/hey-chatgpt-...

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Die kommende #Abstimmung über die Initiative Für eine soziale Klimapolitik – steuerlich gerecht finanziert ist wieder mal ein Lehrstück für hegemonische Dominanz 1/

Take note, #Switzerland

Je pense que tout le monde devrait écouter cette prise de parole et mesurer ce qui vient de se produire avec cette tentative d'annulation, validée en haut lieu, d'un colloque scientifique au Collège de France

#NewBookDay! The upside of reviewing two book manuscripts in the first month of the teaching term… 🤩

The new "the dog ate my homework".

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well

Just to pre-empt any Amazon/sales bullshit taking place this month.

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

New article! I wrote about Mamdani's win and the NYC I once lived in and loved: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...

Allegra editor Faduma Abukar Mursal is speaking at UniSG/online on Nov. 10th, 10.15 to 11.45 CET — "Ordinary confinement: warfare, displacement, and urban marginality" Zoom ID 655 9084 8325 | Passcode: etalks

back this innovative & artistic knowledge co-production project between Switzerland and Cameroon: wemakeit.com/projects/res...

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha They could borrow some money to pay all the artists and writers whose stuff they’ve nicked while they’re at it.

Still thinking about Zohran’s full-throated defense of immigration and how long i’ve waited for it. No bullshit about border security or “legal” immigrants but just unabashed support for immigrants. How many people feel so much more seen today? I know I do. 1/

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

Big win for #anthropology and #AfricanStudies, too, tonight! #NYC

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

#gathering! Online launch of "Alternatives to Extractivism. A Manifesto of Propositions and Unresolved Questions" THU, 20 Nov, 12.00-13.30 CET, for a presentation and discussion on the manifesto's contents. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Coastal contact zones reveal how sea and land dynamics shape climate risk. Making lived experiences of adaptation visible to funders and planners is key to more just urban transitions. By @jonschu.bsky.social 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/cont...

Always absolutely mind blowing how much of the deficit & national debt is framed around not wanting to incur costs for the future generations but our gerontocracy would rather incur trillions of climate debt than spend a nickel on cutting carbon.

Well, this explains everything about me (1979 baby).

It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Stimulating conversations on #extractivism here at #IFEAS Mainz

Radio 4 interviewed some folks on AI yesterday and one proponent rolled out the usual 'people are scared of new technology' nonsense. People aren't scared of new tech. They're scared of the devaluation and loss of jobs, which is happening. They're scared of thirsty data centres. This isn't hard.

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

"Die Bahn muss dem Gemeinwohl dienen und darf nicht auf Gewinnmaximierung ausgerichtet sein"! @bahnfueralle.bsky.social stellt das Konzept "Zukunftsbahn für alle" vor und hat u.a. ein Ticketsystem entwickelt, das auf einen Bierdeckel passt. @deutschebahn.com #Verkehrswende rdl.de/beitrag/die-...

Mamdani vs Cuomo. Their debate in 3 minutes. From Zeteo. zeteo.com/subscribe

the #CFP for the 2026 VAD/SGAS #AfricanStudies conference in Basel is now open: africanperspectives.ch/call-for-pap...

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I suppose everyone knows that this is really just classist gatekeeping--mostly from people who themselves have humanities degrees that led to fun, remunerative jobs. Point is they want YOU to pay 30,000 quid for a degree in "prompt engineering" or whatev so that you can make their coffee

"English is a ripoff degree" is something that should mark you out as a complete nutter unless your point is that our current leadership is so incompetent that you'd be better served getting on with it and learning Chinese.

sociology and anthropology are dangerous to them, because those fields help us understand the power dynamics, ethics, and human cost of what the industries they like better are doing. Performing arts is hugely important for the economy, but it doesn't benefit them directly.

Abolish this terrible technology.

* Natürlich könnten wir noch viel mehr für die leidende Zivilbevölkerung machen. Bisher kann sich der Gesamtbundesrat ja zu keiner griffigen Position gegenüber Kriegsverbrechen durchringen. Es ist einfach nur peinlich, als Schweizer von so Drückebergern regiert zu werden.

Lors de sa séance extraordinaire, le Conseil de parti du PS Suisse a abordé la situation à Gaza. www.sp-ps.ch/fr/artikel/l...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish). Zack is spot on.

for anyone interested in Angolan media history, Israel Campos is giving a paper in Basel next weds, 08 Oct, 18.15, at #BaslerAfrikaBibliographien and online: zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/de...

Seeing a malapropism or a comma splice in a student paper has never felt so good.

Please re-tweet so I can quit X. I've got 45k followers there, just 500 here. When I get to 5k I can dump Musk forever I'm the director of @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social. Follow me for real-time, insider takes on endangered species, climate, public lands, oceans, toxics. We sue Trump alot. Very alot.

To add to this: Sadiq Khan took a big political risk by doing this, and it appears to have paid off - or rather, the policy has worked as intended. London Labour will be (quite reasonably) hoping voters notice...

DIE MITTE HAT MEHR ANGST VOR REICHENSTEUERN, ALS VOR FASCHISMUS?! Mitte-Ständerat Fabio Regazzi fürchtet einen Faschisten genauso sehr wie mich. Mitte-Präsident Bregy sagte sogar, er habe mehr Angst vor der @jusoschweiz.bsky.social als vor Donald Trump. 1/2

You are much more powerful than you think you are, and he is an extremely reckless man who is incapable of controlling his worst impulses. This means that there are loads of opportunities to fight back and ultimately defeat him and his ilk, and these opportunities will only increase.

Motherfucking wind farms…

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