In addition for every other valid reason not to get ChatGPT to do your journal peer reviews for you I heard today the argument that once you load an article into the programme it will become part of the training data set and you are thereby complicit in violating the author’s copyright.

Der zitierte Satz kommt von Merz - er ist Ausdruck von ökon. Dummheit und Arroganz. Forschung ist nicht nur dafür da, Wachstum und Profite zu generieren, sondern gesellschaftliche Entwicklung zu verstehen und Handlungsoptionen zu erweitern, Ungleichheiten zu erkennen und Machtkritik zu ermöglichen.

“If democracy rests on mutual recognition, then the power to speak and be heard lies at the foundation of democratic life. It is when we speak — when we argue, appeal, explain and testify — that we put into practice our belief in the ability of others to understand, reason and empathize”

Einst fragte man sich, wie ein so konservativer Linguist wie Chomsky so progressive politische Ansichten haben kann. Christian Geyer liest heute in der FAZ Chomskys Werk und seine Beiträge zu den Epstein-Files und arbeitet die Kohärenz dieses Denkend heraus. Menschen in Bosnien und in Mittel—Ost-/

It might even be better for America and the rest of the world if America's soft power is defined less by a myth of Texan machismo and more by an ethos of Minnesotan solidarity

ICE threatens more Americans with more impunity than Al Qaeda or ISIS ever could and getting people to think that’s worth it is going to take more than mewling about Bad Bunny.

My Bad Bunny take is that: 1. His show made crystal clear how & why decolonize applies to the US too. 2. That narrative is the fruit of several generations of scholarly work to restore it to the historical record from which it was actively expunged. 🧵

watched TO SLEEP WITH ANGER yesterday and i know i'm late on this but what a picture. bona fide masterpiece of american filmmaking.

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

First World Problems

Der Fehler liegt darin, zu denken, die Akteure "stünden hinter" den Prozessen und Strukturen, statt mit ihnen zu interagieren. Das ist der Unterschied zwischen einer Machtanalyse und einer Verschwörungstheorie.

And that brought to mind the way in which the "mining" of data has now turbo-fueled actual mining activities in the race for critical minerals. In other words, a technology heralded as a platform for immaterial and disembodied interactions is driving the classic destructive human material activity.

War ja ohnehin nur eine Importmonarchie, gewißermassen ausgeliehen von den Dänen. Könnte man auch retournieren; ist nicht so weit dahin zurück.

Ich glaube das große Problem ist, dass richtig viele Leute in Deutschland – besonders in der Arbeiterschaft aber auch in einer bestimmten provinziellen Form des Unternehmertums – sich immer noch schwer damit tun zu akzeptieren, dass sie in irgendwas ganz einfach viel schlechter sind als Frankreich

Never met a skier who did not share that sentiment.

So sehr hat RFK Jr. die Marke beschädigt, dass die Frankfurter Kennedys sich nicht einmal mehr getrauen an der traditionellen Schreibweise fest zu halten.

Wenn Gisele Pelicot sagt "La honte doit changer de camp/Die Scham muss die Seite wechseln" heißt das nicht, dass das von alleine passiert. Täter(*innen) fangen nicht plötzlich an sich zu schämen, sie müssen sanktioniert & verurteilt werden, gesellschaftliche Tode sterben, um Scham zu erlernen.

The first three minutes of this get better with every new drop of Epstein files. youtu.be/Tn7fks2UDRE?...

Gallego getting Bessent to just say that taxpayers will pay Trump $10 billion if he wins is why most Trump officials who testify just berate the senators instead.

"And then you realize – it's a heist movie."

It's reminded me how many academics think that young women are a renewable resource meant to be sacrificed for old men to be happy.

Perfection

It's a good excuse to post this, by the great @lesleyannewarner.bsky.social "With approximately 30 percent of the world’s critical mineral reserves needed to power the green energy transition and advanced manufacturing, the continent holds structural power that remains largely undeployed."

These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Spanien hat verstanden: Plattformregulierung ist der zentrale politische Konflikt der nächsten Jahre.

Lausanne, jetzt

"For his comeback, [alleged serial sexual harasser and director Brett Ratner] has summoned all the artistic ambition of a local Realtor who just got a drone."

That's a neat way to put it.

Frankfurt Westend jetzt

There's a fascinating passage in Black Reconstruction before Du Bois launches into a discussion of black military participation in the civil war. He notes that as more of the men were called off to war, often slaves were operating essentially unguarded on plantations with only women and children...

CDU im Einklang mit der US-Kleptokratie

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Platform regulation is the decisive political conflict of the next ten years.

Eleven years I already talked about Russia's war against Ukraine in the PKiN in Warsaw. Tried to make sense of it in historical perspective. This work continues until today.

On a trend us film professors have seen. Free link to “The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films” from THE ATLANTIC yesterday. archive.ph/GFWzW

Reading up on the Epstein files while pondering the enduring relevance of the egalitarian humanistic impulse which drove the post-1789 work of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814).

Die konservative Radikalisierung der deutschen Bürgerlichkeit zeigt sich selten so gut wie im Vergleich von Rita Süßmuth und Julia Klöckner.

The sooner the Global Left will develop its independence from the Soviet legacy with its terror, spies, and wars, the better. This emancipation is a condition for its relevance. Amazing this still has not happened

a thread that I wrote about Epstein some time ago on X — I’d update with a comparison with Rasputin: similarly, psychological manipulations, instrumentalized sex, working for foreign powers, both get killed by former friends. A difference: R was a medic disguised as monk, E a political animal

Out Tuesday — my brilliant colleague Soraya Murray’s dynamite new book TECHNOTHRILLER! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205101...

What these figures show is that $7 Mio. worth of tickets were sold. Whether people actually watched the film is another matter. To conclude from these sales that MAGA is a “dominant and poweful force” is quite the leap of faith. It is safer to add the 7 Mio to the 35 Mio marketing expenditure.

Not every ticket sold is a seat occupied.

Cinema studies as a field has reached the stage of maturity where scholars, without realizing it, re-invent achievements from thirty years ago.

They'd never get more than 10% of their gas from Soviet Union. By 2021 it was 50% from USSR/legal successor state. Not one of our 6 subsequent wars changed the "change thru trade" mantra. Trade did cause a change. You are becoming more like us.

When we talk about DOGE stealing data, a lot of people picture a guy sneaking hard drives out under the cover of darkness. But that's not how you build a repression tool like ELITE. A hard drive is only a data snapshot; it will go out of date. Fascism needs a *continuous data connection*.

Long-overdue recognition for the son of Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti.

Oh. My. God. Chomsky talking about the 'hysteria' that has developed about the abuse of women and giving Epstein advice on how to handle the media. In 2019. The Media studies discipline and much of the left should reflect on the power given to this one flawed man to shape generations of thought.