What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants. www.equator.org/articles/eps...

It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.

"Only two English words rhyme with culture, and these, as it happens, are sepulture and vulture. We don’t yet call museums or galleries or even universities culture-sepultures, but I hear a lot, lately, about culture-vultures (man must rhyme)." Raymond Williams

Volmondig mee eens. www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/u...

“no one who has witnessed over two years of genocide in Gaza is likely to disagree with either Hammad or Said that the intellectual class has utterly failed to fulfill its social function”

Vive la precarious workers brigade! Their 2017 publication ‘Training for Exploitation?’ translated into French

BREAKING: The Trump DOJ just published highly disturbing Files about Trump and then DELETED them. We screen captured them before they were deleted. Please share these documents far and wide. Don’t let them cover THIS up!! krassencast.com/p/breaking-e...

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Why are UK major media outlets withholding this info?

One of the great tragedies of AI and science is that the proliferation of garbage papers and journals is creating pressure to return to more closed systems based on interpersonal connections and established prestige hierarchies that had only recently been opened up somewhat to greater diversity.

PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine against-a-i.com

‘All books—including your own—might as well be the ravings of a Silicon demon, fattened on our collective preferences, biases, and grammatical errors, and watered by aquifers sucked up from the literal ground while a new Dust Bowl forms above. That’s when it is time to exit your list job.’

Following Lumumba's assassination, mass demonstrations broke out in Belgrade and Warsaw. Protestors sacked the Belgian embassies and burned the furniture in the streets. A reminder of the power of internationalist solidarity with national liberation struggles in the South.

Dat Yesilgöz in haar nopjes is, is te begrijpen. Maar dat Jetten de ‘nieuwe fractie’ niet uitsluit en zelfs hoopt op ‘constructieve samenwerking’ is gestoord. Wat is er precies nieuw Markuszower? Inhoudelijke koers?! Want hij gaat Klaver links inhalen of zo? Verlos ons v/h ‘redelijke midden’.

Reading drafts in the age of AI: sudden mass occurrence of master students’ essay chapters consisiting of only 1-2 short paragraphs, sometimes themselves also being a sentence each.😭

Heute vor 107 Jahren wurden Rosa Luxemburg und Karl Liebknecht von rechten Freikorps erschossen. Der Drahtzieher des Doppelmords war der Offizier Waldemar Pabst, der im NS-Regime Karriere als Wehrwirtschaftsführer machte.

This has been a highlight of 2025, esp. the essayfilm, not included below

'The report found that early career academics experience sector uncertainty “very differently” to those more advanced in their careers, and that early career academics believed more senior colleagues “struggled to understand and accommodate” their experiences.' 3/3

Like I know you know, but it needs pointing out how the fash will use the language of civility and correct behaviour to justify cold blooded murder while giving their own side a total pass to do anything. They bait you into arguing with them as if they're in good faith when they absolutely aren't.

As the US extends its naked imperial violence to Venezuela, what is under threat is ‘a strategy of socialist construction’ that is of historical importance monthlyreview.org/articles/a-s...

In the late 1960s, the Dutch Secret Service set up a fake Maoist party to gather intelligence and then kept the party running until the early 1990s.

And furthermore, not all archives and primary evidence have been collected by official archive repositories. Under represented communities, ephemera, oral histories.

Mental laziness isn't the problem so much as pressure to not be outpaced by coworkers who will speed up production with sloppy shortcut machines. Bosses don't care about accuracy & craft as much as they care about "productivity." The careful editor using CMOS will get left behind. It's so wrong!

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

Esp.delightful to see the cover featuring Youth Work Action (ORA) on the Highway of Brotherhood and Unity in Yugoslavia, 1961, from the personal archive of my late father, architect and sculpturer, Miodrag Stevanović (1944-2000), here still a gymnasium student & participant on this building site.

📣Publication day🎉 ⚒️ ‘Through its engagement with the groundbreaking work of the architect and theorist Sérgio Ferro, who developed a history of architecture ‘seen from the building site’, the book sets out a programme for a new field of Production Studies for architecture and other disciplines.’

Ich habe eine Bitte. Ein slowakischer Filmstudent, den ich co-betreue, sucht eine deutsche Institution/NGO, die ihn unterstützen würde, bei einer Stiftung einen Forschungsantrag zu stellen. Er will seinen Abschlussfilm zu queerer Geschichte finanzieren. Ist hier jemand aus einer solchen Institution?

progress in history. Successfully logged on to the new British Library catalogue (finally launched today) & ordered a book...

We have a cover! Will be out with Verso Books in June.

According to analysis by @justicecollective.bsky.social, there are more police officers per capita in Berlin than in New York city. Berlin police also recently acquired extensive new surveillance powers. www.heise.de/en/news/Berl... In this context, I find their propensity for violence alarming.

For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence. I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk

timeless

‘Surrealism underwent a different sort of assimilation in the postwar United States; as early as the 1950s some of its subversive devices were turned into seductive gimmicks by Madison Avenue ad men and Hollywood movie directors.’ Hal Foster on Surrealist anti-fascism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We’ve all sat in front of shit GPs mainly ones you haven’t seen before who treat patients like annoyances and know less about your condition than your google search, hardly news this self selected cohort doesn’t know shit

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

Mohammad Hosseini: ‘If AI cannot create really novel ideas, it also is unlikely to detect really creative ideas because it is being trained on existing data. In a manuscript, you are reporting something that has happened, whereas in a grant, you are sharing an idea that still has potential.’ 3/3

Alex Cocotas might just be the best living Anglophone writer about Berlin and its outcroppings thebaffler.com/salvos/break...

A lot of the nostalgia is a nostalgia for community, for love, for meaning, and for some level of economic security. Most of the energy transition narratives overlook this. Think of transition only in terms of jobs substitution and other energy sources,

CND: Paradox of patriarchy: "If men have all the poewr, why do I feel powerless?" = patriarchy does NOT benefit all men, but promises working class men symbolic proximity to power, while provoking anxiety and a sense of insufficiency

Also there was a fear that the children would be influenced too much by native nannies and maids and their culture... So women were needed as the "border guards of German civilization", ensuring the continuity of _racial_ reproduction

CND: The idea of the house wife is, as Maria Mies pointed out in Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, a colonial figure.. white colonial supremacy required white women to move to the colonies to avoid male colonists marrying and having children with non-white women...

There are at least four angles worthy of exploration: - The nature and severity of the attack. - The effects on arts and humanities research. - The aged and patchwork nature of the BL's IT estate which has made it hard to recover from. - The BL's commendable honesty in sharing lessons learned:

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

When their position becomes absolutely untenable Comfortables will announce "I have always opposed burning down orphanages in certain circumstances." Then claim it is abuse and trolling when people aren't in awe of their courageous moral stand. Other Comfortables will praise them as heroes.

Wrote about 'Resistance', Steve McQueen's exhibition on 20th century protest. Some wonderful photographs, and some difficult questions about how to tell this story in our current moment. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

if you're a #Skystorian in the UK, at assoc/full prof level who hasn't won a grant since 2020 and/or with a 'lifetime' capture (indiv. share) <£100,000 I'd love to have you as an example that this is normal. I know DMs are hard for us in the UK -I am also at drvheggie at the mail that is g dot com