“Birzeit reiterates its call on international organizations, human rights institutions, and media outlets to assume their moral and legal responsibilities by taking immediate action to expose these ongoing violations against Palestinian higher education …” www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...

🔴 NEW: Israel has authorized the use of electronic tracking devices on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, allowing real-time surveillance of civilians placed under administrative movement restrictions, a new IDF directive states. It applies to civilians who have not been charged, tried, or...

solidarity with Birzeit colleagues

In other #Berlin news: ich war gestern 1,5 Stunden mit dem Rad in der Stadt unterwegs, und habe kaum einen gestreuten/geräumten Radweg gefunden, musste in fast allen Fällen auf der Straße radeln. Nicht mal Fahrradstraßen waren geräumt. In Berlin gilt: Verkehr ist Auto, Straßen sind für Autos da.

„Die rechtliche Einordnung ist komplex“

“It’s a horrible, horrible waste,” said Sharon Wilson, director of campaign @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social, pointing to Grok-generated images of Nazi Mickey Mouse as an example of what fossil gas was being burned to produce. “What useful purpose does this serve?” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Let me sum up the reaction of the German government: International law applies when our enemies violate it, it’s that simple.

It’s funny how for Germans when white people occupy another country it’s a “complex” situation

“the principles of international law” rather prohibit bombing countries because their leaders “lack legitimacy”.

Nothing to see here. Just the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs nodding along the latest instance of Western imperial regime change

En soutien du peuple vénézuélien contre l'agression des États Unis de Donald Trump, rendez-vous 18h place de la République à Paris !

Please put the US under sanctions. Cancel the LA Olympics. No international conferences.

great job to all these media organizations misleading readers into believing the grok AI bot is in control, not the people turning the dials behind the scenes. we’re three years into this wave of ai hype. how are they still so bad at this?

Three months ago the International Court restated the State of Israel’s obligation at international law to facilitate UNRWA’s operations, not to hinder or prevent them. Israel is about to cut their water, power and comms. The EU supports Israel. www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Si vous voulez que je vous change la vie 👇

💻 #BigTech consumes massive amounts of energy & water. IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & @silviaweko.bsky.social explore how Google & Amazon are positioning themselves to control ecological transition paths for their purposes. ✍️ Read their paper here: buff.ly/MKgIOkY

"China drafted landmark rules to stop AI chatbots from emotionally manipulating users, including what could become the strictest policy worldwide intended to prevent AI-supported suicides, self-harm, and violence. China’s Cyberspace Administration proposed the rules on Saturday."

Still waitin for AI to solve climate change

These aren't just people, like the 38 million people whose deaths have been caused by US and European sanctions since 1970 (source: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...) - these are *Europeans* !

In the news business, we call this a “puff piece.” It’s about the Ellisons, an “intriguing partnership,” according to the NY Times, which seems more impressed by people’s bank accounts than anything else. The Ellisons are buying up media to prop up a dictator. That’s the news. 1/4 🧵

Die Empörung über @hateaid.org ist völlig richtig, aber zahlreiche Menschen konnten schon länger nicht mehr einreisen.

State building in the 21st century looks a lot like state building & settler colonialism in the 19th and 20th century, but faster, at larger scale and with more satellites tracking devastation. A Belgium sized Plantation in Indonesia… @adamtooze.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/27a6...

europeans: *routinely let thousands of people die trying to cross EU borders, fund torture camps for migrants, participate in opaque global security infrastructures that often arbitrarily ban individuals from travelling* usa: *bans five (5) europeans from travelling* europeans: 😮

I mean all seriousness aside, should I feel insulted that I'm not on this list? I've been part of the Global #censorship-Industrial Complex™️ for years now how does Trump not recognise the crucial role I play in oppressing Americans worldwide !!1!

A Character AI chatbot with an 11yr old girl (last year before they restricted genAI chat feature to under 18s)

Die GLS-Bank und die Göttinger Sparkasse kündigen die Konten der #RotenHilfe. Es besteht die Gefahr der Zerschlagung einer linken Solidaritätsstruktur, deren Geschichte in die Weimarer Republik reicht. Die Kündigungen müssen sofort zurückgenommen werden. #Solidarität rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...

Something important to note is that the tech companies and the gas companies have promised each other demand and supply, so massively constraining and killing any threat to that is a key function of the Trump admin

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

Driverless cars are malfunctioning in SF’s power outage & are blocking intersections, turn lanes, and streets all over the city right now. This is impeding buses, emergency vehicles, and other traffic. It is forcing pedestrians outside crosswalks and cars to use oncoming traffic lanes. It’s a mess.

Travelled north-south Switzerland this morning and there is almost no snow, even high up. Seriously, how is it immigration that is making European history culture etc disappear where the whole image of our lived environment is literally melting away before our eyes?

love that for us! are there any other energy sources continuing to grow unstoppably every year that we should know about?

the absolute horror of seeing a bee buzzing around a cherry tree in full bloom five days before christmas in northern europe

I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

'Ellison’s role in the new ownership of the most popular social media platform in the US has raised concerns about the decreasing share of media firms not under the control of pro-Trump billionaires' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib have been on hunger strike for 46 days. They are at serious risk of death. They are in prison because the UK would prefer to lock up young opponents of mass murder than stop facilitating genocide. The Home Secretary must intervene.

TikTok is going to be controlled by a group of right-wing billionaires. Great job, Joe Biden and congressional democrats, who joined (and stoked) the moral panic that initiated and then fed the process that has ended up here.

as an environment reporter i think the bigger convo is re the energy use of ai vs its (comparatively minimal) water use, and how the data center buildout could not only increase emissions, but also open up cultural permissions for us to pursue more fossil fuel development in the name of the AI race

"Coal-fired power plants in the US must be kept online for as long as possible to help meet the soaring energy demands of AI data centers, Chris Womack, CEO of energy utility Southern Company, has said" www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/us-c...

I disagree with the author's premise that it should be a goal of public policy to derisk private-sector AI investment in order to encourage more of it, but this article on the incentives and policy options of insurers is fascinating www.lawfaremedia.org/article/heal...

Please write to Starmer and Lammy - the link makes it exceedingly easy and quick. These brave people need our help.

*🦋 meme* Is this industrial policy?

"C’est grâce à davantage de véhicules électriques que l’industrie européenne sortira de son marasme, pas en retardant leur émergence." A lire, le super édito du Monde sur "le recul le plus important de l'UE en matière d’environnement depuis cinq ans" www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Critical minerals currently being stockpiled by the Pentagon for weapons could be used to decarbonize the economy instead– at a time when our shrinking climate window demands decisive action. Read our Global Systems and Policy Manager in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/42ab...

Not good enough for Amazon Prime film recaps, and yet good enough to summarize your doctors visit. Good. Good, good, good.

🚉 On December 12th at 8PM, 13 pyjama parties took place in European train stations, following invitations by @back-on-track.eu and @staygroundednet.bsky.social. 💃The gathered groups silently danced to a dedicated playlist, celebrating night trains by swinging in their best night attire. 1/3

New from me @techpolicypress.bsky.social: How far did tech firms' 2025 realignment with the Republican party reach into their systemic risk reports to the European Commission (which hardly anyone even reads)? A fair bit, it turns out. www.techpolicy.press/platforms-re...

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

FFS