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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Sep 3

What in the exoticization is that? (Wine was bad, too)

Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Aug 21

next read!
(i wish i had the time to read it RIGHT NOW!)
amazing @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social 💓🧠👀

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Jul 29

😆🤣

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Jul 29

it's out?!?! and you didn't say anything??? YAAAY

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · Jul 21

Was sich da gestern im Regierungsviertel ereignet hat, dürfte ein denkwürdiger TV-Moment sein: Zur besten Sendezeit wird dem politischen Arm des Rechtsextremismus das Mikro gereicht, und weder Alice Weidel noch ihr Interviewer verstehen auch nur ein einziges Wort. Trotzdem machen beide unbeirrt…

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Jul 2

I was bored out of my mind this past month, reading paper on paper polished with GenAI, devoid of personal stances, individual voices and idiosyncracies... I will definitely ask for oral presentations next time!

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 2

The return to pen and paper has been a common response to A.I. among professors, with sales of blue books rising significantly at certain universities. Some instructors are even considering oral exams. “Maybe we go all the way back to 450 B.C.,” one said.

What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

www.newyorker.com

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 2

The return to pen and paper has been a common response to A.I. among professors, with sales of blue books rising significantly at certain universities. Some instructors are even considering oral exams. “Maybe we go all the way back to 450 B.C.,” one said.

What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

www.newyorker.com

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Jun 17

...one more reason to shift away from whatsapp and anything meta-related

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Jun 16

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass
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16 June 2025
Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Jun 5

You are all invited to the Open Launch of our edited volume "Critical Sociolinguistics: Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments" – in the presence of Monica Heller.

Wed. 18 June 2025 // 8.00–9.30 Toronto (UTC-4) / 14.00–15.30 Zurich (UTC+2).

For info & registration: zhaw.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · May 16

Maledetti mostri, siate maledetti

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · May 15

Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.

Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship

A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · May 6

such an important contribution. the language of AI erases all kinds of inequalities and discrimination connected to linguisitic varieties in its illusion of 'neutrality'

Maartje De Meulder 🟥 @mdemeulder.bsky.social · May 6

AI systems are built on English – but not the kind most of the world speaks
theconversation.com/ai-systems-a...

AI systems are built on English – but not the kind most of the world speaks

AI models too often produce a monolithic version of English that erases variation.

theconversation.com

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · May 6

such an important contribution. the language of AI erases all kinds of inequalities and discrimination connected to linguisitic varieties in its illusion of 'neutrality'

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Apr 30

Das Netzwerk SprachenRechte bezieht Stellung zum neuen österreichischen Regierungsprogramm: www.sprachenrechte.at/stellungnahm...

Diese kritische Stimme ist so wichtig – mehr denn je. Chapeau für das unermüdliches Engagement!

Stellungnahme des Netzwerks SprachenRechte und des ÖDaF zum Regierungsprogramm 2025 – 2029 | Netzwerk SprachenRechte

www.sprachenrechte.at

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Apr 30

Seen -and appreciated - in Berne: "as long as you build on the patriarchy i will be feminist"
By SOLANGE
www.solange-theproject.com/netze/n31-mu...

Public art installation of a banner near the platform of the Münster im Berne that says : as long as you build on the patriarchy, i will be femimist.

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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · Apr 29

Had a lovely chat about hard men, hard times, and the funny little manosphere guys who’ve taken over the US govt — with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and Alexander Reid Ross from @franetwork.bsky.social — check it out below!

Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · Apr 29

New podcast episode is out with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and Scott Burnett

rightrising.fireside.fm/57

The New Hard Right: Linguistic Anthropology and Far-Right Gender Trouble with Cat Tebaldi and Scott Burnett

Drs Cat Tebaldi and Scott Burnett join the pod to discuss gender and the far right through the lens of linguistic anthropology. We discuss the "moral flavor" of hardness apropos their recent, in-depth...

rightrising.fireside.fm

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Apr 16

100%!

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Apr 6

just don't

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Apr 5

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.

And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

www.theguardian.com

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Apr 6

🥳 großes Kino!

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Florian @floriangrosser.bsky.social · Apr 6

I'm delighted to announce that my first edited volume (with Patrick Heinrich and Saana Santalahti) is available for pre-order on Multilingual Matters' website. There's a 50% discount with the code: ICJ50.
Our book explores new avenues to study ideologies of communication in Japan.

A flyer for the book "Ideologies of Communication in Japan". The book cover is seen on the left side and on an e book reader in the middle. On the cover, a woman is holding a phone. In the background is an imagr of Kabukicho in Tokyo. On the upper right corner information. 50 percent off with the code ICJ50 on Multilingual Matters website. The code expires on 31 July 2025.
In the lower right corner is a short appraisal by Jürgen Spitzmüller, University of Vienna.

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Apr 3

it is all an absurdity. except obergurgl.

Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Apr 3

📢 Bloss das nicht! Am Beispiel der österreichischen 'Deutschförderklassen' sehen wir, wie Segregation entsteht und Kinder systemisch in ihrer Bildungsentwicklung zurückgehalten werden. Mit 'Integration' und 'Förderung' hat dies rein gar nichts zu tun!

www.nau.ch/news/stimmen...

Wer die Sprache nicht kann, soll separat beschult werden! | Nau.ch

«Schulen sollten Kinder mit geringen sprachlichen Kompetenzen separat beschulen», findet Inklusionsberaterin Clarita Kunz in ihrer Kolumne.

www.nau.ch

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Mustafa Uçar @mustafaucar.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Mi-Cha Flubacher @mflubacher.bsky.social · Mar 27

...remember: the signifier is arbitrary

WIRED @wired.com · Mar 27

The controversy over Lamar’s performance highlights the hypocrisy around the DEI backlash; experts say the term has come to serve as a modern-day slur wielded against people of color, while at the same time, the people offended by it see themselves as being victims of a lack of diversity.