AccordingLee
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Expatriated US postdoc in Europe. Overeducated hot takes, unpopular opinions, and unsolicited feedback. Shamelessly plugging the 'stack here: https://accordinglee.substack.com/
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Am Freitag beendete die schwarz-rote Koalition die sogenannte „Turbo-Einbürgerung“. Am Montag führte sie die „Aktivrente“ ein. Was denken junge Deutsche, neu-Ausländer und arme Rentnern dieser Verschankung von Jobs, Steuergeld und Zukunftschancen an die reiche CDU-Babyboomer Klientel? #Aktivrent
October 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Am Freitag beendete die schwarz-rote Koalition die sogenannte „Turbo-Einbürgerung“. Am Montag führte sie die „Aktivrente“ ein. Was denken junge Deutsche, neu-Ausländer und arme Rentnern dieser Verschankung von Jobs, Steuergeld und Zukunftschancen an die reiche CDU-Babyboomer Klientel? #Aktivrent
How do you behave when interacting with AI? Does it influence the way we engage with real people? And will it eventually influence the ways in which AI treats us?
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Sympathy for the Machines?
How should we treat AI chatbots? They may not be sentient, but our treatment of AI may condition our treatment of each other... and their treatment of us. We'd better watch ouselves.
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July 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
How do you behave when interacting with AI? Does it influence the way we engage with real people? And will it eventually influence the ways in which AI treats us?
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#AI #Technology
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#AI #Technology
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Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
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July 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
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Trump's America is a total police state.
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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets
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July 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Trump's America is a total police state.
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Paramount/CBS cancels Colbert's Late Show only days after he criticized the parent company's bribe-like "settlement payout" to Trump... BOYCOTT CBS, Paramount, and skydance). Just don't watch any of it (except the Late Show... make them feel it in the ratings.)
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Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS, ends May 2026
CBS is canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” next May, shuttering a decades-old TV institution and removing from air one of President Donald Trump's most prominent late-night critics.
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July 18, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Paramount/CBS cancels Colbert's Late Show only days after he criticized the parent company's bribe-like "settlement payout" to Trump... BOYCOTT CBS, Paramount, and skydance). Just don't watch any of it (except the Late Show... make them feel it in the ratings.)
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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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"the antidote to our overlapping crises is not just better data or smarter technologies—it is expansive imagination. And that imagination is cultivated not in labs or spreadsheets, but through the critical, creative, and interpretive work of the humanities." wonkhe.com/blogs/our-fu...
Our future may depend on the humanities
For Peter Sutoris, the humanities hold the key to understanding and responding to the many civilisational crises we face
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June 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"the antidote to our overlapping crises is not just better data or smarter technologies—it is expansive imagination. And that imagination is cultivated not in labs or spreadsheets, but through the critical, creative, and interpretive work of the humanities." wonkhe.com/blogs/our-fu...
A brooder's gotta brood. Check out my most recent roundup and recommendations!
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Brooders' Roundup #5
AI Vampirism, podcasting politics, affirmative action for conservative professors, and the maldistribution of social friction. Here's some of what I've been brooding on lately.
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June 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A brooder's gotta brood. Check out my most recent roundup and recommendations!
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Great read: "...friction has become a class experience. Wealth has always helped smooth over bumps - but when the physical world is such a mess and the digital world is so easy, it’s simple to curate the digital into the physical if you have money." kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...
The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
AI Chatbots, Newark, and the West Village Girls
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June 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Great read: "...friction has become a class experience. Wealth has always helped smooth over bumps - but when the physical world is such a mess and the digital world is so easy, it’s simple to curate the digital into the physical if you have money." kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...
I teach a class on podcasting and politics. While I’m focused on explaining theories and elaborating concepts, my students are hyper-fixated on what works. And that’s valuable. Here are some quick-and-dirty lessons we’ve learned together.
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Lessons from the "Podcast Election."
I teach a class on Podcasting Politics. Here's what my digital-native students routinely say about new media and political campaigning.
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May 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I teach a class on podcasting and politics. While I’m focused on explaining theories and elaborating concepts, my students are hyper-fixated on what works. And that’s valuable. Here are some quick-and-dirty lessons we’ve learned together.
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"How do you get a bunch of Democratic Lisa Simpons to all the sudden wile out, because Nelson is now the president."
Hasan Minhaj interviews "Dark Ezra." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUNS...
Hasan Minhaj interviews "Dark Ezra." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUNS...
Why Ezra Klein is So F***ing Angry (with Democrats)
YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj
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May 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"How do you get a bunch of Democratic Lisa Simpons to all the sudden wile out, because Nelson is now the president."
Hasan Minhaj interviews "Dark Ezra." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUNS...
Hasan Minhaj interviews "Dark Ezra." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUNS...
It's not tough folks. I'm teaching a podcasting politics class rn. The finding over and over is: be "authentic" and go where folks actually are (online & irl). We don't need a Rogan of the left, just candidates who put themselves out there and don't act like sterile, CNN-friendly bots of themselves.
Democratic strategists are pushing the party's megadonors to invest in an army of left-leaning online influencers, pushing to “find the next Joe Rogan,” to help the party capture the digital mojo that helped President Trump win, documents show.
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online
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May 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It's not tough folks. I'm teaching a podcasting politics class rn. The finding over and over is: be "authentic" and go where folks actually are (online & irl). We don't need a Rogan of the left, just candidates who put themselves out there and don't act like sterile, CNN-friendly bots of themselves.
Sometimes the Guardian publishes really good stuff. Want to change minds? Build relationships and lead with action, not words!
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This article won’t change your mind. Here’s why | Sarah Stein Lubrano
Evidence shows that arguing our case rarely convinces others. It’s social relationships and actions that have that power, says author Sarah Stein Lubrano
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May 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Sometimes the Guardian publishes really good stuff. Want to change minds? Build relationships and lead with action, not words!
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AI technologies rely upon data sets harvested from the unpaid work we perform anytime we do anything online. It gets turned back on us to manipulate our perceptions and behavoir. Any benefits accrued are captured by techno-oligarchs. Can we reclaim agency?
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Dead Labor in the Smart Machine
AI lives, vampire-like, by sucking up your unpaid digital labor. Is there a way to exorcise its demons?
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May 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
AI technologies rely upon data sets harvested from the unpaid work we perform anytime we do anything online. It gets turned back on us to manipulate our perceptions and behavoir. Any benefits accrued are captured by techno-oligarchs. Can we reclaim agency?
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"Curriculum.. taken out of schools and universities, and “supporting faculty” would be removed. Social media would be purged... Institutions would lose public funding. Foreign students who pushed for Palestinian rights would have their visas revoked, or be deported."
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The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
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May 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"Curriculum.. taken out of schools and universities, and “supporting faculty” would be removed. Social media would be purged... Institutions would lose public funding. Foreign students who pushed for Palestinian rights would have their visas revoked, or be deported."
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Career self-selection explains the political leanings of the professoriate. Students don’t experience “indoctrination,” but rather moderate their views over time. In this light, there’s only one way to describe MAGA’s “viewpoint diversity” demands: as a power play.
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"Viewpoint Diversity": Affirmative Action for Right-Wing Conservatives?
Intellectual pluralism at universities is good. Affirmative action for unqualitfied MAGA loyalists is not.
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May 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Career self-selection explains the political leanings of the professoriate. Students don’t experience “indoctrination,” but rather moderate their views over time. In this light, there’s only one way to describe MAGA’s “viewpoint diversity” demands: as a power play.
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It's. The. Damned. Phones.
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What's Happening to Students?
Here's the latest news from the zombie wars
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May 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It's. The. Damned. Phones.
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"Until we learn to wield attention and influence culture, we’ll be adrift." TL;DR: Dems need a media strategy that gets with the (new media) times.
I've been saying this for awhile. Glad it finally hit the NYTimes opinion pages... a little (too) late, I'd say. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
I've been saying this for awhile. Glad it finally hit the NYTimes opinion pages... a little (too) late, I'd say. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
Opinion | If You’re a Voter Reading This, This Essay Is Not About You
Opt-out voters don’t buy what we’re selling — and even if they did, we’d have a hard time reaching them.
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April 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"Until we learn to wield attention and influence culture, we’ll be adrift." TL;DR: Dems need a media strategy that gets with the (new media) times.
I've been saying this for awhile. Glad it finally hit the NYTimes opinion pages... a little (too) late, I'd say. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
I've been saying this for awhile. Glad it finally hit the NYTimes opinion pages... a little (too) late, I'd say. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
Put these headlines under the nose of every person you know today. But especially Republicans.
"2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
"Wisconsin Judge Arrested, Accused of Shielding Immigrant" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
"2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
"Wisconsin Judge Arrested, Accused of Shielding Immigrant" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
April 26, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Put these headlines under the nose of every person you know today. But especially Republicans.
"2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
"Wisconsin Judge Arrested, Accused of Shielding Immigrant" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
"2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
"Wisconsin Judge Arrested, Accused of Shielding Immigrant" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
Is this how people cope with democratic disintegration and economic catastrophe in a totally consumerist society? I'm deeply concerned; consumer therapy won't save you from the gestapo, friends. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...
A Frenzy at Trader Joe’s: ‘Everyone’s Here for the Tote Bags’
For a second year, a limited run of mini canvas tote bags had people waiting in line outside Trader Joe’s stores. At some stores, they sold out in less than an hour.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Is this how people cope with democratic disintegration and economic catastrophe in a totally consumerist society? I'm deeply concerned; consumer therapy won't save you from the gestapo, friends. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...
If you read nothing else today, I suggest you read this.
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Compliance is the New American Dream
How risk aversion has shaped our schools, our government, and our global standing
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April 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
If you read nothing else today, I suggest you read this.
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Please sign and please repost. This is a big opportunity for us.
April 16, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Please sign and please repost. This is a big opportunity for us.
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
Little Sunday night econ lesson for y'all.
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Inside Trump's radical economics playbook | DW News
YouTube video by DW News
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April 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Little Sunday night econ lesson for y'all.
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"What happens when people lose the ability to reason or render good judgments? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Donald Trump’s tariff policy."
Don't forget to close the apps sometimes and go read a book. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...
Don't forget to close the apps sometimes and go read a book. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...
Opinion | The Stupidity of the Tariffs Are the Achievement of a Lifetime
To do something as stupid as Trump’s tariff plan is the result of a lifetime of incuriosity.
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April 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"What happens when people lose the ability to reason or render good judgments? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Donald Trump’s tariff policy."
Don't forget to close the apps sometimes and go read a book. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...
Don't forget to close the apps sometimes and go read a book. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...