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The scale of the protests in Iran are absolutely unbelievable. Hard to quantify, but I've seen some speculation that this uprising is more significant than the 2023 protests (themselves the largest challenge to the regime since it came into power in '79.)
(Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)
(Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The scale of the protests in Iran are absolutely unbelievable. Hard to quantify, but I've seen some speculation that this uprising is more significant than the 2023 protests (themselves the largest challenge to the regime since it came into power in '79.)
(Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)
(Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)
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Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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January 7, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.
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This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
January 6, 2026 at 2:53 AM
This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
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THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...
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Wohltätigkeit ist das Gegenmodell zum Sozialstaat.
Strukturelle Armut und Vermögensunterschiede verschärfen, um sich als individuell großzügig zeigen zu können. Denn Spenden bringen mehr Sympathien und politischen Einfluss als gerechte Verteilung und ordentlich bezahlte Steuern. Eine der gefährlichsten Dynamiken neoliberaler Politik.
Bei einer Bild-Gala zeigen sich Politiker großzügig. Doch den Kindern von Bürgergeld-Empfängern wollen sie ihr Herz und ihren Geldbeutel nicht öffnen.
December 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Wohltätigkeit ist das Gegenmodell zum Sozialstaat.
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I’ve just discovered #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, where people share the funny/awkward/downright strange sleeping situations they find themselves in while visiting family. While I’m comfortably in my own home this year, when I visit my parents in their teeny retirement cottage, my bed looks like this 🤣
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I’ve just discovered #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, where people share the funny/awkward/downright strange sleeping situations they find themselves in while visiting family. While I’m comfortably in my own home this year, when I visit my parents in their teeny retirement cottage, my bed looks like this 🤣
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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
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We should frame the drive behind AI music and art not as “making things” but to “see or hear things.” The “creativity” questions are entirely concerns about consumption, and the market impact of individualizing products to a single consumer’s personal desires rather than engaging with other people.
I love music, and yet I have the musical ability of a potato.
This does not bother me.
Nor do I feel a need to use AI to “make” music to compensate for this.
I guess this is why I struggle to understand the “I need genAI to make “art” because I’m bad at drawing” contingent.
This does not bother me.
Nor do I feel a need to use AI to “make” music to compensate for this.
I guess this is why I struggle to understand the “I need genAI to make “art” because I’m bad at drawing” contingent.
December 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
We should frame the drive behind AI music and art not as “making things” but to “see or hear things.” The “creativity” questions are entirely concerns about consumption, and the market impact of individualizing products to a single consumer’s personal desires rather than engaging with other people.
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
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A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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That this is intimately tied to the West African coups and the Trump II National Security Strategy is perhaps not so obvious but nonetheless fundamental, as they function as a tragedy in three acts.
Act I is the extractivism in both raw materials and skills that impoverishes the Global South.
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Act I is the extractivism in both raw materials and skills that impoverishes the Global South.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
That this is intimately tied to the West African coups and the Trump II National Security Strategy is perhaps not so obvious but nonetheless fundamental, as they function as a tragedy in three acts.
Act I is the extractivism in both raw materials and skills that impoverishes the Global South.
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Act I is the extractivism in both raw materials and skills that impoverishes the Global South.
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Addendum:
The fact that this is coming from a Labour govt, with no consideration of the implications for labor in the countries of origin, illustrates how vacuous and self-absorbed social democratic politics in the US and Western Europe have become.
The fact that this is coming from a Labour govt, with no consideration of the implications for labor in the countries of origin, illustrates how vacuous and self-absorbed social democratic politics in the US and Western Europe have become.
December 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Addendum:
The fact that this is coming from a Labour govt, with no consideration of the implications for labor in the countries of origin, illustrates how vacuous and self-absorbed social democratic politics in the US and Western Europe have become.
The fact that this is coming from a Labour govt, with no consideration of the implications for labor in the countries of origin, illustrates how vacuous and self-absorbed social democratic politics in the US and Western Europe have become.
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"Sparzwang an Universitäten kommt im Hörsaal an.
Viele Unis in Bayern haben Geldprobleme und müssen sparen. Studierende werden das jetzt zu Semesterbeginn auch spüren – obwohl die Staatsregierung sagt, dass noch nie so viel in Hochschulen investiert wurde wie im Moment." www.br.de/nachrichten/...
Viele Unis in Bayern haben Geldprobleme und müssen sparen. Studierende werden das jetzt zu Semesterbeginn auch spüren – obwohl die Staatsregierung sagt, dass noch nie so viel in Hochschulen investiert wurde wie im Moment." www.br.de/nachrichten/...
Sparzwang an Universitäten kommt im Hörsaal an
Viele Unis in Bayern haben Geldprobleme und müssen sparen. Studierende werden das jetzt zu Semesterbeginn auch spüren – obwohl die Staatsregierung sagt, dass noch nie so viel in Hochschulen investiert...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Sparzwang an Universitäten kommt im Hörsaal an.
Viele Unis in Bayern haben Geldprobleme und müssen sparen. Studierende werden das jetzt zu Semesterbeginn auch spüren – obwohl die Staatsregierung sagt, dass noch nie so viel in Hochschulen investiert wurde wie im Moment." www.br.de/nachrichten/...
Viele Unis in Bayern haben Geldprobleme und müssen sparen. Studierende werden das jetzt zu Semesterbeginn auch spüren – obwohl die Staatsregierung sagt, dass noch nie so viel in Hochschulen investiert wurde wie im Moment." www.br.de/nachrichten/...
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Ja: Alle, deren Verträge an der Uni Leipzig in den nächsten zwei Jahren auslaufen, sind raus. Die Lehre soll über Lehraufträge abgedeckt werden. Sachmittel werden gekürzt. Zudem sollen alleine an der Phil Fak 4 Professuren und 11 Mitarbeiterstellen abgebaut werden. Grund sind sinkende Zuweisungen.
An der Uni Leipzig werden nach meinen Infos in 2026 keine (!) Mittelbau-Stellen verlängert oder neu besetzt.
Das hängt natürlich auch an der Landesregierung.
Im letzten Newsletter für Mitarbeitende bekam ich eine Einladung zur Diskussion über Perspektiven für Early Career Researchers ...
Das hängt natürlich auch an der Landesregierung.
Im letzten Newsletter für Mitarbeitende bekam ich eine Einladung zur Diskussion über Perspektiven für Early Career Researchers ...
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Ja: Alle, deren Verträge an der Uni Leipzig in den nächsten zwei Jahren auslaufen, sind raus. Die Lehre soll über Lehraufträge abgedeckt werden. Sachmittel werden gekürzt. Zudem sollen alleine an der Phil Fak 4 Professuren und 11 Mitarbeiterstellen abgebaut werden. Grund sind sinkende Zuweisungen.
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Long Thread
Ich will mal was erzählen, was mit dem Sprechen über Rechts zu tun hat. Beschäftigt mich viel.
Ich hab neulich einen Workshop zu Digitalfaschismus gegeben.
Vor mir war ein Redner der über völkische Siedlerbewegungen informiert.
Ich will mal was erzählen, was mit dem Sprechen über Rechts zu tun hat. Beschäftigt mich viel.
Ich hab neulich einen Workshop zu Digitalfaschismus gegeben.
Vor mir war ein Redner der über völkische Siedlerbewegungen informiert.
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Long Thread
Ich will mal was erzählen, was mit dem Sprechen über Rechts zu tun hat. Beschäftigt mich viel.
Ich hab neulich einen Workshop zu Digitalfaschismus gegeben.
Vor mir war ein Redner der über völkische Siedlerbewegungen informiert.
Ich will mal was erzählen, was mit dem Sprechen über Rechts zu tun hat. Beschäftigt mich viel.
Ich hab neulich einen Workshop zu Digitalfaschismus gegeben.
Vor mir war ein Redner der über völkische Siedlerbewegungen informiert.
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A theory about vibes:
Human beings are deeply social creatures. Our need for a legible social order is rooted almost as deeply in our brainstem as our need for basic physical security. We need -- not want, need -- to understand who's in charge, who are allies, who are enemies, *how things work*.
Human beings are deeply social creatures. Our need for a legible social order is rooted almost as deeply in our brainstem as our need for basic physical security. We need -- not want, need -- to understand who's in charge, who are allies, who are enemies, *how things work*.
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A theory about vibes:
Human beings are deeply social creatures. Our need for a legible social order is rooted almost as deeply in our brainstem as our need for basic physical security. We need -- not want, need -- to understand who's in charge, who are allies, who are enemies, *how things work*.
Human beings are deeply social creatures. Our need for a legible social order is rooted almost as deeply in our brainstem as our need for basic physical security. We need -- not want, need -- to understand who's in charge, who are allies, who are enemies, *how things work*.
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Anyway, this turned into a ramble, but the whole point is that I think a lot of the discontent currently expressed in economic terms is only expressed that way because those are the only terms available. Taking it too literally & responding technocratically is a mistake. Deeper shit is afoot. </fin>
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Anyway, this turned into a ramble, but the whole point is that I think a lot of the discontent currently expressed in economic terms is only expressed that way because those are the only terms available. Taking it too literally & responding technocratically is a mistake. Deeper shit is afoot. </fin>
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AI in education is causing students anxiety as they have no idea what institutions are doing about it, and nor do institutions know what students are doing with it
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
AI in education is causing students anxiety as they have no idea what institutions are doing about it, and nor do institutions know what students are doing with it
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In the end, we no longer operate in a marketplace of ideas.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
In the end, we no longer operate in a marketplace of ideas.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
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And that means that democracy doesn't die in darkness, but in the light of a billion glowing screens.
November 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
And that means that democracy doesn't die in darkness, but in the light of a billion glowing screens.
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Precht insinuiert hier das Bild einer "ursprünglich proletarischen Linken" mit einem "derben und martialischen Jargon" als Gegenstück zur heutigen "akademischen" Linken. Polarisierung, Vereinfachung, historisch kontrafaktisch. Schauen wir in die Arbeiter*innengeschichte. Los geht's 1/
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Precht insinuiert hier das Bild einer "ursprünglich proletarischen Linken" mit einem "derben und martialischen Jargon" als Gegenstück zur heutigen "akademischen" Linken. Polarisierung, Vereinfachung, historisch kontrafaktisch. Schauen wir in die Arbeiter*innengeschichte. Los geht's 1/
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Scarlett Johansson has gone to her local paper because the handbag she bought from Vinted came with a lump of cat sick.
October 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Scarlett Johansson has gone to her local paper because the handbag she bought from Vinted came with a lump of cat sick.
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Betreff: Politbarometer. Merz sagt in einem Satz fünf Sachen: 1) Es gibt „Probleme im Stadtbild“, 2) diese hängen mit Menschen zusammen, 3) die keinen dauerhaften Aufenthaltsstatus haben, 4) nicht arbeiten, 5) und sich nicht an unsere Regeln halten.
October 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Betreff: Politbarometer. Merz sagt in einem Satz fünf Sachen: 1) Es gibt „Probleme im Stadtbild“, 2) diese hängen mit Menschen zusammen, 3) die keinen dauerhaften Aufenthaltsstatus haben, 4) nicht arbeiten, 5) und sich nicht an unsere Regeln halten.