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Markus Hesselmann @hesselmann.bsky.social · 7h

Neues aus Bullerbü. www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/lese...

„Natürlich ist es dort auch voll“: Warum New York ein Verkehrs-Vorbild für Berlin sein sollte

Unsere Leserin plädiert nach fünf Wochen in der amerikanischen Metropole dafür, sich an deren Mobilitäts-Politik zu orientieren. Und wie sehen Sie’s?

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 2h

I had a roommate years ago who always had get rich quick schemes and one was political merchandise where he just wouldn’t pay for the rights to the photos and art. Today he’s a wildly wealthy fund manager who got his start in business via a celebrity billionaire fraudster.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 22h

Probably my favourite long late antiquity piece of art. The so-called "palimpsest" fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome shows consecutive layers of paintings from the sixth century (Mary as empress of heaven) all the way to the seventh and early eight century. The level of detail is just amazing.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes the occasion calls for carnations in the rifles of soldiers and sometimes it calls for a gyrating guy in a frog costume. Social mobilization contains multitudes. bsky.app/profile/comp...

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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Blinde Flecken e.V @blindeflecken.com · 4d

💌 Einladung | Ihr seid ein Verein oder eine Initiative, die sich für Weltoffenheit und eine solidarische Gesellschaft einsetzt? Stellt euch beim #gedenktag für die Opfer rechter Gewalt am 18.10. vor.

📩 Rückmeldung bis 12.10. an [email protected]
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Blinde Flecken Erfurt e.V. | Gedenktag für die Opfer Rechter Gewalt, 18. Oktober 2025

Erfahre mehr über den ersten offiziellen Erfurter Gedenktag für die Opfer rechter Gewalt, die Veranstaltenden & einzelne Programmpunkte wie z.B. Podiumsdiskussionen, Workshops und das "Antidiskriminie...

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 8h

In many ways, iconic imagery of past protests are often a poor guide to the present because they are so deeply rooted in local conditions of a specific conflict and its informational environment.

damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 11h

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 9h

Less dramatic in time, but I remember reading about a public exchange on the future of Germany in the 1950s between Weimar era Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and Stalingrad Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus and seemed deeply wrong chronologically.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 1d

Überwachungsstaat.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

“The records show that the police retroactively created a separate document about the Flock search a week after our article was published, in which they justify the search by saying they were concerned for her safety.”

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 1d

More here: www.uni-erfurt.de/en/universit...

Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present

Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF Potsdam) will speak on "Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present" as part of the Research Colloquium on the H...

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be back at the @unierfurt.bsky.social on November 25 to speak about "Illiberal Fundamental Rights in Germany from the State Socialist Past to the Populist Right Wing Present" combining some of my older research on the GDR with recent work on the AfD and the far right.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 1d

I have been contacted by colleagues asking about phantom publications and it's always terrible when you start thinking "damn, I really should have written that."

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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 1d

Das Vorgehen von Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft in Berlin steht deshalb seit Langem in der Kritik. In vielen Fällen entpuppen sich Vorwürfe vor Gericht als nicht haltbar. taz.de/Nahost-Konfl...

Nahost-Konflikt in Berlin: Mit harter Hand

Die Berliner Justiz ächzt unter der Zahl der Strafverfahren mit Nahost-Bezug. Doch viele Vorwürfe entpuppen sich vor Gericht als nicht haltbar.

taz.de

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of grassroots far right support in small towns is about the loss of these sort of amenities which is blamed on largesse towards migrants. In Germany, it’s often things like the closure of a community pool that becomes a flashpoint. So even the stupid short sighted option isn’t there.

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 1d

We are excited to welcome this year's Medieval History Seminar participants tomorrow! 📣

The seminar will bring together Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D. recipients (2024/2025) in medieval history from American, Canadian, British, Irish, and
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 1d

In general, coverage of higher education seems to be primarily conducted by people who hate faculty, students and all parts of administration that are not connected to donor relations and fundraising.

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

You have to think of the NYT’s education reporting in much the same way as its Real Estate, Lifestyle, and Vows features. That is, of direct personal interest to a tiny but influential sliver of subscribers, and functionally ragebait for everyone else.

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say
Many students don't do the reading and don't speak up in class, according to a report. Now, professors are trying to change that campus culture.
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A Harvard Professor Is Placed on Leave
After Firing a Pellet Gun
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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 2d

Attacking the rule of law: from rhetoric to arson

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

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ENDSTATION RECHTS. @endstationrechts.bsky.social · 2d

Eine kritische Biographie über Björn Höcke legt Frederik Schindler vor, der für „Die Welt“ über die AfD schreibt. Er hat viele Detailinformationen – auch zu den frühen Jahren des rechtsextremistischen Politikers – zusammengetragen:

„Höcke – Ein Rechtsextremist auf dem Weg zur Macht“ – eine journalistische Darstellung

Eine kritische Biographie über Björn Höcke legt Frederik Schindler vor, der über die AfD für die Tageszeitung „Die Welt“ schreibt. Er hat viele Detailinformationen auch zu den frühen Jahren des rechts...

www.endstation-rechts.de

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Reka Krizmanics @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social · 2d

A last-minute addition to the syllabus? Anna Dobrowolska's recent monograph is an exciting read.
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Anton Rainer @antonrainer.bsky.social · 2d

Menschen sagen in eine ZDF-Kamera(!), dass sie ihre Meinung nicht frei sagen dürfen, weil sie schon mal auf Facebook gesperrt wurden. Ein soziales Netzwerk wird eher als öffentlich-rechtliche Institution wahrgenommen als die Öffentlich-Rechtlichen selbst.

Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 3d

So - und wie weiter? "Die Scheiße kannten wir schon, wat wir jetzt haben" "DDR 2.5" Alles außer AfD ist Gelumpe, seine Meinungen darf man nicht sagen, anders als in der DDR.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 3d

Woe unto the woah-ists.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 5d

35 years ago today, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory was absorbed into the Federal Republic. If you want to learn more about the rise and fall of the GDR on this auspicious #TagderEinheit, you can check out my new book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...

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klaus radke @kradke.bsky.social · 5d

Eine erstaunliche Äußerung. In mehrerlei Hinsicht.
www.deutschlandfunk.de/kulturstaats...

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 3d

Gauze https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/gauze-1940

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