Mikołaj Szafrański

YouTube video by Norma Tanega - Topic You're Dead

ending week 1 of being an independent scholar (same interests, same passion, no affiliation, no income) with a relatable classic by Norma Tanega

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4jU...

& the final post on the wage relation

any time I see a workplace describe itself as a ‘family’ I’m like so what you’re telling me is that your profit margins are tied to unpaid labour your workers do out of love, & the way this labour is both performed and valued is deeply gendered

Or, if you want two key excerpts:

Why am I seeing so much commentary about OpenAI's theft of Studio Ghibli's creative work illustrated with synthetic Studio Ghibli style images? Just because you're talking about the harm doesn't give you a free pass to do more of the harm....

🏆 The 2024 #TEL Best Article Prize is awarded to Matthias Petel for his article 'The Illusion of Harmony: Power, Politics, and Distributive Implications of Rights of Nature' bit.ly/445fgkL

Congratulations! 🥳

How, and to what extent should lawyers understand the green transition as an agenda of extractivism? Join us at HLS for a conversation with @triofrancos.bsky.social
Thursday April 10th 12:15pm, WCC 3018
hls.harvard.edu/events/front...

this is one for all of you who thought courts will save you. while the judiciary can - and, sometimes, does - stay the hand of the executive, laws are not built to protect nature, but to protect humans (and a very particular concept of humans).

remember, no-one will come to save us but ourselves.

DM'd!

It's 2025 and the UK opinion-making elites are still enthralled by soft Russophilia.

Can anyone picture @lrb.co.uk printing a letter saying ‘Despite conflicts in its former colonies (Falklands & Iraq), the UK was not attempting to place itself at the head of a power bloc seeking global domination’?

Call me a conservative listener for my faithfulness to the radio, but this little app has facilitated some fantastic sonic journeys... I remember the first time I heard Richard Dawson on Verity Sharp's 'Late Junction'... or when Mara Carlyle shared bits of the Trunk 'Music for biscuits' compilation.

I've been using BBC Sounds (and its predecessor, iPlayer Radio) ever since my arrival in the UK 11 years ago. I'm currently out of the country and I'm gutted to lose this sense of continuity.

Most BBC radio stations to become unavailable for international users A new BBC audio website and app will replace BBC Sounds for users outside the UK later this year

radiotoday.co.uk/2025/02/most...

Curse you, pennypinching executives from the BBC Broadcasting House!

How am I supposed to find inner peace without access to @marcrileydj.bsky.social @gidcoe.bsky.social and @elizabethalker.bsky.social's broadcasts?! 😢

Stop trying to make geoeconomics a frame that breaks you out of history.

Slavoj Zizek: Leftists falsify the choice that Ukrainians face during wartime In times of war, the fundamental questions of survival, morality, and identity not only dominate the discourse but also expose the fissures in global political ideologies. Amid the clamor of media nar...

"It’s incredible to me how many pseudo-leftists are drawn to this strange fascination with Russia. (...) [T]hey still cling to the idea that Russia, somehow being less affected by Western consumerism, somehow preserves more “authentic” human relationships."

💯

kyivindependent.com/slavoj-zizek...

Last Dance With Unger -- part 1 Podcast Episode · The David Yosifon Podcast · 11/15/2024 · 1h 6m

Amazing project podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

What if international law is working exactly how it's supposed to?

(Caveat: it's not 'supoosed' to work any way, it's a social phenomenon the problems of which are not *primarily* 'design' or 'intent', but origin, form, and embeddness in social relations. But that doesn't sound as catchy)

The same Donald Tusk stated that "the international legal order (...) is a matter of primary importance" for the Polish government.

The same Donald Tusk is expecting Hungary to execute an European Arrest Warrant for a former Polish govt official facing charges of fraud.

PM Donald Tusk has just declared that PM Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested if he attends the Auschwitz memorial event this month. Putin must be happy now.

It seems not to have occurred to [academics] that the net effect of their advocacy [for progressive legal change] might amount to little more than the circulation of a three word phrase 'progressive legal change'... The same, of course... of 'efficiency'...

www.dukeupress.edu/the-enchantm...

I listened to this garbage so you don't have to. It is a horrifically one-sided, un-nuanced hit piece on international students that will do damage to universities & pile on racist abuse of vulnerable students. Shame on Jo Grady & @ucu.org.uk for contributing to this & adding to negative tropes 1/8

“Don’t antagonize Putin/russia” is the geopolitical equivalent of the “don’t wear short skirts” advice given to women. Equal parts offensive and ineffective.

Why do social scientists fixate on the word 'granular'? Everything has a 'granular' structure. If you claim to be presenting a zoomed in perspective on a phenomenon/topic/text, you're rather bringing out a more 'fine grained' insight than a 'granular' one. #scholarlypetpeeves

the ‘people with projects’ way of storytelling does not account for the experience of agony and erring.

➡️ normalise ’people with Ithakas’.

Dear friends and colleagues,

Aimee Genell and I are launching a Boston area colloquium on the history of international law. The aim is to bring together historians of international law from across the greater Boston region.

Hey, remember MOOCs? Remember "the year of the MOOC?" Remember how UVA's board tried to fire the president because she wasn't sufficiently hyped about MOOCs? Remember how Sebastian Thrun (Udacity) said there would eventually be only 10 higher-ed outlets bc of MOOCs?

Just thought I'd ask.

What's the fuss about student voice in UK academia? Why does it always seem like there is not enough of it, despite unis and SUs devoting more resources to gathering it?

Perhaps it has never been about communication. What if student voice is a commodity?

blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

“There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real human artists.”

This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.

Why Movements Fail Horizontalism and its discontents

This is a piece that @lpeblog.bsky.social really ought to take to heart — countervailing power works only when it’s about building armies- with commanders - than cresting participatory democracies.

www.liberalcurrents.com/why-movement...