Mauro Gatti

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Gaza and Academia: repression, IHRA definition of antisemitism, educide - Seminar online now (3/11, 10:00 CET) tinyurl.com/RUPTwitch
With: Aya Ashour; Collettivo Academics for Justice; Donatella Della Porta; Nicola Perugini; Federica Stagni

Happy #Halloween!
This Roman miniature skeleton with flexible joints, jumps and dances when shaken.
The Romans called these skeletons larva convivalis, meaning banquet ghost, and were handed out to guests at dinner parties to remind them to have fun while they were alive.

2/ In this video, meanwhile, fascist chants and shouts in praise of the Duce can be heard coming from the Meloni party’s headquarters in Parma, also used by the Brothers of Italy youth wing. The video has been recorded on October 28, the anniversary of the March on Rome.

Still way too much US news on here

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Italy, Denmark & Netherlands host meeting in Brussels on "innovative" solutions to migration issues. For "innovative" read paying Libyan militias even more to imprison & torture migrants and increased funding for the Tunisian régime to round up migrants and dump them in the desert to die.

I loved working& living in the Netherlands, but my department in Rotterdam only wanted me for teaching and did not want me to apply to grants.

So I got a big and prestigious research grant but in another university and told them I was leaving and they would get 0 of my money 🤷🏻‍♀️

Quand les mots changent, la politique change : comment le centre fait le jeu de l’extrême droite Assiste-t-on à une extrême droitisation du champ politique ? Avec le politiste Antoine Lemor, nous avons cherché à répondre à cette question en analysant les discours de politique générale des Premie…

“Quand les mots changent, la politique change : comment le centre fait le jeu de l’extrême droite”

me hugging Jesus

Would you hug Jesus?

Apparently, a recent trend is using AI for posts and videos of Jesus hugging people.

The ICJ found against the United States in a contentious case against Nicaragua in 1986, proceedings which lead to the US withdrawing from the Court's compulsory jurisdiction.

Here was the reported reaction of the US administration at the time:

Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...

France’s Sorbonne University about to leave Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings: "These rankings are...black boxes that operate in a closed system” sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...

Sofia Corradi, che ha inventato l’Erasmus “per amore di un americano”. L’ultima intervista a d Aveva 91 anni e 5 milioni di “figli”: tutti gli studenti partiti con il programma di scambio culturale che ha inventato quando, a fine anni 50, è partita negli…

The woman who "invented" the Erasmus exchange programme, Sofia Corrado, formerly Professor of Adult Education at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, has died aged 91. She was affectionately known as "Mamma Erasmus."

If that was the case, teachers would have been made obsolete by the invention of "books"

Mainstream media in almost every Western democracy have become a big problem. Which is what happens when democratic states allow communication infrastructure to be captured by elites and billionaires.

this clip is apparently from February but evidently there may be a lesson here for who romanticizes prizes

As always. This is one of the problems of academic debate. We should ask more often “yes but WHY do you want to write something on this clear violation of the law?” My edgy opinion: the agenda and motives of academics are as important as the arguments.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Italian authorities continue to send NGO rescue ships to ports in northern Italy prolonging the agony of the injured. In this case, people suffering from severe burns were forced to spend 5 extra days at sea before being allowed ashore for hospital treatment. Pure performative cruelty.

"The [Italian] Minister of Equality of Opportunity in Meloni's government criticised school trips to Auschwitz which, according to her, unjustly associate antisemitism with the far-right".

Missione riservata in Europa: Frontex riceve per la prima volta funzionari libici di Haftar La delegazione sarà composta da uomini di Tripoli e Bengasi, insieme. La Libia divisa si mostra unita con l’Europa, che vuole più controlli alle frontiere e più rimpatri. Dopo Varsavia (quartier gener...

Today officials from both Tripoli & Benghazi are visiting Frontex in Warsaw and then tomorrow the European Commission in Brussels. These people are funded by the EU to imprison and torture migrants, extort money from them and then shoot at them and throw them into the sea when they attempt to cross.

Varsler kollektiv-streik i Oslo før Norge-Israel Oslo Sporveiers Arbeiderforening varsler streik 11. oktober, samme dag som Israel og Norge spiller landskamp i fotball på Ullevaal Stadion. Hensikten er å vise støtte til Palestina. Én time før kampst...

Norway are facing Israel in the Football World Cup qualifiers today

The Oslo Tram Driver’s Union will be striking on the tram lines to the stadium in solidarity with the people of Palestine

www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/va...

Opponents of the Italian government - from activists to bankers - are being targeted by spyware. I wonder who may be behind this.

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Neofascisti hanno picchiato del manifestanti dopo il corteo.
Guarda un po’, questo al Tg1 non lo hanno detto, i giornali di destra non ne hanno scritto e Meloni non ha condannato… che strano!

It is a deliberate policy: for two years now, Berlin’s mayor has chosen not de-escalation units but riot police – officers known for routinely unleashing extreme levels of violence against anti-genocide protesters; week after week, day after day.