Maren Behrensen

Nobody Knows What UK Law on Toilet Access Is The lawlessness of the government's response to For Women Scotland v. the Scottish Ministers.

News from TERF Island

What's the point of it all if these products of AI hell are open access? Either it's to dupe universities into paying open access fees for articles their staff never authored, or it's to generate scientific-looking text that can used for the further training of the LLMs that created this toxic slop.

Also use a range of fictional profiles and real academics' images and affiliations to populate your "editorial board" in order to make your "journal" look less obviously scammy. All without the knowledge or consent of the real academics in question, of course.

Scientific Study Exposes Publication Fraud Involving Widespread Use of AI

A new trend in "leveraging AI for research": Generate "research papers" that are half plagiarized and half LLM-generated, put the names of real academics on those "papers," publish them in your "journal" and make them open access.

So Elmo says he needs one trillion dollars to build and control a "robot army." Not only is he still lifting his "business ideas" from ancient video games, he's also the kind of person who'd side with Mr. House in Fallout: New Vegas. Of course he is.

Ulf und Doppelulf

Thinking about Ursula and the Odonians today.

Promotional poster of the show "Wayward" (2025)

Been pondering the ending for a full day now, and it's not just a damn good study of how cults operate, I think it can also be watched as a season-length retelling of "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas."

Oktoberfackel

Vibe Theology: Die extreme Rechte und ihr Technopapst - feinschwarz.net Maren Behrensen analysiert die überschätzte aber keineswegs harmlose Politische Theologie von Peter Thiel.

Peter Thiel und Vibe Theology: ich ungläubiges Wesen hab da mal was kleines Katholisches gemacht und zur Verteidigung der Rechtgläubigen gegen die übelsten Häresien unserer Zeit geschrieben.

It would be very 2025 if the decision to award the Peace Nobel to Machado turned out to be a catalyst for war.

YouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter The science fiction book that perverted Stephen Miller

But behind that fiction lies the fascist fantasy of purifying the nation by enacting lethal violence on the "uncivilized" and the "undocumented" - ICE is doing it in Chicago and other cities, the US Navy is doing it in the Gulf of Mexico. And Hamas is doing it to "collaborators" in Gaza.

Trump condones Hamas executions, Venezuelan drug traffickers ‘It didn’t bother me much to be honest with you,’ Trump told reporters in Washington D.C.

The notion that there's an actual peace agreement for Gaza, and that Hamas would willingly give up their power and their weapons - pure fiction. The notion that the National Guard did anything to make DC a safer place - also pure fiction.

Screenshot of newspaper article. Link in comments.

Today I heard Stephen Miller's politics described as Jean Raspail fanfic. And that's just what this is.

Mostly incapacitated leader and ambitious psychopath who controls what said leader sees and hears? Yeah, that tracks. Grim stuff.

All accurate. Except for Heidegger, who would yell BESETZT and then poo louder.

Seilzug dran und ab geht der Zelebrant. Es wäre so einfach...

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

"Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. A patient's goal of achieving optimal quality of life as a trans person requires respect."

Some common sense and proper science from Australia 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️

Bei sowas bin ich immer froh, dass ich in Hiltrup wohne und ausschliesslich von Renter:innen umgeben bin...

Eine Ausgabe, viele Fragezeichen – Ein kritischer Blick auf die Ausgabe 1/2025 der Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Philosophie und Ethik (ZDPE) Von Sophia Hohmann (Bielefeld), Daniel Lucas (Zürich) & Alex Miller-Noe (Köln) In der Ausgabe 1/25 der ZDPE fragen die Herausgeber, Frank Brosow un

Anti-Trans- und Anti-Woke-Narrative für den Philosophieunterricht in einer Fachzeitschrift?
Ja, das gibt es in der ZDPE 1/2025 zum Thema Social Justice. @daluc.bsky.social, @eidexmueller.bsky.social & ich besprechen ausgewählte Beiträge. 1/6

praefaktisch.de/002e/eine-au...

#Wissenschaftsfreiheit

There's the problem of dirty hands. And then there's the spectacle of court jesters happily bathing their hands in blood.

Das ist definitv nicht nur in ostdeutschen Gegenden so - kenne ich auch aus meinen Nachbarschaften in MS und UE

Was ich aus diesem DLF-Wochenendjournal mitnehme: Die Menschen, die AfD wählen, tun das, weil sie halt Nazis wählen wollen. Und "Multikulti ist gescheitert", weil man nach 20 Uhr noch Kinder in der Siedlung hört.

Ich wusste wohl, dass Udo Jürgens mehr als Groomerhymnen zu bieten hat, aber "Lieb Vaterland" hat mich beim erstmaligen Hören dann doch geflasht.

Quebec to ban gender-inclusive French writing in government communication | CBC News Jean-François Roberge, the minister responsible for French in Quebec, said these changes were intended to clear up "confusion" and insisted that he didn't wish to "exclude anybody."

Eilmeldung: Konjugationskrise in Québec spitzt sich zu - Regierung rationiert Pronomen

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

Wie @derwahremawa.bsky.social mal - sinngemäß - sagte: Wir brauchen keinen "gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt" - Anstand reicht völlig aus. Und wer keinen Anstand besitzt, der darf und soll sich schämen.

Ich war mir so sicher, dass das ausgedacht sein muss...

And his quislings are dangerous, sure, but where will their power be when they can't show him in public anymore?

He's fighting elevators, teleprompters, and the least relevant media of our time (late night television). Like that old story with the decrepit, deluded man and the windmills. It's still fascism, but it's quixotic fascism.