Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

„Wirklich notwendig?“ Merz kritisiert hohen Krankenstand in Deutschland In der kalten Jahreszeit gehört es fast dazu, dass es überall hustet und niest. Viele lassen sich auch krankschreiben. Der Kanzler sieht hier ein generelles Problem.

Wenn es doch nur eine linke oder vielleicht sozialdemokratische Partei in der Koalition gäbe, die sich auf die Seite der Arbeiter stellen und diesem Mumpitz Einhalt gebieten würde.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Ich wünsche mir einen Kanzler, der sich fragt, warum Menschen in unserem Land so oft krank werden, anstatt Menschen zu unterstellen, sie würden oft krankmachen.
Dann könnte er vielleicht ernsthaft einen Beitrag zur höheren Produktivität leisten.

This is chilling and must be heard to believe. And the fact that this is where we are says everything.

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)

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...

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

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.

Philippa Islington-Smythe - aka my cat Roscoe - hanging out at home

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...

Wohltätigkeit ist das Gegenmodell zum Sozialstaat.

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 🤣

JAMES MERRILL CHRISTMAS TREE From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks, That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me, The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining — Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver, A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear, Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin. Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully! No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's Dusk room aglow For the last time With candlelight. Faces love-lit, Gifts underfoot. Still to be so poised, so Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

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.

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.

Ungewollt schwanger: Im Aufwachraum Unsere Autorin entscheidet sich für eine Abtreibung. Was ein einfacher Eingriff sein könnte, ist ein politisches und gesellschaftliches Minenfeld.

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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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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.

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...

"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/...

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.

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.

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*.

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>

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

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.

And that means that democracy doesn't die in darkness, but in the light of a billion glowing screens.

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/

Scarlett Johansson advertising PRADA, looking like she’s furious about a handbag.

Scarlett Johansson has gone to her local paper because the handbag she bought from Vinted came with a lump of cat sick.

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.