Rachel Griffin

This is an important problem to look at and we shouldn't think only about traditional media. What would it look like to finance social media infrastructure like public service media?
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We must protect our borders to defend our democracies. Here's how This is our strong message to our friends in Europe. Unless responsible governments reflect their citizens’ concerns, populists will win, say British PM Keir Starmer and Danish PM Mette Frederiksen

It’s socialism or barbarism, and the ‘centre left’ will choose barbarism every time…

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Thoughtful piece from my former student Milan Wiertz

“To make sure that fascists don’t win (i.e. in order for us to stay in power) we will adopt & implement fascist discourse & policies. In doing that, we will also normalize fascism for larger parts of the population because some idiots still describe us as ‘centre-left’”.

Here, fixed it.

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Now on our feed📲Influencers in Parliament? Platform Pressures and Normative Conflict in Political Social Media Adoption - Annina Claesson, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

#academicsky #socialmediasky #polisky

Headline We must protect our borders to defend our democracies. Here’s how Keir Starmer and Mette Frederiksen This is our strong message to our friends in Europe. Unless responsible governments reflect their citizens’ concerns, populists will win Keir Starmer is the British prime minister. Mette Frederiksen is prime minister of Denmark

Who needs the far right when you have the centre left media and politics as a bulwark to do its bidding?

Spare us the "Listening to legitimate concerns".

These concerns are racist, not legitimate, and they are fueled in a top down manner (and still minoritarian)

This is on you

Sexarbeitende stärken statt kriminalisieren – gegen staatliche patriarchale Körperkontrolle! Sexarbeit ist Arbeit. Entkriminalisierung gibt Sexarbeiterinnen Sicherheit und Selbstbestimmung: Sie entscheiden selbst, wann, wo und wie sie arbeiten, haben besseren Zugang zu Gesundheitsversorgung u...

Sexarbeitende stärken statt kriminalisieren – gegen staatliche patriarchale Körperkontrolle!

Petitionen sind sonst nicht so meins, aber: die Gefahr eines Sexarbeitverbots ("Nordisches Modell") steigt, und es gibt viel Misinformation. Daher: unterschreibt, informiert Euch & Andere. @rubyrebelde.com

Gaza, Israel, and German Foreign Policy: A View on Public Opinion A survey conducted in August 2025 found that the majority of people living in Germany support a foreign policy towards Gaza and Israel that is guided by international law and seeks to uphold universal...

The UN, human rights organizations, and scholars have concluded that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.

What are the views of people living in Germany on Israel's offensive and Germany's role?

A long 🧵based on survey results.

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If we play this out: What would 3 °C of warming mean in 25 years? What would the world look like? FB: We would all live in different climate zones. Open an old world atlas and you see a huge red patch for the Sahara. With 3 °C of warming, that zone would stretch into parts of Spain. Vegetation, rainfall weather patterns, all would look very different. And what would 3 °C mean for Germany? FB: In summer, meteorological records could reach up to 50 °C. Three degrees of global warming does not mean hot days will just be 3 or 4 degrees hotter. It could mean up to 10 degrees hotter. We would also face much

Warning from German scientists that current observations of emissions and ocean temperatures make 3C of #globalheating by mid-century plausible.

3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.

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history happens the first time as succession season 4 and the second time as farce

Climate rift opens between Amazon and rivals in row over data centre power US tech giant accused of pressuring top European clean energy group over changes to emissions rules

Amazon accused of threatening green energy group with funding withdrawal, after dispute over data centre emissions www.ft.com/content/4bbd...

i wish all hyperscalers the very best of luck trying to achieve sufficiently high uptake of their wildly unreliable + uninsurable B2B software to justify their trillion dollar investments in unnecessary infrastructure that's destroying our planet!

i wish all hyperscalers the very best of luck trying to achieve sufficiently high uptake of their wildly unreliable + uninsurable B2B software to justify their trillion dollar investments in unnecessary infrastructure that's destroying our planet!

Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots

truly influential definitions of AI 'systemic risks' may not come directly from regulators, but from insurers currently trying to figure out how to exclude losses related to AI tools (unreliable, widely used -> correlated risks, complex supply chains -> unclear liability)

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Me when I cite myself:

📣 New paper alert!

Why do politicians feel the need to "act like influencers"?

Drawing on fieldwork in the French Assemblée Nationale, I explore the "social media double bind" faced by elected officials.

Available in open access in Social Media + Society ⤵️
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Over a third of animals impacted in deep sea mining test - scientists The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.

www.bbc.com/news/article... leave the deep sea and all its freaky little guys alone!

Academic institutions: "while we understand there are concerns, the truth is that gambling as a pathway to knowledge is here to stay, and denying that means we will be left behind. That's why we're giving free Kalshi subscriptions to every student"

The World Politics of Disco Elysium | Vic Castro, Nicholas Kiersey | T The World Politics of Disco Elysium analyzes the distinctive political claims and original arguments on a wide range of international political issues of

anyone have access to this book on the politics of disco elysium and can share a few chapters with me? 🙏 I need to prepare assiduously to defeat my partner at game night

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

The ads that sell the sizzle of genetic trait discrimination A startup’s ads for controversial embryo tests hit the New York City subway.

A startup’s ads for controversial embryo tests hit the New York City subway.

NEW: The Pentagon has brought back Cold War-era stockpiling, taking vital resources from the energy transition.

Our analysis shows that the Pentagon’s planned cobalt and graphite stockpile is large enough to produce 100,000 electric buses.

transitionsecurity.org/mining-for-war/

an idea ahead of its time

(at the arts et métiers exhibition Flops?! « Certains flops se révèlent finalement des tops ! »)

The CEOs of both Ford and Stellantis, who are there to celebrate the rollback of vehicle emissions standards (which will drive climate change), are standing right behind Trump as he makes these racist comments.

As a kid who used to love to sit up late in my rural county peering into the vastness of space, I find it almost physically painful to stare into the cluttered sky and find my gaze constantly interrupted by all of this disposable litter. This graph does not indicate progress to me.

I'm so sorry for making you get up at 6am 🫣 thank you I definitely owe you one!

[7/8] Le coût écologique reste absent des prix. Un passager Paris-Barcelone émet 187 kg de CO₂ en avion, contre 3,23 kg en train. Le trafic aérien a été multiplié par 4,6 depuis 1990 et émet près d’1 milliard de tonnes de CO₂ par an, soit autant qu’un pays comme le Japon.

[2/8] Les liaisons européennes montrent un écart massif. Le train est entre 2,3 et 3 fois plus cher. Madrid-Paris coûte 204€ en train contre 87€ en avion. Barcelone-Paris affiche 123€ contre 45€. Certains trajets atteignent un rapport extrême, comme 389€ en train contre 14,99€ en avion.

Hot Sauce Solidarity 2.0 - bring down borders, rebuild Gaza, organized by Jannis Grimm Hi, I'm Jannis Grimm, the director of a research unit at the … Jannis Grimm braucht deine Unterstützung für Hot Sauce Solidarity 2.0 - bring down borders, rebuild Gaza

Our INTERACT colleague Jannis Grimm has created a fundraiser for two partner organisations of our INTERACT @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social conversation series: @sea-watch.org and @transaidency.bsky.social.

You can access the fundraiser here: gofund.me/56674e81d

🧭 A Progressive Roadmap for Expanding European Digital Sovereignty

IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social's recent policy brief with @feps-europe.eu outlines an ecosystemic and progressive roadmap for strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty.

✍️ Read it here: buff.ly/scJ9buh