Joschka Meier

Prometheus says “hot take” and Greek gods respond “no give that back.”

i am so glad i deleted many years ago and moved to knowledgecommons! hcommons.org

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FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com SOCIETY: $2000 is the minimum we need to live each month DISABLED PEOPLE: So you agree disability should be raised to $2000 SOCIETY: Disabled people are magical & can live off less DISABLED PEOPLE: No, we can't SOCIETY: [avoiding eye contact] Disabled people are SO inspiring January 4, 2024 at 12:46 AM

That's extremely common?
I mean, I'm honestly surprised that you're not familiar with it, but I guess that it might be less noticeable if you're not on the receiving end of it.
Like, there's tons of statements by politicians, it's been a cornerstone of the Output of Yglesias & similar types etc.

Decline in remote jobs risks shutting disabled people out of work, study finds Research project warns fall in homeworking roles could undermine efforts to reduce unemployment

We invented the Internet to work remotely. Then developed all the tools we might need. Then had a world historical event prove that remote work was effective and necessary.

I honestly have trouble thinking about anything engaging with that theory because it seems so obviously absurd.
I guess one could regard e.g. the whole research into managing commons and sustainability (in various forms) as an implicit repudiation

I think it's completely absurd and the premise can be easily disproven by looking at loads of things - e.g. alpine village charters often started by stating plainly that you need rules because otherwise people would forget how to preserve the commons properly!

It Happened to Me: Someone I consider a dear friend asked me how my manuscript is coming along

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

Some Ethiopian coffee today, prepared in the traditional manner and served in a cup decorated with scenes of St Frumentius sailing to Axum, converting the king and erected stelae

Yeah, I'm writing about animal history and there's a reason why that includes stuff like how people in the middle ages were 1) willing to treat animals with kindness & 2) thought animals including cattle had inner lives & were capable of learning - which includes a reference to the tool-wielding cow

I keep this image on my desktop now because of how often I have to use it.

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

Hab auch schon zur Geschichte Rassismus nach 1945 gearbeitet, aber wow, hätt nicht so unsubtilen Antisemitismus in der Zeit & Rahmen erwartet. Ist ja kaum maskierte 1:1 Kopie von NS-Propaganda mit Schmarrn von 'heidnisch-germanischer Vergangenheit' & bringt ja sogar den von 'Weltjudentum'

Psychosomatik bei ME/CFS ist keine Anerkennung und kein Verstehen des persönlichen Wahrnehmens, Fühlens und Erlebens. Sie ist Unterstellung eines "falschen Mindsets", von außen auferlegte Funktionalisierung und Verdinglichung der Psyche. Sie ist Grenzüberschreitung, medizinischer "Imperialismus".

Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

The Institute for Archaeology at the Humboldt University of Berlin is threatened with closure and with it a two-century long tradition of archaeological research that shaped the entire discipline. Please sign the petition to oppose this plan: weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

#medievalsky

Yeah, I always found it strange how often 'Middle Ages' gets equated with 1) The area of what is now the UK & 2) literary studies on top of that.
Seems more myopic than even eurocentrism & leads to stuff like people trying to mine literary texts for things for which they're not suited for

Zack Polanski on how Keir Starmer could have changed the April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling to protect trans rights (EXCLUSIVE) Zack Polanski revealed how Keir Starmer could have acted to protect trans rights after April 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling.

It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people.

They’re failing to do that.

Trans people deserve safety and dignity.

www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...

Acting ethically in an imperfect world Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somew...

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe.

@tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here:

tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...

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Informed consent ist halt schon wichtig

Ein möglicher Schluss ist: das ist für ihn gar keine heisse Herdplatte

I don't know what game this is, but importing the Space Marine 2 character models into it was genius.

I am sorry but this is still the core problem with trying to parse anything he says about tariffs.

New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC Approval A new investigation has found irregularities in the ethics review of a grant to study effects of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.

🧪 #ResearchEthics

Appalling Guinea Bissau #hepB #vaccine trial
„an international ethics fiasco[…]

„…CDC appointees allied with Kennedy circumvented critical scientific and ethical safeguards…„

Kudos to investigative journalist @katherineeban.bsky.social

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Dann bin ich froh! Falls doch auch Sachen aus anderen Perioden/Räumen gehen oder generelle Infos/Ideen, gerne einfach melden

Phillip
Wieso tust du so was