Lisa Gaufman

Erinnert mich an den Artikel über die Modeentscheidungen von Thierry Baudet in der Volkskrant 🫠🫠🫠

First seminar on Russian politics and culture of the semester: ended up analysing Ilya's Russian monologue from #heatedrivalry with the students. If that's not something that will get the kids to class I don't know what will!

Well, Russian foreign ministry often cites Gramsci!

Bonus: @greenleejw.bsky.social ‘s drawings work really well as embroidery patterns!

Legitimizing the War on Ukraine in Russia (with Elizaveta Gaufman)

How do Russian political and cultural elites legitimize the war on Ukraine, three years into what was supposed to last only a couple of days? And how do these justifications change over time?
Elizaveta Gaufman (@lisares.bsky.social) has a couple of ideas on this: open.spotify.com/episode/36CY...

New preprint is out!

Focusing on Russia, this paper asks what happens when disinformation awareness itself becomes a tool of authoritarian rule. We often assume that learning about disinformation increases resistance to propaganda. But what if the regime weaponises it? 1/7

Contested histories: cultural memory, narratives and archives

Funded collaborative PhD opportunity on contested memory with me in @oupolitics.bsky.social and Arthur Dudney at Arcadia:

granduniondtp.web.ox.ac.uk/contested-hi...

Deadline 7th Jan, please share!

Come work with me! 👩🏻‍💻

• Al Overview The image displays a tweet from Zohran Kwame Mamdani, dated September 11, 2001, at 9:23 AM, containing the text "Y'all smell something burnin'? sips tea". This tweet is shown within a larger screenshot of a social media post expressing strong negative opinions about Mamdani's potential candidacy for Mayor of NYC. • The tweet's timestamp, September 11, 2001, at 9:23 AM, places it shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. • The phrase "Y'all smell something burnin'?" is highly insensitive given the context of the 9/11 attacks and the resulting fires and smoke. • The inclusion of "sips tea" further trivializes the tragic events of that day. • The larger post criticizes Mamdani's political viability and links it to alleged "narcissistic behavior" of other political figures, Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo. • The image appears to be a screenshot shared to highlight Mamdani's controversial past tweet in the context of a current political discussion.

Read it and weep. It was a google AI description of a fake Mamdani Tweet about 9/11

Pics, because it did happen

Still grateful to @jrnlregsec.bsky.social for publishing it back in the day
pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6b5c/c0e0045...

You know who else called the EU the fourth reich? People (and trolls) who opposed Ukraine’s signing of Association agreement in 2013. Somebody even wrote a paper about this!

FWIW 👇🏽

Which is exactly where the article comes into play: rule following is masculine coded *in settings where the superiors issuing orders are expected to be men.* In schools, where most of the teachers are women, it's seen as normal and expected for boys to be unruly or outright defiant.

“If civilization is what counts … the likelihood of violence between Ukrainians and Russians should be low. They are two Slavic, primarily Orthodox peoples who have had close relationships with each other for centuries.”

Do you want to know how Trump won? You love reading about the Middle Ages and hate racists? I have an OPEN ACCESS book for you!

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Hicks, M. T., Humphries, J., & Slater, J. (2024). ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and Information Technology, 26(2), 1-10.

Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021, March). On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?🦜.

And if you respond with scientific articles about stochastic parrotry and bullshit, these kinds of people get VERY aggressive…

Ancient Greeks loved bright colors! But unless they use a Dune color palette no one will think it’s “olden times” 🤦🏻‍♀️

I will show this to the next person who says that “AI is unbiased”

Another day, another mediocre uninformed man tries to mansplain and insult. Oh the fun of being a woman in academia!

📣 Nieuwe column voor @groene.nl. Deze week over het fenomeen "pinkwashing": het strategisch verpakken van extreemrechtse politiek in een feminien jasje. 👇

He actually thought it was funny when I told him that prof x expressed interest in my research. Then told me how x is famous for liking young female grad students.

At some point during my PhD, a senior male colleague told me that the only reason another senior male colleague was interested in my research was to get into my pants. Double whammy: apart from harassment fears, that made me think that my research was garbage.

Plenty of sequel material for Carol Cohn’s article “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals". Some things never change (apart from the intellectual part)

Please retire the label “populist”. She is a white nationalist and Qanon/pizzagate believer among other things. Just call a racist spade a spade.

Kiddo came home saying that everyone in his class voted for #D66 apart from 2, who voted for “Partij voor diertjes” (which is apparently a party he would vote for). He was worried that the “Pif” party might still win, “because they want to send all the foreigners out and we are foreigners”.

With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.

Ten years ago today I defended my PhD dissertation “Enemies at the gates: existential threat narratives in Putin’s Russia”. I had chapters on Ukraine, the West, homophobia, migrants and “spiritual bonds”. And the argument still freaking holds, damn.

As I was giving feedback on a clearly ChatGPT generated lit review, I realized that I am just feeding new prompts to the student to feed to his genAI. It’s exhausting and meaningless.