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PhD candidate at Fulda Graduate of Social Sciences: writing on illegalised migration *harraga* 🇲🇦🇯🇴🇮🇪🇪🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷

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Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias, 29 de enero - 1 de febrero 2026

Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias, 29 de enero - 1 de febrero 2026

También me emociona mucho anunciar que estaré en el Hay Festival Cartagena en enero para lanzar esta edición en Colombia. 😍

Más detalles aquí para el evento principal: hayfestival.com/p-24673-kare...

Muchas gracias a mis lectores en español y ojalá que nos veamos pronto 💗

27.11.2025 02:32 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

07.11.2025 07:39 — 👍 12682    🔁 5532    💬 380    📌 490
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Überwachung: Massen-Missbrauch von Handyortung? Neue Recherchen legen nahe: Mit Software einer Sicherheitsfirma unter deutsch-österreichischer Führung wurden jahrelang Tausende Handys geortet.

🔴 “Wir können dafür ins Gefängnis kommen”– dieser Satz steht im Zentrum einer spektakulären Recherche. Es geht um strafbare Sanktionsumgehung, einen Undercover-Einsatz, einen überwachten Vatikan-Reporter, prominente Opfer & Red Bull. Willkommen zu #SurveillanceSecrets

14.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Quick question: will the lectures also be available to watch on YouTube later on? In case I can't attend the live stream online

08.10.2025 10:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Anlasslose Massenüberwachung: Messenger Signal wird Deutschland verlassen, wenn Chatkontrolle kommt In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sich...

In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur #Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sichere Kommunikation mehr geben.

netzpolitik.org/2025/anlassl...

01.10.2025 10:16 — 👍 859    🔁 556    💬 33    📌 34
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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06.09.2025 08:13 — 👍 3587    🔁 1827    💬 106    📌 345
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Als erstes Bundesland: Hessen setzt Live-Gesichtserkennung ein 50 Kameras filmen das Geschehen im Frankfurter Bahnhofsviertel. Die Gesichter aller Passant*innen werden mit Hilfe von KI-Systemen analysiert und mit Fotos gesuchter Personen abgeglichen. Das zugrunde...

Hessen setzt als erstes Bundesland Live-Gesichtserkennung ein. Die Gesichter der Passant*innen im Bahnhofsviertel von Frankfurt/Main werden von KI analysiert und mit Fotos gesuchter Personen abgeglichen. Das zugrundeliegende Gesetz erlaubt noch viel mehr. netzpolitik.org/2025/als-ers...

29.08.2025 11:12 — 👍 113    🔁 76    💬 16    📌 25
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Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters Four Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes.

Abschiebungen von Studierenden im Namen der Staatsräson. Der Trumpismus ist offiziell in Berlin angekommen- und wie vorhergesagt, er kommt im Namen der vermeintlichen Antisemitismusbekämpfung.

01.04.2025 04:57 — 👍 164    🔁 74    💬 2    📌 7

Habe nun mit mehreren WissenschaftlerInnen gesprochen, die Fachkonferenzen in den USA lieber auslassen, weil die Lage so unklar ist. Die, die doch hinfahren, besorgen dafür eigens neue Laptops und Handys. Surreal. Die breite Öffentlichkeit realisiert noch immer zu wenig, wie ernst die Lage ist.

28.03.2025 15:25 — 👍 4815    🔁 1377    💬 150    📌 41
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Job alert!
Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world.

Please help spread the word among interested candidates!

Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...

17.03.2025 13:37 — 👍 44    🔁 49    💬 1    📌 5
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Israel hat diese Nacht Schulen, Flüchtlingslager und Wohnhäuser in #gaza bombardiert und dabei 340 Palästinenser ermordet.
Die Tagesschau schreibt dazu: Israel bombardiert "Hamas-Stellungen".
Das ist kein Journalismus, sondern Verharmlosung von Kriegsverbrechen und Propaganda.

18.03.2025 07:33 — 👍 130    🔁 34    💬 5    📌 3
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Why and how should sociologists speak out on Palestine? - Michael Burawoy, 2025 The essay begins with the question of neutrality: why might sociologists keep silent on the question of Palestine? On the other hand, if they are to speak out, ...

Michael Burawoy, Why and how should sociologists speak out on Palestine?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

16.03.2025 19:43 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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