I once gave a writing task to my students (learners of English), then fed it into ChatGPT and completed it myself. Students then had to figure out which was AI-produced, and which I had written. It was amazing how some of them very quickly identified the AI version. A crucial skill, I guess.
31.07.2025 09:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Spending the summer in Brittany, a place to simply forget about the madness of the world. And it fills me with nothing but bewilderment that it seems impossible for humanity to simply enjoy the immense beauty that this world has to offer.
31.07.2025 09:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
und manchmal wird man sogar in halbwegs gute Restaurants eingeladen.
19.07.2025 07:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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La Marseillaise Casablanca
Happy Bastille Day! It's always important to remember the holiday's most important message: no matter how bleak things look, never stop standing up to Nazis.
14.07.2025 15:35 — 👍 601 🔁 211 💬 24 📌 22
thanks so much! I will try to push myself to give a publishable (or submittable) shape!
13.07.2025 17:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
viel schlimmer finde ich ja Qualifikationsstellen (Ph.D, PostDoc), die an Projekte gebunden sind. So muss man jemanden finden, der irgendwie zum Projektantrag passt, und diejenigen mit wirklich kreativen Ideen gehen unter.
09.07.2025 08:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by lilmikesf
How Eric Clapton's Bigotry Begat UK's Rock Against Racism Movement
Teaching somewhat spontaneously about Rock Against Racism today. A reminder amidst the current fuck-up that fighting for, and creating, something better is possible--and beautiful, joyful, exhilarating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyGm...
07.07.2025 04:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I guess altering the climate it's ok if it's just by accident and not on purpose, or as a "negligible" side-effect of making profits...
06.07.2025 16:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
thanks, I will have a look!
06.07.2025 10:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
hm, wrote once for them... looking for something more in the Anglophone sphere.
06.07.2025 10:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Texas officials appeared to be almost entirely issuing vital emergency alerts about the deadly Kerr County flooding via Facebook and Twitter/X.
Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.
06.07.2025 00:43 — 👍 5699 🔁 1774 💬 192 📌 127
(Curious to see if I get any response here...)
06.07.2025 06:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Not quite sure how to describe what I'm looking for... not the big journals, not for articles that are fully footnoted and take for ever to get out, but something to play with ideas, for shorter pieces, ideally get people involved, rather than for finalized findings. Any idea?
06.07.2025 06:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A question for fellow historians on this platform: is there any place, any forum, you know of for sort of faster debate, a place to publish, without the long processes of peer reviewing, shorter thought piecess on more general issues of writing history (e.g., how history might speak to the present)?
06.07.2025 06:57 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 0
weather forecast for Berlin until Monday, 21 July, showing 40° C for 20 July.
Next heat wave in Berlin looks even worse. Maybe people will eventually take climate change seriously. Oh, and no rain whatsoever.
06.07.2025 06:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Habt ihr euch gefragt, warum so viele indische Kurierfahrer unterwegs sind? Viele werden von teuren Privatunis hergelockt, verschulden sich, landen in einem Teufelskreislauf aus miesen Jobs und überfüllten, möblierten Apartments. Meine ganze Recherche gibt's bei der @taz.de
taz.de/Das-Geschaef...
28.06.2025 09:57 — 👍 692 🔁 250 💬 20 📌 16
Screenshot of a black and white closeup Instagram video with LL Cool J speaking
‘Welcome America’ headliner LL Cool J is CANCELLING his Friday performance in solidarity with the striking DC 33 workers’!
“There’s no way that I can perform, cross a picket line, and pick up money knowing that there’s people out there fighting for a living wage.” www.instagram.com/reel/DLqu8TU...
04.07.2025 02:45 — 👍 3953 🔁 682 💬 78 📌 100
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
03.07.2025 18:58 — 👍 98564 🔁 38503 💬 4579 📌 2736
rearming Europe is absolutely necessary; and utterly depressing. What a waste of resources desperately needed right now.)
02.07.2025 13:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hitzewelle: Deutschland trifft Vorbereitungen für den Wassernotstand
Bislang gibt es nicht einmal einen Gesamtüberblick über die Nutzung der Wasserressourcen. Sicher ist aber, dass ihr Schutz Milliardeninvestitionen erfordert.
One of the many issues humanity should spend its resources on: how to deal with droughts, floods, and water supply. A huge task that will require billions. But instead, immense resources are spent on armament. (And to be clear, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 1/2)
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
02.07.2025 13:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Unter anderem wohl den Bürgermeisterkandidaten für NY, Zohran Mamdani. Besides that: any enemy.
02.07.2025 06:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
(Article is in Germany and, I'm afraid, behind a paywall.)
02.07.2025 05:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
40 Grad in den Städten: Was hilft gegen extreme Hitze?
Die Städte kämpfen gegen dramatische Hitzewellen. Mehr Wasser könnte die Lösung sein: Planer fordern die „blaue Stadt“ – mit wieder an die Oberfläche geholten Bächen und neuen Bädern. Brauchen wir ein...
There are so many urgent probelms, like how to change our cities in the face of climate change, & so many great ideas attesting to humanity's creativity in dealing with such challenges. But humanity is, well, busy f**king up. Because all that matters is, sure, migration.
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
02.07.2025 05:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
02.07.2025 04:58 — 👍 43 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Bild der Kundgebung
Pavillon und Transparent "Abschluss statt Abschiebung".
Teilnehmer:innen, Schild "Solidarität und Gerechtigkeit".
Teilnehmer:innen, Schild "Menschlichkeit und Kindeswohl".
Heute Mittag haben etwa 100 Leute v.a. der Johanna-Tesch-Schule in Frankfurt Bockenheim demonstriert, um an die Abschiebung von Gunit und Angad zu erinnern, die vor 77 Tagen gegen ihren Willen in ein fremdes Land verbracht wurden.
Sie fehlen und wir wollen sie zurück!
01.07.2025 13:14 — 👍 70 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0
on a day like this (heat wave in Berlin & across Europe; Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, and so on), it feels like humanity bascially decided to completely f**k itself, and that in a stunningly democratical fashion (Trump & Co got elected, after all), willfully ignoring just anything.
02.07.2025 03:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ist ne erste Klasse, die haben zum Glück eh nicht so lang, und haben auch ne Möglichkeit draußen Unterricht zu machen.
29.06.2025 13:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ich war letzte Woche, als es noch, ging auf einem Elternabend für die erste Klasse und wäre fast umgefallen, so warm und v.a. stickig war es.
29.06.2025 08:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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