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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 2d

I had so much fun going on Dutch late night last week during my brief stopover in Amsterdam!

Thank you to the amazing host Arjen Lubach, and his wonderful team & audience, for making me feel so welcome.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxq4...

Arjen Lubach interviewing Karen Hao about Empire of AI on the set of his Dutch late night comedy show, Lubach.

Tex de Wit, Karen Hao, and Arjen Lubach posing in front of the Lubach audience.

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Caspar Battegay @casparbattegay.bsky.social · 16d

Die Zerstörung Gazas und dir wohl irreversible Veränderung der israelischen Gesellschaft: Assaf Bondy und Adam Raz mit einer nüchternen, erschreckenden Analyse.

Geschichte der Gegenwart @g-d-gegenwart.bsky.social · 16d

Der Soziologe Assaf Bondy und der Historiker Adam Raz werfen einen Blick auf die wirtschaftlichen Hintergründe der Einberufung von israelischen Reservist:innen und auf die damit einhergehende soziopolitische Einbindung der gesamten Gesellschaft. geschichtedergegenwart.ch/die-zerstoer...

Die Zerstörung Gazas und die Prozesse der Komplizenschaft

Seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 hat die Regierung von Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu für Reservesoldaten ein Anreizsystem geschaffen, das die Grenzen zwischen ziviler und militärischer Gesellschaft auf...

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Judith Keilbach @juikei.bsky.social · 16d

Genocide as Gig-Economy

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Die Zerstörung Gazas und die Prozesse der Komplizenschaft

Seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 hat die Regierung von Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu für Reservesoldaten ein Anreizsystem geschaffen, das die Grenzen zwischen ziviler und militärischer Gesellschaft auf...

geschichtedergegenwart.ch

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 26d

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization.

This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

Kamermeerderheid vindt Antifa terroristische organisatie

Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer wil dat Nederland, in navolging van de Verenigde Staten, de extreemlinkse beweging Antifa aanmerkt als terroristische organisatie. Een motie daartoe van Lidewij de V...

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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 26d

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:

We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

IAGS Solidarity Statement 9-18-25.pdf

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Judith Keilbach @juikei.bsky.social · 27d

Here is an old post. We should have left already 10 years ago.
www.guygeltner.net/blog/2016/6/...

Upon Leaving Academia.edu — G. Geltner

Early last week I uploaded to my Academia.edu homepage a brief note  signaling and explaining my decision to close my account on that site. As a medieval historian, I had been an active and enth...

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 27d

A glimpse of what life is like aboard the only undersea internet cable repair ship permanently stationed in Africa
https://restofworld.org/2025/africa-internet-cable-repair-ship

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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · Sep 2

An essay I’ve written that reflects on Adorno‘s famous „Education after Auschwitz“ today, esp for Germans. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · Sep 14

J Butler: “It is time to resist the injustice now normalized by those who capitulate to powers willing to destroy the basic principles protecting the university’s independence & who imperil the future of critical thought, dissent, and democracy itself.”

www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Opinion | When Universities Become Informants

A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

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Judith Keilbach @juikei.bsky.social · Sep 14

Judith Butler the the Berkeley list: www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Opinion | When Universities Become Informants

A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'm not kidding when I say you could teach an entire ethics course with this article.

Everything from character to integrity to parrhesia, from care and solidarity to the leap into faith demonstrated repeatedly by one family in the name of what's right.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Sep 12

Must read

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

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Judith Keilbach @juikei.bsky.social · Sep 13

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A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

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Judith Keilbach @juikei.bsky.social · Sep 13

"...the increasing numbers of courageous faculty whose petitions call on administrators to stand up to the attacks; the students and faculty condemning Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and, in the process, claiming their rights to protest under the First Amendment ..."

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Judith Keilbach @juikei.bsky.social · Sep 13

"This is the latest chapter in my long education in the importance of communities of resistance, however implacable is the power we confront."
"My need to resist leads me to support others doing the same: ..."

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Judith Keilbach @juikei.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Protesting and Teaching about Israel-Palestine in The Netherlands, and the Problem of Double Standards

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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taz @taz.de · Sep 6

Ja, wie eigentlich? 📱

Comic: Liebe, Sorge, Ausdauer. Mutter und Kind laufen durch einen Park. Eine Person sitzt telefonierend auf einer Bank, daneben ein Hund. Eine Person fotografiert mit ihrem Handy ein Eichhörnchen. Eine Person hat ein Handy in der Hand, eine andere am Ohr. Kind fragt: Mama, wie haben die Menschen in der Steinzeit eigentlich telefoniert, wenn sie noch keine Handys hatten?!

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Sep 4

🗣️ ISSUE NINE IS OUT! Alongside Patrick Doan’s vignettes, the heart of the ERB: stories, essays, and reviews — in our peculiar design with vivid images and un-killed darlings on 'level 2'.
Take a look:
europeanreviewofbooks.com/issues/issue...

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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · Sep 4

This, again, because we need it:

"People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider’s webs. It’s not.

Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go."

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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Die Mischung aus Kälte und Selbstgerechtigkeit – Anständigkeit im Gewand der Härte – ist exemplarisch für einen spezifisch deutschen Typus. Für Baerbock und die politische Klasse ist diese Art der Erfüllung der Staatsräson ein Ruhmesblatt deutscher Geschichte."

Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · Sep 2

An essay I’ve written that reflects on Adorno‘s famous „Education after Auschwitz“ today, esp for Germans. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

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Judith Keilbach @juikei.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Mapping starvation – The European Review of Books

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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · Aug 26

University Press Library Open (UPLOpen) is purely for finding and retrieving open access books.

Which @oapenbooks.bsky.social does for 14 years already, and is purely open infrastructure...

Why should libraries also pay for UPLOpen, which running on proprietary software? Am I missing something?

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · Aug 26

The winning article is available here. Congratulations! doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Spiral-scaling climate action: lessons from and for the academic flying less movement

The notion that scholars should reduce consumption of workrelated flight travel as a form of climate action has become common in academia. Proponents of this idea have coalesced into a sectoral mov...

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