E. Hochman
@erhochman.bsky.social
Historian of modern Germany/Austria, politics, nationalism. Views are my own.
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E. Hochman
@erhochman.bsky.social
· Nov 12
My book explores how the supporters of the Weimar and First Austrian Republics created a cross-border partnership and their own form of German nationalism to popularize democracy. My current book project examines how and why Germans from across the political spectrum in the Weimar Republic 2/
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“But the Trump administration cut the money, claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
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Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
“But the Trump administration cut the money, claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion.”
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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Texas Young Republicans are calling upon TX lawmakers to pass a law allowing Governor Abbott to put blue TX cities into receivership. They say the State Leadership Initiative (SLI)—co-founded by Nate Fischer of New Founding — suggested the idea. New Founding partner Nathan Halberstadt loves it. 1/
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Texas Young Republicans are calling upon TX lawmakers to pass a law allowing Governor Abbott to put blue TX cities into receivership. They say the State Leadership Initiative (SLI)—co-founded by Nate Fischer of New Founding — suggested the idea. New Founding partner Nathan Halberstadt loves it. 1/
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“Berg's point is that AI doesn't merely automate tasks — it automates the very processes through which people develop their skills.”
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“Berg's point is that AI doesn't merely automate tasks — it automates the very processes through which people develop their skills.”
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As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
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tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
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Targeting the free press is nothing new for this administration or for Trumpism but this feels like an elevation of hostiles
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Targeting the free press is nothing new for this administration or for Trumpism but this feels like an elevation of hostiles
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my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
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Does anyone have a good sample of a letter of introduction to provide a student to use foreign archives? The AHA claims to have one but it is a broken link. We need one in Spanish, Italian, and German. C'mon, help a girl out, people!
November 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Does anyone have a good sample of a letter of introduction to provide a student to use foreign archives? The AHA claims to have one but it is a broken link. We need one in Spanish, Italian, and German. C'mon, help a girl out, people!
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The diehards are starting to decide after much prayerful consideration with their beautiful brides that being in the minority next year sounds like a shit sandwich.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The diehards are starting to decide after much prayerful consideration with their beautiful brides that being in the minority next year sounds like a shit sandwich.
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Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Confirmed: Earlier this morning a photog overheard agents inside the parking garage say “dismissed,” believed to be calling off their planned mass raid.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
A source tells me they had planned for *hundreds* of agents to flood Canal St. They got flooded instead.
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The administration's foreign policy is to performatively murder the weak and defenseless to distract from the fact that it is abandoning U.S. strategic interests worldwide.
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The administration's foreign policy is to performatively murder the weak and defenseless to distract from the fact that it is abandoning U.S. strategic interests worldwide.
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Sorry to quote just using your question as a jumping off point
They framed it this way because they are in bed and getting money from pro AI silicon valley types and while I won’t say everything they do is bad it does cast a shadow on ALL their work. The media (as it is) is making choices
They framed it this way because they are in bed and getting money from pro AI silicon valley types and while I won’t say everything they do is bad it does cast a shadow on ALL their work. The media (as it is) is making choices
I’m not sure why AI is so prominent in this article since a historian did the lion’s share of the archival digging and AI simply verified what experts already confirmed.
At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...
At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...
At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Sorry to quote just using your question as a jumping off point
They framed it this way because they are in bed and getting money from pro AI silicon valley types and while I won’t say everything they do is bad it does cast a shadow on ALL their work. The media (as it is) is making choices
They framed it this way because they are in bed and getting money from pro AI silicon valley types and while I won’t say everything they do is bad it does cast a shadow on ALL their work. The media (as it is) is making choices
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
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This reminds me of the time I wrote a story for National Geographic on looted art and repatriation and the British Museum wouldn't give us an interview or permission to take any pictures in the building. Repository of memory, but only certain memory, and only if it flatters the British Museum.
I'm watching the BBC's Civilisations: Rise & Fall & I reckon a better name for the program is 'Just a wee bit of expensive PR we're doing for the British Museum'
Lol, wanna tell us the deets on how you became a 'repository of memory' 'home to 8 million artefacts'... Nah, course they don't.
Lol, wanna tell us the deets on how you became a 'repository of memory' 'home to 8 million artefacts'... Nah, course they don't.
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This reminds me of the time I wrote a story for National Geographic on looted art and repatriation and the British Museum wouldn't give us an interview or permission to take any pictures in the building. Repository of memory, but only certain memory, and only if it flatters the British Museum.
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Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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A confederacy of thieves and barbarians
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A confederacy of thieves and barbarians
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An alarming account of how dynamic-pricing algorithms undermine #affordability in gasoline, groceries, and more. In housing, AI tools advised landlords to price apartments above market rate and leave them empty rather than reduce rents. An urgent call for AI policy! www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, Dynamic Pricing.
Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
An alarming account of how dynamic-pricing algorithms undermine #affordability in gasoline, groceries, and more. In housing, AI tools advised landlords to price apartments above market rate and leave them empty rather than reduce rents. An urgent call for AI policy! www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Denaturalization,forced statelessness and mass murder are all inextricably linked under fascism and we are seeing that constellation solidify across the west not just America.
America is one part of the massive reordering of the world the fascists and their wealthy friends are attempting to initiate
America is one part of the massive reordering of the world the fascists and their wealthy friends are attempting to initiate
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Denaturalization,forced statelessness and mass murder are all inextricably linked under fascism and we are seeing that constellation solidify across the west not just America.
America is one part of the massive reordering of the world the fascists and their wealthy friends are attempting to initiate
America is one part of the massive reordering of the world the fascists and their wealthy friends are attempting to initiate
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This is an admission that their goal is explicit ethnic cleansing of America and genocide, and it should be seen as a direct threat to millions of American lives and billions of lives worldwide.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
This is an admission that their goal is explicit ethnic cleansing of America and genocide, and it should be seen as a direct threat to millions of American lives and billions of lives worldwide.
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This is the most predictable move
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Warner Music signs deal with AI song generator Suno after settling lawsuit
Music company representing Coldplay and Ed Sheeran had sued tech platform alleging mass copyright infringement Business live – latest updates
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This is the most predictable move
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Labels: AI kills creativity and must be stopped
Me: they are going to stop opposing this as soon as they can make money and EXPLOIT LABOR
Labels:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...