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Michael Schröder

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PhD student at TU Wien. mcschroeder.github.io

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · May 12

How's fascism going for you? medium.com/bits-and-beh...

How is fascism going for you? Here’s how it’s going for me.

A catalog of impacts thus far from this administration’s horrors.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · Dec 10

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? Multinational corporations are destroying Earth for profit. If we want real change, we have to be willing to threaten those profits. [irishtimes.com]

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?

Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Nov 21

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

Move by international criminal court puts Netanyahu at risk of detention if he travels to certain other countries The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the county’s former defence…

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