@cgelderloos
Germ studs prof at Binghamton University (SUNY). I write and teach about German modernism, science fiction, Marx, critical theory, literature, visual studies, Philosophical Anthropology, and other things. In a union (UUP). Opinions my own.
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
The horror Israel/US has unleashed on Iran is going to unfold over time, over generations x.com/arianajasmin...
Also it’s striking that the execution of 36 men, 54 women, and 31 children is the traumatic memory that drives the film’s plot, an event that can’t (and shouldn’t) be repressed. We just murdered over 150 schoolgirls a week ago and it’s like the event left no trace on the American conscience.
Just rewatched Staudte’s 1946 film “The Murderers Are among Us” to prepare for class this week. Forgot how powerful and well made that film is.
"One hundred and sixty-five graves have been dug in Minab, in Hormozgan province, for those killed when US or Israeli missiles struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh school on Saturday morning as classes began. Most of the dead were girls aged between seven and twelve."
"Instead there is a politics of gangster imperialism that has neither international nor domestic consent."
"The certainties of the United States’ hegemonic stewardship of the ‘international rules-based order’ have been deformed beyond recognition by the Gaza genocide, but no alternative architecture has cohered in their place."
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
Weirdly not what you said when your goons gunned down protestors in this country
It is scarcely thinkable that every single story on Iran would not foreground the necessary reminder that it was in fact T who broke the Iran nuclear deal in the first place but here we are, in the stupidest of all possible universes.
Iranian authorities and Red Crescent Society officials report that more than 100 people, most of them girls, were killed at a primary school during joint U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.
Let’s be clear: Slaughtering children in a school is an atrocity and a war crime.
www.ft.com/content/055d...
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
Starting to think our government and a large segment of our population might be evil
article 8bis of the rome statute of the international criminal court
continuation of article 8bis
posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC
“The pollutant, released from burning fossil fuels, can trigger asthma attacks, cause bronchitis, and increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.”
Underrated just how much the US and Israel have been desecrating the very idea of diplomatic engagement by doing these obvious bait and switches.
This is the third time now that negotiations were used as cover to prepare for a war already decided. The lesson is to never speak to the US.
Primary this guy. Announce it today. Trump is an existential threat and we can’t fight him without clarity
In a just world, every bad faith git with a platform who called Trump an anti-war president would be driving DoorDash for the next ten years. It was always such transparently false bullshit.
If you were at work today and you got a phone call from your wife that France just blew up your kid's school, your lifelong opinion of France is probably not going to be anything other than "Death to France"
This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
That might be a bit true, but I'm mostly curious where this thing is coming from.
I suppose there's a moralizing critique to be made here, that "moreso" is more conducive to muddled thinking than the stronger contrastive senses of "instead" and "rather." (Rather than disagreeing with X, you can just say it's "moreso Y.")
Language note: among college-age students, "more so" (or "moreso") seems to have completely squeezed the adverbs "rather" and "instead" out of the semantic space they used to occupy. Anyone else seeing this? Is this a regional thing (NE, NY, etc.)? Naturally I find it monstrous, and also a bit cute.
Which 2028 candidate will be brave enough to nominate Aziz Rana to SCOTUS if they win
