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The 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society #AAS247 is underway, coming with 8 press conferences - https://aas.org/meetings/aas247/press-kit#briefings - streaming on https://www.youtube.com/@AASPressOffice. There were already two yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAjRP1xLtQ about Galaxies Big and Small, covering e.g. https://public.nrao.edu/news/hidden-giants-of-the-early-universe/ / https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2026/astronomers-reveal-hidden-activity-early-universe’s-most-massive-galaxies / https://keckobservatory.org/aas247-magaz3ne/ and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1584 (The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud) -> https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-examines-cloud-9-first-of-new-type-of-object/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble / https://public.nrao.edu/news/starless-dark-matter-failed-galaxy-near-m94/.
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpDVq-7h6E about Stars and Their Behavior, covering e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00470 (Betelgeuse: Detection of the Expanding Wake of the Companion Star) -> https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/cfa-scientists-detect-wake-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-hubble-helps-detect-wake-of-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/ and https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Steven and Tyler AAS Press Release.pdf and https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation/

How "porno-troll" Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (Tarpley Hitt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interact…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115840252209889277
I'm thoroughly convinced that a lot of the problems we have as a society in general and with the tech industry in particular is toxic positivity—when people just can't get themselves to call out bad things for what they are; it's so often I see needless defending of bad work or outright insults hurled at customers by big corporations, and endless calls for a false civility.

A New Roosevelt Institute Report Confronts the Roots of Our Media Crisis--and Calls for Breaking Up Corporate Media (The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/journalism-democracy-corporate-media-press/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p66#a251205p66

How "porno-troll" Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (Tarpley Hitt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interact…

Musical Theater Society Berlin mit professioneller Bühnenkonkurrenz konfrontiert https://weddingweiser.de/musical-theater-society-berlin-mit-professioneller-buehnenkonkurrenz-konfrontiert/

Deutsche Polizeibehörden wollen unbedingt ein Produkt einer Firma verwenden, deren Chef Kriegsverbrechen legalisieren will.
https://futurism.com/future-society/palantir-ceo-war-crimes

Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently rhapsodized that US air strikes on Venezuelan civilians would be good for business, if only it were legal.

What can we learn about our current crisis from history
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/462226/end-times-crisis-history-lessons-cliodynamics-collase-society

Hundreds of societies have been in crises like ours. An expert explains how they got out.
No, we aren’t in “unprecedented times.” An analysis of 100 historical crises over two millennia has lessons for how society can avoid the end times.

“This seems the best bang for your buck; it’s less per year than private school.”, said the future mother.
UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health
https://www.theguar…

⏰ Fear of desynchronization: Why doesn’t Europe abolish daylight saving time?
https://english.elpais.com/society/2025-10-24/fear-of-desynchronization-why-doesnt-europe-abolish-daylight-saving-time.html

Fear of desynchronization: Why doesn’t Europe abolish daylight saving time?
EU member states have failed to reach consensus on the risks of maintaining time according to geography

Fine letter from Kate Macintosh on UK Labour Party's irrational retention of the Right to Buy council housing. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/06/why-labour-lacks-credibility-when-it-comes-to-housing

"New ship hull modifications to slash fuel use"
#Ships #Vehicles
https://techxplore.com/ne…

New ship hull modifications to slash fuel use
Researchers at MIT have demonstrated that wedge-shaped vortex generators attached to a ship's hull can reduce drag by up to 7.5%, which reduces overall ship emissions and fuel expenses. The paper, "Net Drag Reduction in High Block Coefficient Ships and Vehicles Using Vortex Generators," was presented at the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 2025 Maritime Convention in Norfolk, Virginia.

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸
The brand new Nordic Society for #CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.
Join for free: https…

In her keynote at #ISWC2025, Yuko Harayama, Secretary General of Global Partnership on AI Tokyo Expert Support Center, is discussing the challenges of #AI on Human Society, suggesting a shift from originally tech-driven to human-centered paradigm, addressing key questions related to

Whatever happens to our democracy, history will remember our 3 good SCOTUS justices as a voice of clarity when civil society was unraveling around them.
Future generations will point to their writing and say, “Look at this. It’s not like people didn’t understand what was happening at the time. They knew perfectly well.”
EDIT: I said Sotomayor at first; this is Jackson!! “What would you do with a brain if you had one, Paul?” I’m sure I have no idea.
https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner/115504618482036124

Al Dente
A podcast by Adelaide University Dental Students Society for dental students, hosted by dental students...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/al-dente/

“The most consistent predictors of AI use across studies were aversive personality traits (e.g., Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy), albeit the traits were differentially associated with AI use across studies.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40977447/

Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Use and Its Psychological Correlates via Months of Web-Browsing Data - PubMed
Despite widespread discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on society, little work has objectively measured how often people use this technology in the wild. The present article collected up to 90 days of web-browsing data from students (Study 1: N = 499) and those in th …

Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2026-2027
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Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
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The world might look bleak at the moment, but at least this rave is still happening.
"Illegal New Year's rave in La Sénia with nearly 1,000 attendees continues"
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/new-years-rave-la-seni…

Illegal New Year's rave in La Sénia with nearly 1,000 attendees continues
Local authorities are monitoring the abandoned industrial site, hoping the party ends soon without incidents

Me too!
https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115487186656267241

I just uploaded my December Drum & Bass set to Mixcloud!
https://www.mixcloud.com/Demirramon/demirramon-reflections-drum-bass-sunday-service-2025-12-28/

Reflections (Drum & Bass) @ Sunday Service 2025-12-28
Second set! This time, I tried to slow things down a little. Played at the Sunday Service Spinning Society!

Call for applications: 2026/2027 Shohet Scholar Grants of the International Catacomb Society
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H-Minerva News Roundup EXCERPT The Strange, Complex Story of Women and ISIS…
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The Korean National Police Agency National Office of Investigation (NOI) said on the 30th it arrested four people who hacked about 120,000 homecam IP cameras and sold the videos to an overseas site for sexual purposes
https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-society/2025/11/3…

Korean police arrest hackers who sold 120,000 IP camera videos
Korean police arrest hackers who sold 120,000 IP camera videos

Plastic packaging could be a greater sin than food waste #environment

Plastic packaging could be a greater sin than food waste
Food waste has long been reviled as an immoral, largely preventable feature of our consumer society.

#IsraelIsATerroristState

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling over the exact definition of a concentration camp was a sign of a healthy society. “Studies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics […]

What is #bbuzz all about?
Our video team captured the essence of #bbuzz on film: #bbuzz by joining us as a speaker! We are looking for talks on search, data science, streams, operations, scale, storage, people and community, society, ethics, sustainability, and more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/call-for-papers/

Jane Fonda warns that a WBD merger in any form is an alarming escalation in media consolidation, threatening the entertainment industry and the First Amendment (Jane Fonda/The Ankler)
https://theankler.com/p/jane-fonda-op-ed-the-wbd-deal-puts

Jane Fonda Op-Ed: The WBD Deal Puts Hollywood, and Democracy, at Risk
What terrifies me — and should terrify anyone who cares about a free society

Grok, at the request of users, appears to be altering images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/future-society/grok-violence-women

Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.

I don't appreciate the people who mock this poor man. Every year there are countless mass sandwichings in schools throughout the country, and we tolerate it because we, as a society, have lost our way. Kids and teachers huddled in their classrooms as mustard and onions fly through the air. WHERE'S YOUR HUMANITY, PEOPLE??
https…

"The ultra-wealthy no longer wait in lines, navigate public institutions, or share community space with ordinary Americans. And that’s the real danger: once the richest begin living outside the civic sphere, they stop caring whether the rest of society works at all. A nation where the wealthy secede into a private realm is a nation confronting oligarchy."
**This unspoken threat is hastening America's downfall — and it's not MAGA** - Raw Story
https://archive.ph/ZBnaK#selection-845.71-863.167

Call for applications: 2026/2027 Shohet Scholar Grants of the International Catacomb Society
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H-Minerva News Roundup EXCERPT The Strange, Complex Story of Women and ISIS…
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#Gleichschaltung is a German word that means “coordination” or “synchronization.”

Gleichschaltung refers to a process of #Nazification designed to turn Germany into a single party state under Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Even children were brought into the Nazification process. Participation in t…

#NyOrd: el-el-lemen (#LLeMen)
via @…

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115808306629909320
New 19,000 word piece by Ed Zitron about how "modern society created the conditions for what I call The Enshittifinancial Crisis — the place at which my friend Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification Theory m…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NewMusicShow
- Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Sarah Hennies' Borrowed Light
Tom Service with recorded highlights from this year's festival including the Estonian Electronic Music Society Ensemble and the UK premiere of Sarah Hennies' Borrowed Light.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mkzs

By me
‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review | Steady State Manchester https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/12/01/change-everything-natalie-bennetts-green-philosophy-a-review/

‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review
Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society (second edition, 2025). by Natalie Bennett. Wilton Square Books, £10.99. Former Green Party leader and peer, Natalie Bennett has ou…

Looking for suggestions how to defend your democracy?
Some great suggestions here. Keep talking to strangers, participate in society and, for Europeans, *Keep Regulating #UStech"
Intro in Danish, Interview with @… in English starts at 6 mins.
#DigitalSovereignty #SovereignSocialMedia
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115401865282856120
Langsomme samtaler: Timothy Snyder: Trump forestiller sig et militært diktatur, hvor han selv skal være diktatoren
Episode webpage: https://samtaleromusa.podbean.com/e/timothy-snyder-trump-forestiller-sig-et-militært-diktatur-hvor-han-selv-skal-være-diktatoren/

GaLactic and extragalactic all-sky Murchison Widefield Array survey eXtended (GLEAM-X) - Galactic plane: #MilkyWay reveals our Galaxy in unprecedented radio colour: https://www.icrar.org/gleam-x-galactic-plane/ - astronomers from ICRAR have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled -> New images reveal the Milky Way’s stunning galactic plane in more detail than ever before: https://theconversation.com/new-images-reveal-the-milky-ways-stunning-galactic-plane-in-more-detail-than-ever-before-264688

It's my third #mastodonniversary today! Crazy!!
To celebrate I am getting ready to help host and chair the first #SocialBC and Society of Open Social Servers of BC Annual General Meeting tomorrow with @… and @…
it starts at 5PM! full info in the announcement 📢
If you are in BC and would like to help grow a #regional instance come on over! There is no requirement to be part
of the Society but any SocialBC account holder
can be at the AGM and anyone who has donated at least $20 in the past year is a full member and can vote and volunteer for the Board!
Onward for the #opensocialweb!
#SOSSBC
#mastodon
#fediverse
#volunteer
#community
#society
#bc
#mastodonMigration
#bluesky

New Book Publication: Evangelicals in a Dictatorship Protestants, social capital and civil society in Belarus by Paula Borowska-Kryvoi
https://ift.tt/w5VFCpE
H-Minerva News Roundup EXCERPT The Strange, Complex Story of Women and ISIS…
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Interesting article, “ Lending to firms and individuals engaged in the production of goods and services – which most people would imagine was the principal business of a bank – amounts to about 3 per cent of that total.’”
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n17/jo

John Lanchester · For Every Winner a Loser: What is finance for?
In our society the classic three ways of making a fortune still apply: inherit it, marry it, or steal it. But for an...

"The study of programming history might not be the solution to all the problems in our industry, for sure. It is also worth pointing out that most university curricula simply do not include any mention whatsoever of such subjects. Maybe it is time to start providing such information to students."
https://dep…

History Repeating
Somehow we all agree about the importance of history in our society. We teach it to our younger ones, we quote it in our speeches, we talk about it during our dinners. Maybe it is because we had to memorize the names of battles fought ages ago, and we expect to capitalize on that fact to appear wise (if not arrogant) to others. We might even agree with history itself, shaking our heads in dismay to some extent, as we see the events unfolding nowadays. A phenomenon which, by all measures, tends …

Rewatching the 1984 film version of 1984, as I haven't seen it since high school. They showed it to us in class in the 90s. Been a lot of years. John Hurt ftw
#film

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Top #DrumpfAdmn Officials including Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem know where they're not wanted ...and that is polite society...so they now hideout on secure gated #beltway #military bases in homes formerly only a…

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

Judge me on what I do, says new EHRC chair after transgender groups' criticism (Libby Brooks/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/31/new-ehrc-chair-mary-ann-stephenson-lgbtq-transgender-groups
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p33#a251231p33

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Society's Children:
🎵 Mr. Genie Man
#SocietysChildren
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gQhmlwaF1G3XhHGoLMs8y

Call for applications: 2026/2027 Shohet Scholar Grants of the International Catacomb Society https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136870/call-applications-20262027-shohet-scholar-grants-international

Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors

for that instant all-is-calmness/all-is-brightness, try natural information society/bitchin bajas. https://bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/totality @…@…

Migrating to #Hetzner
#Cloud

Habeas Corpus - Darcy James Argue - Secret Society
#infernalmachines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Cw_pLDflY

DaVinci said, "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” Let your death be as good as your life.
Beyond the Taboo: Rethinking Society's Fear of Death https://wp.me/p8efU1-1t7

Beyond the Taboo: Rethinking Society's Fear of Death – Bob Mueller
Exploring the concept of a "happy death," societal taboos on dying, and advocating for the right to control our end-of-life decisions.

Glad to be in one now! It's a good week to put work into hope
From: @…
https://mastodon.me.uk/@rachelcoldicutt/1154…

Rachel Coldicutt (@rachelcoldicutt@mastodon.me.uk)
Attached: 4 images A reminder that the first Society for Hopeful Technologists Community Events are coming up - first one next Thursday https://buttondown.com/society-of-hopeful-technologists/archive/3-a-hopeful-charter-and-first-events/

Call for applications: 2026/2027 Shohet Scholar Grants of the International Catacomb Society https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136871/call-applications-20262027-shohet-scholar-grants-international

Zi Teng Wang, a magician and molecular biologist in Missouri had the idea:
implant a computer chip in his hand and do magic tricks with it.
— Too bad he forgot the password.
It sounds like a joke but it really happened
https://futurism.com/future-society/los…

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body
A magician in Missouri lost the password to an RFID microchip embedded in his hand and now he can't access the chip.

Es gibt die Artikel scheinbar nicht einzeln bei @… , nur in der Newsletter.
1️⃣ Auch eure Identität könnte für AI Slop gestohlen werden
2️⃣ Keine zuverlässigen Studien über die Zuverlässigkeit von Gesichtserkennung

Identity improvements to NERDS
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/01/01/identity-improvements-to-nerds/
Happy new year! 🎉

"As Joy-Ann Reid put it in an Instagram video: “Dear retailers who’ve decided you don’t like diversity, equity, and inclusion, or you really love ICE and you have no problem with them busting into your establishments to drag people away: Here’s the thing. We ain’t buying it. I mean, for real, for real, we ain’t buyin’ it.”
She explained: “We’re gonna spend our money with businesses who actually respect our dollars, respect our communities, and respect our diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are going to buy from people who respect immigrants, who respect immigrants’ rights, and respect freedom and liberty. We are going to buy from establishments that respect our right to vote and our right to live in a free society. And if you ain’t that, we ain’t buying it.”
“Let’s show them our power,” she told listeners. “Let’s show them what we can do together.”"
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-25-2025

The last post
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/21/denmark-postnord-postal-delivery-letters-society?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years
PostNord’s decision to end service on 30 December comes after fear over ‘increasing digitalisation’ of Danish society

New Book Publication: Evangelicals in a Dictatorship Protestants, social capital and civil society in Belarus by Paula Borowska-Kryvoi https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136957/new-book-publication-evangelicals…

Vegetarian Society Reports ‘Significant Rise’ In Brands Adopting Plant-Based Certification https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/food/vegetarian-society-rise-plant-based-certification/

Vegetarian Society Reports 'Significant Rise' In Brands Adopting Plant-Based Certification
The UK’s Vegetarian Society has reported seeing a “significant rise” in the number of brands adopting its plant-based certification label

"Outrage as #Ireland picks ex-Meta lobbyist as new data protection chief
Niamh #Sweeney was announced in September as the pick for third commissioner for Ireland's already highly-controversial Data Protection Commission (DPC), rounding out its three-person leadership team.
Howev…

„Jeffrey Epstein was a warlord. We have to talk about It. Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy“ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-israel-foreign-policy-elite/#<…

The Callover
A Queensland Law Society podcast created by young lawyers, for young lawyers...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-callover/

Musical Theater Society Berlin mit professioneller Bühnenkonkurrenz konfrontiert https://weddingweiser.de/musical-theater-society-berlin-mit-professioneller-buehnenkonkurrenz-konfrontiert/

An excellent summary here via @… about how the structures of our civil society have failed to stop ICE from becoming Trump’s Brownshirts.
The one thing the piece omits: someone •is• stopping ICE. It’s the citizens filling the streets, honking and shouting and filming and generally harassing ICE, doing the work our government has failed to do. If it were not for that response being so widespread, sustained, and forceful, we’d be in far worse place right now. https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/115616389777857234

Ex-NYC mayor Bill de Blasio says people must demand better journalism after The Times of London failed to meet basic standards of confirming identity (Bill de Blasio/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-de-blasio-times-journalism/

The Real Bill de Blasio Has Something to Say
The Times of London failed to meet even basic journalistic standards. We should demand better from the media.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Analog Players Society:
🎵 Christmas Time Is Here (Steppers Version)
#AnalogPlayersSociety
https://analogplayerssociety.bandcamp.com/track/christmas-time-is-here-steppers-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZqUXwhGjxSd5YIIKnY24S

Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
https://ift.tt/H9VboRh
Phillips Theological Seminary seeks a scholar of the Hebrew Bible for a tenure-trackposition at the…
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Read and weep at the costs of this extraordinary grift measured in the lives of newborn and stillborn babies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #CarolsAcrossTheCountryASeasonalJourney
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hilary Davan Wetton, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Guildford Choral Society & St Catherine's School Middle Chamber Choir:
🎵 Hodie (This Day): Prologue: Nowell! Nowell!

The Federalist Society Is Torn Between Its Legal Philosophy and Trump's Demands (Mattathias Schwartz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/us/trump-federalist-society.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p70#a251122p70

Here's an interesting take on disappearing bookstores. In Japan, some stores are leasing bookshelves.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/27/japan/society/japan-bookstore-shelves-lease/

Assistant Professor of the History(ies) of Global Christianity(ies)
https://ift.tt/XKZqLPU
Phillips Theological Seminary invites applications for a full-time, tenure-trackposition in the…
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David Brooks calling for a general strike or nonviolent civil disobedience 
was not on my bingo card.
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Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

Call for Papers for The Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture, Inc.
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Analysis: agencies have hired hundreds of thousands of "chatters" to impersonate 4M OnlyFans creators, as many Filipino chatters struggle with mental health (Michael Beltran/Nikkei Asia)
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Filipino OnlyFans 'chatters' struggle with mental health, job security
Unrelenting, desensitizing work, lack of protections among biggest complaints

Call for papers | Catholic Record Society 68th Annual Conference | 1-2 July 2026 | London & online https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133841/call-papers-catholic-record-society-68th-annual-conference-1-2-…

On the evening of December 30,
a blackout occurred in the Russian suburbs of Moscow,
leaving more than 100,000 people without power.
Traffic lights and street lighting are not working, and dozens of buildings are without power.
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Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed? (Elie Mystal/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/why-is-larry-summers-still-employed/
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Atlas Obscura plans to launch Obscura Society, a WebXR-based lounge offering users 3D avatars for voice chats, portals to other VR apps, and more, in early 2026 (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
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How Atlas Obscura plans to embrace the 3D web
The Obscura Society will be a virtual lounge that Atlas Obscura community members can visit to hang out with the help of 3D avatars, have voice chats, and explore places from the site’s massive catalog together.

EU member states agree a position on draft child protection legislation without forcing Big Tech to find and remove CSAM; states now negotiate with EU lawmakers (Reuters)
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Because we’re seeing a steady rise of the far right in every aspect of society
It’s more important than ever to figure out how to mitigate this
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Janice Watson, Guildford Choral Society, St Catherine's School Middle Chamber Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Hilary Davan Wetton:
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#newRelease 🆕 album
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Sweeney, noted scholar of Great Awakening and American Evangelicalism, in Arlington Nov. 17-18 #acrel https://churchhistory.org/sweeney-note

The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists; three photojournalists were hurt by less-lethal munitions (Minnesota SPJ)
https://www.mnspj.org/2025/11/26/mnspj-condemns-st-paul-police-attacks-on-journa…

What the Noam Chomsky-Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us (Greg Grandin/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-emails/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p62#a251215p62

Amid deepening threats to pluralism and free expression, support for innovative civil society organizations that counter digital authoritarianism and build democratic infrastructure is key to carving out a freer future
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Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
Amid deepening threats to pluralism and free expression, support for innovative civil society organizations that counter digital authoritarianism and build democratic infrastructure is key to carving out a freer future, writes Beth Kerley from the National Endowment for Democracy. https://www.techpolicy.press/autocrats-digital-advances-underscore-the-need-for-civil-society/

Call for papers | Catholic Record Society 68th Annual Conference | 1-2 July 2026 | London & online
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Pali Text Society book clearance https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133374/pali-text-society-book-clearance

EHS Post-Graduate Online Symposium Call for Papers New Directions for Church History: Theories, Frameworks and Concepts https://churchhistory.org/ehs-post-graduate-online-symposium-call-for-papers-new-…

Pali Text Society book clearance
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Emerson Society cfp for Thoreau Annual Gathering
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EHS Post-Graduate Online Symposium Call for Papers New Directions for Church History: Theories, Frameworks and Concepts
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4th International UTAD Theatre Research Conference: Borders & Boundaries
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