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The Freedom Flotilla „Madleen” is projected to arrive in just a few hours at a coast in Gaza. If anything happens to @… or the other activists, the international community will never forgive the current Israeli government for it.
I wish and pray for your best, keep being the voice of our generation…

Freiheit für Greta Thunberg, Yasemin Acar und alle Aktivist*innen der Freedom Flotilla - Online-Petition
Humanitäre Hilfe ist kein Verbrechen! Am 1. Juni 2025 wurde das zivile Hilfsschiff Madleen der Freedom Flotilla Coalition auf dem Weg nach Gaza in internationalen Gewässern gewaltsam von der israelischen Armee gestoppt, geentert und seine Besatzung verschleppt. An Bord befanden sich ausschließlich unbewaffnete Freiwillige und dringend für den Gazastreifen benötigte humanitäre Hilfsgüter wie Babynahrung, Medizin und Prothesen für verletzte Kinder. Unter den Festgehaltenen ist neben Greta…

> The most distressing thing is that maybe it does work; if not well enough to actually do the work, at least ambiguously enough to fool the executives long-term.
-- @… via @…

Toller Artikel im Guardian, der aufzeigt, wie sich das rechte, intelligente Milieu - meistens Richter - gegen den Volltrottel Trump wendet, der meint, das er der König von Amerika sei:
Trump’s tariffs have become his Vietnam – and the right is breaking ranks | Sidney Blumenthal | The Guardian
https://ww…

The Cloud Next Door: Investigating the Environmental and Socioeconomic Strain of Datacenters on Local Communities
Wacuka Ngata, Noman Bashir, Michelle Westerlaken, Laurent Liote, Yasra Chandio, Elsa Olivetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03367

The Cloud Next Door: Investigating the Environmental and Socioeconomic Strain of Datacenters on Local Communities
Datacenters have become the backbone of modern digital infrastructure, powering the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and promising economic growth and technological progress. However, this expansion has brought growing tensions in the local communities where datacenters are already situated or being proposed. While the mainstream discourse often focuses on energy usage and carbon footprint of the computing sector at a global scale, the local socio-environmental consequences -- such as heal…

(1/2) Here is the link to a webpage featuring the 32 InfoPics my 7th grade students created to advertise our local “World Refugee Day” on Saturday, June 21, 2025, as well as the overall, important work of Refugee Support Services (RSS) of Charlotte, North Carolina:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/c

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - RSS
These are InfoPics 7th graders at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, created in May 2025 to support and amplify the work of Refugee Support Services (RSS) of Charlotte, a local non-profit connected with our office of community engagement. Please use them to share about RSS, amplify

GenAI-free WorldCon alternative!
Mia Tsai: on Bluesky: "ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon"
Thursday, August 14, 2025
ACT Theatre, downtown #Seattle
> My vision for ConCurrent was simple
> one day of excellent programming; have it be free to attend; run it efficiently; and never use genAI/L…

Mia Tsai (@itsamia.bsky.social)
There’s no way to ease into this news, so here it is. Today, I am announcing ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon, scheduled for Thursday, August 14, 2025, at the ACT Theatre in downtown Seattle at 700 Union Street, across from the Sheraton. 1/7

New on homepage: Textual Criticism and the Edition of Late Antique Biblical Commentaries and Other Exegetical Texts https://www.vonstockhausen.org/talks/regensburg_snts Upcoming talk on 05/08/2025 at “SNTS: New Testament Textual Criticism Seminar”

Happy Pride Month! Wishing all who celebrate a safe and glamorous time.
GDEP is always a safe and supportive ally space for the LGBTIQA community.
#GDEPAU #EOLD #AskAnnetta

How should libraries respond to the deluge of AI-generated book submissions, sometimes dozens at a time? My Tuesday talk for the MLA considered:
- An outright ban
- Restriction to a specific "AI shelf"
- A required % of human authorship
- Restriction to certain genres (fiction yes/medical advice no)
- Community vetting
What would you do?
#Collections

ah yes, a representative for an obscure IPTV app targeting the Latin market, using a Chinese Telegram account made in the past 10 days. not suspicious at all.