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The Israeli Sociological Society was suspended from cooperation w/ the International Sociological Association. #ISS #Sociology This sends “a problematic signal by isolating academic organizations under political pressure instead of protecting them.”
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Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto, on DegrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/06/12/degrowth-as-an-essential-part-of-an-eco-socialist-transition/
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Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto* In the series Prospects for Degrowth Many thanks to Mark Burton for encouraging me to write this article and offering so many helpful suggestions. Thank you also to my comrades …

Cuban-born biotech honcho enters NYC mayoral race seeking to upset Mamdani: 'I despise socialism' (Rich Calder/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/16/us-news/cuban-born-biotech-honcho-enters-crowded-nyc-mayoral-race-seeking-to-upset-mamdani-i-hate-socialism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250816/p70#a250816p70

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
E-Auto: Frankreich nimmt das erfolgreiche soziale Leasing für E-Autos wieder auf

Malheureusement, notre cagnotte juridique nécessite encore votre aide. Les victimes que notre association représente ont toujours besoin de vous. Nous avons déjŠ collecté plus de 10064€ grâce Š votre générosité 🙏💙
https://chardonsbleus.org/luttons-ensem…

"Elternschaft muss in der aktuellen Zeit, so wie wir die Gesellschaft beschreiben, ein krisenhaftes Phänomen sein.
Familie ist ein krisenhaftes Phänomen - mehr als es das jemals war."
- Aladin El-Mafaalani, Soziologe
Teil 1:

LdN441 Die Gesellschaft vergreist - warum mehr Kinder trotzdem schaden würden (Aladin El-Mafaalani, Soziologe) - Teil 1

Large Language Models for History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science: Interpretive Uses, Methodological Challenges, and Critical Perspectives
Arno Simons, Michael Zichert, Adrian W\"uthrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12242

Large Language Models for History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science: Interpretive Uses, Methodological Challenges, and Critical Perspectives
This paper explores the use of large language models (LLMs) as research tools in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS). LLMs are remarkably effective at processing unstructured text and inferring meaning from context, offering new affordances that challenge long-standing divides between computational and interpretive methods. This raises both opportunities and challenges for HPSS, which emphasizes interpretive methodologies and understands meaning as context-dependent, ambigu…

I spent today tidying up my websites social media page. While the html/css code is terrible, it looks pretty cool on desktop.
https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/socials.html

Es ist wieder einmal #SchiffsSamstag, heute mit der GOETHEBORG, aufgenommen bei der #Sail 2015 in #Bremerhaven. Sie ist ein Nachbau des 1738 gebauten Ostindienfahrers der Schwedischen Ostindien-Kompa…

SocialCredit
Thabassum Aslam, Anees Aslam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12099 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12099

SocialCredit+
SocialCredit+ is AI powered credit scoring system that leverages publicly available social media data to augment traditional credit evaluation. It uses a conversational banking assistant to gather user consent and fetch public profiles. Multimodal feature extractors analyze posts, bios, images, and friend networks to generate a rich behavioral profile. A specialized Sharia-compliance layer flags any non-halal indicators and prohibited financial behavior based on Islamic ethics. The platform emp…