Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 20hCheck out the work of legal anthropologist and activist Ziba Mir Hosseini. And also the network Musawah. They have a strong focus on the countries you mention. 010
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 25/09/2026You couldn’t make this up: Salzburg university wants to replace parts of the humanities library, including a famous dance archive, with a gym and sauna. Seriously. The students’ outrage in the comments on instagram is so encouraging! www.instagram.com/p/DdstfSfFw1...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 001
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Reading Ivan Illich, it suddenly all makes sense “We could easily be made increasingly dependent on machines for speaking and for thinking, as we are already dependent on machines for moving” from: silence is a commons, 1983 010
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Anastasia Berg places into brackets what I see as a major point: If a researcher is … incapable of evaluating the AI’s output (…then the prompter is already a redundant middleman.) Where students are advice to use AI for writing they are being made redundant. That’s the point. 100
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“An LLM is not an aircraft requiring years of training to operate. … Prompting a workflow for the execution of a task requires an underlying understanding of THE TASK“ (emphasis my own) www.chronicle.com/article/harv...chronicle.comThe Ivy League’s Surrender to AI Is InsaneWhen college leaders drink the corporate Kool-Aid, the liberal arts die. 000
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Juli Zeh, Über Menschen or Corpus Delicti (not sure what English translations are or what Americans make of it) 000
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelDr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’ve shared this before, but it bears repeating. A lot. 342521806
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026graiding /ˈɡreɪdɪŋ/ Using AI to grade students’ work. 000
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026My new word for the day Forwaiding /fɔːrˈweɪdɪŋ/ The act of pasting AI-generated text and passing it off as your own. 100
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Yes yes yes!!! It’s the best. It made my year. 010
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelFriedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This report coming from the MIT community is BY FAR the most rigorous and caring assessment of the ongoing educational revolution caused by #AI that Ihave come across. The “most important goal must be to nurture and protect our shared humanity”… aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/aiandeducation.mit.eduReport – AI and Education 111
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It also challenges the often dismissive claim that AI would be nothing new “Society tends to peg the “birth” of a new technology as the point when it becomes readily usable. By that measure, generative artificial intelligence was “born” with the release of ChatGPT in late 2022” 000
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This report coming from the MIT community is BY FAR the most rigorous and caring assessment of the ongoing educational revolution caused by #AI that Ihave come across. The “most important goal must be to nurture and protect our shared humanity”… aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/aiandeducation.mit.eduReport – AI and Education 111
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelRebecca J. Ritzel @rjritzel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Musicology Bluesky! Looking to interview someone who can explain *on the record* how the American military ensembles employ fair use exception to perform original arrangements of popular music. Can anyone help? 259
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelFriedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Immensely inspired by the Burmese scholars and students who talked about different manuscripts in the holdings of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social brilliantly organised by Maria Kekki and Hein Htet San 121
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Naing Soe talking about maritime networks and traders depicted and described in this parabaik 000
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Malar Win Maung explaining the production process of a ကမ္မဝါစာ Manuscript 100
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Ein Dray Pyone Han educating us about a medication guide written by a Burmese doctor in 1877 for paridavis painkillers circulated by Baptist missionaries. Highly addictive stuff. 100
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Kyaw Swar Oo analysing how this Western bound manuscript is organised identifying the depicted scenes 100
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Phyo Wai demonstrates that the manuscript ဓမ္မသတ်သိန်း had been substantially misdated, telling us more about how Burmese Buddhism was invented at the advent of colonialism 100
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Immensely inspired by the Burmese scholars and students who talked about different manuscripts in the holdings of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social brilliantly organised by Maria Kekki and Hein Htet San 121
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Signed. “Cofnas himself seems less concerned with the issue of academic freedom. In his own writings, we find numerous passages calling for the expulsion of those who disagree with him" 020
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 23/08/2026And that’s what they have in common with those whom they consider religious fundamentalists. 010
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelFriedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Yes I just found one! @univie.ac.at, at least the anthropology department. Class descriptions come with this standardised text: “The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for the attainment of partial achievements is only allowed if explicitly requested by the course instructor” 121
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I like the way things are turned around here. ufind.univie.ac.at/en/course.ht...ufind.univie.ac.at 010
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Yes I just found one! @univie.ac.at, at least the anthropology department. Class descriptions come with this standardised text: “The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for the attainment of partial achievements is only allowed if explicitly requested by the course instructor” 121
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Lacan ist super. Nur wo man auch hinschaut wird der Neu- oder Ungeborene Mensch philosophisch stilisiert: Lacan, Serres, Soloterdijk… und das stört mich, denn das gebärende Subjekt, das Individuum, wird auf eine Rolle und Hülle reduziert, eben auf etwas, das einem mangelt. 001
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This is a fantastic source. Before sending students off into essay writing phase, we read several of the recommended articles in class including some German ones I had added. 010
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelJudith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026What happens to war criminals who should be dealt with in The Hague? They receive a guard of honour from the neighbouring country where its president ignores ASEAN, international law and the majority sentiment in his own country and welcomes #Myanmar dictator Min Aung Hlaing, parading as President. 1113
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is particularly astonishing given the very recent infamous case of an AI-mediated book review by Alex Preston in the New York Times plagiarising from Christobel Kent in the Guardian. 020
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelDanny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Writing is rewriting and more rewriting until you get it close to right. You can't skip steps with this shit. 1416
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 27/07/2026That’s probably not a great record label name but a great response to your question. 010
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelArmin Wolf @arminwolf.at · 23/07/2026Die wichtigste ö. Forschungsstelle für Rechtsextremismus muss sich von der FPÖ nicht als „pseudowissenschaftlich“ diffamieren lassen, weil es dafür keinerlei Tatsachengrundlage gibt, hat der Oberste Gerichtshof entschieden: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...derstandard.atHöchstgericht: FPÖ darf DÖW nicht pseudowissenschaftlich nennenDas Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstands bekam vor dem Obersten Gerichtshof (OGH) Recht. Urteile früherer Instanzen hatten für viel Kritik gesorgt 10586106
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Well, large parts of the German academy are still in deep denial. Decades on. 110
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 14/07/2026This is interesting. But why is this a loss. Wouldn’t it be a good thing if the American academy realises its own provinciality? Also: Many disciplines (especially music) in the German academy have been there. They went from being the norm to being the margin. 110
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelRMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Welcome to our conference! Check out our programme here docs.google.com/spreadsheets...docs.google.comMPSG26 Schedule overview.xlsx 011
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelJudith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I am a member of an international editorial board of a regionally oriented journal, the flagship journal for the region. We had a board meeting and the journal editor shared the latest numbers: 70% desk rejects due to #AI at a submission rate of over 1000 articles p.a. Countless hours of extra work. 274
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelChris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Appreciate Robert’s willingness to call this garbage out, the absolute last thing our field needs to welcome in this uncritical way 1407
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I think the thing crushing my spirit at the moment (it rotates, but there's always something!) is just the utter selfishness that the AI debate is bringing out in so many people. But I guess that's why it's the big Silicon Valley/GOP play. They know we love being selfish. 826223
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 05/05/2026"It’s no surprise that 76% of teachers are using #AI tools . . . [also] for marking even creative subjects" Unclear where this number is from but: creativity is not the (only) boundary of AI. It's the ability for critique. It's the ability to be bored, inspiered, to joke. 020
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Best practice! Also for University: My students are also banned from submitting assignments that rely on #AI. But they don't fail the assignment either, because assignments no longer count in terms of grades but in terms of what students want to get out of them. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comOscars bans AI actors and writing from awardsThe academy that controls the Oscars on Friday issued new award eligibility requirements around the use of artificial intelligence in film. 030
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelRMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Our book of abstracts is online! And if you haven't registered yet, early bird closes tomorrow evening. musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/events/mpsg-...musicandphilosophy.ac.ukMPSG 2026 - Music & PhilosophyThe Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group aims to provide a long-term forum for those with an interest in music and philosophy. 012
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelFriedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Even musical instruments are adopting to the political climate these days... 021
Reposted by Friedlind RiedelPhil Ewell @philewell.bsky.social · 10/02/2026_On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone_ is now available open access. Here's a link: www.acls.org/path-to-open...acls.orgACLS Research in Path to OpenIn January 2026, the first 100 e-books in the Path to Open collection at JSTOR flipped to open access as part of a multiyear pilot supported by ACLS. Among these books are five titles that result dire... 021
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Even musical instruments are adopting to the political climate these days... 021
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social · 08/02/2026a country where innocent people are deprived of music “It’s non-punitive… I don’t understand why they can’t have music” “Organizers have a playlist they play on speakers during the vigil. New songs are added every week based on what the detainees have requested.” lataco.com/captive-loti...lataco.comExclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors... 000