Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026and in the experience of these struggles, prejudices on both sides were overcome (and at times confirmed). 010
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Quite a hilarious conversation with Google's Gemini, insisting that it's ChatGPT. Whatever that might tell us about AI's consiousness. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...faz.netDialog mit Googles Chatbot: Ich bin nicht Gemini, ich bin ChatGPT!Das Ich ist nur eine Maske aus Worten: Wie Googles Chatbot in eine tiefe Identitätskrise fiel und dabei die Vorstellung vom KI-Bewusstsein als Märchen entlarvte. 000
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 13/08/2026#OtD 13 Aug 1955 Lamar Smith, African-American civil rights activist and WWI veteran, was murdered by racists outside the Lincoln courthouse in Mississippi. Despite many witnesses, including the sheriff, no one was charged with any crime stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8456... 15824
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenJim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 12/08/2026“One spouse among the 200 or so family members said that her husband had texted her that day saying ‘he hopes he doesn’t wake up tomorrow.’” And what does Hegseth do? Calls them liars. 03914
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenAndrea Geier / Bademeisterin der Debattenkultur @andreageier.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Einmal, ein einziges Mal so viel Dringlichkeit in der Regierung sehen angesichts der Hitzetoten & der klimakrisebedingten Schäden in der Natur & der Wirtschaft wie beim Thema Migration. Was wäre das für eine Ansprache. 301367290
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenEichhoernchenliebe @eichhoernchenliebe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026CN Gadjé-Rassismus Antiziganismus Solchen ekelhaften Rassismus gegen Sinti*zze und Rom*nja kriegen wohl die meisten von uns gar nicht mit und unterschätzen ihn! Ich war völlig perplex damals und habe mich umso mehr über das Urteil mit gefreut! 23821
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10/07/2026#OtD 10 Jul 2013 Ali İsmail Korkmaz, a 19-year-old university student, died following a brutal beating by police in Turkey during the Occupy Gezi anti-government protests stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8209... 04714
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If democracy is something that needs to be experienced with our senses, as was recently argued, then this version of Beethoven's Ode to Joy, sung in Beirut in 2019, provides such an experience, even if it feels very much like a message in a bottle these days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=32WL...youtube.comBeethoven’s Ode to Joy sang in Arabic by Lebanese protestersYouTube video by Marwan Chelala 010
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Read about the NSDAP party convention of 1934 today, made famous by Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will. What the film doesn't show: several SA men died because they fell, utterly wasted, into latrines and suffocated in their feces. A deserved death, I suppose... www.bpb.de/shop/buecher...bpb.deNationalsozialismus | bpb.deGerhard Paul und Michael Wildt schildern den Nationalsozialismus als Gesellschafts- und Mediengeschichte. Deren Bild- und Tonwelten erschließen der reich bebilderte Band und eine innovative App. 130
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/04/2026The cruelty is the point 521459
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenThe Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 12/04/2026⚡️BREAKING: Magyar says Orban congratulated him on election win. "Prime Minister Viktor Orban has just called to congratulate us on our victory," Tisza leader Peter Magyar wrote on X. With over 50% of votes processed, the opposition has taken a significant lead over the ruling party.kyivindependent.comOrban congratulates opposition leader Magyar on victory in historic Hungarian election"This has become, and will be, a celebration of democracy," Tisza party leader Peter Magyar said. 20573103
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026they'll have access to our credit cards, and then they can do the reading for us as well. meanwhile, we can just ... exist, rien faire comme une bête. 110
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026the insanity of the world (or at least significant parts of it) in a nutshell. 030
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I'm waiting for AI bots to actually buy these books, with real money... the hardcover versions. 020
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Academic News: Finally, my article on adventure playgrounds as sites of democratic learning in the Federal Republic of Germany is freely available. What slides, swings, and constructing wooden huts in concrete desserts have to do with democracy. academic.oup.com/gh/article/4... 1189
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenGerman History Society @germanhistsoc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Congratulations to Joachim C. Häberlen for his article 'Democracy at Play: Adventure Playgrounds in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1967–1984' which has been awarded the German History 2025 Article Prize! You can read the winning article here: doi.org/10.1093/gerh... 0142
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenBita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 07/02/2026www.theatlantic.com/internationa... a beautiful must read if you care about humanity and love movies (Gift article) Thank you Arash Azizi for writing this and @theatlantic.com for publishing ittheatlantic.comWhat Iran’s Dead Loved and Fought ForA young woman’s online diaries about cinema and literature have become her epitaph. 13821
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026If this (what's happening on Moltbook) is the future of the internet (you never whether something is written by AI or by a human being), then I guess it's also the future of humanity. Funny times. www.faz.net/pro/digitalw...faz.netMoltbook: Wie das soziale Netzwerk für KI-Agenten funktioniertEin soziales Netzwerk nur für Bots – programmiert, ohne dass eine Zeile menschlichen Codes geschrieben wurde, gebaut auf einer quelloffenen Plattform aus Wien. Moltbook fasziniert das Silicon Valley u... 000
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Bäume verbuddeln und gar im Meer versenken, gegen die Klimawandel. Interessante und ernst gemeinte Idee; und dennoch, irgendwie zeigt sie die Absurdität der Weltlage. Bäume stehen zu lassen schein nicht en vogue zu sein. www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...faz.netBäume fürs Klima: Der Meeresgrund als KohlenstoffsenkeUm Kohlendioxid aus der Atmosphäre zu fischen, werden Bäume gefällt und im Erdboden verbuddelt. Das kostet viel Platz. Nun präsentieren Forscher ein eleganteres Konzept. 012
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026naja, Streiks sollen weh tun... da ist er vielleicht nicht klug gewählt, weil Schulferien sind. Das Problem im öffentlichen Dienst ist, dass Streiks nicht "den Bossen" weh tun, sondern der Allgemeinheit und dann eben besonders vulnerablen Personen. 120
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026hm, aber welches "Kampfmittel" bliebe denn der Gewerkschaft, jenseits des Streiks? Ich kann die Perspektive nachvollziehen, bin selbst auf Öffentliche angewiesen (und habe zum Glück gerade Ferien oder kann die S-Bahn nehmen). But still. 140
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/01/2026The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this. 138173124282
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenSeva @seva.bsky.social · 25/01/2026the russian judicial system in two headlines 512230
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenHunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 11/01/2026"At least five Native American men have been detained by ICE around Minneapolis following significant immigration raids." ictnews.org/news/i-felt-...ictnews.org‘I felt like I was kidnapped’: Ojibwe man recounts ICE detainment - ICTAt least five Native American men have been detained by ICE around Minneapolis following significant immigration raids 22584280
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026When Cairo tramway workers ent on strike in August 1919, he led some 60 Italian workers to express solidarity with the strike and helped found a Bourse de Travail, where newly formed unions resided. International Solidarity in practice. (3/3) 011
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026After the war he returned to Egypt, where he worked as a printer and became president of the printers' union. Taking internationalism seriously, he convinced his fellow Italian workers to accept Egyptian workers in the Union, which had so far been the exclusively European. (2/3) 111
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Amidst the countless stories of powerful men, and the stories of pain and suffering in history, the story an Italian named Giuseppe Pizzuto deserves being remembered as well: Born in Egypt, he fought in the Italian army during WWI, where he was apparently influenced by socialist ideas. (1/3) 110
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 02/01/2026(Source: ʿIsmat Saif al-Dawla, Mashayikh Jabal al-Badari: Al-Juzʾ al-Thani min Mudhakirat Qarya (Cairo: Dar al-Hilal, 1996), 16. Quoted in Alia Mossallam, Strikes, Riots and Laughter: Al-Himamiyya Village’s Experience of Egypt’s 1918 Peasant Insurrection.) 3/3 000
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Each person starts to hit the one next to him for no better reason than that the fight ‘has started.’ It’s always an opportunity to get away from paying for the drinks. …This is what neighboring European countries did to their continent." 2/3 110
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Concise summary of WWI: "Our story begins in that summer of 1914 when a crazy war erupted in Europe. A war like the kind of fights that flare up between coffee-shop dwellers during almawalid. It starts with a chair hitting the lights, leaving everyone in the dark, and then the fight begins. 1/3 110
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 01/01/2026“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable. 786313184936
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 01/01/2026es wird an Schulen erschreckenderweise in Geschichte als essentieller Teil der Quellenanalyse gelehrt. Warum auch immer. 140
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenNOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 01/01/2026Protests are spreading across Iran for a fourth day, with demonstrators calling for the end of the Islamic regime and demanding the return of exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. A member of the Basij force was killed in Kouhdasht, Lorestan, and confrontations are flaring in Fars, Hamedan, and Tehran. 28980231
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 31/12/2025about struggling for and trying to build a better world, here and now, perhaps failing, and against all odds trying again. It's this spirit of radical experimentation that I try to capture. www.penguin.co.uk/books/321011...penguin.co.ukBeauty is in the StreetIn post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from Paris to Prague, Milan to Wroclaw, ordinary people took to the streets, fighting for a better world. Their efforts c... 050
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 31/12/2025I'm always happy to see my work mentioned, as in this Foreign Policy article (a summary of previous articles on the past and present of movements). However, Beauty Is in the Street is distinctly not about failed movements, but about experimentingi foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/25/g...foreignpolicy.comA Year of Global ProtestHow Gen Z-led movements shaped 2025—and what comes next. 130
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 31/12/2025#OtD 31 Dec 1912 about 160 African workers at the Wankie coal mine in colonial Rhodesia came out on strike. Workers were protesting the poor conditions after dozens had contracted scurvy, resulting in nine deaths over the previous three months stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1143... 03812
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Working in archives is a bit like getting Christmas presents: ypu open a box of documents, and they might be what you wished for, or something totally useless, or amazing and more interesting than you could have imagined. It's the true joy of being a historian! 160
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Compare the statement about the antisemitic terror attack in Australia by the Israeli Prime Minister with the one by Zohran Mamdani, and ask yourself who more truly cares about condemning antisemitism, as opposed to using it to promote unrelated politics. 191637484
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Very thankful to see my piece on the Charm of History, and how the study of the past might offer a glimpse of joy and hope these days, mentioned here. I'd be happy to know what folks think! www.historians.org/perspectives...historians.orgOn the Charm of History – AHAFinding joy in the past might allow us to imagine a future of joy as well. 142
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenMiGAZIN @migazin.de · 11/12/2025+ Ein mutiger Somalier verfolgte im Januar in #Aschaffenburg einen Messerangreifer. Für sein Engagement erhielt er von Ministerpräsidenten Söder die Medaille für Zivilcourage. Nun soll er ausreisen – er habe keinen Job. Der Somalier beschuldigt die Behörden.migazin.deKein Job - Held von #Aschaffenburg soll Deutschland verlassenEin mutiger Somalier verfolgte im Januar in #Aschaffenburg einen Messerangreifer. Für sein Engagement erhielt er von Ministerpräsidenten Söder die Medaille für Zivilcourage. Nun soll er ausreisen – er habe keinen Job. Der Somalier beschuldigt die Behörden. 055
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 09/12/2025On the Charm of History, now also available online: www.historians.org/perspectives... The joy we can find in the past might enable us to imagine a joyful future once again, rather than seeing nothing but catastrophe. And the joy of teaching smart students.historians.orgOn the Charm of History – AHAFinding joy in the past might allow us to imagine a future of joy as well. 010
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.forever-wars.comTorture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator AlcatrazAmnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison 7881987210584
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The article is freely available in the November 2025 issue of "Perspectives on History." I'd be happy to hear what people think about the piece. (And thanks to my students who had this I tought wonderful insight about why studying the past is worthwhile.) 000
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 08/12/2025or even beauty. In times when only catastrophe seems to be looming on the horizon, however, history might provide exactly that: a sense that things might be different, that life might be enjoyable. That is where, as a student of mine put it, the charm of history lies. ... 2/3 110
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Publication News: On the Charm of History. www.historians.org/perspectives... What studying the past has to offer, it seems these days, is a stern warning about the perils of authoritariansim or even fascism that are on the rise again. Rarely does history seem to offer a sense of hope ... 1/3historians.orgNovember 2025Read the November issue of Perspectives on History. 132
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025(I don't have the budget to pay someone for such kinds of promotions anyways, just curious how legit such an offer is, or if it's just a scam, which I suspect.) 000
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025I was contacted, for the second time, by someone, presumably in the US, who claims to have read my book and offers promoting it in multiple ways (without saying to explicitly or even indicating costs), by someone named Laura's Pavlov. Out of curiousity: is anyone I know familiar with the name? 211
Joachim C. Häberlen @jchaeberlen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025AI will do the researching, writing, discussing, revising, peer reviewing and, most importantly, reading of our works. No more humans needed. 020
Reposted by Joachim C. HäberlenGreg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 26/08/2025#MenWithCats 1595581823