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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026

Well, well, well, I KNEW that the hounding of Arday was gonna get connected back to the TESCREAL bozos somehow. See this "paper" by the guy who hired Cofnas at Ghent University. Reminder "dysgenic" is the opposite of "eugenic," they mean Black people and other undesirables reproducing too much.

The dysgenics objection to longtermism
Bouke de Vries a,b,1
a Department of Philosophy, Ghent University, Belgium
b Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Strong longtermism maintains that how we should act morally is determined almost entirely by
the expected effects on the welfare of our descendants existing thousands if not millions of years
into the future, who might include both other humans and any artificial agents with a comparable
or higher moral status that we end up creating. It is based on three key assumptions: (i) that our
descendants will have a moral status that is at least as high as ours and therefore should not have
their welfare discounted by us; (ii) that there is a good chance that these individuals will vastly
outnumber us; and (iii) that we can do things here and now that can be expected to positively
shape the long-term trajectory of humanity. The aim of this contribution is to suggest that authors
such as Will MacAskill and Hilary Greaves have been too optimistic about all these assumptions as
a result of having ignored evidence that the populations of post-industrial countries are becoming
less intelligent due mostly to the negative relationship that has emerged within these societies
between intelligence and fertility and to the proclivity of intelligent people to delay parenthood.

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Contemporary South Asia Journal @csajournal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

*Currently trending in CSA* What happens when the destruction of a home becomes a form of punishment? Fahad Zuberi examines 'bulldozer justice' in India, exploring how the demolition of homes can operate as a punitive practice: doi.org/10.1080/0958...

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Punitive domicide: bulldozer justice and punishment in India

This paper reads the April 2022 Jahangirpuri demolitions as a brutal act of domicide: the deliberate destruction of home as punishment, humiliation, and political theatre. It argues that “bulldozer...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026

Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?

“Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”

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The India Forum @theindiaforum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The CJP refuses to fit old categories: apolitical vs political, satire vs protest, virtual vs physical, domestic vs diasporic. This is exactly what makes it a bellwether for how young Indians will do politics going forward. @sanamroohi.bsky.social writes www.theindiaforum.in/society/digi...

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When Digital Satire Becomes Dissent

The CJP refuses to fit old categories: apolitical versus political, satire versus protest, virtual versus physical, domestic versus diasporic. This is exactly what makes it a bellwether for how young ...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026

is probably the most evil tech company in the world, which, among other things, powers the ICE abductions of members of our communities. I can go on and on. I have zero good things to say about them. If I hated OpenAI more than Google, I hate Anthropic more than OpenAI.

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Dr. Sanam Roohi @sanamroohi.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Aju John and I write at the NewsMinute about the Opportunity Card that Germany is offering to skilled workers outside of the EU. Touted as an easy migration pathway, we show that it is becoming a migration trap and a pipeline to low wage work: www.thenewsminute.com/voices/why-g...

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Why Germany’s Opportunity Card may be a migration trap for Indians

Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.Priya* a 36-year-old woman from Pune, had spent nine years steadily building a career i

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

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Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless

Independent research identifies few learning gains

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

If you think American citizens should be summarily executed by masked federal agents, you’re not a patriot. If you think the lawless goons loyal to our demented pedophile criminal president are greater than the people of Minnesota, you’re not a patriot. You’re a fucking Nazi.

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Alexandra Irimia @alexandrairim.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write: Die Zeit published a long-form piece featuring my research. Many thanks to Katharina Meyer zu Eppendorf and to everyone who, directly and indirectly, made this possible. www.zeit.de/campus/2026-...

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Bürokratie: In die Bürokratie hineingerutscht wie andere in ihre Midlife-Crisis

Andere kaufen sich ein Rennrad, Alexandra Irimia erforscht die Bürokratie. Mal sieht sie darin eine verwunschene Schönheit, mal tödliche Gefahr.

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

“What concerned Plato… was that inequality drove citizens apart and made their mutual friendship virtually impossible” – @laywilliams.bsky.social on why arguments against inequality do not boil down to mere “envy” of the rich #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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Concern about inequality is not mere envy

Are those who object to inequality simply voicing their envy of the richl? If so, we must dismiss the principled arguments of Plato, Jesus, Hobbes, Mill and Marx

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Dr. Sanam Roohi @sanamroohi.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"Just months after President Donald Trump first expressed interest in the United States possibly gaining control over Greenland, some of the richest people in the world—including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg—began making strategic investments in the mineral-rich island." Forbes

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Dr. Sanam Roohi @sanamroohi.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Europe, don't be America's handmaiden! Take an independent and moral stance! Trump who is anyway trying to break the EU will not offer any real help when the need arises.

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Tabea Scharrer @tabeascharrer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Finally out: our introductory paper on "Critical transitions in migration studies: Comparative Migration Studies’ 10th anniversary issue" by @sanamroohi.bsky.social, @pwascholten.bsky.social, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Thais França, Andreas Pott, @zanavathi.bsky.social and myself. doi.org/10.1186/s408...

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Critical transitions in migration studies: Comparative Migration Studies’ 10thanniversary issue - Comparative Migration Studies

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Dr. Sanam Roohi @sanamroohi.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Speaking to colleagues in diff parts of 'East' Europe, it appears to be a generational thing, causing much discord between diff gens. I wonder if it is the same in East Germany. When I lived in Erfurt for a couple of years, my circle of friends, colleagues and students was largely West Germans..

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I missed the bit about Musk wistfully ‘handing it to’ Zohran Mamdani for being able to ‘light up a stage,’ Musk is clearly not going to forget being booed on stage at Dave Chapelle’a show Good. I hope it eats him alive. Anyway, let this feed my tanks of petty hate this am.

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Dr. Sanam Roohi @sanamroohi.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

"We don't study race here (in academia), its American". Who would have believed it, I wonder?!

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IMISCOE - International Migration Research Network @imiscoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION‼️ 📢Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) welcomes proposals for the Thematic Call special issue – 2025 with as thematic ‘Regional perspectives on migration’. ⏳New deadline: 15th October 2025 (23:59 CEST). 🔗More information: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...

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Call for proposals for the Thematic Call special issue – 2025 ‘Regional perspectives on migration’ - IMISCOE

IMISCOE is the largest European network of scholars in the area of migration and integration. The focus is on comparative research and joint research projects.

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Johannes Hillje @jhillje.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Die AfD verliert alle drei OB-Stichwahlen in NRW. In Gelsenkirchen, Duisburg, Hagen. Die AfD wird in NRW weiterhin keinen Oberbürgermeister stellen! #KommunalwahlNRW #Kommunalwahl

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Dr. Sanam Roohi @sanamroohi.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Our new article 'Cumulative Precarity in Times of Polycrisis:..South Asian Students in Finland', that shows how precarity is cumulative, temporal and transnationally accumulated, while strategies of resilience are more situated, can be accessed here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.70033

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Cumulative Precarity in Times of Polycrisis: Transnational Insecurities and Geo‐Spatialized Resiliences Among South Asian Students in Finland

On the basis of ethnographic research among South Asian students in Runolahti (anonymized), this article explores their experiences during a time of compounded crises. It examines how COVID-19 polici...

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die." Now imagine it hadn't been Elon Musk saying this but Sadiq Khan. Or Zohran Mamdani. Or Ilhan Omar.

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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

they’re so close

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Cumulative Precarity in Times of Polycrisis: Transnational Insecurities and Geo‐Spatialized Resiliences Among South Asian Students in Finland

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Dr. Sanam Roohi @sanamroohi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

As part of Speaking from the Margin's Academic Lecture Series 2025, I will give a talk titled: (Un)Belonging as Method: Refusing Neutrality in Transnational Research. The event is chaired by Prof. Nasreen Chowdhory 🗓️ July 27 | 🕓 4 PM IST | 📍 Zoom Meeting ID: 610 4219 2924 Passcode: 120407

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Dr. Sanam Roohi @sanamroohi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Of course there's a desi angle! How does the Right learn from each other? Through such brokers. The US-Indian-Israeli right's shining example of cooperation by subjugation and overtake of popular culture.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 13/07/2025

If Russia India and the United States were building solar at the same rate as China the renewable energy transition would be over in no time. Unfortunately three of these countries are easily controlled by the interests of fossil fuel capitalists

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Are a few people ruining the internet? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... by @jayvanbavel.bsky.social "Just 10% of users produce roughly 97% of political tweets." "It amplifies the loudest & most extreme voices while muting the moderate," "...distorts how the rest of us make sense of the world."

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Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🚨A New York Times investigation reveals that Prime Minister Netanyahu repeatedly sacrificed ceasefire opportunities in Gaza to preserve his fragile far-right coalition and remain in power. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 25/06/2025

At about 20 minutes after midnight, Zohran Mamdani emerged to greet his supporters on a brewery rooftop in Long Island City. Read our full election coverage at the link in bio. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...

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dean @deanr.co.uk · 22/06/2025

the bombing of iran, the inevitable escalation, and the lasting global consequences are the kind of once in a lifetime disaster you only see 5 or 6 times before your mid forties

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Israeli historian Benny Morris on his government's war aims. www.corriere.it/politica/25_...

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

article in the Times blaming smartphones for the UK’s “fertility crisis” the reasons are childcare costs, finances/housing and because being a parent sounds hard and crap; compare that a multi-generational community with shared caring responsibilities? Don’t think it’s the damn phones

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Dr. Sanam Roohi @sanamroohi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

'Two people deeply familiar with the Charleston 787 plant told the Prospect they had particularly acute quality concerns over planes that were delivered to Air India.' prospect.org/economy/2025...

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One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed

Whistleblowers always warned that passengers would pay a price for Boeing’s tyrannical corner-cutting, especially with the planes shipped overseas.

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Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) @kwi-essen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

#Apply now: The @erc.europa.eu project “Cultures of the Cryosphere”|@unidue.bsky.social is hiring a PostDoc in Geography, History or Cultural Studies. Application Deadline: 19 June 2025 ➡️ www.kulturwissenschaften.de/wp-content/u... #PostDoc #AcademicJobs #ERC #Geography #History #CulturalStudies

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

‼️Attention community‼️ MiSC has created the Sanctuary Campus Network, where the anyone can share resources, labor & strategy to protect each other & organize under the coming assaults against migrants. Please share & fill out the form to be added to the listserve. 👇👇👇 forms.gle/jHuzs975ab7m...

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

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Vijay Marupudi @vijaymarupudi.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

So disappointing... Harvard is in so much peril and other universities are just sitting there doing nothing. There is no sign the administration will stop with Harvard. What is the point of all the ideals that universities claim to care about?

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

As another professor of Holocaust and genocide studies, Raz Segal, put it: “Can I name someone whose work I respect who doesn’t think it’s genocide? No.

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Opinion | A genocide is happening in Gaza. We should say so.

We can no longer hide the uncomfortable truths of Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I said that zoomers don’t have the same relationship to 9/11 and that 9/11 humor and memes are popular among the younger generation and have been since the days of Vine and liberals are once again losing their minds at me as if I invented 9/11 jokes?!

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

A two-tier system: “If you are working class and in the lower sets for English you have no access to books, novels, poetry, or plays but rather a daily grind of basic literacy worksheets”, as one teacher reports in our latest blog post Diane Reay #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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The chronic miseducation of working class children in the UK

A regime of “teaching to the test”, harsh discipline and a narrow curriculum is robbing working class children of a good education and tools for self-expression

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Shona Murray @shonamurray.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Every moment of this horror is beyond comprehension

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