Mastodawn

Peter Moleman 2d ago

kim_harding ✅3d ago

This cartoon needs to be aired again...

Peter Moleman 5d ago

This Is My Glasgow 5d ago

I love this mural by Smug on Mitchell Street in central Glasgow, and I've been known to spend way too much time waiting for some unsuspecting person to be pass through exactly the right spot to take a photo of it!

#glasgow #streetart #mural #smug #glasgowmurals #glasgowstreetart #mitchellstreet #honeyishrunkthekids

Peter Moleman Jun 19

Ulrike Hahn Jun 19

It’s live: The Anti-Autocracy Handbook- The Scholars’ Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding. The need for this is self-evident given current events around the world and in particular in the U.S. The team of authors includes experts from relevant fields and several authors with first-hand experience of living under autocracy.

a pdf of the handbook is freely available for download at the short link https://sks.to/autocracy and there is an associated Wiki that will continue to be expanded and updated.

Please share!

The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding

The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to scholars navigating the growing global trend of democratic backsliding and autocratization, in particular in the U.S. To this end, it sets out how autocracies often follow a common playbook, built around the “3 Ps”: populism, polarization, and post-truth. Leaders present themselves as voices of “the people” against “corrupt elites”, inflame societal divisions, and undermine facts to avoid accountability. This leads to a cascade of dangers for scholarship, including censorship, restrictions on funding and research collaboration, and even violence. The Trump administration serves as a contemporary example, with policies that curtail international scientific cooperation, revoke research grants, and suppress studies related to public health, climate change and minority issues. Because open inquiry and dissent are central to science and academia—qualities antithetical to authoritarian control—academia is often among the first targets of autocrats. To help scholars resist authoritarian developments, the handbook highlights both historic and contemporary measures aimed at attacking scholars, their institutional environments, and their scholarship. The handbook also sets out a framework for action based on personal risk level—low, medium, high, or extreme. This is designed to help scholars think about their own risk and purposefully choose actions in line with it. The handbook considers tools for enhancing digital safety and highlights the importance of ongoing documentation, preserving imperilled data, and creating distributed archives as a defence against erasure. It also calls on scholars to tell their stories—publicly or anonymously—to inspire others, maintain accountability and preserve a historical record. Accompanying the handbook is a living wiki that will continue to incorporate new developments and provide updates on global efforts by scholars to push back against authoritarianism and safeguard the democratic foundations that enable free inquiry.

Zenodo

Peter Moleman Jun 15

Waarschuwing uit Washington: Follow the Money speelt met vuur.
https://www.ftm.nl/nieuwsbrieven/waarschuwing-uit-washington-follow-the-money-speelt-met-vuur

Waarschuwing uit Washington: Follow the Money speelt met vuur

Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek

Peter Moleman Jun 13

The Correspondent: This is fascism.
https://decorrespondent.nl/16177/this-is-fascism/c4bf802c-8087-0bbc-31d5-5ed403fd281d?pk_kwd=all

This is fascism

Fascism starts with talk, not tanks. With democratic elections, not a coup. And it takes hold thanks to people who think things won’t move quickly—until they do just that.

De Correspondent

Peter Moleman Jun 11

Albert Cardona Jun 11

On writing is thinking:

"On the page, you are confronted with the shortcomings in your thinking, the gaps in your evidence, the flaws in your argument. You become aware of important matters that you had not considered. The process of writing is the process of working through those problems, of figuring out the best way to express whatever you are trying to express. Onerous as it may be, the result is gratifying, even if fleetingly so."

HT https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/114664774420469765

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (@emilymbender@dair-community.social)

"Part of our task in the face of generative AI is to make an argument for the value of thinking – laboured, painful, frustrating thinking." "[W]e also need to hold our institutions accountable. [...] university administrators are highly susceptible to the temptations of technology-driven downsizing, big tech donations, and the appearance of being on the cutting edge." https://activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06/11/on-generative-ai-in-the-classroom-give-up-give-in-or-stand-up/

Distributed AI Research Community

Peter Moleman Jun 9

Het is tijd dat politieke duiders Wilders niet langer beoordelen door de bril van het oude normaal. Wilders is een gewiekste strateeg die probeert ons politieke systeem – en daarmee de democratie – te ontregelen. En zijn tegenstanders? Die zullen met méér moeten komen dan de uitgekauwde verhalen over daadkracht, fatsoenlijk bestuur en leiderschap.
https://decorrespondent.nl/16159/we-moeten-het-gepruts-van-wilders-door-een-andere-lens-bekijken/c2434848-e036-05c7-0b59-0665820243e9?pk_kwd=all

We moeten het ‘gepruts’ van Wilders door een andere lens bekijken

Volgens politieke duiders was Wilders’ deelname aan het kabinet ‘amateuristisch’. Volgens politieke leiders is hij ‘weggelopen van zijn verantwoordelijkheid’. Wakker worden: gebruikelijke politieke normen gelden sinds het kabinet-Schoof niet meer. Als we onze oude bril vervangen, zien we dat onbestuurbaarheid altijd al zijn strategie was.

De Correspondent

Peter Moleman Jun 6

Dit gaat niet om een amateuristische politicus die uit woede een kabinet opblaast. Het gaat zelfs niet om politieke onenigheid over het asielbeleid. We hebben hier te maken met een berekenende speler die op een ander speelveld speelt dan zijn coalitiegenoten. In zijn spel dienen de middelen van de democratie enkel om haar te ondermijnen.
https://decorrespondent.nl/16158/de-grote-propagandashow-van-geert-wilders-volgt-het-draaiboek-van-het-fascisme/c4b8a208-0b4e-01a3-1e78-423b04059d46?pk_kwd=all

De grote propagandashow van Geert Wilders volgt het draaiboek van het fascisme

In een functionerende democratie vallen kabinetten over moties van wantrouwen of inhoudelijke verschillen. Dit keer is het anders: nu spat het kabinet-Schoof uiteen door een aantoonbare leugen van Geert Wilders. Een leugen waarmee hij niet alleen het kabinet ondermijnt, maar ook de democratie zelf.

De Correspondent

Peter Moleman Jun 2

Dr. Cat Hicks Jun 2

Was reminded of this great piece today by another tech dopamine post

https://medium.com/the-spike/the-crimes-against-dopamine-b82b082d5f3d

The crimes against dopamine - The Spike - Medium

Dopamine is in the cultural zeitgeist. Want to lose weight? Eat the Dopamine Diet. Want to dress happy? Try Dopamine Dressing. Want to be a Silicon Valley hi-tech entrepreneur genius? Boost your…

The Spike

Peter Moleman May 30

Tjeerd Royaards May 30

There is a sad and frustrating repetitiveness to my cartoons about Gaza, but still I think it's important to keep drawing them, just as it's important to keep sharing the images from Gaza.

Today's cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#Gaza #Netanyahu #Israel #redline