Mastodawn

Robert Seyfert 1d ago

unexpected guest at the buffet

Robert Seyfert Apr 22

📘 Fast fertig: Druckfahnen lesen, für unser "Handbuch Theorien der Soziologie" mit Heike Delitz und Julian Müller.

Erscheint hoffentlich rechtzeitig zum Kongress der @dgsoziologie in Duisburg!

https://link.springer.com/book/9783658317157

Handbuch Theorien der Soziologie

Das Handbuch zeigt das vollständige Spektrum der soziologischen Denkweisen, ihrer Konzepte, Vokabulare, Methodologien und Forschungsprogramme auf.

SpringerLink

Robert Seyfert Apr 17

Ooze 𓁟 Apr 16

https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-ditches-microsoft-for-linux-and-libreoffice/

German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice. Why? Schleswig-Holstein cites cost, security, and digital sovereignty - though not necessarily in that order.

German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

Why? Schleswig-Holstein cites cost, security, and digital sovereignty - though not necessarily in that order.

ZDNET

Robert Seyfert Mar 24

Totally normal travel advice to the US from one of Germany's biggest newspapers: delete data and photos from smartphones, block accounts, encrypt laptop hard drives.

Disturbing times!

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/einreise-in-die-usa-so-bereiten-sie-ihre-gadgets-auf-grenzkontrollen-vor-a-a3774950-9db9-40c0-8630-43a577c31d25

Durchsuchungen bei der Einreise: So bereiten Sie Ihre Gadgets auf die US-Grenzkontrollen vor

Daten und Fotos vom Smartphone löschen, Accounts sperren, Laptop-Festplatten verschlüsseln: Welche Vorsichtsmaßnahmen sind sinnvoll, falls US-Grenzbeamte die Geräte durchsuchen wollen?

DER SPIEGEL

Robert Seyfert Mar 22

Excerpt of Didier Eribon's new book

"The Life, Old Age and Death of a Working-Class Woman".

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/18/my-mother-the-racist

My mother, the racist

She spent her life in northern France doing exhausting, back-breaking work – and yet she turned her anger against people who had done no wrongs to her. But as much as I couldn’t stand her rants, I was forced to accept her as she was

The Guardian

Robert Seyfert Mar 22

Just out: Special issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment based around conversations withJane Bennett and William E Connolly; a collection of works, all responding to the work of Bennett and Connolly.

https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/new-materialist-tangles-in-and-for-the-anthropocene-9781035348374.html

New Materialist Tangles in and for the Anthropocene

This thoughtful, enriching set of essays and conversations offers a unique exploration of themes and questions concerning a lively world ‘in trouble’. Provocative, stimulating, playful, insightful, and prescient, the reflections in this book invite readers into imaginative and ecologically open ways of envisioning an entangled world.

Robert Seyfert Mar 19

LibreOffice Mar 13

With the world changing around us, many governments and organisations are trying to reduce their dependency on tech giants. Here's an update on how one German federal state is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (and longer-term, Linux): https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03/13/updates-on-schleswig-holstein-moving-to-libreoffice/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

Updates on Schleswig-Holstein moving to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

Nearly a year ago, we posted about the German state of Schleswig-Holstein’s plan to move 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice. Now, Stephane Fermigier from EuroStack – which promotes European technological sovereignty and open source – has posted an update, citing an article in the German c’t Magazin. It discusses various reasons for the […]

The Document Foundation Blog

Robert Seyfert Mar 18

Ben Werdmuller Mar 16

This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host docs securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing.

Docs

Docs

Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.

Robert Seyfert Mar 18

David Waldecker Mar 17

Es gibt einen neuen, DFG-finanzierten #Preprint-Server für die #Sozialwissenschaften mit #OpenPeerReview
https://socios.review/pub/index

Wer platziert den ersten Beitrag?

#Soziologie #OpenScience #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

SOCIOS

Robert Seyfert Mar 16

'AI' Google Search in 2025:

(ignoring the dubiousness of the auto-generated question)

Homepage Kiel University, Germany	https://www.st.uni-kiel.de/de/team/professur/prof-dr-robert-seyfert
ORCID	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9667-1970
Beziehungsweisen (Buch)	https://www.velbrueck.de/Open-Access-Publikationen/Beziehungsweisen.html
Algorithmic Cultures (Book)	https://www.routledge.com/Algorithmic-Cultures-Essays-on-Meaning-Performance-and-New-Technologies/Seyfert-Roberge/p/book/9781138351899#