Antonia Waltermann

@amwaltermann
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It exists! European Sleeper inaugural departure. 3x a week, Berlin - Amsterdam - Brussels night train. It’s pretty retro, but it’s a heroic effort to even get this to run
The philosopher came to the printshop and gave the manager a single paper.
"You asked me to write a book with all my wisdom. Here it is."
The manager read the two words. "'Be kind.' Is that it?"
"Yes," said the philosopher. "Unless you want the footnotes?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Some Neil to go with your Ursula (https://mastodon.art/@[email protected]ocial/109933006166856858):

"...individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different."

Dale Pues (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words." - URSULA K. LE GUIN 1929-2018 https://www.ebooks.com/searchapp/searchresults.net?term=URSULA+K.+LE+GUIN

Mastodon 🐘
Wer für 40h bezahlt wird, sollte pro allgemeinem psychischen Belastungsfaktor 1h bezahlte Grübelzeit bekommen.
Also für Februar 2023 etwa
Klimakatastrophe: 1h
Krieg in Europa: 1h
Pandemie und Folgen: 1h
Erdbeben und Folgen: 1h
Das sind 4h/Woche, die man flexibel legen kann, um musikhörend an die Decke zu starren, zu schlafen oder einfach nen Spaziergang zu machen.
I'm on a #researchvisit in Bologna - some first impressions 😎
I wrote up some of the tricks and tools and tips I've picked up that have made Mastodon more useful, and which people seem to appreciate when I share with them: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/29/some-tricks-to-making-mastodon-way-more-useful/
Some Tricks To Making Mastodon Way More Useful

It’s been interesting to watch over the last few months as tons of people have migrated from Twitter to Mastodon (or similar compatible ActivityPub-based social media platforms). I’ve n…

Techdirt

This article was one of the last I read in 2022 and has really stuck in my mind. "The Folk Concept of Law: #Law Is Intrinsically Moral" (Flanagan and Hannikainen). While we (legal scholars, broadly) may think of "what the law is" in abstract terms, it's important to consider how law is popularly understood.

It's also worth questioning if popular understandings of the law change what the law is - or how it is understood and related to. #legaltheory #morals #philosophy

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00048402.2020.1833953

The Folk Concept of Law: Law Is Intrinsically Moral

Most theorists agree that our social order includes a distinctive legal dimension. A fundamental question is that of whether reference to specific legal phenomena always involves a commitment to a ...

Taylor & Francis

BREAKING: The Taliban have banned women from universities.

This is a shameful decision that violates the right to education for women and girls in Afghanistan. The Taliban are making it clear every day that they don't respect the fundamental rights of Afghans, especially women.

People like to joke about colons in academic titles, but the formula is pretty clearly "Title I Love: Title that Indexes this Content to its Readership." Let us have this one thing so that we can have a tiny crumb of cake and eat it too. 😅