Aaron Y. Zelin

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Richard Borow Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Visiting Research Scholar at Brandeis University, Founder of Jihadology.net, and author of the book “Your Sons Are At Your Service: Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad” (2020).
Workhttps://www.washingtoninstitute.org/experts/aaron-y-zelin
Founderhttps://jihadology.net/
Bookhttps://www.amazon.com/Your-Sons-Are-Service-Missionaries/dp/0231193777/
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Elite tech billionaires, who went down the rabbit hole of right-wing paranoia and see anything that would allow society at large to have a say in how their tech-supremacist elite agenda shapes society as 'censorship', are a threat to democracy.
A hotel in Germany uses 3D carpets to prevent guests from running in the passage...
I will believe that #Iran’s religious police has been disolved when civil society in Iran confirms it — and not because the regime claims it

If you listen to the news, you could be forgiven for thinking that everything is shit.

It’s not.

One example, Humpback Whale numbers are growing massively.

#whales #goodnews #humpbackwhales #beautifulnews

It's official: France bans short haul domestic flights ✈️ in favour of train 🚆 travel 👇👇
https://buff.ly/3gVzNUR
Short-haul flights are now banned in France thanks to new law

The idea for the ban originally came from a Citizens' Assembly.

euronews
Was reminded of this during a #Microsoft event this morning. Still great.

#Africa #jobs #academic :

We have a couple of exciting #career opportunities!

Help us advance African security by designing policy-relevant programs that promote understanding and equip African security professionals to address insecurity effectively.

Positions include;

Assistant/Associate Professor, African Security Studies

Professor of Practice for Security Studies

https://africacenter.org/career-opportunities/

Career opportunities – Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Seeking bright professionals who possess diverse talents, an enthusiasm for African issues, and a willingness to plunge into multiple fast-paced projects.

Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Either someone is really attacking me (which has never happened before) or the security infrastructure is starting to deteriorate.

I've been doing background research and interviewing people on individuals that focus on extremism/terrorism and their accounts and content being taken down from social media and storage sites.

To help with this further, I was wondering if people could fill out this survey (should take 5-10 mins).

It is for a future journal article.

Thank you!

https://forms.gle/pb8rdedfterQgSeu6

#polisci #politicalscience #histodon

Researcher Online Account and Content Takedowns

A survey to better understand how researchers focusing on terrorism and extremism have been impacted by tech and social media and storage site companies taking down accounts and content that has violated their Terms of Service. A study conducted by Aaron Y. Zelin who is a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Politics at Brandeis University, the Richard Borow Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and the founder of Jihadology.

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The DIA is struggling to retain support personnel (like HR & IT) because those folks can jump to other government agencies or the private sector and work remotely. The IC is going to increasingly face this problem…even for some analysts.

In the private sector I’m hearing anecdotally that remote #IntelligenceAnalysis jobs attract multiple times the number of applications vs in office positions.

https://www.defenseone.com/defense-systems/2022/11/pentagons-lead-intelligence-agency-has-hr-problem/380273/

The Pentagon’s Lead Intelligence Agency Has an HR Problem

Too few human-resources staffers means a constant struggle to keep up with basic personnel record-keeping and more.

Defense One