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In August 2023, the Heinrich Bรถll Foundation (HBS) announced that Masha Gessen was the winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought.

In December, days before the award was due to be presented, the HBS said that it was withdrawing its support because it objected to Gessen's December 9 New Yorker essay
"In the Shadow of the Holocaust"
on German Holocaust memory and the Israelโ€“Hamas war.

In the essay, Gessen argued that Germany's remembrance culture regarding the Holocaust was being used as a "cynically wielded political instrument"
by the Alternative for Germany (AfD)
to target Muslim immigrants.

Gessen was also critical of the Israeli bombings of the Gaza Strip, which they considered to be highly destructive and comparable to
an Eastern European ghetto "being liquidated" by the Nazis.

On December 16, 2023 Gessen received the Hannah Arendt literary prize award in a scaled-down ceremony.
apnews.com/article/germany-hanโ€ฆ

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THE NATION [Dec 4] -- Another good explainer on how the evangelical Right work sows doubt on affirming care using the same disinformation techniques they did to overturn the science around global warming, tobacco use, and Covid-19. Same playbook, newโ€ฆ



Ten years ago, we released Tutanota - now Tuta Mail. What's your wish for 2025?

With your help we've achieved a lot so far:

โœ… Published all apps on F-Droid
โœ… Made Tuta completely Google-free
โœ… Released FREE desktop clients for Linux, Windows, macOS
โœ… Made Tuta quantum-safe

And there's more to expect soon! ๐ŸŽ‰

โœ… Labels ๐Ÿ˜
โœ… Import ๐Ÿ’ช
โœ… Calendar Widget ๐Ÿฅณ

Which feature is your favorite?

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Same as others, and also, and again (I know I've already asked...):
- A bookmarks syncing service (social.vivaldi.net/@IGVazquez/โ€ฆ) such as xBrowserSync
- A thunderbird bridge
- A *.deb for Debian distributions installation.

Thanks!



โ€œOn Thursday, the UN aid coordination office reported that Israeli authorities denied another UN request to reach besieged areas of the North Gaza governorate & deliver food and waterโ€ #GazaGenocide
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The list of people who hate Nancy Mace is growing longer with each passing day.

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โ€œSo far, the vibes are off.โ€

We reported in October that OpenAI could launch its GPT-4 successor, codenamed Orion, this month. Now, The Wall Street Journal reports the behind-schedule modelโ€™s training is a struggle thatโ€™s racking up โ€œenormousโ€ costs.

When it will be ready is apparently a feel thing. WSJ writes:

> Itโ€™s up to company executives to decide whether the model is smart enough to be called GPT-5 based in large part on gut feelings or, as many technologists say, โ€œvibes.โ€
> So far, the vibes are off.

wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-gpt5-orโ€ฆ



Project 2025 Would Cut Access to Overtime Pay. โ€œ#Project2025โ€™s far-right vision of #overtime eligibility & benefits is designed to confuse and disempower workers. It would put more power in the hands of employers to exploit #employees, which is seemingly part of Project 2025โ€™s larger goal: pad corporate bottom lines at the expense of workers.โ€ | Center for American Progress (CAP)
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As suspected, Spotify is using generic stock Muzak bought from production libraries so they donโ€™t have to pay royalties to artists.

Not surprised, since President Daniel Ek refers to music as โ€œcontentโ€ and thinks it takes little effort to create. ๐Ÿ™„

This is one of the ways โ€œcontentโ€ hurts the arts and severs the relationship between artists & their audience.

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#Spotify #IndieMusic #MusicBusiness #MusicStreaming #SpotifyWrapped #AmazonMusic #AppleMusic

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CERNโ€™s Large Hadron Collider finds the heaviest antimatter particle yet byteseu.com/581397/ #Science

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THE NATION [Dec 13] -- Excellent explainer on Skrmetti & Roe parallels. Pullquote "Conservatives have a long track record of selective risk-taking, from treating Covid to refusing masks, many of the same voices warning against GAC argued FOR medicalโ€ฆ




Ha, I missed the outbreak of H5N1 in cats here is due to them DRINKING RAW MILK

(this is the same raw milk producer being promoted by the incoming US administration, and by the nominated Department of Health and Human Services, who is against vaccines)

publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcoโ€ฆ

#rawmilk #h5n1 #birdflu #hpai

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NBC [Dec 20] 38 minutes after the Madison WI shooting the Christian nationalist right was already spreading lies that the shooter was trans. How the Right's online disinformation chamber transforms legitimate shooting tragedies into anti-trans propaganda.โ€ฆ




Amazon delays return-to-office mandate for thousands of workers due to space byteseu.com/581392/ #Technology

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