@mstauff.bsky.social
Media scholar University of Amsterdam. Interests: media and governmentality, visual culture of media sports, theories of media change, infrastructures (e.g. of cycling). Editorial board @krisisjournal.bsky.social
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The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next.

My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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I'm so happy this paper is out, and feel humbled to publish with Hypatia. Thank you so much @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social for the superb editorial guidance!
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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In case Zohran's just too exciting for you, here's our room-temperature take on last week's Dutch election: jacobin.com/2025/11/neth...
The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
The Dutch elections were a victory for liberal centrists and a defeat for the anti-immigration Geert Wilders. Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebra...
jacobin.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Wenn schon nicht Trump direkt den #Friedensnobelpreis erhält, dann offenbar wenigstens eine Verbündete im Kampf für Autoritarismus mit losen Übergängen zum Faschismus...
Maria Corina #Machado wurde also der #Friedensnobelpreis verliehen. Und viele jubeln jetzt: Ein "Zeichen gegen Trump" sei das, eine Hoffnung für die Welt. Das Gegenteil ist der Fall. Bitte informiert Euch. Als Nachkomme chilenischer Faschismusopfer ist mir das wirklich wichtig. Ein Thread: (1)
October 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Podcast over hypotheekrenteaftrek. Linkse partijen zijn voor de afschaffing zodat de woningmarkt afkoelt, mensen toegang tot huizen krijgen en er meer gebouwd kan worden. Meeste rechtse partijen natuurlijk tegen want de rijken moeten rijker worden over de rug van huurders.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Alles over de hypotheekrenteaftrek: Nederland is een walhalla voor huizenbezitters
Opeens was-ie daar weer, die aloude politieke splijtzwam: de hypotheekrenteaftrek. Vandaag bespreken Maarten en Marike wat er gebeurt als je dit belastingvoordeel weghaalt. Is het een quickfix voor de...
www.nrc.nl
September 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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In het nos journaal net gaat het alleen over het geweld. Geen woord over het uitgedragen gedachtegoed, de vlaggen, de leuzen die ermee gepaard gingen en die dat geweld zoveel zorgelijker maken. Dat weglaten is echt kwalijk.
September 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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I think framings of the issue along lines of hype/snake oil/con/etc were always inviting this kind of bullshit pushback, because they're operating under the question raised by the PR machine (something like "how powerful are the models?" etc). We're letting them set the question. And then "hype" 1/n
August 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper – but that would now be illegal
www.irishtimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
What would be earlier examples of top down, epistemically motivated Luddites?
Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
www.npr.org
August 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Mont Vully, now.
August 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
An important (German language) take on Adolescence: a complex and productively ambivalent story is very much reduced to one simplified message … not least to trigger social media buzz (about the dangers of social media, of course)
Haben Sie die Netflix-Serie "Adolescence" gesehen? Netflix hat viel getan, um die Interpretation der Serie in eine bestimmte Richtung zu lenken. Christine Lötscher nennt das Paranoia-Marketing. Eine Kritik an der Vermarktung von Filmbildern und an paranoider Bildlektüre.
Bilder, para­noid gelesen. Die Netflix-Serie Adolescence
Die Netflix-Serie Adolescence wird als Warnstück gelesen, obwohl ihre Bildsprache eine vielschichtige Gegenwartsanalyse anbietet: eine subtile Kritik an der populären Interpretationspraxis, die hinter...
geschichtedergegenwart.ch
July 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
All of that 👇 … very helpful. Especially the critique of ‘humanist‘ AI criticism
So-called «artificial intelligence» is essentially an explication machine, rendering explicit not only latent patterns in masses of data, but also fascist tendencies in liberal democracies as well as the exploitative, extractivist, and ultimately destructive business models of platform capitalism
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July 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Side note: media “ecosystem” now fully naturalized (!) as PR term
I wonder what Instructure's acquisition by KKR + Dragoneer will mean for the future of Canvas — what new surveillance, data capture + monetization opportunities will arise?
Instructure to be Acquired by KKR for $4.8 Billion
/PRNewswire/ -- Instructure Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: INST) ("Instructure"), a leading learning ecosystem, today announced that it has entered into a definitive...
www.prnewswire.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Ik ben eigenlijk wel blij met deze nieuwe duidelijkheid.

Traditioneel slachtoffert D66 migranten pas na de verkiezingen, om zo haar neoliberale beleid door te kunnen voeren met de VVD. Nu is het dus vooraf al bekend.

Geen excuses meer voor de "sociaal-liberale" kiezers.
D66 verandert migratiekoers: asielaanvragen alleen nog buiten de EU
"Van migratie die ons overkomt, zullen we naar migratie moeten die we zelf in de hand hebben", zegt partijleider Jetten.
nos.nl
June 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Lesenwert, weil 1. us-kulturkampf explizit importiert wird, 2. im gegensatz zu usa direkt aus der Unileitung kommt, und 3. es daher keine autoritäre regierung braucht, die in die wissenschaftsfreiheit eingreift, und 4. gesagt wird man müsse auch die AfDler an der Uni verstehen.

not mein präsident
June 7, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Greta Thunberg is one of the most coherent and courageous Western activists these days. I wish she and her comrades from @freedomflotilla.bsky.social succeed and live to tell the tale.
The activists on board the Freedom Flotilla need our help.

International attention and support can protect their ship and their lives as they complete their journey to Gaza. Speak out to demand that Israel abide by international law and let the Freedom Flotilla reach Gaza unharmed.
June 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Die @die-linke.de wird jetzt heftig dafür kritisiert, an ihrem Parteitag mit knapper Mehrheit die Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism angenommen zu haben. Dazu hier Gedanken eines Nichtmitglieds. 1/ www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Linken-Parteitag und Streit um Antisemitismus: Bodo Ramelow kritisiert Beschluss
Die Linke wollte beim Parteitag in Chemnitz Harmonie demonstrieren, jetzt gibt es Streit. In einer Antisemitismus-Definition sieht der Zentralrat der Juden den Keim für »Israelhass«. Auch Linken-Bunde...
www.spiegel.de
May 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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This was sich an inspiring conference!!! Thank you to all the speakers for your awesome presentations!!!!
May 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“Meiner Ansicht nach sollte niemand mit dieser Universität als Institution kooperieren, zumindest nicht, bis diese Personen, also der Präsident der Hebräischen Universität Asher Cohen und ihr Rektor Tamir Shaefer, abgesetzt worden sind. Dasselbe gilt für die Ben-Gurion-Universität.”
April 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Today we are launching the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: an alliance of scholars who have come together because our field & institutions are in crisis.

To find out more about our group, to read our inaugural collective statements, & to join us, visit: www.ghscn.org/home.
April 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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It's been four years since @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social & I called for pluralizing memory culture in Germany & lifting the taboo on comparison. As this week's cancellation of Omri Boehm's speech at Buchenwald for allegedly "comparing" the Holocaust & Nakba shows, our call remains crucial.
April 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Lietje Bauwens and @tivadarvervoort.net spoke with me about surplus populations and resistance
krisis.eu/article/view...
The Superiority of Surplus: An Interview with Daniel Loick | Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy
krisis.eu
February 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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The event will take place at an alternative location and will be live-streamed from 10-12 at: fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en...
Webinar number: 2730 788 7561
February 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM