@nprofile1q... Same. For me as a Gen X German, who grew up in a country where we were taught everything about the Holocaust and nothing about Jewish history or culture, that chapter of Klein’s book was eye opening. It’s also really useful for German left-wingers arguing in favour of Germany getting its head out of its own backside on Gaza. As soon as the paperback edition of the German translation comes out, it’ll be the birthday present of choice for all my German friends.

@nprofile1q...

* Come from away
* Hedwig and the Angry Inch
* Hamilton
* Fun Home
* Michael Arden‘s ASL version of Spring Awakening
* Company
* Rent
* Fame
* Mame
* Brigadoon
* Cabaret

And yes, I continue to have a soft spot for Phantom and Les Mis

@nprofile1q... Quite a brave thing to do, though, given that it’s the person pounding the schnitzel who holds the meat mallet 😂

@nprofile1q... At this point, it’s a bit like a cult predicting The Rapture (with Susskind as High Priest). I’m pretty sure now that I’ll be retired before they come for us.

@nprofile1q... Can someone tell my vice-chancellor?

@nprofile1q... This process, which subtly shifts the Overton Window, is one of the reasons why Germany criminalised the “Auschwitzlüge” in 1994. It got (and still gets) a lot of stick for that from the free speech crowd, who argue that we shouldn’t do this because “factually incorrect statements” can be disproven in the “marketplace of ideas “. But Germany has so far been steadfast in arguing that the spreading of harmful and disprovable lies does not deserve legal protection. This is why.

@nprofile1q... I was in practice as a tech lawyer during the dot com boom and bust, mostly advising sprightly 20-something start up founders, who were carried to their IPO on a wave of VC cash. These last few months have triggered a lot of memories of that time. The dot com bubble was going to last forever, right until the day it burst. And when it went, it went all at once.

@nprofile1q... Interestingly, this might be one way to drive home to the UK government that there is no such thing as a “Westminster Effect” (anymore), because post-Empire and post-Brexit, it is simply too small a market for most smaller non-UK providers to force them to adapt.

But like in all other cases, it’ll probably ignore it, hoping that either the EU or the US will hop on the bandwagon soon.

In today’s issue of “We told you so, idiots”: I would like to highlight the fact that the EU walked into the current “digital sovereignty” crisis - arising from EU dependencies on US cloud providers - full tilt, with open eyes and a song in its heart.

Update: Student was referred for academic misconduct and fined enough mark deductions that they failed the course.

Learning from this experience, I have started asking dissertation students to provide their reading lists at regular intervals because that is now the clearest indicator of whether they used GenAI (signified by an abundance of non-peer reviewed and US articles over relevant, EU-based academic literature).