Undue Influence: The Reform-Supporting Online Network Using AI to Monetise Anti-Migrant Hate
A prominent social media campaign for Brexit and Boris Johnson has morphed into a large-scale network boosting Reform and pushing anti-migrant hate, reports Katherine Denkinson
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I appreciated the chance to talk with Kathryn Jezer-Morton for this article. It's unfortunate that we have to deal with Big Tech's messes everywhere, including in our own families, but given that, I'm glad for a chance to help people think this through.
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Le New Balance 1906W Castlerock sono le sneaker tecniche perfette per questo autunno
https://www.gqitalia.it/article/new-balance-1906w-castlerock-prezzo-data-uscita?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su SNEAKERS @sneakers-GQItalia
Dando una continuación a mi anterior entrada en el blog, he publicado una entrada con un listado de los libros que publicó la desaparecida "Editorial Nivola" en la colección "Científicos para la historia".
jarban02.blogspot.com/2025/09/…
#libro #entrada #blog #ciencia
Colección "Científicos para la historia" (Editorial Nivola)
Blog personal donde escribo sobre algunos temas que me interesan (libros de divulgación matemática y científica, senderismo, fotografía, etc.).jarban02.blogspot.com
Save 50% on Current 2 software synthesizer by Minimal Audio rekkerd.org/current-2-software…
#AAX #AU #MinimalAudio #PluginBoutique #Sale #software #VST
Save 50% on Current 2 software synthesizer by Minimal Audio
Current 2 comes with an expanded content library, new play view, wave shifter effect, enhanced modulation matrix, and more.Ronnie (Rekkerd.org)
Le pagelle degli arbitri: Abisso fischia troppo, 5. Marchetti 5,5: all'Inter manca un rigore
https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/01-09-2025/arbitri-le-pagelle-della-seconda-giornata-i-voti-gazzetta_preview.shtml?reason=unauthenticated&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Le pagelle degli arbitri: Abisso fischia troppo, 5. Marchetti 5,5: all'Inter manca un rigore
I direttori di gara promossi e bocciati della seconda giornata di Serie ALa Gazzetta dello Sport
#Trump #Putin #Zelensky #TACO #Ukraine #geopolitics @geopolitics
Rina: Montagsherz flashtaig.wordpress.com/2025/0…
#Blog
Montagsherz
Montagsherz ist eine Aktion von Wortperlen. Hierbei fotografiert man Herzen, die einem über den Weg „laufen“ oder die man auch selbst herstellt, aus jeglichem Material – Holz, Metall, Lebensmittel,…Ich lese
Juve, ecco Zhegrova: che accoglienza al J Medical!
https://video.gazzetta.it/calcio/serie-a/video-juve-ecco-zhegrova-accoglienza-calorosa-al-j-medical/724f1b9a-0308-41ad-84ce-e13785ac2xlk?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Juve, ecco Zhegrova: che accoglienza al J Medical!
Edon Zhegrova ha iniziato ufficialmente la sua avventura alla Juventus. Sbarcato all'aeroporto di Torino Caselle, il kosovaro con cittadinanza albanese si è poi diretto al J Medical per sottoporsi alle visite mediche prima di firmare il contratto con…G. Albanese (Gazzetta dello Sport)
Istat, disoccupazione luglio scende al 6%, più bassa da 2007 - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/09/01/istat-disoccupazione-luglio-scende-al-6-piu-bassa-da-2007_b2314351-2920-4f53-8fab-666e28380b3b.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Istat, disoccupazione luglio scende al 6%, più bassa da 2007 - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
Il tasso di disoccupazione a luglio cala al 6,0% (-0,3 punti rispetto a giugno), il livello più basso dal giugno 2007. Quello giovanile scende al 18,7% (-1,4 punti). (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Meloni, da Istat segnali positivi, 218 mila occupati in più - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/09/01/meloni-da-istat-segnali-positivi-218-mila-occupati-in-piu_6f65b8e3-2021-4e0e-956a-a10a3a3babe0.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa
Meloni, da Istat segnali positivi, 218 mila occupati in più - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
Secondo l'ultima rilevazione Istat, anche a luglio arrivano segnali positivi dal mondo del lavoro: il tasso di occupazione sale al 62,8% e quello di disoccupazione scende al 6%. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
On 31st July Israeli Forces Demolished one of Palestine's main seed production sites - vital for farmers there.
The unit, which covered 10,000 m² (including 4,000 m² of active cultivation), was planted with 15 key traditional summer crops such as tomato, zucchini, faqous, okra, & sunflower. It was intended to supply the Local Seed Bank in preparation for the upcoming agricultural season.
The Local Seed Bank is twinned with Exeter Seed Bank in the UK. They have set up a fundraiser in response.
Rilasciata #AerynOS 2025.08 che porta numerosi aggiornamenti e un rifocalizzazione del team di sviluppo. Si tratta di una distribuzione rolling-release indipendente (precedentemente #SerpentOS)
La nuova release include Mesa 25.2.0, kernel 6.15.9, Plasma 6.4.4 e molto altro.
github.com/orgs/AerynOS/discus…
August 2025 iso and project update · AerynOS · Discussion #62
AerynOS: August 2025 iso and project update To round out August 2025, we have a new ISO and a blog post detailing what we have been up to over the last few months. We are firing on all cylinders wi...GitHub
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Sorrentino suggerisce (forse) una grazia in più. Scrive Nicotri
L'articolo è pubblicato da #Formiche
cc @culture
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Le recensioni, come le interviste, successive alla presentazione in anteprima mondiale de La Grazia, in concorso a Venezia 82, sembrano indicare la messa in scena, quasi certamente non voluta, da parte del regista premio Oscar, anche di una “grazia
Sorrentino suggerisce (forse) una grazia in più. Scrive Nicotri - Formiche.net
Le recensioni, come le interviste, successive alla presentazione in anteprima mondiale de La Grazia, in concorso a Venezia 82, sembrano indicare la messa in scena, quasi certamente non voluta, da parte del regista premio Oscar, anche di una “grazia s…Francesco Nicotri (Formiche.net)
"noyb has achieved a win against YouTube, the video platform provided by Google. After five and a half years, the Austrian data protection authority (DSB) has finally issued a decision siding with noyb – and ordering YouTube to comply with the complainant’s access request in accordance with Article 15 GDPR. Until now, the company withheld a large amount of data, including information about the purpose of the processing, storage periods, data recipients and the tracking cookies used."
noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-youtube-or…
#EU #GDPR #DataProtection #Streaming #YouTube
noyb WIN: YouTube ordered to honour user’s right of access
The Austrian DPA has ordered YouTube to send the complainant all personal data it processes about himnoyb.eu
Stamattina sono andato a pagare il bollo del 2024 che avevo dimenticato di pagare.
La giornata bellissima e la vista lago mi hanno un po' mitigato il rodimento.
Cioè, poteva anche piovere.
You don’t need to earn rest.
You don’t need to justify why your bodymind needs downtime.
Rest is not laziness - it’s survival.
A natural part of being a human.
It’s how we rebuild, regulate, and keep going in a world that takes too much.
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youtube.com/@history-nine
#ThirdParties #politics #socialism
history nine
History: as in histories about presidents, dictators, toys, UFO cults, assassins, insult comedians, and cats. Nine, as in the Chinese number for longevity. All videos created by Matthew Lasar. Formerly called "Lasar's Histories of Everything."YouTube
dopo tre ore di windsurf con tavole normali, sui 180l, uno crede pure di essere capace
poi sale su una tavola da 106l senza deriva e vela da 5m2 e fa un bel bagno, non solo di realtà...
sembra di stare su un tappo di sughero in una tempesta
Pillon torna ad attaccare i mussulmani, sostenendo che non avrebbero rispetto per le donne
Il leghista Simone Pillon ha esultato quando Rossano Sasso ha promesso leggi che vieteranno ogni contrasto al sessismo nelle scuole.Gayburg
U.S. producers of corn and soybeans have sent dire warnings as prices for their crops have crashed in recent years as Trump’s trade war whipsaws farmers.
Corn prices have plunged more than 50% from their 2022 peak, while production costs are down just 3% in that span, translating to a loss of 85 cents per bushel, the NCGA said, adding that the outlook for next year is worse with even lower prices and higher costs.
fortune.com/2025/08/30/rural-a…
#usa #china #tradewar #economy
Rural America is suffering an economic crisis as crop prices plunge — ‘U.S. soybean farmers cannot survive a prolonged trade dispute’
"Prices continue to drop and at the same time our farmers are paying significantly more for inputs and equipment."Jason Ma (Fortune)
Corn growers are mostly giant corporations and the US grows way too much corn, in astonishingly large monocropped plains. Having a massive surplus of corn means they put it in everything, including petrol, trying to find uses for all of it. Its GMO. Its killing pollinators and butterflies.
Obviously I don't want small hold or organic farms to suffer, but if Trump reduces the acreage of corn and soy, he will help the environment by accident.
@celesteh all true, but the most likely outcome is that it'll be the small independent farmers that go under, and big corps will scoop up their assets further increasing capital concentration at the top.
Also, even if the whole corn industry does need to go away, this isn't going to be a controlled unwinding of it and will lead to a huge economic shock in the US.
Hello there...every day that I use Mastodon, I like to list three things that I like as a contribution towards a positive online space, as well as my own headspace. If you did this today, what would feature on your list?
01. Saw a friend who has finished chemo and appears to be healthy now, and we hugged when we saw each other
02. started another book that seems to be "Kafkaesque" (Blackass, by A. Igoni Barrett)
03. Listened to Sonic Youth whilst drinking tea
Hope whoever reads this can have a nice day.
@3goodthings@a.gup.pe @3goodthings@fedigroups.social #3goodthings #3GoodThingsToday #ReasonsToBeCheerful
South Korea bans phones in school classrooms nationwide
South Korea bans phones in school classrooms nationwide
It is the latest country to restrict phone use among children and teens.Suhnwook Lee (BBC News)
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Zebrania wiejskie można nagrywać, a lista ich uczestników jest jawna
W 2012 r. Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny zajmował się jawnością list z zebrań wiejskich. Tezy tych wyroków są nadal aktualne. W ostatnim czasie SiećInformacjaPubliczna.org
Horst Scheuer: Probleme mit dem Update des WordPress-Plugins Koko Analytics horst-scheuer.net/2025/09/prob…
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Probleme mit dem Update des WordPress-Plugins Koko Analytics
Heute nur ein kurzer Artikel. Es geht dabei um das WordPress-Plugin Koko Analytics. Koko Analytics ist ein datenschutzfreundliches Statistik-Plugin. Dass es mithorst-scheuer.net
Donazione organi Vol. 3: il caso Danella Gallegos
Nelle ultime settimane ho scritto un paio di articoli per cercare di fare chiarezza su come funzioni la donazione organi in Italia e sul perché non ci sia nulla da temere a riguardo.Noemi Jr (Butac – Bufale Un Tanto Al Chilo)
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Chissà perché quando si trattano temi legati alla salute - p.es. "ho scoperto di avere un tumore al cervello al 4° stadio perché una volta al mese sentivo profumo di caramello" - le testimonianze arrivano sempre da Paesi anglofoni.
E sono riportate da testate conosciute come il FQ o trasmissioni tipo Report.
"Scapegoating vulnerable people has always been a deliberate ploy by the government to distract from its own domestic failures. Today, it might be asylum seekers. Tomorrow, it could be disabled people. The next day, trans people. Whatever the minority, we are witnessing the demonisation of vulnerable people, to the grave detriment of us all"
Jeremy Corbyn writes for Tribune Magazine
#LabourParty #Fascism #UKPolitics
Labour Is Paving the Path to Fascism
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labou…
Labour Is Paving the Path to Fascism
As Labour embraces anti-migrant rhetoric, Jeremy Corbyn argues that the government is demonising vulnerable people to distract from its domestic failures.www.tribunemag.co.uk
It's not especially relevant to my current life, or to my conversations on Mastodon, but I'm an international award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker.
I used to talk about screenwriting regularly on my pre-Fediverse accounts.
Are there hashtags or groups that TV and film writers congregate around in the Fediverse? I wouldn't mind picking those conversations back up.
(And I'm pondering a related project to launch in the new year.) 1/n
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These aren't groups, but I've tried to collect some screenwriting accounts here:
fedi.directory/tag/screenwriti…
...and some film-making accounts here:
fedi.directory/tag/film-making
(Accounts on site can be followed by copy-pasting Fediverse addresses into Mastodon search box)
Screenwriting | Fedi.Directory – Interesting accounts on Mastodon & the Fediverse
Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.directory
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Y’all. I did it. I just published my very first macOS app. 🎉
It’s a color contrast checker for accessibility compliance. I designed and built it for myself, but I’m also gifting it to the world.
It’s not in the App Store, but it is signed for safety. And it will let you know when there’s an update.
I’m a little giddy about it. 😊
UPDATE: new versioning system. v1.2 is available now.
#macOS #App #Software #Design #Development #Coding #FrontEnd #Accessibility #A11y
Ratio App: Accessibility Color Contrast Checker for macOS
Accessibility color contrast checker for macOS with support for WCAG and APCA.Mark Wyner
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@alextm I’m so glad to hear it!
I have considered some potential updates with variables for both WCAG and APCA to account for font size/weight variables. I’m just not sure I want to overcomplicate this.
Even if you visit a WCAG contrast checker website, they don’t show numbers for the 14/18-point breaks. They just note it. So I thought about adding it.
For the APCA declarations I’m using their contrast legend:
GitHub - Myndex/apca-w3: The APCA version, to be licensed for use with guidelines: W3/AGWG.
The APCA version, to be licensed for use with guidelines: W3/AGWG. - GitHub - Myndex/apca-w3: The APCA version, to be licensed for use with guidelines: W3/AGWG.GitHub
Il settore #eolico cresce a ritmo record, ma il fine vita delle pale rischia di trasformarsi in un’emergenza ambientale #ClimateTech #energierinnovabili #greenplanner
greenplanner.it/2025/09/01/sfi…
Eolico: come rendere sostenibili le pale a fine vita
Il settore eolico cresce a ritmo record, ma il fine vita delle pale rischia di trasformarsi in un’emergenza ambientale: ecco la situazionePaolo Galli (Edizioni Green Planner)
Just click t.me/lastquake_bot to register and you'll receive personalised information about felt #earthquakes around you!
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Earthquake information= Magnitude: 4.6, Region: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Date time: 2025-09-01 09:27:36.9 UTC, Location: 18.784 ; -69.637, Depth: 94 km.EMSC - European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre
Incontro stasera alla Casa del Popolo. L'attivista racconta la sua esperienza a bordo. Interviene Citto Saija #stopthegenocide
tempostretto.it/news/handala-e…
“Handala e il sequestro della Freedom Flotilla”, incontro con Antonio Mazzeo
Incontro stasera alla Casa del Popolo di Messina. L'attivista racconta la sua esperienza a bordo. Interviene Citto SaijaRedazione (Tempostretto)
Released 48 years ago
Blank Generation, the debut album by Richard Hell and the Voidoids, featuring the title track 'Blank Generation'
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation - CBGB
#punk #punks #punkrock #blankgeneration #history #cbgb #punkrockhistory
Warum ist denn ein Account auf der Instanz social-bund-de von Dir wegmoderiert worden?
Ist social-bund-de nicht an sich bereits ein Ausschlusskriterium fürs Wegmoderieren?
"Dies ist der Mastodon-Server der Bundesbeauftragten für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI)."
Auf der Instanz sind nur Deutschlands Bundesbehörden, Bundesministerien und ähnliche Institutionen. 🖖🏽
Was soll ich mit der Aussage "Das ist eine falsche Einordnung" anfangen, statt dass du fragst, ob ich ein Beispiel nennen kann.
Dieser Post wurde von deutschen Bürger*innen gemeldet (hat also nichts mit meiner österreichischen Sicht zu tun): social.bund.de/@bmi/1145855311…
Was daran Falschinformation ist?
"Die heutigen Entscheidungen im Bundeskabinett dienen der Reduzierung der illegalen Migration. "
Nein, sie dienen der Illegalisierung von Migration und Integration.
"Ziel ist es [...] mehr Ordnung in das Migrationsgeschehen zu bringen und dem Leitsatz der Humanität und Ordnung gleichermaßen gerecht zu werden"
'Ziel ist es, Menschenrechte und Humanität zu Privilegien zu machen und die AFD zu stärken' wäre ehrlicher.
Dass es irgendwelche Nachteile durch Migration gibt, ist ein weit verbreiteter Verschwörungsmythos.
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"Die deutsche Bundesinstanz muss insgesamt für alle deutschen User auf Deiner Instanz sichtbar sein."
Muss sie nicht. Ist sie aber.
"wäre es trotzdem notwendig,
dass alle User aus Deutschland das sehen können und damit interagieren=es kritisieren können."
Wie gesagt, daran hindert dich nichts und niemensch. Die Posts sind nur nicht automatisch für alle sichtbar.
Du hast Recht, die Instanz hat eine Sonderstellung was Moderation angeht, Weil sie eine offizielle Instanz eines (noch) demokratischen Staats ist. In jedem anderen Fall würde ich eine Instanz blockieren, die Posts wie den oben genannten nicht moderiert.
Deshalb sind die Accounts nur verborgen, damit die Propaganda nicht unnötig verbreitet wird. Jede*r Nutzer*in unserer Instanz kann sich aber bewusst dafür entscheiden, Accounts auf dem Server zu folgen und mit den Posts zu interagieren.
BMI (@bmi@social.bund.de)
„Die heutigen Entscheidungen im Bundeskabinett dienen der Reduzierung der illegalen Migration. Ziel ist es, Pull-Faktoren zu senken, mehr Ordnung in das Migrationsgeschehen zu bringen und dem Leitsatz der Humanität und Ordnung gleichermaßen gerecht z…social.bund.de
Man kann nicht überblicken, wo Du noch überall demokratisch legitimierte Institute und Institutionen zensierst .
Demokratiebewusstsein hast Du jedenfalls nicht, stattdessen eine geballte Ladung autoritärer Selbstüberschätzung.
Ich bin dann mal weg. Viel Spaß noch.
On a report published by Policy Exchange today which claims the Good Friday Agreement does not rely on the UK remaining a signatory of the European Convention of Human Rights, Naomi Smith, Chief Executive of Best for Britain, said:
“In 30 pages, the Good Friday Agreement cites the ECHR seven times as an essential safeguard and so these claims look like a willful misinterpretation of a treaty that ended decades of bloodshed in the UK and Ireland." (1/2)
¿Qué tal ha ido el verano? Nosotras empezamos septiembre con el horario habitual de la biblioteca:
Lunes a viernes: 18 a 21h
Sábados y domingos: 11 a 14h
Además retomamos las actividades del local con: el club de lectura En el Café, debatiendo sobre antipunitivismo y dedicándole un tiempo a escribir a las personas presas el 19 de septiembre, preparando el camino hacia la manifestación del 1N Antiespecista, la vuelta del Club de de lectura Antirracista y del Cine Fórum El Palike.
¡Nos vemos!
ICYMI: The Liberal Democrats’ humble address in the Commons today seeks to release any Government legal advice on potential breaches of international law in the Israel-Gaza war.
The same device was used in 2018 to successfully force the Government to publish legal advice on the proposed EU withdrawal agreement.
Ed Davey’s motion follows his decision to boycott Trump’s state banquet later this month, to put pressure on the Pres. & PM Starmer to act over the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
#photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #sunset #Schwelm #EnnepeRuhrKreis
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I'm in a newly and shinily renovated #VIRM train in The Netherlands right now. Back in the day when I was still forced to ride the train daily, there'd be a handle on the door, and a physical lock. But of course, that won't do in 2025. It's all controlled with electronics now.
I've sat here watching people struggle to no end. From teens to the elderly.
What an improvement uh!
Paid, but it required money from my rent & meds funds. Please help make sure I can grab my medication & pay rent. 🙏
Get #TTRPG games:
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •That said, I wanted to provide a couple of corrections. When I problematize the term "AI", the goal is to get people to stop using it. "Many tools that use AI" doesn't mean anything. "Many tools that are sold as 'AI'" is okay. But more importantly: those study-aid podcasts systems are TRASH and nothing like automatic transcription tools.
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •Automatic transcription takes an audio signal and produces text. It's reasonably clear how to evaluate how well those systems work, both systematically (should we use this system for our purposes?) and in a particular use (is that really what was in the audio?).
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •The same is absolutely not true for Google's NotebookLM which takes in academic articles and outputs something that sounds like a podcast. It is much harder to evaluate that in general, and especially difficult in the particular case. Having listened to a fake podcast about a paper will undoubtedly shape how you perceive the paper, if you even take the time to go read the paper itself.
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in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •I generally avoid consuming synthetic media if at all possible, but did have to sit through a couple of those LLM-"podcasts" in the context of media interviews about them. They're horrid.
scientificamerican.com/podcast…
/fin
How Tools like NotebookLM Create AI-Generated Podcasts
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Hugo Korterik
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •This is so creepy for a real human #podcaster putting a lot of time, research and hard work into it, only to see it almost disappear amid such rubbish of AI.
#podcasts #AISlop #NotebookLM
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in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •