#introduction time. I am #Italian, living in Berlin, I’m a Cloud PO for a German consulting firm. I like to play #guitar in my spare time, and watch #racing (F1, WEC).
At home I currently use GhostBSD on my personal thinkpad, Linux Mint on the family/living room mini-pc, and stock SteamOS on my Steam Deck. First Linux distro: Mandrake 7.1; first BSD: FreeBSD 4.7. Played with pretty much every OS I could find, from Slackware to Plan9.

I speak #Italian, #English, some #German and basic #Hebrew.

#introduction time. I am #Italian, living in Berlin, I’m a Cloud PO for a German consulting firm. I like to play #guitar in my spare time, and watch #racing (F1, WEC).
At home I currently use GhostBSD on my personal thinkpad, Linux Mint on the family/living room mini-pc, and stock SteamOS on my Steam Deck. First Linux distro: Mandrake 7.1; first BSD: FreeBSD 4.7. Played with pretty much every OS I could find, from Slackware to Plan9.

I speak #Italian, #English, some #German and basic #Hebrew.

#introduction time. I am #Italian, living in Berlin, I’m a Cloud PO for a German consulting firm. I like to play #guitar in my spare time, and watch #racing (F1, WEC).
At home I currently use GhostBSD on my personal thinkpad, Linux Mint on the family/living room mini-pc, and stock SteamOS on my Steam Deck. First Linux distro: Mandrake 7.1; first BSD: FreeBSD 4.7. Played with pretty much every OS I could find, from Slackware to Plan9.

I speak #Italian, #English, some #German and basic #Hebrew.

#uspol Columbia gives up academic freedom for $400M

Colleges in 1930s Germany thought giving in to government demands would save them…

What made the #German university capitulation so devastating wasn’t just the individual policy changes, but how quickly institutional autonomy collapsed once the principle was breached. Columbia’s agreement follows this same pattern: transferring disciplinary authority from faculty to administrators, adopting government-mandated speech definitions, submitting to external monitoring, screening international students for ideological compliance, and reviewing curriculum content. The university justified each concession as necessary for survival, just as German institutions did.

https://www.alternet.org/universities-in-nazi-germany-and-the-soviet-union-thought-giving-in-to-government-demands-would-save-their-independence/

The agreement effectively allows the federal government to dictate campus speech policies, disciplinary procedures, and academic content through funding leverage, fundamentally altering #Columbia’s institutional governance structure.

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-trump-deal-00eef5dca9f003e593d2cb151f5cce17

@academicchatter
@histodons
#trumpizm#usfascism

#uspol Columbia gives up academic freedom for $400M

Colleges in 1930s Germany thought giving in to government demands would save them…

What made the #German university capitulation so devastating wasn’t just the individual policy changes, but how quickly institutional autonomy collapsed once the principle was breached. Columbia’s agreement follows this same pattern: transferring disciplinary authority from faculty to administrators, adopting government-mandated speech definitions, submitting to external monitoring, screening international students for ideological compliance, and reviewing curriculum content. The university justified each concession as necessary for survival, just as German institutions did.

https://www.alternet.org/universities-in-nazi-germany-and-the-soviet-union-thought-giving-in-to-government-demands-would-save-their-independence/

The agreement effectively allows the federal government to dictate campus speech policies, disciplinary procedures, and academic content through funding leverage, fundamentally altering #Columbia’s institutional governance structure.

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-trump-deal-00eef5dca9f003e593d2cb151f5cce17

@academicchatter
@histodons
#trumpizm#usfascism

#German court rules #Meta #tracking technology violates #European #privacy laws

A German court has ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German #Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding tracking technology in third-party websites — a ruling that could open the door to large fines down the road over data #privacy violations relating to pixels and similar tools.
#surveillance

https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech

#German court rules #Meta #tracking technology violates #European #privacy laws

A German court has ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German #Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding tracking technology in third-party websites — a ruling that could open the door to large fines down the road over data #privacy violations relating to pixels and similar tools.
#surveillance

https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech