It’s characteristic that the product Palantir calls their “Ontology” is a “digital twin of the world” — the definitional opposite of ontological!

burgervision

Dostoyevsky’s Devil Admires Lev Tolstoy’s Realism

Finnegans Wehg

Looking for a pièce de résistance for a birthday party or Christmas day? The February 1911 edition of American Homes and Gardens has you covered with Quaint Dessert Dishes like Welshwoman with Cat, banana pigs, and of course the booby bird:

fantastic piece by @ajbwells.bsky.social on Sophie Duvernoy's epic EFFINGERS translation www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

solitary men at Burgermeister listening to podcasts I am one of them

Charles Moore is who people think Frank Gehry was

Have you listened to our 100th episode which we posted last week yet? The founders Ross and Markus as well as some of our most starred guests talk about the beginnings of the Urban Political, and the urban situation then and now: urbanpolitical.online/100-looking-...

tooze neologism watch: “polygloom,” coined 04.12.2025

why is it that film makers /enthusiasts have a more catholic appreciation of their medium than book makers

“What data ‘is’ could be just a compressed unit of something else’s interpretive decisions or technological-mnemonic limits and shortcuts, a fact lost forever in the evolution of data ontology.” newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...

Turkey Carcass Soup

Prophetic Dostoyevsky

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happy birth day you li ke jazz now an d wine and y ou read non fiction and are a lawyer!

I highly recommend Gabriel’s novel

I first saw The Klezmer Project, a beautiful film that plays with fiction, history, text & image, urging us to consider culture beyond blood and nation, at Berlinale 2023. @jewishcurrents.bsky.social let me write about it. Thank you, Nathan & Nora, for supporting and editing this labor of years.

Poor Ghost! is superb. A brilliant novel – go buy it!

Interesting @ajbwells.bsky.social interview with @gabrielflynn.bsky.social ahead of the release of his debut novel: “if you were born in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you’ve…grown up expecting a world that then disappeared right as you were coming into it.” www.the-berliner.com/books/gabrie...

Berlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with @ajbwells.bsky.social about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.

"...although the Down Under presence in Berlin is noted by anyone who enjoys Nick Cave or avocado toast or Berlin Atonal (or deals ketamine in Neukölln), one seldom finds explicit discussions about what this long-distance relationship means" @ajbwells.bsky.social www.the-berliner.com/books/down-u...

'a remarkable new novel ... think In Cold Blood meets Grand Theft Auto with the psychological complexity and moral anguish of Dostoevsky and inputs from third-wave feminists.' Another wonderful review of @vijaykhurana.bsky.social's The Passenger Seat. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

early version of Moviefone introduced by the Deutsche Bundespost in 1952. You'd call 115 to hear the movie listings played back on an "Assmann" magnetic disc recorder www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ8I...

Viktor Orbán's Hungary: scourge of the EU, role model for the US right. For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about how the Orbán regime seeks legitimacy by telling dodgy stories about the 20th century—stories not all so different from those that we've been telling in the West thebaffler.com/salvos/house...

Fidesz wants to "substitute gulag for Auschwitz, to make ideas like redistribution and internationalism just as politically taboo as antisemitism and eugenics" Such a great essay about Hungary's anti-communist memory culture by @ajbwells.bsky.social in @thebaffler.com

not a single podcast about Lucky Per in the entire Anglosphere .... outrageous

Berliners, my novel is coming out in two months and I'm throwing a launch party at @lettretage.de with my great pal @ajbwells.bsky.social. Come along!

Just so you know, despite the CDU’s culture cuts, there are still some cheap seats at Berlin‘s theaters…my most recent column for @exberliner.bsky.social www.the-berliner.com/stage/cheap-...

BREAKING NEWS: BERLIN

great Chartbook today #toozeheads

three to go

Vijay’s book is out today in North America! A genius novel by the loveliest of men.

microphones in late Weimar films Spies (1928) | Woman in the Moon (1929) | No Answer from F.P. 1 (1932) | L'atlantide (1932)

where were you when they came for Schröders Data Shop

“If we maintain our faith in God, our love of freedom, and superior global air power, I think we can look to the future with confidence.”

free market waffles

For the @thetls.bsky.social this week, I wrote about the—brilliant! troubled! eccentric! disgraceful! bonkers!—French writer JK Huysmans, author of À Rebours/Against Nature, and the idle pleasures of style in fin de siècle literature. www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...

terrifying family

“so schmeckt frische”

there are also toilets here

I also finished @gabrielflynn.bsky.social's book, Poor Ghosts last night, and it's incredible. A brilliant and moving novel about class, family, home and the changing face of Manchester. Out in May – don't sleep on it!

i was suckered by a dropshipper with the world's worst book design

synonyms for train

Trump Reculo

"I know you won't believe that I've changed; you'll say 'That's the twentieth time you've said it, and there's no good in you and you're the emptiest of fellows.' But no, this time I've changed quite differently from the way I used to change before." —Tolstoy

Tombstone that reads “I submit my incentive was romance”

“Just try and remember all Chekhov's different heroes . . . Doctors, engineers, lawyers, teachers, lecturers, landlords, shopkeepers, industrialists, nannies, lackeys, students, civil servants of every rank, cattle-dealers, tram-conductors, marriage-brokers, sextons, bishop, peasants, workers . . .”