Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Großartig: Niemand geringeres als Peter Fox (!) zerlegt Harald Martensteins Blödsinn über die Erbschaftssteuer in einem Leserbrief in der ZEIT. Ob Pierre Baigorry alias Fox selbst mal über den Freibetrag kommen wird, wenn er sein Haus am See vererbt?

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

Die Stadt Klütz habe Michel Friedman aus Angst vor rechten Protesten ausgeladen, ist jetzt überall zu lesen. Der Leiter des Literaturhauses Oliver Hintz sagte mir, das habe nur eine Nebenrolle gespielt. Wichtiger sei gewesen, dass man den Auftritt eines Juden, der im Luxushotel schlafe und mit…

“All opposing forces seem as though vanished from the face of the earth. It is this utter collapse of powers only recently present, no, their complete disappearance … that I find so staggering.” Victor Klemperer, 1933

Funny that an American Worker looks like he just stepped out of a 1960s Soviet factory somewhere in eastern Siberia , full of determination to fulfill a five-year plan in four years and conscious of the dangers of too much alcohol and talking to foreigners.

„In welche Richtung der politische Zeitgeist effektiv driftet, kann man auch daran messen, ob eine Frau, die gegen den Backlash gestanden hat, Bundesverfassungsrichterin wird.“ @marieschmidt.bsky.social in der SZ über Brosius-Gersdorf #FBG www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/backl...

Superman captures our imagination because we know the idea of a journalist who has a girlfriend isn't real, but it's still a powerful concept that gives us hope.

Tao Lin 🤝 Bertolt Brecht

“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..” @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

Ich empfehle: Arnold Zweig www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

Mamdani's New York will have nuclear weapons within five years!

Elon Musks Plattform X ignoriert europäische Gesetze - und lässt zB rechtswidrige Posts trotz Meldung stehen Hier zeigt @arminwolf.at auf, wie sehr Betroffene von Hass im Netz allein gelassen werden - und wie ineffektiv derzeit die europäische Regulierung (genannt Digital Services Act) erscheint

They told me if I voted for Kamala Harris the United States would be dragged into frivolous wars and they were right!

Big week for Villanova alums. ✝️🏀

Mein Take zu „A real pain“ ist, dass es keinen Cousin gibt, sondern die Culkin-Figur ein imaginärer travel companion ist, den sich die Eisenberg-Figur erfindet, um die Trauer zu bewältigen. Aus diesem Grund verlässt er den Flughafen nie

the most surprising and disappointing aspect of becoming a global health philanthropist is the existence of an opposition team

„In interviews, I have often been asked about “autofiction,” “turning my life into fiction,” etc.—and the thing is, I don’t see it as “turning my life into fiction.” I see it as a reluctance or inability to make claims about other people’s mental states.“ open.substack.com/pub/eliflife...

Deleuze 100! Von 1970 bis 1987 hielt Gilles Deleuze eine wöchentliche Vorlesung an der legendären Experimentaluniversität Vincennes. Die umkämpfte Geschichte der Universität zeigt diese Arte-Doku. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h1i...

"You drive, I'm going to make some birdhouses."

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

Really want a Joshua Cohen follow up to “the Netanyahus” called “the Assads”, which is a fictionalised version of Bashar’s life in Moscow — being dragged out to the taiga by Shoigu, going to a Syrian cafe near MGU, sitting around the dacha while Roldugin plays the violin. Make it happen.

The first time there have been no checkpoints or physical border checks between Vienna and Varna since the Ottoman Empire

„I think of 2024 as the “Fight Club” election, in which disaffected guys vented their frustrations and anxieties through a brawler who will one day reveal himself to be not their hero, but rather a figment of their imagination.“

oh French, what happened to you

„Wir sind nicht im klassischen Sinn im Krieg miteinander, aber zwischen uns herrscht bestimmt kein Frieden.“ www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/welt...

Zwischen diesen beiden Meldungen liegen weniger als 8 Stunden

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A pioneer of electronic music, Olaf Scholz, who has already worked with Stockhausen and Eno, lands in Weeze for the Electronic Summer Camp of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences.

Zachary Woolfe, Musikkritiker der @nytimes.com, über die Konzerte der @berlinphil.bsky.social in der Carnegie Hall, während aus Berlin die massiven Kürzungen auch des Kulturetats bekannt werden. (Geschenklink im ALT-Text)

„In my nightmares, Trump is only the Trojan horse. Musk is the real power.“ Zadie Smith on Charlotte Beradt: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

„You’re sitting by a pool at a cheap motel when a beautiful 16-year-old runaway sidles up to you with a stolen gun in one hand and your debut novel in the other.“ www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

terrific book, terrific news— Percival Everett’s “James” wins NBA www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/b...

good for him! work-life balance is so important

„Ein großer Teil der arabischstämmigen Wähler in Michigan hat für Trump gestimmt und ein großer Teil der konservativen Juden ebenfalls. Das Einzige, worauf sich Araber und Juden einigen können, ist, dass Donald Trump ein echter Qualitätsmensch ist.“ www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/joshu...

Looks like I share a birthday with Sally Field, Ethan Hawke, and Project 2025.

Bald steht den deutschen Verlagen eine Software zur Verfügung, die den Verkaufserfolg eines Buches mit einer Trefferquote von bis zu 99 Prozent prognostizieren kann. Das könnte die publizistische Landschaft grundlegend verändern. www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/kuens...

Ay, fashion you may call it.

writing is so funny it’s like “this is my favorite thing to do in the world and my dream” “okay then do it right now” “no thanks I would rather do literally anything else”

Aha, Rainald Goetz musste, damit Suhrkamp „Abfall für alle“ verlegt, finanziell in Vorleistung gehen, steht in der Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte

Wow I can't believe how old the GOP's presidential candidate is.

A terminology proposal:

Coen Brothers? More like the Goin’ Brothers - because I’m goin’ to see most of their movies!

1994: internet is ephemeral 2004: internet is forever 2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots 2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work

„In 2014 the US elected the oldest Congress in its history. The record did not last long: It was broken in 2016. And then again in 2018. And yet again in 2020, when—remarkably—the majority of the incumbents who lost their seats were replaced by someone even older.“

Ein erstaunlicher Text. „Wir sind uns nicht sicher, ob Peter Weiss selbst unter den aktuellen Diskursbedingungen eine Chance gehabt hätte, den Peter Weiss-Preis zu erhalten.“ www.peterweiss.org/aktuelles/st...

Adam Thirlwells Roman „Die ferne Zukunft“ leitet sein Erzählprinzip von Reinhart Koselleck ab, behaupte ich

“Germany is pushing antisemitism onto migrants,” said Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus, a novelist and a signatory of the protest letter. “It allows Germans to not deal with homemade antisemitism, which is way more dangerous than antisemitic sayings and demonstrations for Palestine.”