What to do if you get pepper sprayed from an eye doctor youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...

🌎 Tarumi Tunnel, Fukuwara, Chizu, Yazu District, Tottori 689-1425, Japan 🗺️ View on Google Maps

Well, this is some story!

BREAKING: Federal judge orders Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R., released. "The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED." "Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."

Well, that’ll wreck you. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

Ich mache das natürlich im Rahmen eines größeren Kontexts, aber Nachtwey ist der Höhepunkt der Magnum-Kriegsreportage, die auch alle Probleme dieses Genres in sich vereint: Fokus auf plakativ symbolische Bilder, tendenziell exploitativ gegenüber den Dargestellten, nur Kriege und Krisen usw.

Das findet ja auch schon statt: Kinder werden aus Schulen geholt, Azubis aus den Werkstätten, um abgeschoben zu werden. Da gibts dann vielleicht nen Zeitungsartikel, die Leute sind erschüttert — und das wars dann. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

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The world just became less funny

Comedy doesn't get any better than this.

Der Blick in die USA zeigt auch: So einen zivilgesellschaftlichen Widerstand würde es hier nicht geben. Unvorstellbar, dass sich hier Nachbar*innen in solchen Massen vor bedrohte Migrant*innen stellen würden.

Das Gleiche sieht man in ähnlicher Form in D mit den Grünen. Die Presse arbeitet sich an denen praktisch nur wegen der Clicks ab (während die CDU offen korrupt ist, aber sowas macht halt keine Clicks).

We could all use a little baby Bao right now. 💙

Happy to see that there is no need to worry about the historical accuracy of new 1776 AI slop because it happens in the mystical land of Λamereedd.

"I was just following orders. Others are responsible."

Ok, two things: 1. They’re doing this to make something that nobody else wants and that’s genuinely terrible 2. They seriously need to get a real life. Maybe start with a hobby (but not reading up on Roman history).

You know what to do!

Maybe the people living there are a little smarter about the environment they live in

Because they often refer to real historical persons or circumstances, they promote forms of remembrance based not on learning and reflection but on affect and artificially generated emotion. More than that, such deepfakes increasingly shape perceptions of the past #GenericPastness

Bari Weiss has one tactic and it’s this tedious revolution from above. The complaint seems to be that institutions sometimes exclude people who are friends with billionaires, and need to be revolutionized by opening the door to the entire flock of pathetically inept nepobabies and mediocrities.

Simon sagt, wie es ist (bitte ganzen 🧵 lesen)

Für Rechtspopulist:innen ist halt alles nur Content.

There is something very, very odd about a society that is simultaneously more thoroughly and constantly saturated in media than any human group has been during the entire history of our species... but also finds it puzzling why studying art & literature might be worthwhile.

Mental-health break dropped!!!

A considerable aspect of contemporary US life: deleting emails in which corporations tell you how important your privacy is to them* and reading letters telling you that your data were stolen and they’re so sorry** and here’s a year of credit monitoring. * it isn’t ** they’re not

New CBS News contributors: Aaron Rodgers, Roseanne Barr, Anton Chigurh, Stephen Miller, Stephen Miller (the other one), Stephen Miller (found a third one), a smokin' hot babe with huge bazongas, Walter White, Tom (not Jerry), big bucket of gravy, Budd Dwyer (deceased), Thomas Chatterton Williams.

Jetzt mal richtiger hot take von mir: ich frage mich durchaus, ob ein Teil des deutschen Bedürfnisses, US-amerikanische Gestapo- und Nürnberg-Vergleiche zu kritisieren, nicht auch daher kommt, dass die halt im Gegensatz zu unseren Omas und Opas gerade massiv Widerstand gegen den Faschismus leisten..

Happy 6th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary to those who celebrate! #Geology ⚒️

"Because the women were all adults and the man who generated the pornographic deepfakes didn’t necessarily distribute them, no apparent crime was committed. Over 80 women were victimized." The non-existent "guardrails" in the AI industry mimic the non-existent guardrails in society.

“The risk is not only that future models might train on AI-generated content, but that AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable and the conventional” futurism.com/artificial-i...

There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.

“Es handelt sich um den ultimativen Triggerpunkt eines libertären Autoritarismus, der Material für die heroisierende Selbsterzählung des eigenen Widerstands gegen einen erfundenen Zeitgeist braucht - einen Zeitgeist, der ihm seine Freiheit nehmen will.” @johannesfranzen.bsky.social in Hochform:

Ich habe etwas über den Schmerzgriff als deutsche Normalität im Diskurs und auf der Straße geschrieben.

As someone who loves going to these kinds of bookshops just like this one I can tell you that THIS is the kind of person who operates them. Do visit your local bookshop and give them some business. You won’t regret it.

Edward Smith will hold an all-hands-on-deck meeting to discuss the future of RMS Titanic, per note that just went out to sailors.

Boy sitting on a tree branch playing a flute in the foreground, Mt. Fuji in the distance 1839

There is no “just following orders” defense. I don’t know what justice looks like at the end of this. But people have agency to not harm their fellow citizens with glee.

“We the people” — what a fitting anniversary reminder by the people of Minneapolis

I’m not a philosopher, but I will ask my book (plagiarized by Anthropic) how it feels about the “AI” being judged. I’ll report back later to let me know what it said.

Nothing less than criminal charges and a ban on the app would be sufficient. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...

BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

EU opens new probe into Elon Musk’s X following Grok sexual images www.politico.eu/article/eu-n...

People will not quit. Instagram has become a hell hole even without ownership change, and people are sticking with it. In my line of business I’m one of the few people who has left, and this has mostly hurt me (not that I care, it was the right thing to do).

And while we’re at it, does anyone really think the descendants of the people who stood by as the Nazis deported their neighbours would now act like the brave people of Minnesota? No, they won’t. I grew up there. I left for a reason.

Es hätte spätestens 1945 bei den Nürnberger Prozessen vorbei sein müssen mit den Nazis, aber jetzt steht die AfD bei 25% so here we are