Falls noch jemand Fragen hatte, wie rechtsradikal Europas mächtigster Medienmogul ist.

Didn’t think that in 2025 it would be a good idea to share information about measles, but here we are:

i often see things that make me say "this is the most Boston thing I have ever seen in my life" but i think this one might have swept them all

​Kyrylo Budanov with Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava, who was released from a Belarusian prison along with 113 political prisoners and transferred to Ukraine. ​The group of released people includes five Ukrainian citizens.

Wenn man manchen Deutschen beim Tolerantsein zuhört, meint man eine gewisse Vorfreude zu spüren auf den Tag, an dem man endlich wieder loslegen darf

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

Honestly, still the most blistering commentary on what now is called something like the male loneliness epidemic in this 2016 music video (extremely catchy song, be warned)

Omg, they really did “I’ll have my AI talk to your AI”, and it’s glorious. Can’t stop laughing.

Wer nicht versteht, worum es bei der Konferenz „Der große Kanton“ in Zürich ging, der sollte vielleicht mal den aktuellen CIVICUS Monitor zu bürgerlichen Freiheiten lesen. Deutschland wurde darin gerade heruntergestuft. taz.de/Repression-v...

For reactionary centrists, «the radical left» has become a shortcut for everything they refuse to understand, while «the populist right» has become a label for everything they secretly admire (but reject for mainly aesthetic reasons)

sekundärliteratur zu kristina schröder www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...

"Queerness ist der letzte schritt der befreiung" - man muss verstehen dass das eine Drohung ist. Keinen schritt weiter, und was queer ist bestimmen sowieso wir.

Und wer zB das Rassistische rassistisch nennt, dessen/deren Problem ist dann, dass er/sie das eigentlich Gemeinte gezielt missverstehen will. Nur die selbsternannte Mitte bietet Diskurs, alle anderen sind im wesentlichen Vaterlandsverräter.

The weird thing about Gavin Newsom is that every picture of him looks as if it had been AI generated.

linkedin job history Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present | Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024 | Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023

Previously, Disney lobbied really hard to protect their copyright. But I guess it’s now cool with AI slop.

11 December 1904 | A German Jew, Felix Nussbaum, was born in Osnabrück. A painter. From 1933 in exile. During the war he was interned in Saint-Cyprien camp. He escaped & went into hiding in Belgium. Arrested in 1944 & deported with his wife to Auschwitz where they perished.

Das soziale Netzwerk unserer Gesellschaft wird in der Austeritätspolitik zerstört.

Das Sagbare in der CDU immer weiter nach rechts schieben, bis es die SPD dann in der Koalition brav abnickt.

Incredible

Between all those podcasts and now the Nuzzi book and whatever those Lizza pieces are — nobody has ever made a better case for the incredible value competent editors bring to the table.

This whole thread is completely brilliant

Bei der ZEIT fragt man sich, «warum die Linke den Siegeszug der Rechtspopulisten nicht aufhalten konnte». Vielleicht sollte man sich dort lieber fragen, was man bei der ZEIT gegen den Aufstieg eines Faschismus tun könnte, den ‹Rechtspopulismus› zu nennen inzwischen eine grobe Verharmlosung darstellt

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

Started looking into an artist’s description of their work. My goal was to understand what I was actually looking at. Not getting far, the description is curiously short on what the images show, how they might have been made, and why this matters…

WIE BITTE????? 😱

Man rennt panisch den Ressentiments hinterher, die man selber geschürt hat.

ALTER! “Zwei Männer, die sich in Rage reden. Die darüber klagen, dass sie oft beleidigt werden und niemand mehr Respekt hat vor Uniformen.” Und der AfD-Heini in der SPD. Es ist alles so krass!

"Japan is mourning the loss of Ken-chan, the beloved black cat who spent seven years trying to slip past the sliding doors of the Onomichi City Museum of Art."

I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end

Als ich jung war, war der gängige Spruch “dann geh doch nach drüben”, wenn Kritik an der doch so schönen BRD aufkam.

Als jemand, der das alles von aussen betrachtet, war der Kipp-Punkt dieses Fussballturnier, wo plötzlich diese vielen Deutschlandfahnen geschwenkt wurden. Die Presse hat sich und dem Land das damals schöngeredet: das wäre ja kein primitiver Nationalismus etc.

Ich bin zutiefst getroffen von der unerwarteten Kritik an unserem Symposium „Aufstieg und Fall der BRD“. Es wäre mir nie in den Sinn gekommen, dass mittelmäßige deutsche Feuilleton-Bros sich über unseren Abschied vom mittelmäßigen deutschen Feuilleton empören

We’ve reached a point where public intellectuals need to screenshot the exact second proving how Germany’s liberal Feuilletons twist their words and thoughts - bcs apparently no one in those newsrooms seems remotely bothered to get it right. Truly absurd.

Ok, as someone who grew up in Germany, just across the border: yes, the house is cute. But do you want to live in a small town in the middle of nowhere in the NL (or Germany). No, you absolutely do not. To begin with, it’s impossible to get good food.

Look I can't explain it just trust me when I say this is the most Japan name for a business ever

Not going to re-post that “AI” video, but it looked as if Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan’s sad-sack reactionary radio personality, look it up if you don’t know) had decided to dress up as George Washington.

Deeply disappointed that nobody has written about the Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi saga under the headline “ZZ Slop”.

Real classic: cabbage rolls and coffee

glad to see "deutsche Bahn in groß" in print archive.ph/R5DkA

““I make serious photographs disguised as entertainment,” Parr once said by way of a mantra.” I don’t think that holds up. But no doubt Parr contributed massively to contemporary photography’s visibility, including that of the photobook. RIP

Here is IFS, a Polish electronic-music duo, meeting MA, a Japanese voice artist, remixed by a number of people, and it’s completely glorious

I would love an answer to this question, I want a detailed breakdown of exactly what the fuck they spent all their metaverse money on I suspect a good chunk is paying enormous piles of cash to lure very smart people to work on a boondoggle for years on end

Sehr geehrter Herr FIFA ,ich möchte auf deisem Wege unseren Bundeskanzler Fristgerecht Merz für den Völkerverständigungspreis vorschlagen. Passend dazu wäre ein Pokal, der aussieht wie ein halbes Laib Graubrot

This is such a haunting video. Two people who are so, so confused because the other person can’t understand what they see as a most basic point. It’s just that one of the people understands what’s at stake, and the other one, Nuzzi, is completely oblivious.

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

Said this before but imagine they had spent all that money on actual artists — instead of some nerdy fantasy whose main goal appeared to have been to make Zuckerberg cool (an impossible goal in itself). $77 billion dollars wasted for nothing.