Diese hypertechnokratische Aktualisierung mehrmals überlebter Gesellschaftsentwürfe ist maximal frustrierend. Alles ist so grell

Ich musste in den letzten Wochen von etlichen supermotivierten Kursteilnehmenden Abschied nehmen, die sich freiwillig 600 Stunden Deutsch reinziehen wollten, um an unserer Kultur teilzunehmen, Arbeit zu finden, sogar Firmen zu gründen. Gibts jetzt nicht mehr. Absolute Katastrophe.

Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Fun fact: The divorce scene in the Kid Rock show was an actual divorce showing a wife leaving her conservative husband.

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

Wo die Propaganda wirkt:

Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.

Ein Paukenschlag: Bekämpfung schädlicher Algorithmen; striktere Strafverfolgung bei Grok, TikTok, Instagram; uvm. Und das alles schon ab nächster Woche. Spanien macht vor, wie aus den Sonntagsreden über digitale Souveränität Taten folgen. 🇩🇪 & 🇪🇺 sollten sich ein Beispiel nehmen.

Not to minimise the Epstein revelations but let's not forget your own little town in your own part of the world has its own network of powerful perverts and power-brokering pimps. The problem isn't unique to that particular circle. It's part of the fabric of patriarchy.

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

Troublemaker is my middle name.

Parable of the Talents was not a manual, goddamnit…

I hate that I understand this.

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

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Es ist leicht, konservativ zu sein: Die eigenen Überzeugungen sind „Werte“, die der Anderen „Lifestyle“.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act

These stacks outcompete democracy because they exploit what in the current information are three institutional failures: latency, opacity, and exclusion. Institutions are too slow, too closed, and too distant from public participation.

The new system is defined by information abundance and attention scarcity. It is fast, peer-to-peer, and real time. This shift is structural, not political. The public are not just recipients of information, but creators and distributors, competing for attention in the same spaces as institutions.

In “simulation,” the functions invert. Verification becomes loyalty testing. Deliberation becomes spectacle. Accountability becomes partisan punishment. Democratic form remains, but democratic function is gone. Sound familiar? 🇺🇸

Verification (establishing truth), Deliberation (arguing about it), and Accountability (binding power to it). When these work, you have substance. When they break, you slide into performance, and eventually, simulation, and people recognise this, even if they don't use a shared terminology.

We’ve spent years trying to fact-check our way out of this, and it failed. Democratic decay isn’t about bad information versus good information, it’s about the collapse of the systems that turn information into reality. If every bot and Russian troll vanished tomorrow, the rot would still be there.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Actual footage of ICE training material leaked directly to me by Dirk Gently: youtu.be/tA2GhbPr6NU (Of course, those goons are not as cool, but the shamelessness reminds me of them 3 everytime…)

…, aber… #merzspezial

Only, it is no “cognitive amplifier”, like Satya Natella suggests, but quite the opposite. Yes, they are ruining the planet for nothing (but the redistribution of wealth to the top).

„Totalverweigerer" werden die Menschen genannt, die eine Arbeit zweimal ablehnen. Durch diese Wortwahl wurde bereits jede Empathie mit diesen Menschen zunichtegemacht, die eigentlich nur von einem Grundrecht Gebrauch machen. Und dieses Grundrecht darf nicht nur Menschen mit Aktienpaketen zustehen!

Frei nach Carney/Havel: Das Schild im Schaufenster gerne auch durch ein gepflegtes „FCK Trump, FCK ICE“ ersetzen.

In der Diskussion habe ich mal den view from nowhere als Argument eingebracht. Das bloße Tickern und dann kommentieren, selbst mit minimalem Zeitverzug, entkoppelt die Realität und läuft Trump ins performative Messer. Da hat Carney deutlichere Impulse gegeben.

Ich habe aus der journalistischen Praxis am Newsdesk etwas zum Thema "sanewashing" geschrieben. "Um die Flut dieses Irrsinns in journalistischen Bahnen zu lenken und sie für unsere Leser, Leserinnen und Seherinnen aufzuarbeiten, bedienen wir uns der Werkzeuge unseres Handwerks...." 🧵

Take that, Carney!

Teil 2

"Lassen Sie mich offen sprechen. Wir befinden uns mitten in einem Bruch, nicht in einer Übergangsphase." Unbedingt die 3 Minuten anhören!

How fares the King

wow just woke up from a nap, i guess everyone else on Air Force One realized we aren't going to the right place

„Ich dachte, dass alles Große im Leben immer plötzlich kam, dass man nie vorbereitet war, ganz gleich, wie viel man vorher darüber nachgedacht hatte. Ein Kuss, ein Kind, ein Krieg.“ (Gittersee, von Charlotte Gneuß—sooo gut!)

New Kafka novel unlocked

Was für ein 20. Jänner…

“No one really dies, they just drop their physical body, and we’ll all meet again, like the song says. It’s sad, but it’s not devastating if you think like that. It’s a continuum, and we’re all going to be fine at the end of the story.” ~ David Lynch - January 20, 1946 - January 16, 2025 #filmsky

Well, it really is. It doesn‘t get more serious than what you are experiencing. The trajectory to catastrophe is clear.

Amerikanische „Stadtbild“-Tropen…

Wlonald Pump und Dadimir Trutin @matthias-warkus.de

the European mission to Greenland was fourth in the BBC news running order this morning, which feels a bit like doing a light "and finally..." item about the archduke's motorcade taking a wrong turn in Sarajevo

"I understand why people in GL is afraid, and when the most powerful man in the world, against all logic and tradition says" I want to own you" it is scary" Really insistent he is not Chamberlain, no saying "peace in our time" but believes we are in a better place today

Fünf Tage lang, im August 1992, tobte der Mob. Peter Hintz (@peterdhintz.bsky.social) schreibt in seinem Essay über neuen Analysen des Pogroms von Rostock-Lichtenhagen. 54books.de/nahaufnahmen...