Really surprised how an entirely predictable question could sink the entire Berlinale jury. "We have to stay out of politics" (Wim Wenders) could have been said in any authoritarian regime, where artists often are political. Here it was disgraceful. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Mood: (h/t @lettersofnote.com)

Konservatismus [lat. conservare, erhalten]: Ursprünglich theologisch, philosophisch und politisch unterlegtes Konzept moderater Fortschrittsskepsis. Wandel zu künstlich distinktivem Habitus (unter Integration Neu-) Vermögender in Verteilungskämpfen mit gesichert autoritärer Tendenz.

me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get … tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text

very charmed that in its eulogy to mass market paperbacks the NYT found an 18-year-old who uses the word "reckon" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

so much clothing is marketed as "conversation starters" but as an introvert, i want "conversation enders." no more talking. let me go home.

Washington Post reporter laid off while freezing in a war zone by one of the world’s richest people.

"Murray acknowledged that the Post has struggled to reach “customers” and talked about the competitive media marketplace." they fired all of their black columnists, turned the Op/Ed section into corporatist agitprop, and infected the journalism with anti-woke cack. "Why we aren't making money?"

holy shit

reading your timeline like

Black francolin, Cyprus. #BirdOfTheDay #OpenBeak

I usually hesitate to post obituaries but this one, of my literary agent, Georges Borchardt, born in 1928, is so unusual that it deserves to be widely shared. An incredible 20th century life www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...

I buy a ton of books because I'm not good at predicting what I'll want to read next, and I like to have options.

Die Darstellungsform "Immer mehr Menschen" wird wacker durchgezogen.

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.

Wenn Medien über Donald Trump berichten, machen sie immer wieder denselben Fehler: Sie deuten sein Verhalten moralisch. Das führt zu den falschen Fragen. www.mdr.de/altpapier/da...

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

Nooooooo!!! I love Catherine O’Hara! I loved her on SCTV, Schitt’s Creek, Beetle Juice, Best in Show—everything! R.I.P., you legend.

📬️ Ab heute im Briefkasten: Die neuen »Blätter«! Mit Texten von: @gildasahebi.bsky.social, @crimewatch.bsky.social, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @fmaschewski.bsky.social, @kraske.bsky.social, @arminpaasch.bsky.social, @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @georgdiez.bsky.social, @behrmann.bsky.social u.v.m.

Wie mich der Algorithmus auf Olympia vorbereitet... Ich muss sagen, der Zeitgeist ist mir aktuell ein bisschen zu gespenstisch.

Ancient Greek silver stater (coin) with an octopus on the reverse side. 🐙 Minted in Eretria, Euboea, Greece, 500-480 BC. Photo: British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology #ReliefWednesday

The chickens survived the worst of the cold without any issues!

Ein Revival, das mir gut gefällt. (Ich habe gleich mal wieder meinen Postcrossing-Account aktiviert.)

If it wasn't too cute i would have said, "The Decency Is The Point."

This hit so fucking hard today.

one of my favorite things about my pigeons is the little white strip at the base of the beak. if you have never really looked at them and just thought "ew dirty pest" you really should open your mind and spend some time watching. They are very beautiful birds. I love my daily time with them.

Die US-Einwanderungsbehörde ICE nutzt digitale Überwachungstechnologie, zB Palantir-Software. Hierzulande wird geplant, Palantir der Bundespolizei zur Verfügung zu stellen. Sonja Peteranderl beschreibt die potenziellen Folgen und fordert starke gesetzliche Kontrollen: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

Das ist, warum es auch in D. mehr Widerstand gegen die aktuelle Migrationspolitik braucht: „And so for the tyrant an obvious move is to extend the border so that is everywhere, to turn the whole country as a border area, where no rules apply.“ Timothy Snyder snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...

This is from the NYT masthead editorial about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The highlighted line invalidates not just the editorial, but the very idea of newspaper editorials crafted by the consensus of a board. Better to publish nothing at all than to publish a line like this.

Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."

Charles Simic 🖤

The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.

Reminder in the face of all the angry gaslighting propaganda.

Lest mehr Hannah Arendt.

it's really good that Oracle bought TikTok, a business that only loses money, at a time when it took on $56bn+ in debt and $240bn in lease obligations for GPUs to rent to OpenAI, a company that will run out of money. This could all have the funniest ending ever

Ornate Fruit Dove for #birbfest2026 🐦‍⬛ #birbfest #birds #birdart #ornatefruitdove #dove

Wenn Merz die Produktivität erhöhen möchte, könnte er sich sclicht um die #Bahn kümmern. Hier am #Ostkreuz stehen gerade 100+ Menschen, die sichtlich nicht auf Vergnügungsreise sind, und holen sich eine Erkältung in ihrer vergeblichen Sehnsucht nach einer Auskunft, warum der RE1 plötzlich ausfällt.

Know your penguins. AFP Infographic on 11 of the world's 18 species of penguin

Mit seinen Aussagen zu Krankmeldungen und Arbeitszeit ignoriert der Kanzler arbeitspsychologische Erkenntnisse – Zeit für einen Crashkurs.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Es lohnt sich, im Augenblick, 🇩🇰 Quellen zu lesen, um zu erahnen, dass es hier um länger geplante Bündnisaktivitäten geht, die nun in einen anderen Kontext geraten sind. Die europäischen Regierungen stehen im Trilemma, in Europa Entschlossenheit zu demonstrieren, vorgeschobene Sicherheitsbedenken...

Plaque on the 4th floor of building 34 at MIT. Outside the elevators. Information theory.

Talking about computer of the early 90s on stamps in Europe, who knows more about this? Thanks for your RT and reply.

Flickr Commons is eighteen today. We started in 2008 in partnership with the Library of Congress and today we're an archive of 1.9 million digital images. Please enjoy a few random images and explore on your own using our Commons Explorer tool. commons.flickr.org

Carlin Wing’s new book, “Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play,” will be published next week by MIT Press: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255321... In the meantime, you can read her essay from issue 56, “Episodes in the Life of Bounce,” here: www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/56/wi...

"Bolsonaro ... is unlikely to appreciate the approved reading list. It includes Brazilian works on Indigenous rights, racism, the environment and the violence meted out by the country’s 1964-85 dictatorship – a regime Bolsonaro openly supported." Brazil, you're doing amazing. This is inspired.

“The greatest impediment to any theory in sociology has been the drive to make its results immediately approximate our prejudices about how the world works.” (John Levi Martin, Thinking through Theory)

The fascist playbook is always the same. Create chaos through targeted violence. Use the existence of that violence as a justification and rationale for implementing autocratic rule to end the violence and chaos they caused.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage