Kunst

He really talks exactly like Hitler-as-gangster in that Brecht parody the theme of which is Hitler is a gangster

Again it is something that people in previous eras have commented on but I still find it just astonishing to witness in my own: fascism is somehow the natural ideology of loser men, just all of our most pathetic and contemptible instincts rendered into a worldview.

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

Ich hab das Gefühl alle news sind einfach nur noch "Weißt du noch, die Vandalen? Sie sind wieder da!" und das 24/7

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.

Lol, so what is it? Was is "plausible at the time" that "the discretionary authority granted to the police would be used against genuine criminals such as drug dealers"? Or did it lead "to countless incidents of racial profiling"?

And you may saye to yourselfe These are not my lone and level sandes And you may saye to yourselfe These are not my vast and trunklesse legges of stone

the new autistic barbie is cute but i can't get over her being marketed as the *first* autistic barbie. you're telling me these bitches are neurotypical??

In Graz there is a double spiral staircase, and I thought you all might enjoy that

In Graz there is a double spiral staircase, and I thought you all might enjoy that

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

I continue to be enraged by everything the secretary of health and human services is doing www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

It's very funny that this the fifth link on their "news at the philosophy department" page: artsci.tamu.edu/news/newsfee...

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

With Plato in the Republic I think they're wrong about this; they're simply incorrect about their own self-interest. I didn't understand this until I saw in real life the exact kinda guys he was arguing with, and it's just utterly obvious from the outside that theirs is a pathetic and degraded life.

Again I find it baffling to compare the coverage to when Gemini generated implausibly many Black hockey players etc. That was apparently a societal emergency. But the mass harassment campaign taking place in public barely warrants a mention.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

It's just the second day of the year, and I already saw the ocean. Nice!

day one in mamdani’s new york

Always worth a post

Reading the Iliad for the first time, and who tf is Diomedes? Why does nobody every mention him whatsoever?

much of fitness culture in the US was developed by people who literally entered sports and physical education instead of going to therapy and the attitudes around intensity and effort kinda reflect that. the smiling Jazzercise folks were right and your football coach / PE teacher was wrong

Einer der Artikel, die mich am meisten beschäftigten dieses Jahr. Was passiert, wenn man auf der Liste für US-Sanktionen landet? Man wird defacto digital ausgelöscht. Auch in der EU. Was mit einem Richter gerade geschieht, kann uns alle treffen: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

Official confirmation of the UK rejoining Erasmus+ in 2027. As someone who studied in the UK (though not via Erasmus) very pleased to see this particuarly severing of connection at least partially rebuild:

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

"tyrannosaurus rex" is kinda one of the craziest called shots of all time if you think about it some dude in 1905 was like 'this was definitely the most badass dinosaur so I will name it as such' and 120 years of research and new discoveries keeps proving him right.

🥳 Barbara Vetter, Professorin für Theoretische Philosophie an der #FUBerlin, erhält den #Leibniz-Preis 2026 der @dfg.de. 🎉 Wir gratulieren zum wichtigsten deutschen Forschungsförderpreis und einer Förderung von 2,5 Millionen Euro! www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

A sixth way just dropped: By car

"I have a Dan Brown audiobook on CD. Do you mind if I put it on?"

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her. "My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me. www.thecut.com/article/any-...

Not missing work - hope you're all extremely busy.

When I visited Prague with my Mom ten years ago, I made us make a huge detour across half the city just to see the dancing house. Sad to hear that its architect, Frank Ghery, died

Marbury v. Madison

It is genuinely impossible for us to imagine what a world where nearly *half of us* don’t make it to 16 years old! and the general comfort/expectation level all societies had about it! but yet: was the basic experience of almost everyone from our great-grandparents backwards…forever! everywhere!

Lincoln wasn't perfect, but he was very good.

Choitner: so your group is called the brotherhood of mutants? Magneto: indeed Choitner: one of your members is a guy known as juggernaut Magneto: yes Choitner: how did he get his powers? Magneto: He has a-

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later. This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Climate pragmatists have resigned to a half-hearted approach to minimizing global warming—but they are “downright oblivious to the implications of a 3 degrees–warmer world,” Peter Brannen argues.

The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.

I can't stop hate-posting about Graeber's bureaucracy book, but it's so annoying! How are administrators supposed to reach people, if it's not via e-mails? What could they have done differently for this scenario not to arise?