Maybe settle for Teddy bear, then?

In his latest book Giulano da Empoli compared European heads of state in conversation with US tech leaders to Montezuma trying to accomodate Cortez. This is what he was referreing to.

Ever heard of Buenos Aires? There are currently only two cities in the world from which you can put together a World-Cup winning team. The other one is Paris.

Ever heard of Paris?

“I siciliani non vorranno mai migliorare per la semplice ragione che credono di essere perfetti; la loro vanità è più forte della loro miseria”

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

I heard a first draft of that Trump UN speech in a bar in Tucson in June 1989 when a University of Arizona student told me that she would never travel to Europe because of the terrorism and because the exchange rate for the European dollar was so bad.

It's a bit of good fortune Sunstein that his comes out on the day of the president's grand speech at the UN.

Lest we forget today is Rapture Day. Be prepared for heavy trafic to and from your local cemetary and, towards the end of the day, upwards into the sky.

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The study Olúfémi cited here is long and detailed, but I want to highlight two specific paragraphs which get at why, like him, I know we will win.

Mild disappointment as the Boston Logan immigration officer showed zero interest in my social media and wanted to talk about digital archives and the future of cinema instead, ending with a promise to come and have a beer with me at the Montgomery House at Dartmouth. All that restraint for naught.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

According to WaPo’s termination letter my post referencing Kirk’s views on Black women was not even brought up. The Post’s stated reasons are *worse*. Read the termination letter for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Verbotsverfahren vielleicht?

Nächster Donnerstag ist die Abschiedsvorlesung von Michael Hagner. ethz.ch/de/news-und-...

Deleted my academia edu today. The Evil Empire of rent-extracting academic publishers who make profits of 40% off of tax-payer funded research and under-remunerated intellectual labor is bad, but a company that, in their terms of service, claims outright ownership not only of all the work you share/

Haha. But the truth of the matter is that the undergraduate programs of the world's so-called best universities are not primarily about the pursuit of knowledge and research but about the cultivation of networks of money and power. They are essentially finishing schools for the trust-fund yacht set.

Which is hilarious if you consider that the Milei administration in Argentina is in the process of crashing and burning what remains of its credibility and support

Hommage à JLG

Fran Lebowitz vs. Kuratorenprosa

Steht die CDU noch auf dem Boden des Grundgesetzes?

🇳🇬 In Nigeria, bathroom selfies are no joke. From the buzzing mega-city of Lagos to the stuffy capital Abuja and conservative Kano in the north, bars and lounges are decking out their restrooms -- not just to catch up with times but also to bring in new customers. ➡️ u.afp.com/SPbS

Öffentlicher Verkehr in Deutschland: Wenn die DB-Website Dir Verbindungen vorschlägt, die nur möglich werden, weil sie ihre systembedingten Verspätungen in die Berechnung schon einpreisen.

Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea … #EMobility

Job: Dartmouth Film and Media Studies Department Technical Director searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/80580

Not really a choice as the only possible answer is D.

"The overemphasis on Streisand makes the film just another one of those Streisand vehicles where no other elements ever get a chance. Redford’s role is another instance of waste of his talent." Variety, underappreciating Redford's excellent work as a commie WASP pin-up boy in "The Way We Were", 1972

Diese Verharmlosung als "shitstorm" ist Teil der Strategie. Das ist eine rechtsradikale Kampagne, die eine kritische Journalistin als kritische Journalistin einschüchtern, mundtot, vernichten will. Es ist so menschenverachtend wie systematisch. Wir müssen für @dunjahayali.de einstehen, alle.

Gerne möchte ich mehr erfahren über den Unterscheid zwischen der "vermeintlichen" und der tatsächlichen Freiheit der Kunst, Kultur und der Wissenschaft, den der Kanzler hier trifft. Deutet er hier die Möglichkeit einer teilweisen Aufhebung der verfassungsrechtlichen Grundordnung an?

"Sickle Cell Anemia", a film by the Nigerian Ministry of Information film unit, ca. 1970.

History rhyming

«Die religiöse Überhöhung des Attentats auf Charlie Kirk stellt möglicherweise einen Kipppunkt im Umgang bestimmter Fraktionen des Christentums mit dem Trumpismus dar. … Die Kirchen sollen zum Austragungsort eines ersehnten Endkampfes zwischen Gut und Böse werden.»

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Update: bsky.app/profile/mart...

Wir sind an dem Punkt, an dem auch in Deutschland Journalisten dafür abgestraft werden die Wahrheit zu sagen.

An US far-right activist specializing in mobilizing harassment campaigns against professors with the wrong politics was murdered by a very online right wing nihilist and this has caused a panic among British newspaper columnists that they will be murdered by pink-haired leftists who hate free speech

Recommended reading, as they say

Einführung in rechte Memes, Gamergate, Affektpolitik der neuen Rechten, Metapolitik, 4chan, Radikalkulturen, Manosphere, Meme Shooter, und und und. Von 2021, Update wäre mal nötig Free download: annas-archive.org/md5/af951e6c...

Throwback zu meiner ersten VÖ zum Thema rechte Memegewalt, 2017 (mit gaby dietze) "Die hier skizzierten Phänomene sind aus unserer Sicht eher Vorboten als Scheitelpunkt einer Beta-Welle, die auf uns zurollt." zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/gaaap...

‼️New study from my lab: proud to share not one but two Bloomberg articles covering our new report on Chinese outbound FDI. We spent the summer painstakingly coding investment across the global south. The results are striking:

10 four-year PhDs @dfg.de Research Training Group 3064 “Technologies of Witnessing: Media and Cultural Practices“ at the University Mainz – Deadline Oct 17 The RTG examines technologies of witnessing in contemporary media cultures in transformation. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50416

Postdoc in the new @dfg.de Research Training Group 3064 “Technologies of Witnessing: Media and Cultural Practices“ at the University Mainz – Deadline Oct 17 The (RTG) examines technologies of witnessing in contemporary media cultures in transformation. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50726

Die Berichterstattung zu Charlie Kirk wird derzeit massiv kritisiert, und DAZU IST ES VÖLLIG UNKLAR, warum die Ermordnung eines MAGA Influencers überall in Deutschland Tagesthema sein soll und nicht, wie die Ermordung zweier DEM-Politiker*innen im Juni, unter "Vermischtes" wegsortiert wird

Es ist völlig bizarr, dass Staatschefs und Politiker_innen anderer Länder sich zur Ermordung eines Influencers äußern und Trauerminuten in Parlamenten abhalten wollen, als sei ein Staatsoberhaupt gwstorben.

Ordem e Progresso

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

The U.S. keeps breaking renewable energy records www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Der slowakische Außenminister Juraj Blanár, der sich meist gemäßigt ausdrückt und definitiv nicht zum radikalen Flügel der Smer gehört, hat einen Gastbeitrag im konservativ-antiliberalen Štandard geschrieben. Den Text kann man zusammenfassen als ungewöhnlich klar formulierte Abkehr von der EU. 1

In 2019 a neonazi killed Walter Lübcke, a conservative politician with humane views on immigration, in his home in Germany. It was a watershed moment in that it wasn't: Politicians of Lübcke's own party shrugged and moved on, as if to signal that he had it coming. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...