Out today in OA from meson press in the "Configurations of film" book series: Distributed Productivities Digital Transcreation and the New World Order of Cultural Production Ed. Vinzenz Hediger, Matthias Krings, Bertram Lang and Cornelia Storz What does pizza have in common with Afro Beats?

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

Hills like white elephants

So much of the inability of German media and policy elites to come to terms with America's travel in the 2020s is reminiscent of their failure to come to terms with Russia's direction of travel in the 2010s

Görlitz, Oktober 2020

Formal motion to rename the technology

i love how mind-breakingly stupid these people are. it's great

Was für ein historischer Tag. Cem Özdemir, Ministerpräsident von Baden-Württemberg. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut... @oezdemir.de

Eine Liste der hässlichsten Städte Europas ohne Gießen und das Elefantenklo als Sehenswürdigkeit kann nicht ernst genommen werden. www.blick.ch/life/reisen/...

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

Newest Eurobarometer is out, and numbers are mind-blowing: 73% of EU citizens see the EU as a “pillar for peace and security in a troubled world”. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

So who is responsible for this TV?

Das orangerote Basel, jetzt

🇪🇸 Spain's electricity in 2000: 56% fossil, 2% solar & wind. By 2026: 44% solar & wind, just 17% fossil. The crossover came in 2023. Gas now sets the price only 15% of the time vs 89% in Italy. More in my forthcoming Substack newsletter 👇 janrosenow.substack.com

its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand

Villa Ciani, Lugano, jetzt

Hotel Walter, Lugano. Some countries struggle to live up to their own cliché. Think Germany and efficiency. Other countries, like Switzerland, constantly overshoot their target.

Zürich Altstätten, jetzt

Today was a good day in the archive. The rushes of "Ici et ailleures" were found.

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

It was only due to the ideological and geopolitical standoff of the Cold War that the "West" took on both a liberal and a geopolitical quality. In the absence of that ideological rivalry, it has now shed both its liberal and geopolitical features and reverted to its racial and racist roots. 2/2

relatedly i strongly believe — and i think there is even research to this effect — that people are routinely told that affirmative action or DEI is to blame for their professional or academic failures to avoid having to confront them with the realities of their performance

"No one could stop the US raiding modern shipping, but it doesn't because it knows it benefits far more from unmolested maritime trade than any potential piracy spoils", used to be my go-to example illustrating how international law works. Will need to update with a "fucking idiot" caveat.

And that’s just health outcomes.

A collective warning to readers of "The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins: From the Maidan to the Ukraine War" (Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature, 2026). www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles...

AI Chatbots that flatter and respond tirelessly whenever a human* initiates a conversation are perfect foils for socially awkward, egocentric men [sic] who are uninterested in the agency in other beings. *Notice how it’s always *the human* who starts and ends the chat game? There’s your first clue.

Transmodern urbanity. Fes, Morocco

Goes for German automakers, too.

Hosting the gaze. Fes, Morocco.

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

Heulsuse heißt jetzt Heulfritz. Augen auf bei der Berufswahl, Herr Kanzler, Augen auf bei der Berufswahl.

MAGA, wie die AfD, ist eine Bewegung der frustrierten Streber.

Tree. Rabat, Morocco.

Vor vier Jahren wurde Gerhard Polt 80, im SZ-Magazin war ein großes Interview mit ihm und ich habe mir diesen Ausschnitt gespeichert:

Royal presence

“I have a PhD in atmospheric physics. I spent a decade measuring greenhouse gases from satellites. The thing that made me good at it was reading poetry. It trained me to notice what was not being said in a dataset. Every critical decision I made as a scientist was interpretation, not computation.”

That, if you ask me, is one hell of a poster.

Steve Kerr is the Vincent Kompany of basketball, I guess.

Steve Kerr spot on as usual

Mural, Rabat, Morocco. The gentleman on the left epitomizes the structural problem of contemporary Germany: an internal combustion engine where the brain should be.

The horizontally-aligned Fox News' Bret Baier and his vertically-driven wife, a classic Washington mixed marriage

Kelly Reichardt, American original and one of the great directors of our time, on the steps of the Capitole cinema at the Cinémathèque suisse in Lausanne last Wednesday, photographed by Pierre-Yves Massod

Wer in Köln lebt und täglich mit einem Bugatti Veyron zur Arbeitsstelle in Frankfurt pendelt, kann bei zügiger Fahrweise durch einen Tankrabatt von 0,17 Euro pro Liter rund 17.800 Euro sparen. Das ist viel Geld und an der Stelle verstehe ich auch die Undankbarkeit in der Bevölkerung nicht.

According to a spokesperson for the Elephants no billionaires were available on that day.

"You wouldn't know it if you live in the USA or consume US media and politics, but the fight between EVs and ICEs is basically over. Internal combustion is on it's way out. First it'll look slow, then fast. Fleet turnover will lag sales. But ALL the growth globally is in EVs." - @jessedjenkins.com

At this point Trump and Hegseth have decimated far more of the top US military leadership than the Iran military leadership www.npr.org/2026/04/22/g...