USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Das Erfolgsrezept: beide Augen fest zudrücken, mit der einen Hand die Nase zuklemmen und mit der Hand ein Ohr abdecken; im Bedarfsfall ignorieren, was ans freiliegende Ohr dringt.

Das Interview mit Juli Zeh ist aufschlussreich, weil es zeigt, dass viele Deutsche sich schlicht weigern, Rechtsextremismus anzuerkennen – unter anderem, weil sie ihre Nazi-Nachbarn einfach nett finden und die Menschen, die von ihnen bedroht werden, in ihrer Nachbarschaft eh kaum vertreten sind.

Arletty, a French national treasure and collabo, was sentenced to 18 month in jail in 1945 for her well-known affair with a German occupation officer. She served two months and famouslvy quipped „My heart is French, but my ass is international. Brigitte Bardot, a global icon, loved baby seals and /

Lichtfall am Murtensee

I recall in a Great Booksy first year seminar we did close textual readings of Plato and Nietzsche and whoever but for Du Bois we just kind of talked about race in general

JD Vance’s French Horn Solo Booed At Kennedy Center https://theonion.com/jd-vances-french-horn-solo-booed-at-kennedy-center/

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

If I have to read one more defense of Bosnian genocide denier and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Noam Chomsky, on here I will start plastering the place with defenses of Elizabeth Teissier, Switzerland‘s most trusted ex-model turned star astrologer. She, too, deserves our trust against all evidence.

Eiger, Mönch und fake peaks

@hofrench.bsky.social in „The Second Emancipation“. Hollywood may have missed this story, but Sembene Ousmane did not and made „Camp de Thiaroye“ in 1988. Recently restored and presented in Cannes (not that the French were supportive at the time of production, but they, too, are learning).

Und wenn wir jetzt noch gedanklich den einen kleinen Schritt gehen könnten, dass es nicht nur in den USA, sondern auch hierzulande Akteur*innen gibt, die „Meinungsfreiheit“ rufen & Zensur anstreben, könnte 2026 vielleicht weniger frustrierend werden.

This is a case study in how a US Right wing elite is collectively now so extremely online that it is caught in a groupthink death spiral which generates the exact opposite outcomes to what they demand

Weihnachtsfreuden

This would be more impressive if accompanied by travel bans for Musk et al.

Tech sociopaths promise that their ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis radioactive waste machines. These probs either aren't problems at all, or have existing solutions that are a million times better, like pay teachers, fund schools, respect people who have expertise/training/talent, and don't steal.

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression

See also Prospera, Roatán, Honduras: "There’s an island in Honduras called Roatan that’s home to a city started and funded by a bunch of freak libertarian billionaires who never matured into full adults. And, as such, wish the rules of the world didn’t apply to them." www.vice.com/en/article/l...

When i say part of my understanding of technology is based on being from Guyana and Barbados and and And recognizing how much people just think my homelands are playgrounds or fungible Yeah this is what I mean

when AI tech is mature next year, i will create a video of a white blonde woman getting fired from her job for refusing to apologize for being white. video will go viral. next, i will start a gofundme, which will earn me $2M in tax free income, allowing me to buy a home in a walkable neighborhood

Also I don’t need to read every book and article, discerning whats important for my research and what isn’t is a really important skill. And what I also do is collaborate with other researchers, organise conferences, edit books, review others‘ work. I don’t need a machine, I have a community

All of this thread. I understand the self interest that AI salesmen have to push their product, but the grasping way they’re doing it — the internet version of a traveling salesmen putting his foot in the door so you can’t close it — is only going to drive more people away.

"Selbst im Fall einer Revolution würden die Deutschen sich nur Steuerfreiheit, nie Gedankenfreiheit zu erkämpfen suchen." Der @tagesspiegel.de zitiert #OTD 1945 Friedrich Hebbel. #Tagesspiegel80

Ich habe Olivia #Nuzzi s American Canto gelesen, damit ihr es nicht müsst. Hier kommt nun mein Bericht bei @54books.bsky.social . Zu Eurer Beruhigung: RFKjr Gedichte werden nicht zitiert. 54books.de/journalismus...

Often a movement's success can subsequently obscure its impact. We had a children's book in our home that was basically about encouraging my sister to believe she could do any profession she wanted to, no matter what others say. Things like doctor, lawyer, firefighter. This was the early 1970s.

Die eigentliche Story wäre, dass Trump mal wieder das Gesetz bricht und den Anweisungen des Kongresses zur vollständigen Veröffentlichung der Akten nicht nachkommt. Die Cos-Play-Kulturkrieger in den Redaktionen der mentalen US-Kolonie Schweiz machen lieber in Trump-Stenographie.

The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.

The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

FUCKIN FACTS 💯

It is both, actually. And this is as good a time as any to direct readers' attention to this piece about Trump's QVC-style of governance from way back in the times of the pandemic and a volume called "Pandemic Media. Preliminary Notes Towards an Inventory". library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

the older I get the more deeply I suspect that no one actually believes the "people are only motivated by self-interest (defined narrowly)" sort of thing and it's all just people desperately hoping that their values will avoid scrutiny

What the Democrats can learn from the UK Labour Party's complete implosion after moving right on immigration www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

Es ist fast schon wieder rührend, wie gerade die Vertreter der Parteien, die ständig vor dem politischen Islam warnen, ständig und wild entschlossen für die Geschäftsmodelle der Staaten kämpfen, die außer Öl vor allem den politischen Islam exportieren. #WeltVerbrenner

Visit Springer Nature's corporate headquarters at Gewerbestrasse 11, Cham, Switzerland, a notorious tax haven and a building which houses more than forty other corporate headquarters, supposedly.

Rob Reiner's incredible trailer for "This Is Spinal Tap" - boingboing.net/2025/03/19/t...

I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Sorry but Manufacturing Consent is a point against him too

Happy Release 🥳🥂📚@reginaschidel.bsky.social

For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined. ~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending. We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

Den von Ihnen genannten Teilnehmenden geht es nicht um eigene Redemöglichkeiten.

"Wir steigen jetzt wieder ein."