Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

I think it is rather important we have a theory of “X when Leftists Run It” and that extends to how the USA can make steps towards unfucking the world we made. I think this should actually include throwing money at regions/people in the global south we have harmed and trying to help build them up.

One thing from the dissertation I didn't manage to turn into a published paper during my time in academia: science fiction studies likes to claim Rachel Carson as an early ecological SF author. But the community should also grapple with the racist Ehrlich contributing to multiple eco-sf anthologies!

ICE has killed someone new.

[OP is about Paul Ehrlich] In my dissertation I read the population bomb and some of his 60s articles as science fiction, so I must add that he also was a bad writer

I think "X should have won" is fan culture at its worst and those are always worse arguments than "X Y or Z would be decent picks and E F or G would be bad picks." OBAA was I'd say one of four movies this year that were decent choices, which is a better rate than eg 2024 or 2018

I think "X should have won" is fan culture at its worst and those are always worse arguments than "X Y or Z would be decent picks and E F or G would be bad picks." OBAA was I'd say one of four movies this year that were decent choices, which is a better rate than eg 2024 or 2018

Oh right: In Nov 2025 Habermas published a text in which he defamed American students& profs for supposedly acquiescing to Trump, when they had "just before taken their costless resistance against alleged colonial power Israel to its apogee". At the time Leqaa Kordia bad been in prison for 8 months.

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

I unironically think you should be allowed to own one apartment - your own - or be a publicly shared company managing a thousand of them. If you own half a dozen properties you are 99% evil

Oh right: In Nov 2025 Habermas published a text in which he defamed American students& profs for supposedly acquiescing to Trump, when they had "just before taken their costless resistance against alleged colonial power Israel to its apogee". At the time Leqaa Kordia bad been in prison for 8 months.

In einer Hinsicht bin ich dem Herrn Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz sehr ähnlich: auch ich habe nie was von Habermas gelesen

Düngemittelknappheit, abgeschobene oder eingesperrte Erntearbeiter und El Nino vor der Tür - Trump bereitet gerade den Perfect Storm für die Lebensmittelpreise in den USA vor, was die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer Hungerkrise für ärmere Staaten und damit globale Destabilisierung rasant steigen lässt.

"there were no good choices" what the fuck does that even mean in this context? There was no obligation for a Joe Biden (or, say, Olaf Scholz) to support an obvious extermination campaign! But he did it anyway!

And like no one who has the power to disabuse him of this notion is willing to do so (republicans in Congress and SCOTUS) so he kinda has in some ways which is both not something writ in stone but also Not Great

A lot of Trump stuff becomes a lot clearer when you realize he thinks he became the sole proprietor of U.S.A., Inc.

This is the exact same argument that Bernie made against AOC, Tlaib, Omar and Bowman calling Israel an apartheid state in May 2021, but neither Bernie nor Shapiro seem to be disputing the actual racial structure in Israel's rule over Palestinians. They just think it's bad to say it out loud.

What's funny is that we know from generations of experiments that human memory is ridiculously, cartoonishly malleable. People manipulating their pictures like this are literally fucking with their memories. They will remember that event differently, because of the meddling afterwards.

Wie viele von diesen Drecksarbeit-Supportern gibt es eigentlich bei der taz

In einer Hinsicht bin ich dem Herrn Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz sehr ähnlich: auch ich habe nie was von Habermas gelesen

Ähm

that image is rather handy

Once again, the military & the paramilitaries are carrying out illegal orders to commit murder, on multiple fronts, including the home front: bsky.app/profile/mcop... This should end any presidency immediately. It can't be fixed by more laws or court orders, bc Trump/the admin don't follow those.

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

RIP to one of the greatest German philosophy posts of all time.

Wir haben nichts gelernt und dabei bleibt es auch

If only Merz and his entire party had a single competent American Studies scholar among them instead of just adhering to an absolutely idiotic strand of transatlanticism based on having been on a 6 week student exchange to some high school in small-town Illinois in 1973 and tasting a milkshake

Ähm

Ich danke @wierechtereden.bsky.social für die Gelegenheit zum langen gespräch über meme fascism. Unterstützt Wie Rechte Reden, ein tolles und auf spenden angewiesenes Projekt! steady.page/de/wie-recht...

a while ago i looked up a specific clip from breaking bad and now youtube keeps recommending me shorts in which scenes from tv shows are made to badly fit portrait mode, half the run time is cut out to ruin the pace, and a soul-destroying... sharpening filter is applied?

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It’s been said before, but the extent to which the academic, cultural, professional and pedagogical world was already governed in a way amenable for LLMs to succeed, well before LLMs existed, gets far too overlooked.

part of woke 2 will be sending the Minnesota Defenders on a bandwagon tour of europe to rebuild shattered goodwill like the harlem globetrotters

Got my hands on a physical copy of my book today! The digital version is now available open access @degruyterbrill.bsky.social www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

Humanities-maxxing still paying off for now. AI sucks at writing policy briefs because it has read all of the books instead of just the good ones

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

Please enjoy Abraham Ribicoff decrying Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago in a speech nominating George McGovern at the 1968 Democratic National Convention set to a 15 minute post-rock song below www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF2C...

"back in your pocket where it belongs" sorry but I do not want to encourage the belief that this is where money belongs. You know how your credit card says it is the property of visa? Currencies are the property of their state and they don't gotta apologize for graciously letting you keep some of it

Not enough attention being paid to how fucking stupid it is to issue ultimatums to the Iranian leadership while simultaneously waging an existential war of extermination against the aforementioned leadership that is completely uncorrelated to whether or not they accept those terms.

These observations are both more or less true but also irrelevant to the fact that breaking the post-WWII taboo on using nuclear weapons introduces uniquely existential risks to human civilization

>it is the 1980s >the Russians are mired in a big war against a neighbor >there's a tanker war in the Hormuz strait >US ships are firing at Iran >the USN realizes it's MCM capabilities are completely inadequate after years of under investments >Trump is talking about taking Kharg Island

The US is losing this war and no one is going to be better off than before this utter clusterfuck.

Watching Politico get told they're sanewashing shit by the guy they're sanewashing is just excellent. Media cooked. Getting dunked on by the people they're protecting. We are in the post-dignity era of the press.

I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.

A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:

"government can't deliver so you might as well not pay into it" is nothing more than a suicide note for left and liberal governance

What I'm saying is, I don't much care for Friedrich Merz.

Ich glaube die Mehrheit der seit Anfang 2025 beigetretenen Linkenmitglieder findet es übrigens voll im Ordnung, Waffen an die Ukraine zu liefern und Israel zu sanktionieren, aber für beides scheint die Parteispitze (aus unterschiedlichen Gründen) nicht zu haben zu sein.