I am once again thinking about this Nick Cave quote: "I'm forever near a stereo saying 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chilli Peppers"

My latest translation project is obviously a change of pace in some ways, on-brand in others.

So it's #HarperCollins and #Microsoft. Unacceptable. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

great first wave French punk rock

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher." - Abraham Lincoln, 1/27/1837 www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad....

AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit

And it would help if editors stopped ludicrously overpaying for them - they don't earn out, and the ephemeral nature of celebrity means they have no backlist value. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ugh. They even duped Killer Mike and Tom Morello.

Burning Down the Haus spotted in the wild.

Alina Bronsky's Barbara Isn't Dying is a WaPo book of the year! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/1...

Last of Berlin's old school S-bahn trains decommissioned www.dw.com/en/berlin-sa...

#DDR #BerlinWall #November9 jacobin.com/2023/11/katy...

Yet another compelling argument against AI

Der Weltbeste englisch- deutsch übersetzer ist hier. Er ist lustig, und gut- folgt @timmohr.bsky.social

Im Moment startet und endet fast jeder Tag mit @sibylleberg.bsky.social s Frage "Haben Sie sich heute schon um den Zustand der Welt gesorgt?" Und ich befürchte, dass die Nerds heute auch pessimistischer sind.