This makes Naomi Wolf’s “death recorded” book debacle look like child’s play www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...

Still life minimalism: one single striped tulip in a glass vase, 1625, by Balthasar van der Ast of Middleburg. It's his day today.

Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.

In the introduction, I discuss why the socialist world has been sidelined within international historiographies on humanitarianism and argue that placing it at the centre can offer new ways of understanding the evolution of humanitarian ideas and practices journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The job of politicians now is to step back from sacrificial geopolitics and realize that this can’t happen at the cost of Ukraine’s own destruction in the process

Ich durfte im Deutschlandfunk in der wunderbaren Sendung Sein und Streit über Machiavelli und mein Buch sprechen. Vielen Dank für die Einladung an Simone Miller und Catherine Newmark! www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/macchiavelli...

In Nuremberg, the city where Nazis once held their party congresses, a Black German social-democrat mayor candidate, Nasser Ahmed, goes on to the runoff elections later this month. This kind of news needs to be louder nasser-ahmed.de

US military announces seventh service member KIA in Iran war

The Swiss are voting on enshrining the availability of cash in the constitution www.admin.ch/gov/en/start...

“The rainwater is actually black, also saturated, it appears, with oil … That’s what’s coming down this morning … on the Iranian capital after the strikes took place.” A city of 10 million people is being showered in carcinogens. Via @cnn.com

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

“The Military Religious Freedom Foundation … says it has received more than 200 complaints from service members about military commanders invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical “end times” to justify involvement in the Iran war.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea. newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

in a parallel world where all the tech oligarchs were into lit fic instead of sci fi they are having sad affairs and ruminating on identity, childhood, and loss instead of attempting to hasten the collapse of civilisation

If we ever get to the point of a war crimes tribunal, a whole lot of responsibility will be punted off onto AI and the conveniently muddled chain of decision-making that comes with it. In fact, this must be a feature, not a bug www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

"Millenial Nazi whose only way to understand the world comes from a pastiche of blockbuster films and video games," is really becoming a defining aesthetic of our era.

We thought risk society (predicated on the biggest risks, incl wars, remaining uninsurable) was the worst. Enter post-risk society, where cheap war insurance is encouraged (at least demagogically) to stoke wars. Even Cato dudes are mortified. www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...

Remembering this line today: "The scandal is not one of ignorance but indifference... As long as enrollment numbers hold and tuition checks clear, they turn a blind eye to the learning crisis while faculty are left to manage the educational carnage in their classrooms"

#Wanderlust - Frauen, Berge und der männliche Blick. 🏔️ Neue Bildergalerie: www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/content/gale...

“Beängstigend ist nicht der Kulturkampf von rechten Politiker:innen. Sondern die fehlende Gegenwehr derer, gegen die sich das richtet: Alle, die andere Werte als Konservative und Nazis haben und damit „links“ von ihnen stehen.” taz.de/Angeblich-li...

So far, I wd say Putin is winning the Gulf War. Oil prices are up, & the US has relaxed pressure on India to stop buying fm RU, so budget revenues will increase, making the war easier to fund. And UA will now be an even lower priority for US air defence munitions, so an easier target for RU strikes.

Bei unseren "Lesungen zur Bücherverbrennung" mit Büchertisch engagiert dabei (Foto aus unserem Haus, 2019): die Buchhandlung zur schwankende Weltkugel, empfehlenswert.

A little-remembered thing about Peter Schneider is that he published a satirical wanted notice for Mohammed Reza Pahlavi during the shah’s overtures to W Germany. The poor man had missed Germany’s reunification in the US, and not a single US paper has noticed his death www.zeit.de/feuilleton/l...

loud in the streets, POWER IN THE SPREADSHEETS

Ukraine named a drone interceptor after male genitals and is selling it to the United States

Jessica Andersen, Wearable Memorial for Lab Rats, 2024: “a wearable memorial for the sacrifices lab rats have made for humanity, cast from materials that are used for more visible memorials in our cities” 🔥 (Photo Toowoomba Region Art Galleries)

Idea: spring embroidery! Execution: beetroot!

Instead of helping Ukraine end the war, and fast, the US has squeezed it into the position of giving up some of its Shahed interceptors in the hope of getting more powerful US systems against the Russian Shahed upgrade. In no world does this make sense giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

At the shelter door, she said, a Jewish Israeli, having heard her speak Arabic, blocked mother and daughter from entering. “I was stunned,” she said. “I speak Hebrew fluently. I tried to explain. But he looked at me with contempt and just said, ‘Not for you.’” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Die iranische Botschaft in Kyjiw hat übrigens ein Kondolenzbuch für Ali Chamenei für heute/morgen ausgelegt. Sie werden viel Glück haben, wenn dies unbemerkt bleibt. Nach fast vier Jahren der Angriffe mit Shaheds hätte ein oder anderer eventuell Lust auf eine nette Notiz.

Can’t make this shit up giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Durov: nomen est omen

A metaphor for something www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

A folk logic about it is starting to develop. People may not understand the monopolies and geopolitics of renewable energy at a gradual level. But they can see data centers, hear data centers, and read their electric bill statements. They are angry.

“It's worth noting that Thaler also filed applications to the US Patent and Trademark Office for AI-generated inventions, which were rejected for similar reasons.” That some good news still exists!

As good as they said she was! Deeply satisfying

What a time to prepare to direct a sustainability study abroad program in Europe…

The worst about AI is that it’s designed to serve as an “objective machine” that kills on a compressed timeline, providing poor excuses for bad humans, and a “supportive” yes-person “partner” or “co-cogitator” that individuals crave without seeing the other side www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Die irakische Menschenrechtsaktivistin und Feministin Yanar Mohammed ist gestern in Bagdad bei einem gezielten Anschlag erschossen worden. Sie hat die ersten Frauenhäuser im Irak eröffnet und sich jahrzehntelang für gesetzliche und strukturelle Verbesserungen für Frauen eingesetzt. RIP

“One open question is whether Europe could delay its plans to phase out its remaining imports of Russian gas.” There was one country that incontrovertibly needed help & actively sought it—Ukraine—instead, it’s another collateral of another senseless war giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

A stupid nubmber of AI-related problems could probably be solved by having it identify itself in the third person singular, like every decent robot from 20th c sci fi, but the monsters obvs had no intention of designing such a thing techpolicy.press/anthropomorp...

There are not even fries to rename this time, how the world has changed

ideological mascots of the Horst Wessel type work emotionally and not rationally

This is either dumb evil or strategic cunning to make Pahlavi “inevitable”

Omg what, so cool!

New open call! errantjournal.org/2026/01/22/o...

When you see a German academic with the word “Speaker*in” in their professions description, run