i had a cold brew for the first time in forever (europe) and i feel like i can see auras how do americans live like this

psychoanalysis is great but cutting down a dead tree? also great for your mental health

rich people should pay lots of tax, well-off people should pay lots but less, middle class people should pay a good bit, etc taxes are what you pay to live in a civilized society to the extent you can and is proper, and we should not embrace tax-cutting on the left

It is so funny that, on top of all its other failings, BART just has a tunnel that for some reason is so incredibly loud it’s clearly damaging to your ears and they’re just like “oh well, surely this must exist in all train tunnels.”

"a transportation system where a quiet, clean private vehicle arrives in minutes to whisk you to your destination without you having to deploy any human courtesy or deference" is fundamentally a fantasy of having the privileges of aristocracy, like the fantasies behind humanoid robot "servants"

also you should straight up be ashamed to lend your name and face too “poor parents with infants have it too good”

wake up babe new mainlaind china lanzhou lamian chain expanding to europe by opening a location in berlin

istanbul, saint petersburg, philadelphia

back in the united states in four days

the sudden realization that it’s berlin gallery week because there are a bunch of people in my neighborhood Wearing Outfits

i’m not haunted. please dont put it in the newspaper that i’m haunted

one of us by åsne seierstad natures metropolis by william cronen a time of gifts by patrick leigh fermor the years by annie ernaux the undercurrents by kirsty bell

rewatching big little lies before my visit to reconnect with the evil at the heart of northern california

my parents in Wisconsin have had tilt turn windows with screens in them for more than a decade

And funded! 🤘

Vielleicht hat die Stärke der AfD ja gar nichts mit der Zahl der Geflüchteten zu tun? Vielleicht war es falsch zu versuchen AfD Wähler:innen mit immer restriktiveren Maßnahmen zurückzugewinnen? Vielleicht hat man so die AfD normalisiert und ihr zu einer neuen Kernwählerschaft verholfen? Vielleicht.

Been listening to a lot of left-leaning US podcasts this week & it's amazing how little they care abt the impact this is having on the world. Lots of discussion about gas prices in the US & how it'll affect the midterms but zero reflection on the global economy or how poor countries will be crushed.

it’s not a scalable solution but this is also me and moving to germany was a huge w on this front specifically

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

it's kind of wild how the hardest challenge humanity has ever faced is designing an office chair that's ergonomic, good looking and that doesn't cost 5000 dollars

your holiness it is time to use your powers and send jd vance to hell

The limitations on violence established after World War II were not brought by pacifists or peaceniks but by literal old soldiers. They knew. They had seen.

Rules and norms about war crimes are a global public good. If you or anyone in your family is between 16 & 60, male, & walks, you have a direct personal interest in it not being legitimate for them to be assinated for walking within any undeclared 3km radius around any combatant.

I consider the oral history of @kickstarterunited.org a foundational resource for organizing in the tech industry and I hope our stories from unionizing at Mapbox can be too: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...

Sauer makes the common right wing argument that birthright citizenship is globally uncommon. That's not exactly true: it's far and away the most common citizenship structure for countries in the western hemisphere. "Europe doesn't have it and they have no humanitarian crisis" he says. But they do.

"we should encourage mobility and socio-economic integration" is a sadly unpopular view these days

Delta swore to its employees and unions that it was not transporting deportees this way.

breaking my i don't watch nytcooking celeb content rule to learn a banana bread recipe eric foner has definitely tasted

PREISSCHOCK an der Fahrkarten-App: Der Preis fürs Deutschlandticket ist seit der letzten Energiekrise um 600 Prozent gestiegen. Wann handelt die Bundesregierung endlich, um Verbraucher:innen zu entlasten!?

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

we love the akari 1AG, or as i like to call it, the totoro lamp

fools, drunkards, and the United States of America

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival. Targeting a civilian object is a war crime. Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime. NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

I think it makes a lot of cis, straight people deeply uncomfortable to remember just how queerphobic society was, because a lot of them mostly went along with it in public, no matter how they might have personally felt about it.

i suppose it was inevitable this crossed over from the where have all the butches gone concern trolling but as an effeminate gay boy let me just say FUUUUUUCK THIS

- Rosa Luxemburg, 1915

I generally try hard not to indulge in any kind of doomerism. But this shit… betting on war, betting on death - all fully legal and pushed down our throats by our tech elite overlords… It’s just so fucking infuriating. The worst people on the planet are determining the trajectory of our species.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

It feels like the United States has the most solipsistic culture imaginable, with a populace unable to parse global events through any lens other than how they are personally affected.

The Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is a reckless and criminal military gamble driven by their respective domestic political considerations. Solidarity with civilians across the Middle East, many of whom living under regimes they oppose, who are paying the price for this reckless adventure.

Jenseits der Absurdität der Aussage kann man 👇 sehen, wie der dt. Entlastungsdiskurs funktioniert. Einerseits rechtfertigt man mit der Singularität des Holocaust die kritiklose Haltung zu Israel, andererseits relativiert man Schuld der Vorfahren, die nicht mehr singulär böse sind

have been cooking from this book all winter, it's the best! find yourself a copy and some black limes and go to town

back in the day you'd expose the fundamental rot at the core of a society by writing a satirical novella but now people just post collections of screenshots from twitter. we're truly living After The Fall

A project I've been involved with the past few years is almost done, but it needs funding to get over the hump. I'm physically incapable of fundraising, so instead I wrote up a brief post about what it is and why it would great if you threw the project a few dollars. cyberb.space/notes/2026/a...

oh how good the first heavy rain after a long cold winter sounds

Winterfeldtplatz, 1909 (postcard) #berlin #schöneberg

only recently became aware of her but she is everything, to me

I really It's kinda weird how the "The left hates technology (because AI)" mostly come from people whose experience with tech is on the level of vibecoding and the "left" they criticize consists to a significant part of people who've been actually building and maintaining systems for decades.