🚨🔥 Dire warning by the German Physical Society (DPG) and German Meteorological Society (DMG): Observations show a significantly accelerated heating of the climate. A catastrophic heating of 3 degrees already by 2050 cannot be ruled out. www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentli... 1/4

“If you are using AI with sensitive information, you’re just blasting a hole through your information security.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/its-...

Got my performance review.

One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.

I'm a historian of conservatism and I teach the ones who made substantive, evidence-based points. It's not my fault that no one living has done that; it's theirs!

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

For years I taught students "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them" and I hope at least a handful of them remembered that today when they saw the news.

I bought a bunch of peaches at Lidl five days ago and they have not ripened an iota. A bowl of butt emojis with the firmness of ping pong balls sitting uselessly on my counter forever.

Whenever a Ken Burns documentary is released people say that we don't know how to write like people back then—with poise and world-weary sadness to move the heart—yet this exists.

Morning walk

This is basically what happens when someone’s intern level kid gets given the top job and all the experienced competent brass has to show up and pretend the kid’s ideas are good because he’s in charge now www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Well don't I feel stupid

Mario finally won click.email.variety.com?qs=8cc6f47af...

It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator

Tapping the sign.

Der Journalismus ist so kaputt in Deutschland. Wenn Flaggschiffe wie die ZEIT nicht mehr in der Lage sind, eine offensichtlich propagandistische Inszenierung als solche wahrzunehmen und einzuordnen, müssen wir uns auch nicht mehr über Bild und Nius aufregen.

This is what we call context.

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

Joe Manchin says Democrats need to "move to the center" to win. I've watched corporate Democrats like him peddle this baloney for 50 years. Instead of caving to Big Money, Democrats should fight back against Trump and the oligarchs rigging the system.

Not sure if just me, but link you shared does not appear to work in U.S. - for anybody else having trouble, try the link below. Loved the Bernd das Brot🍞segment😅https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97wFdLi1vhU

Yes you should be watching this episode for the commentary on free speech but… don't turn it off after that. Go to 29:52 and watch a meeting of the greats. youtu.be/gZlw0gKXQAI?...

Mehr als die Hälfte der Haushalte innerhalb des Rings besitzt kein Auto. 60% der Verkehrsflächen werden dem Auto eingeräumt, obwohl nur 14 % der Wege mit dem Pkw zurückgelegt werden. Eine Umverteilung des knappen öffentlichen Raums, ist dringend notwendig. #autofreierTag 🚲💚 taz.de/Aktivistin-u...

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

I know we've worked hard to move history ed away from names and dates but I think we might need to swing back to chronology a bit because "who was president on january 8 2021?" and "which came first, the clinical description of autism or tylenol?" shouldn't be this hard, especially for reporters.

Currently stuck in Helsinki until SAS can get their planes to where they need to be in order to do the flights they need to do and that's my last day of vacation sorted 🫠

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

when your job suggests doing an "AI hackathon" just so folks can learn how this stuff works, the bosses are trying to get you to train your replacements. Then they can fire you and rehire/hire a few humans to supervise the AI at a lower pay rate and much higher client load.

I think it's important to note, bear in mind, and remember going forward that the Disney reinstatement statement is disgustingly craven and pathetically, ineptly self-serving.

Über angebliche Totalverweigerer zerreißen sich Medien&Politik seit Jahren das Maul.Turns out: es gab laut IAB im vergangen Jahr *100* Totalsanktionen. H U N D E R T. Und: sie bringen nix. Wann reden wir endlich daüber: Eltern verzichten für ihre Kinder auf Essen. www.hinzundkunzt.de/buergergeld-...

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

#GoodNews: In Paris sind inzwischen mehr mit den Fahrrad unterwegs als mit dem Auto. 🚲💚 #Verkehrswende #StädteFürMenschen

In The Wake of the Jazz.

You can never prove the rapture didn't happen when it obviously won't happen because we might all be left behind together.

Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.

I don't know how but I'm convinced if we could replicate Alex Horne and his team's ability to cast this show so perfectly every single time that would solve roughly half of the world's problems.

Bei Miosga stellt Jens Spahn die republikanische Gleichschaltung der US Medien als bloße Reaktion auf eine angebliche „Cancel Culture“ der Demokraten dar. Und unterstreicht dabei sehr schön, was die Mär vom linken Meinungsdiktat bei vielen ihrer glühendsten Erzähler immer schon vorbereiten sollte.

There are too many apps. 90% of apps should instead be a better website.

This episode got me listening to "In Front of Ira" last year (so good and funny, a balm in These Times). But is there going to be a one-year followup to the episode as promised?? Inquiring minds want to know! @marisakabas.bsky.social @infrontofira.bsky.social

The effect of car dependency: in 1940, Basil Rathbone was photographed wearing an overcoat outside his home. As more men relied on cars, overcoats became shorter to accommodate drivers. Today, the right is marketed as an "overcoat," even if it would've been considered more sport coat length in 1940.

I promise if you invite me anywhere that I will be the one behind what I say. Though I might have some things to say about ChatGPT.

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NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Er war einer der einflussreichsten Aktivisten der USA und ein Parteigänger von #Trump. Manche Medien nennen #CharlieKirk »konservativ«, anderen gilt er als »ultrarechts«. Der SPIEGEL hat seine Ansichten untersucht. Darum nennen wir ihn #rechtsextrem.

Sorry, aber wer Neo-McCarthyism verbreitet und politische Gegner als Kakerlaken beschimpft, betreibt nicht das „Geschäft der Demokratie.“ Das sollte man festhalten dürfen, ohne in Verdacht zu geraten, die Flammen der Spaltung weiter anfachen zu wollen.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X