Pair of articles on slop developments on YouTube. Report from Kapwing about the most popular slop channels by country, and a finding of 33% of a new account's feed being brainrot (though it doesn't look like they replicated it). Bonus @eryk.bsky.social quote. www.kapwing.com/blog/ai-slop...

The ‘Gigantic, Fecal Baby’ Inside Every Populist Ruler Olga Neuwirth’s new opera, “Monster’s Paradise,” leans into the absurd to examine the phenomenon of the strongman leader (with added zombies). -> Germany, Hamburg State Opera www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/a...

Dorothea Lange

oh shit we got hennepin hannah

Just as interesting as the FCK-ICE tictoc propaganda in the spirit of Hanoi Hannah (propaganda broadcast on Vietnamese radio during the Vietnam War) is the British/German soldiers' radio station Calais during World War II. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzxk...

Minneapolis is trying out new forms of resistance. They're doing pop-up blockade block parties. This one is on Cedar and 34th, a main route into the city. They have a stereo, food & a fire. MPD is present but not interfering. Lots of honks of support. ICE agents have been reported detouring around.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr

Folks are passing out whistles and zines. The DIY/analog aspect of American activism in this moment is as important as the videos of ICE abuses

"What do we want? ICE Out When do we want it, Now" #portland

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... „Whether the regime is ‘fascist’, ‘post-fascist’ or ‘neo-authoritarian’, what is indisputable is that it has unleashed what John Ganz has called a sense of ‘moral anarchy’, in which there are no longer any limits to the expression of sadism, (…).“

Best event so far this year in Hamburg: #HFBK Jahresausstellung 🎨 art school opening & exhibition. Opening -- February 12, 7 p.m. www.hfbk-hamburg.de/en/aktuelles...

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “no one is illegal on stolen lands built by stolen hands” written on a van, caribou coffee in the graffitied bus shelter, “WE ARE UNDER REACTING” sign, “what car did i just see?” pocket guide to identifying cars

“It’s our blood and bones And these whistles and phones Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies”

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Here’s a gift 🎁 article. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

US-Regierungsaccounts posten White Nationalist und Neo-Nazi Content - seit Monaten. Einiges ist auch für Laien ersichtlich, andere Codes fallen weniger auf. Meine Analyse - mit Einordnungen u.a. von @bildoperationen.bsky.social und @mikesenters.bsky.social

We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

People are definitely setting up a barricade of trash cans and this couch, in the middle of the street where ICE is. "That's my couch," said a woman standing nearby. "It's been on my porch for four years because it won't fit up the stairs. My neighbor will be pleased it's gone now."

Minneapolis at the intersection where Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE.

Oh schaut mal, eine Karikatur von 1938!

Inspired by an anti-Nazi leaflet created by Cahun / Moore, i make a adaptation of their theme. Text versions are based on last stanza of Heine's poem “Die Loreley.” However, instead the siren song, it is hollow political rhetoric (→ slop) that could also cause a catastrophe in our time—potentially.

A guide to the US government’s flirtation with Nazi slogans and racist memes Federal departments are under fire for social media posts that reference far-right ideology & symbolism. John Mulholland makes sense of the noise and rounds up the most shocking examples www.thenerve.news/p/us-governm...

GenAI is not inconsequential, but exorbitant attention on its failures diverts attention away from all of the other—far more thoroughgoing—forms of AI that are being used to violate and impoverish citizens by means of data extraction and arbitration.

I wrote about speeding into AI infrastructure, taking lessons from the US highway system. As the rushed adoption of AI cracks in places where overpromise under-delivers, we can’t pretend a popping bubble will save us. The paths are being set. www.techpolicy.press/the-ugliest-...

something innocuous, like buttons for all the family... wait, are they really innocuous? are they? is it not perhaps some kind of facist button-cult, which requires everything and everyone to be buttoned up and buttoned down? 'daddy and laddie'

‘The top 10 companies by market cap in the world now are all over a trillion dollars, and only one of them isn’t in some way linked to the theme of AI.’ John Lanchester on Nvidia, OpenAI and the ‘bubble’, on the podcast. Listen wherever you get podcasts, or here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Why AI #SLOP right now?

Why AI #SLOP right now?

Why AI-SLOP right now?

Before an AI-generated face appears on screen, it exists only as probability—an echo of flawed data. This series captures the panicked in-between: beings resisting completion, shielding themselves from algorithmic smoothing. They do not want to be seen. www.iconscreen.de/labor/do-not...

Martin Parr (1952-2025)

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

We generate more text than ever, but we read less. Has the post-literacy age begun? open.substack.com/pub/jamescos... #reading #closereading #postliteracy #literacy #artificialintelligence, #attention #reading #writing #genAI #generativeAI

There’s no such thing as an “ugly sweater” if you open your heart.

Fake History, Reenactment with AI www.bbc.com/news/article...

At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

‘The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned against both.’ Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Writing in Future – The public symposium at HfbK Hamburg (free of charge and no registration required) and the corresponding exhibition are dedicated to different ways of dealing with texts and writing practices in an art context. 3. – 5.12.2025 www.hfbk-hamburg.de/en/aktuelles...

Pethke's insightful film about women in art. Using the biographies of her grandmother, her mother, and her own, she searches for the ghosts of the past. All three studied art at the HfbK in Hamburg. www.3sat.de/film/dokumen...

Inspired by an old classic book from Simon Lovell about the secret craft of cheats and hustlers …

Two years ago, my novel "(Berlin, Miami)" came out in German. I "wrote" it by training a language model (GPT-J/GPT-NeoX) on four contemporary novels. The outcome is, unsurprisingly, surreal and fractured and, although funny, not a straightforward narrative at all. soundcloud.com/hannes-bajoh...

An extraordinary visual essay from a city drowning in garbage. www.vice.com/en/article/g...

Perfect photo, but … www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Gift link for you all. Unfortunately they didn't talk to @bildoperationen.bsky.social for this, still a good summary of the embrace of AI by the White House. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...