berg webern
@bergwebern.bsky.social
Philosophy, Disney, the Philosophy of Disney. I dislike fascists.
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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@katewagner.wehwalt.net “Here, too, the “unhealthy” relationship between Rienzi and his sister Irene plays an essential role. Not only because it refers to the later incest constellation in the Walküre…. 1/2 www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/en/programm/...
Rienzi – Bayreuth Festival
Rienzi at the Bayreuth Festival – Cast, dates, and production details at a glance.
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So they cut Humanities and Social Sciences programs and people stop experiencing their benefits and pretty soon no one understands their value. Great! 🙃 #darkages2.0
NPR@npr.org · 2w agoIf an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?
Mamdani is a master of using JFK-style chiasmus (an inverted relationship between the elements of parallel phrases) in his rhetoric and I, for one, am here for it!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"
@blankcheck.bsky.social Just listened the Watch With Us Phantom Menace episode all the way through — and very much regretting it. #fatgungan podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Watch With Us - The Phantom Podcast
Podcast Episode · Blank Check with Griffin & David · June 1, 2015 · 2h 27m
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Tired: Celebrating 1776 by giving guys attacking America $1.776 billion Wired: Celebrating 250 years by giving Iran $25,000,000,000
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2mo agoNYT reporting that a proposed Trump-backed memorandum with Iran would reportedly release $25 billion in frozen Iranian assets www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...
Thom Hartmann: “The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”…
“We affirm that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.” —F.T. Marinetti, Manifesto of Futurism (1909) (Marinetti and many of the Futurists became Fascists)
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis guy has a serious case of Buttigieg Derangement Syndrome.
Anyone who grew up watching the Twilight Zone can absolutely see that this is him. A child with too much power.
Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · 3mo agoIt bothered me where have I seen this look before, and then I remembered
i wanted to wait ill i had uninterrupted time to listen to this (this morning flying to Miami) & i’m confident that this is the best conversation about Britten that i have had. immense thanks to Olivia for asking & indulging me, this is brilliant, start to finish
Olivia Giovetti@oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Men would literally rather sink their boat in the North Sea than go to therapy." "Correct. They would. Every time." If there's only one Britten opera on your list, you go with the best. Thank you, @imanimosley.bsky.social, for talking Peter Grimes with me for Decanonized.
During #America250, if any octogenarians try to gaslight you into thinking that young people are powerless in the US, remember that most of the “Founding Fathers” were under 45 on July 4, 1776: Monroe, 18 Burr, 20 Hamilton, 21 Madison, 25 Jefferson, 33 Adams, 40 Paul Revere, 41 G. Washington, 44
Many Founding Fathers Were Shockingly Young When The Declaration Of Independence Was Signed In 1776
Our 5th president, for example, was still a teenager.
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So we get to destroy the planet and create Skynet all at the same time?? We truly live in the best possible world!
The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 3mo agoBackers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.
Thirty of these missiles cost as much as the national endowment for the arts annual budget
Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹@snarkranger.bsky.social · 5mo agoEach one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.
“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”
Anyone who loves opera, theater, performing arts, Japan, or just epic storytelling NEEDS to see this film while it’s in US theaters this week only. It’s a total masterpiece. Don’t let the 3-hour runtime scare you — you will be so riveted it will feel half as long. gkids.com/films/kokuho/
Kokuho - GKIDS Films
After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous kabuki actor.
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Calling Steve Bannon a “MAGA podcaster” is like calling Lucifer a “Satanic imp.” Doesn’t quite capture the extent of the evil.
When anyone from SCTV dies it’s like 30 people have died. Every character they created was as alive as anyone else you’ve ever met.
