I am once again thinking about this Nick Cave quote: "I'm forever near a stereo saying 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chilli Peppers"
Tim Mohr
@timmohr.bsky.social
author of Burning Down the Haus; translator of Sibylle Berg, Wolfgang Herrndorf, Alina Bronsky, etc; co-writer of memoirs by Gil Scott-Heron, Duff McKagan, Paul Stanley, Genesis P-Orridge; semi-retired club DJ
My latest translation project is obviously a change of pace in some ways, on-brand in others.
Goth Moth • NorthSouth Books
From the world of Jitterbug, a picture book for any child who is afraid to step into the limelight and try something new! Walter is a shy moth. He prefers to hide out in his quiet attic. But a fiery p...
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great first wave French punk rock
OLIVENSTEINS - Euthanasie - (Live on FR3 1979)
YouTube video by Born Bad Records
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"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher." - Abraham Lincoln, 1/27/1837 www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad....
Address Delivered Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois | The American Presidency Project
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AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit
AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit
Artificial intelligence doesn’t just incrementally erode the rights of authors and other creators. These technologies are designed to replace creative workers altogether
theguardian.com
And it would help if editors stopped ludicrously overpaying for them - they don't earn out, and the ephemeral nature of celebrity means they have no backlist value. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Celebrities need to stop writing children’s books: they’re woefully underqualified | Arwa Mahdawi
As Jamie Oliver has found out to his cost, write what you know or you could end up with a flop and an international PR disaster, says Arwa Mahdawi
theguardian.com
Really blown away by this article centered around my book "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" up now at The New Yorker! www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
The Cassette-Tape Revolution
The disruptive power of the cassette anticipated the even greater tectonic shift that the digital age would bring to music.
newyorker.com
Alina Bronsky's Barbara Isn't Dying is a WaPo book of the year! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/1...
50 notable works of fiction
Highlights from the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation
washingtonpost.com
#DDR #BerlinWall #November9 jacobin.com/2023/11/katy...
Why the Fall of the Berlin Wall Didn’t Unite Germans
Historian Katya Hoyer has caused a sensation with her new history of everyday life in East Germany. On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she spoke to Jacobin about why that state failed ...
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Der Weltbeste englisch- deutsch übersetzer ist hier. Er ist lustig, und gut- folgt @timmohr.bsky.social
Im Moment startet und endet fast jeder Tag mit @sibylleberg.bsky.social s Frage "Haben Sie sich heute schon um den Zustand der Welt gesorgt?" Und ich befürchte, dass die Nerds heute auch pessimistischer sind.