I guess now I have made up for posting so little for weeks. ^^

Watched Small Things Like These. A film about complicity then. Does this film's strength lie in keeping it "small"? Just one hand reaching out to help one woman and only because one man had that kind of backstory? Told in subtle tones, does it bring out the cruelty hidden beneath polite society?

Wie geht's dem politischen Diskurs? Hat unsere empörte Medienkritik endlich die Rechten wieder in den Untergrund verdrängt? Ich versteh die Aufregung ja aber bin dessen gleichzeitig so so müde, weil Wiederholungsschleife seit Jahren.

Finally a cold rainy day. Feel revived. Also: Friend wrote and we going to watch Beau Travail at the cinema tonight. A really fine day so far.

machma soziokultur-revival, eure herrmann-glaser-ultras

Maximilian Pichl@maxpichl.bsky.social · 18h ago

Die Frankfurter Rundschau berichtet heute über unser Forschungsprojekt "Orte der Demokratie", in dem wir alltägliche Räume des Zusammenkommens auf ihr demokratisches Potenzial hin untersuchen. www.fr.de/panorama/dem...

I'm truly relating to @meredithgran.com 's fear of making a game known for having bannable content rather than, you know, what the game is actually about.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · yesterday

Who's deciding the fate of this game?' The secretive process of getting a game with sexual content on Steam aftermath.site/steam-censorsh...

Ich fände es ja wirklich effizienter, einfach direkt den Prompt geschickt zu bekommen, als die per Chatbot generierte eMail.

Tja, so ist das mit linken Medien: keine reichen Finanziers wie Rechte, kein fettes Verlagshaus wie bürgerliche Zeitungen. Deshalb brauchen wir: - 1.000 neue Abos, um sorgenfrei weiterzumachen - 1.500 neue Abos. Dann können wir unser Online-Angebot verbessern! Hilf mit: www.akweb.de/abo

Wir brauchen dringend einen Parteispenden-Deckel in Deutschland um ähnliches Gebaren von Großspendern zu verhindern. Einen entsprechenden Appell von @lobbycontrol.bsky.social haben bereits über 200.000 Menschen unterschrieben: www.lobbycontrol.de/parteienfina...

Jetzt Appell unterschreiben: Deckel auf die Parteispenden!

Spenden für Parteien dürfen in Deutschland beliebig hoch sein. Das ist undemokratisch, da viel Geld viel Einfluss bedeutet. Jetzt Appell für einen Deckel auf die Parteispenden unterschreiben!

lobbycontrol.de

www.ft.com/content/5a63...

Russia targets Maga influencers ahead of German state vote

The ‘Matryoshka’ campaign is seeking to amplify inflammatory English-language posts, officials say

ft.com

MuskX lending itself to disinfo on behalf of his favorite far right parties

Was auch immer passiert ist, wir werden nicht zulassen, dass politische Parteien, die wegen Drag Queens und „Gender-Sprache“ Panikmache betreiben, so tun, als wären sie hier, um uns zu verteidigen 🏳️‍🌈

Ben Miller@benwritesthings.bsky.social · 3w ago

whatever happened we are Not going to let political parties that scaremonger about drag queens and “gender language” pretend they’re here to defend us

I watched Obsession last night. It's a decently entertaining horror flick but the lack of any woman's perspective feels off given the topic. It reminded me of what I disliked so much about Manchester By The Sea.

We don’t need education about ethical *use* of AI; we need more education in how it is being *used on* and against us. 2/n

ist das diese care revolution? www.ksta.de/koeln/hitzet...

I finally started watching movies again after a bit of a break: Two old ones: Heat and The Dreamers and both have aged very well. Loved them.

Bei aller Wut auf Spahn aus hundert Gründen, dass ihm das jetzt das Karrieregenick bricht, sagt für mich in erster Linie was drüber aus, wo es den konservativen Hetero-Bürgis dann doch immer too much wird:

I’ve had this open as a tab for a while; our int’l touring earlier this year seems to have permanently wrecked my sleep so this morning at five I began exploring this open tab, clicking around. A remarkable, meticulous work: of art, of literature, what to say…give this your time.

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A dig-site archive. 603 entries. Specimens, fragments, remains. Fossils, jokes, hidden paths, field notes. Start anywhere. jtierney.net

Reminder! There are alternatives to Substack! Which do not have its ethical problems! (My newsletter is on Ghost, which is fabulous, and Buttondown is among the others I've heard praised.) Thread--

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

Remember when record companies were suing rando Napster users for downloading mp3s?

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last mo.

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

Technologieoffenheit, aber in echt.

Boing Boing@boingboing.net · last mo.

China built a 40-story tower that banks wind power by hoisting giant concrete blocks, then dropping them when the grid needs juice. A skyscraper-sized battery with no lithium in it.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

for once i wish I'd start a software without getting an update notification. everything has become so greedy

lol, too true, comrades! ^^ my result from The AI Compass. bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

Searching more about the Cyberpunk 2077 credits mentioning Olga Tokarczuk's Flights I have found out she totally co-founded a studio and does narrative work on the game Ibru, loosely based on her novel Anna In. Count me hooked. notesfrompoland.com/2024/10/07/s... www.sundog.games/ibrugame

Waking up to a cool breeze and the news that Germany is out of the footbol. My kind of Sommermärchen.

This heatwave brought to you by Volkswagen Group

Europe heatwave live: Germany braced for temperatures ‘well over 40C’; extreme heat warnings for England

Forecasters say hottest conditions spreading into central and eastern Europe

theguardian.com

Deutschland muss schmelzen damit wir leben können

Die NPD war zu klein, um sie zu verbieten, die AfD ist leider zu groß – ich hoffe, sie finden noch eine Faschopartei, die die juristisch exakt passende Größe hat

Global warming has clearly been a major factor in the radicalisation of the Western right-wing. A truth so inconvenient for their interests and ideology that they preferred to cut ties with empirical reality itself. This then bred habits of belligerence and dishonesty that fed into other issue areas

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 2mo ago

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."