I think about this a lot.

OK, für jeden Fav eine Meinung zu Literatur- & Kunstgeschichte iwS (inklusive Gegenwart).

Weil ich gerade eine gut gelungene MENSCHLICHE Übersetzung lektorieren darf, kleiner Thread zum Offensichtlichen: Es ist ein spürbarer Unterschied, ob man einen menschlich oder maschinell übersetzten Text lektoriert. Ich hatte letztes Jahr ein mit DeepL übersetztes Sachbuch auf dem Tisch. (1/10)

literally impossible to exaggerate how much drones have changed the experience of warfare. this is the primary weapons system and battlefield killer of our age.

Jason "Red5" Lyall@jaylyall.bsky.social · last yr.

A Thousand Snipers in the Sky: The New War in Ukraine - 70% of Ukrainian and Russian casualties now inflicted by drones, replacing artillery - drones now kill more armored vehicles than all other weapons *combined* - Ukraine built more than 1 million drones in 2024, aiming for 3-4 million thus year

This is so dark.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2y ago

People on TikTok are reporting ICE raids happening in small cities in various states. To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.

I know Bluesky's not great for long threads, but today I feel compelled to do an Olympics-art history thread. So then, what do recent news reports about Olympic athletes getting sick have to do with an Impressionist painting by Édouard Manet? Both are connected to the Seine as a polluted river

Still thinking about this comic ... I was a huge C&G fan as a student, now I’m a middle-aged critical theory nerd who keeps going on about art & the means of production & better futures and yeah I’m more and more disillusioned about the contribution of digital practices to the latter – thread 🧵 1/14

Dorothy@catandgirl.bsky.social · 3y ago

On being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train Midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends and Willem De Kooning, 1/12

It’s an interesting phenomenon how most times the real jobs of figures like the Weimar Classics guys still magically disappear when we’re talking about them. Herder held the function of Prediger at St. Peter & Paul, and was as Generalsuperintendent responsible for running the Protestant Church in

Dr. Stephanie Seul@stephanieseul.bsky.social · 3y ago

The City Church of St. Peter and Paul in Weimar hosts the beautiful altar by Lucas Cranach the Younger from the mid-1550s, inspired by the ideas of the Reformation. In front of the church is a statue of the philosopher, theologian and poet Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803).