Maxens 🇵🇸
@maxenswlfr.bsky.social
German cultural studies. Currently working on migrations between Germany and the US. he/him, speaks English, French and German, asexual with a touch of whimsy. Terminally tired. Decolonize Palestine.
Leftism, piracy, video games. ACAB
Leftism, piracy, video games. ACAB
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Ou, Édouard, c’est le principe, c’est déjà le cas en fait. Il faut avoir entre 8 et 10 pour être au rattrapage. C’EST DÉJÀ CE QUI EXISTE DEPUIS DES DÉCENNIES EDOUARD CONCENTRE TOI BORDEL ÉDOUARD.
December 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Ou, Édouard, c’est le principe, c’est déjà le cas en fait. Il faut avoir entre 8 et 10 pour être au rattrapage. C’EST DÉJÀ CE QUI EXISTE DEPUIS DES DÉCENNIES EDOUARD CONCENTRE TOI BORDEL ÉDOUARD.
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Omg you all let the police beat the shit out of young Americans for protesting genocide for a whole year straight and now you're publishing and reposting articles on how the youth is not interested in politics because they didn't want to participate in your whitewashed PG shitlib protest???
Fantastic data in here. Was just talking to a neighbor about the age curve at No Kings. Not an easy thing to fix.
The Times piece by @brendannyhan.bsky.social about No Kings made me curious about the political activism of young people over time. So I pulled some CES data and made some charts. www.pbump.net/o/how-severe...
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Omg you all let the police beat the shit out of young Americans for protesting genocide for a whole year straight and now you're publishing and reposting articles on how the youth is not interested in politics because they didn't want to participate in your whitewashed PG shitlib protest???
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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🚨In blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, Israel has announced it will slash agreed aid shipments in half and keep the Rafah crossing closed, after Hamas returned four of the 28 bodies of Israeli captives believed to be in Gaza.
Hamas officials had repeatedly told mediators...
Video below⬇️
Hamas officials had repeatedly told mediators...
Video below⬇️
![🚨 In blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, Israel has announced it will slash agreed aid shipments in half and keep the Rafah crossing closed, after Hamas returned four of the 28 bodies of Israeli captives believed to be in Gaza.
Hamas officials had repeatedly told mediators — and said in interviews with Drop Site since early October — that it would be “impossible” to locate and transfer all Israeli bodies within 72 hours of a ceasefire, given the scale of destruction. The ceasefire’s humanitarian protocol explicitly established a joint operations room — including Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, the U.S., Israel, and Hamas — to manage such complications, with Hamas required to submit all information it holds on living and deceased captives.
PIJ deputy leader Mohammed al-Hindi, in an interview on October 1 with Al Araby, said: “They demand the handover of [Israeli] prisoners in 72 hours. But even if they were all together in one house, or even buried in one grave, it would be impossible to hand them over in 72 hours. The situation is complicated, and everyone — Israel, America, and the mediators — knows it is complicated.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:avtgggryiqtjlg5wwsufccua/bafkreibew236p555fpmvtvtk7lrjhcd4ftgrawuzfyuutznxjcmud5otxe@jpeg)
October 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🚨In blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, Israel has announced it will slash agreed aid shipments in half and keep the Rafah crossing closed, after Hamas returned four of the 28 bodies of Israeli captives believed to be in Gaza.
Hamas officials had repeatedly told mediators...
Video below⬇️
Hamas officials had repeatedly told mediators...
Video below⬇️
Delightful happenstance
October 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Delightful happenstance
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FIVE CHILDREN??!!!
September 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
FIVE CHILDREN??!!!
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Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️
archive.org/details/walt...
archive.org/details/walt...
Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC (1947) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC
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September 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️
archive.org/details/walt...
archive.org/details/walt...
Once again, liberals show they don't mind a dictatorship as long as it's their brand of bigotry that wins. OP was calling people "assholes" for suggesting it was normal to pressure Biden on Palestine.
September 6, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Once again, liberals show they don't mind a dictatorship as long as it's their brand of bigotry that wins. OP was calling people "assholes" for suggesting it was normal to pressure Biden on Palestine.
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Maybe unpopular take but I think "during COVID" is fine!
Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense
Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense
September 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Maybe unpopular take but I think "during COVID" is fine!
Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense
Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense
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Voter validated data from CES just came out, and it turns out that Gen Z white men actually moved *left* from 2020-2024.
August 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Voter validated data from CES just came out, and it turns out that Gen Z white men actually moved *left* from 2020-2024.
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Just in case you needed another reason to hate Crisp Ratt (I sure didn’t).
What an incorrigible piece of Hollywood shit
What an incorrigible piece of Hollywood shit
August 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Just in case you needed another reason to hate Crisp Ratt (I sure didn’t).
What an incorrigible piece of Hollywood shit
What an incorrigible piece of Hollywood shit
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anytime you make a post about how people should stop using Spotify because it fucking sucks, someone pops in from from the Discover feed about how there's no alternative and ignores that you can just buy music or use another streaming service that isn't doing this shit. Anyway, stop using Spotify
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
🔗 www.404media.co/spotify-publ...
🔗 www.404media.co/spotify-publ...
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."
www.404media.co
August 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
anytime you make a post about how people should stop using Spotify because it fucking sucks, someone pops in from from the Discover feed about how there's no alternative and ignores that you can just buy music or use another streaming service that isn't doing this shit. Anyway, stop using Spotify
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The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/
The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
August 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/
The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
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Somehow I ended up on the part of Bluesky where people believe that an ex cia operative did a ghost audit of the 2024 election alongside the NSA and it proves Kamala Harris actually won by a landslide.
Resisters(TM) are being radicalized into an actual BlueAnon.
Resisters(TM) are being radicalized into an actual BlueAnon.
August 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Somehow I ended up on the part of Bluesky where people believe that an ex cia operative did a ghost audit of the 2024 election alongside the NSA and it proves Kamala Harris actually won by a landslide.
Resisters(TM) are being radicalized into an actual BlueAnon.
Resisters(TM) are being radicalized into an actual BlueAnon.
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German public media are running fact checks on just how starving individual children are, while serious journalists propose that maybe the children are predisposed to hunger due to inbreeding (also they have low IQ, apparently). Germany unhinged is a truly terrifying spectacle.
August 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
German public media are running fact checks on just how starving individual children are, while serious journalists propose that maybe the children are predisposed to hunger due to inbreeding (also they have low IQ, apparently). Germany unhinged is a truly terrifying spectacle.
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Treating all China-based engineers as extensions of the Chinese government is a dangerous false equivalence.
August 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Treating all China-based engineers as extensions of the Chinese government is a dangerous false equivalence.
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This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.
It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.
They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.
They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
Yo, historians, what the actual ****?
I've seen how LLMs handle "history." This is... not good.
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I've seen how LLMs handle "history." This is... not good.
🗃️
July 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.
It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.
They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.
They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
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Heads up to anyone considering using music on this site:
I make no claims against any particular track or the tracks on this site, but every upload in the last 8 months from Kevin has been generated by Suno. (Everything after Outback Call):
www.youtube.com/@incompetech...
Check the descriptions.
I make no claims against any particular track or the tracks on this site, but every upload in the last 8 months from Kevin has been generated by Suno. (Everything after Outback Call):
www.youtube.com/@incompetech...
Check the descriptions.
Kevin MacLeod
This is the official YouTube channel for Kevin MacLeod!
Here, you can preview new songs, hear me talking about the new music I write, or check out my collaborations with other content creators!
I am...
www.youtube.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Heads up to anyone considering using music on this site:
I make no claims against any particular track or the tracks on this site, but every upload in the last 8 months from Kevin has been generated by Suno. (Everything after Outback Call):
www.youtube.com/@incompetech...
Check the descriptions.
I make no claims against any particular track or the tracks on this site, but every upload in the last 8 months from Kevin has been generated by Suno. (Everything after Outback Call):
www.youtube.com/@incompetech...
Check the descriptions.
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Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
July 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
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Every so often I remember that Kessler gave Bernie Sanders like four pinnochios for saying "millions of Americans work two or more jobs" because it was like 10 million or so, some plural millions Kessler felt was insufficiently pluraled
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July 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Every so often I remember that Kessler gave Bernie Sanders like four pinnochios for saying "millions of Americans work two or more jobs" because it was like 10 million or so, some plural millions Kessler felt was insufficiently pluraled
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop.
"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop.
"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
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Hate hate hate hate hate LOATHE ENTIRELY
Man, fuck gen AI forever. Heinous invention for losers. I’m so sick of this.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/10/1...
Man, fuck gen AI forever. Heinous invention for losers. I’m so sick of this.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/10/1...
This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art
The proof-of-concept technology removes a layer of digital “poison” meant to disrupt AI models that scrape online images for training.
www.technologyreview.com
July 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hate hate hate hate hate LOATHE ENTIRELY
Man, fuck gen AI forever. Heinous invention for losers. I’m so sick of this.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/10/1...
Man, fuck gen AI forever. Heinous invention for losers. I’m so sick of this.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/10/1...
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The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
July 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
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📢 Newly digitised and accessible online!
Researchers can now access a digitised collection relating to the fate of Roma and Sinti under the Nazis. The collection was gathered following research into Nazi anti-Gypsy policies and the treatment of Roma and Sinti during the Nazi period buff.ly/J3iXPll
Researchers can now access a digitised collection relating to the fate of Roma and Sinti under the Nazis. The collection was gathered following research into Nazi anti-Gypsy policies and the treatment of Roma and Sinti during the Nazi period buff.ly/J3iXPll
July 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
📢 Newly digitised and accessible online!
Researchers can now access a digitised collection relating to the fate of Roma and Sinti under the Nazis. The collection was gathered following research into Nazi anti-Gypsy policies and the treatment of Roma and Sinti during the Nazi period buff.ly/J3iXPll
Researchers can now access a digitised collection relating to the fate of Roma and Sinti under the Nazis. The collection was gathered following research into Nazi anti-Gypsy policies and the treatment of Roma and Sinti during the Nazi period buff.ly/J3iXPll