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@wolfgangwalter.bsky.social
Mainly politics, philosophy, and pleasure.
Sideshow: Science.
Lives in Munich.
Sideshow: Science.
Lives in Munich.
Pinned
ÖRR reagiert superschnell auf Merz-Demagogie:
Morden im Norden, S1011
Video, in dem ein rechter Agitator behauptet, die Tochter eines Freundes sei angepöbelt und belästigt worden.
Ein Polizist:
"Es ist doch echt immer das Gleiche. Den Leuten Angst machen und sich dann als Beschützer aufspielen."
Morden im Norden, S1011
Video, in dem ein rechter Agitator behauptet, die Tochter eines Freundes sei angepöbelt und belästigt worden.
Ein Polizist:
"Es ist doch echt immer das Gleiche. Den Leuten Angst machen und sich dann als Beschützer aufspielen."
Warum passiert so viel Scheiße in der Welt?
Bin erstmal weg von der Plattform. Sie kann nichts dafür, aber Mentalhygiene.
Bin erstmal weg von der Plattform. Sie kann nichts dafür, aber Mentalhygiene.
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Warum passiert so viel Scheiße in der Welt?
Bin erstmal weg von der Plattform. Sie kann nichts dafür, aber Mentalhygiene.
Bin erstmal weg von der Plattform. Sie kann nichts dafür, aber Mentalhygiene.
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de san trotteln, wie mann so sagt
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
de san trotteln, wie mann so sagt
Why everything seems to go in the direction Trump wants it to go - more cruelty against the U.S. population? And why-o-why are the Democrats that naive? And the media so complicit?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Why everything seems to go in the direction Trump wants it to go - more cruelty against the U.S. population? And why-o-why are the Democrats that naive? And the media so complicit?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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He explicitly encouraged the Capitol riot
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
He explicitly encouraged the Capitol riot
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So läuft‘s, wenn’s läuft.
Ob Gust oder Harald.
Ein Sittenbild, unverblümt dargebracht.
Ob Gust oder Harald.
Ein Sittenbild, unverblümt dargebracht.
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
So läuft‘s, wenn’s läuft.
Ob Gust oder Harald.
Ein Sittenbild, unverblümt dargebracht.
Ob Gust oder Harald.
Ein Sittenbild, unverblümt dargebracht.
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Und, was habt ihr heute so gemacht?
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Und, was habt ihr heute so gemacht?
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Heute vor 111 Jahren wurde Hedy Lamarr geboren, ...
#plompergwikipedia
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_La...
#plompergwikipedia
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_La...
Hedy Lamarr – Wikipedia
de.wikipedia.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Heute vor 111 Jahren wurde Hedy Lamarr geboren, ...
#plompergwikipedia
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_La...
#plompergwikipedia
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_La...
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Just put up this blog post in which I defend the use of the term "philosophy" to describe non-European intellectual traditions.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/philosophy-w...
#philsky #philosophy #globalphilosophy
www.historyofphilosophy.net/philosophy-w...
#philsky #philosophy #globalphilosophy
www.historyofphilosophy.net
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Just put up this blog post in which I defend the use of the term "philosophy" to describe non-European intellectual traditions.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/philosophy-w...
#philsky #philosophy #globalphilosophy
www.historyofphilosophy.net/philosophy-w...
#philsky #philosophy #globalphilosophy
Hallo Wolfr. Weim. von @bundeskultur.bsky.social, bitte auch einen Kiefer für mich als Leihgabe. DM sind offen.
Interessante Lektüre. Kunst und Politik, nicht immer neutral.
Private Leihgabe an Merz: Wie kommt Anselm Kiefer ins Kanzleramt?
Friedrich Merz hat in seinem Büro ein riesiges Gemälde hängen, das ihm die Stiftung eines privaten Kunstberaters organisiert hat. Zur gleichen Zeit ist Kulturstaatsminister Weimer mit diesem über Auss...
www.faz.net
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hallo Wolfr. Weim. von @bundeskultur.bsky.social, bitte auch einen Kiefer für mich als Leihgabe. DM sind offen.
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Ich bin auf einer Kreativmesse und eine Frau verkauft Ketten, die den Cholesterinspiegel senken sollen. Freut ihr euch auch schon so wie ich?
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Ich bin auf einer Kreativmesse und eine Frau verkauft Ketten, die den Cholesterinspiegel senken sollen. Freut ihr euch auch schon so wie ich?
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My conversation with @omerbartov.bsky.social is out now - watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My conversation with @omerbartov.bsky.social is out now - watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Oh, there's just one more thing ...
November 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Oh, there's just one more thing ...
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What would happen if there were X and TikTok accounts dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of Abu Ghraib style torture?
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
What would happen if there were X and TikTok accounts dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of Abu Ghraib style torture?
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
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when the overton window is a concrete bunker, anything beyond hitler's dying breath is "left wing" to the british establishment
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
when the overton window is a concrete bunker, anything beyond hitler's dying breath is "left wing" to the british establishment
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I meant it literally. Don't talk about antisemitism, its definition(s) etc.
Just say: this is a form of degrading jews as jews in speech and action by referring to stereotypes, using threatening symbols and exclusion.
And that is a critique of the Israeli government.
bsky.app/profile/wolf...
Just say: this is a form of degrading jews as jews in speech and action by referring to stereotypes, using threatening symbols and exclusion.
And that is a critique of the Israeli government.
bsky.app/profile/wolf...
There’s a lesson to be learned here for Germany and its anti-antisemitism corruptional-industrial complex, too.
Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I meant it literally. Don't talk about antisemitism, its definition(s) etc.
Just say: this is a form of degrading jews as jews in speech and action by referring to stereotypes, using threatening symbols and exclusion.
And that is a critique of the Israeli government.
bsky.app/profile/wolf...
Just say: this is a form of degrading jews as jews in speech and action by referring to stereotypes, using threatening symbols and exclusion.
And that is a critique of the Israeli government.
bsky.app/profile/wolf...
"Die Rhetorik der Erinnerung zielt vor allem auf die Legitimation der eigenen rechten Politiken."
Heute ist der 9. November, Tag der Pogromnacht 1938 und Auftakt für die Vernichtung der Europäischen Juden*Jüdinnen durch die Nazis. Ich möchte vorschlagen, die Aufmerksamkeit dieses Jahr besonders auf die aktuelle Instrumentalisierung und Entwertung politischer Erinnerungsgesten richten. 1/
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"Die Rhetorik der Erinnerung zielt vor allem auf die Legitimation der eigenen rechten Politiken."
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Keine drei Monate später machten CDU/CSU und FDP mit der AfD gemeinsame Sache, als es um eine Verschärfung der Migrationspolitik ging. Bis heute wird der Widerspruch zwischen Resolution und Zusammenarbeit mit den Rechtsextremen beschwiegen. CDUCSU tun einfach so, als wäre gar nichts passiert. 3/
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Keine drei Monate später machten CDU/CSU und FDP mit der AfD gemeinsame Sache, als es um eine Verschärfung der Migrationspolitik ging. Bis heute wird der Widerspruch zwischen Resolution und Zusammenarbeit mit den Rechtsextremen beschwiegen. CDUCSU tun einfach so, als wäre gar nichts passiert. 3/
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Heute ist der 9. November, Tag der Pogromnacht 1938 und Auftakt für die Vernichtung der Europäischen Juden*Jüdinnen durch die Nazis. Ich möchte vorschlagen, die Aufmerksamkeit dieses Jahr besonders auf die aktuelle Instrumentalisierung und Entwertung politischer Erinnerungsgesten richten. 1/
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Heute ist der 9. November, Tag der Pogromnacht 1938 und Auftakt für die Vernichtung der Europäischen Juden*Jüdinnen durch die Nazis. Ich möchte vorschlagen, die Aufmerksamkeit dieses Jahr besonders auf die aktuelle Instrumentalisierung und Entwertung politischer Erinnerungsgesten richten. 1/
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"Years and Years" - a great and greatly disturbing series (for free on ZDF Mediathek)
Years & Years (2019): Official Trailer | HBO
YouTube video by HBO
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"Years and Years" - a great and greatly disturbing series (for free on ZDF Mediathek)
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Just posting a link to the recent French translation of my An Introduction to Political Philosophy, first because I'm very pleased to have a French edition, and second, because I like the cover so much.
eliotteditions.fr/44-introduct...
eliotteditions.fr/44-introduct...
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Just posting a link to the recent French translation of my An Introduction to Political Philosophy, first because I'm very pleased to have a French edition, and second, because I like the cover so much.
eliotteditions.fr/44-introduct...
eliotteditions.fr/44-introduct...
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I would like a new season of the x files that explicitly acknowledges that this goober is their boss
this is so much more embarrassing than any of j. edgar hoover's little outfits could have possibly been
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I would like a new season of the x files that explicitly acknowledges that this goober is their boss
Boomer here.
Done almost everything on the list except boombox (9). I did use a paper map, but I almost always got lost (17).
I would add: ran a job on a main frame with punch cards (which I punched myself), wrote my diploma thesis on an electric typewriter, used SPSS, used index cards in a library,
Done almost everything on the list except boombox (9). I did use a paper map, but I almost always got lost (17).
I would add: ran a job on a main frame with punch cards (which I punched myself), wrote my diploma thesis on an electric typewriter, used SPSS, used index cards in a library,
I have never done (9) (it's anti-social), (13) (Blockbuster never operated in my country), or (20) (those things were *expensive*).
I am teh oldz.
I am teh oldz.
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Boomer here.
Done almost everything on the list except boombox (9). I did use a paper map, but I almost always got lost (17).
I would add: ran a job on a main frame with punch cards (which I punched myself), wrote my diploma thesis on an electric typewriter, used SPSS, used index cards in a library,
Done almost everything on the list except boombox (9). I did use a paper map, but I almost always got lost (17).
I would add: ran a job on a main frame with punch cards (which I punched myself), wrote my diploma thesis on an electric typewriter, used SPSS, used index cards in a library,
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Okay, here are some first reflections on Watson.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Okay, here are some first reflections on Watson.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.