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Benjamin Nickel
@benjaminnickel.bsky.social
digital / media / minimalism / 🍟 / @SAP / Burns Fellow / 🇪🇺 / Opinions are my own / Berlin
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October 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Vorstellungsgespräch bei Bio Company.
„Erzählen Sie uns etwas über sich.“
— „Wer bin ich? Wo bin ich?“
„Herzlich willkommen!“
April 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Philosophy time: If a customer sends an email, and no one is there to read it, does the problem exist?
April 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Reposted by Benjamin Nickel
The slow death of Quartz, which started out so interesting and promising, has been really sad. www.zachseward.com/what-was-qua...
What was Quartz?
2012–2025
www.zachseward.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Kind ohne Woom-Bike in Charlottenburg gesehen.

April, April.
April 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Converting screenshots into calendar elements: "Please convert this screenshot into an ics file" works with ChatGPT and Claude. #lifehack
March 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Neben mir versucht ein etwa 8-jähriger Junge, seine Mutter zum Spazierengehen (!) zu überreden. Mutter beendet die Diskussion mit: „Nein, das möchte ich nicht. Da sehe ich absolut keinen Sinn drin.“
#spielplatz
March 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Glad that ChatGPT and I have finally discussed this.
February 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Tough times for anyone who cares about the transatlantic relationship. This is exactly what @anneapplebaum.bsky.social has been warning about for years. If you’re not following her yet, now’s the time.

The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/author/anne-...
Substack: substack.com/@anneapplebaum
Anne Applebaum | Substack
Staff Writer at the Atlantic. Author of Autocracy, Inc, Twilight of Democracy, and three history books: Gulag, Iron Curtain, and Red Famine.
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February 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Wehe, hier geht gleich jemand schlafen!
February 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Liebe ja diese ‚Schaut her! Schaut her!‘-Väter, wie sie demonstrativ mit ihren Kindern spielen. (Nur übertroffen von Vätern, die stattdessen Gehässiges ins Internet schreiben.) #spielplatz
February 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Unvergessen. Danke, Fotos-App.
January 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Wir leben in einer Welt mit KI, mRNA-Impfstoffen und MRT – und müssen uns trotzdem bei jedem Gang zur Biotonne übergeben.
January 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Lieber Lobotomie als Bobo-Tonie.
January 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
January 7, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Reposted by Benjamin Nickel
Man Decides Eating Lunch Without Headphones On Counts As Meditating
Man Decides Eating Lunch Without Headphones On Counts As Meditating
CHARLESTON, SC—Remarking that the unexpected moment of solitude was “good enough for him,” local man Alan Stambaugh told reporters Thursday that eating lunch without headphones counted as mediating. “...
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January 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
„As the art critic Karl Scheffler famously wrote in 1910: it is a city that is “damned to keep becoming, and never to be”. When I finally board the plane out of here after nearly a decade in this city, it will be that “becoming-ness” I’ll miss most.“
December 21, 2024 at 7:54 AM
“[P]eople have tired of being presented with an artificial, scripted, carefully stage-managed version of reality. They just don’t buy it any more.”
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Podcasts, politics and the craving for imperfection
Lo-fi, unpolished performances have become more popular than carefully stage-managed versions of reality
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December 16, 2024 at 5:54 PM
December 14, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Angst haben, dass KI den Menschen zum Maschinensklaven macht, aber dann super entwürdigend hinter einer S-Bahn herrennen.
December 7, 2024 at 10:39 AM
LOL
November 30, 2024 at 7:41 AM
What a time to be alive
November 30, 2024 at 5:30 AM
Elternsein besteht im Wesentlichen aus dem Satz: "Zieh bitte deine Schuhe an".
November 26, 2024 at 1:17 PM