One added bonus (for me) about apps: they can be really handy in terms of pre-set study times. I check my time goals every day, and it has helped me to stay focused.

I like how (good) apps change up the tediousness, but I’m also learning Japanese where the reading element is very different. My favourite app mixes reading and listening comprehension which is great.

I don’t know if this will be helpful, but for me going from paper index cards to apps has really helped me deal with that part of language learning.

Still the same struggles, though: on some days it’s as if I have not learned a single word…

I think the bar is really low if you write about topics everyone cares about. Not to glamorize the arts, but even the worst art writer (hello, Jerry!) would have enough self-awareness not to produce this kind of stuff.

Writers are really out here just having no idea how to write!! WILD

Es wird immer besser, @johannesfranzen.bsky.social — hier 👆🏻 ist die andere Seite der Geschichte (Teil 1, haha!).

Man, now I’m hungry for ramen.

More ramen history:

“Ramen was originally looked down upon by the Japanese due to racial discrimination against the Chinese and its status as an inexpensive food associated with the working class.”

Chemists discovered a powerful hidden antibiotic that’s 100 times stronger than existing ones and effective against deadly superbugs.

The study has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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And that means that democracy doesn't die in darkness, but in the light of a billion glowing screens.

In the end, we no longer operate in a marketplace of ideas.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.

Als Stimme der Vernunft wird man ja gerne von den TV-Leuten eingeladen. Herr Precht darf ja schon seit Jahren im Fernsehen erläutern, wie man angeblich nichts mehr sagen darf.

Bin auch irgendwie neidisch: ich könnte das nicht. Mir wär das zu peinlich.