Monika Göhmann
@justtryin.bsky.social
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I do not fear the rise of superintelligence.
I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.
I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.
February 13, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I do not fear the rise of superintelligence.
I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.
I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.
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BOUIE: “.. I try to avoid superlatives in my writing, but there is simply no question that this is the most flagrant display of presidential racism since Woodrow Wilson screened D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ in the White House in 1915.”
@jamellebouie.net
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
@jamellebouie.net
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February 8, 2026 at 5:47 AM
BOUIE: “.. I try to avoid superlatives in my writing, but there is simply no question that this is the most flagrant display of presidential racism since Woodrow Wilson screened D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ in the White House in 1915.”
@jamellebouie.net
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
@jamellebouie.net
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
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oh my god
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 6, 2026 at 3:46 PM
oh my god
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Professor Walt Hunter on the merits of challenging students: Stop Meeting Students Where They Are. “Whole novels aren’t possible to teach, we are told, because students won’t (or can’t) read them. So why assign them?” [theatlantic.com]
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Professor Walt Hunter on the merits of challenging students: Stop Meeting Students Where They Are. “Whole novels aren’t possible to teach, we are told, because students won’t (or can’t) read them. So why assign them?” [theatlantic.com]
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There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis
Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Mi...
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January 30, 2026 at 2:19 AM
There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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“It’s not the painting, it’s the energy BEHIND the painting.”
Ethan Hawke — on the limitations of AI art — is very good. 🔥
@vulture.com
Ethan Hawke — on the limitations of AI art — is very good. 🔥
@vulture.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM
“It’s not the painting, it’s the energy BEHIND the painting.”
Ethan Hawke — on the limitations of AI art — is very good. 🔥
@vulture.com
Ethan Hawke — on the limitations of AI art — is very good. 🔥
@vulture.com
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Reporting on Homeland Security’s seige of Minneapolis. “No one…is even really bothering with the pretext that they’re here to make the city safer. This is Donald Trump’s revenge campaign, and they’re the foot soldiers.” [theverge.com]
How much can a city take?
But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.
www.theverge.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Reporting on Homeland Security’s seige of Minneapolis. “No one…is even really bothering with the pretext that they’re here to make the city safer. This is Donald Trump’s revenge campaign, and they’re the foot soldiers.” [theverge.com]
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We Are the Bad Guys. “What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today.” [hamiltonnolan.com]
We Are the Bad Guys
The swaggering threat to global stability is us.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 PM
We Are the Bad Guys. “What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today.” [hamiltonnolan.com]
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If Stayin’ Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century. A quartet sings the Bee Gees tune as a madrigal. “A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance…” [kottke.org]
If Stayin’ Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century
Watch Jonas Wolf and three friends sing a choral arrangement of the Bee Gee’s Stayin’ Alive in the style of a madrigal. Just in case (like the me of 1 minute ago) you don’t know what that is (although you will recogniz
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December 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
If Stayin’ Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century. A quartet sings the Bee Gees tune as a madrigal. “A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance…” [kottke.org]
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The best philosophy books of the decade? My choices for @fivebooks.com fivebooks.com/category/phi...
The Best Philosophy Books of the Decade - Five Books Expert Recommendations
It’s a golden age for popular books about philosophy, as the challenges of modern life encourage people to seek wisdom from those whose job—at least in principle—is to seek it. Whether it’s new reflec...
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December 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The best philosophy books of the decade? My choices for @fivebooks.com fivebooks.com/category/phi...
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Funniest McSweeney’s piece I’ve read in awhile: The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking? “Warmth is for Sorry! This is not a hug. This is a chess clock in a stranger’s living room telling you your parents are getting divorced.” [mcsweeneys.net]
The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?
- - -INVICTA GAMES, LTD. Packaging Team — Official Minutes Project: Mastermind / New Cover Presentation MARTIN SMITH (Marketing Senior Vice Presi…
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December 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Funniest McSweeney’s piece I’ve read in awhile: The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking? “Warmth is for Sorry! This is not a hug. This is a chess clock in a stranger’s living room telling you your parents are getting divorced.” [mcsweeneys.net]
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Does Harrison Ford Know His Lines? Vanity Fair quizzed Ford on his lines from movies & TV shows and he did pretty well. Great stories & lore too. On Blade Runner: “I like any cut without the narration.” [kottke.org]
Does Harrison Ford Know His Lines?
Vanity Fair sat down with Harrison Ford and asked him to identify which of his lines he’d said in which movie, mostly as a way of getting him to talk about his career. A few observations:
I love that they trolled him
kottke.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Does Harrison Ford Know His Lines? Vanity Fair quizzed Ford on his lines from movies & TV shows and he did pretty well. Great stories & lore too. On Blade Runner: “I like any cut without the narration.” [kottke.org]
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Mary Beard: Hollywood Lied to You About Ancient Rome. Here’s the Truth. “We’ve inherited the history of Ancient Rome through movies, ruins, and shallow stories. The truth is far messier.” [kottke.org]
Mary Beard: Hollywood Lied to You About Ancient Rome. Here’s the Truth.
In an interview lasting for more than an hour, classicist Mary Beard shares her knowledge & experience about how the picture of Rome we might have in our heads, inherited from Hollywood movies like Gladiator, is incomp
kottke.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Mary Beard: Hollywood Lied to You About Ancient Rome. Here’s the Truth. “We’ve inherited the history of Ancient Rome through movies, ruins, and shallow stories. The truth is far messier.” [kottke.org]
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A zoomable, fully searchable archive of every single page of every single issue of BYTE magazine from 1975-1998. “I hope seeing everything in single, searchable place offers a unique perspective.” (via @jonudell.bsky.social) [byte.tsundoku.io]
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A zoomable, fully searchable archive of every single page of every single issue of BYTE magazine from 1975-1998. “I hope seeing everything in single, searchable place offers a unique perspective.” (via @jonudell.bsky.social) [byte.tsundoku.io]
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Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...
MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit
A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.
newrepublic.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...
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I listen to music all day while I work. But choosing what to listen to was starting to become a repetitive chore. So I built Underscore, an opinionated “home-cooked meal” music player. Here’s how it works. [kottke.org]
The Underscore Music Player
For the past several months, I’ve been using a web-based music player I built called Underscore. It’s playing music for me right now. I recently revamped & improved it and thought it was time to show it off. Here’s a scr
kottke.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I listen to music all day while I work. But choosing what to listen to was starting to become a repetitive chore. So I built Underscore, an opinionated “home-cooked meal” music player. Here’s how it works. [kottke.org]
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We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will Arrest You. “There is nothing funny about calling me or Donald Trump a fascist, and if you do, we will ship you to Guantanamo.” [mcsweeneys.net]
October 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will Arrest You. “There is nothing funny about calling me or Donald Trump a fascist, and if you do, we will ship you to Guantanamo.” [mcsweeneys.net]
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October 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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New issue of Laura Olin’s newsletter, full of good stuff. “I had forgotten that the Statue of Liberty was, upon installation, brown.” [buttondown.com]
> 199: I am building what I cannot break
Couple motorcycling on the beach at Oostvoorne, Netherlands, by Aart Klein, 1966 Hello there, Boy, I don’t know. Here’s some art, ideas, and internet for…
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September 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New issue of Laura Olin’s newsletter, full of good stuff. “I had forgotten that the Statue of Liberty was, upon installation, brown.” [buttondown.com]
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The style of ShouXin’s drawings is a perfect match for their subject matter — cats are simultaneously wild and carefully composed. [kottke.org]
Wild Cats, Bored Cats, Sleepy Cats
The style of ShouXin’s drawings is a perfect match for their subject matter — cats are simultaneously wild and carefully composed. (via colossal)
kottke.org
September 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The style of ShouXin’s drawings is a perfect match for their subject matter — cats are simultaneously wild and carefully composed. [kottke.org]
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One for the gardener | photographer in your life, or your own Christmas stocking. Another cracker from the excellent production line of John Ash & Paul Gotts plus you'll be supporting a fantastic charity, as well as adding to your book collection. Go on, grab a copy or two!!
throughthefencephotobook.co.uk
😀 working with @wildtwin.bsky.social again @ foreword to a new photo book
“Rob Knight, Ali Lewis & Mandy Davies’s closely observed photos take us through the fence and through the eyes of these brilliant photographers we walk the pathways of this improvised utopia”
😀 working with @wildtwin.bsky.social again @ foreword to a new photo book
“Rob Knight, Ali Lewis & Mandy Davies’s closely observed photos take us through the fence and through the eyes of these brilliant photographers we walk the pathways of this improvised utopia”
Through the Fence, a photobook
Through the Fence, a photobook
throughthefencephotobook.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
One for the gardener | photographer in your life, or your own Christmas stocking. Another cracker from the excellent production line of John Ash & Paul Gotts plus you'll be supporting a fantastic charity, as well as adding to your book collection. Go on, grab a copy or two!!
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Really in-depth review of the iPhone Air that answered a lot of my questions re the battery life and camera. In both cases, it appears to match the iPhone 17 almost 1:1 — not as big of a compromise as I mentally prepared myself for!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EeWu1CS2Ac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EeWu1CS2Ac
September 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Really in-depth review of the iPhone Air that answered a lot of my questions re the battery life and camera. In both cases, it appears to match the iPhone 17 almost 1:1 — not as big of a compromise as I mentally prepared myself for!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EeWu1CS2Ac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EeWu1CS2Ac
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Photos from the astounding Andy Goldsworthy exhibition in Edinburgh today. Not to be missed if you can make it.
September 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Photos from the astounding Andy Goldsworthy exhibition in Edinburgh today. Not to be missed if you can make it.