Chinese readout from the Trump-Xi call www.cac.gov.cn/2025-09/19/c...

I've always said "I'm worried my generation will have to live through our grandparents' life." But I was thinking more of a "history rhymes" kind of thing, not a literal repeat. I don't even know what to say. I'm just watching the world with growing horror. (And yes, this is real, I checked.)

The Onion is in serious trouble :/

From the letter of demands that Harvard received comes this little detail, which sounds a lot like JD Vance is asking for a quota for people like himself. And here I was thinking these people opposed affirmative action.

I've been trying to get answers from Airbnb why it suddenly started showing "Russia" as a place I've been to. I travel quite a bit, but I have never been to Russia nor anywhere close to its borders, so this is a mystery to me. I hope the trip I booked to Odesa (& canceled) is not counted as "Russia"

Semi serious question: when JD Vance talks about values, is this the value alliance he's thinking of? Fully serious comment: If somebody had told me last October that this would be who the US would find itself in agreement with on Ukraine, I would not have believed them.

This X account which Elon Musk occasionally reposts and which is trying to promote the AfD ahead of tomorrow's elections clearly uses auto translations from English for all of its posts. Whoever is running it doesn't speak a word of German.

Das sind übrigens die "Anzeigen", mit denen mir jetzt gerade auf Twitter/X mein Feed geflutet wird. Ja, ja, ich weiß, was mache ich eigentlich noch da? Aber es ist schon ganz nützlich, um zu verstehen, welche Institutionen Elon als nächstes in den USA oder Europa zerstören will.