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Maurice Weller
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Came over from Twitter. Follow me of you know me from there.
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woz.ch
Nicht annähernd so brisant, wie es der @nzz.ch -Feuilletonchef darstellt: Der Zürcher Heimatschutz hat ein Gutachten zu zwei Fassadeninschriften nun doch veröffentlicht.
Auf allen Kanälen: Trachten und Inschriften
Ein Gutachten des Heimatschutzes zu zwei Inschriften in Zürich ist nicht annähernd so brisant, wie es die NZZ darstellt. Dafür verrät das Papier etwas über den Auftraggeber.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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rheinze.myatproto.social
Find das ganz im Ernst eine sehr gute und klare Definition: Wokeness ist, wenn jemand Ansprüche auf Mindeststandards im respektvollen Umgang mit ihm stellt, den ich als dessen nicht würdig ansehe.
adriandaub.bsky.social Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 6h
Weil Ihr immer mault, dass Leute, die sich über „Wokeness“ beklagen, den Terminus nie richtig definieren: hier liefert ein „Interview über Wokeness“ endlich mal eine Anekdote, die ganz clare et distincte erklärt, was gemeint ist
Können Sie ein Beispiel geben? Kürzlich hat sich ein Häftling in einer Justizvollzugsanstalt darüber beschwert, dass er zum Essen eine überreife Birne bekommen habe. Da würde man meinen, dass die normale Reaktion wäre, ihm zu sagen: «Aber sonst geht es Ihnen gut?» Stattdessen landete das Ganze bei der Oberbehörde und führte dazu, dass der An-staltsjurist eine ausführliche Stellungnahme zur
November 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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sojajunge.bsky.social
ein sehr guter text, der auch dabei hilft die krah-kubitschek-debatte einzuordnen. die spannung zwischen (nationalsozialistischer) realpolitik und dem intellektuellen bodenpersonal scheint zeitlos zu sein
The life of Mohler, as a guiding light of the New Right, traces a narrative arc across multiple generations of such thinking. Although research into Mohler and his networks is currently flourishing in Germany, political scientists still often mischaracterize the New Right’s intellectual project, describing the group as a hinge that links established conservative parties and the radical right.5 But this type of portrayal, by relying on an often-implicit spectrum that places fascism at one extreme, frequently disregards the complex internal fissures within fascist and fascist-adjacent thinking. A new understanding is needed. The New Right does not attempt to resurrect fascist thinking, nor does it cultivate neo-Nazi aspirations. To describe it this way is to misconstrue the nature of its radicality. The New Right is better understood as an intellectual project designed to identify and revive dissident strands of thinking that previously proved to be too radical for fascism in power. The New Right is deeply concerned with its own history, and it mines that history to salvage and reinvigorate strands of fascist-adjacent thinking. The rest of us discount the movement’s intellectual complexity at our peril.
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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politikundliebe.bsky.social
„Lutheraner also. Nenn mir alle 95 Thesen du Bastard.“
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
asharangappa.bsky.social Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 21h
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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onachtwey.bsky.social
„reduced work effort, increased leisure spending and investment in risky financial assets (including crypto) are all disproportionately common among young adults who face little to no realistic prospect of being able to afford a house.“
The housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilism
Locked out of home ownership, young adults are turning to risky financial behaviour
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November 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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aphclarkson.bsky.social
Not just a UK problem either. Even if you look at the populist Right or Left of European politics in the 1990s, the skill of figures like Jörg Haider or Gregor Gysi at engaging in debate would make them elite policy wonks compared to the intellectual standard of debate now
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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gilduran.com
It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!

The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley

Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.

Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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maxread.info
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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sojajunge.bsky.social
hanno sauer pullt den "laut einer amerikanischen studie..." midwit conversation starter wie ein vollprofi
weisbrod.bsky.social Lars Weisbrod @weisbrod.bsky.social · 6d
Dass der Philosoph Hanno Sauer im Interview sofort nach seinem „soziologischen Röntgenblick“ gefragt wird, woraufhin Sauer dann küchensoziologische Allgemeinplätze aufsagt, zeigt schön: für Philosophie interessiert sich eigentlich niemand und am allerwenigsten natürlich Hanno Sauer
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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weisbrod.bsky.social
Dass der Philosoph Hanno Sauer im Interview sofort nach seinem „soziologischen Röntgenblick“ gefragt wird, woraufhin Sauer dann küchensoziologische Allgemeinplätze aufsagt, zeigt schön: für Philosophie interessiert sich eigentlich niemand und am allerwenigsten natürlich Hanno Sauer
November 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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flstp.bsky.social
Eine sehr charmante Rezension, der ein souveräner Zugriff auf Sauers als analytische Philosophie verhüllten reaktionären Positivismus gelingt.

Sauer entlarvt seinen Zynismus darüberhinaus endgültig selbst durch seine kategorische Ablehnung jeglicher phil. Ideengeschichte:
doi.org/10.1080/0020...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
(that reminds me: you should read KSR's Years of Salt and Rice)
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7d
i've read

- gibson
- effinger
- KSR
- bacigalupi

and most of the classical stories
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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onachtwey.bsky.social
Kann sich jemand erbarmen und mit Hanno Sauer in irgendeine Berliner Bar gehen (oder ihm TikTok installieren) und ihn mit der Wirklichkeit vertraut machen? (Quelle: SZ).
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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verbrecherverlag.bsky.social
Morgen im Nachtasyl, Hamburg: „KÖNIGIN IM DRECK – eine musikalische Lesung“ mit Tucké Royale, Jens Friebe, Elmira Bahrami, Kristin Bönicke und Texten von Ronald M. Schernikau.
Mehr: nachtasyl.de/index.php/11...
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SCHERNIKAU
SCHERNIKAU Musik & szenische Lesung   KÖNIGIN IM DRECK. Eine musikalische Lesung von Ronald M. Schernikau von & mit: Jens Friebe,
nachtasyl.de
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
Does anyone know any good near-future and/or cyberpunk fiction?
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
It's wild how "our intellectual elite are a bit morally smug" warrants the same article being pushed out saying as much for a decade, but a global paedophile ring in which many of our richest and most powerful and leading minds all took part is, you know, uncouth to talk about.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8d
Someday you, too, could have the moral fortitude to look upon a years-long rape circus organized by the nation's most powerful elites and declare, "The people upset about this are speaking about it the wrong way."
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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hurricanexyz.bsky.social
I think in part this reflects the way that Trump's words are always completely empty and he doesn't quite understand that other people don't work that way
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?

MAMDANI: I've spoken about--

TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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jasonkirk.fyi
Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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jamellebouie.net
god trump so clearly thinks mamdani is an alpha and is ingratiating himself
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
bahahahahahahahaha
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8d
Fox News is confused by Trump's friendly meeting with Mamdani.

"You know, it was a surprise to see those two getting along as well as they did. A couple of times I asked the mayor-elect a tougher question, and the president almost helped him dodge it."
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
wellermaurice.bsky.social
Das Magazin "The Baffler" liefert im Moment ganz viele grossartige Texte! Zum Beispiel diese Rezension von Lea Ypis neuem Buch:
thebaffler.com The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 9d
Lea Ypi’s “Indignity” tries to be at once a memoir, a philosophy tract, a historical novel, and “Candide” for the twenty-first century—but it doesn’t do any of them successfully.
A Philosopher After All
Lea Ypi’s “Indignity” tries to be too many things—and doesn’t quite succeed at any.
thebaffler.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that.

buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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ifbookspod.bsky.social
Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever

Life lessons from the “Godmother of Punk.”
open.spotify.com/episode/7FOm...

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Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever
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November 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM