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Robert Heinze @rheinze.eurosky.social · 23h

Don’t worry about Grundfinanzierung they said There’s so much Drittmittel you won’t believe it they said

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

How the HK pro-democracy movement cultivated and tried to control - successfully or not - its image is a fascinating aspect of the 2019-2020 protests that deserves a whole essay. I say this as someone who was part of that machine, because let’s be honest, I was (am?)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

"To the extent my rhetoric has been imperfect, that's on me."

JD Vance tweets: "Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.

I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.

And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country."

There's a video of the town hall in Limoges burning.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

In case you’re wondering how far the Overton window has shifted, we’ve now entered the “Marine Le Pen is a socialist cuck” stage of American conservatism.

Curtis Yarvin • @curtis_yarvin • 23h
Endgame of the 20th-century conservative:
defending liberalism against itself.
Marine has worked very hard and deserves to retire. Send her to AFRICA where she can complete her mission civilatrice with stable of
Congolese fancyboys, MC next NatCon Kinshasa
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Yes, Islam is compatible with the Republic;
l've said it ten times.
On the other hand, those who seek to impose Sharia in France will find me standi...
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22:03 DIRECT
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FACE AUX R
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CINEWS
OBJECTIF
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2027
→ FACE AUX REDACTIONS
EN CAS DE VICTOIRE DU RN, DES FRANCAIS QUITTERAIENT LE PAYS

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Jan Overwijk @jloverwijk.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

This should be bigger news. Big Tech is a threat to democracy in many ways.

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

I believe every Roman historian now

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afrelek @afrelek.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Impressions from All of a Sudden at WIFF: eternal respect for Hamaguchi looking at the recent commodification of class conflict cinema and saying “strap in bby we’re explaining marxist crisis theory at a whiteboard for 30 minutes and you’re gonna love it” (and it’s a really good explanation!)

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from

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Marcus Krueger @trustedsystem.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Immer noch mein liebster Beitrag zu Foucault.

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afrelek @afrelek.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

that said entities are ran by paranoid, corrupt, far-right manchildren makes this, needless to say, immeasurably worse

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afrelek @afrelek.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

it's almost as if private sector entities running critical infrastructure with no political accountability is a horrible idea. huh. who knew

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 15/10/2026

last sentence is the kicker: “There’s thinking going on that the US administration in its current form is the most AI-friendly administration you could think of,” he said. “Any departure from that unity of Congress and executive with the midterms looming could imply AI regulation risks.”

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News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's always very strange to me that many essential takes around Russian foreign policy are "economic anxiety and isolation are a valid excuse for aggression" as if Russia had not choice but to, y'know, do that

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15/10/2026

Hard to describe this as anything other than an elite-level psychosis spurred on by the collapse of mainstream support for Israel.

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 13/10/2026

Many versions of the current El Niño intensity have been shared… we’ve had to change the colour scale to appropriately show the strength of the anomaly.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 14/10/2026

One difference I guess is that you know what the malware botnet is going to do. Either way, you should not be allowed to make this

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 14/10/2026

This is different from a malware botnot how exactly

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The BBC's robust pushback in this ridiculous case is very good to see, and should be its standard approach to American bullying.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here's the text of the brief submitted by The BTI: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... It was written by Richard Samp, a right-wing activist lawyer and member of the Federalist Society (fedsoc.org/bio/richard-...)

No. 25-170
In the
Supreme Court of the United States
SUNCOR ENERGY (U.S.A.) INC., ET AL.,
Petitioners,
U.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF BOULDER
COUNTY, ET AL.,
Respondents. On Writ of Certiorari to the
Supreme Court of Colorado
BRIEF OF THE BREAKTHROUGH INSTITUTE
AS AMICUS CURIAE
IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

AI is a fucking pied piper, and everyone else is a rat

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afrelek @afrelek.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Of course the difference between drug boats and this is that this is now explicitly a public spectacle of violence - and that makes it absurdly disgusting. That a rotting corpse was really under the mask of a rotting corpse does not change much in that regard

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afrelek @afrelek.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

btw if you start with politics based on replacing material concerns with jouissance obtained from authority-sanctioned violence/spectacle of violence, it's rather obvious that you will inevitably get to public executions (what else were the drug boats?) Videodrome as politics, politics as Videodrome

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

equity markets go brrrrr

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afrelek @afrelek.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

like two days ago public executions were not yet on the table jfc - at this point you'll go for a week-long trip and come back to states slinging atomic warheads at each other

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afrelek @afrelek.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

an accurate representation of how it feels to check up on US politics/discourse after being down with a cold for mere three days

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ivan Turgenev's "Execution of Troppmann" is a short essay, published in 1870, that gives a first-hand account of the writer attending a public execution in Paris. Turgenev's details how the drunk, unruly crowd turned a somber moment into a carnival. A deeply moving essay; I encourage you to read it.

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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re bringing back all the hits aren’t they

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nothing more perfectly sums up the institutionalization Of revolution more than French riot cops attacking French youth in a place they’ve been taught to celebrate revolution for their entire school career.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

The thing is this: history is complex. Ethics aren’t

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

delighted to share with you a few slides from my powerpoint on the culture industry, which I first made in 2015 (?), pre-AI, and have added to, little by little, over the years, as the processes of homogenization have intensified & the smothering sameness of mainstream ideas become more choking: +

Slide from Culture Industry lecture: The Culture Industry / Art Under Late Capitalism. "The whole world is passed through the filter of the culture industry" (99).

Diagram from mid 2010s showing the consolidation of media conglomerates in publishing-- now hilariously (?) obsolete

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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's so funny that they think they can buy the Pope the same way they think they bought the current president

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afrelek @afrelek.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh the latter is surprising and awesome! Where was that?

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afrelek @afrelek.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Adrift in the South by Xiao Hai is well worth reading next to it (I also think it’s a better and more radical book)

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

Computerisation is invisibilisation and precarisation of labour part 49462

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🚨New Paper🚨 From Socialization to Social Research: Felix Weil, Karl Korsch, and the Political Origins of the Frankfurt School Jacob Blumenfeld In: Contemporary Critical Theory and Latin America: A South–North Dialogue on the Crises of the Present (2026) PDF: philpapers.org/rec/BLUFST

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

None of these features is mere sloppiness, they're all symptoms of the way genAI works: the 3rd eye is added to the established pattern of a human face the model cannot deviate from; the Roman Empire is what «antiquity» means in a latent space derived from Hollywood epics: a costume, not an epoch …

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026

Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:

At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

I still can’t deal with the fact that we live in a timeline that seems to have been written by a first semester gender studies student trying their hand at some bonkers masculinity-themed horror story

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