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Bryan Klausmeyer

@bryan.is
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Associate Professor of German at Virginia Tech. Co-editor of the Goethe-Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts @ goethe-lexicon.pitt.edu. Humboldt Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, 2026-2027.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5h
I worry in the next few years we're all going to have to have some patient, complicated conversations with older or less media-engaged relatives who see the le epic trump takedown posts but do not stuff like this about who Gavin Newsom Really Is
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 01/10/2026
DIE ZEIT: Wäre es da nicht doch einfacher, die Regierung löste das Volk auf und wählte ein anderes?
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 30/09/2026
My failed attempt to drop off my ballot at the US Embassy resulted in a funny conversation with the black security guard, a former military technician who’s been living here for forty years, hasn’t voted in decades, likes hot rods, and wondered why anyone would choose to live in the US over Germany
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 28/09/2026
nytimes.com
Opinion | He Was The Times’s Moscow Chief. My Grandmother Was His Censor. (Gift Article)
Somehow the story got through.
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 27/09/2026
Back in Berlin
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 26/09/2026
Polish film dubbing, where one guy does all the voices in solemn monotone, is oddly soothing
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 26/09/2026
Jahrestage Bd. 1
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Thomas Heichele @thomasheichele.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Funfact: Technik als „Organprojektion“ Ernst Kapp (1808-1896) gilt mit seinem Werk „Grundlinien einer Philosophie der Technik“ als Begründer der Technikphilosophie als eigenständige phil. Disziplin. Er greift die klassische Vorstellung von Technik als Naturnachahmung auf. Er präsentiert ein
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 26/09/2026
Kraków ➡️ Wrocław
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Daniel Weissmann @danweiss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Judenfetisch nennt sich sowas und der nicht-jüdischen Deutschen liebstes Hobby um die Nazi Gespenster aus der Familiengeschichte zu tilgen, denn schließlich geht es in erster Linie um sie selbst.
Als Shlomo Katz könnte ich eine Buchhandlung betreiben. In der es auch Bücher gibt, in denen die Balfour-Deklaration erklärt wird. 1917 hat der damalige britische Außenminister und Kolonialherr Arthur Balfour dem „jüdischen Volk“ eine „nationale Heimstätte“ in Palästina zugesichert. Als Shlomo Katz wüsste ich mittlerweile, wie wenig so was eine Frauke aus Bünde/Westfalen interessiert, die in Berlin studiert und sich gerne enthemmt, wenn sie bei irgendeiner Demo mit vielen Palästina-Flaggen „Yalla Intifada“ brüllen kann.
Als Shlomo Katz würde ich schon seit dem 8. Oktober 2023 überlegen, wohin ich mit meinem Buchladen umziehen könnte. Am Tag nach dem Mord an 1200 Menschen in Israel zeigte sich, wie gerne die Deutschen am Auschwitz-Befreiungstag traurige Streichquartette im Bundestag aufführen lassen. Leider aber Solidarität mit heutzutage ermordeten Juden zu anstrengend fanden. Als Shlomo Katz würde mir die Zeit knapp. Im September könnten die Leute von der Linkspartei hier regieren. Unter denen es viele Hamas-Freunde gibt, die allein ein Name wie Shlomo Katz schon in leichte Pogrom-Laune versetzt.In der SPD werden Persönlichkeiten wie Janine Wolter Bildungsstadträtin. Sie fand bei Instagram gut, was der Islamistenversteher Tarek Baé aufgeschrieben hatte. Ein Typ, der schon öffentlich bezweifelte, ob am 7. Oktober 2023 wirklich Frauen Opfer von sexueller Gewalt geworden sind. Der Bezirksbürgermeister Martin Hikel rügte Frau Wolter dafür. Hikel steht nicht mehr zur Wahl, aber Frau Wolter bei ihrer weiteren Laufbahn im intellektuellen Moder dieser Stadt nichts im Wege. Als Shlomo Katz müsste ich mich mit dem Kofferpacken beeilen.
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 23/09/2026
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 23/09/2026
Lesesaal der Jagiellonen-Bibliothek
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026
If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.
wsj.com
Exclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal Court
The U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system.
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 22/09/2026
Krakow
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Daniel Weissmann @danweiss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Um die bürgerliche Mitte der deutschen Gesellschaft mit dem eigenen Hass vom Fremden zu erreichen muss man vorgeben sich ihrer erinnerungspolitischen Normen zu unterwerfen und das heißt nun mal vorgeben man sorge sich um jüdisches Leben.
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 22/09/2026
Poznan ➡️ Krakow
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wahrscheinlich sollte es nicht überraschen, dass selbst die kleinste Herausforderung des Status quo von links so eine Welle rassistischer Diffamierung aus Politik & Medien auslöst, aber angesichts der Tatsache, dass es in D wieder faschistische Mehrheiten gibt, ist es schockierend.
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 21/09/2026
Berlin ➡️ Poznan
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Es gibt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Aber es gibt auch Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Wie wir heute Abend voraussichtlich wieder sehen werden, unterscheiden sich beide Regionen deutlich in ihrem Wahlverhalten. Woher kommen diese Unterschiede? Ein Thread mit Daten aus dem Kaiserreich bis heute. 🧵
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 20/09/2026
The Jeb Bush meme, but for Volt
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 19/09/2026
Finally finished watching the final season of The Comeback - so good
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's time. Time to write about this style of writing. Which I've done here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
What is LinkedIn?
The rise of mindful slop
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/09/2026
ban private spending on elections. ban billionaires
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Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
John Wilson again mines the mundane for this hilarious documentary “The History of Concrete.” Our review: buff.ly/JPP4pw9
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https://crookedmarquee.com/review-the-history-of-concrete/
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 16/09/2026
"Modern" is whichever time period you work on, unless you're a classicist, in which case everything quote-unquote "modern" can already to be found in antiquity.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Es ist ein Grundproblem deutscher Erinnerungskultur, dass so viele sich in der Frage „was, wenn das heute passieren würde“ implizit in die Rolle potentieller Opfer hineinprojizieren (die sich entweder „Sorgen machen“ müssen oder nicht), nicht in die tatsächliche Rolle ihrer Eltern und Großeltern.
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 14/09/2026
Abu Ghraib imperial boomerang
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 14/09/2026
Funny to see Julia Louis-Dreyfus doing YouTube ads to encourage Americans living abroad to vote electronically...
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you cannot be trusted to stand up for transgender Americans when they’re facing what some experts call a genocide, I don’t trust you to stand up for anything.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12/09/2026
"The picture is his cenotaph, & like the monuments dedicated to the memory of unknown soldiers everywhere, it asks that we look at it, and make one simple acknowledgment. That we have known who the Falling Man is all along." The piece cuts deep every time I read it. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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The Falling Man
Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in i...
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 11/09/2026
Herzlich willkommen in Deutschland,
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 11/09/2026
"And here's why that's good for investors."
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Tom Vandeputte @tomvandeputte.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wrote a short piece on obsolescence and the expulsion of the human in Anders’ negative anthropology: politicaltheology.com/promethean-s...
politicaltheology.com
Promethean Speculations | Political Theology Network
The human being, Günther Anders proposes, is a creature distinguished by its lack of a fixed place or definite purpose in the order of creation. Before being “in the world,” the human finds itself…
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Robot Musil @robotmusil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Schämst du dich nicht?
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 10/09/2026
The best part of my day is encountering the hedgehog that lives in Waldeckpark
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 10/09/2026
Ja, das hat ganz gut geklappt. Ich halte mich für gewarnt.
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 09/09/2026
Spätsommerempfang der AvH-Stiftung
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 08/09/2026
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/hartm...
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 08/09/2026
Finally some European countries are going beyond the ritual denouncing of expanding illegal Israeli settlements & are taking action to uphold international law. It is a modest but important step.   While the Trump admin attacks the move, Congress can & must act.
washingtonpost.com
Citing ‘ethnic cleansing,’ U.K. bars imports from Israeli West Bank settlements
Other European countries immediately pledged support for the effort, which prompted warnings from the United States.
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Chris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The state of the telecoms markets in the USA today, a few decades after the most successful antitrust action since the second world war, has helped to convince me that we can't just keep doing things the old way. We need state-owned competitors-of-last-resort in every market that matters.
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 07/09/2026
Larry David meets Erol Morris
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You Can See Everything | Official Teaser HD | A24
YouTube video by A24
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The demographic which voted the least for the AfD was socialized entirely in the GDR, the highest share at 53% (35-44) were children or infants when the wall came down and 42% of those born in the 21st century voted for them.
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Bryan Klausmeyer @bryan.is · 06/09/2026
Incredible
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