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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@melaniemitchell.bsky.social Is it silly of me to assume that Altman & Co. decide to "slow down" AI development only because they have no idea how to advance it further now that they can't find any more training data?

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(Imagining you at the centre of the prayer circle slo-mo-slurping the world's longest ramen noodle while holding eye contact.)

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You are my literary executor now. (I use heat-sensitive ink, so you can put it all in the oven at 70°C/160°F for ~20 minutes and then reuse the paper: 120gms, A5, Edition Peters' bright chamois, really too good to waste.)

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

follow through with this, burn them unread, at the behest of a loose paper, after refusing the very act in person. When push comes to shove, I'd much rather have someone like you in my camp, certain that I could rely on you, but I do find Brod's doubts plausible, precisely because he wasn't that.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I agree with the heart of this. Especially since Brod's interventions went far beyond "not destroying" them. I wonder how I'd feel if these books weren't so dear to me, I know it affects my judgement, but it's just unimaginable to me that K, a high-ranking lawyer, expected Brod of all people to...

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Brod valued & championed these writings more than anyone and he refused their destruction in conversation with Kafka. That's the kind of favour you ask consent for and he didn't get it. You can't just "last will" someone into doing something they'll forever regret like it's the ice bucket challenge.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Literally reading Moby Dick (via Metcalf's Genoa) when this cloud swims by.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I hope your adblocker doesn't catch this one.

German Braunolin ad, found in a Simplicissimus from 1917. "Your face brimming over with health, and freckles obscured. You receive a strong brown tan with Braunolin (brownoline). Recommended by doctors..."

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Love this approach. Very apt for presenting an interpretation of quantum mechanics and I hope it catches on. Wittgenstein would have thrown a fit by 1.3. at the latest, but that's just what he does.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It's so depressing that the pushback to these violations, even in the devout world of football, is nearly as robotic i.e. going through the motions without considering even the possibility of a real consequence. Someone, anyone, should take the ball and go home. For the love of the game.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I wonder how we ever earned this reputation. The last time a German train arrived on time must have been pre-unified railway time.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'll have another go at it with this in mind, thank you! I certainly had the wrong mindset on my first read, a decade after last reading 1, and real quick before visiting a Faust exhibition. But if my second read doesn't go any better, I'll just content with being a dogbrain. There's worse.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Your thoughts do make me want to revisit it, maybe with the help of extensive commentary, but I worry that my brain doesn't have the RAM to keep up with all these meta-allegories made from ~10 different mythologies. Blink woof meow is all I got.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Shattered my brain in three that one, never felt so dumb. I went into it all cheery with my Faust 1 cap on when I should have approached it like a NYT crossword written in madrigal verse. Finnegans Wake feels positively breezy in comparison.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I'll have to start a book club with these three, because that was my exact reaction to Faust 2.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Is it really? Because it would explain everything. Can't just use a simple "frequent expression -> trending" algorithm these days. Every byte needs three tours through the crap machine minimum.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

He, Campact, ihr seid eigentlich prima, aber nachdem ihr erstens angefangen habt, die Absender-Namen zu variieren und zweitens immer mehr Clickbait-Mist in den Betreff schreibt (wie "Dein Vorsorge-Termin entfällt") hab ich den Newsletter abbestellt und ich bin da bestimmt nicht der einzige.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I really don't understand how the Trending thing works on here. When you click on "Ted Cruz", you just get random skeets mentioning Texas. "Melania movie" is just a bunch of people talking about "The Apprentice". Thing is useless.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Orcutt Shelley Miller is the best live band since sliced tea.

Triptych of Orcutt, Shelley and Miller being fan-fucking-tastic

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

PSA: penultimate does NOT mean super-duper-ultimate

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A watershed moment to flush all those turds away. I'm so happy, I could cry.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

How to counter their "flooding the zone with shit" remains one of the hardest, most pressing questions of our time. I've said this before but if Watergate had taken place in this environment, it certainly wouldn't have stayed in the news long enough for Nixon to resign.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

This is from the World Zionist Congress in 2015.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Saw this in Bratislava the other day and thought of this thread.

Concert poster: Marin Burlas a Peter Zagar. Easy listening doom.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Even if the quarterback's a festering ulcer of dementia, I do think that's their plan. It all seems like diarrheic dumbfuckery, but their Project 2025 comes merrily along.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Snyder making his argument in full sentences makes it seem more sophisticated than it is. It's the dumbest fucking playbook of 21st century dictators. Trump's obviously too dumb to be the orchestrator, but he's also too dumb to keep his mouth shut about it. He's pretty happy to admit it.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I wonder where the threshold lies, but I reckon it depends entirely on how many people you consider hopeless fools. If the proportion of "wrong uses" divided by the general average of fools is greater than 1, then your system fails. (Which goes to show how useful it is to be an arrogant prick.)

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Calling these non-creations "books" or "music" already feels like wearing the war bonnet because feathers are pretty in how it dismisses the actual, irreplaceable, personal relationship and labour inherent to & defining of them. "AI-art" is to art what L. Tussaud's waxworks to their living models.

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Norm DePlume @normdeplume.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

in the shadow of them, and everyone else has left, and I'll be there forever. Made me abandon my dream of a big home library and then somehow I accumulated one despite of not wanting one. Stuff of zombies.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

For 15 years now I've had this recurring nightmare. It's the last day of my semester abroad in Venice and I've to leave for the last vaporetto, but for every book I pack in my suitcase two new ones appear that I can't leave behind. Till the room is brimful with books, and I'm all walled in...

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Es ist nicht nachzuvollziehen, dass die deutsche Politik weiterhin an Palantir festhält. Der CEO spricht offen von seinen Zielen (Amerikas Vormachtstellung durch Gewalt - auch an Zivilisten - befördern und die eingespeisten Daten gegen MAGAs Gegner einsetzen) und die stehen unseren klar entgegen.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Auch in der Wortwahl ist bei Spahn mittlerweile mehr als offensichtlich, dass ihm von Grenell&Co eingeflüstert wird. Es ist unverantwortlich, ihn in diesem kritischen Moment, nach einem halben Dutzend disqualifizierenden Skandalen, noch immer als Fraktionschef der Regierungspartei zu halten.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

That's something you'll want hand embroidered on cashmere. Someone needs to start a shitpost-based Etsy for the distinguished men and gentledames.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

What strikes me is that in both instances of verh/forgebracht it looks like he was overwriting another letter with the f/h. Maybe a v, n or a. In the second instance it even looks like he had used new ink on the h/f and the b. Maybe that's why the letter looks so odd.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Can you add a picture of another instance of this word? It looks like this might be a lower case Kurrent "h" instead of an "f", making this "verhor" instead of "hervor". Nearly seems like a conscious Verballhornung.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

We better get started on the paperwork for the Nuremberg trials now. Otherwise it'll take their lifetimes just to print the evidence they're supplying.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

A random woman with the world's longest middle finger to make up for her missing arm.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I couldn't care less about the football/soccer schism, but homely as unattractive is just monstrously wrong. I'd leave it in and add a reprimanding footnote for the American readers.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

"Shredded cheese recall" is also what I call my long-term memory.

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pedter {STET} @pedter.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

It's right there in the definition: Pacifism is the opposition to war. You oppose war by defending the ones who suffer war. You oppose it by making sure that waging war is always and beyond doubt a losing game.

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