Reposted by Maurice WellerNed Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 17hThis is meant to be a provocation, but it show a major generational shift in the German far right - during the Cold War, the far right followed the expellee lobby and talked about 1937 borders (i.e reclaiming East Prussia and Silesia from the USSR and Poland but pre Anschluss of Austria) 88232
Reposted by Maurice WellerElizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026 170125412949
Reposted by Maurice WellerNed Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A feature of post-war German democracy has been that the left has traditionally had far more of a firewall to the far left than the center right has had with the far right. The central role of anti-communism in Cold War West Germany created a structural asymmetry that has not been reckoned with. 723069
Reposted by Maurice Wellerlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is the state of the subfield of ethics in analytic philosophy. 511214
Reposted by Maurice WellerMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do... 351301513
Reposted by Maurice WellerPatrick Boyle 💎 @pboyle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026New video just went live on YouTube. youtu.be/T-oXyXwD6sEyoutu.beIs the AI Bubble About to Be Tested?YouTube video by Patrick Boyle 54511
Reposted by Maurice WellerQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 25/09/2026Bari Weiss giving the Axel Springer prize to Peter Thiel, Dutschke was right about everything. 49916
Reposted by Maurice WellerWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I discussed what has happened to ‘intellectuals’ with @piercepenniless.bsky.social for @lrb.co.uk podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comOn Politics: What happened to the intellectual?Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 23 September · 1hr 7min 22111
Reposted by Maurice WellerPhilippe Wampfler @handle.invalid · 22/09/2026Hätte nicht gedacht, dass sowas wie die Mamdani-Hass-Kampagne in Europa denkbar wäre. Was die etablierten Medien gerade wegen Berlin abziehen, übertrifft das fast noch: Weil es aus der Mitte kommt. Wie könnt ihr das supporten, «liberale» und «konservative» Mitbürger:innen? 2122
Reposted by Maurice WellerNed Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The campaign against the creation of a Linke led govt in Berlin is focused almost entirely on accusations of antisemitism and the specter of Neukölln. This is very different from the protests against the formation of the first Linke led govt in Thüringen in 2014 which were all about the GDR. 2155
Reposted by Maurice WellerAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Weidel's latest press conference reinforces my hunch that the next decade of German politics might be defined by how the AfD expanding at the expense of the CDU/CSU Right might so freak out Centrist and mobilise Leftist voters that it increases the likelihood of far more Left-leaning governments 817324
Reposted by Maurice WellerNed Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Berlin is going to be getting a government led by die Linke - while the SPD campaigned on continuing to work with the CDU, it’s not mathematically possible even with the support of the Greens 69524
Reposted by Maurice WellerNed Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The CDU/CSU has never been absent from a federal or state parliament in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1949. This is a massive blow to the party that see itself as the natural governing party of post war Germany. 412631
Reposted by Maurice WellerJulius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Es 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. 🧵 21970401
Reposted by Maurice WellerChristina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Aber schon auch wild, dass die Politik der BuReg & aller anderer Fossilindustrie-basierter Demokratien nun zu nicht geringen Teilen davon bestimmt wird, ob eine absolutistische extrem radikalislamische superreiche Monarchie die eigene Infrastruktur gegen ne Bürgerkriegsmiliz abgesichert bekommt 1284
Reposted by Maurice WellerMax Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Die Merz-Nummer erinnert mich an folgendes Ereignis: Nach einer Rede des Staatspräsidenten Ezer Weizman 1996 in Deutschland wurde Zentralratsvorsitzender Ignatz Bubis vom CDU-Politiker Hans-Joachim Reichert mit den Worten beglückwünscht: „Ihr Staatspräsident hat eine sehr gute Rede gehalten.“ 1/ 515930
Reposted by Maurice WellerRobert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026I tried to explain what the rationalists are to a colleague yesterday in a discussion about this guy and once I had arrived at „they love this weird Harry Potter fanfic“ she looked at me like a crazy person. 2386
Reposted by Maurice WellerDaniel Martin Feige @danielmartinfeige.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Vortrag: Das Glücken der Improvisation und die Kraft des Werks www.philosophie.ch/krino-2026philosophie.chKrino: Programm 2026 021
Reposted by Maurice WellerQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 13/09/2026Percentage-based forecasts of AI doomsday—like prediction markets and betting lines shifting in chyrons across sports matches—are unprovable expressions of scientism that still create potentially lucrative angles for those uttering and tracking them. 16516
Reposted by Maurice Wellerlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Future utilitarians living in a solar punk utopia having anguished debates about the credit owed to President Trump for supercharging green transition. 422508391
Reposted by Maurice WellerNed Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Having accurately described the AfD’s plans as “ethnic cleansing” but continuing to refuse to accept a party ban as a valid course of action, Merz has painted himself into an absurd and untenable position. 415033
Reposted by Maurice WellerWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026On fiscal hyperpolitics as Covid hangover substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comPost-holiday bluesCovid and the unlearning of neoliberalism 1117
Reposted by Maurice WellerAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 11/09/2026Trump pushed the "make oil expensive" button, and the Iranians and Houthis made sure gas prices gonna hit the next peak right before the midterms. How high could it go? I have no idea, let's find out 2414
Reposted by Maurice WellerPatrick Bahners @pbahners.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Gut gealtert. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui... 14913
Reposted by Maurice WellerJames Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It was a pleasure - despite the foreboding subject - to catch up with @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social & discuss the AfD victory in Sachsen-Anhalt, and revisit the party's ordoliberal roots - & the difficulties it presents for apparently aligned reactionaries across Europe. open.spotify.com/episode/7Bxr...open.spotify.comOn Politics: Germany's Far-Right Future?The LRB Podcast · Episode 02412
Reposted by Maurice WellerBen McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is literally a plot point in “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. Written in 1935, it predicts the rise of a fascist populist who promises each family $5,000 per year if he’s elected. 25968296
Reposted by Maurice WellerDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026As I keep pointing out, does no one understand Ricardian comparative advantage anymore. FACT: China produces over 1 million engineering graduates per year FACT: To date, China has not produced a single internationally marketable game show format Where does it look like our advantage lies? 37652182
Reposted by Maurice WellerSoziopolis @soziopolis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026„Gezeigt wird, wie hinter der heimeligen Fassade des Familienunternehmertums eine autokratische Restrukturierung der großen Kapitalgesellschaften stattfindet, die die Demokratie bedroht.“ – Christoph Deutschmann über „Oben rechts“, hg. von Heinrich Geiselberger. www.soziopolis.de/das-system-a... 0219
Reposted by Maurice WellerQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 10/09/2026Excellent convo between @piercepenniless.bsky.social and @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on the AfD and this past week's election for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...lrb.co.ukPodcast: James Butler and Jan-Werner Müller · On Politics: Germany's Far-Right Future?London Review of Books 02717
Reposted by Maurice Wellershaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/09/2026i got so bored of the recurring "is starship troopers fascist" discourse a few years ago that i went and read the book to see. it is fascist yes 302019237
Reposted by Maurice Weller👻Notorischer User dieser Plattform🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026An der Zürcher Falkenstrasse interessiert man sich offenbar sehr für die neuesten Erkenntnisse aus der rassenhygienischen Forschung 1115728
Reposted by Maurice WellerRobert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026I actually don't think this is necessarily purely marketing, there is an ideology behind that and it fits well with EA and longtermism. It's a very stupid ideology though that ignores any actual consequences of their actions in the real world while being obsessed with extrapolating into the future. 0113
Reposted by Maurice WellerRobert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026The easy answer to this is that we actually know about the dangers that the whole AI complex poses right now and they have nothing to do with their weirdly giddy "warnings" about the coming apocalypse. 2173
Reposted by Maurice WellerAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There is also something amusing in how AI oligarchs think hiring philosophers will help them anticipate future risks in searching for the machine gods when so many escalating risks that might take them down are lurking in more mundane spheres of everyday politics and economics 1406
Reposted by Maurice WellerAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026When looking at the stuff turned out by AI researchers right now you get a really good sense of the risks that build up when scientists aren't forced to work in the same building as people who study history, culture, politics, economics and war. 24712
Reposted by Maurice WellerAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'll take warnings about imminent AI apocalypse from AI researchers seriously if they worked to shut such a supposedly dangerous sector down. Otherwise I'd worry more about how this discourse distracts from more mundane ways distortions through AI will crash financial markets 79614
Reposted by Maurice WellerAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Counter-mobilisation against AfD success in Sachsen Anhalt could lead the CDU to lose centrist voters to Greens or SPD in Berlin and McPom as confidence in Merz plummets. That means leftish SPD-Linke-Green government in Berlin and McPom, AfD near dominant in SA, and the CDU ground down in between 46911
Reposted by Maurice WellerNed Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My main two general takeaways as a GDR historian on this election (which will probably be painfully familiar to anyone who has followed me for a while) 1. Equating the AfD with a residual mass authoritarian personality is an oversimplification that obscures effects of post-89 social collapse... 9374127
Reposted by Maurice Wellerɩ _ ɩ @gatherer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Imagine if an article came out after 9/11 that Bush was secretly told about 9/11 in August of 2001. 1208
Reposted by Maurice WellerSteffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The landslide victory for a far-right party marks a profound turning point. The traditional party system is no longer able to bind people to it or absorb the prevailing public mood. The AfD is winning support with ethnonationalist and chauvinistic positions that exclude large sections of society. 632197
Reposted by Maurice WellerAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Too many people are making assumptions about the discipline and stability of the BSW, never mind the AfD or CDU. Sachsen Anhalt is more likely to slide into chaotic political paralysis. 39318
Reposted by Maurice WellerAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Most likely scenario that ZDF and ARD debates aren't really grappling with is that no party in Sachsen Anhalt is able to get a stable governing majority and the Land becomes effectively ungovernable 3485
Reposted by Maurice WellerAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026As with Labour and Keir Starmer in the May regional elections in the UK, I struggle to see how Friedrich Merz can survive as leader of the CDU after such a sign of strategic ineptitude as the election results in Sachsen Anhalt 87916
Reposted by Maurice WellerOliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Vielsagend über die sterbende FDP. 410722
Reposted by Maurice WellerMarius Brülhart @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Vor allem jedoch stärkt sie meine These, dass das IWP keine der unvoreingenommenen Wahrheitsfindung verpflichtete wissenschaftliche Einrichtung ist, sondern eine als Uni-Institut getarnte Lobbyorganisation. 2153
Reposted by Maurice WellerMarius Brülhart @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Gerne würde ich das Thema #IWP #Luzern ausblenden. Aber es lässt einen nicht los. Was ich diese Woche erlebt habe, gehört erzählt. 🧵 47447
Reposted by Maurice WellerRobert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 04/09/2026So, kurz vor der Wahl noch mein Beitrag: @niklasweber.bsky.social hat mich für den Podcast „Vergangenheitsformen“ von @hsozkult.bsky.social zur AfD und „dem Postkolonialismus“ interviewt. Fazit: denen geht’s nicht um Gender oder PoCo Studies, sondern um einen Angriff auf die Wissenschaftsfreiheit.hsozkult.deMaking sure you're not a bot! 05123
Reposted by Maurice WellerWolfseule @wolfseule.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Weil GeoGuessr-WM ist (die 4. offizielle und die vierte, der ich beiwohne), möchte ich bitte noch mal auf meinen alten Text verweisen, warum ich das Spiel so super finde. 😬logbuch-suhrkamp.deDorothea Studthoff: Was die Welt im Äußersten auseinanderhältGeoGuesser und die furchtbar komplizierte Einfachheit der Welt 35610
Reposted by Maurice WellerLouis Berger @ajournomento.bsky.social · 30/08/2026„Ein normaler Umgang bestünde darin zu sagen: Ihr vierter Roman ist bestürzend schlecht, und bestürzend ist insbesondere, dass dieser Umstand offenbar geheim bleiben soll, wirft man einen Blick in die bereits vor Erscheinung veröffentlichten, zumeist wohlwollenden Kritiken.“taz.deNeuer Roman von Caroline Wahl: Auf der schönen OberflächeBali, Berlin, St. Moritz: Caroline Wahl reiht in ihrem neuen Roman „1999 Meter über dem Meer“ die Klischees aneinander. Ist sie auf einem antiwoken Kreuzzug? 1132