I am once again thinking about this Nick Cave quote: "I'm forever near a stereo saying 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chilli Peppers"

Goth Moth • NorthSouth Books From the world of Jitterbug, a picture book for any child who is afraid to step into the limelight and try something new! Walter is a shy moth. He prefers to hide out in his quiet attic. But a fiery p...

My latest translation project is obviously a change of pace in some ways, on-brand in others.

OLIVENSTEINS - Euthanasie - (Live on FR3 1979) YouTube video by Born Bad Records

great first wave French punk rock

#fuckmusk

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher." - Abraham Lincoln, 1/27/1837

www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad....

AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit Artificial intelligence doesn’t just incrementally erode the rights of authors and other creators. These technologies are designed to replace creative workers altogether

AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit

Celebrities need to stop writing children’s books: they’re woefully underqualified | Arwa Mahdawi As Jamie Oliver has found out to his cost, write what you know or you could end up with a flop and an international PR disaster, says Arwa Mahdawi

And it would help if editors stopped ludicrously overpaying for them - they don't earn out, and the ephemeral nature of celebrity means they have no backlist value. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Revealed: how top pop stars are used to ‘launder the reputation’ of Koch family Stand Together Music, part of rightwing billionaire Charles Koch’s advocacy network, collaborates with Pitbull, Machine Gun Kelly and others

Ugh. They even duped Killer Mike and Tom Morello.

The Cassette-Tape Revolution The disruptive power of the cassette anticipated the even greater tectonic shift that the digital age would bring to music.

Really blown away by this article centered around my book "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" up now at The New Yorker! www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

Burning Down the Haus spotted in the wild.

50 notable works of fiction Highlights from the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation

Alina Bronsky's Barbara Isn't Dying is a WaPo book of the year! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/1...

Last of Berlin's old school S-bahn trains decommissioned www.dw.com/en/berlin-sa...

Why the Fall of the Berlin Wall Didn’t Unite Germans Historian Katya Hoyer has caused a sensation with her new history of everyday life in East Germany. On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she spoke to Jacobin about why that state failed ...

#DDR #BerlinWall #November9 jacobin.com/2023/11/katy...

The Beatles - Now And Then (Official Music Video) Now and Then's eventful journey to fruition took place over five decades and is the product of conversations and collaborations between the four Beatles that...

Yet another compelling argument against AI

Der Weltbeste englisch- deutsch übersetzer ist hier. Er ist lustig, und gut- folgt @timmohr.bsky.social

Im Moment startet und endet fast jeder Tag mit @sibylleberg.bsky.social s Frage "Haben Sie sich heute schon um den Zustand der Welt gesorgt?"
Und ich befürchte, dass die Nerds heute auch pessimistischer sind.