The tech industry misusing the word is not proof that the tech industry is correct to do so

Alex Karp interview in Handelsblatt

It’s characteristic that the product Palantir calls their “Ontology” is a “digital twin of the world” — the definitional opposite of ontological!

a resplendent marquee, lit up by the glancing winter sun, bearing the words “Burger Vision”

burgervision

Dostoyevsky’s Devil Admires Lev Tolstoy’s Realism

Finnegans Wehg

Thank you Lucy! Very excited

“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in *American Homes and Gardens* (1911) Bizarre sweet treats that resemble human and animal forms.

Looking for a pièce de résistance for a birthday party or Christmas day? The February 1911 edition of American Homes and Gardens has you covered with Quaint Dessert Dishes like Welshwoman with Cat, banana pigs, and of course the booby bird:

“With its social breadth and historical depth, The Effingers casts nazism not as a fairytale triumph of evil over good but rather through [an] often incoherent mixture of desires, ideas and material conditions ... Tergit prefers detail to abstraction – and details resist grand explanations.”

The Effingers by Gabriele Tergit review – a vivid portrait of Berlin before the Nazis Written in 1951 and now translated into English for the first time, this family saga by the acclaimed German author recaptures a golden age for Jewish life

fantastic piece by @ajbwells.bsky.social on Sophie Duvernoy's epic EFFINGERS translation

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

solitary men
at Burgermeister
listening to podcasts

I am one of them

Charles Moore is who people think Frank Gehry was

Have you listened to our 100th episode which we posted last week yet?
The founders Ross and Markus as well as some of our most starred guests talk about the beginnings of the Urban Political, and the urban situation then and now: urbanpolitical.online/100-looking-...

tooze neologism watch: “polygloom,” coined 04.12.2025

why is it that film makers /enthusiasts have a more catholic appreciation of their medium than book makers

Nan Z. Da, Literary Criticism in the Age of AI, NLR 155, September–October 2025 Critical analyses of AI usually adopt a stance of defensive humanism. Instead, Nan Da interrogates its mode of reasoning. How do LLMs make the step from data to inference—and what does it mean when th...

“What data ‘is’ could be just a compressed unit of something else’s interpretive decisions or technological-mnemonic limits and shortcuts, a fact lost forever in the evolution of data ontology.”

newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...

Turkey Carcass Soup

I don't remember any mention of sweetness he's with the napa waitress played by virginia madsen and he says snobbishly 'i'm actually getting into german rieslings' and she's impressed as though he's named a cool rock band

Don’t know about this but in sideways after “I’m not drinking any fucking Merlot“ paul g acts like riesling is an indie tip

from brothers karamozov

Prophetic Dostoyevsky

Thank you!

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I highly recommend Gabriel’s novel

I first saw The Klezmer Project, a beautiful film that plays with fiction, history, text & image, urging us to consider culture beyond blood and nation, at Berlinale 2023. @jewishcurrents.bsky.social let me write about it. Thank you, Nathan & Nora, for supporting and editing this labor of years.

The screenshot New novel drops next year

elviawilk.substack.com/p/the-screen...

Poor Ghost! is superb. A brilliant novel – go buy it!

Spectral analysis: Gabriel Flynn's gentrified ghouls - The Berliner The struggling characters in the Berlin-based author's debut novel 'Poor Ghost!' are as haunted by their austere past as they are wary of Manchester's foreclosed future.

Interesting @ajbwells.bsky.social interview with @gabrielflynn.bsky.social ahead of the release of his debut novel: “if you were born in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you’ve…grown up expecting a world that then disappeared right as you were coming into it.” www.the-berliner.com/books/gabrie...

Berlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with @ajbwells.bsky.social about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.

Down Under in Berlin: Reflections on why readings matter - The Berliner Books critic and native Australian Alexander Wells has curated a unique festival celebrating literature from Australia and Aotearoa. Here's why you can't miss it.

"...although the Down Under presence in Berlin is noted by anyone who enjoys Nick Cave or avocado toast or Berlin Atonal (or deals ketamine in Neukölln), one seldom finds explicit discussions about what this long-distance relationship means" @ajbwells.bsky.social www.the-berliner.com/books/down-u...