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Posts by Torsten Kathke

I’m looking at you, Zoom.

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Me: takes normal JPG picture on a mid-range camera from five years ago.

Every website upload window: OMG I’m crashing this is more than 1 giant huge MEGABYTE and not below 320x240 pixels no one uses files that huge convert it to a 256 color gif under 100 kB.

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Jennifer Lopez Crushes on Brett Goldstein in First Look at 'Raunchy' Rom-Com 'Office Romance' (Exclusive) PEOPLE is exclusively debuting the first image from Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein's new romantic comedy, 'Office Romance,' directed by Ol Parker. The movie, which also stars Betty Gilpin, Tony Ha...

Nothing pains me more that there‘s a romcom
- written by Brett Goldstein & Joe Kelly
- directed by Ol Parker
- starring Brett Goldstein and….
Jennifer Lopez.
This is the dream scenario except for a female lead whose acting career is uh, mid. But I‘m happy to be surprised.
people.com/jennifer-lop...

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Hoping for more Out of Sight chemistry than Maid in Manhattan. It will please you to hear I’m planning to bring a microphone to Munich.

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– “I’m blocking the Strait of Hormuz.”
– “No, *I'm* blocking the Strait of Hormuz more.”

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There’s quite a few problematic undertones to the moonshot, but the reason it resonates is because you’ve just seen the most competent and joyful goofballs do a really hard and challenging thing, proving that you don’t have to be toxic to be successful.

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Whatever the actual behind the scenes and politicking may be, that’s the image that sticks.

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There’s quite a few problematic undertones to the moonshot, but the reason it resonates is because you’ve just seen the most competent and joyful goofballs do a really hard and challenging thing, proving that you don’t have to be toxic to be successful.

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Artemis splashdown worked perfectly but now they're trying to reach someone on the sat phone for a pick-up like teenagers after a Taylor Swift concert.

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"We can hear them but they can't hear us."

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Artemis splashdown worked perfectly but now they're trying to reach someone on the sat phone for a pick-up like teenagers after a Taylor Swift concert.

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Happy 50th anniversary to “All the President’s Men” — a film that owes its existence to Redford, who bought the film rights, developed the script and cajoled a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein.

I thought it was “a great character study,” he said later. But, for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”

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USA und Iran einig: Andreas Scheuer soll Maut in Straße von Hormus koordinieren Deutschlands größte Tageszeitung der Welt

"USA und Iran einig: Andreas Scheuer soll Maut in Straße von Hormus koordinieren"

www.der-postillon.com/2026/04/sche...

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"Get Me Roger Stone" set in South Florida would be a very different documentary.

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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

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ChatGPT bis Perplexity: Die 30 besten KI-Tools für den Alltag ChatGPT ist für viele Nutzer der erste Kontakt mit generativer Künstlicher Intelligenz. Für den Alltag reicht ein einzelner Chatbot aber selten aus. Ein Wegweiser durch zehn Anwendungsfelder.

Bemerkenswert, als wie normal und notwendig die Nutzung von KI für die Textproduktion hier präsentiert wird - von Journalist*innen in einem Qualitätsmedium!

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"Get ready for Nuremberg"

"Get ready for Nuremberg"

Well said, British Airways

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Sam Altman writing this down as an ad slogan.

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Beruhigend. 🫠

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From the book description: "Rather than debating whether academics should write for the public, Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship."

Yes. I've been begging for us to move past the "should" questions and move on to the "how" question. Can't wait to read this

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The Apollo 17, 1972 title is sending me.

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ABC news headline Artemis 2 crew faces mental physical strain in deep space

ABC news headline Artemis 2 crew faces mental physical strain in deep space

Yeah, well it's not so great down here either, ABC News.

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The final scene sees the orbiter come down just off the coast of California.

Four astronauts climb out and watch the capsule sink from a cliffside as the commander turns to his crew: "So… what do we do now?"

Fade out.

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I'm sure there's more to it, that person possibly had the most international connections or some such advantage.

But I am just sitting here dumbfounded that a skill people in my discipline (and I'd wager quite a few others) take for granted would even be counted as a significant positive.

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A German colleague from another discipline recently told me that a hiring committee at their university chose the one person for an open position who gave their hiring lecture in English. That gave them the edge.

As an Americanist in Germany it never once occurred to me this could be the case.

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Thinking quite a lot about this this morning. I have traditionally had to explain to students what it was like growing up with intense awareness of the Cold War nuclear arms race. Wonder how they will react when we get to it next week

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I have wondered since 2016😩

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I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

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a computer screen that says ' i mes make mistakes shall he play a game ' Alt: a computer screen that says ' i mes make mistakes shall he play a game '

I didn’t expect my Cold War kid disassociation coping skills to be so relevant in 2026.

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