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🌱 For a climate change within the mind. Novelist and a contributing writer for international media such as Der Spiegel, SZ or the Architectural Review. Topics are mostly about environmental and social justice. 📍Mexico City https://www.franksteinhofer.com
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
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Big Tech bedient sich "im Giftschwank der europäischen Geistesgeschichte". Für mich, eine sehr erhellende Analyse über den Rechtsruck von Digital-Oligarchen von @chrixcoenen.bsky.social
“Water is coming.” As a child, Yaghi ran off with buckets and grew up in a refugee community in Jordan. He says that the hardships he endured there inspired him. Today, he is inventing a system that draws water from the air. What an admirable story!
Startseite des neuen Online-Portals "freedom.gov". Das US-Außenministerium entwickelt laut Reuters das neue Online-Portal, über das Menschen in Europa und anderen Teilen der Welt Inhalte einsehen können, die von ihren Regierungen verboten wurden, darunter mutmaßliche Hassreden und terroristische Propaganda. Auf der Landing Page steht: "Information ist Macht. Beanspruche dein Menschenrecht auf freie Meinungsäußerung. Macht euch bereit."
Hassrede is coming. Das US-Außenministerium plant laut Reuters ein Online-Portal, über das Menschen in Europa gesperrte Inhalte sehen können, darunter Hassreden, Nazi-Hetze und terroristische Propaganda. Die Landing Page steht schon bereit: freedom.gov
In 1916, African-American chemist Alice Ball dies shortly after discovering an effective treatment for leprosy. Chemist Arthur L. Dean takes over her research findings and claims the discovery of the method for himself #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience
Bleib mal bei Hegel, güey! Ein deutscher Kulturjournalist, der absolut keine Ahnung vom Thema hat, erklärt Hunderten Millionen Menschen aus den Americas, was nun politisch war beim Super Bowl – und was nicht. Koloniale Überheblichkeit in Reinform!
The Revolution Will Not Be Subtitled
Viele Accounts können oder wollen Trumps Bilder von den Obamas als Affen nicht benennen oder kritisieren, ohne dabei das Bild zu verbreiten. Erstaunlich. Liegt doch eigentlich nah: aus der Kritik am rassistischen Bild die Konsequenz zu ziehen, es nicht zu verbreiten.
Mexico is one of the countries where the most environmentalists are killed each year. Most of them are women. First-time Mexican director Pablo Pérez Lombardini therefore set out to raise awareness of their plight using the language of film.
Ghana’s incredible coffins: the true story the West got wrong. Hint, it has anti-colonial roots. Today, the largest collection of Ghanaian coffins is found not in Accra, but in Basel, Switzerland, at the Museum der Kulturen (Museum of Cultures).
This graph illustrates the ways in which governments worldwide have come to power. Between 1789 and 2008, there were 577 coups and 544 democratic elections. The bars are proportionate to the actual numbers.
Flickers of Democracy
Portrait of Ana Dolores, chef at the Esquina Común restaurant in Mexico City. Ana smiles, wearing an apron, leaning with one hand on a wooden table in her restaurant. Photo by Uta Gleiser.
Photo of taco with egg and chard salad, mashed potatoes with mustard mayonnaise, chalaca and chimichurri. Photo by Uta Gleiser.
Cooking with cariño! In Mexico City, chefs are delving into centuries-old culinary traditions and the cultivation of indigenous foods. I wrote about this evolution for the German magazine Essen & Trinken. » bit.ly/454q1FN
Millionärserbe Burda wird Vergewaltigung vorgeworfen: Was macht die Polizei in Baden-Baden? Sie behelligt ihn gar nicht erst nach der Anzeige der Frau. Niemand beschlagnahmt sein Handy. Niemand suchte ihn nach DNA, Hautresten oder Kratzspuren ab. Die Ermittlung macht fassungslos.
455 – 400 BC
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
2026
“We live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force and power." Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump.
Das Recht als Waffe der Mächtigen. Der US-Ölkonzern Chevron hat in Ecuador eine der größten Umweltkatastrophen weltweit ausgelöst. Nach über 30 Jahren vor Gericht, steht nun fest: Der Ölkonzern erhält 220 Millionen Entschädigung.
Solidarity with @hateaid.org, an organisation that selflessly fights against digital violence. They have now been banned from entering the US because, apparently, their work to combat violence or revenge porn is seen by the Trump administration as an "extraterrestrial censorship of Americans".
USA gehen mit Sanktionen gegen HateAid vor.
Solidarität mit Anna-Lena und Josephine, die angegriffen werden, weil sie demokratische Funktionen erfüllen!
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A common assumption is that throughout history, people have experienced the same basic range of emotions. A radical field of history now challenges this assumption. Intriguing!
The thing is: “remigration” is already happening. Far from the comments sections underneath pieces of writing like these, where people exchange anguished or angry words about the future of Germany and the country’s soul, people are already leaving. Foreigners out, cry the protesters, and in some sense they are getting their wish. Every few weeks, I go to check in on a friend or acquaintance and find that they are either in the process of packing their bags or they are gone, gone, gone. In general the white ones are staying in Europe and the non-white ones are putting an entire ocean between themselves and here. Germany’s problem isn’t the loud migrants like me. It’s the ones who right now are leaving silently, never to return.
Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.
In the foreground is the Alte Feste, an old colonial fort in Windhoek. Behind it stands the Independence Museum, which was built by Mansudae Art Studio in Pyongyang. Photo by Frank Steinhofer
Trump's policies trickle down. Sources told me that a $250,000 grant awarded by the U.S. Embassy for the renovation of the Alte Feste Museum, a national monument in the capital of #Namibia, has to be repaid by the Namibian government. Trump wants the money back.
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
Die heute veröffentlichte Studie von FIAN Deutschland deckt gravierende Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch den Berliner Agrarinvestor Amatheon auf.
📘 Die Studie „Amatheon in Sambia: Gewalt und Vertreibung bei einem deutschen Agrarinvestor" ist unter dem Link verfügbar:
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Ihara Saikaku fue el gran cronista de la vida popular en el Japón de la época Edo. Ya tenemos 'Este mundo astuto', con 20 historias satírica sobre mercaderes y sus esposas, actores, monjes prostitutas, ronin... Todos ellos removerán cielo y tierra para saldar sus deudas antes de que acabe el año.
The company that founded the Prosperá business town in 2017 has raised $120 million in investments, including from venture capital funds backed by Silicon Valley billionaires Peter Thiel and Sam Altman.
US-Lawfare. Since President Xiomara Castro took office in #Honduras, the country has faced 16 investor lawsuits totalling $13.5 billion. These lawsuits are a response to the government's decision to reverse a US-backed initiative which aimed to turn Honduran territory into private corporate domains.
