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Art Appropriates Culture. Al Expropriates Culture. https://www.iconscreen.de/labor

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Opinion | Germany Needs to Get Its Act Together. Under Him, It Won’t. (Published 2025)

ganz falsch lag ich vor 1 jahr nicht

04.03.2026 17:56 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became

This Is Real Life is at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton until 9 May. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

03.03.2026 09:42 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Nach Tod von Khamenei: "Mit Eliminierung einer Person ist es nicht getan" Die Journalistin und Autorin Solmaz Khorsand sprach in der ZiB2 über mögliche Proteste im Iran, einen Regimewechsel und Reza Pahlavi.

Sehr gutes Interview mit der Journalistin @solmazkhorsand.bsky.social mit einer sachlichen, nüchternen Einschätzung der Lage im Iran.

kurier.at/politik/ausl...

02.03.2026 22:12 👍 51 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
Black-and-white photo of several people unrolling Picasso’s massive Guernica on a gallery floor, its dramatic, fractured figures spreading across the canvas inside a vast, empty hall.

Black-and-white photo of several people unrolling Picasso’s massive Guernica on a gallery floor, its dramatic, fractured figures spreading across the canvas inside a vast, empty hall.

Morning call, time to wake up. We’re already at war.

28.02.2026 10:30 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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War is Peace

28.02.2026 04:49 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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How Jet Engines Are Powering Data Centers Companies are converting aircraft engines to land-based natural gas turbines for power generation in the AI boom.

"In the battle for AI dominance, every engine of the economy is getting recruited into the fight—including jet engines."

18.02.2026 03:01 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 6 📌 2
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Wow.

17.02.2026 03:59 👍 35891 🔁 16631 💬 1298 📌 2468
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'A different set of rules': Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.

These thermal images of dozens of unauthorised mobile gas turbines powering an X-AI data centre in Mississippi really triggered me — there's something about the aesthetics that feels like a death cult. floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

16.02.2026 09:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever

Great portrait

14.02.2026 12:30 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This shot feels incredibly direct to me.

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04.02.2026 23:17 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they ...

Pair of articles on slop developments on YouTube. Report from Kapwing about the most popular slop channels by country, and a finding of 33% of a new account's feed being brainrot (though it doesn't look like they replicated it). Bonus @eryk.bsky.social quote. www.kapwing.com/blog/ai-slop...

04.02.2026 16:09 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Live aus der Staatsoper Hamburg: Olga Neuwirth - "Monster’s Paradise" Live in Hamburg: Olga Neuwirth präsentiert ihre neue Oper "Monster’s Paradise" - eine Uraufführung an der Staatsoper.

New opera by Olga Neuwirth and Nobel Prize winner (!) Elfriede Jelinek (libretto) -> two female vampires travel around the world and observe the decline of humanity. Political grotesque as contemporary Grand Guignol. “Monster's Paradise” (audio only)

www.ndr.de/kultur/sendu...

03.02.2026 08:34 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The ‘Gigantic, Fecal Baby’ Inside Every Populist Ruler

The ‘Gigantic, Fecal Baby’ Inside Every Populist Ruler

Olga Neuwirth’s new opera, “Monster’s Paradise,” leans into the absurd to examine the phenomenon of the strongman leader (with added zombies). -> Germany, Hamburg State Opera

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/a...

03.02.2026 08:34 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Dorothea Lange

01.02.2026 02:23 👍 228 🔁 54 💬 1 📌 2
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oh shit we got hennepin hannah

31.01.2026 14:55 👍 997 🔁 295 💬 25 📌 26

↑ Günter Gaus in conversation with British journalist Sefton Delmer about “black propaganda” (Soldatensender Calais) – a British/German propaganda station – which was supervised by Delmer.
In the 60s, Gaus interviewed on German TV. The Interview with Hannah Arendt is particularly well known.

01.02.2026 09:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Günter Gaus im Gespräch mit Sefton Delmer (1963)
Günter Gaus im Gespräch mit Sefton Delmer (1963) YouTube video by Leo Dietrich

Just as interesting as the FCK-ICE tictoc propaganda in the spirit of Hanoi Hannah (propaganda broadcast on Vietnamese radio during the Vietnam War) is the British/German soldiers' radio station Calais during World War II.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzxk...

01.02.2026 09:53 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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Minneapolis is trying out new forms of resistance. They're doing pop-up blockade block parties. This one is on Cedar and 34th, a main route into the city. They have a stereo, food & a fire. MPD is present but not interfering. Lots of honks of support. ICE agents have been reported detouring around.

31.01.2026 19:50 👍 906 🔁 270 💬 9 📌 33
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A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr

31.01.2026 10:14 👍 3781 🔁 1303 💬 72 📌 147
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Folks are passing out whistles and zines. The DIY/analog aspect of American activism in this moment is as important as the videos of ICE abuses

27.01.2026 23:56 👍 309 🔁 92 💬 1 📌 5
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"What do we want? ICE Out
When do we want it, Now"

#portland

30.01.2026 21:08 👍 340 🔁 57 💬 7 📌 2
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Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is...

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

„Whether the regime is ‘fascist’, ‘post-fascist’ or ‘neo-authoritarian’, what is indisputable is that it has unleashed what John Ganz has called a sense of ‘moral anarchy’, in which there are no longer any limits to the expression of sadism, (…).“

29.01.2026 17:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
HFBK: Annual Exhibition 2026 All information about the exhibition you can find here >>>

Best event so far this year in Hamburg: #HFBK Jahresausstellung 🎨 art school opening & exhibition.
Opening -- February 12, 7 p.m.

www.hfbk-hamburg.de/en/aktuelles...

29.01.2026 13:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES YouTube video by Billy Bragg

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

26.01.2026 22:42 👍 5874 🔁 2412 💬 204 📌 399
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at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “no one is illegal on stolen lands built by stolen hands” written on a van, caribou coffee in the graffitied bus shelter, “WE ARE UNDER REACTING” sign, “what car did i just see?” pocket guide to identifying cars

29.01.2026 05:04 👍 142 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 0

“It’s our blood and bones
And these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies”

28.01.2026 17:34 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Artist’s Street Signs in Philadelphia Warn of Fascism Ahead The guerrilla imitations of common road signage use a distinctive brand of Philly humor to alert residents of ICE threats and looming authoritarianism.

hyperallergic.com/artists-stre...

28.01.2026 12:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure.

It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯
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www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

28.01.2026 11:32 👍 1690 🔁 1167 💬 87 📌 176
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Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

Here’s a gift 🎁 article.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

27.01.2026 17:15 👍 129 🔁 41 💬 4 📌 4