ganz falsch lag ich vor 1 jahr nicht
This Is Real Life is at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton until 9 May. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Sehr gutes Interview mit der Journalistin @solmazkhorsand.bsky.social mit einer sachlichen, nüchternen Einschätzung der Lage im Iran.
kurier.at/politik/ausl...
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.
War is Peace
"In the battle for AI dominance, every engine of the economy is getting recruited into the fight—including jet engines."
Wow.
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...
This shot feels incredibly direct to me.
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...
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...
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...
Dorothea Lange
oh shit we got hennepin hannah
↑ 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.
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...
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.
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
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
"What do we want? ICE Out
When do we want it, Now"
#portland
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, (…).“
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...
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
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
“It’s our blood and bones
And these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies”
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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