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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 10h

I have spent review space on dumping on publishers, especially those that don’t edit their books. And those too cheap to pay for image rights that circumnavigate by using online links in footnotes. Making for totally screwed “bibliography”. Call them out.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 11h

Young Republicans joke about rape and gas chambers, use slurs, and talk about how much they love Hitler.

This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 12h

Ich bin ja eher ein Historiker. Da passt das. lol

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 12h

Ich lese ‘angepasst’ als implizite Setzung einer Differenz, als ob die Reaktion auf die Konfiguration als etwas von ihr selbst unterschiedenes reagiert. Was die Natur historischer Prozesse, multidirektional und multidimensional, offensichtlich ignoriert.

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 13h

Zirkelschluss? Die aktuelle Konfiguration ist doch ein Produkt der Reaktion?

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 18h

Du kannst in Berlin-Mitte nicht ausgehen, ohne dass am Nachbartisch im fast gehobenen Torstraßenrestaurant ein fescher Jungberater sich in gespreiztem Schulenglisch mit dem Kollegen und den 2 Kolleginnen raumgreifend (mit den Armen fast auf meinem Teller) über seine Afrikareise auslässt.

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 1d

🙏

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 1d

Was ist mit Annas Archive los?

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 1d

Gute Besserung, liebe Tini. Ich drücke vor allem die Daumen, dass es die letzte bleibt und Du bald wieder einen klaren Kopf hast! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

John Searle, a philosopher who was best known for a thought experiment he formulated, decades before the rise of ChatGPT, to disprove that a computer program by itself could ever achieve consciousness, died at 93.

John Searle, Philosopher Who Wrestled With A.I., Dies at 93

His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 1d

Not helpful.

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 1d

And when was that? Mokyr has been publishing for 50+ years.

max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 1d

I guess what I am implying with "pretense" is that we need to learn again how to live double lives, as ppl in dictatorships do. Not blind, but not naive, either.

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 1d

But isn't the pretense of unaffectedness one way of resisting?

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 1d

It always makes me happy when they give the Econ Nobel to historically minded people, like Joel Mokyr, who I remember as one of the heroes of my Econ history undergrad days. Congratulations! Here's to historical context!

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 2d

It's called "underground film" for a reason.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

Turn the computers off

NPR @npr.org · 2d

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 2d

Radio Nachrufe auf englischsprachige Schauspielerinnen die dann aber Filmzitate der deutschen Synchro bringen. Wie sinnig ist das denn.

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Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social · 3d

Terrifying. Especially for those of us remember when this street was targeted in the nail bombings.

Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 4d

Here we go... it was only a matter of time, as the far-right gets ever more vocal without check

Homophobic Christian Nationalist mob targets London’s gay district

A homophobic religious mob calling themselves the ‘King’s Army’ organised an intimidating mob in the streets of London’s Soho – the heart of London’s LGBT+ community, home to many LGBT+ bars, clubs, a...

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 3d

Auch gestern geimpft worden. Lasst euch impfen, Freunde!

Dr. Stephanie Seul @stephanieseul.bsky.social · 4d

💉💉💉💉💉💉💉

Corona ✅️
Grippe ✅️

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 3d

Vorbestellen ist möglich. Auch im Buchladen um die Ecke. 🤓

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · Apr 8

Industrial production is coming to economic realms that have so far been resisting it, from driving to research, the law, or therapy. For the time being, that will probably take the IKEA model: compete not on quality (AI will continue to be unreliable), but on price. Leave the high end markets 1/n

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Apr 8

“Community and a sense of belonging are essential. Technology fueled by consumerism cannot replace grounded and vulnerable human connection, which is what I think apps like this are trying to do."

Could AI replace your therapist? New research suggests the technology could play a role in mental health care

A chatbot created by Dartmouth University researchers significantly reduced symptoms for people with major depression, anxiety and eating disorders.

www.phillyvoice.com

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 4d

“Die Autos verfolgen uns,” sagt der kleine Junge, wie er aus dem Fenster der Ringbahn Höhe Tempelhofer Feld auf die A100 starrt.

Und besser hätte er die Lage nicht beschreiben können.

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 4d

Herr Zuchtriegel (sic) über das Liebesleben der Pompeianer.

(S+) Funde unter der Asche: So frei war das Liebesleben in Pompeji wirklich

Sex, Sklaverei und der Aufstieg des Christentums: Der deutsche Archäologe Gabriel Zuchtriegel über neue Funde im untergegangenen Pompeji und darüber, was sie über die damalige Gesellschaft verraten.

www.spiegel.de

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