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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · Oct 9

Officials Warn

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 12h

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

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 19h

Turn the computers off

NPR @npr.org · 19h

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 · 22h

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 · 2d

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

Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 2d

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 · 1d

Auch gestern geimpft worden. Lasst euch impfen, Freunde!

Dr. Stephanie Seul @stephanieseul.bsky.social · 2d

💉💉💉💉💉💉💉

Corona ✅️
Grippe ✅️

max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 2d

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

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

“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.

max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 2d

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.

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 2d

DLF: "Neukölln ist Deutschlands gefürchtetster Bezirk..."

Gefürchtet sind vor allem die völlig kaputten Bürgersteige, die nicht existente Straßenreinigung und der schlechte Nahverkehr.

:)

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 3d

Bioturm? Waldfladen? Gemüsebanane?

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 3d

Fühlt sich gewissermaßen ja schon so an...

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 3d

Ich sammle hier mal Vorschläge dafür, wie wir nicht-fleischliche Hamburger, Schnitzel und Wurst in Zukunft nennen werden.

DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 3d

Veggie-Burger-Verbot: Europaparlament serviert vegane Burger trotz Namensstreit: Kaum hat das Europaparlament über ein Bezeichnungsverbot entschieden, steht der »vegane Burger« in der eigenen Kantine auf dem Speiseplan. Appetit geht offenbar vor Vorschriften.

Veggie-Burger-Verbot: Europaparlament serviert vegane Burger trotz Namensstreit

Kaum hat das Europaparlament über ein Bezeichnungsverbot entschieden, steht der »vegane Burger« in der eigenen Kantine auf dem Speiseplan. Appetit geht offenbar vor Vorschriften.

www.spiegel.de

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 3d

Spending the reading, writing or editing skills I have spent a lifetime building with blood, sweat, and tears on ChatGPT-generated verbiage that is not properly marked as such truly is the Sisyphean punishment we humanists of late capitalism deserve. After all, we failed at preventing this disaster.

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Onur Erdur @onurerdur.bsky.social · 3d

Eine Tagung zur richtigen Zeit: „Kritik der transatlantischen Vernunft“, Berlin, 30.10.-1.11., Salon am Moritzplatz.
transatlantic-reason.info

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Timsen @timsen.bsky.social · 4d

Die Wahl zum Vogel des Jahres ist auch notwendiges zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement

Antifalogo mit Rebhuhn in der Flagge. Text im Kreis: Stark bedroht und trotzdem da, parix parix Antifa

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 3d

Ja, ich habe nichts von Krasznahorkai gelesen. Von Christian Kracht aber auch nicht.

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 3d

László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 4d

Die "intelligente Assistentin", also die KI-gestütze Computerstimme der Kundenhotline eines großen Schuhproduzenten war so langsam darin, das Gesagte zu verstehen, dass ich fast wahnsinnig geworden wäre. Zum Schluss schrie ich sie an, dass ich SOFORT mit einem Menschen reden möchte. So nervig.

max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 5d

Ah, wie herzig. #Nachbarn

@redaktionmerkur.bsky.social

Eine Ausgabe des Merkur, versehen mit einem Streifen Paketklebeband auf dem steht: “Lieber Max Koss, wir beichten zu unserer Schande, dass dieses Buch (sic) fälschlicherweise in unserm Briefkasten lag & hinter unseren Schuhschrank rutschte, wo wir es kürzlich fanden. Wir bedauern dies sehr! Hoffentlich sind sie uns nicht böse. LG + Sorry! 🖤” Mit einem weiteren Streifen ist ein Mars Riegel auf dem Cover angebracht auf dem steht “Max Koss es tut uns echt leid!”

max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 5d

Never forget, you could be stranded in a snow storm on Mt Everest with hundreds of others.

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 5d

Aber da gab es doch zumindest auch noch "das Beste von heute".... 🙃

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 5d

Just as it reinforces old biases, GenAI prolongs cultural hegemony, thus reproducing not only American nostalgia for Empire, but also extending its fading cultural hegemony in the virtual realm by endlessly repeating and recombining the same data artefacts and aesthetic again and again.

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