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Tim Mohr

@timmohr.bsky.social

author of Burning Down the Haus; translator of Sibylle Berg, Wolfgang Herrndorf, Alina Bronsky, etc; co-writer of memoirs by Gil Scott-Heron, Duff McKagan, Paul Stanley, Genesis P-Orridge; semi-retired club DJ

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I am once again thinking about this Nick Cave quote: "I'm forever near a stereo saying 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chilli Peppers"

20.11.2024 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 774    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 12
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Goth Moth β€’ NorthSouth Books From the world of Jitterbug, a picture book for any child who is afraid to step into the limelight and try something new! Walter is a shy moth. He prefers to hide out in his quiet attic. But a fiery p...

My latest translation project is obviously a change of pace in some ways, on-brand in others.

19.11.2024 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Microsoft Signs AI-Learning Deal With News Corp.’s HarperCollins Microsoft Corp. reached a deal with News Corp.’s HarperCollins that will allow the software company to use nonfiction titles from the book publisher to train its artificial intelligence models, accord...

So it's #HarperCollins and #Microsoft. Unacceptable.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

19.11.2024 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
OLIVENSTEINS - Euthanasie - (Live on FR3 1979)
YouTube video by Born Bad Records OLIVENSTEINS - Euthanasie - (Live on FR3 1979)

great first wave French punk rock

19.11.2024 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#fuckmusk

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Address Delivered Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois | The American Presidency Project

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher." - Abraham Lincoln, 1/27/1837

www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad....

18.11.2024 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit Artificial intelligence doesn’t just incrementally erode the rights of authors and other creators. These technologies are designed to replace creative workers altogether

AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit

15.11.2024 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Celebrities need to stop writing children’s books: they’re woefully underqualified | Arwa Mahdawi As Jamie Oliver has found out to his cost, write what you know or you could end up with a flop and an international PR disaster, says Arwa Mahdawi

And it would help if editors stopped ludicrously overpaying for them - they don't earn out, and the ephemeral nature of celebrity means they have no backlist value. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Revealed: how top pop stars are used to β€˜launder the reputation’ of Koch family Stand Together Music, part of rightwing billionaire Charles Koch’s advocacy network, collaborates with Pitbull, Machine Gun Kelly and others

Ugh. They even duped Killer Mike and Tom Morello.

07.12.2023 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Burning Down the Haus spotted in the wild.

29.11.2023 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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50 notable works of fiction Highlights from the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation

Alina Bronsky's Barbara Isn't Dying is a WaPo book of the year! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/1...

20.11.2023 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Berlin says goodbye to its East German trains Trainspotters have one last chance to see Berlin's beloved Model 485s, known to fans as "Coke Cans," before the city decommissions the last of its GDR S-Bahn trains.

Last of Berlin's old school S-bahn trains decommissioned www.dw.com/en/berlin-sa...

13.11.2023 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why the Fall of the Berlin Wall Didn’t Unite Germans Historian Katya Hoyer has caused a sensation with her new history of everyday life in East Germany. On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she spoke to Jacobin about why that state failed ...

#DDR #BerlinWall #November9 jacobin.com/2023/11/katy...

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The Beatles - Now And Then (Official Music Video)
Now and Then's eventful journey to fruition took place over five decades and is the product of conversations and collaborations between the four Beatles that... The Beatles - Now And Then (Official Music Video)

Yet another compelling argument against AI

03.11.2023 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Der Weltbeste englisch- deutsch ΓΌbersetzer ist hier. Er ist lustig, und gut- folgt @timmohr.bsky.social

02.11.2023 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Im Moment startet und endet fast jeder Tag mit @sibylleberg.bsky.social s Frage "Haben Sie sich heute schon um den Zustand der Welt gesorgt?"
Und ich befΓΌrchte, dass die Nerds heute auch pessimistischer sind.

30.10.2023 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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