Counting Cards

Ah, interesting gambit, let's just check how pivoting from reliable software people actually use to an AI focused subscription service is going for Adobe real quick

The next bandcamp friday is just days away.

All I want at this point is a candidate who says "imperialism is bad and healthcare is good!"

How is anyone getting through the day without breaking down while the dumbest, most evil, rotten piles of shit ruin everything and plunder all that's left?

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

Bild von der Bühne beim Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis 2024. Man sieht einen roten Vorhang und eine Präsentation, auf der "Beste Buchhandlungen" steht. Darunter der Text: "Hat man als Buchhandlung nur noch eine Chance auf finanzielle Förderung, wenn die politische Linie stimmt?"

Ich war 2024 in der Jury für den Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis. Wir haben 118 Buchhandlungen ausgezeichnet, die einen besonderen Beitrag in ihrer Gemeinschaft leisten, für die Leseförderung, für die lokale Kultur. Aus terminlichen Gründen konnte ich 2025 nicht erneut Teil der Jury sein. Nun habe ich aus der "Süddeutschen Zeitung" erfahren, dass der neue Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer drei Buchhandlungen, die von der Jury ausgewählt wurden, den Preis verwehrt hat. Als Grund nennt ein Sprecher "verfassungsschutzrelevante Erkenntnisse". Alle drei Buchhandlungen gehören politisch dem linken Spektrum an.

Ein ungeheurer Vorgang, erst recht, wenn man bedenkt, dass alle drei Buchhandlungen schon einmal den Preis gewonnen haben. 2024, unter der damaligen Kulturstaatsministerin Claudia Roth, durften wir den Buchladen zur schwankenden Weltkugel in Berlin auszeichnen, dem der neue Kulturstaatsminister nun die Auszeichnung verweigert. Auch die zwei anderen Buchhandlungen, Golden Shop in Bremen und Rote Straße Göttingen, haben in der Vergangenheit den Buchhandlungspreis gewonnen, zuletzt 2023.

Als studierte Buchwissenschaftlerin, Autorin und Person, die in einer Buchhandlung aufgewachsen ist, hatte ich mich sehr gefreut, Teil dieses wichtigen Preises zu sein. Der Buchhandlungspreis bringt den ausgezeichneten Läden nicht nur finanzielle Unterstützung, sondern auch Prestige und Sichtbarkeit. Was jetzt passiert ist, ist ein skandalöser Eingriff in die Presse- und Kunstfreiheit. Unabhängige Buchhandlungen sind ein unverzichtbarer Teil unserer Kultur, unserer Medienlandschaft, unserer freien Gesellschaft. Sie sind ein Ort für Diskurs, für Bildung, für Gemeinschaft. Sie zu fördern ist wichtig für unsere Demokratie. Dieser Eingriff steht alledem entgegen.

Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer hat drei Buchhandlungen den deutschen Buchhandlungspreis verwehrt, obwohl sie von der Jury ausgewählt wurden. Die Läden gehören politisch dem linken Spektrum an. Ein skandalöser Eingriff in die Presse- und Kunstfreiheit! Mein Statement als ehemaliges Jurymitglied.

Windows 12 is almost definitely going to be an ai nightmare. It's time to switch to linux. If that means leaving pro tools for reaper, so be it.

All Landlords Are Bastards.

Luxembourg becomes second country worldwide to enshrine abortion rights in constitution Large majority in parliament backs amendment to Luxembourg’s highest law, with ‘freedom’ to have an abortion added to constitution

Luxembourg lawmakers have voted to enshrine the freedom to have an abortion in the country’s constitution. However, wording was changed from "right" to "freedom" making it much weaker, and the country has a 12-week abortion limit that won't change.

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal.

The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright.

(Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

If hundreds of dead Iranian children aren't enough for you to oppose Trump's illegal war, consider this:

For the same $210 billion price tag, we could end homelessness in the US permanently and still have enough money left over to feed every child in the United States for the next five years.

Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin in their costumes sitting next to each other, Connery's arm on Baldwin's shoulder, inside the Hunt for Red October's tilting submarine interior set

a contender for my favorite behind-the-scenes photo: The Hunt for Red October crew built their submarine set(s) on top of a hydraulic gimbal, 45 ft above the stage floor, capable of tilting 45 degrees to mimic a sub's movements - Sean Connery said it made him seasick. even the gauges inside worked.

Something about keeping star wars for straight men.

I really don't want balls in my cereal. Is there maybe a cereal with boobs?

Target’s new CEO went on to say that that bracelet you’re wearing is so fetch

It would be in his contract that the bad guy has to be a two-dimensional atheist, and James Bond would be saved by Jesus in the end.

Winner

Chris Pratt

Me laughing like Jabba the Hutt:

Christianity is a cult obsessed with ending all life on earth.

🧵One thing I’ll always remember from when mask mandates were dropped is how gleefully my colleagues at the time rushed back to normal.

I begged them to consider what it meant for high risk folks like me.

“Everyone has to take personal responsibility,” said my boss. (1/3)

all-timer sports graphic dropped

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

I'm about to turn into the hulk and smash things because my coworker keeps asking me work questions on my lunch break.

feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

The collapse of the US National Science Foundation

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Update from germany: Cat!