Matthäus Rest

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

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“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.“

Journal cover image depicting men using axes to cut blocks of natural ice on the side of a mountain

CFP for the new @roadsides.bsky.social issue, CRYOSPHERE. roadsides.net/call-for-pap... "Snow and ice have long served as vital resources for human and non-human inhabitants of this planet. Today the world is experiencing immense changes to the cryosphere."

Nepal’s 8 September massacre

Here's a detailed read on why they are occurring from @NepaliTimes

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Spread the news. #Pressefreiheit #FPÖ

NEWSMAX * • Follow NEWSMAX 2d • Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz was once again refused a pierogi from an unwilling vendor at a Martha's Vineyard market, the latest in his controversies over pierogis in the celebrity hot spot. newsmax.com Dershowitz Again Denied Pierogi, Told to Leave Farmer's Market 1.2K 750 comments 66 shares

Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

“Donald Trump has guaranteed that Iran will be a nuclear weapons state in 5 to 10 years from now.”

Iranian writer @tparsi.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that US bombing of Iran would push Tehran toward developing nuclear weapons.

Watch the full conversation:
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Podcast: Colm Tóibín and Thomas Jones · Old Pope, New Pope

‘‘On the last day of his life, God gave him a gift, which was an attack chihuahua all the way from Washington who bowed and scraped. Vance was like Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice.’

Colm Tóibín on Pope Francis (and Pope Leo), on the podcast: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union! We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...

Anthropologists: please support @sapiens.org magazine and staff (who are trying to unionise!) by writing a letter to the Wenner-Gren Foundation that may choose to shut it down. At a time in which eugenics 2.0 is now debated in US politics, people need anthropology!

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Did I get that right that he thinks the cardinals in Rome are the left wing of the church?

We're hosting the next conference of the Swiss Anthropological Association in Fribourg next February. The Call for Panels is open now. Please send us your proposals!

One of the most important recent texts for me - by Masha Gessen. Held in honour of Hannah Arendt. Both Jewish, both defying categorisation. Today, more than ever, read this text. I say this as an anthropologist who knows how difficult comparisons are.
#8May #May8

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Foto einer nachgestellten Szene: Sprayer besprayt Frau (Krone)

Gold.

Nikolaos Olma and Janine Hauer ask how infrastructures become instruments of slow violence in their introduction to the latest issue of roadsides. Out now!

Call for Papers | Roadsides Collection no. 014: Foodways Fall 2025 Editors: Matthäus Rest and Dolly Kikon Food and infrastructure interact in multiple ways. Industrialized food is dependent on modern infrastructure for its produ...

Call for abstracts for our fall issue on foodways, edited by @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social

roadsides.net/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers | Roadsides Collection no. 014: Foodways Fall 2025 Editors: Matthäus Rest and Dolly Kikon Food and infrastructure interact in multiple ways. Industrialized food is dependent on modern infrastructure for its produ...

Excited to be editing the fall issue of @roadsides.bsky.social on food and infrastructure together with @dollykikon.bsky.social
Check out the CFP here: roadsides.net/call-for-pap...

roadsides.net is now on Bluesky :) bsky.app/profile/road...

Rocks and racism? How geologists created and perpetuated a narrative of prejudice Kathryn Yusoff sparked a culture war with her latest book, suggesting slavery and white supremacy informed the work of geology’s founding fathers. Here, she and other experts suggest that attitudes ha...

Great to see Kathryn Yusoff's new book getting the attention it deserves (the good faith, engaged kind of attention, that is): www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

“Cars are supposed to kill people, not the other way around.” Maggie Falix, Deed Issuer

Tesla Dealerships Attacked With Molotov Cocktails
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if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

The only sensible response to J.D. Vance‘s speech in Munich would be to shut down X in Europe. Because that seems to be the thing he was sent to fight, with threats and insults. He just said what Elon had told him to. If X loses Europe, it‘s decline to obsolescence gets steeper.

I have no beef with Mac and cheese

Spätzle mit Bechamel sind wie Carbonara mit Rahm