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Rob Madole

@robmadole.bsky.social

Writer & translator in Berlin /// SOFT POWER with Melville House in 2026

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The tech industry misusing the word is not proof that the tech industry is correct to do so

15.12.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Alex Karp interview in Handelsblatt

Alex Karp interview in Handelsblatt

It’s characteristic that the product Palantir calls their β€œOntology” is a β€œdigital twin of the world” β€” the definitional opposite of ontological!

15.12.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
a resplendent marquee, lit up by the glancing winter sun, bearing the words β€œBurger Vision”

a resplendent marquee, lit up by the glancing winter sun, bearing the words β€œBurger Vision”

burgervision

13.12.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dostoyevsky’s Devil Admires Lev Tolstoy’s Realism

11.12.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finnegans Wehg

10.12.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Lucy! Very excited

10.12.2025 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œQuaint Dessert Dishes” in *American Homes and Gardens* (1911) Bizarre sweet treats that resemble human and animal forms.

Looking for a pièce de résistance for a birthday party or Christmas day? The February 1911 edition of American Homes and Gardens has you covered with Quaint Dessert Dishes like Welshwoman with Cat, banana pigs, and of course the booby bird:

02.12.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œWith its social breadth and historical depth, The Effingers casts nazism not as a fairytale triumph of evil over good but rather through [an] often incoherent mixture of desires, ideas and material conditions ... Tergit prefers detail to abstraction – and details resist grand explanations.”

08.12.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Effingers by Gabriele Tergit review – a vivid portrait of Berlin before the Nazis Written in 1951 and now translated into English for the first time, this family saga by the acclaimed German author recaptures a golden age for Jewish life

fantastic piece by @ajbwells.bsky.social on Sophie Duvernoy's epic EFFINGERS translation

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

08.12.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

solitary men
at Burgermeister
listening to podcasts

I am one of them

08.12.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Charles Moore is who people think Frank Gehry was

06.12.2025 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
100 – Looking Back, Looking Forward – Urban Political Podcast

Have you listened to our 100th episode which we posted last week yet?
The founders Ross and Markus as well as some of our most starred guests talk about the beginnings of the Urban Political, and the urban situation then and now: urbanpolitical.online/100-looking-...

05.12.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

tooze neologism watch: β€œpolygloom,” coined 04.12.2025

04.12.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

why is it that film makers /enthusiasts have a more catholic appreciation of their medium than book makers

03.12.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nan Z. Da, Literary Criticism in the Age of AI, NLR 155, September–October 2025 Critical analyses of AI usually adopt a stance of defensive humanism. Instead, Nan Da interrogates its mode of reasoning. How do LLMs make the step from data to inferenceβ€”and what does it mean when th...

β€œWhat data β€˜is’ could be just a compressed unit of something else’s interpretive decisions or technological-mnemonic limits and shortcuts, a fact lost forever in the evolution of data ontology.”

newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...

03.12.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Turkey Carcass Soup

29.11.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't remember any mention of sweetness he's with the napa waitress played by virginia madsen and he says snobbishly 'i'm actually getting into german rieslings' and she's impressed as though he's named a cool rock band

27.11.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t know about this but in sideways after β€œI’m not drinking any fucking Merlotβ€œ paul g acts like riesling is an indie tip

27.11.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
from brothers karamozov

from brothers karamozov

Prophetic Dostoyevsky

27.11.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

26.11.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ™πŸ™

26.11.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

happy birth
day you li
ke jazz now an
d wine and y
ou read non
fiction and
are a lawyer!

24.10.2025 05:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I highly recommend Gabriel’s novel

23.06.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I first saw The Klezmer Project, a beautiful film that plays with fiction, history, text & image, urging us to consider culture beyond blood and nation, at Berlinale 2023. @jewishcurrents.bsky.social let me write about it. Thank you, Nathan & Nora, for supporting and editing this labor of years.

18.02.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The screenshot New novel drops next year

elviawilk.substack.com/p/the-screen...

04.06.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Poor Ghost! is superb. A brilliant novel – go buy it!

22.05.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spectral analysis: Gabriel Flynn's gentrified ghouls - The Berliner The struggling characters in the Berlin-based author's debut novel 'Poor Ghost!' are as haunted by their austere past as they are wary of Manchester's foreclosed future.

Interesting @ajbwells.bsky.social interview with @gabrielflynn.bsky.social ahead of the release of his debut novel: β€œif you were born in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you’ve…grown up expecting a world that then disappeared right as you were coming into it.” www.the-berliner.com/books/gabrie...

13.05.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Berlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with @ajbwells.bsky.social about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.

08.05.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Down Under in Berlin: Reflections on why readings matter - The Berliner Books critic and native Australian Alexander Wells has curated a unique festival celebrating literature from Australia and Aotearoa. Here's why you can't miss it.

"...although the Down Under presence in Berlin is noted by anyone who enjoys Nick Cave or avocado toast or Berlin Atonal (or deals ketamine in NeukΓΆlln), one seldom finds explicit discussions about what this long-distance relationship means" @ajbwells.bsky.social www.the-berliner.com/books/down-u...

05.05.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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