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steamship bosnia arrives from Hamburg, headline from 1901

"big German steamship Bosnia arrives from Hamburg" and it's steered by Capt/OHR Schmidt are you kidding me (1901)

btw, the History of Queer Lives in Bosnia-Herzegovina is a fantastic open access book published in Bosnian last year and an English edition is in the works — get it here or ask your library to order it! soc.ba/historija-kv...

Newspaper headline chicago inter-ocean newspaper, 1899: BOSNIA A QUEER LAND| Old and Interesting Ceremonies and Popular Traditions. WITCHES AND EVIL EYE

time to repost this banger — the Chicago Inter-Ocean newspaper, 1899

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

Andras Riedlmayer, art historian at Harvard's Aga Khan program, has passed away. A great loss for Ottoman Balkan history. 🖤 Among many feats, Andras testified about the deliberate destruction of religious and cultural sites in the 1990s wars in Bosnia and Kosovo humanrights.uconn.edu/icty-digital...

A.I. Is Causing Meltdowns in American Offices. It’s Only Getting Worse. A.I. and ChatGPT were supposed to revolutionize work. They’re only creating chaos.

similar issues with transcription, something that worked ok before but is now much worse slate.com/life/2026/01...

"We're in the process of inventing a general equivalent ... of everything, not just the economic... a total encoding in which everything can be measured by the same extremely reductive yardstick, that of the binary, 0-1. Everything enters into an equation"
—Baudrillard (1999) on "AI" & LLMs?

YouTube video by TVMyCentury Russian Writer Shooting at Sarajevo

i mean this sincerely, what part of this was not believable? there are many old clips, adding up to several 100k views on youtube, of a russian tourist/writer firing from the hilltops... it's well documented and in substance not any different from other reported instances youtu.be/JkjPZvz27mg?...

the brutality of that joke ought to be illegal

plus so many of the atlantic/nyt columnist types eager to sell their book or podcast

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

YouTube video by anyolite Life Of Brian (1979) - clip: "You're all individuals"

youtu.be/QereR0CViMY?...

so many possibilities! and let's not forget Texas AI University and Video Generator

hot tip for saving area studies centers at US universities — rename:

Melania Center for East European Film and Payola Studies
Kushner Center for Peace in the Middle East
Authentic Panama Hat® Center for Latin American Cooperation

ahh i wish i had know about the phillips talk here! v interesting

lmao if you step back from inhabiting this horror for a sec, it's genuinely hilarious that he tried to step into an ongoing battle about fascism with the words "Here's a podcast"

bruh

his cowardice is a facade for underlying collusion, with an occasional "save our democracy!" flourish to keep the faithful going along with this charade

Cannot repeat the Obama-era dodge of saying "we tortured some folks" and not holding accountable the torturers and especially the chain of command. You want to stop state-sanctioned crimes? Trials not words are the only way.

i long for the day when this @theonion.com headline won't be evergreen

And given all those years poured into platforming propagandists and demanding the public to accept a little bit of fascist ideas—it's only reasonable to do so—it is clear that will remain NYT's path. Hard to turn around the Titanic, per JD Dunce.

awwww i'll keep the poor NYT journalists in my thoughts and prayers then

important to note NYT is just cowards (some of its staff are skilled and know what they're doing, but they're still cowards)

the tepid fundraising surprised me, tbh, i guess i just assumed there'd be more since he is state rep but it's a different stage and game... still pulling for mike tho

yeah, i agree... i really have no idea how much to read into the polls, but the stuff that's out there doesn't seem favorable to any candidates but kat v biss so far... hoping there's time that changes

live in the district have seen a total of maybe 3 window and/or signs for Kat (and I like her, just don't see any offline uptick).... not sure about Biss, but he does have more support in Evanston. meanwhile, there's a lot more local organizing for Mike Simmons bsky.app/profile/mike...

Convenience Store Woman | Grove Atlantic The English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through t...

i enjoyed this groveatlantic.com/book/conveni...

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

totally. cory doctorow is right, the ai craze is more like asbestos, which had many amazing uses and was stuffed into everything until later generations had to dig it out at immense cost (i guess there were even silly ppl who called for "asbestos abstinence" lol)

while i get and support the overall argument about resistance to AI, this increasingly common analogy to "abstinence"—and specifically sex & drugs abstinence and their failure—is absurd. do we really need to be reminded that AI is nowhere near sex & drugs in human lives? lol