Yuliya Komska

Schriftsteller: Autor Peter Schneider ist tot Der Berliner Schriftsteller Peter Schneider ist gestorben. Der ehemalige 68er-Aktivist und Autor zahlreicher Romane und Essays wurde 85 Jahre alt.

A little-remembered thing about Peter Schneider is that he published a satirical wanted notice for Mohammed Reza Pahlavi during the shah’s overtures to W Germany. The poor man had missed Germany’s reunification in the US, and not a single US paper has noticed his death www.zeit.de/feuilleton/l...

Omg, I’ve already thought about how cute a couple of onions would be! And dill is so easy!

I’m at the end of my whits with admin work and new courses and academia, so I’d do anything that’s not that

Wait, why not a potato?

loud in the streets, POWER IN THE SPREADSHEETS

Aww thank you!

Ukraine named a drone interceptor after male genitals and is selling it to the United States

Jessica Andersen, Wearable Memorial for Lab Rats, 2024: “a wearable memorial for the sacrifices lab rats have made for humanity, cast from materials that are used for more visible memorials in our cities” 🔥 (Photo Toowoomba Region Art Galleries)

At least not a potato

Idea: spring embroidery!
Execution: beetroot!

Pentagon eyes Ukrainian interceptor drones to counter Iran Kyiv has pioneered cheap and mass-produced machines to battle Russian versions of the Shahed attack drone

Instead of helping Ukraine end the war, and fast, the US has squeezed it into the position of giving up some of its Shahed interceptors in the hope of getting more powerful US systems against the Russian Shahed upgrade. In no world does this make sense giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

‘Not for you’: Israeli shelters exclude Palestinians as bombs rain down Shelters are a lifeline in Israel from Iranian attacks, but Palestinian citizens of the country have been locked out.

At the shelter door, she said, a Jewish Israeli, having heard her speak Arabic, blocked mother and daughter from entering.

“I was stunned,” she said. “I speak Hebrew fluently. I tried to explain. But he looked at me with contempt and just said, ‘Not for you.’”

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Die iranische Botschaft in Kyjiw hat übrigens ein Kondolenzbuch für Ali Chamenei für heute/morgen ausgelegt. Sie werden viel Glück haben, wenn dies unbemerkt bleibt. Nach fast vier Jahren der Angriffe mit Shaheds hätte ein oder anderer eventuell Lust auf eine nette Notiz.

Can’t make this shit up giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Durov: nomen est omen

You put people in the air, and the stories write themselves

A metaphor for something www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

“Nissen huts, melancholy as yaks, exuding a false sentiment of domesticity”—perfection (Townsend Warner, “A Second Visit”)

Lowkey capitalist haunting—Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel (Brits gentrifying Venice goes awry)

A folk logic about it is starting to develop. People may not understand the monopolies and geopolitics of renewable energy at a gradual level. But they can see data centers, hear data centers, and read their electric bill statements. They are angry.

“It's worth noting that Thaler also filed applications to the US Patent and Trademark Office for AI-generated inventions, which were rejected for similar reasons.” That some good news still exists!

As good as they said she was! Deeply satisfying

That’s just awesome!

Awful

What a time to prepare to direct a sustainability study abroad program in Europe…

Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’ Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined

The worst about AI is that it’s designed to serve as an “objective machine” that kills on a compressed timeline, providing poor excuses for bad humans, and a “supportive” yes-person “partner” or “co-cogitator” that individuals crave without seeing the other side www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Die irakische Menschenrechtsaktivistin und Feministin Yanar Mohammed ist gestern in Bagdad bei einem gezielten Anschlag erschossen worden.
Sie hat die ersten Frauenhäuser im Irak eröffnet und sich jahrzehntelang für gesetzliche und strukturelle Verbesserungen für Frauen eingesetzt.
RIP

There was a war to stop—instead, another got started, how the fuck

In charts: How serious is the Middle East gas price shock? Qatar LNG shutdown threatens bigger supply hit than the Ukraine war

“One open question is whether Europe could delay its plans to phase out its remaining imports of Russian gas.” There was one country that incontrovertibly needed help & actively sought it—Ukraine—instead, it’s another collateral of another senseless war giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...