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«To collect photographs is to collect the world,» Susan Sontag once wrote. Where photography appropriated the world, generative AI exploits what has already been appropriated. To generate synthetic images is to let the world disappear behind the dominant patterns derived from already existing images

Gen Z-backed rapper

25.-27. September in Bochum: Konferenz: Feministisch vergesellschaften!

Save the Date: Feministisch vergesellschaften – Her mit dem ganzen Leben!

📅 Konferenz | 25–27. September 2026
📍Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Mit Simin Jawabreh, Mithu Sanyal, Sabine Nuss und Sibel Schick – neben vielen weiteren tollen Speaker*innen!

This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d
The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths
(1) Gulf Kings
(2) Financial meltdown
(3) AI tech oligarchs
(4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions
Read our Polycrisis Dispatch:
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

"Smoke has covered the entire city. I have severe shortness of breath and burning in my eyes and throat."

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Reports on the other site that Hans-Georg Backhaus died. RIP king.

Nothing signals reassuring democratic values like the phrase “global Stargate project”

*Muskism intensifies*

MUSKISM – Book presentation with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff - KTB The event takes place in English. No registration required.

Nächsten Dienstag!
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The War on Iran Podcast Episode · Ones and Tooze · March 6 · 51m

Episode #232: The War on Iran

The war on Iran launched a week ago by Israel and the United States is spiraling into a regional conflict with implications for the global economy. Hosts @adamtooze.bsky.social and Cameron Abadi discuss: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Every day a Frauenkampftag!! Women’s liberation is anti-fascism

Frohen Frauenkampftag!

In 1956 Anders already talked about what it means to give up the choice to use the bomb to automated systems. 70 years later we forgot what even means to have a choice at all

Article Provides An Ecological Critique Of Hayek’s Knowledge Problem In the journal Globalizations, Cédric Durand of the University of Geneva has published an article that utilises an analysis of green finance and the Anthropocene to criticise Friedrich Hayek’s…

In the journal Globalizations, @cedricdurand.bsky.social has published an article that critiques Friedrich Hayek’s knowledge problem through analysing green finance and the Anthropocene and outlines how socialist planning could be feasible in the 21st century. www.indep.network/article-prov...

Prometheus wept

Great piece Elias!!

Germany’s Gen Z Is Revolting Against Militarism Across Germany, tens of thousands of high school students went on strike on Thursday to protest the likely reintroduction of military service. Germany’s political leaders want a new generation of sold...

Wrote about Thursday's school strike against conscription in Germany. Small glimmer of hope in an otherwise pretty shitty week.

jacobin.com/2026/03/germ...

*promethean gap widens*

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

«Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, was reportedly used by the US military in the barrage of strikes as the technology ‹shortens the kill chain› – meaning the process of target identification through to legal approval and strike launch.»

Germany’s Gen Z Is Revolting Against Militarism Across Germany, tens of thousands of high school students went on strike on Thursday to protest the likely reintroduction of military service. Germany’s political leaders want a new generation of sold...

some good news at least jacobin.com/2026/03/germ...

Germany’s Gen Z Is Revolting Against Militarism Across Germany, tens of thousands of high school students went on strike on Thursday to protest the likely reintroduction of military service. Germany’s political leaders want a new generation of sold...

some good news at least jacobin.com/2026/03/germ...

‘It means missile defence on datacentres’: drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower Iran’s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare

data centers join the chaos

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

makes sense

People criticizing Carney for hypocrisy but in the narrow technical sense of globalism, he’s perfectly consistent: transgressions of international economic law are more concerning than other violations. Protecting free trade and capital rights are the prime directives for guardians of world order.

sorry climate crisis you’re not even in top 5 catastrophes happening right now

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

meanwhile

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

From Damaged Life 'Life does not live'This certainty, that the conditions governing existence in contemporary societies generates irretrievably damaged lives, lies at the heart o…

The English edition of my book on Adorno, From Damaged Life: The Critical Theory of Theodor W. Adorno, will be published by Bloomsbury on September 17.
It is now available for pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/from-dama...