Peter Aeschlimann

On Joy and Resistance | dansinker.com

I wrote about joy and resistance and Alysa Liu and Bad Bunny. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

[photo of a pottery bowl with the stylized face of an owl] Columbia River region, Washington or Oregon Owl Effigy Bowl, Pre-contact

Guys, guys—I found a Superb Owl that is also a Super Bowl!!!

Week in wildlife: cuddling sloths, dazed iguanas and a very fat seal This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Week in wildlife: cuddling sloths, dazed iguanas and a very fat seal

Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI revolutionary war series is a horror The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online series

«It is by far the most disturbing thing Aronofsky has made, and I’ve seen the last eight minutes of Requiem for a Dream.»

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‘It brings you closer to the natural world’: the rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app Merlin has been trained to identify the songs of more than 1,300 bird species around the world

“This is what AI and machine-learning have been invented for. It’s the one good thing!”
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Knigge fürs neue Jahr: So gehen Sie mit Stil und Klasse ins 2026 Trainerhosen im Alltag? Lautsprechertelefonate im ÖV? Schuhansammlungen vor der Wohnungstür? Das neue Jahr soll doch schöner werden! Wie das geht? Bitte sehr.

«Es ist wirklich nicht verwunderlich, dass keine Kinder mehr auf die Welt kommen, wenn so viele Paare Birkenstöcke tragen.»

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Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck

As we grow older, “loss becomes the primary condition of living,” Nick Cave says. “That doesn’t mean you’re in a hopeless, grief-stricken state all the time; it just means that you carry a deeper understanding of what it is to be human.”
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Die Stadt Bern ist die grösste linke WG der Schweiz Als einzige Stadt hat Bern die Erbschaftssteuer-Initiative der Juso angenommen. Das ist spektakulär, aber wenig verwunderlich. Bern suhlt sich schon lange in rot-grüner Selbstzufriedenheit und ist eig...

«Wer hier lebt, lebt gäbig. Wer kurz hereinschaut, geht gern ein Haus weiter.»

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From Years and Years to Black Mirror: the best TV prophecies for how AI will end us all Will AI take all our jobs? Prevent all crimes from being committed? Or finally develop skills beyond that of a trainee copywriter? Here are television’s finest depictions of our imminent future…

When the end comes, as it surely will, it’s depressing to think that your final thought will now probably be: «Oh, I think I saw this on Black Mirror once.» 🤖

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‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery

‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement

It’s always surprising to me as someone who came out corporate world into journalism that people expect journalism to be *better* at management and process given that real journalists hate both

Die Alten kommen: Die Gen X rettet die Clubs vor dem Sterben Das Nachtleben in Bern erlebt eine Renaissance, angeführt von Generation X. Mit inklusiven Konzepten und neuen Ideen wie Day Partys meistern Clubs in Europa und der Schweiz die Herausforderungen des v...

«Wenn die Älteren bei uns feiern, wollen sie fast nicht mehr nach Hause. Diese Leute bleiben, bis es draussen hell ist.»

Das sagt Baldy Minder vom Club Sous Soul in Bern.

Boomer als Booster fürs Nachtleben? 🪩

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Worth a shout? Yelling is best way to deter gulls, UK study suggests Animal behaviourists tested 61 gulls in Cornwall to find most effective method of countering feathery threat Some people respond to the unwanted attentions of a gull eyeing up a bag of chips or a Cornish pasty by frantically flapping their hands at the hungry bird while others beat a rapid retreat into the nearest seaside shelter. But researchers have found that a no-nonsense yell – even a relatively quiet one – may be the best way to get rid of a pesky herring gull. Animal behaviourists from the University of Exeter tried to establish the most effective method of countering a feathery threat by placing a portion of chips in a place where gulls were bound to find them. Continue reading...

Worth a shout? Yelling is best way to deter gulls, UK study suggests

Was passiert, wenn der beste Freund psychisch erkrankt? Der Musiker Dino Brandão und Regisseur Moris Freiburghaus sprechen im Interview über ihre Beziehung, ihren Film und Schuldgefühle. https://c-de.co/plY5k

The Age of De-Skilling Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?

“A centaur goes in circles if the human half doesn’t know what it’s doing.”

Bear Breaks Into California Zoo to Mingle With Other Bears Officials at Sequoia Park Zoo have no idea how the young bear got into the zoo and went “nose-to-nose” with the three bears there.

An employee at Sequoia Park Zoo in Northern California found a black bear who came in from the wild, introduced itself to the zoo’s bears and played with their toys, before being shown the exit.

Philadelphia's Love Park was one of the defining spots of '90s skate culture. Now, it's been recreated in Malmo, Sweden. Editor Willy Staley traveled across the Atlantic to see — and skate — it for himself. nyti.ms/4n6YJ7O

Lärm, Hitze, Beton: Wie Städte unsere Psyche beeinflussen Psychische Gesundheit in Schweizer Städten: Epidemiologin Nicole Probst-Hensch erklärt, wie Lärm, Hitze und Stadtplanung unser Wohlbefinden beeinflussen – und fordert ein Umdenken in der Architektur.

«Datenschutz ist wichtig, aber wir haben eine verzerrte Wahrnehmung. Nie diskutieren wir darüber, wie gefährlich es ist, keine Daten zu haben.»

Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch über Glück und Gesundheit – und was das mit Laubbläsern 🍂 oder Autoposern zu tun hat.

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She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

«This isn’t a game. This is, in every meaning of the word, a civil war.»
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Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Jane Goodall’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Reading Shaped Her Life How a public library and a messy second-hand bookshop helped a small girl with no money and big dreams change the face of science.

"Of course, you can look up everything on the Internet now. But there is something very special about a book — the feel of it in your hands and the way it looks on the table by your bed, or nestled in with others in the bookcase." -- Jane Goodall bit.ly/4mNwASZ

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #337- I’ve had several disagreements with friends about where you stand on things. Where do you…stand? Dear Alistair, I acknowledge that this may be, to you and your friends, an unhelpful admission, but I’m not entirely sure where I stand on...

Nick for president! 🤘
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Orange triggert deine Ferienlust - hier erfährst du, wieso Orange dominiert Sonnencreme-Verpackungen aus praktischen und psychologischen Gründen. Die Farbe signalisiert Schutz und Sommerfreude, erklärt Farbexpertin Marcella Wenger. Orange verbindet Ästhetik m...

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Winners of the 2025 Natural Landscape Photography Awards The winning and honored images from this year’s contest, designed to “promote the very best landscape photography by digital and film photographers who value realism and authenticity in their work,” selected from more than 11,000 entries

See some of the winning and honored images from this year’s contest, designed to “promote the very best landscape photography by digital and film photographers who value realism and authenticity in their work,” selected from more than 11,000 entries:

Kommentar zur Einheitskasse: Es ist Zeit für eine fünfte Abstimmung Weniger Stress, günstigere Prämien: Eine öffentliche Krankenkasse entlastet Versicherte und Anbieter. Höchste Zeit, ein fünftes Mal darüber abzustimmen.

Sag ich ja: www.beobachter.ch/geld/kranken...

Chefarzt fordert radikalen Umbau: «Ich sehe keinen vernünftigen Grund, eine Vielzahl von Krankenkassen zu betreiben» Andreas Kistler sieht in den Marktmechanismen im Gesundheitswesen einen Grund für die Kostenexplosion. Die Spitäler würde er in eine nationale Gesundheitsorganisation integrieren.

«Die Ökonomisierung der Medizin führt zu einem weiteren Anstieg der Kosten, und als Nebenwirkung untergräbt sie den Sinn und Geist der Medizin und pervertiert das System.»

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Lies das, wenn du dich einsam fühlst! Die Lesekompetenz sinkt: Ein Viertel der Schweizer Jugendlichen hat Schwierigkeiten beim Lesen. Studien zeigen, dass Eltern seltener vorlesen, was die Begeisterung für Bücher bei der nächsten Generati...

Bibliotheken sind Apotheken und Wellness-Hotels für den Geist.

Meine Ode ans Lesen. Im @beobachtermagazin.bsky.social

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The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown review – weapons-grade nonsense from beginning to end Code-breaking hero Robert Langdon is back for another conspiracy thriller, featuring underground laboratories and new thoughts on the nature of consciousness

Grandioser Verriss des neuen Dan Brown-Romans «The Secret of Secrets»:

It’s weapons-grade bollocks from beginning to end, none of it makes a lick of sense, and you’ll roar through it with entire enjoyment if you like this sort of thing.

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10-Minute Challenge: A Monet in Venice We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.

Gut investierte Bildschirmzeit 👨‍🎨

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