Josef Lentsch

Why no data points between 2000 and 2020? Graphics artefact?

"Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row" - Vitas Gerulaitis after ending losing streak to Jimmy Connors on this day in 1980 On 12 January 1980, Vitas Gerulaitis delivered what is now one of the most famous lines in tennis history.

www.sportskeeda.com/tennis/on-da...

AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.

„You said bot?“
„You botcha!“

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

They grow up so fast

Wait til they grow up

Eine der besten Szenen der Filmgeschichte

Opinion | The West Is Lost

Worth a read. Still, overall Reckwitz‘ argument is too defeatist - starting with the headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

And here

Ivan Krastev once more on point

Gotta give it to him, he’s the perfect bully. Insufferable and relentless.

Hab mal ein Seminar bei ihm gemacht. Entspannter weiser Gelehrter. RIP.

Join our #PoliticalTech review of the Moldovan election next Wed: www.linkedin.com/posts/partis...

@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social

„Surviving our Catastrophes“ is a lucid and insightful account of the pandemic and other societal traumas. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...

Gratulation, tolles Gespräch.

Begleiteter Suizid: „Ich will in Würde sterben“, sagt Niki Glattauer Der Lehrer, Journalist und Schriftsteller Niki Glattauer will am 4. September durch einen assistierten Suizid sterben – und zuvor noch einmal öffentlich mit zwei Journalisten darüber reden. Ein Gesprä...

Leseempfehlung. Tolles Gespräch. www.falter.at/zeitung/2025...

The middle-aged are no longer the most miserable Youth used to be cheerful. No more

Crass: youth is getting gloomier. (Gift article)
economist.com/science-and-...

Als langjähriger Abonnent und kritischer Rezipient beider Medien: entschiedener Widerspruch dass der Atlantic oder die Zeit die „legwork of the far right“ machen würden.

Mario Draghi: Den Kurs unseres Kontinents ändern - Der Grand Continent Irgendwo zwischen Trump und Gaza-Tragödie: Ist Europa dazu verdammt, Zuschauer zu bleiben? Nein, sagt Mario Draghi. Er zieht eine schonungslose Bilanz. Und öffnet Perspektiven.

Mario Draghi hat am 22. August in Rimini eine Rede an Europas Bürgerinnen und Bürger gehalten, die alle lesen sollten. Besonders in Deutschland. Hier die Übersetzung mit einem einführenden Kurzkommentar von Lukas Paul Schmelter und mir.
legrandcontinent.eu/de/2025/08/2...

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient

No. Next question www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

YouTube video by EU Debates | eudebates.tv Mario Draghi’s Full Speech: Europe’s Harsh Reality — Powerless on the Global Stage! -ITALIAN-

Just got round to watching Mario Draghi's speech in Rimini in the original Italian. It is easily the most important speech on Europe so far this year and I hope someone (@grandcontinent.bsky.social?‬) publishes it in English and other EU languages soon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMME...

cc @eurcorrespond.bsky.social

Omitted variables-palooza, I‘d reckon.

Geht übrigens auch um Migration ;-)

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Feiner Mashup-Eskapismus www.thalia.de/shop/home/ar...

The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid Stress, isolation, and uncertainty appear to have caused the brain to age quicker for those who lived through the crisis.

My brain is older than me www.wired.com/story/the-pa...

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

Once ze rockets go up, who cares where zey come down? Rest in Peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

‘I am elated each time I watch’: why Rushmore is my feelgood movie The next in our series of writers drawing attention to their most-watched comfort films is a reminder of Wes Anderson’s idiosyncratic 1998 comedy

I endorse this message www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Who Is Watching All These Podcasts?

Recommended read www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/s...

Germany’s 16 states locked in row over dates of school summer holidays Two southern states cling to past ruling that children are needed for harvest and claim the latest, most favoured slot

Meanwhile in Germany www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...