I am once again thinking about this Nick Cave quote: "I'm forever near a stereo saying 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chilli Peppers"
My latest translation project is obviously a change of pace in some ways, on-brand in others.
great first wave French punk rock
#fuckmusk
"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher." - Abraham Lincoln, 1/27/1837
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad....
AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit
And it would help if editors stopped ludicrously overpaying for them - they don't earn out, and the ephemeral nature of celebrity means they have no backlist value. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Burning Down the Haus spotted in the wild.
Alina Bronsky's Barbara Isn't Dying is a WaPo book of the year! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/1...
Last of Berlin's old school S-bahn trains decommissioned www.dw.com/en/berlin-sa...
Yet another compelling argument against AI
Der Weltbeste englisch- deutsch übersetzer ist hier. Er ist lustig, und gut- folgt @timmohr.bsky.social
Im Moment startet und endet fast jeder Tag mit @sibylleberg.bsky.social s Frage "Haben Sie sich heute schon um den Zustand der Welt gesorgt?"
Und ich befürchte, dass die Nerds heute auch pessimistischer sind.
