US-Postrockband Tortoise: »Es geht rasant bergab«.
In diesem konkreten Fall schleicht sich ein bestimmtes Verhalten langsam aus, und ganz am Ende (Extinction) kommt es nochmal zur Häufung von ungewollten Verhaltensmustern, die den Prozess unnötig verlängern. Ich hege die Hoffnung, dass das White Supremacy-Gehabe zur Kategorie Extinction Burst gehört. Danach ruckelt es sich wieder zurecht.
Relevant: Extinction Burst.
See the dark world.
So see the dark world. See everything intolerable. Let the urge to tolerify it build, but don't relent. Just live there in the intolerable world, refusing to tolerate it. See whether you feel that growing, burning desire to make the world be different. Let parts of yourself harden. Let your resolve grow. It is here, in the face of the intolerable, that you will be able to tap into intrinsic motivation.
Relevant: Cynicism Is the Enemy of Action.
Die Minangkabau – Die größte matrilineare Ethnie der Welt (West Sumatra, Indonesien).
The target audience is quite obvious.
10 questions to answer before you die.
TL;DR:
- What method of body disposition feels right for me?
- What kind of goodbye would feel meaningful for me and for the people who love me?
- Who should be notified if I die tomorrow?
- Who do I trust to make medical decisions if I can’t?
- Is there anything I’ve left unsaid? Who do I need to say it to?
- Set up your iPhone Legacy Contact & Gmail Inactive Account Manager (LOL)
- Set up a password manager—and share the master password.
- Name a guardian for your kids or pets.
- Make a bank account “payable on death” (POD).
- Write down what matters most.
Mit der Philosophie “Friends Not Food” sind wir angetreten und sie dient uns jeden Tag aufs neue als Motivation, die Welt ein klein wenig gerechter zu machen: für alle Tiere und Menschen.
Gramsci's Nightmare: AI, Platform Power and the Automation of Cultural Hegemony.
LLMs are inherently conservative technologies, instantiating the historic bloc that created LLMs into code that is difficult to modify, even for ideologically motivated tech billionaires. We will consider the possibility of alternative LLMs, built around sharply different cultural values, as an approach to undermining the cultural hegemony of existing LLMs and the powerful platforms behind them.
Marzipan-Kirsch-Streuselkuchen.
I finally read Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior.
Unsurprisingly, it’s depressing as hell, because of all the perceived inevitability – and the long game of the industrial-mafioso complex.
I love her writing, though, and I am amazed by how she connects all the dots and still remains unfazed and determined in light of the threat from state-backed organized crime.
Use the AIPI?
Stop crawling my HTML you dickheads – use the API!
One of the (many) depressing things about the "AI" future in which we're living, is that it exposes just how many people are willing to outsource their critical thinking. Brute force is preferred to thinking about how to efficiently tackle a problem.
What Could Go Right? – 50 Great Things That Happened in 2025.
Renewable energy was the world’s leading source of electricity in the first half of 2025 for the first time ever, knocking coal off its longtime throne.
Relevant: Chilli Club – join thousands of climate supporters around the world.