«Le mensonge prend l’ascenseur quand la vérité prend l’escalier.»
Mili Vanilli – The Rise and Fall of the Eighties’ Most Scandalous Pop Duo.
When Milli Vanilli got demonized, Fab and Rob were the scapegoats who took the fall for everyone. All the public outrage was aimed at them—not their producer, managers, or record label.
“On Adolf Hitler, nothing comes to my mind”. These prophetic words by the Austrian satirist Karl Kraus, written in 1933 but published only posthumously in 1952, often come to my mind when I see how our current elites react to the accelerating climate crisis.
Hania Rani was performing at the Konzerthaus yesterday and it was magic: Tuning in spooky radio frequencies, singing beautifully in direction backstage, giving the upright piano back its dignity, wobbling with synthetic waves, bathed in the twilight of the stage illumination and the lively colors of the abstract visuals.
An endless medieval bestiary generator.
Н is N, m is t!
just as I was a little bit proud of myself being able to – slowly, very slowly – read and write the Ukrainian alphabet, I now was told there are handwritten Cyrillic cursive letterforms that look different to their corresponding typeset counterparts… 😭
Eikichi Yazawa is a Japanese singer-songwriter, and a prominent figure in Japanese popular music.
He has been nicknamed as Ei-chan (永ちゃん), Boss or The King of Rock. (…) In 1981, he released his first English album Yazawa. This album was produced by Bobby LaKind of the Doobie Brothers, and Paul Barrere of Little Feat.
Joanna Pianka & Veronika Suschnig: Perceptual Grounds.
Tired: Microserfs
Wired: Incels go Mars
Oh boy…
Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search.
The age of generative AI threatens to sprinkle epistemological sand into the gears of web search by fooling algorithms designed for a time when the web was mostly written by humans.
Great film, great soundtrack.
In Fabric.