Viola Tricolor
@kaffeehaus.bsky.social
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Before you indulge in any holiday mirth, remember that Peter of Damascus (12th century) warns against 298 passions mentioned in the Bible: harshness, trickery, malice, perversity, mindlessness, mindlessness, licentiousness, enticement, dullness, lack of understanding, idleness, sluggishness (1/?)
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Before you indulge in any holiday mirth, remember that Peter of Damascus (12th century) warns against 298 passions mentioned in the Bible: harshness, trickery, malice, perversity, mindlessness, mindlessness, licentiousness, enticement, dullness, lack of understanding, idleness, sluggishness (1/?)
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Revolutionary ghosts are always helpful.
So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism.
Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning...
Enjoy!
So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism.
Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning...
Enjoy!
New @equatormag.bsky.social: @naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists transformed the wreckage of history into revolutionary art – and what their example can teach us about the fight against fascism today www.equator.org/articles/sur...
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Revolutionary ghosts are always helpful.
So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism.
Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning...
Enjoy!
So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism.
Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning...
Enjoy!
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European complicity in coloured dots
European Parliament blocks debate on Israeli attacks on Gaza.
As hundreds die in bombings Gaza and Lebanon despite a 'ceasefire', The Left called for the European Parliament to do the bare minimum today and hold a debate.
The right and centre voted no.
As hundreds die in bombings Gaza and Lebanon despite a 'ceasefire', The Left called for the European Parliament to do the bare minimum today and hold a debate.
The right and centre voted no.
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
European complicity in coloured dots
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“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
William Cowper, English poet, author of The Task, born #OTD 1731; admired by Wordsworth, Jane Austen, William Blake.
National Portrait Gallery London | Cowper & Newton Museum Olney
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
William Cowper, English poet, author of The Task, born #OTD 1731; admired by Wordsworth, Jane Austen, William Blake.
National Portrait Gallery London | Cowper & Newton Museum Olney
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
William Cowper, English poet, author of The Task, born #OTD 1731; admired by Wordsworth, Jane Austen, William Blake.
National Portrait Gallery London | Cowper & Newton Museum Olney
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
William Cowper, English poet, author of The Task, born #OTD 1731; admired by Wordsworth, Jane Austen, William Blake.
National Portrait Gallery London | Cowper & Newton Museum Olney
That's a wonderful reply to @ianfjanssen.bsky.social 's question, book here:
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
That's a wonderful reply to @ianfjanssen.bsky.social 's question, book here:
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…she does not say to believe in God. She says, “Cultivate a place inside yourself that tyranny can’t reach.”
and
“They cannot rob us of anything that matters if we have a life inside.”
You already know well how I feel about Herbert and Miłosz. Add to those Václav Havel’s letters to his wife.
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and
“They cannot rob us of anything that matters if we have a life inside.”
You already know well how I feel about Herbert and Miłosz. Add to those Václav Havel’s letters to his wife.
2/2
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
…she does not say to believe in God. She says, “Cultivate a place inside yourself that tyranny can’t reach.”
and
“They cannot rob us of anything that matters if we have a life inside.”
You already know well how I feel about Herbert and Miłosz. Add to those Václav Havel’s letters to his wife.
2/2
and
“They cannot rob us of anything that matters if we have a life inside.”
You already know well how I feel about Herbert and Miłosz. Add to those Václav Havel’s letters to his wife.
2/2
I hope for books in the replies while I cannot contribute anything:
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At first, I thought maybe Stefan Zweig's "Welt von Gestern"/"World of Yesterday" but, thinking about it, it's not a good example, I fear.
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At first, I thought maybe Stefan Zweig's "Welt von Gestern"/"World of Yesterday" but, thinking about it, it's not a good example, I fear.
I'm in a question-asking mood today:
What's the best text that you've read on leading the inner intellectual and emotional life during times of historical crisis?
Could be anything, ancient treatise, modern scholarship, diary, poetry, scripture, screed, whatever.
What text works for you on this?
What's the best text that you've read on leading the inner intellectual and emotional life during times of historical crisis?
Could be anything, ancient treatise, modern scholarship, diary, poetry, scripture, screed, whatever.
What text works for you on this?
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I hope for books in the replies while I cannot contribute anything:
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At first, I thought maybe Stefan Zweig's "Welt von Gestern"/"World of Yesterday" but, thinking about it, it's not a good example, I fear.
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At first, I thought maybe Stefan Zweig's "Welt von Gestern"/"World of Yesterday" but, thinking about it, it's not a good example, I fear.
Perfect:
Instead of getting up and leaving Plato's cave the obsession with thinking AI is a real conscious intellect is digging down and making a deeper chamber with even fainter shadows flickering on the wall, and proclaiming you're seeing the true light of intellect.
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Perfect:
I've been falling into the rabbit hole of a particularly complex conspiracy theory for two hours now (the bottom of that hole cannot be reached yet, I guess, the story is still developing). So far it's an interesting study because it shows how only slightly distorted sources seem to be enough ...
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I've been falling into the rabbit hole of a particularly complex conspiracy theory for two hours now (the bottom of that hole cannot be reached yet, I guess, the story is still developing). So far it's an interesting study because it shows how only slightly distorted sources seem to be enough ...
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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This is what we should be talking more about.
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is what we should be talking more about.
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In case you missed it, Prof. Imani Perry and author Tananarive Due discussed a titan of Afrofuturist fiction,
Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy", hosted by
@libraryofamerica.bsky.social .bsky.social
#Lit #BlackSky #SciFi #SpecFi
Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy", hosted by
@libraryofamerica.bsky.social .bsky.social
#Lit #BlackSky #SciFi #SpecFi
The Radical Imagination of Octavia E. Butler
YouTube video by Library of America
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
In case you missed it, Prof. Imani Perry and author Tananarive Due discussed a titan of Afrofuturist fiction,
Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy", hosted by
@libraryofamerica.bsky.social .bsky.social
#Lit #BlackSky #SciFi #SpecFi
Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy", hosted by
@libraryofamerica.bsky.social .bsky.social
#Lit #BlackSky #SciFi #SpecFi
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
This sounds really interesting, I like the review by Giuliana Chamedes which provides an overview that makes me want to read the book:
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November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This sounds really interesting, I like the review by Giuliana Chamedes which provides an overview that makes me want to read the book:
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The pledge they had to read aloud:
“We trade dopamine for daylight, doom scrolls for detours, pixels for paper maps. Here’s to boredom, to wrong turns, to fruitful friction. To shared growth, spontaneous encounters, and Life beyond the screen.”
free link: archive.ph/2025.11.20-1...
#MonthOffline
“We trade dopamine for daylight, doom scrolls for detours, pixels for paper maps. Here’s to boredom, to wrong turns, to fruitful friction. To shared growth, spontaneous encounters, and Life beyond the screen.”
free link: archive.ph/2025.11.20-1...
#MonthOffline
A group of us ditched our smartphones for a month. It changed us.
The fliers that appeared in our D.C. neighborhoods about the challenge offered few details beyond a toll-free number.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The pledge they had to read aloud:
“We trade dopamine for daylight, doom scrolls for detours, pixels for paper maps. Here’s to boredom, to wrong turns, to fruitful friction. To shared growth, spontaneous encounters, and Life beyond the screen.”
free link: archive.ph/2025.11.20-1...
#MonthOffline
“We trade dopamine for daylight, doom scrolls for detours, pixels for paper maps. Here’s to boredom, to wrong turns, to fruitful friction. To shared growth, spontaneous encounters, and Life beyond the screen.”
free link: archive.ph/2025.11.20-1...
#MonthOffline
Am 1. Dezember um 19 Uhr in Berlin!
Diffrakt - Zentrum für Theoretische Peripherie
Crellestr. 22
10827 Berlin
Diffrakt - Zentrum für Theoretische Peripherie
Crellestr. 22
10827 Berlin
Great looking event with @robin-c.bsky.social @dirkmoses.bsky.social and Teresa Koloma Beck at diffrakt for @blnreview.bsky.social, discussing Dirk’s piece on critical theory (vor allem in Deutschland?) after Gaza
blnreview.de/events/educa...
blnreview.de/events/educa...
Berlin Review · Education after Gaza—Critical Theory and the Present
Zeitschrift für Bücher und Ideen.
blnreview.de
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Am 1. Dezember um 19 Uhr in Berlin!
Diffrakt - Zentrum für Theoretische Peripherie
Crellestr. 22
10827 Berlin
Diffrakt - Zentrum für Theoretische Peripherie
Crellestr. 22
10827 Berlin
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Almost all paintings that show a mirror and a reflection get the optical relations wrong - to see the image as unlikely is to miss its point, it's practically the only way to compose a two-fold image to reveal a hidden face, as Walter Sickert does here in this work from 1906.
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Almost all paintings that show a mirror and a reflection get the optical relations wrong - to see the image as unlikely is to miss its point, it's practically the only way to compose a two-fold image to reveal a hidden face, as Walter Sickert does here in this work from 1906.
How to make money as a scammer - same logic:
A job that wouldn't have payed a decent wage turns into a lucrative business once "AI" is employed (link to quote in 2nd post):
"Freelance journalism in 2025 is an incredibly difficult place to build a career. But, it turns out, it’s a decent enough ...
A job that wouldn't have payed a decent wage turns into a lucrative business once "AI" is employed (link to quote in 2nd post):
"Freelance journalism in 2025 is an incredibly difficult place to build a career. But, it turns out, it’s a decent enough ...
It makes a loot of sense.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty.
Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.
I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
How to make money as a scammer - same logic:
A job that wouldn't have payed a decent wage turns into a lucrative business once "AI" is employed (link to quote in 2nd post):
"Freelance journalism in 2025 is an incredibly difficult place to build a career. But, it turns out, it’s a decent enough ...
A job that wouldn't have payed a decent wage turns into a lucrative business once "AI" is employed (link to quote in 2nd post):
"Freelance journalism in 2025 is an incredibly difficult place to build a career. But, it turns out, it’s a decent enough ...
Someone here posted this article but I forgot who and I cannot find the post - thank you!
"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves. If Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair and the other late 20th century fakers were looking for the prestige and power that came with journalism in that moment, then ...
"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves. If Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair and the other late 20th century fakers were looking for the prestige and power that came with journalism in that moment, then ...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Someone here posted this article but I forgot who and I cannot find the post - thank you!
"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves. If Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair and the other late 20th century fakers were looking for the prestige and power that came with journalism in that moment, then ...
"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves. If Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair and the other late 20th century fakers were looking for the prestige and power that came with journalism in that moment, then ...
"Mere Christianity" now on my reading list.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"Mere Christianity" now on my reading list.
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"If people don't want to do the work, they should do something else."
I've been thinking about this a lot lately because more and more I see how professionals one could have thought should know better devalue their own work, the work they've been doing for decades by using "AI". If one ...
I've been thinking about this a lot lately because more and more I see how professionals one could have thought should know better devalue their own work, the work they've been doing for decades by using "AI". If one ...
This is the only sensible way forward. If people don't want to do the work, they should do something else. Thank you for holding the line against the slop.
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"If people don't want to do the work, they should do something else."
I've been thinking about this a lot lately because more and more I see how professionals one could have thought should know better devalue their own work, the work they've been doing for decades by using "AI". If one ...
I've been thinking about this a lot lately because more and more I see how professionals one could have thought should know better devalue their own work, the work they've been doing for decades by using "AI". If one ...
November personified:
JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC BAZILLE
(1841-1870, born in Montpellier, died in Beaune-la-Rolande)
Portrait of Auguste Renoir, 1867
JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC BAZILLE
(1841-1870, born in Montpellier, died in Beaune-la-Rolande)
Portrait of Auguste Renoir, 1867
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
November personified:
JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC BAZILLE
(1841-1870, born in Montpellier, died in Beaune-la-Rolande)
Portrait of Auguste Renoir, 1867
JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC BAZILLE
(1841-1870, born in Montpellier, died in Beaune-la-Rolande)
Portrait of Auguste Renoir, 1867
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AI is a massive boon to the fly-by-night vanity publishers and high-output KDP book content. Even big 5 publishing has embraced AI for covers for their republished fanfiction. It's more important than ever for real independent presses to stress the human-made, anti-algorithmic nature of our work.
This is the only sensible way forward. If people don't want to do the work, they should do something else. Thank you for holding the line against the slop.
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
AI is a massive boon to the fly-by-night vanity publishers and high-output KDP book content. Even big 5 publishing has embraced AI for covers for their republished fanfiction. It's more important than ever for real independent presses to stress the human-made, anti-algorithmic nature of our work.
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Qobuz is good if you want a non-genocidal (and less terrible for musicians) streaming service
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Qobuz is good if you want a non-genocidal (and less terrible for musicians) streaming service