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Peter Monnerjahn
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Philosophy of Science & Epistemology
Journalist & Educator
Talk to me about the Open Society, all things Popper, and how to start the learning revolution.
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parkermolloy.com
Amazing how legacy media panics over a leftist mayor, compared to how chill they were about an actual fascist becoming president. Really clarifies their priorities.
jeffjarvis.bsky.social Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 5h
He's not even sworn in and fucking Politico is counting him out. With journalists like Politico's and the New York Times', who needs enemies?
December 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
The year politics became brainrot
You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.
www.theverge.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
The media has spent the last few months trying to make sense out of nonsense, attempting to conjure motive, manifesto, and meaning out of the dumbest shit scrawled onto bullets. These were sad attempts to impose meaning on an increasingly incoherent world by a literati that has not yet accepted its irrelevance in a postliterate society. But the most humiliating display of literate obliviousness in the face of the total collapse of meaning, however, was Ezra Klein's bizarre eulogy to Charlie Kirk. The now-infamous column ("Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way") can best be understood as an expression of class solidarity. Klein, I would argue, sees both himself and Kirk as being Debate Guys, wordcels who engage in the marketplace of ideas and let speech sort itself out into political action. Kirk did not commit violence, not because he abhorred it, but because committing violence was someone else's job. Last year, he called for using whips against migrants, saying, "Of course you should be able to use whips against foreigners that are coming into your country. Why is that controversial?" In early June of this year, as the president deployed troops to Los Angeles, Kirk publicly advocated for invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to crush the immigration protests. And in August, he called for "federalizing" the district of Columbia, saying, "Roll in the tanks, bring in the military." With his close relationship to the commander in chief of the United States of America, Charlie Kirk was no mere talker, idea-peddler, or purveyor of discourse. He built an empire on legitimizing violence and harvesting the enthusiasm and glee around it. Even before his death became a pretext to enact violence on American cities, he had already substantively shaped history. Charlie Kirk was a part of the real world in a way that Ezra Klein will never be.
December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Trump allowed the richest man in the world to condemn potentially millions of people to death. In a just world, this moral atrocity would follow all involved — Musk, DOGErs, Vought, Marco Rubio and Trump — like a trail of blood for the rest of their days.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
The Death of USAID
The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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pithywidow.bsky.social
Well played 🏅
ericcolumbus.bsky.social Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 9d
I knew something was wrong when 60 Minutes started airing Swan Lake
December 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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legal-alien-nyc.bsky.social
Wenn die SPD skeptisch ist, steht einer Einigung erfahrungsgemäß nix mehr im Wege
linksrheiner.de knoxxi @linksrheiner.de · 9d
Hat die Frau irgendwie zu viel Zeit?
t-online.de t-online @t-online.de · 9d
Katherina Reiche für höheres Renteneintrittsalter – SPD skeptisch
December 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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jamellebouie.net
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
alexshephard.bsky.social Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 9d
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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jamesrball.com
We need to stop talking about a “crisis of trust” as if the public are behaving irrationally. We have a crisis of *trustworthiness* in politics, and we seem deeply in denial about it.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
But they are also used to obfuscate a much more obvious reason for a crisis of trust in politics: mainstream politicians lie, all the time. They lie so often that they seem to have stopped noticing that they do it. They certainly do it so often that it no longer seems to occur to almost any of them that people might still notice, and object.
December 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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edburmila.bsky.social
One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 12d
You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.
Naomi Wolf: I got pretty far along in the hiring process for a wonderful position teaching at a NY state university before a dean in the department told me I couldn’t go any further because I was white.
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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hhesterm.bsky.social
EU-Mercosur is, my apologies, a no-brainer. The US no longer wants a close relationship with Europe. Everyone is shouting for diplomacy and engaging with others. But quite frankly: who would those others be outside Europe if we are not ready to engage with South America?
December 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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josephcox.bsky.social
This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
www.404media.co
December 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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verfassungsblog.de
„Die US-Sanktionspolitik gegen den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof ist nicht nur ein Angriff auf den IStGH, sondern auf das Recht schlechthin.“

KAI AMBOS über die gravierende Wirkung der Sanktionen – und warum die Europäische Union jetzt reagieren muss.

verfassungsblog.de/die-sanktion...
Quote: „Die Sanktionierung kommt dem zivilen Tod gleich, weil Sanktionierte nicht mehr am normalen Geschäftsleben teilnehmen können. Unabhängige Staatsanwälte und Richter werden mit Terroristen, organisierten Kriminellen und korrupten Diktatoren gleichgestellt.“
December 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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thereeljon.cryptoanarchy.network
Given Mozilla's leadership has decided they should sail directly into the iceberg, here's an alternative to those who use Firefox.
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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digitalflinch.bsky.social
And the worst part is, you like streaming? Eat an ass, only Googles API browsers or Firefox direct have DRM streaming licenses. Bubble Crab can't play Hulu, chill penguin catches on fire if you use the Deezer web player.

i hate AI so much
joffeorama.bsky.social Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 14d
“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.
joffeorama.bsky.social Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 14d
I asked what I should use instead of firefox and someone said “floorp” and I legitimately thought it was a bit for like five minutes. tech has gone beyond making the torment nexus real to making poob real.
December 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
You know what show I really enjoyed? Counterpart. It's too bad they canceled it. Some of J.K. Simmons's best work, and excellent world-building.
JK Simmons in "Counterpart"
December 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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vdjinfo.bsky.social
Heute soll die Bürgergeldreform durchs Kabinett gebracht werden. Die Reform verfolgt einen grundsätzlich falschen Ansatz. Eine Kritik am autoritären Sozialstaat der Neuen Grundsicherung findet sich in unserer Stellungnahme unten!
vdjinfo.bsky.social VDJ @vdjinfo.bsky.social · 27d
Der Sozialstaat wird immer autoritärer - die neue Grundsicherung ist Ausdruck einer Neuausrichtung des Sozialrechts in Zeiten von Krise und Militarisierung.

Unsere Erklärung von sechs Bürgerrechtsorganisationen:

www.vdj.de/beitrage-akt...
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December 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
petermonnerjahn.bsky.social
#Journalismus
lobbycontrol.bsky.social LobbyControl @lobbycontrol.bsky.social · 14d
Erfolg: Der deutsche Presserat erteilt der WELT Rügen für ihre irreführende Berichterstattung über NGOs. Dazu hatten wir eine Beschwerde eingereicht.

Gut so – und ein wichtiges Signal! 💪 1/8
Rüge für irreführende Artikel über NGOs. Wir hatten Beschwerde beim Presserat eingereicht. Screenshot von einem Artikel aus der WELT mit der Überschrift: Exklusive Recherche. Geheime Verträge - EU-Kommission bezahlte Aktivisten für Klimalobbyismus. Von Stefan Beutelsbacher und Axel Bojanowski. Darüber ein Stempel "Fake". Logo von LobbyControl
December 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
petermonnerjahn.bsky.social
Warum gelingt das eigentlich so gut, obwohl wir doch so viel Qualitäts- #Journalismus in D haben? 🥸
danielkubiak.bsky.social Daniel Kubiak @danielkubiak.bsky.social · 14d
"Termin- und Arbeitsverweigerer" sind einfach nicht das allerwichtigste gesellschaftliche Problem und produzieren auch anteilig kaum gesellschaftliche Kosten. Wer etwas anderes behauptet (die gesamte Regierung + rechtsextreme Opposition) möchte ablenken und das dies so gut gelingt, ist ein Problem.
December 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
1. A blockade is an act of war

2. The idea that Venezuela has stolen land from the United States is so laughably stupid on its face that even some of his base is like 🤨

3. It’s always about oil.
December 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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edgibney.bsky.social
This reminds me of my pet peeve about "all alcohol is bad" headlines. You know what else isn't safe at any level? Driving. Yet we do it since there are many benefits and it's highly unlikely to be the thing that kills us. Can't the same be said for moderate drinking?

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/h...
Heart Association Revives Theory That Light Drinking May Be Good for You
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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goodlawproject.org
New Zealand's libertarian/ populist/ right wing coalition Government is trying to follow Wesley Streeting's lead in banning puberty blockers.

This is what the New Zealand High Court has just decided (www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...).
[17] There is also no evidence of a particular need to act urgently to prevent new prescriptions because of some immediate risk to physical health if young people commence treatment. [18] Puberty blockers are reversible. There is no evidence that they affect fertility. If they did, they would hardly be prescribed for children with precocious puberty and they have been prescribed for that purpose for decades. They may alleviate distress for a child who is simply not ready to cope with puberty either because they are too young or because their mental health is such that a delay is recommended. The only evidence-based impact on physical health is on bone density and that impact results from long term use. A period of months until the Judicial Review can be heard is not said to create any issues with bone density for a young person commencing treatment. [19] The evidence relating to mental health outcomes suggests negative outcomes from a ban are a far more immediate concern.
December 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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theradr.bsky.social
When Trump dies-- could be at any point, who knows -- we get Vance.

They'll blame a lot of stuff on Trump AND try to fast-track an even uglier Christofascism.

We must be preparing for this now & organizing accordingly.
Grassroots activism, coalitions. Dissent. Sand in gears. GOTV.

Every angle.
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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volksverpetzer.de
Eine Mehrheit befürwortet das Aufweichen des Verbrenner-Aus. Wer denkt, dass er oder sie dann nach 2035 weiter Verbrenner fahren wird, wird aber gerade verarscht. Die Entscheidung bedeutet, dass du 2035 eben ein chinesisches statt ein deutsches E-Auto fahren wirst.
December 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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paulbernal.bsky.social
And could have been done a year ago by Starmer. We’ve been let down across the board by our politicians.
matthewholehouse.bsky.social Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 14d
Britain could have joined Erasmus five years ago; an agreement on funding was completed between negotiators but vetoed “at the very last minute” by Boris Johnson. From Stefaan de Rynck’s book
December 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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rozkaveney.bsky.social
Liz Truss is helping Trump sue the BBC. Are there no depths of national betrayal to which Tories won't sink.
Hopefully the decision of the Pulitzer board to demand his financial and health records in disclosure will deter Trump from using lawfare to silence critics' and Truss will look even more dim
December 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM