Maurice Weller
@wellermaurice.bsky.social
Came over from Twitter. Follow me of you know me from there.
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Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.
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Die Journalistin, die das Stück zu CECOT recherchiert hat, das von CBS gecancelt wurde, schreibt: Der Bericht sei faktisch korrekt. Ihn jetzt zurück zuziehen, sei keine redaktionelle, sondern politische Entscheidung. Der neuen Chefredakteurin fehlten offenbar Stimmen der Trump-Regierung...
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Die Journalistin, die das Stück zu CECOT recherchiert hat, das von CBS gecancelt wurde, schreibt: Der Bericht sei faktisch korrekt. Ihn jetzt zurück zuziehen, sei keine redaktionelle, sondern politische Entscheidung. Der neuen Chefredakteurin fehlten offenbar Stimmen der Trump-Regierung...
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But back to the first post, just as the UK academic and analyst world was slow to recognise elite radicalisation processes gripping Matt Goodwin or Danny Kruger there is similar reluctance to get to grips with how think tanks like Policy Exchange are heading to the same space as Fuentes or Sellner
December 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
But back to the first post, just as the UK academic and analyst world was slow to recognise elite radicalisation processes gripping Matt Goodwin or Danny Kruger there is similar reluctance to get to grips with how think tanks like Policy Exchange are heading to the same space as Fuentes or Sellner
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The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
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Weil mich auch hier ein paar Leute nach Sebastian Ostritschs Buch gefragt haben: Es ist vglw. konventionell und knüpft an ein sehr ,klassisches‘ (manche würden sagen: überholtes) Thomas-Bild an. Warum „Serpentinen“ an einer Hochschule diskutiert werden sollte, die eine verpflichtende… (1/4)
December 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Weil mich auch hier ein paar Leute nach Sebastian Ostritschs Buch gefragt haben: Es ist vglw. konventionell und knüpft an ein sehr ,klassisches‘ (manche würden sagen: überholtes) Thomas-Bild an. Warum „Serpentinen“ an einer Hochschule diskutiert werden sollte, die eine verpflichtende… (1/4)
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It's almost impossible to make me feel sorry for Trump, but the sheer depth of his brokeness, combined with his age, the utter humiliation involved in this farce was making me legit sad.
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It's almost impossible to make me feel sorry for Trump, but the sheer depth of his brokeness, combined with his age, the utter humiliation involved in this farce was making me legit sad.
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This is basically the Simpson's Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence only much worse.
December 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This is basically the Simpson's Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence only much worse.
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Disco Elysium likely won’t get a sequel, but as Gabriel Winslow-Yost explains, exploring the game—and reading the book that it proceeded from—reveal a world that is an uncanny mirror of our own,
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-worlds-memory-of-the-world-winslow-yost
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-worlds-memory-of-the-world-winslow-yost
The World’s Memory of the World | Gabriel Winslow-Yost
The world of Disco Elysium evokes both postrevolutionary melancholy and communist fervor for a more just world.
thebaffler.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Disco Elysium likely won’t get a sequel, but as Gabriel Winslow-Yost explains, exploring the game—and reading the book that it proceeded from—reveal a world that is an uncanny mirror of our own,
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-worlds-memory-of-the-world-winslow-yost
thebaffler.com/salvos/the-worlds-memory-of-the-world-winslow-yost
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Joachim – der bessere Trier.
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Joachim – der bessere Trier.
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the trans panic is an elite thing
most people don't have well-defined views & it's not what they vote on
www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...
most people don't have well-defined views & it's not what they vote on
www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...
Trans Panic? More Like Trans Apathetic
2025 shows trans rights aren't electoral poison. The truth? Most people just don't care that much.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
the trans panic is an elite thing
most people don't have well-defined views & it's not what they vote on
www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...
most people don't have well-defined views & it's not what they vote on
www.liberalcurrents.com/trans-panic-...
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Fond Memoires of Twitter, als Steven Pinker alle Accounts geblockt hat, die die kumpeligen Fotos von ihm & Epstein gepostet haben & gedroht hat, unsere Accounts suspendieren zu lassen. Aber origineller Denker, dieser EvoPsych-Genius, das erkennt man als SZ-Feuilletonne ja schon an den Haaren.
December 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Fond Memoires of Twitter, als Steven Pinker alle Accounts geblockt hat, die die kumpeligen Fotos von ihm & Epstein gepostet haben & gedroht hat, unsere Accounts suspendieren zu lassen. Aber origineller Denker, dieser EvoPsych-Genius, das erkennt man als SZ-Feuilletonne ja schon an den Haaren.
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Some percentage of the population consistently reports that they are reincarnations of Jesus, that the CIA are monitoring us with subcutaneously injected spy drones, and that the moon landing is a hoax. Is it time to consider whether they’re onto something?
November 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Some percentage of the population consistently reports that they are reincarnations of Jesus, that the CIA are monitoring us with subcutaneously injected spy drones, and that the moon landing is a hoax. Is it time to consider whether they’re onto something?
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"Why is there grade inflation? Why do our courses lack rigor?'
"Also we will immediately throw any graduate student TA or instructor who upsets an influential constituency under the bus, no matter how obviously manufactured their outrage is." 🤷♂️
"Also we will immediately throw any graduate student TA or instructor who upsets an influential constituency under the bus, no matter how obviously manufactured their outrage is." 🤷♂️
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"Why is there grade inflation? Why do our courses lack rigor?'
"Also we will immediately throw any graduate student TA or instructor who upsets an influential constituency under the bus, no matter how obviously manufactured their outrage is." 🤷♂️
"Also we will immediately throw any graduate student TA or instructor who upsets an influential constituency under the bus, no matter how obviously manufactured their outrage is." 🤷♂️
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Anecdotally (but I guess reflected in broader research) I was just talking to two friends who both work in software, and they complained that recent hires are so dependent on ChatGPT that these hires' own problem-solving skills are almost non-existent.
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Anecdotally (but I guess reflected in broader research) I was just talking to two friends who both work in software, and they complained that recent hires are so dependent on ChatGPT that these hires' own problem-solving skills are almost non-existent.
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Nicht annähernd so brisant, wie es der @nzz.ch -Feuilletonchef darstellt: Der Zürcher Heimatschutz hat ein Gutachten zu zwei Fassadeninschriften nun doch veröffentlicht.
Auf allen Kanälen: Trachten und Inschriften
Ein Gutachten des Heimatschutzes zu zwei Inschriften in Zürich ist nicht annähernd so brisant, wie es die NZZ darstellt. Dafür verrät das Papier etwas über den Auftraggeber.
www.woz.ch
November 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Nicht annähernd so brisant, wie es der @nzz.ch -Feuilletonchef darstellt: Der Zürcher Heimatschutz hat ein Gutachten zu zwei Fassadeninschriften nun doch veröffentlicht.
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Find das ganz im Ernst eine sehr gute und klare Definition: Wokeness ist, wenn jemand Ansprüche auf Mindeststandards im respektvollen Umgang mit ihm stellt, den ich als dessen nicht würdig ansehe.
Weil Ihr immer mault, dass Leute, die sich über „Wokeness“ beklagen, den Terminus nie richtig definieren: hier liefert ein „Interview über Wokeness“ endlich mal eine Anekdote, die ganz clare et distincte erklärt, was gemeint ist
November 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Find das ganz im Ernst eine sehr gute und klare Definition: Wokeness ist, wenn jemand Ansprüche auf Mindeststandards im respektvollen Umgang mit ihm stellt, den ich als dessen nicht würdig ansehe.
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ein sehr guter text, der auch dabei hilft die krah-kubitschek-debatte einzuordnen. die spannung zwischen (nationalsozialistischer) realpolitik und dem intellektuellen bodenpersonal scheint zeitlos zu sein
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
ein sehr guter text, der auch dabei hilft die krah-kubitschek-debatte einzuordnen. die spannung zwischen (nationalsozialistischer) realpolitik und dem intellektuellen bodenpersonal scheint zeitlos zu sein
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„Lutheraner also. Nenn mir alle 95 Thesen du Bastard.“
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
„Lutheraner also. Nenn mir alle 95 Thesen du Bastard.“
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"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
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„reduced work effort, increased leisure spending and investment in risky financial assets (including crypto) are all disproportionately common among young adults who face little to no realistic prospect of being able to afford a house.“
The housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilism
Locked out of home ownership, young adults are turning to risky financial behaviour
on.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
„reduced work effort, increased leisure spending and investment in risky financial assets (including crypto) are all disproportionately common among young adults who face little to no realistic prospect of being able to afford a house.“
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Not just a UK problem either. Even if you look at the populist Right or Left of European politics in the 1990s, the skill of figures like Jörg Haider or Gregor Gysi at engaging in debate would make them elite policy wonks compared to the intellectual standard of debate now
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Not just a UK problem either. Even if you look at the populist Right or Left of European politics in the 1990s, the skill of figures like Jörg Haider or Gregor Gysi at engaging in debate would make them elite policy wonks compared to the intellectual standard of debate now
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It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
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we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...