Alexander Kasbohm

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

Notes from ADHD brain - night: brain rehearsing a possible conversation about something not clearly defined. > Thinking about fuzzy logic. > wondering about minimum amount of grains needed to build 3 layers. > morning: sitting on floor with tennis balls to verify solution. And how did *you* sleep?

This is quite a pleasant surprise. David Sylvian returning from retirement.

I know I am not 20 anymore, but it is not yet time to take a final look at my member before I expire. I hope.

"No! I am not! I am a free man!"

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Gives off strong "Nazi officer meets Grand Moff Tarkin" vibes. (God, it actually says "inspired by Starship Troopers", which was an allegory of fascist dictatorship.)

«As an AfD voter you get to shape government policy without your political party being in power, because all the other parties will rush to govern as though the AfD were in power.» @adriandaub.bsky.social on the «Delusions of the Normalizers» adriandaub.substack.com/p/a-quick-se...

Here is a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast saying that algebra is a conspiracy by the Jews to turn people into “good little goy slaves.” I wish I was joking.

By perpetuating the right-wing narrative that you "can't say" the things they constantly say (and the established parties are only too happy to join in), Robin Brooks (Ex-Goldmam-Sachs etc.) shows that the economic elite ist either woefully under-informed or shares the agenda of the movement.

The fascist promise is unrestricted agency for the in-group. In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD put up posters stating: «Everything is possible.» Whatever cruelties against others centrists come up with, the AfD can always promise more. And the center delivers, showing that, indeed, «everything is possible»

The explicit plan of many intellectuals on the German far right is not to attack the constitution head on, but to culturally redefine key concepts of democracy, pluralism and rights so that its ethno-nationalist agenda is viewed as common sense.

If you ever wondered, why it became harder to find stuff on amazon that is definitely *there*...

Inspired by @philippeauclair.bsky.social and @andylewis.bsky.social who keep posting forgotten gems of obscure pop, I want to remind the world of Bill Puka. Not quite as obscure as J.A. Freedman, but unfairly forgotten. He cut one LP of gorgeous, Nyro inspired songs in 1970. youtu.be/tv4ylN52hm8?...

When the market doesn't do what companies with too much power want it to do, they suddenly stop worshipping its wisdom...

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

Long thread by Cory Doctorow on property rights, human rights, AI and social media.

Is he dead yet?

I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.

They’re barely protesting anymore. The more political power fascists get in Europe, the quieter their protest will be. „It is not 2020 anymore“ is a revealing admission here.

Channel 4 have picked on the wrong group. If there’s anyone with a heightened sense of justice, a superhuman ability to hyperfocus on complaints procedures, and an insufferable determination to prove themselves right, it’s an ADHDer. Good luck, fuckheads.

White House comms people are speaking like the average poster on 4chan. The fact 4chan swallowed an entire political party is still insane to me even though that fact is constantly reinforced every single day.

This is the kind of normalizing that makes right wing views acceptable and mainstream, that transforms a fringe movement into a mass movement.

Eclipse. Since I don't have the equipment to take pictures of the sun, this is my picture of the solar event of august 12 2026.

Hey if you are in Eastern or Northern Canada right now you are experience a partial solar eclipse! My favourite pinhole camera: Leaf shadows! Just look at the ground shadows behind any tree to experience the eclipse live!