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„This is not just a technical novelty but a shift in the moral structure of language.”

Mr Nobody Against Putin | Official Trailer YouTube video by Czech Centre London

"Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not," Arendt wrote. "Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.” Mr. Nobody reminds us that these "some people who will not" matter.

Words Without Consequence What does it mean to have speech without a speaker?

„Over time, we are trained—quietly but pervasively—to accept words without ownership and meaning without accountability.”

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Look here for the gift article "There Is a Word for What Is Happening in Minneapolis" by Gal Beckerman.

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4 killed, 17 injured in Kharkiv amid Russian drone attack Russian forces launched a massive drone attack on Kharkiv on the evening of Nov. 23, killing at least four people and injuring at least 17, regional officials said.

⚡️4 killed, 17 injured in Kharkiv amid Russian drone attack.

Russia launched a massive drone attack on Kharkiv on the evening of Nov. 23, killing at least four people and injuring at least 17, regional officials said.

Introducing Letters from Afghan Women, a project giving women inside #Afghanistan a platform to speak freely. In the 1st letter, Roma Ayuobi talks about her day-to-day reality & her hope that women will one day have the chance to fight for a better future: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/11/we-l...

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid It’s not just a phase.

“But after Babel, nothing really means anything anymore––at least not in a way that is durable and on which people widely agree.”

Go Ahead and Ban My Book To those who seek to stop young people from reading The Handmaid’s Tale: Good luck with that. It’ll only make them want to read it more.

"It’s shunning time in Madison County, Virginia, where the school board recently banished my novel The Handmaid’s Tale from the shelves of the high-school library. I have been rendered “unacceptable.”

"How dare I question the school board’s motives? I do dare. After all, it has questioned mine."

The Diary of Anne Frank is among the hundreds of books banned in Florida this year. When I was in school, it was required reading. (Guardian)

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

"Good enough has been keeping me up at night. Because good enough would likely mean that not enough people recognize what’s really being built—and what’s being sacrificed—until it’s too late."

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Ukraine Doesn’t Have to Defeat Russia. They Just Have to Outlast Putin. Why Trump won’t get a “peace deal” in Alaska.

Trump does not understand Zelensky because he does not recognize the concept of being bound by the law or the constitution while making decisions about your country.

The Trump-Putin Alaska summit went from what seemed to be an empty nothing-burger to a grotesque betrayal.

@timmiller.bsky.social takes it on right here: www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-sha...

Believe it or not, one of the constraints on Trump's foreign policy is a "congressional manacle" partly crafted by Marco Rubio. Trump does not have unlimited power.

@michaeldweiss.bsky.social‬ joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

‘I’m Actually Surprised It Didn’t Happen Sooner’ CDC staffers saw the violence coming.

Some CDC staff say that they have long feared the day that escalating animosity toward the agency would culminate in actual violence, @landmanspeaking.bsky.social reports:

"Either their long-term game is there won't be free elections or we'll fix the election or we'll steal it or gerrymander it, or they're perfectly prepared for someone who they disagree with to be able to use those same tools at some point in the future."

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Ukraine is not real estate deal: Ukrainians see Trump’s land concession proposal as betrayal Kyiv warns the West’s secret talks risk chaining Ukraine’s fate to a handshake with Moscow that will be broken before the ink dries.

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy refused US President Trump’s suggestion to exchange parts of Ukraine’s land in return for peace

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"Every piece of technology can either make us more human or less human. It can liberate us from the mundane to unleash creativity and connection, or it can shackle us to mindless robotic drudgery of isolated meaninglessness"

崔卫平：守望漫漫长夜——我与傅国涌的交往点滴 Cui Weiping: Keeping Vigil Through the Long Night—My Interactions with Fu Guoyong

For anyone interested in how the East Bloc’s intellectuals influenced Chinese public intellectuals, these recollections by one of China’s leading public thinkers, Cui Weiping, is absolutely important. She discusses her work with the recently departed Fu Guoyong and their work with Michnik and Havel

Cover of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 36, Number 1 (May 2025). The background is solid yellow with a horizontal beige band across the middle containing the journal title "differences" in lowercase serif letters. Below the band, the issue’s featured dossier is titled "Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," with contributing authors listed: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, Iván A. Ramos, Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Lee Edelman, David Marriott, and Selamawit D. Terrefe.

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1).

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Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” Lessons from the Czech writer Václav Havel on how to resist “the irrational momentum of anonymous, impersonal, and inhuman power.”

More than thirty years ago, Havel complained, “I cannot avoid the impression that many people in the West still understand little of what is actually at stake in our time.”

Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good? The work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre helps illuminate some central questions of our time.

“The barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness of this that constitutes part of our predicament.”

"Under conditions of terror most people will comply *but some people will not*"--Hannah Arendt. A unitarian minister friend sent me this clip from "The Avengers" as an illustration:

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”--Hannah Arendt

⚡️Maternity hospital in Odesa damaged in a Russian overnight attack, Mayor Trukhanov said. According to him, there are no casualties or injuries.

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"I did these things because I know I am mortal."