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Monthly 2026 May

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Drag queen Pattie Gonia fights trademark lawsuit by Patagonia [bbc]
Drag queen Pattie Gonia fights trademark lawsuit by Patagonia [bbc]
"If Patagonia wants to celebrate Pride Month this year by taking a queer climate activist to federal court, then I'm here to fight for myself"
"If Patagonia wants to celebrate Pride Month this year by taking a queer climate activist to federal court, then I'm here to fight for myself,"
#clothing#ecology
·bbc.com·
Drag queen Pattie Gonia fights trademark lawsuit by Patagonia [bbc]
Demo­kra­ti­sche Selbstsorge? [gdg]
Demo­kra­ti­sche Selbstsorge? [gdg]
"Was wir heute infolge der zerstörerischen Politik von Trump oder Putin beobachten können, hängt zwar mit diesem Grundparadoxon von Demokratie zusammen, hat aber bereits eine neue Stufe erreicht. Es geht nicht mehr darum, aufgrund von einem realen Schutzbedürfnis demokratische Rechte teilweise einzuschränken, sondern bereits darum, diese Achillesferse demokratischer Gesellschaften gezielt anzusteurn, um Demokratien gegen sich selbst zu mobilisieren."
Was wir heute infolge der zerstö­re­ri­schen Politik von Trump oder Putin beob­achten können, hängt zwar mit diesem Grund­pa­ra­doxon von Demo­kratie zusammen, hat aber bereits eine neue Stufe erreicht. Es geht nicht mehr darum, aufgrund von einem realen Schutz­be­dürfnis demo­kra­ti­sche Rechte teil­weise einzu­schränken, sondern bereits darum, diese Achil­les­ferse demo­kra­ti­scher Gesell­schaften gezielt anzu­steurn, um Demo­kra­tien gegen sich selbst zu mobi­li­sieren.
#politics#democracy
·geschichtedergegenwart.ch·
Demo­kra­ti­sche Selbstsorge? [gdg]
The Tucker Carlson Problem (with Naomi Klein)
The Tucker Carlson Problem (with Naomi Klein)
"Tucker Carlson has emerged as one of the most influential voices opposing the U.S. relationship to Israel. He’s also anti-Trump. So is he your friend now? Today, the inimitable Naomi KIein makes her A Bit Fruity debut to explain the Right’s burgeoning realignment, why the Republican successor to Trump could be so much scarier (sorry), and how an inept Liberal establishment made the rise of an antisemitic nationalist movement inevitable"
Tucker Carlson has emerged as one of the most influential voices opposing the U.S. relationship to Israel. He’s also anti-Trump. So is he your friend now? Today, the inimitable Naomi KIein makes her A Bit Fruity debut to explain the Right’s burgeoning realignment, why the Republican successor to Trump could be so much scarier (sorry), and how an inept Liberal establishment made the rise of an antisemitic nationalist movement inevitable
#podcast#naomiklein#uspol
·podcasts.apple.com·
The Tucker Carlson Problem (with Naomi Klein)
FIFA Should Be Banned From the Game [counterpunch]
FIFA Should Be Banned From the Game [counterpunch]
"If money didn’t rule sports and sanity did rule US politics, both of these men [Infantino and Trump] would be either in prison or on their way to prison for the swamp of corruption they both wallow in and celebrate. While I appreciate the game known as football in most of the world, I have nothing but intense disgust for the capitalist carnival the World Cup has become.
If money didn’t rule sports and sanity did rule US politics, both of these men would be either in prison or on their way to prison for the swamp of corruption they both wallow in and celebrate. While I appreciate the game known as football in most of the world, I have nothing but intense disgust for the capitalist carnival the World Cup has become.
#uspol#world cup#football#corruption
·counterpunch.org·
FIFA Should Be Banned From the Game [counterpunch]
Slopaganda: Was ist Slopaganda? [woz]
Slopaganda: Was ist Slopaganda? [woz]
"Anders als gewöhnlicher Slop nutzt «Slopaganda» die Mechanismen sozialer Medien nicht allein zur profitablen Aufmerksamkeitsgenerierung, sondern zur politischen Einflussnahme. Von klassischer Propaganda unterscheidet sie sich nicht zuletzt im Hinblick auf Menge, Geschwindigkeit und Reichweite: Generative KI erlaubt die schnelle Massenproduktion von Content, der sich über soziale Medien rasch global verbreiten kann. Aber «Slopaganda» ist kein bloss quantitatives Phänomen. Sie ist auch verteilte, partizipative Propaganda – Propaganda zum Mitmachen."
#slop#ai#slopaganda
·woz.ch·
Slopaganda: Was ist Slopaganda? [woz]
Trump’s New National Strategy Labels ‘Left-Wing’ as Terrorists, Akin to ISIL and Al Qaeda [unicorn riot]
Trump’s New National Strategy Labels ‘Left-Wing’ as Terrorists, Akin to ISIL and Al Qaeda [unicorn riot]
"The White House’s newly released national counterterrorism strategy identifies the “left-wing,” “anti-fascists,” “anarchists” and “radically pro-transgender ideologies” as terrorist threats equivalent to al Qaeda and the Islamic State."
The White House’s newly released national counterterrorism strategy identifies the “left-wing,” “anti-fascists,” “anarchists” and “radically pro-transgender ideologies” as terrorist threats equivalent to al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
#uspol#fascism#antifascism
·unicornriot.ninja·
Trump’s New National Strategy Labels ‘Left-Wing’ as Terrorists, Akin to ISIL and Al Qaeda [unicorn riot]
Mold exposure can trigger and worsen chronic illness. Climate change will increase the risk. [the sick times]
Mold exposure can trigger and worsen chronic illness. Climate change will increase the risk. [the sick times]
"Mold exposure is a complicated and little-understood phenomena, with limited and largely untested treatments available. More research is needed to figure out the connection between different species of mold and the health impacts of exposure."
Mold exposure is a complicated and little-understood phenomena, with limited and largely untested treatments available. More research is needed to figure out the connection between different species of mold and the health impacts of exposure.
#mold#chronically ill#climatecrisis
·thesicktimes.org·
Mold exposure can trigger and worsen chronic illness. Climate change will increase the risk. [the sick times]
Long Covid und ME/CFS: Heilung in drei Tagen? | WOZ Die Wochenzeitung
Long Covid und ME/CFS: Heilung in drei Tagen? | WOZ Die Wochenzeitung
"Die Methoden, die der Podcast vorschlägt, sind unter anderem als «Brain Retraining», «Mind Body Medicine» oder «neuroplastischer Ansatz» bekannt. Die Idee dahinter ist, dass chronischen Schmerzen oder Fatigue – wie sie typisch sind für Long Covid – keine körperlichen Schäden zugrunde liegen würden. Das Nervensystem verharre in einer Art falschem Alarmzustand und löse so Symptome aus, obwohl die Ursache, etwa eine akute Covid-Infektion, bereits ausgestanden sei. Dank «neuroplastischer Verfahren» könne man diese Symptome wieder «verlernen». Wenn man dem Gehirn mit positiven Botschaften, Meditationen und verändertem Verhalten vermittle, dass keine Gefahr mehr bestehe, lerne es mit der Zeit, sich durch Symptome nicht mehr bedroht zu fühlen, was zu einer Genesung führe." I link to this because of it's content, but must also warn that at least one author is a pro-zionist Antideutsch proponent.
#longcovid#snake oil#switzerland
·woz.ch·
Long Covid und ME/CFS: Heilung in drei Tagen? | WOZ Die Wochenzeitung
Hito Steyerl - Friction [youtube]
Hito Steyerl - Friction [youtube]
"The logic of AI development is precisely the logic of eliminating friction: faster, smoother, more frictionless. But friction is where resistance lives. It is where the hindering medium pushes back. We need to stay with friction — to understand it as a condition of entanglement rather than a problem to be optimized. Friction is where critique, refusal, and alternative possibilities mix."
The logic of AI development is precisely the logic of eliminating friction: faster, smoother, more frictionless. But friction is where resistance lives. It is where the hindering medium pushes back. We need to stay with friction — to understand it as a condition of entanglement rather than a problem to be optimized. Friction is where critique, refusal, and alternative possibilities mix.
#video#conference#ai#friction
·youtube.com·
Hito Steyerl - Friction [youtube]
Health Fascism and the Anti-State State (Re-Air) [.soundcloud.]
Health Fascism and the Anti-State State (Re-Air) [.soundcloud.]
"This episode was originally released December 22nd for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time." This episode was released to patrons only, freely accessible, still excellent.
This episode was originally released December 22nd for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod
#podcast#deathpanel#fascism
·soundcloud.com·
Health Fascism and the Anti-State State (Re-Air) [.soundcloud.]
‘Petro-masculinity’ is destroying the planet. Can eco-masculinity help save it? [theguardian]
‘Petro-masculinity’ is destroying the planet. Can eco-masculinity help save it? [theguardian]
"Coined by political scientist Cara Daggett in a 2018 paper, “petro-masculinity” describes a pernicious fusion between fossil fuel use, climate change denial, and defense of authoritarian white patriarchal masculinity. Noting how fossil fuel extraction and consumption are coded “masculine”, while environmentalism and green technology are coded soft, weak and “feminine”; it tracks how insecure men are increasingly leaning in to a petro-masculine identity in order to assert traditional masculine authority in the face of climate change, threats to traditional extractive industries, and changing social norms."
#masculinity#fossil fuel
·theguardian.com·
‘Petro-masculinity’ is destroying the planet. Can eco-masculinity help save it? [theguardian]
COVID Consciousness as a Subculture[substack]
COVID Consciousness as a Subculture[substack]

"The empowerment found in looking after each other is the empowerment of all good movements – there is no need, ever, to leave a single soul behind. Good movements sustain themselves with big imaginations for good now’s and good futures - and being part of the COVID Conscious Community, signaling my belonging to the group in any and every way I can, is my message to the world that

I don’t want to go back in time, I know we can do better, and that a good future is coming. We will make it so."

The empowerment found in looking after each other is the empowerment of all good movements – there is no need, ever, to leave a single soul behind. Good movements sustain themselves with big imaginations for good now’s and good futures - and being part of the COVID Conscious Community, signaling my belonging to the group in any and every way I can, is my message to the world that I don’t want to go back in time, I know we can do better, and that a good future is coming. We will make it so.
#covid-safe#covid-conscious#essay
·positivedeviancenyc.substack.com·
COVID Consciousness as a Subculture[substack]
The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin
The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin
"The anti-datacenter movement, in other words, isn’t just about the future of a novel technology. It’s about the future of democracy. It’s about who controls the economy and whether regular people have a say in the decisions that affect them. Given how we’ve all been denied a voice in this technological upheaval, everyone should be cheering the movement on. Or better yet, joining the fight."
#ai#ecology#democracy
·theguardian.com·
The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin
taken.
taken.
"You opened this page. It already knows the following."
You opened this page. It already knows the following.
#data#privacy
·sinceyouarrived.world·
taken.
Kim Gordon’s Capitalist Realism [jacobin]
Kim Gordon’s Capitalist Realism [jacobin]
"In Capitalist Realism (2009), Mark Fisher writes of how Kurt Cobain’s suicide marked the end of a certain utopianism in rock music, which was already being overtaken by hip-hop. In both instances, authenticity was integral to their creativity — a feature recognized and commodified by the corporate music industry."
In Capitalist Realism (2009), Mark Fisher writes of how Kurt Cobain’s suicide marked the end of a certain utopianism in rock music, which was already being overtaken by hip-hop. In both instances, authenticity was integral to their creativity — a feature recognized and commodified by the corporate music industry.
#music+hiphop#capitalism
·jacobin.com·
Kim Gordon’s Capitalist Realism [jacobin]
My Octopus Girlfriend | Sophie Lewis
My Octopus Girlfriend | Sophie Lewis
"Capitalism, as I have already suggested, is definitionally anti-erotic (which is to say queerphobic). As a way of organizing nature, it has not only subjected us all to the domination of work; it also generated the novel coronavirus—meaning that the ruling class have fucked the planet to the point that billions of us now have to stay in our (also ecocidally built) houses and refrain from going outside to flirt with the trees."
Capitalism, as I have already suggested, is definitionally anti-erotic (which is to say queerphobic). As a way of organizing nature, it has not only subjected us all to the domination of work; it also generated the novel coronavirus—meaning that the ruling class have fucked the planet to the point that billions of us now have to stay in our (also ecocidally built) houses and refrain from going outside to flirt with the trees.
#oldiebutgoodie#sophie lewis#erotic#octopus
·nplusonemag.com·
My Octopus Girlfriend | Sophie Lewis
Mark Fisher, la techno et la virtualité du futur - « Rien n’est présent, tout est fantomatique » [lundi.am]
Mark Fisher, la techno et la virtualité du futur - « Rien n’est présent, tout est fantomatique » [lundi.am]
"Presque dix ans après son suicide en janvier 2017, qu’est-ce que le théoricien de la culture Mark Fisher penserait de l’état actuel de la musique techno ? En dix ans, la techno a conquis le monde, mais en même temps, elle s’est transformée en machine nostalgique et apolitique. La techno a-t-elle « annulé le futur », comme dirait Fisher dans son livre Spectres de ma vie ? Et si oui, comment le réactiver ?"
Presque dix ans après son suicide en janvier 2017, qu’est-ce que le théoricien de la culture Mark Fisher penserait de l’état actuel de la musique techno ? En dix ans, la techno a conquis le monde, mais en même temps, elle s’est transformée en machine nostalgique et apolitique. La techno a-t-elle « annulé le futur », comme dirait Fisher dans son livre Spectres de ma vie ? Et si oui, comment le réactiver ?
#music+techno#mark fisher
·lundi.am·
Mark Fisher, la techno et la virtualité du futur - « Rien n’est présent, tout est fantomatique » [lundi.am]
Tax the poor, feed the rich [daslamm]
Tax the poor, feed the rich [daslamm]
"Der Bund begründet das EP27 damit, dass die Kürzungen den finanziellen Engpass des Schweizer Staats ausgleichen und Spielraum für die geplante Aufrüstung der Armee schafft. Ob die geplante Aufrüstung tatsächlich politisch geboten ist, sei dahingestellt. Tatsache ist, dass der Bund 2025 1.1 Milliarden Franken über dem Budget abschloss, und der Schweizer Staat trotzdem weitere Kürzungen plant."
Der Bund begründet das EP27 damit, dass die Kürzungen den finan­zi­ellen Engpass des Schweizer Staats ausglei­chen und Spiel­raum für die geplante Aufrü­stung der Armee schafft. Ob die geplante Aufrü­stung tatsäch­lich poli­tisch geboten ist, sei dahin­ge­stellt. Tatsache ist, dass der Bund 2025 1.1 Milli­arden Franken über dem Budget abschloss, und der Schweizer Staat trotzdem weitere Kürzungen plant.
#switzerland#parliament#austerity
·daslamm.ch·
Tax the poor, feed the rich [daslamm]
Chapter 1: Fire | The Elements of Mutual Aid | English Subtitles
Chapter 1: Fire | The Elements of Mutual Aid | English Subtitles
"Mutual aid is the spark of our humanity that we have to defend while those in power try to stomp it out. This chapter sets the foundation: What is mutual aid, how is it different from charity, and why is it at odds with the ruling class?"
Mutual aid is the spark of our humanity that we have to defend while those in power try to stomp it out. This chapter sets the foundation: What is mutual aid, how is it different from charity, and why is it at odds with the ruling class?
#video#mutualaid
·youtube.com·
Chapter 1: Fire | The Elements of Mutual Aid | English Subtitles
The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
"Fallon presides over his rituals of play like a vampire, feeding not on blood but on enthusiasm. He doesn’t really converse with any of his guests; they all know what they are there for. Rather, he extracts. He demands “relatability” from them, draining the authenticity from the interaction until only the husk of a “viral moment” remains. The horror lies in the repetition: the feigned shock, the hysterical laughter at unfunny mishaps, the relentless “Golden Retriever energy.”"
Fallon presides over his rituals of play like a vampire, feeding not on blood but on enthusiasm. He doesn’t really converse with any of his guests; they all know what they are there for. Rather, he extracts. He demands “relatability” from them, draining the authenticity from the interaction until only the husk of a “viral moment” remains. The horror lies in the repetition: the feigned shock, the hysterical laughter at unfunny mishaps, the relentless “Golden Retriever energy.”
#comedy#centrist#radicalized#bothsides
·currentaffairs.org·
The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon