Ella Fitzgerald, The First Lady of Song, is special to me. When I’m feeling bad, desperate or depressed, I listen to her. I always get the feeling of joy and passion and I think: “It’s not that bad after all.” Thanks, Ella. You are still very much alive.
This is Part One of the emotional history of neoliberal hyper-individualism by Adam Curtis. It’s a hard watch again, but I suggest to everyone to watch all of this. It makes you numb at first, but the conclusion at the end of Part Six gives some hope for the future. Believe it. Or not.
This is the story of the genocide in Ruanda 1994. 800000 people were slaughtered in 100 days, in eight hour shifts. The world knew it. And did nothing. The canadian General Romeo Dallaire of the UN Blue Helmets was there, but not allowed to step in.
This documentary is brand new, issued today. It’s a hard watch and I have to issue a multiple trigger warning. Violence, exploitation and neo-colonialism.
In the last months I became intrigued by these new technologies, who everybody is calling intelligent. LLMs, statistical prediction machines… Claude, Gemini an so on. They are not intelligent, they are stochastic parrots with extreme dangers cooperated and carefully hidden in them. I have used free and open source software the first time 20 years […]
Why do fans think that football was better before? We often hear people say, “Football was better in the old days.” In media-covered team sports like football, we see fewer and fewer “creative” players, fewer players truly free on the pitch. The result: less dribbling, less improvisation, less of that “beauty of the game” that […]
Greetings from a person, who has (almost) nothing. But some friends and comrades. 😉 And you? More coming very soon! ilia