How to wrap up the last 12 months? How to make sense of everything that happened? Here’s a non-exhaustive list of some major topics of 2025: War in Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza (and many other places); AI-LLM-mania; far right gaining election victories in a lot of places; Trump, MAGA and his cronies (ICE) terrorizing people […]
2025: The world in decline Read More »
I saved my first recommendation post for Christmas. Something heart-warming for any time of the year or age. My personal highlight of the year: “Avatar – The Last Airbender”. It has been two years ago that I got reintroduced to two art forms that I had been neglecting for most parts of my adult life:
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“There’s no glory in prevention.” I feel there should also be a more personal version of this saying. Something describing situations where you go through hard times yourself but somehow emerge unharmed. With unharmed I don’t mean that there is no suffering or pain. With unharmed I mean not broken, your sense of self-worth intact,
Getting through COVID times (unharmed) Read More »
Warning: Major spoilers ahead! I’m a big fan of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s movies, that is the three there are (O Som ao Redor, Aquarius and Bacurau). His newest movie, The Secret Agent, is considered a masterpiece by a lot of critics1. After watching the movie, I can understand why it is considered a masterpiece. But
The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho: A Disappointment or maybe not? Read More »
“I’m terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don’t think I’m human. And I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters.”
James Baldwin & Kein Land für Niemand („No Country for Nobody”) Read More »
