As bombs have been falling across the Middle East, I’ve been re-reading Etel Adnan, Lebanese-American poet and painter, especially her book The Arab Apocalypse.
At the same time I have returned to her paintings, which I first encountered at Documenta 13 in 2012. These paintings are small, yet they offer expanses of color and light that fill the eye and lift the spirit.
I thought you might like to see them too.
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Horse Butcher:
🎵 Penduncular Hallucinosis
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https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/track/penduncular-hallucinosis
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Ukraine update: life in the "post-truth" age demonstrated by third-hand reports of medial outlets, which contrast wildly with the truth observed on the ground.
Hard to report the truth of war when you never leave the hotel lobby.
Support Ukraine and journalism by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:
on the reality of the covid pandemic : that never ended
🔁 https://brennan.day/the-pandemic-never-ended-we-only-pretend-it-did/
"Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/revealed-uks-multibillion-ai-drive-is-built-on-phantom-investments
UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
Dann schau doch mal die 'hocheffizienten Verbrenner' und den Umgang mit dem Klimawandel der CDU an, den Umgang von u.a. Karin Prien, oder der FDP mit der Pandemie ..., liebe FAZ.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/karriere-hochs