Category Archives: Lifestream

This contains all the pictures and everything I do on social media. It is meant as a sort of backup option, so all the data is also on my own server. I can never know when one of those services decides to either close or do any other action that’s unacceptable to me. This way, I have everything still available.

Opinion | You Are Now Remotely Controlled – The New York Times

Still, the winds appear to have finally shifted. A fragile new awareness is dawning as we claw our way back up the rabbit hole toward home. Surveillance capitalists are fast because they seek neither genuine consent nor consensus. They rely on psychic numbing and messages of inevitability to conjure the helplessness, resignation and confusion that paralyze their prey. Democracy is slow, and that’s a good thing. Its pace reflects the tens of millions of conversations that occur in families, among neighbors, co-workers and friends, within communities, cities and states, gradually stirring the sleeping giant of democracy to action.

Source: Opinion | You Are Now Remotely Controlled – The New York Times

President Obama: How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change

I remember seeing Barack Obama when he came to Berlin during his run for his first presidency. It was incredibly inspiring. Die Straße des 17. Juni was packed and the mood was very inspiring.

Barack Obama and especially President Obama was such an outlier in the history of politics and looking at the current situation it becomes even more astonishing that it happened at all.

This text once more makes this crystal clear and shows that the world desperately needs people like him.

I recognize that these past few months have been hard and dispiriting — that the fear, sorrow, uncertainty, and hardship of a pandemic have been compounded by tragic reminders that prejudice and inequality still shape so much of American life. But watching the heightened activism of young people in recent weeks, of every race and every station, makes me hopeful. If, going forward, we can channel our justifiable anger into peaceful, sustained, and effective action, then this moment can be a real turning point in our nation’s long journey to live up to our highest ideals.

Let’s get to work.

Source: How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change

PS: I hope that the behaviour and actions we’re seeing from the right wing (everywhere, not just in the US!) are “Rückzugsgefechte”, literal translation according to LEO rearguard actions.