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The men issue of Contrapoints is mostly correct as always.

Ende Gelände is the radical environmentalist movement against climate change and here they are blocking a strip mine.

A collective of the largest German YouTubers have just before the European elections launched a campaign against the CDU and it’s a joy to see.

Even given that this is an amazing job description, you don’t often see companies describing themselves as a ‘socio-technical system’. This is a great way to show off both your care and your depth of thinking.

“Everyone else, money manager big or small, met with him virtually, over Zoom. When Yuan flew to New York for the IPO, it was just his eighth work trip in five years.”

Zoom is an excellent video-conferencing app which turns out to be built on some technical excellence of its own (running WASM encoders and decoders in the browser).

“Really, though, it was the same liberal fantasy, where everyone could laugh together because they were all on the right side of history.”

The best thing about ContraPoints is that she gives the most charitable possible treatment to in this case Gender Critical people (the other time it was Incels) and then still rips them for all that they are.

Looked up Game of Thrones bastard names and I have to conclude that the surname for a bastard in Germany would have to be Wurst, like Hans Wurst.

Geert Wilders, leader of the PVV —the far right Dutch Freedom Party— had his campaign start today for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Spijkenisse, one of his traditional strongholds.

Like every year the books I read and the movies I watched. Recommended ones are in bold.

I strolled through the massive exhibition ‘Welt am Draht’ at Leipziger Strasse this weekend. This is a selection of video art from the massive Julia Stoschek Collection exhibited in the former Czech Cultural center.

I have a personal log of culture consumed going back to 2003. This year was a particular low on many counts. I have been busy and I don’t ascribe the same value to consuming culture pure for the goal of consuming it anymore. Been there, done that.

I was tremendously hyped for Deutschland ‘83 after hearing about it and watching the first episode. Now that it is finally airing in Germany it turns out that it is not doing that well. Viewership started out low and has been declining over the first four episodes.

The idea that German television is necessarily terrible has to be reconsidered. I’ve recently started watching Deutschland ‘83 which is amazing (more on that later) and yesterday I finished season two of the web series Mann/Frau by BR PULS.

Yesterday I saw the documentary on the Nakagin Capsule Tower by Rima Yamazaki as part of the DOKU.ARTS festival here in Berlin. I wasn’t aware of this landmark during my last visit to Tokyo though I must have passed close by while cycling through the city. I’ll make a point to see it when next I visit if it still stands because that is exactly the topic of the documentary.

I’m really into the series Da Vinci’s Demons right now (thanks to Kevin Slavin) which is a light hearted affair for the off season when there’s no Game of Thrones, True Detective or Sherlock.

Here in the Berlin office we grind by hand:

Last week I presented at the Berlin Ignite. I had been present at the last one and greatly enjoyed, so I looked what I could add to the mix.

Yesterday we went to see Werner Herzog read from his own work in ‘Erroberung des Nutzlosen’ at the Volksbühne. While an impressive display of authorship my enjoyment of the performance was hampered by me having no knowledge of his movies and a recent aversion towards the theater.

I biked over tonight to see the installation PIVOT by Jacob Kirkegaard at the leap in Berlin 1 before it finishes tomorrow.

De serie video’s Blind Sequence Trust van kunstenaar Joan Leandre speelt in DAM nog tot en met 5 mei.

I dived into my log to make the yearly tally of what I did and saw. All in all 2011 has proven to be a good year.

The weekend before last we were on a fortress (part of the defense works of Amsterdam) to spend a day on hacking civic data for Apps for Noord-Holland.

De film “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” begint met wijdse Anatolische vergezichten over de zo herkenbare landschappen van mijn jeugd waar drie auto’s zich over dorpsweggetjes van bron naar akker begeven.

Seeing this presentation in Amsterdam as the culmination of Mobile Monday, was something great. The far reaching vision and reality based optimism Kevin Slavin lays down (his comments) are something we should aspire to. It is worth watching and watching again.

I witnessed a discussion yesterday that stated that for creative industries to catch root in a certain area there is the need for trendy coffee shops. While that is a necessary condition indeed, it is not sufficient. The coffee produced in said shops also needs to be of excellent quality or at least miles better than whatever most stores in the Netherlands are pouring. The lovely folks over at BERG also have a post about it.

Mijn stukje over de trailer van Dead Island die we vorige week zagen staat online bij Bashers (mijn debuut). Zie verder ook de comments.

I saw the movie Catfish which seems to have garnered a significant amount of attention and is in many ways the *real* Facebook movie because it actually takes place on facebook and addresses real issues we have all dealt with instead of the dealings of ultra-rich privileged kids at elite-universities.

Het blijft toch een mooi gezicht om terug te kijken de Wip ’n’ Kip op Stekkerfest:

Ik schreef een tijdje geleden al bij mijn foto over de Linkse Hobby:

Gisteren een potje Stereoscoop gespeeld op de Neude in Utrecht en daar een gigantische buit binnengehaald. Deze badges staan nu op mijn profiel te prijken:

Terwijl we aan de andere kant een strijd voeren voor vrij beschikbare openbaar vervoersinformatie is het openbaar vervoer zelf in een ‘wereldstad’ als Amsterdam nog een zooitje.

De grens tussen Turkije en Syrië is tegenwoordig compleet open en Turkije ‘groeit uit zijn voegen’ 1:

Afgelopen dinsdag gaf ik een presentatie op Online Tuesday over de toekomst van het internet. Ik had me niet geheel beseft dat de brief van de presentaties subtiel verlegd was naar doe een pitch over de toekomst van je bedrijf, maar des te beter eigenlijk.

I recently got glasses to make my vision even better than it already is. Nothing wrong with my eyes, but once you’ve seen the difference in sharpness, you do not want to go back. For me it’s an augment:

Hier een hele leuke video over de val van het kabinet (via):

Een nieuw gedicht van onze Dichter des Vaderlands “Een mooie dag om stilte te verscheuren”:

This entire weekend was taken up by Amsterdam Music Hackday for which Alex, Dirk and I had planned to build a prototype version of a surface table projector for music discovery.

Dit gedicht van Ramsey Nasr had ik gemist. Hier het Hemelse Leven.

Na het radio-item van vorige week staat nu het filmpje dat Lody en Annejan vanochtend van me schoten bij Dwaze Zaken nu online op NOS Headlines.

Afgelopen weekend was ik ook bij de nieuwjaarsborrel van D66 Amsterdam in het kader van de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen die er aankomen. Ik heb toen samen met wat anderen wat video’s gemaakt van de verschillende lijsttrekkers, gemeenteraadsleden en andere belangrijke D66’ers (ook van Alexander Pechtold en Boris van der Ham) in de komende periode voor het D66 Amsterdam videokanaal.

In een vergelijkbaar filmpje zoals je ze ook voor je film ziet wanneer je legaal DVDs koopt/huurt, komt er weer een stukje propaganda van de entertainment-industrie:

Taplin regularly writes that the entertainment business is in crisis because people outside of the USA are not willing to pay for their intellectual property.

Interesting on the part of the sub-team adding extra information to clarify references, cultural differences and even tone of voice. There were enough of these notes to be distracting, which makes it a mixed blessing. I think a movie is experienced better without.