Germany's discourse around Israel is so broken that it silences Jews in the name of fighting antisemitism.
I wrote for @jacobin about how Germany's rhetoric of atonement is being used to bash immigrants- strengthening the right and endangering Jews in DE.
https://t.co/ZdQZs07Q54
When the U.S. men’s national soccer team plays at home, its most loyal fans traditionally sit right behind a goal to cheer on the team.
But when the Americans kick off the World Cup next week, FIFA is seating them in the “nose bleeds,” according to a major U.S. fan group.
“These are the worst tickets that I’ve ever seen out of the five World Cups I’ve been to,” American Outlaws President Brian Hexsel says. https://t.co/hNJjr9FIDU
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FIFA make last-gasp change to World Cup stadium rules: BANNING fans from bringing refillable plastic bottles, so fans must buy water in stadia
As of May, empty bottles permitted so fans could refill amid heat concerns. Not now
https://t.co/OuyjvgPoxN
The Enhanced Games, an ad for supplements masking as athletic competition, are here
I wrote for @jacobin about how they reflect the world made by their billionaire backers: in a society dominated by scams, whoever can cheat most blatantly deserves to win
https://t.co/Y5axeJFQqZ
Despite the marketing, the immortality-obsessed ‘transhumanist’ ultra-rich actually disdain humanity. They’re happy to pump participants full of drugs they’d likely never take to help sell snake oil and give a cheaters’ Olympics an air of being about scientific progress
In Chemnitz on a diplomatic mission to relocate the massive Karl Marx statue to Rockaway, New Jersey. Negotiations ongoing (a security guard has repeatedly asked me to leave)
Since Marie-Louise Eta became Union Berlin's interim head coach:
-Became the first-ever female coach to win a match in Europe's Top 5 Leagues
-Got her second win today in dominant fashion in her final match
-Ensured Union Berlin's Bundesliga survival
What a job she's done 👏
Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.
The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.
In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.
“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.
“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”
Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc
A. lived in Germany since he was 2 months and last year gained German citizenship. Now he’s been stripped of it because of pro-Palestinian Instagram posts, in a disturbing legal case that points to the rise of citizenship-on-probation. My latest @jacobin
https://t.co/GE7cd5Albg
Miller Lite is debuting a soccer ball beer holder that fits up to 12 beers.
The Miller Time MVP Matchball will go on sale before the World Cup for $19.75.
‘American Bagel’ in Berlin. Based on the logo and my experience with German bagels I’m going to go ahead and assume what they serve is significantly more antisemitic than anything happening in die Linke
Damn, pretty random way to find out I was at GW at the same time as Platner. He’s probably going to be a senator, I’ve got like 1k followers - I’d say we have equally inspiring stories