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Wissen Sie, was mich ankotzt? Viele Leute nennen diese Länder immer noch „ehemalige Sowjetrepubliken“. Mehr als dreißig Jahre nach dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion! Es gibt auch gebildete Menschen, die noch vom „Ostblock“ sprechen. Sprache ist da verräterisch.

Ukrainische Autorin Über Russland: „Sprache Ist Verräterisch“

Oksana Sabuschko​

“Rewilding”. The metaphor suggests precisely what to do: If you want to have wilder, curiouser thoughts, you have to avoid the industrial monocropping of big-tech feeds. You want an intellectual *forest,* overgrown with mushrooms and towering weeds and a massive dead log where a family of raccoons has taken up residence.

Rewilding Your Attention

Clive Thompson

And that slightly giddy, unmoored feeling that developed after clicking through these narratives would follow me out into the real world, making me hyperaware of the inner worlds lurking behind the sea of faces around me.

This Bakerloo Line Train Will Not Stop at 1996

The LiB team

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