TIL Douglas Adams conceived the hitchhikes guide while “lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck… Inebriated beneath the swirling stars, clutching a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to Europe, Adams decided that someone should devise a similar guidebook to the whole of the Milky Way.” [source, comments]

Causes of death in London, 1632.
https://redd.it/1m94qer
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Schon in den 1980ern war Deutschland bereit für Glasfaser – doch Helmut Kohl stoppte den Fortschritt, um gegen den »Rotfunk« die kulturelle Hegemonie wiederherzustellen. Der bis heute andauernde Digitalrückstand ist das Erbe dieses konservativen Kulturkampfs.
https://jacobin.de/artikel/internet-glasfaser-cdu-kohl-rotfunk-infrastruktur-computer-rechner

https://jacobin.de/artikel/internet-glasfaser-cdu-kohl-rotfunk-infrastruktur-computer-rechner

Song of the Day 🤫🚫: https://youtu.be/GD7cXbVNpAY

Was sollte man diesen Sommer unbedingt lesen? Wir haben uns in unserer Redaktion mal umgehört. Hier die besten Empfehlungen von uns für euch.

https://jacobin.de/artikel/lesetipps-strandlektuere-empfehlungen-sommerurlaub-leseliste

40% of arrested people during last summer's anti-immigration riots in the UK had previously been reported for domestic abuse


https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/two-in-five-arrested-for-last-summers-uk-riots-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

Was gibt es Schöneres, als den Sommer in der Badi zu verbringen? Genau, nichts. Warum das Nichtstun auch politisch ist, lässt sich im grössten Freibad der Schweiz erleben. https://www.woz.ch/!Y7MT9AS0ZPN6

La Sagrada Familia is being finished after 144 years!

https://redd.it/1maxjux
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Song of the Day 🔥🎶: https://youtu.be/D8fHatctfRo

On this day, 28 July 1915, the United States invaded Haiti, crushing opposition and setting up a dictatorship which governed the country for the next 19 years.US Secretary of State Robert Lansing claimed the invasion was necessary to end "anarchy, savagery and oppression" in Haiti, and claimed that "the African race are devoid of any capacity for political organisation." The government had been lobbied for some time by US banking interests to occupy Haiti to assert US financial dominance as opposed to dominance by the financial institutions of the French former colonial power.In the years of occupation, the US forcibly dissolved parliament, killed thousands of people – and posed for photographs with their corpses – as well as siphoning wealth from the country. They also tied people up with ropes and forced them to work for no pay, killing people who attempted to flee. US authorities installed a puppet leader, Louis Borno, who admired fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, and had him take out a loan from the National City Bank, the forerunner of Citigroup. Around a quarter of Haiti's revenues then went towards paying for this loan. The measures left Haitian farmers "close to starvation level", according to the United Nations. While formal US colonial occupation ended in 1934, US retained neocolonial financial control of the country through the remaining debt until 1947.Reflecting on his role in the events, US Major General Smedley Butler stated that he "helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues," and described himself as a "racketeer for capitalism."More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10016/us-invasion-of-haiti* If you appreciate our work, please consider supporting us on patreon: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory

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Bund, Kantone und Gemeinden legen dringliche Massnahmen gegen den Femizid fest – wobei ­ der Begriff von den Behörden lange Zeit abgelehnt wurde. Über Verschiebungen im öffentlichen und im politischen Diskurs. https://www.woz.ch/!V2Z6XJG00HZ9

In Berlin will TikTok massenhaft Mitarbeitende durch eine KI ersetzen – sollte der Konzern Erfolg haben, wird es Nachahmer geben. Doch die Beschäftigten wehren sich mit dem weltweit ersten Streik bei einem Social-Media-Konzern.

https://jacobin.de/artikel/tiktok-bytedance-berlin-ki-content-moderation-ki

Hier mal etwas wirklich sinnvolles zum Unterzeichnen für Menschen mit deutschem Pass (Einführung der Vermögenssteuer):
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_04/_09/Petition_180180.nc.html