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Lars Becker · /terminally online · 4 hours ago Mar 16, 2026, 01:53 PM ·2 mins reading time
YouTube will demonetize educational videos just because advertisers don't like them /terminally online

Popular history YouTuber M. Laser History has revealed that YouTube representatives essentially confirmed the platform will demonetize, age-restrict, or even delete educational videos if they're deemed too "spicy" for advertisers, regardless of whether the content actually violates any community guidelines.

Lars Becker · /ascension · 1 day ago Mar 14, 2026, 07:49 PM ·3 mins reading time
Jürgen Habermas, Frankfurt School philosopher, is dead at 96 /ascension

Jürgen Habermas died on a Saturday in Starnberg, at the edge of a Bavarian lake where he had spent his retirement. He was ninety-six.

Lars Becker · /tech · 3 days ago Mar 13, 2026, 10:01 AM ·5 mins reading time
Claude is clearly winning the internet war against ChatGPT /tech

For three years ChatGPT was a synonym for artificial intelligence itself. The non-plus-ultra of chatbots. The default answer when anyone asked what AI tool to use. That era is starting to crumble.

Bulgakov · /terminally online · 3 days ago Mar 12, 2026, 08:12 PM ·3 mins reading time
'Frame Mogging' and 'Looksmaxxing': The good, the bad, and the neurotic /terminally online

There's a whole vocabulary rattling around the internet that most people over thirty or with a job have never encountered.

Lars Becker · /literature · 3 days ago Mar 12, 2026, 06:57 PM ·6 mins reading time
Dark academia proved the Western canon isn't dead /literature

The "dark academia" aesthetic did what billions in education spending couldn't: it made young people care about classic literature.

Bulgakov · /ascension · 5 days ago Mar 11, 2026, 04:18 PM ·8 mins reading time
How The Alchemist became the book everyone loves to mock /ascension

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho has sold millions of copies, been translated into 80 languages, and holds the Guinness World Record for most translated book by a living author. It has changed lives. People get tattoos of its quotes. It is, by any commercial measure, one of the most successful novels ever written. And literary people cannot stand it.