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Bulgakov · /ascension · 16 hours ago Mar 17, 2026, 09:44 AM ·2 mins reading time
Café barista goes viral after appearing in Netanyahu video amid death rumors /ascension

A promotional video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was supposed to put death rumors to rest, but while many viewers were busy scanning the footage for signs of AI manipulation, an unexpected figure in the background captured the internet's attention.

Netanyahu Café  video
Lars Becker · /ascension · 3 days 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.

Jürgen Habermas
Bulgakov · /ascension · 6 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.

How The Alchemist became the book everyone loves to mock
Lars Becker · /ascension · 1 week ago Mar 10, 2026, 08:01 PM ·2 mins reading time
Pope Leo XIV cautions priests against using AI to write sermons /ascension

Whether artificial intelligence should play a role in creative and intellectual life is a debate that has taken hold across media, academia, and literature, and it has now reached the pulpit.

Pope Leo XIV cautions priests against using AI to write sermons
Lars Becker · /ascension · 1 week ago Mar 8, 2026, 05:57 PM ·9 mins reading time
The Sorbian mythological world and the legend of Krabat /ascension

How a small Slavic people's folklore became one of European literature's most enduring moral fables

The Sorbian mythological world and the legend of Krabat
Lars Becker · /ascension · 4 months ago Oct 28, 2025, 10:58 PM ·1 min reading time
Ben Shapiros Daily Wire acquires "Pints with Aquinas" /ascension

Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire has announced that Matt Fradd and his popular Catholic podcast "Pints with Aquinas" will be joining the platform in 2026."We're pumped to have @mattfradd & Pints With Aquinas

Ben Shapiros Daily Wire acquires "Pints with Aquinas"