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#Berlin Bubble! Vom 17. - 20.7 (oder so) bin ich bei Euch! Sagt Bescheid, wenn ihr mich treffen wollt!

Helpful analysis of June 14th and a prod to action from Jeff Isaac www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-t...

@seabass.bsky.social Ein LiquidGlass Update, bitte!

Meet SpeechAnalyzer! I’m beyond excited and proud to share with you the culmination of 2+ years’ worth of intensive collaboration by app, framework and modeling teams, working in tandem to develop a new speech-to-text model and API. developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Trump and Elon have MAGA in a twist, with Kanye playing peacemaker and Fox News crashing out

“Who’s calling?” Trump asked when he answered our call one morning in late March. (It was a fair question; it could have been almost anyone.) My story w @michaelscherer.bsky.social, on the Secret History of Trump's private cell phone. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Das Absurde an der Debatte in Deutschland ist, dass Trumps Rechtsbruch-Ankündigungen mehr Empörung auslösen als ein deutscher Innenminister, der offen sagt, er will sich nicht ans Recht und ein Gerichtsurteil halten.

If you want something a bit more heartwarming, read this thread.

FINALLY! The dysfunctional far-right government Schoof has effectively fallen, after Wilders pulled his party from the coalition. Importantly, this happens as his PVV is in a (free) fall and centrist parties PvdA/GL-CDA-D66 are polling at 40% together. But is VVD still liberal democratic party?

[The F.T.C.’s new chairman] Mr. Ferguson has said the spending pullbacks amount to illegal boycotts. “Drying up the advertising will dry up the idea, so the risk of an advertiser boycott is a pretty serious risk to the free exchange of ideas,” he said at a conference last month. 🤡

I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

DOGE’s intense scrutiny of federal spending is forcing employees to spend hours justifying even the most basic purchases. New rules mandating review and approval by political appointees are leaving thousands of contracts and projects on ice for months.

Liz Truss is in Hungary. And she tweeted this without a shred of apparent irony. It's her friends and family I feel sorry for.

I wrote an entire blog post with this premise! rmondello.com/2025/01/02/m...

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

Last night in Paris, two synagogues, a kosher restaurant, and the Shoah Memorial were vandalized with green paint. Four deeply Jewish places that have nothing to do with Israel. As the Mayor of Central Paris said: “We know where ‘militant’ acts start, but not where they end.”

Ich habe mir für die "Jungle World" die Social Media-Reaktionen linker Israelhasser auf die Morde an Sarah Milgrim und Yaron Lischinsky vorige Woche in Washington angesehen, bei manchen war die Freude nicht nur klammheimlich, sondern sehr laut: jungle.world/artikel/2025...

After Elon Musk recently announced that he will step away from DOGE, @annabower.bsky.social details her search over the past 3 months for who was actually the administrator of the agency as it fired federal workers, accessed sensitive data, and worked to reshape the executive branch.

DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH

REPORTER: When could the administration resume interviews for foreign students visa? TRUMP: On what? REPORTER: Foreign student visas TRUMP: For the French? REPORTER: All the foreign students TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

Good news for Bitcoin!

Universitäten “dürfen” forschen, so lange sie “synchron mit der Regierung” und den Zielen der Regierung arbeiten. Gleichschaltung.

I don’t care what they call their shit, they need to move away from yearly iterations. It’s completely arbitrary and bad for overall quality and doesn’t allow large features to be shipped as promised. They still haven’t shipped some stuff they promised a year ago.

I am shocked, shocked to tell you that the campus free speech law Texas passed in 2019 was only to protect MAGA and other bigots. When pro-Palestinian protests happened last year, the Texas Legislature responded by changing their own law to censor and punish them.

The history books of this era are going to be a lot of "no, really, this actually happened. I know it sounds made up, but yes, it really happened."

New Yorkers, get ready for the best sunsets of the year. Here’s when, where and how to watch Manhattanhenge, if the weather cooperates. nyti.ms/3Z54U3e

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Heather Cox Richardson: The idea that truthful reporting based on verifiable evidence is a plot by “liberal media” to undermine conservative values had its start in 1951, when William F. Buckley Jr., fresh out of Yale, published God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom.”