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bensahlmueller.bsky.social
Mathematician obsessed with social organization and change. Speaks bullshit but prefers not to. Fediverse: @[email protected]
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Pump and dump, only it‘s the whole economy.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

1/As Trump and Vance remarks make clear, Europe has to wake up and act to protect itself in a much more dangerous world. It cannot depend on US guarantees. But it is also in a much stronger position than it thinks. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Ok folks, deep breaths. There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome. (A rather long 🧵, obviously) /1

submitted 20 days ago • 72 comments

It feels weird to see this happen with someone who I knew as a messy, brilliant, flawed, kind and utterly wonderful person. I so wish he was here today, to help build the connections we need. But if we only have his memory, let it be a blessing in the most practical ways possible.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Is there a future timeline in which Maga watches Musk destroying the administrative state only to put him into prison for doing it? He‘s probably broken hundreds of laws, data security, faking documents etc? Why is he taking that risk?

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Did someone check in on the state capacity libertarians lately? There’s probably quite some cognitive dissonance to be wrangled with…

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

It’s kind of funny how all the companies trying to convince humans that their creativity isn’t worth anything are now trying to buy the app that’s all about people trying to be creative for a whole 15s for a trillion dollars.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Jevon’s Paradox, sure. But wasn’t the problem yesterday to make people use AI despite it being essentially free for them already?

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

As the US admin tries to cancel all federal expenses to maybe reintroduce parts they like while using LLMs to draft EOs, they look like a software company throwing away all the “ugly” code to let AI rewrite it from scratch. Curious how that will go.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

People who have spent many years to build high resolution models of how certain parts of the world work struggle to understand how simple the mental models of others are. Strong meritocratic ideal in those circles make it even harder to grasp how simple the models of those with more power can be.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

It’s kind of fascinating that the idea of “German guilt” seems to have struck a cord with… a certain milieu. It’s such an emotional, personal framing that has little to do with the importance of general enlightenment principles I took away from school from my WW2 history classes.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

What Merkel does not say about China in her new autobiography is telling. No mention of Xinjiang, Hong Kong & Huawei nor a meaningful discussion about China-Russia or German dependencies. See my piece for @thewirechina.bsky.social www.thewirechina.com/2024/12/11/a...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments