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After years of Insta stories, Linkedin posts, and fleeting Clubhouse talks, I’ve taken my commentary cravings off the algorithmic hamster wheel. “Odds & Sods”: politics meets tech, business meets society, and outrage meets nuance. No fluff, no single topic—just the bigger picture behind the chaos.

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TIL that Andreesen Horowitz, the main VC backer of Substack, hired Daniel Penny whose only notable achievement is that he killed a Blck man on a subway and then was acquitted for it. He’s now an investor. Sounds about white. Substack is going to fuck you over. It’s just a matter of when and how.

submitted 10 hours ago • 13 comments

I fear some of you are still not quite understanding that the purpose of DOGE is not actually to make the federal government more efficient, it's to privatize what they can make money off of and then dismantle the rest.

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Pflege wird hier auf Profitmaximierung reduziert, als wäre sie ein beliebiges Geschäftsfeld. „Maximale Wirtschaftlichkeit“ – was ist mit maximaler Menschlichkeit? Pflege ist kein Markt für Profitgierige, sondern eine soziale Verantwortung.

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Pflege wird hier auf Profitmaximierung reduziert, als wäre sie ein beliebiges Geschäftsfeld. „Maximale Wirtschaftlichkeit“ – was ist mit maximaler Menschlichkeit? Pflege ist kein Markt für Profitgierige, sondern eine soziale Verantwortung.

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Bei mir löst so trockener Lesestoff jetzt auch keine Freudensprünge aus. Aber können wir uns vielleicht auf eine Diskussionsgrundlage einigen, die anerkennt, dass es für Fördermittel Förderrichtlinien, Evaluationen und Berichtspflichten gibt? Hashtag Sachbericht

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Die Anfrage der Union tarnt sich als harmloser Ruf nach Transparenz. Für Ungeübte mag das wie ein legitimes Anliegen wirken – schließlich stellt man ja „nur Fragen“. Doch wer genauer hinsieht, erkennt: Hier geht es nicht um Transparenz, sondern darum, sie zu zerstören.

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Mozilla has just deleted the following: “Does Firefox sell your personal data?” “Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. " x.com/LundukeJourn...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Exzellenter Thread.

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Nachdem jahrelang alle „Narrativ“ gesagt haben, sagen jetzt alle „Playbook“.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

So eine Darstellung, die die großen, aber menschenleeren AfD-Wahlkreise im Osten optisch nicht immer so überrepräsentiert, habe ich schon lange gesucht.

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NEW: A WIRED investigation reveals that Elon Musk’s Starlink is serving internet to scam compounds in Myanmar where tens of thousands of human beings are enslaved. By @mattburgess1.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/starli...

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

It's the Musk Effect. Someone who sounds like a genius until he starts talking about something you're knowledgeable about, and you realize he's saying the dumbest shit ever.

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YCombinator apologized for promoting a startup that optimizes sweatshops saying, “we thought slave-tech would be more popular” 😔😩

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one of the odd things about the economics of sports fandom in England the the US is how different the levels of profit maximizing by clubs and leagues are in TV and live events US sports are pretty cheap to watch on TV and crazy expensive in person and UK sports are the exact opposite

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The tragedy is that this erosion of press freedom comes not with a bang but with a whimper. It’s a death by a thousand cuts, each justified in the name of “freedom” or “neutrality.”

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After years of Insta stories, Linkedin posts, and fleeting Clubhouse talks, I’ve taken my commentary cravings off the algorithmic hamster wheel. “Odds & Sods”: politics meets tech, business meets society, and outrage meets nuance. No fluff, no single topic—just the bigger picture behind the chaos.

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Schon fast peinlich wenn man nicht in dem Fragenkatalog auftaucht.

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

Ich muss es so hart sagen: ich dachte, ich lese eine kleine Anfrage der AfD, aber sie stammt von der Union. 551 (!) Fragen zu Organisationen, Hintergrund seien „Proteste gegen die CDU“, darunter die „Omas gegen Rechts“ und andere. Bin ehrlich entsetzt. dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/150/2...

submitted 5 days ago • 402 comments

Mist, ich habe nur die Teaser, komme aber nicht auf das Medium 🙁

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

if you're still writing about the morning routines of billionaires actively destroying democracy, freedom and the planet itself you're either a useful idiot, a fucking idiot, or a grifter.

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The owner of Politico is a tone-deaf media tycoon who’d rather stroke the ego of a demagogic politician rather than acknowledge the legitimate concerns of an entire continent.

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Me being a broken record on this: Don't trust consumer-facing "AI" for anything.

submitted 13 days ago • 130 comments

Cool though. Let’s keep coming up with best practices for students to use chatgpt.

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Et tu, The Guardian???

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyberdefense agency accommodating President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Your oligarchy, ladies and gentlemen

submitted 16 days ago • 163 comments

Hier würde mich interessieren, wie die Parteien, bei denen ein minus entsteht, die Kosten aufkommen wollen. Das ist noch kein Teil des Wahlkampfes, leider. Oder habe ich etwas übersehen?

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

submitted 16 days ago • 538 comments

In today's edition of my newsletter "Odds & Sods", we will look into Steve Bannon’s media manipulation tactics and discuss maintaining our sanity amid the flood of information. Additionally, we will take an unexpected detour into the world of Mario Kart for some surprising lessons on economics.

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Würde ich als Servicekraft mit Mindestlohn auch nicht lustig finden tbh WiWo: Erst Trinkgeld, dann Service: Die Prozente-Bettelei am Kartenterminal ist respektlos - wiwoapp.wiwo.de/cmsid/302073...

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Altman vs Musk is like Kendrick vs Drake but if they were both Drake

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“The findings underscore the urgent need for policymakers, researchers, and the public to understand and address the intertwined dynamics of misinformation and radical right populism,” said Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam.

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I hate to say I told you so.

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

“Though both Hitler and Hugenberg were fiercely anti-Communist, anti-democratic, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semitic, their attempts at political partnership failed spectacularly and repeatedly.” Timothy Ryback unpacks Hitler's relationship with his oligarchs:

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

On point, @ayajaff.bsky.social. Was es jetzt braucht: Eine Tech-Branche, die ihre ethische Verantwortung erkennt und proaktiv Gegennarrative entwickelt.

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My worldview is bleak—that’s how I concluded last week’s newsletter edition. This statement has sparked a few discussions over the past few days, so today, I promise to brighten the mood.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

This still applies 12 years later. So please subscribe to my newsletter: www.johnstanleyhunter.com/newsletter

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NEW: Officials across the US government privately warn that Musk's DOGE blitz appears to be violating numerous laws Legal objections voiced at Treasury, Education, USAID, GSA, OPM, EEOC, OMB & elsewhere Messages, audio, interviews all reveal internal concerns www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 26 days ago • 90 comments

New from me: Musk and his allies seem to be doing another thing common with tech startups in their government takeover--hiring very young technical talent. We identified several those young people who appear to have very high access. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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