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„Man muss sich außerdem klar machen, dass zurzeit niemand mit KI Geld verdient – außer NVidia, die die Hardware dafür verkaufen. OpenAI etwa wird in diesem Jahr voraussichtlich sechs bis zehn Milliarden Dollar verbrennen.“ - @tante.cc

please, i am begging you, if you do not care about theft or doing your own work - please at least care about our water and planet. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Elmo post that he got laid off on LinkedIn is bleaker than I was ready for... but, also, an excellent way to bring attention to this.

I’d been in armor since we arrived, and I hadn’t unsealed the helmet when I was around them.

The reason there's no working class representation in publishing is because publishing and writing currently pay so badly only people who are already financially stable can afford to do it. The problem is always, always money.

I suspected it was a bad idea to have a meeting when all the humans were running out of brain capacity.

Man muss jetzt gar nicht die AfD rauf und runter interviewen. Man muss auch nicht ohne Not behaupten, dass das auf jeden Fall nur der AfD hilft. Selbsterfüllende Prophezeiungen. Muss man nicht.

This

Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵

I tried to moderate my expression. “I’m not mad.” I was furious.

Every single political scientist researching the normalisation of the Far-Right and how mainstream parties interact with it will tell you that this narrative is a lie. Echoing far-right policies makes far-right parties stronger, while hurting democratic parties that adopt these policies.

We're in the Radium Vitalizer stage of learning to live with LLM technology. It's all fun and games until your bones start to glow. www.orau.org/health-physi...

Und jetzt endgültig RAUS mit den Rechtsextremisten aus den Parlamenten, der Parteienfinanzierung, den Talkshows und öffentlichen Ämtern!!! Es ist mehr als höchste Zeit! 🙏 www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

Wenn der neue Landwirtschaftsminister Alois Rainer auf Billigfleisch setzt, stellt er sich auch gegen eine faire Bezahlung und damit die Existenzgrundlage von Landwirten. Um dann auf der nächsten Bauerndemo wieder zu rufen: die Grünen warns!!!

A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it. archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

sometimes you just can’t do anything but stare blankly into the middle distance because there are no words

There's always this insistence that people need to "learn how to use AI so they aren't left behind" and as an artist and an author, I don't know what there is to *learn* from models that were.... trained on my work.

Gov. Tim Walz State Address: "We have university students shoved into unmarked vans and fathers being tossed into Salvadorian gulags without a hint of due process. If you say you love freedom, but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn't freedom, it's privilege."

"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

Trump versucht Kernelemente des Civil Rights Act von 1964 per Executive Order abzuschaffen. Das liegt nicht innerhalb der Macht der Präsidenten.

my plan to get people to start having more kids? make climate change worse. abolish the department of education. also milk is poison

In Oldenburg ist in der Nacht auf Sonntag ein junger schwarzer Mann von der Polizei erschossen worden. Die Beamten argumentieren mit Notwehr, jetzt zeigt sich: Die Schüsse trafen das Opfer von hinten. www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Angst vor Druck durch die AfD, vorauseilender Gehorsam, Selbstzensur. Erschreckend, wie schnell das geht. (Ja, es gibt auch Gegenbeispiele - aber Geschichten wie diese sollten alle Alarmglocken schrillen lassen)

Imagine being so bad at Catholicism that you get holy ghosted by the Pope.

If u find yourself writing a message to your college that follows: "Maintaining a robust culture of academic freedom is non-negotiable" with "BUT" perhaps just scrap the message and start over 🤷‍♂️

politicians who refuse to do the right thing because they're scared - guess what, we're in this situation because you've been feckless cowards even when the worst thing that could happen was a mean letter. the reason violence is now a possibility is because you let it fester. do your fucking jobs.

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

also, from everything I have ever seen, JKR has an unusual death grip on her IP. (see: how she kept ebook rights to exploit via her own methods) she makes more from every single bit of this IP than most authors could ever dream. EVERY. SINGLE. BIT. of it. And we know what she's doing with the $

I don't just want trans friends to regain lost rights. I want them to live. I want them to thrive. I want them to endure to old age and dance on the graves of the wretched who made it their life's mission to spread hate against them.

Just in case folks didn't know, because we have who we have in the HHS: Autism isn't something that needs to be cured. Thank you.

Bald scheidet Robert Habeck aus dem Amt. Unter ihm wurde die Windkraft wiederbelebt und die Solarenergie ist explodiert. Sonne und Wind eilen seitdem von Rekord zu Rekord während so wenig Kohle verbrannt wird, wie in den 1950er. Diese Leistung kann man nicht genug würdigen.

Obviously, I won't be watching the new HP series, regardless. But this? This was a goddamned choice they made. And ooof.

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'... "Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

OPINION by @marciebianco.bsky.social: Marcie highlights how 'space tourism is not feminism. It is consumer capitalism, at its most inaccessible.' “I’m all for women’s progress and liberation. But calling this a win for women feels outright delusional.” www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...