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An alle Menschen, die sich im Bereich #Demokratiebildung engagieren: Es sind noch Plätze frei in dieser Online-Ausbildung zur aula-Botschafter*in. (Die Personen dürfen überall leben und müssen danach nicht in RLP tätig sein.) Hier geht’s zum Link für die Anmeldung: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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AI real talk. We (humanity) are moving full speed ahead at building AI agents for war that can create a runaway missile crisis of mutually assured destruction globally. Is the option of not allowing AI agents to deploy missiles already off the table, or is that still up for discussion?

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“Using AI” is the new “I was just following orders.” www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

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What a front cover...

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Dozens of people and institutions are suing. It remains to be seen whether judges will determine that DOGE’s access to data adversely affects people. Judges should recognize how people are disempowered through #privacy loses. www.wired.com/story/privac...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

“If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.” - JD Vance, Munich, February 2024.

submitted 8 days ago • 78 comments

Morten Morland, Sunday Times, March 2, 2025

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Respect to President Zelens’kyi for going on Fox and saying sensible things at a time when that is rare.

submitted 10 days ago • 56 comments

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

submitted 10 days ago • 440 comments

HAYES: “The United States siding with Putin against democratic allies will have massive consequences for global politics for decades to come.”

submitted 10 days ago • 606 comments

Putin Is Ready to Carve Up the World. Trump Just Handed Him the Knife. Great article by M. Gessen and a reminder that for Putin Yalta (1945) "remains the only legitimate framework for European borders and security." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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Maybe Ukraine should just sign that prepared minerals deal with the EU now?! With more trustworthy and stable partners. #standwithukraine

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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

submitted 10 days ago • 1112 comments

Zelensky saying "thank you" to the leaders who #standwithukraine

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Nikita Krushchev 1956: “We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the US. We will destroy you from within.” 🤔

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Wow, if this is how Trump intents to negotiate a "peace deal within 24h" for Putins "3 day war" well... then I hope this oval office show serves as the last wake up call for Europe. #standwithukraine

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This short video on the false promise of using AI for climate is brilliant. The speaker worked years at Microsoft and resigned over the AI's broken promise. It's only 5 minutes, but a high quality 5 minutes:

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„Die Quote schadet ja in aller erster Linie den Frauen selbst.“

submitted 13 days ago • 336 comments

Welcome to the 2025 version of "Data doesn't lie. People do." Or as the saying goes: "The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself."

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In dieser Klarheit habe ich das bisher in deutsprachigen Medien nicht gelesen. www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/D...

submitted 22 days ago • 14 comments

AI can never replace civil servants (morally, politically, democratically). Civil servants are moral agents who can be held accountable; their salary is paid by citizens and they owe their loyalty to citizens. AI works for companies; it has been built for profit. #AIEthics

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In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million. Seems like now is a good time to renegotiate and rename some of the Far Eastern territories on the map. The capital of Russian America will be renamed Muskow.

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Question: Who watches the sysadmins with root access to the entire American population? At this point the answer is: no one anymore. Good NYTimes article about how Musk and the DOGEbags are exploiting and executing an insider threat. #privacyispower www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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What’s really going on with campus-wide AI adoption is a mix of virtue signaling and panic purchasing. Universities aren’t paying for AI—they’re paying for the illusion of control. open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...

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Thank you Sanna Marin! Straight to the point.

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@janboehm.bsky.social explains the situation in Germany before the general election this weekend + you can learn some beautiful long German words... nyti.ms/3Qoe1r1

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Der derzeitigen Kürzungen in Kultur, Wissenschaft und Bildung in Berlin nehmen nunmehr ein Ausmaß an, dass man von einer erheblichen Schädigung der Substanz ausgehen muss. In Zeiten, in denen demokratische Ertüchtigung Not tut, ist das wirklich fatal.

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

Stell dir vor, es ist Wahlkampf in schweren Zeiten und du investierst viel Ressourcen in Strategien, wie du Bürger*innen überzeugen könntest, dich zu wählen, während du Millionen von Menschen lange und hoch konzentriert ignorierst, die auf Schilder schreiben und über Megafone rufen, was sie wollen.

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Auch aus Schulleitungsperspektive ärgert es mich massiv, wenn Migration als vordringlichstes Problem des Wahlkampfs hochgejazzt wird. Viele Klassen in Deutschland sind mittlerweile superdivers. In vielen Schulen in Deutschland werden außer Deutsch 20-30 verschiedene Sprachen gesprochen. 1/

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

In der Pandemie wurde lange nicht über die AD berichtet, weil man beschäftigt war, Lösungen für drängende und komplexe Probleme zu finden, was die AD nie bietet. Ihre Umfragewerte sanken massiv. An der Sachlage hat sich zu damals nichts geändert. Die Berichterstattung und Umfragewerte aber schon.

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

Creating a participatory authoritarian state and Gamifying the destruction of government and democracy sure is something else.

submitted 31 days ago • 55 comments

Holy shit this cartoon.

submitted 31 days ago • 299 comments

Wenn du das Fahrrad am Bahnof abstellen wolltest, dort angekommen aber feststellst, du hast das Schloss zuhause vergessen.

submitted 32 days ago • 11 comments

Guys, I think it may have been a real Nazi salute

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-Veranstaltungshinweis- Kompetenzoszillation: Revision von Unterrichtsinhalten vor dem Hintergrund der Digitalität Donnerstag der 13.2.2025 von 14.15-17.45Uhr | Aula der IGS Herder mit Axel Krommer (Universität Erlangen, Nürnberg) Ziel der […] [Original post on social.medienzentrum.rocks]

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

"Of course it's a coup" by @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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In irony too funny for words, Anthropic asks that you please don’t use AI in your job application. No, really! open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

NASA did a feature on me last year. It was up this weekend but now when you click on the link you get a 404 message.

submitted 34 days ago • 124 comments

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

submitted 34 days ago • 1420 comments

So many people can’t find work because they haven’t killed the right person.

submitted 34 days ago • 34 comments

“Actually it’s good that a bunch of teenagers are unilaterally firing thousands of government employees because they have ChatGPT” i can’t get over how unfathomably stupid the average SF venture capitalist is

submitted 35 days ago • 262 comments

"Der Nationalsozialismus hat sich vorsichtig, in kleinen Dosen, durchgesetzt - man hat immer ein bisschen gewartet, bis das Gewissen der Welt die nächste Dosis vertrug." -Stefan Zweig-

submitted 37 days ago • 30 comments

@wired.com has identified six young men between 19 and 24 playing key roles at Musk's DOGE. "... this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world.”

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Ich habe schockiert festgestellt, daß es unter Euch jüngere Menschen gibt, die noch nicht mitbekommen haben, daß Friedrich Merz einst zum Amüsement der gesamten Republik seine Jugend frisiert hat wie angeblich sein Mofa. www.spiegel.de/politik/easy...

submitted 38 days ago • 21 comments

DeepSeek hot take: The emperor still has no clothes, but it's very distressing to the emperor that their non-clothes can be made so much more cheaply.

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments