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In dem nun viel diskutierten Gespräch zwischen Götz Kubitschek und Maximilian Krah, erwähnt Kubitschek übrigens Medien, in denen man gut publizieren könnte (weil Krah mit Correctiv gesprochen hat, was K missfiel). Als erstes nennt er die Berliner Zeitung…(neben NIUS etc.)
The sharp uptick of crap flown around 2.6 piques my interest. As does someone's introduction of 'retard' into the vocabulary shortly prior. Must have been popcorn times.
Katherina Reiche hört beim Energierat lieber der Allianz atomfreundlicher Staaten zu, fehlt aber bei den Befürwortern der Erneuerbaren. Wo ist das klare Bekenntnis zur #Energiewende? #Atomkraft bleibt hochriskant & extrem teuer und ist nicht nachhaltig.
Mehr als zehn EU-Staaten setzen sich für Atomenergie ein. In Luxemburg nimmt auch Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche an einem Treffen der Nuklear-Allianz teil. Die Energieminister von Frankreich und Schweden jubeln.
Die Spenden-Kampagne support.joinpeertube.org/en/ ist darauf aus, #Peertube zu einer ernstzunehmenden Alternative zu #YouTube zu entwickeln. Sie läuft nur noch heute. Interessant die Etappenziele. Angestrebt sind insgesamt 75.000€ Budget, d.h. ca. 1,5 Personenjahre Entwicklungsarbeit. Bislang beträgt eine Spende durchschnittlich 41€ pro Spender*in. Stand 12:40 fehlen noch 110 Spenden.
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Mein Gewächshaus im Oktober 2023 im ersten Standjahr!! Es gab immer noch jede Menge Toomaatenn! Dafür kaum was anderes... Aber bald stand der "Umbau" an. Die Verwandlung in das Dschungel #gewächshaus ! Ich werde berichten. #Garten #dschungel #gärtnern #gardening #FotoVorschlag
He compartido esto en #Instagram (sí, sigo teniendo una cuenta ahí, la vida es complicada...) con algo de éxito, así que lo pongo por aquí por si a alguien le es útil. #Signal #WhatsApp #Meta #technofascism #fuckZuckerberg
Por qué dejar de usar WhatsApp y cuál es la alternativa
Meta ha anunciado que va a empezar a incluir anuncios en WhatsApp. Estarán personalizados con los datos que extraen de Instagram y Facebook. Por ahora, la publicidad aparecerá en los «estados» (esa especie de stories que no todo el mundo usa) y en los canales.
Solo un día después, algunes usuaries han recibido un mensaje dentro de la propia app que les pide su correo electrónico «para mayor seguridad». No hace falta ser muy lince para entender que ese interés repentino por tu seguridad tiene que ver con otra cosa: si les das tu email, les será más fácil saber quién eres en Instagram y/o Facebook (asumiendo que uses la misma dirección para loguearte allí) y podrán «personalizar» tus anuncios con toda la información que tienen de ti.
No es el primer movimiento desagradable de Meta para WhatsApp este año: hace poco agregaron un agente de IA (que se puede ocultar, pero no desactivar del todo). Esta función nos resta privacidad: si bien los mensajes que intercambias con otras personas en WhatsApp están cifrados de extremo a extremo (lo que significa que solo pueden leerlos las personas que conversan, para Meta son ilegibles), lo que le digas a la IA podrá ser analizado por Meta. Lo utilizan para entrenar esa IA y, en el futuro, probablemente, servirá para personalizar la publicidad que te muestran.
No es tampoco el segundo: Meta estrenó 2025 anunciando que dejaría de controlar las noticias falsas y los contenidos de odio, como expliqué en detalle, en un claro alineamiento con Trump.
La alternativa es fácil: vámonos a Signal
Signal es una aplicación de mensajería con funcionalidades muy similares a WhatsApp. Pero mejor: es respetuosa con la privacidad, es software libre, sus desarrolladores no tienen ánimo de lucro y prometen que no van a introducir IA ni anuncios. Cualquiera puede bajársela de su app store favorita y usarla con facilidad.
Yo entiendo que nos atrapen plataformas sociales tóxicas (como Instagram) porque en ellas está nuestra gente, o la información a la que queremos acceder… Pero en este caso la migración debería ser más factible porque tenemos un buen reemplazo. Te animo a hablar con les amigues con quienes tengas más contacto (quizá pasarles este texto ayude, para eso lo he escrito) para proponerles la mudanza. Probablemente no consigas convencer al 100%, pero todo lo que le arranquemos a Meta es positivo.
Preguntas frecuentes
¿De quién es Signal y por qué es seguro? Signal está promovido por una fundación cuyo cometido es proteger la libertad de expresión mediante comunicaciones seguras. Sobrevive gracias a donaciones y su presidenta es Meredith Whittaker, una activista contra el capitalismo de vigilancia que mola mucho. Es software libre, aka open source, que es ese tipo de software cuyo código se publica para que cualquiera pueda examinarlo y, por ejemplo, asegurar que no contiene funcionalidades ocultas para espiarnos. También se puede copiar y modificar para hacer otras versiones, con lo cual contribuyendo a Signal puedes estar contribuyendo a otras apps futuras que sean todavía mejores.
Pero Signal es una aplicación minoritaria. Bueno, no es la más usada, pero sí la recomendada por la Comisión Europea para todo su personal, y la que usa la CIA por considerarla especialmente segura. No estamos hablando de un proyecto underground para hackers, sino de una alternativa muy consolidada que tiene todas las papeletas para crecer mucho con cada medida impopular de WhatsApp.
¿Telegram no sería también una alternativa? Telegram es menos segura que WhatsApp y que Signal porque los mensajes no están encriptados por defecto. Pertenece a Pavel Durov, un CEO con todos los tics de tech bro y un historial dudoso. Durante un tiempo fue recomendada en entornos activistas porque, al estar fuera de la influencia de la UE (es rusa), no suele colaborar con la Policía. Esto también significa que aloja contenidos que podemos considerar, además de ilegales, muy poco éticos (porno infantil, nazismo, etc). Está introduciendo la publicidad e impulsando versiones de pago con funcionalidades extra (lo cual suele ser una camino para empeorar la experiencia de quienes no pagan). Por si fuera poco: a partir del 30 de junio, introducirán Grok, la IA de Elon Musk. A cambio de 300 millones de dólares, permitirán que esta IA pueda entrenarse con las interacciones de quienes la usan en Telegram.
En resumen: quizá quieras estar en Telegram por funcionalidades o usuaries que te interesan, pero que no sea por motivos éticos o políticos porque bajo esos criterios es basura.
Pero hay alternativas mejores que Signal… Depende lo que tengas en cuenta: si quieres una opción descentralizada/federada, sí, lashay (la descentralización es una gran ventaja técnica: en Signal no dejamos de depender de una sola entidad, por mucho que nos caigan súper bien y nos fiemos a tope, si nos lanzamos a la descentralización tenemos que molestarnos en establecer y configurar dónde se archivan nuestros datos, pero por supuesto tendremos mucho más control). Si lo que buscas es una app fácil de instalar y usar, para convencer a tus amigues no techies ni especialmente militantes de la seguridad informática de que den el salto, la mejor opción es Signal. Sin duda.
¿Pero esto es legal en la UE? Probablemente no: según la Ley de Mercados Digitales y el RGPD, no se pueden compartir datos entre aplicaciones aunque pertenezcan a una misma empresa. Aunque también es cierto que Meta está crecidita bajo el paraguas de Trump, que presiona a la UE para que no controle a las big tech (es uno de los argumentos de su guerra arancelaria), y que las represalias europeas siempre llegan tarde y en una magnitud mucho menor que los beneficios de este tipo de empresas. La organización de derechos digitales NOYB ya está quejándose. Veremos cómo evoluciona.
Si no comparto mi email, o si estoy en la UE y se hace cumplir la ley, ¿ya me libro de publicidad? No, porque, a menos que cambien de idea, la publicidad te la van a poner, otra cosa es que no vaya tan «personalizada». En todo caso, ten en cuenta que si ya le diste tu teléfono a Instagram o Facebook, ya pueden cruzarte con tu cuenta de WhatsApp, sin necesidad de email. Y además es probable que encuentren otras maneras de identificarte, como tu IP u otra información extraída de tu teléfono, porque tienen mucha creatividad para encontrar maneras de rastrearte, sean o no legales.
¿Más preguntas? ¿Ideas para convencer a gente o facilitar la migración? Por favor, deja un comentario o escríbeme (tienes mi contacto aquí) si te haces más preguntas, o si quieres compartir tu experiencia llevando a gente a Signal u otras alternativas.
Queerfeindliche Angriffe wie in Bad Freienwalde sind kein Zufall, sondern Teil rechter Landnahme. Queere Sichtbarkeit und CSDs im ländlichen Raum stehen gezielt im Fokus rechter Gewalt. Die Antwort muss Solidarität, Präsenz und klare Kante gegen Rechts sein – überall. taz.de/Neonazi-Angriff-in-Bad-…
Nach einem rechten Überfall auf ein Straßenfest erheben Veranstalter Vorwürfe gegenüber der Polizei. Diese habe die Gefahr von rechts nicht ernst genommen.
1️⃣ Vox se libra de la justicia penal por financiación irregular. ¿Por qué? Porque ya le pusieron una multa. Así se blanquea la corrupción si llevas pulsera rojigualda. Abrimos hilo del archivo que huele a cloaca ⬇️
Der Sommer ist eine gute Zeit, ein #Böllerverbot zu fordern 🧨 innn.it/boellerverbot Schon mehr als 2 Millionen Unterschriften! Trotzdem hat sich die IMK nicht damit befasst. Dobrindt sucht noch vor der nächsten IMK im Herbst das Gespräch mit den Ländern. Lasst uns bis dahin 3 Millionen werden, ja?
Plötzlich poppt eine „Breaking News“ auf: Elfriede Jelinek sei tot! - Echt jetzt? 🤔 Fakten statt Propaganda: Was hinter der perfiden Fake-Todesmeldung steckt, liest du hier ➡️ mimikama.org/fake-tod-von-elfr…
A todo esto, si con el fin del soporte de windows 10 vais a tirar ordenadores viejos… acordaos de los pobres (o sea, de mí), que seguramente mi ordenador sea bastante más viejo. 😬
Donde yo trabajo hay un proyecto para "reutilizar y recuperar" todo tipo de electrodomésticos,incluyendo ordenadores. Informaos en vuestros "puntos verdes" más cercanos. De hecho se tendría que aplicar una normativa europea sobre "reutilizacion" (Llei 7/2022 de 8 d'abril de residuos sóls contaminants per una economía circular /Promover les actividades de reparacio I PxR personas apararells)
Wenn man als #CDU Parteivorsitzender und #Bundeskanzler Menschen wie Julia #Klöckner oder Jens #Spahn in politische Ämter hievt, dann zeigt das eigentlich nur, dass jeglicher demokratischer und moralischer Kompass abhanden gekommen ist. Das gilt im Übrigen für die gesamte Bundestagsfraktion der #Union #Merz
Wir haben grad eine Sicherheitseinweisung im deutschen Bundestag vom Referat für Geheimschutz, welches uns erklärt wodurch wir erkennen können das ausländische Geheimdienste auf unsere Handys Zugriff erlangt haben.
Einer der benannten Faktoren ist, dass das Handy sehr warm wird und die mobilen Daten zu schnell leer gehen (weil es im Hintergrund irgendwas hochlädt).
Faszinierend! Das Handy meines Vaters ist bereits seit Jahren von ausländischen Geheimdiensten übernommen worden.
An armed man arrested Saturday during Nashville’s “No Kings” protest has a long history of fascination with Nazis and mass murderers, NewsChannel 5 Investiga...
@Aldo2 I haven't seen him calling to throw pedos into a woodchiper, but yeah yeah I get the point, lot of people who share his opinions would throw him into a woodchipper.
@Aldo2 maybe, but I mainly see the woodchipper posts from various trad or selfie in a truck accounts. I think it primarily reeks of low IQ, because they're rarely about actual pedophiles.
I dunno, I think some of them (Poast/Varis/Detroit) are at least over 20.
And they want to lower the AOC to 14, making them by legal and clinical definition a "MAP". While claiming that they aren't MAPS and saying that if you mutually and consensually sext with a 14 year old then you're an "abusing rapist" or whatever.
Like I said, projection.
Fuentesites (like Beardson Beardly, who is definitely over 25) argue that the AOC should be 10 following some obscure Catholic law.
Etc... etc... etc...
Point is, there's nothing inherently wrong with pedophilia, which I genuinely believe that more and more and more people are concluding.
There IS something wrong with being a "right-wing" schizo nutjob who wants to murder people at a peaceful protest (1st amendment) and then claim they were a victim of "Marxist AntiFa Islamist violent rioters" or whateverthefuck.
@Aldo2 Oh, I remember now. Fuentes did indeed say it's trad to marry children. Yeah, any groomer or woodchipper talk is projection from him/his simps.
MAP is a really retarded term and I think it is pushed with ulterior motives, because it's both a rebranding and it lumps together hebephilia and pedophilia, which are different degrees of bad.
There's obviously something wrong about being a rw schizo nutjob, but bad behaviors and traits tend to cluster ie it's not really shock that the schizo nutjob who tries getting into a "self defense" situation also likes kids.
if I told you that 20% of (mostly European) Australian men were at the very least MAPs (by definition, meaning they are attracted to people under the AOC, meaning "minors") what would you think?
Would you say 20% of the male population of Australia should be institutionalized, or would it cause some reflection and introspection?
This 20% is not based on political affiliation at all, and as we've just seen anyways, Australia voted for an anti-Trumper recently.
@Aldo2 I vaguely remember that survey, but I don't remember if they asked aoa. Like I said there's a difference between being attracted to prepubescent and pubescent features. While hebephilia seems to be to some extent a part of male sexuality, I see no reason why sexual attraction to someone unable to reproduce should be considered normal.
They asked men if they would have sex with a 14 year old, a 12 year old and a 10 year old, EVEN IF it was illegal ("if no one found out").
They also asked about sex with 15-18 year olds, and of course many men said "yes" to that, too.
In many European countries the AOC was like 12 in the 1970's, I don't know what you're on. This is just assuming everywhere has always been like America. News flash, Matrix, America is forcing this on everyone. This is not natural or normal. This is artificial. Japan only recently outlawed "CP" in 2014, after heavy American pressure.
The ability to reproduce is not an arbitrary thing that just "occurs" once you're over 12. "Early Bloomers" are a thing for one, and why do you again assume that having a relationship with a member of the opposite sex automatically entails wanting to "reproduce"? This is the same way as saying that "consent" is a thing that just magically happens at 16 or 18.
It was like on average 10% for wanting to have sex with a prepubescent, and around 20% when you factor in all "minors" (under 18, which is the AOC in Australia).
@Aldo2 I wanted to make a point but fell asleep midway lol. The point I wanted to make is that even though a large amount of people drive over the legal speed limit and that the speed limit and enforcement of it is to some extent arbitrary, it doesn't negate that driving at higher speeds is more dangerous.
I agree that Americans are retarded on sex (and other things) and push that retardation onto other places, but not everything they push is retarded. I don't know the history of AoC but I do know that around the 70s pedophilia was a social justice cause so how was it before that? and I also know that in the past in Europe, while you could marry children, that was primarily done by nobles for power reasons and the average age for marriage was early 20s.
>"relationship doesn't equal reproduction" No, but a sexual relationship does. Arousal is a feeling that we have to motivate reproduction. Being aroused by something/someone that can't reproduce isn't normal behavior.
Did the survey ask if the attraction is exclusive?
To answer your previous question about institutionalizing 20% of the population, no, just the ones who act. Men have quite a strong propensity towards violence and often have violent fantasies, but we only lock up those who act on it in (usually harmful) ways.
driving at higher speeds is more dangerous in certain specific circumstances, that is why you are allowed to drive at high speeds on the highway but not on regular pedestrian roads.
German Autobahn moment (no speed-limit).
In the 60s-70s it was a social justice issue (along with all types of other social justice causes) because of Conservative Christian Puritanism (CCP lol) being imposed on Europe (again, mostly from America and the United Kingdom) in the wake of WW2. In the Dutch case I was reading a study that pointed out the irony of the "sexual revolution" actually being led by religious figures who were tired of the religious moralistic dogma regarding sexuality.
It was done by nobles in like the 1700's haha, I'm talking about the 1900's. Slightly different times.
Yes, the average age of marriage was 20, that doesn't mean the AOC was 20.
> Being aroused by something/someone that can't reproduce isn't normal behavior
Why do you get "aroused" while looking at loli porn of "single-digits" then? That's pedophilia, but as you say you can't reproduce, so why are you "aroused"? There has to be another reason, and that reason is obviously just "pleasure". You like looking at the pictures because you get a boner and you like the feeling of cumming. That is normal. It's strange that you'd imply that it was abnormal. Even chimps jack off.
Linking arousal with reproduction is a Christian Puritan morality thing that is designed to limit sex and pleasure. "Don't spill your seed on the ground" - Genesis 38.
I think it implied that it was "non-exclusive", but that's neither here nor there, as I'm also "non-exclusive" (Danni Ashe is a goddess) yet I aknowledge my attractions in all cases.
> Just the ones who act.
In what way? You earlier implied that hebephilia is something most (i.e. over 10-20%, right?) men share. You link "action" with "violence", but as you and I both know, "consent" can be given below the official "age of consent", and often is (on the dl, "if no one found out"). Are you saying "statuatory rape" is as "violent" as actual rape? We all know that's false.
What are your views on the cases of female school-teachers being in totally consensual relations with their students? Are they "violent" for "acting" on their desires? Or is it different because they can get pregnant and therefore the Christian morality (this time centered on Patriarchy) checks out?
Karlsruhe, 17. Juni 2025 dm-drogerie markt ruft aus Gründen des vorbeugenden Verbraucherschutzes den Artikel „Balea Handserum Hyaluron, 75 ml“ (GTIN...
"Im Rahmen der [Bonusmeilen-]Affäre gab es einige Rücktritte. Unter anderem trat Gregor Gysi am 31. Juli 2002 von allen Ämtern zurück. Cem Özdemir, innenpolitischer Sprecher der Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, legte dieses Amt am 26. Juli 2002 nieder und nahm nach der Bundestagswahl 2002 das Bundestagsmandat nicht an, ging für eine Legislaturperiode (2004–2009) ins Europaparlament und kehrte anschließend wieder in den Bundestag zurück."
Had quite a few blackouts and brownouts here in #ABQ over the past couple days. It's only going to get worse for the next few months I'm afraid.
On Saturday we peaked at 106° where I'm at. Yesterday we peaked at 102°. Today is supposed to be a little cooler fortunately.
And people wonder why I've got so many UPSes!
(1) 20A for my desktop/ workstation (1) 15A for both of my NASes (1) 15A for my networking gear
I've got an automatic shut-off for my RV. When the voltage drops too low or gets too high it automatically kills power so some of these blackouts might be self-inflicted. Still, I'd much rather have no power than bad power.
Die Berufung auf's "Neutralitätsgebot" durch den (#CDU) Direktor der #Bundestagsverwaltung als Verbotsgrund der Teilnahme am #CSD bedeutet nichts anderes als dass dieser diese für nicht neutral hält.
Klarer: dass die andere Positionen zu den dort vertretenen - gleiche Rechte für Alle - auch legitime und im Rahmen des Grundgesetzes zu respektierende politische, gesellschaftliche sind.
Kann man machen. Man ist dann halt reaktionärer Steigbügelhalter. Aber kann man machen.
Mit Holzlatten und anderen Schlaggegenständen haben Vermummte ein Vielfaltfest im brandenburgischen Bad Freienwalde angegriffen. Die Spuren sollen zu einer Neonazi-Partei führen. volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/de…
"Budapest will ein Verbot der Regierung von Ministerpräsident Viktor Orbán umgehen und Ende Juni wie geplant eine Pride-Parade veranstalten. "Jeder ist bei der Budapester Pride-Parade willkommen", sagte der Bürgermeister der Hauptstadt, Gergely Karácsony, am Montag in einem Facebook-Video. Da es sich um eine "städtische Veranstaltung" handle, sei keine offizielle Genehmigung erforderlich, fügte der liberale Politiker hinzu." derstandard.at/story/300000027…
Wie Journalisten beim Merz-Besuch in Washington Trump auf den Leim gegangen sind. @niggi findet: „Sie berichten nicht nur über die furchtbare Show, die er veranstaltet; sie werden zum Teil davon und spielen sie mit.“ Jetzt ohne Abo lesen: uebermedien.de/106431/merz-bei…
Ich verstehe nicht, warum so langsam jeder Verband seine eigene Petitionsseite hat. Was ist der Grund dafür? Einfach ePetition des Bundestags nutzen. Über ePetition ist der Bundestag verpflichtet sich bei entsprechender Anzahl Unterschriften mit der Petition zu beschäftigen. Bei externen Plattformen gibt es Umwege, wie es zum Bundestag gelangt. Ich habe keinen Bock mich auf x Plattformen registrieren zu müssen, wenn eine reicht. Beispiel sind: #Campact und #Lobbycontrol
Update: Danke für eure Tipps, ich sag dann mal, wie es so geklappt hat 😀
Ich brauch mal ein Haarschnitt. Und dafür brauche ich eure Tipps: ich suche einen Friseursalon in Berlin, wo ich nicht voll gequatscht werde mit Smalltalk, wo okay ist, dass ich keine Ahnung von Frisur oder Beauty habe, und wo ich trotzdem als Kundin ernst genommen werde. Kennt ihr sowas? #neurodivergent #berlin
Werbung auf WhatsApp: Darüber wurde schon seit Langem spekuliert. Nun soll es tatsächlich vorbei sein mit der Werbefreiheit auf dem Messenger. Das bestätigte der Mutterkonzern Meta.
Attending my first conference in a while, I’m tempted to do a quick presentation. Title: “Offsetting the societal and environmental costs of ChatGPT so that you can use it responsibly to power your next startup.” The slide: “You can’t.” Thank you for coming to my lightning talk.
For nvidia "data center brought in 14x as much revenue as the gaming segment last quarter": tomshardware.com/pc-components… 14-fucking-x. And I don't have hard data on this but I would bet that the GPUs in data centers spend much more time actually working, so the difference in energy use is much higher than that. It was not home gaming that made Google revert its sustainability goals: fortune.com/2024/07/10/ai-has-… Or undermine Microsoft's: sustainabilitymag.com/articles…
But hey, we're betting on AGI to jump out any day now to solve the climate crisis for us, right? Right after it answers Altman's question on how to make his company profitable: youtube.com/watch?v=gjQUCpeJG1… I don't know if this is the stupidest bubble ever, but it can't be far from the top.
What folks don’t get is that he said exactly what the VCs want to hear. If he’d said they had a revenue plan or — heaven forbid — a plan to become cashflow positive and/or profitable; they would all have pulled out immediately. That’s just not how things work in the Silicon Valley model. You grow. You dominate. You monopolise. Then you monetise. It’s a zero-sum game.
Even in SV most companies must present some semblance of a plan, at least by analogy to an already known model. But this is the moonshot of all moonshots so the normal rules don’t apply. And he said exactly what *he* needed to not be responsible for the losses when the bubble collapses.
Wer Israels Angriffe nun mit der Hoffnung auf einen Regime-Change von außen feiert, hat aus den vergangenen Jahrzehnten nichts gelernt. Lest den ganzen Kommentar ohne Paywall 👉 taz.de/Israelische-Angriffe-au…
Berlins Queerbeauftragter: "Ich mache mir große Sorgen, dass gerade getestet wird, wie weit man es mit den Schwulen und Lesben treiben kann, wie weit man die bisexuellen, trans- und intergeschlechtlichen Menschen demütigen und erniedrigen kann, bis es einen Aufschrei gibt..." queer.de/detail.php?article_id…
Während die insbesondere rechtsextremen Attacken auf CSDs in ganz Deutschland zunehmen, zeigt der Bundestag queeren Menschen den Mittelfinger. Die Kritik daran wird lauter. (Politik - Deutschland)
In Hamburg-Wandsbek soll eine Straße nach der Holocaust-Zeitzeugin Margot Friedländer benannt werden. Die Bezirksversammlung fasste dazu einen einstimmigen Beschluss.
Friedländer überlebte das KZ Theresienstadt und setzte sich zeitlebens für Menschlichkeit und Erinnerungskultur ein. Sie starb am 9. Mai im Alter von 103 Jahren. 🤍 🕊️
In Hamburg soll eine Straße im Bezirk Wandsbek nach der Holocaust-Zeitzeugin Margot Friedländer benannt werden. Das hat die Bezirksversammlung beschlossen.
Trump lässt Forschungsdaten verschwinden. Tausende Regierungswebseiten sind betroffen. Ein Kölner Projekt kämpft gegen digitale Zensur und für den Erhalt der Wissenschaft.
A resonance phenomenon is causing big waves in the atmosphere. And that has increased due to #globalwarming, causing wild summer extremes, a new data analysis finds.
The mechanism was first identified in 2013 by the late Vladimir Petoukhov at the Potsdam Institute.
Man stelle sich vor, ein führender Grünen-Politiker wäre in einen vergleichbaren Skandal verwickelt. Die Union stünde mit brennenden Fackeln und Mistgabeln bereit.
Wenn noch ein Funken Anstand in dieser Partei steckt, stimmt man einem Untersuchungsausschuss zur vollständigen Aufklärung zu!
FILMPREMIERE! Meine neue Doku "KI - Der Tod des Internet" läuft am Sonntag, 31.08.2025 um 18:00 Uhr auf dem Kunstfest Weimar! Kommt alle! (Im Herbst dann: Ausstrahlung auf Arte und abrufbar in der Arte-Mediathek.) kunstfest-weimar.de/festival/p…
Wenn Neutralität zur Waffe wird
Julia Klöckner hat in ihrer Rolle als Bundestagspräsidentin eine bemerkenswerte Entscheidung getroffen: Das Regenbogennetzwerk der Bundestagsverwaltung darf nicht mehr am Christopher Street Day in Berlin teilnehmen.
Das ist vielleicht Interessant für euch: es gibt einen neuen Forschungsverbund über Rechtsextremismus, der in einem Eigenen Blog laufend über seine Arbeit und seine Ergebnisse berichtet. scilogs.spektrum.de/rechtsextr…
Mit unserem neuen Blog können Sie hinter die Kulissen eines interdisziplinären Forschungsverbundes schauen und aktuelle wissenschaftliche Befunde aus der Rechtsextremismusforschung direkt an der Quelle verfolgen.
Diese Reschke-Folge ist wirklich so unglaublich gut. Wie sie der Politik, Dudes wie Lobrecht und Mischke, der ARD und überhaupt allen möglichen so dermaßen einen mitgibt. Hammer. Schaut es euch unbedingt an!
"Ermordete Frauen sind sowas wie Verkehrstote, tragisch, aber passiert halt."
Gewalt gegen Frauen? Da hat nicht nur Anja Reschke was gegen. Noch mehr Reschke Fernsehen gibt es in der ARD Mediathek 👉 https://1.ard.de/Reschke_Fernsehen?...
Aral, the reports from that region are relentlessly sickening. Why do you suppose there isn't universal condemnation from the rest of the world? Is it all just due to racism?
@Professor_Stevens Sure, racism is a huge factor. But, also, in the words of the leader of the UK opposition, Kemi Badenoch: “Israel is fighting a proxy war on behalf of the UK.”
(This was not a criticism but a statement of fact and a defence for the UK’s ongoing support for israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.)
Here I confess my American ignorance of world affairs (we do have a lot to worry about locally, but still...). What's the UK's reason for supporting the destruction of Palestine?
That would explain the reaction to the Israeli attack on Iran. But am I to understand that the atrocities going on in Gaza are being tolerated (if that's the right word) by the UK (and the US) just because they are a kind of "foot in the door" for action against the larger countries to the east?
Helfen Sie dem Bundeskanzler und übermitteln Hinweise, die seinen Verbotsantrag gegen die Partei Alternative für Deutschland in Karlsruhe unterstützen.
Jens Spahn steckt tief im Maskenskandal – das zeigt jetzt auch der interner Sudhof-Bericht. Seine Mails zum Maskendeal mit Andrea Tandler fordern wir seit 2021. Deswegen haben wir das Gesundheitsministerium verklagt – und gewonnen. Trotzdem bleiben sie geheim. Wir finden: Her mit den Mails. Jetzt erst recht!
Nach jahrelanger Verzögerung des Bundesgesundheitsministeriums hat das Verwaltungsgericht Köln zu unseren Gunsten entschieden: Das Ministerium muss uns Teile der Kommunikation zwischen Jens Spahn und Andrea Tandler zur Maskenbeschaffung geben.
1999 versprach Google: keine Werbung, keine Newsfeeds, keine Ablenkung – nur Suche. Heute ist davon nichts mehr übrig: Werbung dominiert, Daten werden gesammelt, Ergebnisse manipuliert. Der Wandel vom hilfreichen Werkzeug zur globalen Werbemaschine war kein Unfall, sondern Geschäftsmodell.
Orthodox priest and professor Darko Ristov Djogo reacts to footage from Chișinău, where peaceful Christian protesters — including priests — were violently thrown to the ground by police during an LGBT...
Las detenciones se producen en Berriozar y el Casco Viejo de Iruñea, relacionadas con manifestaciones contra la presencia del partido de extrema derecha.
Israel ha industrializado el terrorismo de Estado - mpr21
"Irán ya no es víctima de las incursiones israelíes, sino que se ha convertido en el trágico e implacable espejo de su política exterior. Es una consecuencia lógica y directa de décadas de provocaciones no autorizadas"
Se os acabo el monopolio de la violencia en oriente medio putos mierda sionistas, bienvenidos a la realidad cabrones, arde telaviv, haifa es un puto cráter y suma y sigue.
Hubo una época, no hace mucho, en que Israel reivindicaba el monopolio de la violencia en Oriente Medio, exhibiendo su poderío tras su Cúpula de Hierro, sus armas estadounidenses y sus armas nucleares no declaradas, dictando su voluntad a los medios …
Israel ha invocado tanto el infierno que arde en él.
Sin olvidar las perlas como:
Irán ya no se conformará con ser la víctima silenciosa de provocaciones y ataques ilegales [...] sino el brutal regreso de la justicia histórica. [...] Israel está siendo devuelto al lugar que le corresponde, no por la diplomacia ni los tribunales internacionales, sino por la fuerza implacable de un Estado que se niega a permitir que lo humillen y aniquilen [...]
@disisdeguey @xesfur De acuerdo, pero las armas nucleares tienen dos nombres, uno que utilizan de cara a la sociedad y otro que responde a su propósito real.
El primero ws "armas de disuasión" y el real es "armas de venganza" ya que en realidad se diseñaron para que en caso de que alguien las use el otro bando también y se provoque una destrucción mutua.
@disisdeguey Ya, pero en cambio los países árabes en general, están dando un espectáculo lamentable. Ni están, ni se les espera. Se ve que quedaron muy tocados desde la Guerra de los Seis Días, y además muchos países laicos donde el panarabismo de los 70 era importante, han ido cayendo por el camino.
by Dary Felix Garcia NASA is preparing to make history by sending humans to the Moon’s South Pole. There, astronauts will conduct moonwalks for exploration, science experiments, and prepare humanity for the journey to Mars. Missions of this scale require extensive planning, especially when accounting for emergency scenarios such as a crew member becoming incapacitated. […]
Federal court docs show Minnesota shooting suspect Vance Boelter used people-search sites (i.e., third-party data brokers) to search for victims' addresses and other personal info.
Your personal information (e.g.
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This seems contradictory. On the one hand you're saying that these works are wrongly locked behind paywalls, but on the other you're saying that scraping them is an "assault on the cornerstones of our public knowledge." Is this information supposed to be freely viewable or not?
IMO the ideal solution would be the one Wikimedia uses, which is to make the information available in an easily-downloadable archive file. That lets anyone who wants the whole thing to have it without having to "hammer" the servers. Meanwhile the servers can be protected by standard load-balancing and DDOS prevention systems.
so every single repository should have to spend their time, energy, and resources on accommodating a bunch of venture funded companies that want to get all of this shit for free without contributing to these repositories at all themselves?
Was Aaron Schwartz wrong to scrape those repositories? He shouldn't have been accessing all those publicly-funded academic works? Making it easier for him to access that stuff would have been "capitulating to hackers?"
I think the problem here is that you don't actually believe that information should be free. You want to decide who and what gets to use that "publicly-funded academic work", and you have decided that some particular uses are allowable and others are not. Who made you that gatekeeper, though?
I think it's reasonable that information that's freely posted for public viewing should be freely viewable. As in anyone can view it. If they want to view all of it and that puts a load on the servers providing it, but there's an alternate way of providing it that doesn't put that load on the servers, what's wrong with doing that? It solves everyones' problems.
If someone did an Aaron-Schwartz-style scrape, then published the data they scraped in a downloadable archive so that AI trainers could download it and use it, would you find that objectionable?
That suggestion is exactly the same as what I started with when I said "IMO the ideal solution would be the one Wikimedia uses, which is to make the information available in an easily-downloadable archive file." It just cuts out the Aaron-Schwarts-style external middleman, so it's easier and more efficient to create the downloadable data.
I don’t understand why the burden is on the victims here.
They put the website up. Load balancing, rate limiting, and such go with the turf. It's their responsibility to make the site easy to use and hard to break. Putting up an archive of the content that the scrapers want is an easy and straightforward thing to do to accomplish this goal.
I think what's really going on here is that your concern isn't about ensuring that the site is up, and it's certainly not about ensuring that the data it's providing is readily available. It's that there are these specific companies you don't like and you just want to forbid them from accessing otherwise freely accessible data.
That is absolutely ridiculous. The pressure AI scraping puts on sites vastly outstrips anything people built for, as evidenced by the fact that the systems are going down.
Yes. Which is why I'm suggesting providing an approach that doesn't require scraping the site.
"In the USA" and "by large portions of the capitalist class" are the answers to your question, I think the previous commenter was just a bit too incredulous because this topic came up in the news lately and they'd expected it to be common knowledge even outside the U.S. since much of the "AI Industry" is involved with U.S. tech companies.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Israeli analysts and military officials admit the regime miscalculated in launching aggression against Iran, acknowledging the Islamic Republic's deep-rooted strength, strategic deterrence, and ability to inflict unprecedented damag…
Israel kills 56 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them desperately seeking aid | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/16/h…
Remember when people were trying to say people being shot in bread lines was from warning shots and now those same people just ignore dozens of people a day being shot in bread lines?
this is just /one/ of a multitude of atrocities that are being ignored & that israel used to try to justify, but now realise they don't even need to do so. i genuinely feel as though i'm losing my mind.
If I was a kid and I found out my parents intentionally infected me with COVID multiple times I would make sure my parents suffered horribly during their twilight years. Nothing illegal. But definitely enough to make them regret their life choices.
I am once again begging journalists to be more critical ~~of tech companies~~.
But as this happens, it’s crucial to keep the denominator in mind. Since 2020, Waymo has reported roughly 60 crashes serious enough to trigger an airbag or cause an injury. But those crashes occurred over more than 50 million miles of driverless operations. If you randomly selected 50 million miles of human driving—that’s roughly 70 lifetimes behind the wheel—you would likely see far more serious crashes than Waymo has experienced to date.
[...] Waymo knows exactly how many times its vehicles have crashed. What’s tricky is figuring out the appropriate human baseline, since human drivers don’t necessarily report every crash. Waymo has tried to address this by estimating human crash rates in its two biggest markets—Phoenix and San Francisco. Waymo’s analysis focused on the 44 million miles Waymo had driven in these cities through December, ignoring its smaller operations in Los Angeles and Austin.
This is the wrong comparison. These are taxis, which means they're driving taxi miles. They should be compared to taxis, not normal people who drive almost exclusively during their commutes (which is probably the most dangerous time to drive since it's precisely when they're all driving).
We also need to know how often Waymo intervenes in the supposedly autonomous operations. The latest we have from this, which was leaked a while back, is that Cruise (different company) cars are actually less autonomous than taxis, and require >1 employee per car.
edit: The leaked data on human interventions was from Cruise, not Waymo. I'm open to self-driving cars being safer than humans, but I don't believe a fucking word from tech companies until there's been an independent audit with full access to their facilities and data. So long as we rely on Waymo's own publishing without knowing how the sausage is made, they can spin their data however they want.
edit2: Updated to say that ournalists should be more critical in general, not just about tech companies.
to amplify the previous point, taps the sign as Joseph Weizenbaum turns over in his grave
A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must never make a management decision
tl;dr A driverless car cannot possibly be "better" at driving than a human driver. The comparison is a category error and therefore nonsensical; it's also a distraction from important questions of morality and justice. More below.
Numerically, it may some day be the case that driverless cars have fewer wrecks than cars driven by people.(1) Even so, it will never be the case that when a driverless car hits and kills a child the moral situation will be the same as when a human driver hits and kills a child. In the former case the liability for the death would be absorbed into a vast system of amoral actors with no individuals standing out as responsible. In effect we'd amortize and therefore minimize death with such a structure, making it sociopathic by nature and thereby adding another dimension of injustice to every community where it's deployed.(2) Obviously we've continually done exactly this kind of thing since the rise of modern technological life, but it's been sociopathic every time and we all suffer for it despite rampant narratives about "progress" etc.
It will also never be the case that a driverless car can exercise the judgment humans have to decide whether one risk is more acceptable than another, and then be held to account for the consequences of their choice. This matters.
Please (re-re-)read Weizenbaum's book if you don't understand why I can state these things with such unqualified confidence.
Basically, we all know damn well that whenever driverless cars show some kind of numerical superiority to human drivers (3) and become widespread, every time one kills, let alone injures, a person no one will be held to account for it. Companies are angling to indemnify themselves from such liability, and even if they accept some of it no one is going to prison on a manslaughter charge if a driverless car kills a person. At that point it's much more likely to be treated as an unavoidable act of nature no matter how hard the victim's loved ones reject that framing. How high a body count do our capitalist systems need to register before we all internalize this basic fact of how they operate and stop apologizing for it?
(1) Pop quiz! Which seedy robber baron has been loudly claiming for decades now that full self driving is only a few years away, and depends on people believing in that fantasy for at least part of his fortune? We should all read Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil to see the more likely trajectory of "driverless" or "self-driving" cars. (2) Knowing this, it is irresponsible to put these vehicles on the road, or for people with decision-making power to allow them on the road, until this new form of risk is understood and accepted by the community. Otherwise you're forcing a community to suffer a new form of risk without consent and without even a mitigation plan, let alone a plan to compensate or otherwise make them whole for their new form of loss. (3) Incidentally, quantifying aspects of life and then using the numbers, instead of human judgement, to make decisions was a favorite mission of eugenicists, who stridently pushed statistics as the "right" way to reason to further their eugenic causes. Long before Zuckerberg's hot or not experiment turned into Facebook, eugenicist Francis Galton was creeping around the neighborhoods of London with a clicker hidden in his pocket counting the "attractive" women in each, to identify "good" and "bad" breeding and inform decisions about who was "deserving" of a good life and who was not. Old habits die hard.
I like the stance against the agenda of capitalist exploitation and responsibility shirking for road deaths. those are important new measures.
one point of feedback for you is this idea of the comparison of deaths per km driven between autonomous vehicles vs human driven vehicles. that too is an important existing measure of comparison. human negligence with cars kills people. often. if a technology reduces that rate of death, it is an improvement by that real measure.
Your feedback is frustrating because it seems like you almost have it, but then you fall back on technosolutionist logic.
The fact we can even say that human drivers are "negligent" is a very good thing. That means we are aware that human drivers are accountable for their (in)actions.
"Autonomous" vehicles cannot be called negligent. It wouldn't make sense to do so. It might be the case that their makers cannot be called negligent either. Perhaps every person involved puts every effort into making the vehicles safe, but they turn out not to be. That is a very bad thing. It is (meta)negligent to set up a system like this, where people can be severely harmed or killed and there is no one who takes responsibility. I dare say it is sociopathic to do so.
The last point does not hold. Spanish people I know eat dinner at 11 PM and breakfast at 7 AM. And they live outside of Spain, the timezone issue does not apply here. Idk when they sleep (Siesta? Siesta in Sweden/Germany?) Please explain.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al 1) The #Fediverse is not #Mastodon. It is vast, and it is wide. Mastodon may be the most *popular* platform that is part of the Fediverse, but that is only because of Marketing. Think Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD vs. every other operating system on the planet. Windows is #1 due to marketing only. Doesn't mean it's the best. 2) Even among Mastodon servers only the flagship server is in Germany. Anyone is free to run a Mastodon server and a lot of them are located outside of Germany. 3) Equating the Fediverse with Mastodon and a Zionist developer in Germany completely ignores the vibrant tapestry that is the Fediverse. 4) Just avoid Mastodon. Seriously. Find a different server. Find a different platform. Mastodon sucks monkey balls but 99% of people never know this because they happy to bitch, moan, and complain about Mastodon sucking when 99% of other Fedi platforms and instances have already solved all the crap they're complaining about Mastodon doing.
Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.
What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.
Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the worst of the worst. Almost a century ago, you’re the kind of person who would have been cheering on Hitler. And yes, that’s also a valid comparison.
(Genocide-loving Germans on mastodon.social don’t @ me. My mentions are a genocide-apologist-free zone.)
Good summary. No idea what it has to do with my post, which doesn’t mention fediverse once, but still, appreciate the effort. Always good to reiterate the facts.
I was responding to your post about how Gargron (and mastodon.social) is anti-Palestine. Simply pointing out there are other alternatives out there, nothing more.
Iranian music scene to world: civilians are under attack
I've been back and forth with friends in the last days. The message has been clear: don't be silent, and don't let the media ignore death and destruction in Iran. Round-up with resources, what artists are saying, and eyewitness reports.
The unprovoked attack by Israel on Iran this week has put civilians in both locations in the line of fire and the entire region at risk of escalating war.
Over the course of its 20-year history, the ODF standard has been adopted, or at least recommended, by numerous supranational bodies and several countries on almost every continent.
Just encountered a water moccasin also known as a cottonmouth snake in the blackberries. I decided not to be so foolish as to stop and take a photo with my phone. Just imagine a very angry-looking, stocky, black snake displaying a triangular head and posturing as if it were giving me a few seconds head start.😅
I know. My analytical mind was like, "Hm. I wonder if regular non-venomous black snakes can mimic vipers." But luckily my amygdala was like, "Move it, sister!" LOL
Today I found out that US companies are not legally required to give employees paid days off for public holidays.
I was searching for info on which countries have fewer paid holidays than the US (I work with US people a lot and I am keenly aware that they get days off significantly less frequently). And I found out that about 25% of US workers have zero paid days off of any kind, holidays or vacation. And this is legal.
Ah, yes, another person who can’t understand large numbers.
The combined net worth of all billionaires in the US is around $6T. That would only fund the federal government (not state and locals, just the federal government) for about 18 months. And you could only tax that once. And that’s just current spending, it doesn’t address the $37T debt.
it's a matter of having a fraudulent monetary system. many people make this sophomoric mistake of blaming "capitalism" (freedom and private property) for the fraudulent, private, fractional reserve central banking system we have that allows bankers to create virtually unlimited money and give it directly to themselves.
until the banking system is fixed and the systemic fraud is eliminated, wealth inequality won't change.
this applies to whatever political system is in place- if the currency is issued by fiat and the monetary system is fraudulent, it really makes no difference whether it's communist, fascist, or otherwise. wealth will be concentrated in the bank accounts of whoever issues the money by fiat
Fractional reserve is fine when properly managed. We can talk about how much reserves should be on hand but zero is incredibly inefficient.
As long as loans are actually paid back, it’s not inflatiionary over the long term since the dollars are returned (with interest) and that money is not chasing goods and services. Defaulted loans are different, so you need to have good risk management and keep those under control.
Wealth inequality is simply the result of freedom. People make choices, not all of those choices are good ones. If you started fresh and gave everyone the same amount of money, inequality will return as time goes on. It’s the natural order of things. Some people may not like it, but true equality == slavery. If you want a truly equal society, we have a place where everyone has the same housing, food, clothing, etc. We call that place prison because that’s what it takes to enforce that system.
@midway you're deeply misinformed. fractional reserve is not "fine" on any level, it's fraud. it's double-book accounting. it means the bank does not have your money. especially when combined with lending at interest, the bank creates money out of nothing, loans it out to people, then gets paid back plus interest, requiring perpetual, inflationary debt money creation that is mathematically impossible to ever repay. this is BY DEFINITION inflationary.
i don't expect everyone to be equal, or have equal outcome. i expect *** equal OPPORTUNITY*** meaning we don't have some rules for private bankers and others for private individuals, specifically that they control the creation of fake debt-money (counterfeit, essentially, with a power monopoly of the state, yet they're not answerable to the taxpayers) yet the rest of us can't create a competing currency.
what we have is socialized risk, and privatized profit. this level of wealth inequality isn't just a result of freedom, it's primarily a result of fraud, and lack of freedom
so i don't know what crack pot econ school you went to but you should ask for a refund
If a bank must keep all of your deposits on hand, it can’t loan money out and would therefore have to charge you fees to hold it. That is a very inefficient use of capital.
I never said that money should be loaned out that would be impossible to repay. That is the exact point I made…proper risk management is key. Some loans will default to be sure…it’s the real world. But money paid back isn’t inflation over the long term because you are taking money out of circulation by paying back a loan. That money is not chasing goods and services and acts as a demand suppressant to counteract the demand increase by the loan.
If you want to live in a world without a credit market, good luck to you. It is literally the basis of our entire modern society. Go live out in the woods and barter…there’s a ton of empty space out there.
This is, in no way, a defense of how every detail of our system today. But the underlying concepts are fine. It’s all in the risk management. I’m fine with there not being “too big to fail” banks…those are a bad idea. Reasonable regulation on what banks can do based on their balance sheet is important. Under that scheme, some banks can fail and their losses need not be socialized. This would change consumer as well as institutional behaviors that are the core issues with the system. Risk, like pain, can be a good thing…it helps prevent doing stupid things. There should be risk in the system. Trying to eliminate it is what leads to dumb policies.
@midway yes, a bank should keep all your deposits on hand unless it's an investment account and you explicitly authorize them to invest it on your behalf. if that costs money then so be it, there's value there. you should pay for it.
the fractional reserve system we have is beyond fraudulent ,there's zero reserve ratio, they create the money for loans out of nothing, so it's not like they actually loan out "your" money they loan out fake money that they litereally punched up on a computer out of nothing (this is one of the primary ways money is created in the """federal""" """reserve""" bank system, through loan origination. so to be absolutely clear, that's so far from the function of a savings bank- it's something completely different. again, the system is fraudulent.
and the taxpayers are on the hook for endless bailouts. this is how we ended up with 25% of our federal budget being interest on the debt. the system needs to be burned to the ground and replaced with sound money, imo a combination of constitutional gold and silver money, and non-fiat crypto like btc, and allowing other competing currencies.
Feel free to bury metals in your backyard and barter. I’m good making interest from a bank on spare cash. Credit isn‘t a bad thing when used properly. It’s how we have grown and advanced over the last century. Is it perfect? No. Should people diversify? Yes. But full reserve banking makes no sense. If you want a bank that is more local and looks out for its customers more, credit unions are a thing. Different options for different people.
>It’s how we have grown and advanced over the last century giving a fraudulent private banking system credit for "how we've advanced" is idiotic. we've advanced IN SPITE OF the parasitic drain on society extracting such a massive amount of wealth out of the productive economy
Someone's taken feeding the birds in Kelvingrove Park to a whole new level! This was the set up I found on the parapet of the Prince of Wales Bridge when I visited it for this morning's dog walk.
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