F*cking unfassbar schmerzhaft.

Sozialstaat: Kanzleramt sammelt Sparvorschläge bei Behinderten- und Jugendhilfe Die Kassen vieler Kommunen sind leer, ihre Ausgaben für Menschen mit Behinderungen und für die Jugendhilfe hoch. Teils drastische Kürzungsvorschläge liegen auf dem Tisch.

"Bei #Schulassistenzen und schulischen #Integrationshelfern gibt es mehrere Vorschläge bis hin zur völligen Abschaffung."

Das klingt, mit Verlaub, eher nach #Sozialstaat​-Kahlschlag als -Reform, und zwar zu Lasten der Schwächsten der Solidargemeinschaft.

www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commi

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.l. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese

Ein Softwareunternehmen ruft öffentlich zur Errichtung einer neuen Weltordnung auf, garniert mit Positionen, die man nur rechtsextrem nennen kann.

Diese Software hat in deutschen Behörden NICHTS verloren.

In #Zerbst (Sachsen-Anhalt) hat der AfD-Kandidat bei der Oberbürgermeisterwahl mit 17,8% krachend gegen den SPD-Kandidaten verloren.

Weitere Niederlagen:

🔹 Schwerin: Stichwahl verfehlt
🔹 Ueckermünde: Nur Platz 4 mit 10%
🔹 Anklam: Deutlich verloren

Der Osten ist nicht lost.
Nazis sind schlagbar.

Es gibt sie noch, die guten Nachrichten.

A photo of the face of a young boy with short hair and a shirt with a collar. Very grainy photo.

11 April 1939 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Janos Willheim, was born in Salgotarjan.

In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

A young girl photographed sitting at a desk. She is holding a pen and holds her hands on some pieces of paper. She is wearing a school uniform wieh large buttons. She has dark hair.

10 April 1929 | A Czech Jewish girl, Ruth Gallusová, was born in #Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
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Children at Auschwitz
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

Expert*innen am 8. Tag der Provenienzforschung in der Neuen Nationalgalerie

Am gestrigen 8. Tag der Provenienzforschung gab es zahlreiche Angebote rund um die museale Detektivarbeit, mit der Forscher*innen die Biografien der Objekte offenlegen. Im Blog der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin geben Expert*innen Einblicke in ihre spannende Arbeit! blog.smb.museum/begriff/prov...

Gute Besserung!

Tag der Provenienzforschung | Mi, 8.4. | Oberhausmuseum Passau

Wer am morgigen Tag der Provenienzforschung einen (meinen) schönen Vortrag über zwei Gemälde hören möchte, die auf dem Dachboden eines Passauer Hauses gefunden wurden: bitte, gern.

www.oberhausmuseum.passau.de/veste/verans...

International Day of Provenance Research WITH REGISTRATION, ADMISSION FREE (some offers subject to charge)

The 8th International Day of Provenance Research will take place on 8 April 2026. On this day, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will offer insights into the topics and work of provenance research within their museums and institutions.

www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/en/event-det...

Internationaler Tag der Provenienzforschung MIT ANMELDUNG, EINTRITT FREI (teilweise kostenpflichtige Angebote)

Noch eine Woche bis zum Internationalen Tag der Provenienzforschung am 8. April 2026! Kommenden Mittwoch geben die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin Einblicke in ihre Arbeit und bieten Provenienzspaziergänge (#Spurensuche), Führungen, Workshops und mehr an. Viele Angebote sind kostenlos – jetzt anmelden!

In einer Woche, am 8. April, ist Tag der Provenienzforschung. Zu diesem Anlass haben wir Provenienzforscher:innen gefragt, wie die Zukunft der Provenienzforschung für den kolonialen Kontext gestaltet werden kann. Ihre #ProvenienzVisionen werden wir in den kommenden Tagen hier veröffentlichen.

Thank *you* for your hard and patient work as our editor! Very much looking forward to seeing the volume in print!

Vintage portrait of a young woman wearing a light-colored dress and a pearl necklace. The photo is monochrome and has a signature at the bottom.

28 March 1909 | A Czech Jewish woman, Helena Franková, was born in Kamýk nad Vltavou.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.
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Deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/3MdIVUA

8. Tag der Provenienzforschung am 08.04.2026 bei den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin Die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin geben Einblicke in die Themen und Arbeit der Provenienzforschung ihrer Häuser und Einrichtungen.

www.smb.museum/nachrichten/...

Ich habe unterschrieben. Ihr noch nicht? Dann los!

Ich vermute, man hat sich an der BBC Sounds-App orientiert (seit letztem Jahr leider geogeblockt).

A face of a teenage girl. She has wavy hair covering her ears. She has her mouth open in a tentative smile and exposes her upper teeth.

22 March 1933 | Dutch Jewish girl, Bertha Schielaar, was born in Rotterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Viele Frauen hier haben intensiv die gestrige Diskussion verfolgt und mitgestaltet. Ich wundere mich ja immer noch, dass sich hier so viele wundern. Was mich besonders verwundert hat, ist die Verwunderung vieler Männer hier über folgende Tatsachen: 🧵 #Ulmen

Möchte hier auch festhalten, dass es Angeordnete, Fachleute aus der Wissenschaft sowie Journalist:innen noch immer für angemessen halten, auf einer Plattform zu posten, mit deren KI Nutzende Darstellungen sexualisierter Gewalt produzieren können/konnten.

The first events for the Provenance Research Day 2026 have been published online!

👉 Registration open until April 8, 2026
👉 For inclusion in the press release: deadline March 31, 2026

www.arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org/veranstaltun...

#ProvenanceResearch #TdP2026

Neville Morley | Thucydides Traps Thucydides is having another moment. Donald Trump’s foreign policy has provoked a rash of allusions to a line from the...

‘Figures like Trump are frequently characterised as reflecting a Thucydidean “might makes right” worldview, but they don’t mention him. Explicit engagement with Thucydides is something for their shadowy advisers’

@nevillemorley.eurosky.social on Thucydides today.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Matthias! Was für p h a n t a s t i s c h e Neuigkeiten! Ganz herzliche Glückwünsche!

3 March 1931 | German Jewish boy, Stefan Breslauer, was born in Leipzig.

He emigrated to the Netherlands in 1938. In September 1944 he was deported from #Westerbork to #Theresienstadt ghetto. On 19 October 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He was murdered in a gas chamber.

Vintage portrait of a young boy, showing a cheerful expression and wearing a formal suit.

28 February 1926 | German Jewish boy, Friedrich Jakob Kahn, was born in Bingen. He emigrated to the Netherlands.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. He did not survive.
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Children at Auschwitz
📖 https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
🎧 https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

The Attic vase painter Kleitias (active around 570/60 BCE) spelt his name ΚΛΙΤΙΑΣ on the most famous vessel he painted, the 'François Vase' (today in Florence: catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/Archa...), and ΚΛΕΤΙΑΣ on a stand now in the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...).

Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

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