Doctor doctor!

From Explanation to Accountability A decade of explainable AI research has produced important techniques for understanding AI models, but less clarity on who those explanations are for and what accountability goals they actually serve

How could AI explanations work to support accountability? I review some of the research here: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/from-expla...

Menschenfeindliche Verkehrspolitik: Nicht nur ein Unfall, sondern unterlassene Hilfeleistung Ein elfjähriger Junge wird in Hamburg beim Radfahren von einem Lkw-Fahrer getötet. Sein Tod zeigt, wie gefährlich die Straßen für Kinder sind.

Die Angst radelt mit! V. a. bei Eltern - dass ihren Kindern etwas zustößt, wenn sie in deutschen Städten mit dem Fahrrad unterwegs sind. Dabei ginge es anders. #Helsinki hat das gezeigt. Doch hierzulande sind Autos und „Rechte“ der Autofahrer wichtiger …
Das möge man den Eltern von Simon erklären.

Is anyone taking anything any serious these days coming from Trump?

International Journalism Festival 2026: What we learnt in Perugia about the future of news Here are many highlights from the festival on news creators, engaging with poor audiences, fact-checking alliances, reporting on conflict, and journalism and AI.

@reutersinstitute.bsky.social's round up of the 20th edition of @journalismfestival.com #ijf26

JD Vance could yet save his political skin. But it will mean turning on Trump – and soon | Simon Tisdall The vice-president has endured his most humiliating – and damaging – week as his boss’s fall guy. How much more can Maga’s great hope take? asks Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Will opportunist JD Vance reinvent himself again - to take over the US presidency eventually, asks Simon Tisdall. He has one significant advantage over other cabinet members: Trump cannot fire an elected vice-president. But under the 25th amendment to the constitution, Vance could help fire Trump.

Bulgarian Parliamentary Elections: Short Analysis – INVED On Sunday, Bulgaria will hold parliamentary elections, continuing a period of repeated early votes due to prolonged political instability. The vote will determine the composition of the National Assem...

Election day in Bulgaria, which receives much less attention than the one in Hungary: How strong is Russian influence? I received insights from Bulgarian political analyst Ekaterina Dimitrova. @inved.bsky.social

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Wie die Opposition Orbán besiegen konnte: Runter vom Feld der Neuen Rechten Viktor Orbán hat Ungarn in einen autoritären Staat umgebaut. Seine Abwahl zeigt, wie auch tief verankerte autoritäre Systeme besiegt werden können.

@nataschastrobl.bsky.social in der @taz.de über die Zentralisierung der Medienarchitektur in #Ungarn unter #Orbán und wie es Péter Magyar /Tiszas gelang, das System zu besiegen: „Zur Gewinnerstrategie gehört, Kulturkämpfe links liegen zu lassen und sich stur mit der realen Realität zu beschäftigen.“

I was already worried about Trump’s mental decline—it just got worse In the past week alone, the US president has depicted himself as Jesus and picked a row with the pope

Trump has clearly lost his marbles, or is “one taco short of a combo plate” - and it should be called what it is, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk. Reacting accordingly and taking necessary measures is called for. Otherwise, “A failure to act has unknowable consequences.”

It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.

Look at that. He can write his name now! Pure talent …

Unfit for office - proven again and again

10% bei den Über-95-jährigen !?

Kannste Dir nicht ausdenken…
Ca 1100 km mit dem Auto fahren (Emden-Berlin-Emden) und entsprechend Benzin/Diesel aus dem Auspuff (und dem Portemonnaie) pusten, um gegen die hohen Spritpreise zu “demonstrieren”

The regime's attacks on Pope Leo backfire spectacularly They're expose the broken, cult-like nature of Trumpism.

Choose your enemies wisely …
#Trump / #Vance comments, teaching Pope on theological matters, “backfire spectacularly”, writes @snipy.bsky.social on Public Notice / @atrupar.com

Same here.

Whom could he be referring to, I wonder?

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Could it be that humankind is doomed?

BBC to cut almost one in 10 staff in £500m savings The BBC's interim director general says the cuts will require "some big and some difficult choices".

Sad (and bad) news: the dismantling of probably the world‘s best & most admired media institution. At a cost of £174.50 (~€200) a year. Or £14.54 (€16.66) a month. Which equals ~£0.48 (€0.56) a day.
At a time when public service media, dedicated to serving the public, is more important than ever!

Good news.
Coming closer again

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

god grant me the audacity of a Catholic convert sincerely telling the Pope he’s wrong about theology

Leo XIV. im Streit mit Trump: Der Antiimp-Papst Trump regt sich über den Papst auf, dabei ist der doch US-Amerikaner. Und etwa auch ein radikaler Linker, gegen imperialistischen Krieg und Präpotenz?

Papst: stabil.
Da fragt sich @paulinejaeckels.bsky.social in der @taz.de, ob sie ihn als Linke gut finden kann - und denkt noch mal über den (wie sie eigentlich findet überfälligen) Kirchenaustritt nach.

J.D. Vance Had His Worst Week Ever. Let’s Celebrate Two high-stakes missions, two historic flops, and one very long flight home.

In the short but incredibly undistinguished political career of America's smuggest, smarmiest politician, this past week is certainly the worst he has ever had, writes @djrothkopf.bsky.social.

Is there such a thing as dignity?! What went so seriously wrong with this man?

Mit den “Erwartungen” ist das immer so eine Sache ….

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen:

Der Irankrieg hat nicht „die Energiepreise“ erhöht, sondern die für Öl und Gas.

Es werden nicht „die Autofahrer entlastet“, es werden Kosten für den Teil der Bevölkerung reduziert, der einen Verbrenner fährt. Auf Kosten aller anderen.

Depicted as a doctor?! This man needs a doctor!! Urgently!!!

A doctor draped in a red shawl with glowing light radiating from his hands and people/things float above him in the sky?