Den Ossi-Kommentar konnte ich mir nicht verkneifen, weil wir ja angeblich die unqualifizierten und faulen Säcke sind und noch dazu offensichtlich politisch immer total falsch liegen.

Nein zum Palantir-Deal – jetzt Appell unterzeichnen Die Polizei könnte die US-Überwachungssoftware Palantir bekommen. Stopp den Deal mit dem Trump-Vertrauten Peter Thiel.

Die Stasi war schlimm. Was jetzt passieren soll, stellt die Stasi voll in den Schatten. Tut was dagegen, so wie die Ossis damals. www.campact.de/datenschutz/...

Except in Kyoto, where due to disrespectful behaviour by tourists it is now against the law to take pictures of geishas in the street without their consent, otherwise one could get fined. However, Kyoto is full of other people in kimonos. :-)

Photographie de rue et droit à l’image : peut-on tout publier sur Internet ? — Genaro Bardy Le droit à l’image et les droits du photographe qui pratique dans la rue , ou dans tout autre lieu public, sont très mal compris. Un épisode récent d’une rencontre entre un photographe de rue et mon ...

The conflict between right of artistic expression and the right to privacy in public places appears to have been settled on appeal, at least in France, and the right of artisitic expression supersedes the right of an individual to not be photographed:

genarobardy.com/blog/droit-a...

You think they are smart enough?

Like Farage seemingly conceding defeat on TV half an hour before final Brexit referendum result. Weird what happened to the £ then.

Unabhängigkeit von Trump und Co.? Unbezahlbar! Europa braucht eigene Lösungen. Der digitale Euro ist ein wichtiger Schritt für unsere Unabhängigkeit. Doch um ihre Gewinne zu sichern, versuchen insbesondere Banken dieses Projekt zu schwächen. Das d...

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/un...

Totally agree. Pathetic and scumbag.

Thou shalt not buy oil from the foreigners you’re bombing and then claim to be “America First.”

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Still loving my latest creation and enjoying the spring sunshine while starting to write the pattern for this shawl.

#knitting

I did my bit for the Paris results. :-)

The SAVE America Act is a voter suppression scam. It would take away the rights of working people to make their voices heard at the ballot box.

The Senate must reject this bill.

Thought on gen AI: we now have AI to replace humans by pretending to be them, writing and talking to other humans, then we have AI to 'humanise' the AI output, and finally we have AI to figure out that it was AI all along.

Do we have no other urgent issues?

Take care of the humans in your life. 🩵

It's only been around 75 years since the first nuclear power stations have started operating, and still nobody knows quite what to do with the highly toxic waste.

My latest shawl/throw, hot off the needle (and blocking mat).

#knitting

www.ravelry.com/projects/Jou...

"While the U.S. has no permanent national repository yet, Canada, Sweden & Finland are taking innovative, consent-based approaches to create a final repository for their spent fuel inventories..." In short, NOBODY has a solution yet.
www.nuclearinnovationalliance.org/sites/defaul...

So European Commission President UvdL advocates for 'low emission' (but high-radiation) nuclear energy to secure energy supply especially in times of geopolitical tension. Genius! Why not build your enemies' nukes in your own country? They just need to hit them conventionally then!

Nah, it’s Google saying, “sorry, we’re done pretending we don’t own the user”, which AI forced, their own transformer paper bring turned into an attack against their search monopoly by OpenAI with… | ... Nah, it’s Google saying, “sorry, we’re done pretending we don’t own the user”, which AI forced, their own transformer paper bring turned into an attack against their search monopoly by OpenAI with sca...

“per seat licensing sucks if seats are hit by job losses”

I had this thought for a few years but never managed to put it quite so succinctly. Thank you, Georg Zoeller aka the Attention Economist.

www.linkedin.com/posts/georgz...

Would-be translators say EU botched their entry exams — again “How is it so difficult to arrange a test?” asked one frustrated applicant.

Dozens of wannabe EU translators who were forced last year to resit a grueling entry exam because of a technical blunder say they have now been incorrectly disqualified.

I may be old-fashioned but people who keep talking over everyone else are just rude.

I'm not sure that 'destroying at source' is really defensive. Words or rather their meanings have become rather elastic of late.

Resist and Unsubscribe

I like to watch Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway's Pivot podcast. That's where Scott first came up with the idea, at least that I know, and I am very glad to see it is gaining traction.
www.resistandunsubscribe.com

Only the men, though. The women dealt with it much more cleverly.

There is always a tweet.

There was a Ukrainian skeleton rider who was disqualified from competition for wearing a helmet - without comment - with pictures of his team mates who had fallen in combat because the ICO considered it a political statement. The locker room footage with your FBI director is what? You're being used!

To the US women ice hockey team: I take my hat off to your win and to the way you dealt with the Trump administration trying to use you to improve their ratings (which are the LOWEST in history, you've never seen anything like it). To the US men's ice hockey team: What were you thinking??????????

How can US ice-hockey players parading a deceased teammate's jersey be a 'beautiful gesture' and a Ukrainian skeleton rider wearing a helmet with uncommented pictures of dead teammates a 'political statement'? Did the politicisation of the helmet happen in the heads of the IOC who disqualified him?

Very powerful thread.

Nei uns im Zwischenhof schon seit ein paar Wochen. Immer noch zaghaft. Und die Forsythie auf dem Balkon hat schon eine offene Blüte.