But E.T. was flesh and blood!

Sobald man die neun leeren Becher vor sich stehen sieht und realisiert, dass das nicht reicht.

I’m sorry to hear that. In my last job as a manger I had to lay off almost 3/4 of my team. That did something to me.

Trank you. Will try.

I would like to like Libre office but find the UI to be too crowded. Makes me feel stressed just looking at it.

Given the huge early turnout in Hungary odds seem very high that Magyar wil defeat Orbán very decisively; the question in that case would be whether Orbán goes with the Ukrainian electoral interference lie he has been preparing and whether foreign actors support him.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

A year ago I may have fallen for this image. Now I notice the repetitive pattern in the foreground. But why do it?

Krankenkassen jammern über Milliardenlöcher – aber zahlen weiter für Homöopathie ohne Wirkungsnachweis.

Wilde Idee: Vielleicht fangen wir mit dem Sparen einfach da an, wo es medizinisch exakt nichts bringt?!

Half of all Germans NEVER use public transport. So do about 2/3 residents in Italy, Portugal, and France.

Wollte #Merz die AfD nicht halbieren? Stattdessen legen die zu. Wobei mir Häme hier tatsächlich fremd ist, denn diese Wahlergebnisse sind erschütternd.

“If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.” Hannah Arendt

By Maxine Joselow Reporting by Washington Post Article linked below

This is insane.

This is absolutely correct. It simply isn’t correct that banning books and cancelling lectures helps you win wars.

Die Energiewende durchzuziehen, wäre billiger als alle paar Jahre eine Ölkrise und sicherlich billiger, als Kriege für Öl zu führen. Und außerdem würde sie Arbeitsplätze schaffen, um die es doch eigentlich ging.

We had this kid in Junior High who - if he asked a girl to dance and she said no - he’d insist he didn’t really wanna dance with her and was just checking to see if she was a jerk.

Open-source intelligence shuts down Satellite images of the Middle East are suddenly disappearing

Satellite images of Middle East becoming inaccessible.

Open-source intelligence shuts down
economist.com/middle-east-...
from The Economist

GOOD

Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.

What in the absolute fuck is this.

Ich glaube das ist mir zu deprimierend.

Authoritarian regimes are often undermined by low human capital among the people willing to work for them

What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever We heard from more than 40 current and former emergency managers in 11 states about what they need to prepare for the next disaster — and what they aren’t getting.

“This crisis-management system in the United States is itself in crisis." What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever, by @cgaribay.bsky.social

At the Pentagon, OpenAI is In and Anthropic Is Out On Friday, President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s A.I. systems and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated the company a “supply chain risk.” Then, just a few hours…

@sicherheitspod.de ihr meintet ja die Diskussion der AI Tech-Dystopie hätte noch ein paar Jahre Zeit. Ich bin mir da nicht so sicher: pca.st/episode/be39...

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

Turns out they weren’t against technology per se but against the dehumanising uses of technology that destroyed communities.

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground ...

Recently read a pretty good book on that topic that draws comparisons between the Industrial Revolution and Ai. Could have been shorter imho but you learn a lot about who the Luddites really were - which is a far cry from the stereotype most of us know.

app.thestorygraph.com/books/20d56e...

Finde ich erstmal nicht problematisch. Kommt drauf an was die tun. Z.B.:
- Entscheidungen erklären
- Kommunikation barrierefreier gestalten
- Bürgerkommunikation verbessern

Bring on the midterms YouTube video by Elle Cordova

Some days I just need a video like this: youtube.com/shorts/snat5...

DNA, Social-Media-Daten, Angehörige: Was die Trump-Regierung künftig bei der US-Einreise überprüfen will Datenschützer schlagen Alarm: Trumps Einwanderungsbehörde plant massive Änderungen bei den Einreisebestimmungen. Welche Daten sollen erhoben werden? Und wie weit ist die Umsetzung bereits?

Ich verstehe die Aufregung nicht: die IP Adressen der letztens 5 Jahre hat man doch wohl im Kopf! www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...