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Robert Ofner
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dad²❤️, partner, global health scholar, Start up; curious about: humans, health, politics, IT+AI, equality, SDGs, climate action, XR, born @ 346 ppm CO₂
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taz.de
Frankreich führt für staatliche Stellen eine neue Software für Videokonferenzen ein. Davon sollte sich Deutschland etwas abschauen.
Digitale Souveränität: Von Frankreich lernen
Frankreich führt für staatliche Stellen eine neue Software für Videokonferenzen ein. Davon sollte sich Deutschland etwas abschauen.
taz.de
January 29, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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katzish.bsky.social
Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF
dylantus.bsky.social Dylan Tusinski @dylantus.bsky.social · 15h
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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dague.net
It's -3° F in Poughkeepsie.

It's a toasty 68 inside, our heat pump is awesome.

We are now in our 9th winter of not burning fossil fuels for heat. The future can be awesome.
January 29, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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torystephens.bsky.social
In Bangladesh, thousands of volunteers are battling climate-fueled disease at its source.

As mosquitoes spread dengue and chikungunya, Bangladeshi cleanup crews are taking public health into their own hands.

grist.org/health/bangl...

#Health #PublicHealth #Disease #Mosquitoes #Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, thousands of volunteers are battling climate-fueled disease at its source
As mosquitoes spread dengue and chikungunya, Bangladesh Clean volunteers are taking public health into their own hands.
grist.org
January 20, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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piller.at
Überraschung!
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Vernichtende interne Meta-Kommentare: "Instagram ist eine Droge"
Ein aktueller US-Prozess enthüllt, wie Tech-Giganten manipulative Funktionen nutzen, um Kinder gezielt abhängig zu machen
www.derstandard.at
January 29, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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oliverdasgupta.bsky.social
Die Greiftruppe #ICE schiebt eine 5-Jährige & deren Mutter ab, obwohl das Kind in den USA geboren wurde & US-Staatsbürgerin ist.

Grundrechte & Gesetze schützten in den USA unter #Trump nicht mehr. Alles ist möglich. Touristen können bei der Fußball-WM große Abenteuer außerhalb der Stadien erleben.
ICE deports five-year-old US citizen despite being told she was born in America
A 5-year-old US citizen was deported to Honduras with her mother, despite her citizenship, sparking outrage over ICE practices and due process violations.
www.themirror.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:13 AM
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olord.bsky.social
@cleancitiescampaign.org is calling for urgent action to tackle #carspreading including fairer parking charges and applying car-equivalent pedestrian safety standards to pick-up trucks - the UK should work with EU partners to Adopt a Child Visibility Test to reduce vehicle blindspots 🙏 7/7
January 27, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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kevinjkircher.com
Or, y'know, to outgrow gas.
cleanenergywire.bsky.social Clean Energy Wire | CLEW @cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 23h
EU will seek to cut US energy reliance after Trump’s Greenland threats

Union’s energy chief said US president’s threats were a “wake-up call” to find new sources of gas
EU will seek to cut US energy reliance after Trump’s Greenland threats
The bloc’s energy chief said U.S. president’s threats were a “wake-up call” to find new sources of gas.
www.politico.eu
January 29, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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justingerdes.bsky.social
"The main grid in Western Australia – the biggest isolated grid in the country and the world – has hit a remarkable new renewables peak of 91.1 per cent, driven entirely entirely by wind and solar, and mostly by rooftop PV." reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-bigge... via @gilesparkinson.bsky.social 🔌💡
World's biggest isolated grid sets remarkable wind and solar peak of 91.1 pct, as batteries displace coal and gas
The biggest isolated grid in Australia, and the world, hits a remarkable wind and solar peak share of 91 pct, and as its big batteries displace coal and gas in evening peaks.
reneweconomy.com.au
January 29, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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hannelore14089.bsky.social
»Fakten hören nicht auf zu existieren, nur weil sie ignoriert werden.«
Aldous Huxley hat das schon im letzten Jahrhundert gesagt, und es ist immer noch richtig.
January 29, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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mimikama.org
Die neue Gmail-Funktion zur Änderung der eigenen E-Mail-Adresse wird aktuell von Betrügern missbraucht.
Täuschend echte Mails kommen scheinbar direkt von Google und zielen auf dein Passwort.

www.mimikama.org/gmail-funkti...
Neue Gmail-Funktion als Köder: So versuchen Betrüger Google-Konten zu übernehmen - mimikama.org
Wenn Gmail plötzlich eine Adressänderung meldet, solltest du aufpassen. Betrüger nutzen dies aus, um Google-Konten zu übernehmen.
www.mimikama.org
January 28, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
Despite the Trumps administration's effort to end clean energy in the US, almost all new capacity in 2026 will be from renewables, the EIA finds.
January 29, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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brodnig.bsky.social
“Remember the names of those who die on the streets of Minneapolis”
brucespringsteen.net Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 1d
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
Brits: you are nowhere near frightened enough of what's happening in the US right now and what UK politicians are promising with the help of Palantir and friends. From @ markmcposts on IG.
January 29, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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sosmitmensch.at
Was FPÖ & Krone jedoch vergessen haben zu erwähnen: Die Betroffenen nutzen die Spitaler weit UNTERDURCHSCHNITTLICH oft. Im Zeitraum von 10 Jahren wurden mehr als 800 Millionen Spitalsleistungen erbracht. Die von FPÖ & Krone skandalisierten 22 Millionen Leistungen machen nur weniger als 3% aus! 3/4
January 29, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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rhutabhayga.bsky.social
#TikTok is now owned by the U.S. in a forced sale.

The consortium is led by Larry Ellison, executive chairman of Oracle, which helped the Heritage Foundation create a database of loyalists for Project 2025.

And they now control what 150MM Americans can or can't see. Or post.
January 28, 2026 (Wednesday) If they were going to build state-sponsored media in America, they wouldn’t announce it. For months, the warnings spread like rumor. Delete it. Get your kids off it. The Chinese are watching. The algorithm is feeding them propaganda, depression, rage. A hundred and fifty million Americans on a single app, scrolling ninety-five minutes a day, and the servers sat in Beijing. Lawmakers called it a national security threat. Parents called it digital fentanyl. TikTok is spying on your children, they said. TikTok is brainwashing a generation. The dread was real. The danger may have been real. So they forced a sale. And five days ago, the app that terrified them changed hands. Now the dread has a different shape. Yesterday, a woman in a Chicago salon, still in her smock between clients, propped her iPhone against the mirror and recorded a video about ICE. Thirty seconds. Posted it. Went back to work. An hour later: zero views. She deleted it. Recorded again, this time using emojis. 🧊 instead of ICE, thinking maybe the algorithm flags certain words. Posted it. Checked again before bed, the screen bright in her hand. Still zero. The next morning, she posted a video of her latte. Three thousand views by noon. Across the country, similar reports. A father in Minneapolis, 400,000 followers, posting about Palestine: zero views. A physical therapist in New Jersey typing “Epstein” into a direct message, watching the app freeze, a warning appearing: This message may be in violation of our Community Guidelines. CNBC reporters reproduced the error on camera, typing the same name, getting the same block. TikTok blamed a power outage at a data center. Users described an outage that seemed to know the difference between British users and American users. An outage that triggered when you typed a name. An outage that affected political content but not dance videos, ICE but not coffee, Gaza but not lipstick tutorials. This was the app that showed Minneapolis burning when the networks cut away. For ten minutes on May 25, 2020, a seventeen-year-old named Darnella Frazier held her phone steady and recorded a police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck. She posted it. It spread. The world saw what the official story would have buried: that he called for his mother, that bystanders begged the officer to stop, that it took eight minutes and forty-six seconds for a man to die on a sidewalk in America. TikTok didn’t break that story. But TikTok became the place where stories like it couldn’t be contained. Gaza, when the networks looked away. ICE raids filmed in real time. Protests before the press arrived. For five years, it was the camera that couldn’t be managed, the signal that couldn’t be jammed, the place where ordinary people could make power visible without asking permission. A hundred and fifty million Americans opened it every day. A third of teenagers said it was their primary news source. Not CNN. Not the Times. The algorithm. And now the algorithm answers to someone new. On January 22, 2026, a pop-up appeared on a hundred and fifty million American phones. A new privacy policy. Most people clicked through without reading. But the language had changed. TikTok now lists what it collects: racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, citizenship, immigration status. That data existed before. But before, it flowed to ByteDance, a Chinese company with no stake in American deportation policy. Now it flows to a different owner. The consortium is led by Larry Ellison, executive chairman of Oracle, host to Trump at his Rancho Mirage estate. In September 2024, Ellison told investors wh… Within seventy-two hours of the ownership transfer, creators reported anti-Trump content throttled, videos about ICE stuck at zero, the word “Epstein” blocked in DMs. The same name the Justice Department was legally required to release files about forty days ago—and hasn’t. BBC and Guardian videos appeared visible in London, invisible in Los Angeles. Uninstalls spiked, if only by anecdote: screenshots, goodbye posts, friends telling friends to delete it. On social media, people began describing the same sensation in different words: the feed felt newly policed. “I got rid of it,” one user wrote. “Nice side effect is a calmer brain.” In an interview that fall, Netanyahu had been blunt: “The most important purchase that is going on right now is TikTok. I hope it goes through because it can be consequential.” It went through. People didn’t need proof of intent. They only needed the sensation: that the room had gained a guard. Orwell didn’t imagine censorship as a bonfire. He imagined it as clerical work. In 1984, when a man named Withers falls out of favor, he isn’t arrested in the square. He becomes an “unperson.” The records are edited. The photographs altered. “Withers, then, did not exist: he had never existed.” The newspaper still prints. The world still turns. But the public record has been silently revised, and no one can prove it was ever different. State-sponsored media doesn’t announce itself. It looks like the app you already use, doing what apps already do: sorting content, recommending videos, deciding what spreads and what disappears. The difference is whose hand is on the dial. State-sponsored media is when the algorithm answers to power, when the content that vanishes is the content power wants vanished, when the glitch is always the explanation. The woman in Chicago can watch her video on her own phone. It exists. But zero views means zero reach means zero presence in the public reality. She wasn’t banned. She was just never there. How would you know i… The algorithm has always been opaque. Content has always risen and fallen for reasons no one could explain. That opacity is the camouflage. Beneath it, suppression becomes indistinguishable from bad luck. It cannot be named, cannot be fought, cannot be proven. The most effective censorship doesn’t delete. It throttles. It shadowbans. It lets your voice exist while ensuring no one hears it. And eventually, you stop posting what doesn’t spread. You learn which words the algorithm won’t carry. You try emojis. You try euphemisms. You watch what works for other people and start to mimic it. You censor yourself before anyone has to do it for you. The woman in Chicago has started noticing patterns. Her videos about rent do fine. Her videos about traffic do fine. Anything about policy, about power, about the government doing something to someone: zero views. She doesn’t know if it’s real. She doesn’t know if she’s paranoid. She just knows what happens when she posts, and what doesn’t. The threat was China. That’s what they said for years. A foreign adversary controlling the algorithm, manipulating what Americans see, collecting data on a hundred and fifty million citizens. A national security risk so severe it justified forcing a sale. So they forced a sale. And the platform that documented Minneapolis, that broadcast Gaza, that showed ICE raids in real time—now belongs to a man who dreams of constant surveillance, backed by a president who calls his consortium “Great American Patriots,” financed in part by twenty billion dollars from the United Arab Emirates. The data collection hasn’t stopped. The algorithm still runs. Only now it’s American. So it’s safe. TikTok says the glitch has been resolved. The servers are stable. The woman in Chicago checked her phone again this morning. The screen was bright in her hand. The video about ICE: still zero views. The video about her latte: twelve thousand. She typed a caption about a raid in her neighborhood. Stopped. Deleted it. Typ…
January 29, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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drericding.bsky.social
📉25% LOWER ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY! Wowzers—one of the largest long-term safety studies ever undertaken: “Among 28 mil adults, those who received an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine were less likely to die in subsequent 4 years than unvaccinated, corresponding to a 25% lower risk of death from all causes.”
January 29, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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theguardian.com
What is Nipah virus? Key things to know about the disease amid cases in India
What is Nipah virus? Key things to know about the disease amid cases in India
Highly contagious virus, which spreads from animals to humans, has a high fatality rate and there is no vaccine
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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volksverpetzer.de
Mir ist sowas von völlig egal, ob jemand hier "illegal" ist.

Mir ist wichtiger, ob ich meine Miete bezahlen und von meinem Job leben kann und eine Zukunft mit Rente und intaktem Klima habe. Ich wette, den meisten geht es so, auch wenn so viele in Medien und Politik uns was anderes einreden wollen.
January 28, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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krutikakuppalli.bsky.social
🚨#Nipah outbreak in #India

- Nipah virus is confirmed in two healthcare workers in West Bengal
- 196 identified contacts have been traced, quarantined and tested
- All negative so far

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
Region on watch as India declares Nipah virus outbreak contained
Several Asian countries have introduced screening measures for arrivals from India, as New Delhi seeks to dampen alarm.
www.aljazeera.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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oliverdasgupta.bsky.social
#Trump lässt ein Foto von sich und #Putin im Weißen Haus aufhängen.

Keine Pointe.
Trump hangs picture of himself with Putin in White House
After months of tension the Russian leader has taken pride of place above a photo of the US president and his granddaughter
www.thetimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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demguardrails.bsky.social
🙄Amazon is GENEROUSLY offering the 16k workers they’re laying off 90 days to find an alternate internal role before receiving their layoff package.

🤔 We can guess how that’ll turn out

With their 14k layoffs in Oct., in 3 months, Amazon has thrown 30K workers into the job loss pool
Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs in the latest round of layoffs
Amazon is announcing about 16,000 job cuts in the latest round of tech industry layoffs. Beth Galetti, a senior vice president at the company, shared the news in a blog post on Wednesday.
apnews.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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krutikakuppalli.bsky.social
Let’s be clear: this isn’t about safety.

The U.S. is imposing domestic ideology and misinformation on global health.

They are pressuring Gavi based on politics and exporting anti-science narratives under the guise of “safety” is unethical—and it will cost lives.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: US conditions funding to global vaccine group on dropping mercury-based preservative from shots
The Trump administration has told global vaccine group Gavi to phase out shots containing the preservative thimerosal as a condition of providing the group with funding, a U.S. official and a Gavi spo...
www.reuters.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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ilhanmn.bsky.social
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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dernaro.bsky.social
Wie wirkt sich Klimaschutz auf Staatshaushalt aus?

Konkret würde die Wirtschaft durch Investitionen in den Klimaschutz wachsen, die Beschäftigung zunehmen und die Arbeitslosenrate sinken. Ein rascherer Ausbau der Erneuerbaren würde zudem den Strompreis senken und die jährliche Inflation dämpfen.
dernaro.bsky.social Benedikt Narodoslawsky @dernaro.bsky.social · 6d
Dass sich Investitionen in Klimaschutz für 🇦🇹 lohnen, daran lässt die Prognose des Finanzministeriums keinen Zweifel: "Diese bedingen zwar höhere Ausgaben, haben aufgrund der zu erwartenden Wachstumseffekte langfristig positive Effekte auf den Staatshaushalt."

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Finanzministerium: Verfehlen der Klimaziele kostet bis zu 2,9 Milliarden Euro
Die Kosten für Emissionszertifikate drohen bis 2050 zu explodieren. Grünen-Chefin Leonore Gewessler fordert die Regierung auf, den "Rückwärtskurs umzukehren"
www.derstandard.at
January 24, 2026 at 8:24 AM