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· Nov 11
Probably, because I walk by a building everyday which was built by communists as a leisure centre, confiscated and turned into "housing" for forced/slave labour under the nazis, I have thought for months that the most obvious way to satisfy all Trump constituencies is labor camps, not deportations.
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i think that x dot com proves that some people are willing to tolerate virtually any crime before giving up something because of network effects
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 9:59 AM
i think that x dot com proves that some people are willing to tolerate virtually any crime before giving up something because of network effects
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#israelfiles : Im Juni 2017 fand in Frankfurt eine internationale Konferenz zu „50 Jahre Besatzung“ statt – mit zahlreichen Gästen aus Israel-Palästina. Wie eine geleakte E-Mail aus dem israelischen Justizministerium zeigt, wollte die Netanjahu-Regierung die Veranstaltung verhindern.
January 2, 2026 at 9:03 AM
#israelfiles : Im Juni 2017 fand in Frankfurt eine internationale Konferenz zu „50 Jahre Besatzung“ statt – mit zahlreichen Gästen aus Israel-Palästina. Wie eine geleakte E-Mail aus dem israelischen Justizministerium zeigt, wollte die Netanjahu-Regierung die Veranstaltung verhindern.
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People are massively underestimating how much politics is going to be further deranged by AI.
2008 was the Facebook election
2016 was the Twitter election
2020 was the Zoom election
2024 was the Space Caligula election
2028 is going to be the AI election
2008 was the Facebook election
2016 was the Twitter election
2020 was the Zoom election
2024 was the Space Caligula election
2028 is going to be the AI election
December 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
People are massively underestimating how much politics is going to be further deranged by AI.
2008 was the Facebook election
2016 was the Twitter election
2020 was the Zoom election
2024 was the Space Caligula election
2028 is going to be the AI election
2008 was the Facebook election
2016 was the Twitter election
2020 was the Zoom election
2024 was the Space Caligula election
2028 is going to be the AI election
The only part of the media ecosystem that is still functioning and profitable.
sycophancy as a service.
December 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The only part of the media ecosystem that is still functioning and profitable.
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I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
December 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
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Genau so ist es in den USA auch passiert, erst ist es eine Content Strategie, um Klicks und Outrage zu farmen, dann beginnen die Leute selbst daran zu glauben, dann Radikalisierung.
Die Selbstradikalisierung ist erstaunlich. Teile des „konservativen“ Milieus haben sich offenbar von der Idee demokratischer Selbstbestimmung verabschiedet. Souveränität dient nur noch als Kulturkampfbegriff. Wenn Entscheidungen nicht passen, werden Techkonzerne und die USA als Korrektiv begrüßt.
December 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Genau so ist es in den USA auch passiert, erst ist es eine Content Strategie, um Klicks und Outrage zu farmen, dann beginnen die Leute selbst daran zu glauben, dann Radikalisierung.
If you are interested in why and how the sanctions against Rote Hilfe or the justices previously are applied, I can recommend Henry Farrell (@himself.bsky.social) and Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social 's book "Underground Empire".
December 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
If you are interested in why and how the sanctions against Rote Hilfe or the justices previously are applied, I can recommend Henry Farrell (@himself.bsky.social) and Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social 's book "Underground Empire".
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These sort of moves are happening a bit more frequently. Wondering when the US government will start threatening European institutional investors with retribution
PME, a Dutch pension fund overseeing about $70 billion, has severed ties with BlackRock based on an assessment that the world’s largest money manager no longer acts in its best interests on issues such as climate risk.
BlackRock Loses $5.9 Billion Mandate From Dutch Pension Fund PME
PME, a Dutch pension fund overseeing about $70 billion, has severed ties with BlackRock Inc. based on an assessment that the world’s largest money manager no longer acts in its best interests on issues such as climate risk.
bloom.bg
December 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
These sort of moves are happening a bit more frequently. Wondering when the US government will start threatening European institutional investors with retribution
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In my view, the "broken windows" theory unquestionably applies to white collar crime. And it's absolutely out of control at the moment, to the point that it represents a threat to most major democracies and capitalism itself.
One of the ways in which people experience the state not adequately protecting them is that they are exposed to things like scams, grotesque images, racist/xenophobic language, cascades of gambling promotions across many of the social media platforms they’re encouraged to use. And gvmt does v little
December 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
In my view, the "broken windows" theory unquestionably applies to white collar crime. And it's absolutely out of control at the moment, to the point that it represents a threat to most major democracies and capitalism itself.
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By relinquishing its regulatory sovereignty, Europe becomes precisely what Draghi warned against: economically dependent, technologically subordinate, and strategically weak
My latest
tepsa.eu/policy-advic...
My latest
tepsa.eu/policy-advic...
Simplification of EU legislation: A complex matter – TEPSA
tepsa.eu
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
By relinquishing its regulatory sovereignty, Europe becomes precisely what Draghi warned against: economically dependent, technologically subordinate, and strategically weak
My latest
tepsa.eu/policy-advic...
My latest
tepsa.eu/policy-advic...
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Bin gespannt, ob es auch eine Diskussion über diejenigen in Deutschland geben wird, die jahrzehntelang als Transatlantiker den Aufbau einer starken eigenen europäischen Verteidigung abgeblockt hatten - auch das hat zu sehr gefährlichen Abhängigkeiten geführt, wie wir jetzt merken
December 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Bin gespannt, ob es auch eine Diskussion über diejenigen in Deutschland geben wird, die jahrzehntelang als Transatlantiker den Aufbau einer starken eigenen europäischen Verteidigung abgeblockt hatten - auch das hat zu sehr gefährlichen Abhängigkeiten geführt, wie wir jetzt merken
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Above all, the Trump II National Security Strategy reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the EU, in that by now most of the far-right nativist parties to which it appeals recognize the inherent value of the EU.
The danger for the EU is less dissolution than far-right cooptation from within.
The danger for the EU is less dissolution than far-right cooptation from within.
December 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Above all, the Trump II National Security Strategy reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the EU, in that by now most of the far-right nativist parties to which it appeals recognize the inherent value of the EU.
The danger for the EU is less dissolution than far-right cooptation from within.
The danger for the EU is less dissolution than far-right cooptation from within.
Yeah, this is quite striking. Continental social democratic parties often have the opposite problem. An excessive focus on "labour" as the essential condition for being allowed to participate in society.
You might think that the "Labour" Party would consider labour itself to be a contribution to society, alas no, only "having lots of money" is a real contribution.
Perhaps they need to change their name to the Capital Party?
Perhaps they need to change their name to the Capital Party?
December 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Yeah, this is quite striking. Continental social democratic parties often have the opposite problem. An excessive focus on "labour" as the essential condition for being allowed to participate in society.
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The true long-term cost of delegation: Enabling private deliberation by removing public deliberation eventually destroys capacity for economic reasoning at the society/polity level.
The independence of the Bank of England was supposed to facilitate the application of economic reasoning to public policy. But if independence=taboo on discussing the interactions btw fiscal & monetary policy, then not even technocrats deliberate on one of the biggest economic policy issues!
IMHO, Murphy's very sloppy. But UK fiscal policy since QE/QT amounts to MMT that dare not speak its name. Viz:Osborne et al spent ~£120 bln of the money created to purchase gilts in QE. Too much monetisation-financed fiscal spending, or too little? MMT could at least pose the question! As for QT 1/n
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The true long-term cost of delegation: Enabling private deliberation by removing public deliberation eventually destroys capacity for economic reasoning at the society/polity level.
If you want to see the naivety of (economic) liberals in dealing with the US, here is a great example.
No understanding of power. Still clinging to the fantasies of open markets.
No understanding of power. Still clinging to the fantasies of open markets.
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
If you want to see the naivety of (economic) liberals in dealing with the US, here is a great example.
No understanding of power. Still clinging to the fantasies of open markets.
No understanding of power. Still clinging to the fantasies of open markets.
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We do need public digital money. Is this the solution(don't pay with your bank account money but with digital euros, a bit like cash)?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hTkmXDENl5U#bottom-sheet
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
We do need public digital money. Is this the solution(don't pay with your bank account money but with digital euros, a bit like cash)?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hTkmXDENl5U#bottom-sheet
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I’m 81 and suspected I am Jewish so I did genealogical research and found out that my dad (!!) was in the waffen SS is peak erinnerungskultur go home
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I’m 81 and suspected I am Jewish so I did genealogical research and found out that my dad (!!) was in the waffen SS is peak erinnerungskultur go home
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At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.
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but does Cem Özdemir use a bicycle to carry water for rightwing demagogues
October 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
but does Cem Özdemir use a bicycle to carry water for rightwing demagogues
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It's actually really impressive how much of where we got to right now stems from the top legal and political scholars in our media just declaring "well if that's true then the left is right, and we know they're not, so that isn't true" for like, thirty years
October 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It's actually really impressive how much of where we got to right now stems from the top legal and political scholars in our media just declaring "well if that's true then the left is right, and we know they're not, so that isn't true" for like, thirty years
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scrolling through 500 posts *documenting* how the Right don't *really* care about free speech, will we ever get out of the self-defeating loop of accusing them of hypocrisy or will we just continue to careen into the abyss, the background noise of helpless outrage ringing in our ears
September 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
scrolling through 500 posts *documenting* how the Right don't *really* care about free speech, will we ever get out of the self-defeating loop of accusing them of hypocrisy or will we just continue to careen into the abyss, the background noise of helpless outrage ringing in our ears
One of the more interesting races in the NRW elections is the municipality of Augustdorf. It is THE AfD stronghold in NRW (mainly due to very close knit religious communities of Russia Germans and partly due to it being the location of a large Bundeswehr barracks).
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September 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
One of the more interesting races in the NRW elections is the municipality of Augustdorf. It is THE AfD stronghold in NRW (mainly due to very close knit religious communities of Russia Germans and partly due to it being the location of a large Bundeswehr barracks).
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Increasing confidence in my thought that the reason this will be in the news for a while and feels "different" is that it's a member of the media and there's nothing the media cares about more than itself.
They have never, ever expressed anything close to this level of pain and sympathy for school shooting victims.
September 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Increasing confidence in my thought that the reason this will be in the news for a while and feels "different" is that it's a member of the media and there's nothing the media cares about more than itself.
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And: stop fretting about ‘independence’ and ‘fiscal dominance’, but the following dynamic: gov surrenders fiscal policy discretion to CB, while CB follows the lead of the out of control drunk that is the market-based financial system—financial dominance all the way down. Basically the UK.
August 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
And: stop fretting about ‘independence’ and ‘fiscal dominance’, but the following dynamic: gov surrenders fiscal policy discretion to CB, while CB follows the lead of the out of control drunk that is the market-based financial system—financial dominance all the way down. Basically the UK.