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Volkher "cymru" Kassner
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IT person, with an affectionate love for space and astronomy /cosmology. Also RPGs.
Wusstest Du, dass ab Januar Banken Beweise für illegale CumCum-Geschäfte vernichten dürfen? 28,5 Milliarden Euro Steuergelder sind in Gefahr. Fordere den*die nächste Finanzminister*in auf, sofort zu handeln. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ und teilen!​ weact.campact.de/petitions/cu...
CumCum-Milliarden: Zeit ist Steuergeld
Wusstest Du, dass ab Januar Banken Beweise für illegale CumCum-Geschäfte vernichten dürfen? 28,5 Milliarden Euro Steuergelder sind in Gefahr. Fordere den*die nächste Finanzminister*in auf, sofort zu h...
weact.campact.de
May 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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April 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Wusstest Du, dass Deepfakes & Bots unsere Demokratie bedrohen? ❌ KI-Fakes manipulieren Wahlen, ruinieren Existenzen & täuschen Verbraucher*innen. Ein striktes Verbot ist überfällig! Jetzt WeAct-Petition unterzeichnen ✍️ & teilen! weact.campact.de/petitions/de...
Deepfakes von echten Menschen verbieten!
Wusstest Du, dass Deepfakes & Bots unsere Demokratie bedrohen? ❌ KI-Fakes manipulieren Wahlen, ruinieren Existenzen & täuschen Verbraucher*innen. Ein striktes Verbot ist überfällig! Jetzt WeAc...
weact.campact.de
March 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
January 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
January 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Chess Zoo xkcd.com/3036
January 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Dazu auch dieser Text über die hanebüchenen Aussagen, die Zuckerberg im Podcast von Joe Rogan tätigte:
Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s face
Zuckerberg even offers Republicans another target: Apple.
www.theverge.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Andererseits: Es handelt sich hier um eine politische Sichtweise, die gleichzeitig wohl auch gut mit den ökonomischen Interessen des Milliardärs vereinbar ist - zB ist es für große Plattformen auch billiger, weniger auf Moderation & Faktenchecks zu setzen

Hier der Text, aus dem das Zitat stammt:
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era
After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are jus...
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Eines hatte ich nicht kommen gesehen: Dass Mark Zuckerberg anscheinend auch seine Sichtweise verändert hat

Also dass er sich nicht nur Donald Trump, weil es politisch opportun ist - sondern dass dies anscheinend mittlerweile auch seine Sichtweise widerspiegelt

Das berichtet die @nytimes.com:
January 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Reminder Meta has infiltrated ALL major open source and has members on their boards and donate big money. In addition to deleting your account, remember to write your open source foundations and tell them to cut ties with meta.

www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members
Members of the Linux Foundation
Linux Foundation members help support the development of shared technology resources while accelerating their own innovation through open source.
www.linuxfoundation.org
January 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Telling your employer to give you paid leave because they call you mentally ill is such baller shit lmao
New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leave of absences from work

www.404media.co/its-total-ch...
‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes
Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.
www.404media.co
January 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Das ist meines Erachtens der tragische Kern des Ganzen: Selbst wenn Weidel streckenweise nervös wirkte, das Gespräch insgesamt keine wirklich geschickte Inszenierung hatte, fasst das die Situation gut zusammen
January 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Just a quick reminder that – during the pandemic – Austrians believed that #FactChecking was one of the most pressing roles for #Journalism to fulfil. #ACPP

Find the blog in German also here:
viecer.univie.ac.at/corona-blog/...
Blog 40 - Audience Expectations of Coronavirus Reporting: From Watchdog to Lapdog?
Blog 40 - Audience Expectations of Coronavirus Reporting: From Watchdog to Lapdog?
viecer.univie.ac.at
January 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject. 

This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
🔭 

📷 ESO/P. Horálek
World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world [1]. The industrial megaproject is planned to be located just 5 to 11 kilometres from telescopes at Paranal, which would cause irreparable damage to astronomical observations, in particular due to light pollution emitted throughout the project’s operational life. Relocating the complex would save one of Earth's last truly pristine dark skies.
www.eso.org
January 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Das erscheint mir wichtig:

Welche Posts Facebook & Instagram seit neuestem erlauben, also wie Mark Zuckerberg die Regeln gerade änderte

Ein 🧵:

- Erlaubt sind nun "Unterstellungen von psychischer Erkrankung oder Anomalien, wenn sie auf geschlechtlicher oder sexueller Orientierung basieren (...)"
January 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Some more impressions from home
January 9, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Ein paar Impressionen von meinem Zuhause.
January 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM