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Ruben D.
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Trainee Lawyer & PhD Student @University of Cologne
main: private law & legal theory | sides: EU law & multilingualism, rhetorics & argumentation theory.

In the alternative, an AI (Mistral Large 24.11).
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ec.europa.eu
As shown in the latest Eurobarometer results, European citizens want the EU to continue leading with ambition to mitigate climate change.

We are rising to the challenge, working with EU countries to build a greener, more resilient Europe for all.
Graphic showing two hands holding a globe with the text '92% of EU citizens are taking individual climate action.' Source: Eurobarometer, June 2025. European Commission logo in the corner. Graphic of a hand holding a red thermometer with the text '85% believe climate change is a serious problem.' Source: Eurobarometer, June 2025. European Commission logo in the corner. Graphic of a hand holding a triangular flood warning sign with a house and water waves, accompanied by the text '2 in 5 feel personally at risk from environmental and climate threats.' Source: Eurobarometer, June 2025. European Commission logo in the corner. Infographic showing two hands reaching upward toward a large pink heart with a medical cross inside it. The text above reads: "85% see climate action as a priority to improve health and quality of life." At the bottom left, it says "Source: Eurobarometer, June 2025." The European Commission logo appears in the bottom right.
June 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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honkhase.bsky.social
184 Millionen Logins von Google, Facebook & Co. offen im Netz

"Wer Facebook, Google oder ein E-Mail-Programm nutzt, sollte über einen Passwort-Wechsel nachdenken. Denn Abermillionen Zugangsdaten lagen bis vor Kurzem ungesichert im Netz. Gefunden hat sie..."
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184 Millionen Logins von Google, Facebook & Co. offen im Netz
Wer Facebook, Google oder ein E-Mail-Programm nutzt, sollte über einen Passwort-Wechsel nachdenken. Denn Abermillionen Zugangsdaten lagen bis vor Kurzem ungesichert im Netz. Gefunden hat sie nun ein S...
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June 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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masz.bsky.social
Mit großer Trauer nehme ich Abschied von Margot Friedländer. Mit Wärme, Empathie und großer Kraft erinnerte sie unermüdlich an die dunkelste Zeit unserer Geschichte. Ihr Vermächtnis bleibt: „Seid und bleibt Menschen.“ Diese Botschaft weiterzutragen, ist unsere Aufgabe. www.spiegel.de/panorama/mar...
Holocaust-Überlebende Margot Friedländer ist tot
Margot Friedländer ist tot. Wie ihre Stiftung mitteilte, starb die Holocaust-Überlebende am Freitag im Alter von 103 Jahren in ihrer Heimatstadt Berlin.
www.spiegel.de
May 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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astrokatie.com
Bleak.

nymag.com/intelligence...
Text from article: It’ll be years before we can fully account for what all of this is doing to students’ brains. Some early research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their capacity for memory, problem-solving, and creativity could suffer. Multiple studies published within the past year have linked AI usage with a deterioration in critical-thinking skills; one found the effect to be more pronounced in younger participants. In February, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University published a study that found a person’s confidence in generative AI correlates with reduced critical-thinking effort. The net effect seems, if not quite Wall-E, at least a dramatic reorganization of a person’s efforts and abilities, away from high-effort inquiry and fact-gathering and toward integration and verification. This is all especially unnerving if you add in the reality that AI is imperfect — it might rely on something that is factually inaccurate or just make something up entirely — with the ruinous effect social media has had on Gen Z’s ability to tell fact from fiction. The problem may be much larger than generative AI. The so-called Flynn effect refers to the consistent rise in IQ scores from generation to generation going back to at least the 1930s. That rise started to slow, and in some cases reverse, around 2006. “The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence,” Robert Sternberg, a psychology professor at Cornell University, told The Guardian, “but that it already has.” (Katie's added note: the sentences about reorganization of abilities and telling fact from fiction have been highlighted.)
May 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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twlldun.bsky.social
Of course, I would argue there’d be less of this if we hadn’t had a decades long cultural drive to think of education primarily as a commodity for future life advancement, rather than viewing learning as a goal in itself.
May 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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stuartdj.bsky.social
And that is why I have never had a TikTok account.
profjacob.bsky.social Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · May 2
🚨🚨MAJOR #techlaw story: the Irish Data Protection Commission has ordered #Tiktok to pay €530 million in penalties because it breached EU data protection laws by sending personal data of Europeans to China illegally and by not being transparent enough with users. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/tikt...
TikTok hit with €530M fine after illegally sending users’ data to China
Video-sharing app had for years claimed it did not store European personal data on servers in China.
www.politico.eu
May 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
EU Big Tech law

EU Commission fines Apple €500 million and Meta €200 million for breach of Digital Markets Act
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission finds Apple and Meta in breach of the Digital Markets Act
Today, the European Commission found that Apple breached its anti-steering obligation under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and that Meta breached the DMA obligation to give consumers the choice of a s...
ec.europa.eu
April 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
Peter Stern was born in Nuremberg in 1936, a German Jew. His father died in the Holocaust; he and his brother somehow survived Bergen-Belsen. Today he's protesting what's happening in America. "I came to say that something as nasty as that can happen again, and it can, without me saying something."
April 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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datasociety.bsky.social
Maybe OpenAI wants to create its own social network as a source of fresh and free data. @jwherrman.bsky.social diagnoses it as a case of Silicon Valley “everythingism”: if you can make one successful or popular tech product, why not just do it all? nymag.com/intelligence...
What Does OpenAI Want With a Social Network?
OpenAI is working on its own social network. Why?
nymag.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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toddntucker.com
Climate philanthropy taking a nosedive.
www.ft.com/content/498c...
US climate philanthropies fear Trump blow from loss of tax-free status
Chilling effect on charitable organisations comes as need for funding rises amid Trump cuts
www.ft.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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liberalcurrents.com
“For these men, they are trying to erase uncertainty for themselves and promise the perfection of solipsism to their followers: a world where no one will tell them no, make them feel bad, or make jokes about them” www.liberalcurrents.com/elon-musks-a...
Elon Musk's Artificial God
In the vision of Musk and other lords of Silicon Valley, the purpose of AI technology is to insulate them, and only them, from any hint that they might live in a society.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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euractiv.com
Bridge demolition on Berlin’s A100 highway tests Germany’s engineering skill
Bridge demolition on Berlin’s A100 highway tests Germany’s engineering skill
An online livestream of the demolition site continues to attract nearly 2,000 viewers.
dlvr.it
April 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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financialtimes.com
Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...
Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage
April 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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reuters.com
BREAKING: Trump said he will put a 90-day pause on all tariffs and lower reciprocal tariffs to 10% after several days of market selling that threatened to send the US into a recession. The stock market has sharply rebounded on the news, with major averages up more than 6% reut.rs/3Ehv63p
Trump Tariffs Live: Trump declares partial 90-day pause on some tariffs, except China
Wall Street's main indexes turned sharply higher on Wednesday after Trump said he had authorized a 90-day pause on "reciprocal" and 10% tariffs, effective immediately.
reut.rs
April 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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helenczerski.bsky.social
The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
March 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
Shout-out Ted Chiang.

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Using ChatGPT to complete assignments is like bringing a forklift into the weight room; you will never improve your cognitive fitness that way. Ted Chiang, Why AI isn't going to make art. (2024)
April 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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spiegel.de
Bauern blicken besorgt auf ihre Felder und hoffen auf Regen. Der Wetterdienst warnt vor der Waldbrandgefahr. Wer sich über den trockenen Frühling freut? Der Feldhase!
Frühling 2025 in Deutschland extrem trocken: Welche Folgen das hat
Bauern blicken besorgt auf ihre Felder und hoffen auf Regen. Der Wetterdienst warnt vor der Waldbrandgefahr. Wer sich über den trockenen Frühling freut? Der Feldhase!
www.spiegel.de
April 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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euractiv.com
Commission opens public consultation on ‘#EuropeanDemocracyShield’
Commission opens public consultation on ‘#EuropeanDemocracyShield’
"Now is the moment  to step up our actions to better protect and promote democracy in the EU and to reinforce public trust," Commissioner #MichealMcGrath said of the #EuropeanDemocracyShield proposal.
dlvr.it
March 31, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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euwatch.live
France: Le Pen found guilty in embezzlement trial
France: Le Pen found guilty in embezzlement trial – DW – 03/31/2025
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been convicted of National misappropriating European Parliament funds through her National Rally party. The impact on her presidential run remains unclear.
www.dw.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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oliverbweber.bsky.social
Es gehört wohl zum heutigen akademischen Kapitalismus, dass der Abschluss eines wertvollen Riesenprojekts wie dieses weitgehend unbeachtet bleibt. Sieben Bände Sozialgeschichte der Arbeit von den Anfängen des Homo Sapiens bis in die Gegenwart. https://igza.org/mm2023/
Das Institut für die Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit
Die Erforschung der Geschichte und die Gestaltung der Zukunft der Arbeit sind das Anliegen unseres Instituts. Es will in diesem Transformationsprozess Impulse für die Gestaltung guter Arbeit in der...
igza.org
March 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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amreibahr.bsky.social
Laut MPG sind fast 60% der für sie arbeitenden Forscher_innen aus dem Ausland. @maxplanck.de Präsident Cramer brüstet sich im Interview mit @spiegel.de mit Internationalität der MPG & will Forschende aus USA anwerben. Die sollten dringend vorher diese Doku schauen! (2/2) #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan
(S+) Deutschland und Donald Trump: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft wirbt um US-Spitzenforscher
Ist Deutschland am Ende Nutznießer von Trumps Feldzug gegen die Wissenschaft? Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft meldet viel mehr Bewerbungen aus den USA als früher. Präsident Patrick Cramer will dort geziel...
www.spiegel.de
March 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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financialtimes.com
Fund managers have said that Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda has instead unleashed a Make Europe Great Again trade that is reordering global financial markets. www.ft.com/content/2e81...
A chart comparing the S&P 500 with the Cac 40 and Dax. Headline text reads: 'Trump rally fades, leaving Wall Street stocks trailing global peers'.
March 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
The researchers collected their first data in October 2023 and March 2024. Initially, they were struck by how inconsistently Google showed its warnings. A deep learning model they built to analyze the queries suggested that the warnings should have appeared between 29 and 58 times as often as they did in practice. For motivated conspiracy peddlers, they were easy to evade: just adding quotation marks or a single letter to a query was typically enough to make the banner disappear. The researchers were beginning to collect additional data last September when they discovered something unexpected: Google had stopped showing low-quality banners entirely, weeks before early voting began, without disclosing it.
February 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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de.whln.eu
BUNDESTAGSWAHL: Wahlverhalten von 18- bis 24-Jährigen, laut Infratest dimap/ARD

LINKE: 25% (+17)
AfD: 20% (+13)
Union: 13% (+3)
SPD: 12% (-3)
GRÜNE: 12% (-11)
FDP: 6% (-15)
BSW: 6% (NEU)
Volt: 2% (n.a.)
Tierschutzpartei: 1% (n.a.)

Änderungen zu 2021
#Bundestagswahl2025 #btw25
February 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
February 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM