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Jurgen Vans
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✏ Herrmann (Switzerland)
January 26, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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😀
January 26, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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jensfoell.de
A joke for the history buffs:

Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
A much-liked post by Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com with the titles “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student” and the caption “They don’t want to get blamed again“
January 18, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
Miller asserts that Denmark can’t defend Greenland.

Yeah, genius, that’s why they’re a member of an alliance pledged to defend each other. One we founded and led, which has worked to deter aggression for over 75 years.
January 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
juvanste.bsky.social
What?
ramiismail.com Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Jul 14
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI
July 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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ember-energy.org
China added more solar generation than the rest of the world COMBINED in 2024 ☀️

China’s 250 TWh of additional solar generation was four times more than the world’s second largest increase in the US

ember-energy.org/lat...

#GER2025
April 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
Morning, London.

#TeslaTakedown.
March 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Hilarious!
Mike Myers Joins Canada's New Prime Minister For Epic Jab At Trump In Viral Video
Brilliant.
www.comicsands.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
People are taking things into their own hands
March 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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poliakova.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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goorden.be
It's going to be an interesting decade and a half.

Yeah yeah, everyone is hot for war and desinformation. But math just keeps on mathin'.
March 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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nickkodama.bsky.social
"if the united states was in trouble and we called them...do you think they would come and protect us?"

THEY DID. AFTER 9/11. THE ONLY TIME ARTICLE 5 WAS INVOKED.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 6
REPORTER: Are you gonna make it US policy that the US wouldn't defend NATO countries that don't pay their fair share?

TRUMP: Well, I think it's common sense. If they don't pay I'm not gonna defend them. No, I'm not gonna defend them.
March 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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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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just-jack-1.bsky.social
"I'm burning America down and making it illegal for you to complain about it."
March 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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notesfrompoland.bsky.social
Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques
Wałęsa condemns Trump treatment of Zelensky, likening it to communist interrogation
notesfrompoland.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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dougklain.bsky.social
Statement from @razomforukraine.org on Trump ending military aid to Ukraine.

"President Trump is hanging Ukrainians out to dry and giving Russia the green light to keep marching west."

This will not get us closer to peace. It will get Putin closer to victory.
March 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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fritzliess.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Putin’s lifelong dream was to somehow separate the US from NATO. But how to break up a strong alliance that stood for 80 years and continued to expand? There really was only one way to do it, he figured it out a decade ago, and played the long game. Now his guy will do it.
February 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!
February 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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caseofdees.bsky.social
Laat deze video een wakeup-call zijn voor alle fatsoenlijke politieke partijen. Haat jegens 'woke' of 'diversiteit en inclusie' faciliteert extreemrechts. Hoe kun je nou tegen mensen zijn die zich bekommeren om ándere mensen, wie ze ook zijn, hoe ze er ook uitzien, wat ze dragen, waar ze van houden?
February 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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jksteinberger.bsky.social
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation First, clarity on distinguishing AIs: Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use). Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work Generative: ChatGPT & Co. You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content. Why is this delegation of work problematic? 3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement. (Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.) 1) AI and ethics Mass theft of all and everything «learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …): «correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 2) AI and (un)sustainability Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs. Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 3) AI and intellectual engagement First, what learning is (or should be) about: The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge, But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
February 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again).

"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.

#BTW25 #GermanElection
February 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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wildsprite.substack.com
If your voice held no power, They wouldnt try to silence you
February 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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danyneudt.bsky.social
Net voor zijn executie op 27 okt 1944 schreef Norbert Vanbeveren (19), Brugse verzetsheld, een hartverscheurende afscheidsbrief die zijn ouders nooit bereikte. 80 jaar later delen we zijn laatste woorden met achternicht Christel Van Iseghem. Herbeluister Voorproevers (Radio1). www.laatstewoorden.be
February 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
This is how it’s done.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Feb 21
Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws

Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.

Gov Mills: See you in court
February 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM