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Martin Spindler
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
January 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
mjays.bsky.social
maybe it’s the German in me, but I can’t for the life of me understand how units like that ever end up in customers’ hands.
niedermeyer.online e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · Nov 7
Tesla's head of design was showing off this matte black Cybertruck at the Malibu Cars And Coffee over the weekend, which suggest he's... proud of it?

@dsgolson.bsky.social has all the pics and snark here: insideevs.com/news/694929/...
Just a comically bad fit on the rear taillights of the Cybertruck, so extreme is the mismatch that it almost looks like it was done on purpose, except that it obviously wasn't. Tolerances are measured in centimeters here, not millimeters (let alone microns). Note also the thin, isolated side panel on the right, looking like it wants to cut you. Vehicles aren't supposed to look like that! Just the most amateurish mishmash of panels coming together at the base of the windshield, looking like it was designed by MC Escher and manufactured by a drunk whose only goal in life is tormenting people with OCD. The pivot point of the comically oversized single windshield wiper looms over a series of bad decisions and worse implementations that almost defy description. Nothing fits, nothing matches, nothing makes sense. If metal could scream for the cleansing fire, you wouldn't be able to hear anything else within a mile of this thing. Just a bad hood seam, which is almost refreshing in that at least it's a relatively even bad seam. It's just way wider than it should be, which in fairness is actually one of Tesla's signature brand looks. It's actually pretty rare to see a Tesla whose hood doesn't have some kind of fitment issues, but here it's more obvious because of those uncompromisingly straight lines. At least the matte wrap helps with most of the oilcanning and other surfacing issues, at least until it gets covered in bird shit and other unwashable detritus, at which point it will go back to looking as crap as every other Cybertruck. A wheel arch leans out from the vast expanse of of the Cybertruck's entirely flat bed flank panels, creating a cave at one corner, whose dark expanse lures the eye in. From here it looks like the widest entrance point could fit a child's fingers, just to pick a random example, although the unevenness of the seam suggests that said child's fingers would then quickly become stuck. More to the point, it just looks cheap and shitty for a Fisher Price toy, let alone a six figure truck.
November 7, 2023 at 8:26 PM
mjays.bsky.social
How exactly, Adobe, am I supposed to follow this license restriction? In effect this will mean: do not post anything coming out of Adobe’s Gen AI/Firefly pipeline onto the internet, because most ToS explicitly specify data will be used to train models.
October 26, 2023 at 8:54 AM
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fabschmidt.bsky.social
With Germany‘s new industrial strategy Habeck is doing at least three things right:

1. Establishing an honest analysis of the status quo
2. Outlining what a new German approach towards a European industrial strategy could look like
3. Marking the fiscal line of conflict with Lindner

Great thread:
nilsredeker.bsky.social Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · Oct 24
But even so, EU partners should note that parts of the DE government want to create space for investments and industrial policy in its own fiscal framework. Especially, since this remains a key point in the ongoing negotiations on fiscal rules at the EU level in the coming weeks.
October 24, 2023 at 8:58 PM
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lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social
I know this is a crazy idea, but how about we do some contingency planning in Europe right now?

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Plots to Pull Out of NATO — If He Doesn’t Get His Way
Donald Trump is discussing how the U.S. might pull out of NATO or put it on "standby" should he be reelected and it not meet his demands, per sources.
www.rollingstone.com
October 24, 2023 at 8:07 AM
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tiagodf.bsky.social
China announces the removal of defense minister missing for almost 2 months with little explanation
China announces the removal of defense minister missing for almost 2 months with little explanation
Chinese state media are reporting that the country has replaced Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu. He has been out of public view for almost two months with little explanation.
apnews.com
October 24, 2023 at 12:11 PM
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nukestrat.bsky.social
Three days left of NATO nuclear exercise Steadfast Noon. More busy operations today over Tyrrhenian Sea with Belgian F-16s operating out of Ghedi, tankers, AWACS. Other planes not tracking. Apparently a B-52 is somewhere in the region as well.
October 24, 2023 at 12:06 PM
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geofutures.bsky.social
105 years later, Polish voting still follows the 1918 imperial borders -- www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
Imperial borders still shape politics in Poland
Support for political parties today closely tracks old frontiers
www.economist.com
October 24, 2023 at 7:08 PM
mjays.bsky.social
Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni, 22.10.2023
October 23, 2023 at 9:21 AM
mjays.bsky.social
Berlin, right now.
October 22, 2023 at 1:57 PM
mjays.bsky.social
That they‘re serving Steak and Lobster on the Gerald Ford is something that

1) I didn‘t know I‘d be able to know in almost real time
2) Given the implications of serving that dish does not bode well for the development of the middle east crisis.
October 21, 2023 at 10:06 PM
mjays.bsky.social
I went down to the protest in Berlin Neukölln last night. It’s a mixed picture, but what I found was not a ”show of solidarity“ but a lifestyle protest.
October 19, 2023 at 5:49 AM
Reposted by Martin Spindler
constelz.bsky.social
Never a dull moment in the District
(Remarkable thread 🧵 by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social on the, um, events of the week 👇)
October 15, 2023 at 1:22 AM
mjays.bsky.social
About a week too late.
diplo.de Auswärtiges Amt @diplo.de · Oct 15
Achtung: der Krisenstab der Bundesregierung hat eine Reisewarnung für Israel, die Palästinensischen Gebiete und Libanon beschlossen. Bitte beachten Sie die Reise- und Sicherheitshinweise unter
www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/ReiseUndS... . 1/3
Auswärtiges Amt
Reise- und Sicherheitshinweise für Ihr Reiseland
www.auswaertiges-amt.de
October 15, 2023 at 8:06 AM
mjays.bsky.social
“Our holiday from history is over.”

“We can no longer enjoy the massive “peace dividend” we reaped in 1991.”

wisdomofcrowds.live/p/complacenc...
Complacency and the Coming Storm
Bad times are ahead. And we're not ready.
wisdomofcrowds.live
October 12, 2023 at 6:55 AM
mjays.bsky.social
I’m thinking of this scene, often, over the last days.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZE4...
What is the virtue of a proportional response?
www.youtube.com
October 9, 2023 at 1:56 PM
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albaerbock.bsky.social
Hamas eskaliert die Gewalt. Ich verurteile die terroristischen Angriffe aus Gaza gegen #Israel aufs Schärfste. Gewalt & Raketen gegen Unschuldige müssen sofort aufhören. Israel hat unsere volle Solidarität & das völkerrechtlich verbriefte Recht, sich gegen Terror zu verteidigen.
October 7, 2023 at 7:59 AM