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Hirncabrio🦋 @hirncabrio.bsky.social · 9h

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Owe Jessen @owejessen.de · 7h

Passend dazu

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 21h

Though the currency effects might be diminishing as the dollar slides, perhaps future economic historians will view the last decade as an era during which overdependence on the tech sector led the US economy to be consumed by Dutch Disease

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21h

"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
-- Me

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21h

Follow ups and not tolerating lies and bullshit.

Imagine if corporate media did this for 10 years.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Ulla-Anna @ullaann.bsky.social · 23h

Wie gesagt, die CDU nutzt die 4 Jahre Regierungszeit um im Windschatten blödsinniger Diskussionen um Wurst & Co das Sondervermögen möglichst geräuschlos in den Taschen von family & friends verschwinden zu lassen.

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Owe Jessen @owejessen.de · 21h

Das dritte wusste ich dann
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Errate das gesuchte Jahr mit Hilfe von 4 historischen Ereignissen. Ein von Wordle und Geschichte inspiriertes Spiel.

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3LLY @3lly.info · 21h

There is also his speech in 1875 Des Moines, Iowa.

"... that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other."

www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...

Remarks at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Army of the Tennessee in Des Moines, Iowa | The American Presidency Project

www.presidency.ucsb.edu

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Kevin Baum @kevinbaum013.bsky.social · 22h

Putting the grift and corruption aside, how do you underwrite a D&O policy for a 19 year old with no experience being on the board of a multi-billion dollar company?

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Mario Sixtus @sixtus.net · 1d

Warum zum Fick sollen ausgerechnet Personalausweise "kostendeckend" ausgestellt werden? Warun dann nicht auch Gullideckel, Straßenlaternen, Papierkörbe? Warum arbeitet der Bundestag nicht kostendeckend? Warum zahlen Abgeordnete keine Miete für ihre Büros?
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Personalausweise sollen teurer werden

Die Bundesregierung plant laut einem Medienbericht, die Gebühr für die Ausstellung von Personalausweisen zu erhöhen. Eine Bevölkerungsgruppe soll jedoch Ausnahmen genießen dürfen.

www.spiegel.de

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21h

"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
-- Me

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 21h

Selfie line for the Unipipier, plus other shots from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic

"‘You run away a lot,’ said one of the voices. ‘That is good. You are a survivor.’

‘Survivor? I’ve nearly been killed dozens of times!’

‘Exactly.’"

Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 1d

Told you so: Es interessieren sich verdammt viele für Klimaschutz #Hamburg

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Owe Jessen @owejessen.de · 21h

Der ist vielleicht etwas nieschig, aber trotzdem sehr gut.

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Piet Hansen @piethansen.bsky.social · 22h

Die auf ihre Tradition stolze SPD hat heute die Gewinnerin des diesjährigen Gustav-Noske-Parteipreises bekanntgegeben.

Teresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social · 23h

Dass ein Satz mit solch autoritärem Sound von der SPD fällt ist das eine. Dass ein Social-Media-Team sich dann hinsetzt und denkt: »Geil, den posten wir«, da fällt mir nix mehr zu ein.

Zitat-Kachel mit der SPD-Vorsitzenden Bärber Baes zum Bürgergeld: „Wer mitmacht, hat überhaupt nichts zu befürchten.“

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Alexander Diehl @alexanderdiehl.bsky.social · 1d

Mal kurz zu etwas nicht gleich komplett Deprimierendem

taz.de/!6115492/ via @tazgezwitscher.bsky.social

Museumsdorf zeigt „Bravo“-Starschnitte: Den Anfang machten die Füße von Brigitte Bardot

Popstars, zerschnitten zum Sammeln und Aufhängen: ein cleveres Instrument zur Lesenden-Bindung, klar. Aber der „Bravo“-Starschnitt war mehr als das.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 23h

What a different country Germany would be if #Hamburg were its capital.

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Steven Everts @sbeverts.bsky.social · 1d

Boom.

Major move by Dutch govt in ongoing chip war ⬇️

Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 1d

A quiet bombshell in Europe’s tech world

The Dutch government seems to have effectively frozen operations of Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, citing national security, according to corporate filing today - via @zichenwanghere

Dutch govt accused of freezing operations of Chinese semiconductor giant's chipmaker Nexperia

Wingtech, the Shanghai-listed parent, denounces what it essentially calls a boardroom coup involving the Dutch government and local executives

open.substack.com

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Melanie Gywer @melaniegywer.bsky.social · 22h

Eine Regierung, die sein Volk unter Generalverdacht stellt, hat keinen Mangel an Vertrauen:
Eine Regierung, die das Volk unter Generalverdacht stellt, entmenschlicht uns, unterstellt uns Lügen und zwingt uns, das Gegenteil zu beweisen.
Und im Gengenzug ist da Jens Spahn und seine Maskensch**sse.

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Legal Alien in NYC, so far @legal-alien-nyc.bsky.social · 22h

Soon in a Theater near you

„Black Hawk Down in Southside Chicago“

By Ridley Scott

Starring
The Portland Frog

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 1d

Whenever the headline says a "Nobel-Prize winning economist" is weighing in on a topic that you don’t remember any economist winning the Nobel Prize for or really any economist who has won one ever doing serious research on that topic at all it’s always *always* Daron Acemoglu

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 23h

I don't think people have updated enough on the capability gain in LLMs, which (despite being bad at math a year ago) now dominate hard STEM contests: gold medals in the International Math Olympiad, the International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics, International Informatics Olympiad...

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