Sabine Pahl | Lightnews

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”

TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”

ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 3d

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.

Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions

The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.

www.politico.eu

Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.bsky.social · 3d

Falls sich jemand für Merz entschuldigen will (er will ja nicht): weact.campact.de/petitions/br...

Brasilien: Entschuldigung für Friedrich Merz!

Friedrich Merz war nicht einmal 24 Stunden bei der COP. Über seinen Aufenthalt in der Stadt erzählte er: »Ich habe einige Journalisten, die mit mir in Brasilien waren, letzte Woche gefragt: Wer von e...

weact.campact.de

Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 4d

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness

The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

www.streetroots.org

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 4d

Researchers at work in the #HorizonEurope soszerpol2030.eu project meeting. As we're going into the final year of the project, we're working on integrating all the outputs and activities for #ZeroPollution in European Seas by 2030

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 5d

Researchers @univie.ac.at downloaded all #WhatsApp user data! Whoops 👀 (Report in German) 👇

www.heise.de/news/3-5-Mil...

3,5 Milliarden User: Gesamtes WhatsApp-Verzeichnis abgeschnorchelt

Wiener Forscher haben alle WhatsApp-Nummern abgerufen. Die 3,5 Milliarden Profile sind der größte Datenabfluss der Geschichte – und übler, als man meinen würde.

www.heise.de

Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 8d

New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

By the end of the spring semester, Gwen reached a breaking point with AI. “I felt like I didn’t deserve to be a Yale student,” she said. She thought that she was throwing away her education and the scholarship paying to support it.

She decided to quit using ChatGPT altogether. She didn’t ask AI to help her sentences flow or to strike the right tone. She didn’t even use it to brainstorm. “I think that’s a skill you need to have on your own. That’s the core of being original, anyway.”

Gwen recalled completing her final assignments without AI, sitting in the middle of a crowded library so that she felt watched. “I struggled. And they weren’t very good.”

It was only then, she said, that she started to understand just how much learning she had missed out on. ∎

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 9d

That's totally shocking, how did this happen?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

Fly-tippers dump ‘mountain’ of waste in Oxfordshire field

Area’s MP says it would cost more than local council’s annual budget to remove the 10-metre high pile of waste Fly-tippers have dumped a “mountain of illegal waste” in Oxfordshire so large that removing it could cost more than the local council’s annual budget, the area’s MP has said. Hundreds of tonnes of waste, stacked 10 metres high, appeared in a field between the River Cherwell and the A34 near Kidlington. One charity called the huge dump of rubbish “an environmental catastrophe unfolding in plain sight”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

Fly-tippers dump ‘mountain’ of waste in Oxfordshire field

Area’s MP says it would cost more than local council’s annual budget to remove the 10-metre high pile of waste Fly-tippers have dumped a “mountain of illegal waste” in Oxfordshire so large that removing it could cost more than the local council’s annual budget, the area’s MP has said. Hundreds of tonnes of waste, stacked 10 metres high, appeared in a field between the River Cherwell and the A34 near Kidlington. One charity called the huge dump of rubbish “an environmental catastrophe unfolding in plain sight”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Für sachliche Politik @sachlichepolitik.bsky.social · 9d

Mandatsträger und Funktionsinhaber, die sich nicht scheuen, die Würde des Menschen jeden Tag einmal in den Schmutz zu ziehen! [...] Die Weimarer Republik ist nicht zugrunde gegangen an der übermächtigen Stärke ihrer Gegner, sondern an der Schwäche, der Feigheit, der Müdigkeit ihrer Anhänger."

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„Ziehen jeden Tag die Würde in den Schmutz“: Pistorius wird bei Preisverleihung deutlich – zu AfD und Trump

Bei der Verleihung des Werner-Holzer-Preises richtet Boris Pistorius einen flammenden Appell an den Saal: Er rügt „Müdigkeit“ unter Demokraten.

www.fr.de

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 11d

🤔

Martin Thür @martinthuer.at · 11d

Das Wissenschaftsministerium will das (staatlich bezahlte) Gutachten nicht veröffentlichen, das begründen soll, warum Harald Mahrer den Professor-Titel bekam.

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Professor Harald Mahrer und das Rätsel um seine wissenschaftlichen Verdienste

Auf Antrag des Wissenschaftsministeriums wurde Mahrer heuer vom Bundespräsidenten der Berufstitel Professor verliehen. Die Gründe sind undurchsichtig

www.derstandard.at

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 11d

Good and pragmatic piece by @gelliottmorris.com on #SocialMedia - how it's changed, benefits and risks for you and society, and how you can get back control.

You should quit social media for good
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

You should quit social media for good

Platforms optimized for engagement warp our politics, erode attention, and harm our wellbeing. Here’s how I minimize time on the (anti‑)social web.

open.substack.com

Martin Thür @martinthuer.at · 11d

Das Wissenschaftsministerium will das (staatlich bezahlte) Gutachten nicht veröffentlichen, das begründen soll, warum Harald Mahrer den Professor-Titel bekam.

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Professor Harald Mahrer und das Rätsel um seine wissenschaftlichen Verdienste

Auf Antrag des Wissenschaftsministeriums wurde Mahrer heuer vom Bundespräsidenten der Berufstitel Professor verliehen. Die Gründe sind undurchsichtig

www.derstandard.at

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 12d

This sends chills down my spine

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d

BBC prepared to apologise to Trump to resolve billion-dollar legal threat

The US president has threatened the BBC with a lawsuit over the editing of a Trump speech in an edition of Panorama The BBC is prepared to formally apologise to Donald Trump as part of its efforts to resolve his billion-dollar legal threat over its editing of one of his speeches, the Guardian understands. However, figures at the corporation are also minded to be robust in defending its journalism in the face of allegations from Trump that it made “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” about him. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d

BBC prepared to apologise to Trump to resolve billion-dollar legal threat

The US president has threatened the BBC with a lawsuit over the editing of a Trump speech in an edition of Panorama The BBC is prepared to formally apologise to Donald Trump as part of its efforts to resolve his billion-dollar legal threat over its editing of one of his speeches, the Guardian understands. However, figures at the corporation are also minded to be robust in defending its journalism in the face of allegations from Trump that it made “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” about him. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13d

France is at war with Shein. We should copy its tactics to defeat fast fashion | Nicole Lipman

The dirt-cheap clothing company has opened its first permanent store in Paris – and politicians and workers have united against it, says writer Nicole Lipman

www.theguardian.com

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 15d

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Environmental catastrophe’ fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands

MP asks for explanation from Southern Water amid concerns the spill could have dire impact on rare sea life

www.theguardian.com

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 15d

😞

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 15d

A variation on the story from the other day about how many teens think factual reporting is routinely made up:

Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 20d

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 15d

A variation on the story from the other day about how many teens think factual reporting is routinely made up:

Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 20d

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social):

As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead."

But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that"

Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15d

Sigh. I apologize on our behalf.

Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff

Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

www.theguardian.com

Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 15d

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 16d

Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 16d

Brazil is planning to create a mechanism to use oil revenues to finance the nation’s energy transition, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said, as the country juggles its green ambitions against its expanding production of fossil fuels

Brazil to Use Oil Profits to Fund Energy Transition, Lula Says

Brazil is planning to create a mechanism to use oil revenues to finance the nation’s energy transition, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said, as the country juggles its green ambitions against its expanding production of fossil fuels.

bloom.bg

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 17d

♥️🇪🇺
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’

Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

www.theguardian.com

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 17d

THIS REPORT 👇

UK academic freedom vs. China

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News

Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

www.bbc.co.uk

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17d

Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.

Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds

The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.

nyti.ms

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 18d

Comparing the 2021 and 2024 Virginia Gubernatorial Election results:

2021
Youngkin (R) 1,663,158 votes 50.58%
McAuliffe (D) 1,599,470 votes 48.64%

2024
Spanberger (D) 1,967,646 votes 57.5%
Earle-Sears (R) 1,453,124 votes 42.3%

Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 18d

It doesn’t happen as much over here, but discourse around “do we need to only focus on CO2 or should we instead focus on methane” is wrong.

Yes, the gases behave differently in the atmosphere. But CO2 & CH4 emissions are *both* still rising. And CO2 & CH4 emissions *both* need to quickly fall.

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 19d

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.

This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.

www.unep.org/resources/em...

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A figure showing all ghg emissions rising

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 19d

😱

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 19d

Have your relatives died? Do you miss them? Does that make you sad?
Have you considered paying a company to animate a photo of them to give it four or five seconds of movement?
That’ll surely help.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19d

Abigail Spanberger made history on Tuesday as the first woman to be elected governor of Virginia, winning the office by the largest margin of any Democratic candidate in the state in decades. Her campaign focused on jobs and the cost of living, while emphasizing her support for abortion rights.

Abigail Spanberger Flips Virginia, Becomes State’s First Female Governor

In her campaign, Abigail Spanberger focused on jobs and the cost of living and emphasized her support for abortion rights.

nyti.ms

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