Joschka Meier
@josserme.bsky.social
Historian at the University of Bern: Human-animal relations, environmental adaptation & communal resource management of alpine communities in the Middle Ages.
Knowledge commons: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
Knowledge commons: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
One of the first visitors at my bird feeder this winter: A very fancy woodpecker
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
One of the first visitors at my bird feeder this winter: A very fancy woodpecker
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
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"Schaut man rein auf die Korrektheit der Antworten, beinhaltet ChatGPT zu 51,5 Prozent, Copilot zu 45,4 Prozent, Gemini zu 50 Prozent und Perplexity zu 45,7 Prozent wesentliche Fehler oder Ungenauigkeiten."
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/d...
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/d...
Warum Künstliche Intelligenz nicht als Suchmaschine taugt
Die Hälfte der Deutschen verwendet mittlerweile ChatGPT & Co. als Google-Ersatz. Gleichzeitig arbeiten auch die klassischen Suchmaschinen immer mehr mit KI. Warum das ein Problem ist. Von Till Bücker.
www.tagesschau.de
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"Schaut man rein auf die Korrektheit der Antworten, beinhaltet ChatGPT zu 51,5 Prozent, Copilot zu 45,4 Prozent, Gemini zu 50 Prozent und Perplexity zu 45,7 Prozent wesentliche Fehler oder Ungenauigkeiten."
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www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/d...
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Superb breakdown of the social devastation from the unscientific misrepresentation of actual C19 transmission route. Falls short of calling out the material class interests directly driving this deadly equivocation but it's legible in the sheer irrationality.
How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate
Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.
healthydebate.ca
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Superb breakdown of the social devastation from the unscientific misrepresentation of actual C19 transmission route. Falls short of calling out the material class interests directly driving this deadly equivocation but it's legible in the sheer irrationality.
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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"Mice seem to assist pregnant females when they get into difficulty giving birth, with experienced mothers being the most helpful. This is thought to be the first official sighting of such assistance in non-primates, and so expands our knowledge of caregiving behaviours across the animal kingdom."
Mouse 'midwives' help their pregnant companions give birth
Scientists have observed mice helping each other when they encounter difficulties during birth, prompting a rethink of caregiving among rodents and other animals
www.newscientist.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Mice seem to assist pregnant females when they get into difficulty giving birth, with experienced mothers being the most helpful. This is thought to be the first official sighting of such assistance in non-primates, and so expands our knowledge of caregiving behaviours across the animal kingdom."
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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Terrifying, maddening and utterly heart-breaking. Truly incredible journalism to expose and document this.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Terrifying, maddening and utterly heart-breaking. Truly incredible journalism to expose and document this.
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The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
“People who are performing these studies are extraordinarily ignorant, and their ignorance is dangerous,” said @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social. She and other experts agree these trials are a waste of $$ and will not advance our biological understanding of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...
Less than 20% of Long COVID trials involving exercise even mention post-exertional malaise - The Sick Times
An analysis by The Sick Times find that less than 15% of Long COVID clinical trials testing the benefits of exercise or cardiopulmonary rehabilitation measured post-exertional malaise, according to th...
thesicktimes.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
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Wer eigene Angehörige pflegt, kann dafür seit ein paar Jahren bezahlt werden. Dieses an sich sinnvolle System droht aber von Akteuren wie der St. Galler Firma Pflegewegweiser ad absurdum geführt zu werden.
Von @wozbeck.bsky.social und Marlene Kalt
Von @wozbeck.bsky.social und Marlene Kalt
Angehörigenpflege: Wer den Markt kontrolliert, gewinnt
Die Kritik am System der Angehörigenpflege nimmt zu. Im Fokus: Firmen wie Pflegewegweiser aus St. Gallen. Doch die Missbrauchsdebatte verdeckt, worum es wirklich geht.
www.woz.ch
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Wer eigene Angehörige pflegt, kann dafür seit ein paar Jahren bezahlt werden. Dieses an sich sinnvolle System droht aber von Akteuren wie der St. Galler Firma Pflegewegweiser ad absurdum geführt zu werden.
Von @wozbeck.bsky.social und Marlene Kalt
Von @wozbeck.bsky.social und Marlene Kalt
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UK Covid Inquiry concludes: 23,000 deaths could've been prevented if the March 2020 lockdown had been imposed just a week earlier.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
UK Covid Inquiry concludes: 23,000 deaths could've been prevented if the March 2020 lockdown had been imposed just a week earlier.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
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The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
To Survive the Next Pandemic, Walk More, the NIH Says
The agency is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Appell an den Bundesrat gegen den Unterwerfungsdeal mit Trump. Unterschreiben.
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Jetzt Appell unterzeichnen – es bleiben uns 48 Stunden
Wir haben weniger als 48 Stunden Zeit. Immer deutlicher wird, dass SVP-Bundesrat Parmelin beim Trump-Deal entscheidende Punkte verschweigt. Am Mittwoch tagt der Bundesrat erneut. Bis dahin müssen wir ...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Appell an den Bundesrat gegen den Unterwerfungsdeal mit Trump. Unterschreiben.
www.sp-ps.ch/kampagne/tru...
www.sp-ps.ch/kampagne/tru...
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why can they not just fix it
![[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point].
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CUSTOMER:
Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered
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McDONALDS EMPLOYEE:
Number 187?
CUSTOMER:
Yes
3
CUSTOMER:
Maybe I pressed the wrong thing?
I just ordered one strawberry milkshake.
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EMPLOYEE:
Oh - yeah sorry
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EMPLOYEE:
The milkshake machine’s not working.
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EMPLOYEE:
The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage.
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CUSTOMER:
Is that a new flavour?
EMPLOYEE:
Yeah
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[We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter]
EMPLOYEE:
If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage.
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[Customer looks inside the cup]
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[Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup]
CUSTOMER:
So there is
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CUSTOMER:
Is that something people want, then?
EMPLOYEE:
No! No, not at all.
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EMPLOYEE:
It just keeps happening when we press banana.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
why can they not just fix it
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I’ve now aged out of this but navigating the pestering attention of older men in my field—which varied from manipulative flattery when they were trying to sleep with you to contemptuous retaliation when they realized they couldn’t—was an exhausting and demoralizing tax of my early professional life.
Keep coming back to Summers’ annoyance that this female mentee he’s trying to sleep with “takes her presentation very seriously.” To men like this—to a lot of men—women’s intellectual or professional ambition is an irritating presumption that they condescend to tolerate.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I’ve now aged out of this but navigating the pestering attention of older men in my field—which varied from manipulative flattery when they were trying to sleep with you to contemptuous retaliation when they realized they couldn’t—was an exhausting and demoralizing tax of my early professional life.
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The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
Got my copy of 'Wasser als Ressource' - well worth a read for lots of interesting environmental history (in German) centered around water & Tyrol!
My chapter about the Alps, environmental adaptation & the rural population is OA: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern
My chapter about the Alps, environmental adaptation & the rural population is OA: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Got my copy of 'Wasser als Ressource' - well worth a read for lots of interesting environmental history (in German) centered around water & Tyrol!
My chapter about the Alps, environmental adaptation & the rural population is OA: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern
My chapter about the Alps, environmental adaptation & the rural population is OA: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern
Äuä iu
corn husker
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Äuä iu
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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