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visualcap.bsky.social @visualcap.bsky.social · 8h

Charted: The History of U.S. Government Shutdowns 🏛️

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-the-history-of-u-s-government-shutdowns/

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Stefanie Hane @stefihane.bsky.social · 11h

when all you want to do is hang on til retirement =

Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 20h

German carmakers want to keep building cars with combustion engines, and chancellor Merz is happy to play along.

The strategy is self-defeating, of course.

It’s being late to the #EV race already that has plunged BMW, VW, Mercedes into their deepest crisis in years.

www.dw.com/en/german-ch...

German chancellor calls auto summit as carmakers bleed jobs – DW – 10/09/2025

German automakers will press for fresh incentives to revive demand for electric vehicles during crunch talks with Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Berlin faces pressure to act as German sales slump while Ch...

www.dw.com

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 14h

Your forever reminder that there are hundreds of thousands of people who can nominate anyone they choose for the Nobel Peace prize. Assistant history professors! Any MP anywhere in the world! Even Hitler got the nod once (albeit as a sort of practical joke gone wrong)

Reuters @reuters.com · 14h

Malta foreign minister nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize reut.rs/435IiRV

Malta foreign minister nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

The foreign minister of European Union member state Malta said on Thursday that he had nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13h

Is dark chocolate good for you?
"Sadly for chocoholics, the health claims for dark chocolate come from wishful thinking and sly marketing, not the findings of science."
Sorry
www.economist.com/science-and-...

Is dark chocolate actually healthy?

We assess whether that tempting idea is too good to be true

www.economist.com

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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 20h

German carmakers want to keep building cars with combustion engines, and chancellor Merz is happy to play along.

The strategy is self-defeating, of course.

It’s being late to the #EV race already that has plunged BMW, VW, Mercedes into their deepest crisis in years.

www.dw.com/en/german-ch...

German chancellor calls auto summit as carmakers bleed jobs – DW – 10/09/2025

German automakers will press for fresh incentives to revive demand for electric vehicles during crunch talks with Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Berlin faces pressure to act as German sales slump while Ch...

www.dw.com

Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 1d

Physik-Nobelpreisträger Steven Chu:

“ I think we’re going to go over 550, maybe 600 parts per million… we’re going to go three degrees.”

Was hilft? Nur Anpassung + Carbon Capture, argumentiert er.

Details bei ca. 1:23h hier:

www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/recordings/4...

New Approaches to Climate Policies and International Cooperation - Discussions | Lindau Mediatheque

Steven Chu, Lars Peter Hansen, Elisa Rottner, Brian P. Schmidt, Joseph E. Stiglitz; Moderator: Klaus Schmidt

www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org

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Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That's So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit

The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.

futurism.com

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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 1d

What is going to do if they don’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize?

Revoke their license?

Make Sweden the 51st State, just to annoy Norway?

Hit a bunch of bogeys in the direction of Oslo? 🏌️‍♂️

Can’t wait…

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Trump looms large over Nobel Peace Prize on.ft.com/4q0ls89

Trump looms large over Nobel Peace Prize

US president pressures Norwegian government and independent committee to select him on Friday

on.ft.com

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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 8d

1) A reminder: AI companies and their investors don't need the AI to work effectively for others in order to make gains, they mostly need contracts and promises for higher valuations.

2) A question: when do we declare the great AI future to have failed?

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/30/t....

Most companies aren’t seeing a return on AI investments. This tech CEO wants to change that | CNN Business

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month. O...

edition.cnn.com

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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not. 😉 But thank you for the great article!

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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 2d

Forgery wouldn’t work, as Paul Romer explains in detail.

LLMs could still invent citations, of course, so we’d need to get to a common understanding that only verified information can be trusted.

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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 2d

New Macbooks and iPads coming, the rumor mill says.

kite.kagi.com/s/xyk43t

Apple readies M5 MacBook, iPad Pro amid stock shortages

Apple is widely expected to unveil refreshed M5 MacBook Pro and M5 iPad Pro models this month, as inventory for current iPad Pro and MacBook Pro units tightens and delivery windows slip at Apple and r...

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 2d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy

Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

www.ft.com

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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 2d

Well, go ahead then, knock yourself out:

www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/meetings/202...

Recordings - 8th Lindau Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences | Lindau Mediatheque

A full list of videos published during the meeting

www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org

Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 2d

“More and more, France can feel like the United States in 2016, when people threw up their hands in exasperation and opted for change, any change, in the form of Donald J. Trump.”

#France #Macron #analysis

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

As France Faces Political Turmoil, Macron Is Backed Into a Corner

www.nytimes.com

Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 2d

That’s why Nobel laureate Paul Romer (economics) argues that all documents need a digital signature, so that it becomes easier to verify what AI systems make up.

Details in his Lindau Nobel meeting lecture at ca. 8:20 mins.

www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/recordings/4...

Paul M. Romer - Lectures | Lindau Mediatheque

Digital Authenticity and the Future of Truth

www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 2d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is turning the US into half prison, half casino.

All banks want a piece of the Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac IPO but wrestle with the “unpredictability of Trump and the complicated nature of taking government-backed entities public…”

www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

Big Banks Woo Trump for Roles on Blockbuster IPO

The planned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac offering is prompting one of the strangest “bake-offs” ever.

www.wsj.com

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 2d

"Europe is the only market they can come to”

www.reuters.com/business/ret...

China bets on Europe for self-driving tech expansion

Blocked from the U.S. market, Chinese self-driving technology firms are accelerating their push into Europe, setting up headquarters, striking data deals, and road-testing - prompting alarm from local rivals over competition concerns.

www.reuters.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

New data shows the ways millions of people have integrated AI into their everyday lives. Also, it suggests that for now at least, AI is an individual productivity tool — both at work and in our personal lives — rather than the broader workplace disrupter many in Big Tech predicted. on.ft.com/47cKBVN

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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 2d

Clean #energy has overtaken coal for the first time on a global scale. 🌍 😎 🌏 🎈 🌎

@theguardian.com on new
@ember-energy.org report 👇🏻

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 3d

“…an organized, systemitized campaign to delegitimatize, dehumanize, threaten, impede, obstruct, and physically assault…”

Fitting description – for the ICE campaign that Miller (and Vought) designed. He just got the victims wrong.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Stephen Miller: "If you can't see that since we've taken office, there's been an organized, systemitized campaign to delegitimatize, dehumanize, threaten, impede, obstruct, and physically assault ICE officers in their duties, then I can't persuade you of it."

Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds reasonable, if labor-intensive for a small company. Good luck, and thank you for your reply!

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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 3d

How do you get around the Wikipedia problem? Some classifications may be contentious, after all. Are you moderating this somehow?

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Karsten Lemm @lemmk.bsky.social · 3d

CBS News is about to get a makeover by the co-founder of The Free Press.

Her understanding of “news that reflects reality”? Mix reporting with opinion and amp up everything to 11.

See for yourself at thefp.com – then clean your browser afterwards.

#journalism

www.wsj.com/business/med...

Paramount Buys Bari Weiss’s the Free Press for $150 Million

Weiss, who once said she was done with legacy media, is to take control of CBS News’s editorial vision, aiming for “news that reflects reality.”

www.wsj.com