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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 20h

I get a kick out of every Sabine Mittermaier citation I see.

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 1d

This. Hoffe sehr, dass angesichts dieser Einsicht auch öffentliche Resignationsbekundungen zu politischer Arbeit/Aktivismus im Modus „das bringt doch eh nichts!“ etwas abnehmen, die seit Monaten Timeline & DruKos fluten. Doch, es bringt was. Lasst uns auch in anderen Bereichen gemeinsam dranbleiben!

Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 1d

Ihr habt wahrgenommen, welchen Unterschied zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in den letzten Tagen bei der Frage der Chatkontrolle gemacht hat?
Gut.
Lasst euch nicht einreden, Engagement nütze nichts.

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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 20h

Thanks! Thought I was going crazy or had set some content filter to eleven by accident.

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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 20h

Is @blueskyofficial.bsky.social search broken or is that just a settings issue I have on this machine?

Can’t find anything under any search term.

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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 22h

Ein Hinweis für Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger: Am Sonntag ist #Zukunftsentscheid. Die Universität Hamburg weist darauf hin, dass die Erhitzung der Erde schon bis 2050 drei Grad über der vorindustriellen Zeit landen könnte. Ein heute fünfjähriges Kind wird dann 30 Jahre alt.

Universität Hamburg: Extremwetterkongress 2025Appell an deutsche Politik: 3-Grad-Grenze könnte 2050 erreicht werden

25. September 2025, von Extremwetterkongress
Zusehen ist eine Straße in hamburg bei Hochwasser.

Klimaforschende sehen höheres Risiko extremer Wetterereignisse für Deutschland, Klimaanpassung müsse schnell verstärkt werden.

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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 1d

„Wir möchten, dass Nutzer nicht nachdenken müssen“, sagt Elizabeth Reid, Googles Such-Chefin und meint die neue Suche via ki.
Denken ist wie ein Muskel. Wenn man ihn nicht benutzt, verkümmert er.
www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/g...

KI-Modus: Jetzt wird Google zu ChatGPT

Google startet den KI-Modus in Deutschland und macht die Suchmaschine zum Chatbot. Das verändert nicht nur Google, sondern das ganze Netz.

www.sueddeutsche.de

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

www.status.news

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it.

newrepublic.com

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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 1d

Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined Sanctuary Moon this way but it's glorious.

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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 1d

Finally watching Murderbot and it's a joy how it gets the vibe of the novels exactly right while making use of the new medium.

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 1d

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Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 1d

Authors should get copyright on things that AI thinks they’ve written. Then we can meta-sue them over copyright infringement.

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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 1d

LLMs out to gaslight authors about their own writing.

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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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2d

"We're being deployed because of the protests about us being deployed."

A cartoon of a man who stands in front of a sign that reads “Operation Circular Reasoning.” He tells the people assembled in front of him:
"We're being deployed because of the protests about us being deployed."

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 3d

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words.
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
#OnTyranny

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 4d

you know what i love, is one of my favorite experiences, is when im using a product that i use daily to do some work and i want to just get it done and move on but when i go to it i get a popup that says "Hey! Welcome to our new redesign. Let's take a tour!" and i have to click Next 30 times

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Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social · 4d

Wer sich für guten Journalismus rund um Portland, Oregon, (ICE, Protest, Repression etc.) interessiert, hier meine Empfehlung:

www.oregonlive.com

Oregon Local News, Breaking News, Sports & Weather

Get the latest Oregon local news, sports, weather, entertainment and breaking updates on oregonlive.com

www.oregonlive.com

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Torsten Kathke @kathke.com · 4d

Why are the two speeds of the internet “we have all your data forever and there is nothing you can do” and “please log in again every 45 minutes”?

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 5d

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5d

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.independent.co.uk

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 5d

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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