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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 48m

Ich fand diese Phoenix Runde zur Wehrpflicht wirklich ausgezeichnet - unaufgeregte und respektvolle Debatte, die das Thema in der nötigen Breite und Tiefe angeht.
Davon bräuchten wir dringend mehr - nicht nur beim Thema Wehrpflicht.

www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

phoenix runde: Zeitenwende für die Bundeswehr – Brauchen wir die Wehrpflicht?

YouTube video by phoenix

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Nina Weber @ninaweber.bsky.social · 4h

Für @spiegel.de habe ich @sabinehermisson.bsky.social und Joachim Hermisson gesprochen, die ihre sehr schwer an #MECFS erkrankte Tochter Milena pflegen.
Über Geschenk-Link ein paarmal gratis lesbar
www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/d...

(S+) Tochter mit ME/CFS: »Unsere Tochter verträgt kein Licht. Wir pflegen sie deshalb in Dunkelheit«

Sie kann nicht sprechen, erträgt keine Geräusche, keine Menschen – Milena, 22, hat ME/CFS. Ihre Eltern Sabine und Joachim Hermisson kümmern sich seit fünf Jahren um sie. Hier berichten sie, worauf es ...

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Dr. Thomas Reinhold / @cyberpeace1 @cyberpeace1.bsky.social · 2d

I think it is important to understand, that AI hallucinations are not just "some" mistake an AI makes, that will be cleaned out at some newer version, but an inherent result of how LLMs work. They are build to create coherent results, here scientific references, not to be accurate.

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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 3d

All three of NATO's nuclear powers are currently experiencing periods of domestic political turmoil, which is not great to put it mildly.

Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 3d

If you are overly focused on the admittedly increasingly batsh*t character of British politics, don‘t neglect the batsh*t character of French politics.

Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, the famous French work-life balance

on.ft.com/4mTFYVb French prime minister resigns less than a month after appointment

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 6d

I think “Belgian UFO Wave” would make for an excellent band name.

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 6d

My favorite:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian...

Belgian UFO wave - Wikipedia

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Frank Kuhn @frankkuhn.bsky.social · 6d

While the hightened awareness to drone activity in Europe is commendable and important, increasing political attention and media reporting will also result in false positives. Just remember the New Jersey drone scare, where most of the sightings turned out to be lawfully operating manned aircraft.

None Of The New Jersey Visual Drone Sightings Have Been Corroborated: White House

The White House says federal, state, and local authorities have not corroborated any purported visual sightings of drones over New Jersey.

www.twz.com

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 7d

Ah, schade. Aber man könnte es doch so schön mit "Je kürzer die Reichweite, umso toter die Deutschen.", überschreiben.

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 7d

Habt Ihr da eigentlich ein paar nette Schautafeln zur Kontroverse um die Lance-Modernisierung Ende der 1980er?

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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 8d

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.

The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 8d

The problem with having vilified Trump so often is that now that he says and does openly fascist policies, many people will hardly noticed.

This 'shock and yawn' process created by so many scandals is a real danger given what was a barely disguised declaration of war against internal opposition.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 8d

"We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement."

I wonder if Europeans' fear of abandonment will eventually turn into fear of entrapment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 11d

Immer weiter! #MSV #MSVFCI

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 12d

"In Europe, the technocrats who govern [...] share the same incomprehension at the offensive they are facing. They [fail to] acknowledge that Trump and the tech bros’ goal is to impose regime change on this side of the Atlantic as well."

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power

Digital moguls and strongman leaders are more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli

www.ft.com

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 13d

Check this out!👇

Franziska Stärk @franziskastaerk.bsky.social · 13d

Climate change & nuclear weapons are often seen as twin threats to future generations. My new open access article shows that while both pose similar moral dilemmas, intergenerational nuclear injustice is harder to spot—and harder to fix.

doi.org/10.1111/1758...

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Christian Kleindienst @postkulturwissenschaften.de · 14d

Diese Angriffe auf bestimmte Wissenschaftler:innen in bestimmten Disziplinen, sollte uns allen (!) zu denken geben. Der konkrete Fall belegt meines Erachtens gut, dass es bei diesen Diskreditierungeversuchen nicht um kritische Auseinandersetzungen geht, sondern um die Mobilisierung von

Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 14d

«Es gibt im Umgang mit rassistisch konnotiertem Kulturerbe durchaus Fälle, wo es Zielkonflikte gibt, die kompliziert sind und interessant zu diskutieren. Diese mediokren Dekoelemente gehören definitiv nicht dazu.»

Simon Teuscher in der @woz.ch zu der Kampagne gegen @boscha.bsky.social

Postkoloniale Studien: In den Nebenschauplatz verbissen

Die NZZ stellt einen einzelnen Wissenschaftler an den Pranger und unterstellt ihm unsauberes Handwerk. Dabei arbeitet sie selbst mit fragwürdigen Methoden.

www.woz.ch

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 14d

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

Army taps ‘Ghost Fleet’ authors to write novel on multi-domain warfare

The Army’s concept of future warfare is getting the Tom Clancy treatment.

www.militarytimes.com

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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 15d

I don’t understand the framing of this Politico story at all. Trump’s post is saying Europe is strong enough to back Ukraine on its own…. US is out, hence he closes with “Good luck to all.” This ain’t good.

www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Trump’s apparent U-turn on Ukraine cheers Europeans amid deeper skepticism about US policy

Elation over Trump’s pro-Ukraine post vied with doubts that he will ever follow through with tougher action against Russia.

www.politico.eu

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 15d

'It has been widely observed that the speed of America’s democratic slide surpasses that of other “elective autocracies” such as Narendra Modi’s India and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey. But that understates Trump’s impatience.'

America’s accelerating exit from itself

After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease

www.ft.com

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 15d

Wouldn't European governments and the strategic community have had a collective heart attack if any other sitting US president before had publicly said, “we just can't ever use them”? Remember the fuss about "sole purpose"? But in a Trump speech full of crazy stuff, that just gets lost?

Joe Cirincione @joecirin.bsky.social · 15d

From Trump’s rambling incoherent UN speech today. “And I look at weapons that are so powerful that we just can’t ever use them. If we ever use them, the world might literally come to an end. There’d be no United Nations to be talking about. There’d be no nothing.”

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 15d

Question: Has a US president ever explicitly and publicly said "we just can't ever use them" while in office? Of course there is "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought" but even that is not that explicit. Asking for all those who put their faith in extended deterrence.

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 17d

Deutsche Romantik

Ein Schild mit der Beschriftung: „UNFALLGEFAHR BITTE REIS, BLUMEN, KONFETTI U. Ä. ERST VOR DEM PORTAL STREUEN“

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 17d

Indem man Käse (Korbáčik) statt Mayo nimmt 😉

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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 17d

Wenn du nach einer langen Autofahrt aus Prag nach Hause kommst.

Korbáčik, Brotscheibe und eingelegte Gurken auf zwei Tellern.

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