Karsten Lemm

Maybe that explains the behavior of certain (human) males these days?

Future winning pitch to investors:

“Government won’t be a source of income for us, no worries…”

Trump Has No Power to Nationalize Elections The Trump administration is reportedly preparing an executive order to attempt to nationalize aspects of the midterm elections, despite a clear constitutional provision that assigns congressional elections to the states and allows only Congress, not the president, to amend state rules. The Elections Clause could not be more explicit: The “Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.” The president is

The Constitution gives control of elections to the states and only Congress can change the rules. Invoking “national security” to override that design would be unlawful and dangerously authoritarian (via Bloomberg Opinion)

Graphic showing closed airspace in red, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Syria, Qatar, and Bahrain. Active Conflict zone airspace in Orange: Afghanistan and Pakistan. Restricted airspace, but not formally closed in yellow: Lebanon, Jordan, UAE.

Airspace status as of 1500 UTC.

Completely agree.

Exactly what I worry about when the world is in turmoil. 🙄

Kagi News showing vastly outdated headlines even though the app claims they were updated on Saturday, Feb 28, around 1pm CEST.

@kagi.com As innovative as Kagi News is, the algorithms clearly need a few tweaks.

Breaking news events, at the very least, must be updated near-instantly, not on a 24h basis.

Germany has been a post-WWII champion of the *industrial* revolution: engineering, tinkering, perfecting anything with screws & bolts = core skills.

Digital? Entirely different beast, long neglected.

Classic case of Innovator’s Dilemma at country scale.

As someone who grew up during the 2003 Iraq war, such a contrast to the attempts by the Bush administration to at least construct an argument under international law, and the world wide demonstration to build up.

Now Trump's US just does it, no demonstrations, not attempts at legal justification.

I don’t understand how these kinds of Polymarket bets are legal.

Intelligent business leaders, meanwhile, bring their people along & don’t just rely on algorithms.

#economy #leadership #AI

I wrote last June about the difference between preventive and preemptive strikes

Trump. And then the ghost of Trump.

So let’s think about this.

A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands.

The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it

Exclusive | Government Agencies Raise Alarm About Use of Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Warnings about xAI’s safety and reliability preceded the Pentagon’s decision to approve Grok for use in classified settings.

Pentagon just decided “to put xAI at the center of some of the nation’s most sensitive and secretive operations.”

Earlier, “officials at multiple federal agencies… raised concerns about the safety and reliability of Elon Musk’s” AI tools, @wsj.com reports.

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

What Developers Know About the Dangers of Unbounded AI Large language models are too powerful and too new to be set free from human oversight.

Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon isn't about pacifism versus militarism—it's a fundamental dispute over how to manage the risks of the most transformative technology since the splitting of the atom, Thomas Wright argues:

one under-discussed crisis in Silicon Valley is that startups are having to dig ever deeper into the lore of Tolkien to find their names

Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s Both Prohibition and current mass deportation efforts were hastily built, staffed by people permitted to use force, and had difficult objectives to achieve.

Poorly-trained, politically motivated agents shooting bystanders.

Here’s a brief history of the massive expansion of federal policing in the 1920s to enforce Prohibition:
buff.ly/nXvL7vw

“At the end of this process, we still believe models tend to underestimate physical risk,” NBIM said in an email to Bloomberg, referring to the real-world fallout of rising temperatures.

"'At the end of this process, we still believe models tend to underestimate physical risk,' NBIM [aka Norway’s $2.2 Trillion Wealth Fund] said...referring to the real-world fallout of rising temperatures."

Look what happens when you actually do the work:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

YouTube video by Paul Krugman no news is bad news

Larry Ellison is buying CNN. That’s a disaster www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEwy...

Paramount clinches Warner Bros deal after Netflix walks away Streaming company’s decision ends months-long battle to buy parent of CNN, HBO and franchises such as Harry Potter

“If the deal is approved, the Ellisons will control some of the biggest names in the US news media: CBS News, 60 Minutes and CNN…”

There is no “if”.

The #WarnerBros takeover by #Paramount is a Trump project, the basis of his future propaganda network.

www.ft.com/content/fdb3...

Longevity and ‘wellness’ craze breaks untested drugs out of the lab Health influencers promise an astonishing range of benefits from peptides, almost none of them tested in humans

#SocialMedia + #wellness craze becoming a #DarwinAwards experiment at scale…

www.ft.com/content/0f68...

Sorry, I disagree. A product meant for travel & mobility should make it easy to recharge or replace the required batteries. No tools needed.

Do you bring a Torx screwdriver along whenever you travel?

Logitech Keys-To-Go 2 Bluetooth keyboard with open battery tray and mini screwdriver.

Truly idiotic #ProductDesign: you need a special screwdriver to change the #Logitech Keys-to-Go 2 batteries.

They die soon, with little warning.

What if you’re traveling?

This should be taught at design school as an exemplary #fail.

#engineering

“You don’t face the prospect of your 5-year-old going into a kindergarten and doing an active shooter drill,” said Chris Ford,who works for a Dallas real-estate investment firm.“The wages are higher in the U.S. but the quality of life is higher in Europe.” www.wsj.com/us-news/...

Exclusive | Washington Post Losses Topped $100 Million in 2025 The paper, known in part for its coverage of the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers, has struggled to find a sustainable business model.

You ruin a brand’s reputation by eroding customer trust.

Then you kick out many of your best employees to cut your losses.

Welcome to the @washingtonpost.com under Bezos and (former) publisher Will Lewis.

Genius.

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

Nvidia Beats Back Bubble Fears With Record $68 Billion in Sales in Fourth Quarter “Computing has changed,” CEO Jensen Huang said, citing agentic AI as driver of 94% profit surge.

Nvidia is the biggest beneficiary of the #AI boom.

How can its record earnings “beat back bubble fears”?

The piles of 💰💰💰 are just a natural consequence of the 🤖 boom, no?

#investing #WallStreet #AIBubble

www.wsj.com/business/ear...

DOJ to Review Whether Epstein Files About Trump Were Improperly Withheld The Justice Department didn’t release notes from several interviews a woman gave to FBI agents in 2019.

Totally unbiased investigation:

“The Justice Department said it is reviewing whether it improperly withheld some Epstein files…”

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

India Holds Line on Russian Oil With Trump’s Tariffs in Question Indian refiners are keeping Russian oil purchases to a minimum after a US Supreme Court ruling at the end of last week threw into question a long-awaited trade deal that would cut tariffs in exchange for halting those imports.

Indian refiners are keeping Russian oil purchases to a minimum after the US Supreme Court ruling on tariffs.