Yuliya Komska

Lego chief hits out at Danish wealth tax proposal Niels Christiansen says Mette Frederiksen’s idea would ‘drain quite a lot of capital out of companies’

Imagine the international community were as good at restricting refuge for the mega-rich as they are for the poorest giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The economic liberals at The Economist reminding us that forcing free markets open via the commission of #warcrimes remains the preferred strategy of economic liberalism, a pattern consistent over three centuries now...

Yann LeCun’s AI start-up raises more than $1bn in Europe’s largest seed round Meta’s former chief AI scientist launches AMI Labs with backing from Nvidia, Temasek and Jeff Bezos

“new AI “architecture” that can learn about the world through videos and spatial data rather than just language”—omfg we’ll miss living with LLM-driven AI yet giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

This makes Naomi Wolf’s “death recorded” book debacle look like child’s play www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...

Still life minimalism: one single striped tulip in a glass vase, 1625, by Balthasar van der Ast of Middleburg. It's his day today.

Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.

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In the introduction, I discuss why the socialist world has been sidelined within international historiographies on humanitarianism and argue that placing it at the centre can offer new ways of understanding the evolution of humanitarian ideas and practices journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Seeing Russia fire up its oil trade and and participate in sports events again, like nothing is happening, while Ukraine is basically averting another Syria makes me want to tear all my remaining hair out

The job of politicians now is to step back from sacrificial geopolitics and realize that this can’t happen at the cost of Ukraine’s own destruction in the process

Wie Machiavelli wirklich dachte: Vom Machtanalytiker zum frühen Republikaner der Moderne Machiavelli, Machtpolitik und Republikanismus: Warum der Denker laut Philipp Hölzing ein früher Republikaner und Klassentheoretiker war.

Ich durfte im Deutschlandfunk in der wunderbaren Sendung Sein und Streit über Machiavelli und mein Buch sprechen. Vielen Dank für die Einladung an Simone Miller und Catherine Newmark!
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In Nuremberg, the city where Nazis once held their party congresses, a Black German social-democrat mayor candidate, Nasser Ahmed, goes on to the runoff elections later this month. This kind of news needs to be louder nasser-ahmed.de

US military announces seventh service member KIA in Iran war

Cash initiative and counter-proposal L'8 marzo 2026, i cittadini svizzeri si esprimono sull'iniziativa popolare « Sì a una valuta svizzera indipendente e libera con monete o banconote (Il denaro contante è libertà) » e sul controprogetto...

The Swiss are voting on enshrining the availability of cash in the constitution www.admin.ch/gov/en/start...

“The rainwater is actually black, also saturated, it appears, with oil … That’s what’s coming down this morning … on the Iranian capital after the strikes took place.”
A city of 10 million people is being showered in carcinogens. Via @cnn.com

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

“The Military Religious Freedom Foundation … says it has received more than 200 complaints from service members about military commanders invoking extremist Christian rhetoric about biblical “end times” to justify involvement in the Iran war.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Why not an onion? While all else falls the pieces, the borsch jacket project is on course

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Sounds awful but I’d still move there

in a parallel world where all the tech oligarchs were into lit fic instead of sci fi they are having sad affairs and ruminating on identity, childhood, and loss instead of attempting to hasten the collapse of civilisation

Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’ Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined

If we ever get to the point of a war crimes tribunal, a whole lot of responsibility will be punted off onto AI and the conveniently muddled chain of decision-making that comes with it. In fact, this must be a feature, not a bug www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Rheinmetall says Iran war validates missile expansion plans German defence company Rheinmetall said on ​Friday that the war in ‌Iran validates its plans to expand missile production as quickly as ​possible to meet ​rapidly growing demand.

Building missile factories in Germany and Spain www.reuters.com/business/aer...

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

“The dumb, politically correct wars of the past”

"Millenial Nazi whose only way to understand the world comes from a pastiche of blockbuster films and video games," is really becoming a defining aesthetic of our era.

Trump’s War Insurance Decree Follows Predictable Pattern Legal and accountability questions keep accumulating because Trump’s governing style relies on answering them after the fact.

We thought risk society (predicated on the biggest risks, incl wars, remaining uninsurable) was the worst. Enter post-risk society, where cheap war insurance is encouraged (at least demagogically) to stoke wars. Even Cato dudes are mortified. www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Remembering this line today: "The scandal is not one of ignorance but indifference... As long as enrollment numbers hold and tuition checks clear, they turn a blind eye to the learning crisis while faculty are left to manage the educational carnage in their classrooms"

Frau in Kostüm mit Stöckelschuhen, Federhut, Regnschirm und Handtasche an einem mannshohen Felsen

#Wanderlust - Frauen, Berge und der männliche Blick. 🏔️
Neue Bildergalerie:
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Angeblich linksextreme Buchläden: SPD und Grüne lassen Gegenwehr vermissen In Bremen verteidigen SPD und Grüne den Buchladen, den der Kulturstaatsminister des Linksextremismus für verdächtig hält. Leider nur halbherzig.

“Beängstigend ist nicht der Kulturkampf von rechten Politiker:innen. Sondern die fehlende Gegenwehr derer, gegen die sich das richtet: Alle, die andere Werte als Konservative und Nazis haben und damit „links“ von ihnen stehen.” taz.de/Angeblich-li...