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The new ban on weapons in public places in Berlin has already been used to justify no-cause stop-and-search in several train stations, mostly ones in its more working-class and Arab neighbourhoods. It’s also anticipated that it’ll be used to perform searches after pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

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The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk. The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...

This is an enormous story. Thankful that ProPublica has pursued it so well, especially considering the way other media have snoozed. (While embracing Afrikaners as genocide victims, no less.) www.propublica.org/article/trum...

15.05.2025 12:34 — 👍 121    🔁 52    💬 0    📌 3

Once again it is time to email our representatives, TDs and MEPs, to remind them how awful breaking encryption would be. Not only for the individual, but for the state. (It's worse for the individual, but it being bad for the state might actually win the argument, this time, again...)

23.03.2025 22:39 — 👍 12    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

The suburb where I live has 1 crematorium, 3 undertakers and multiple stonemasons whose specialty is gravestones. Nothing wrong w being in the pocket of Big Death, just def different from if this were e.g. a fishing tourist town.

12.03.2025 14:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The book cover to "kl: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps" by Nikolaus Wachsmann

The book cover to Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil"

The book cover to Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "Maus."

The book cover to "Cold Crematorium" by Jozsef Debreczeni.

January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Today was chosen because Jan 27th, 1945 is the date the Red Army liberated thousands of remaining prisoners in Auschwitz. Here are a few books we recommend on the subject

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At 8 days I’m starting to get genuinely uneasy at this hopefully-a-bit

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Data broker Gravy Analytics confirms a data breach after a hacker leaked millions of location records The company confirmed the breach after a hacker posted millions of location data records online.

"Robert warned that the data also allows for easy deanonymization of ordinary individuals; in one example, the data tracked a person as they traveled from New York to their home in Tennessee"

techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/g...

13.01.2025 12:51 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

look don't cancel me but

01.01.2025 19:43 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Germany is, and I say this advisedly, an absolutely demented place to be right now.

19.08.2024 14:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Having confirmed that this fact-check is neither hoax nor satire, I am now wondering in what exact sense the British won the battle of Trafalgar.

23.02.2024 16:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

i'm not arguing with a man with a moustache. whatever you say beautiful

13.02.2024 20:05 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The Art+Science Salon at Berlin Science Week 2023 Welcome to the Salon! For this episode, we recorded live from Berlin Science Week 2023, where we set up shop in a corner of the ART & SCIENCE FORUM at the bustling Holzmarkt 25 on the banks of the Sp

For those not elsewhere, hi: I am the producer of this podcast. Episode 1 just dropped, and I'm very excited for the rest of the season and what it will bring :)

soundcloud.com/artplusscien...

13.02.2024 12:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An inline-skating boot shown in profile, perched on the knee of a person sitting near a desk

The same inline skate shown at a 3/4 angle, from the back

Still sketching the right level of sharing for this platform, but anyway I skate and I got a new(via secondhand) setup and am very excited to try it out once it stops raining, March perhaps

11.12.2023 18:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Was thrilled to be able to help out with tech and recording—will post a link to the finished podcast when it’s published, was a really clear and thoughtful chat (though I’m clearly biased)

09.11.2023 18:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Participants in a round-table podcast sit around a rectangular table in a cafe

Art & Science Salon Podcast kicking off a discussion of transdisciplinarity at #berlinscienceweek

09.11.2023 18:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I wish there was more clarity on where we’re supposed to do public networking and where we’re supposed to show how much the gym is paying off.

03.11.2023 16:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here | NOEMA Today’s most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence.

If a machine makes money on its own (nonsense; see labour theory of value) then it passes new Turing test. Incredible mask off moments, but we're apparently so capitalism pilled that when the emperor stands before us butt naked, we're like "oh nice robes." www.noemamag.com/artificial-g...

19.10.2023 07:16 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

Patiently awaiting an answer

09.10.2023 08:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Line drawings of buildings and pedestrians in old town Krakow, as well as some notes

Line drawings of buildings from old town in Krakow—featuring apartments covered in vines and small trees

Line drawings of buildings in old town of Krakow

Travelling alone is strange, because since all my friends are in my phone it’s been less Steppenwolf and more “let’s catch up on all the personal correspondence I missed the last while”, but I’ve also been filling up my sketchbook and that’s nice

22.09.2023 19:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My hostel in Wrocław did, indeed, have a smokestack beside the Indian restaurant slash nightclub under its window, and much like the reviewer here I was all for this canny multipurposing of urban space

21.09.2023 08:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For fun? Don’t get cocky now

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Hello, I’m back.

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