#Syrien

"Instead, we recommend they “model continuously but interpret dichotomously”. For example, they might present “percentage achieving clinically meaningful improvement” derived from a continuous analysis rather than by dichotomizing raw data."

Heute kaum noch vorstellbar: #Gera und #Altenburg im Jahr 1900 wichtige deutsche Produktionsstandorte für Zieharmonikas (Akkordeons).

aber letztlich etwas deprimierend, wenn man die kleinen vielleicht möglichen Schritte in der Realität daran misst und weiß, dass man vor diesen abstrakten Höhen nie bestehen kann (ok, vielleicht PSI als Basislager schon).

eben nicht nur gutwillige User (WhatsApp-Elterngruppen vs Mayas hehre Elterngruppe, Einhegung schon nur eines Users Martin Luther in "zivilen Diskurs"...), Ventilfunktion häufig stärker als Diskurswunsch uvam. Wunderbar harmonisch sich fügende Konzeptteile, gute Erinnerung, was alles die Ziele sind

("unüberbrückbarer Abstand zur Realität") nur aus dem Bauch würde dem natürlich nicht gerecht. Aber: Die "vermachteten Strukturen" sind doch genauso Realität wie von vielen Seiten befeuerte Verrechtlichung ("nix offenes Forum in ÖR, wegen SENDUNGSBEZUG" ua) genauso wie...

Als kleiner Gastgeber (nicht Security) kleinerer Dialogkneipen mit allem guten Willen durch die abschreckende Sprache der ExecSummary gequält, dann mit bemühter Offenheit die doch etwas SciFi haften Höhenflüge verfolgt... Ja, alles wahr und richtig und gut und ehrenwert. Praktikers Spontanabwehr...

Spontanerinnerung: Bahnhofsvorplatz Magdeburg, frühe 90er Jahre, Menschen mickrig machende Betonwüste

Was hat Rubio denn de facto zu sagen in Washington?

#USA

I grew up with this basically good paper and still like it, but this is an extremely poor choice favouring optics and lofty symbolism. Too bad

So be it with your assumption from a distance... (so back for me to refereering texts 😄
Only: If we - those trying to uphold good standards - dig in "no to this evil AI" we will loose to snakeoil sellers and higher ups giving in to them.

Das wird jetzt interessant, ob das Verteidigungsministerium bei einem Rüstungsprojekt erneut Probleme bekommt

As I said: It reports things. How to deal with is the job of the experienced human using this tool. Requires to keep the tool as good possible to not drown the human in garbage. But quality of output improved.

"Only" from journalistic experience with "4 eyes": It detects small but relevant discrepancies between two items spread over far away points in the text. It can detect things escaping our routine thinking. "Subordinate": reporting things which are then to the discretion of the "human in the loop".

It helps detecting things escaping our routine.

Ja, Herr Specht hat die Trommelwirbel an Metall in dieser Woche aufgenommen... ;-)

Caution against AI necessary, but humans' "four eyes" principle isn't perfect too. We should not claim to be better than we are which may result in a win for the brigade forcing cheap&easy AI "solutions" on us. I favour using AI as subordinate assistant.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Pam Bondi reminds Epstein's victims why they should thank Trump Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.

Pam Bondi reminds Epstein's victims why they should thank Trump

www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-re...

Russian war losses now exceed recruitment, Western officials say Moscow sustained around 9,000 more battlefield losses in Ukraine than it was able to replace last month.

"Russian forces were unable to achieve significant gains on the ground in January even as they sustained heavy losses. The assessment could bolster Kyiv’s aim to drive up the cost for Moscow."
@japantimes.co.jp
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02...

#USA Ohne willige Helfer wäre #Trump nichts

Wenn ein Rückgrat aus Gummi dann völlig überraschend gegen einen Bully doch nichts nützt... Eigentlich 🙃🤣😆
#Apple #Trump

Polls open for Bangladesh’s first election since the 2024 uprising that ousted Hasina Polls have opened across Bangladesh for voters to cast ballots in a parliamentary election seen as a critical test of the country’s democracy after years of political turmoil.

"More than 127 million people are eligible to vote in Bangladesh’s first election since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government collapsed in 2024 after weeks of mass protests. Hasina fled the country and her party is banned from the polls."
@apnews.com
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Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children - bellingcat Bellingcat reviewed dozens of requests for Grok to generate the faces of children and women that had been redacted from the latest documents.

Since we reached out to X about Grok attempting to unredact photos of Epstein victims upon X users’ requests, we’ve noticed Grok now refusing to unredact new requests. Bellingcat researcher @koltai.bsky.social reports: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...

heute wurde nach über 20 jahren eine neue dunkelfeldstudie veröffentlicht (die letzte ist von 2004), die belegt, dass weniger als 5% der betroffenen von partnerschaftsgewalt anzeige erstatten. das heißt, die jährlichen zahlen des bka sind nur die die spitze des eisbergs. 1/

This is true, and even if we get rid of Trump, we still have to reckon with the fact that a substantial proportion of US economic and political elites were *eager* to jump on the fascism train. They will still be the same people when Trump is gone.

#KI #Medizin

Ob's das Geschlecht ist mit immerhin Noem, Bondi, Gabbard an der Macht?

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.