Liselotte Willer

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This is astonishing – the entire US economy is currently propped up by AI – 40% of US GDP growth this year is AI, and AI companies account for 80% of gains in US stocks in 2025. Will it pop?

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

The Trump regime’s tariffs and the elimination of the de minimis exemption are hindering interlibrary loans, trapping books in foreign countries. This disruption to international resource sharing hinders academic progress and limits access to information for researchers.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte calls the U.S. a "perfect democracy" on Dutch tv. 🤦

Mark Rutte wouldn't recognize a "perfect democracy" if it hit him in the face. Or care much about it, given his long career of weakening liberal democracy in the Netherlands.

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My local library has an entire section where it promotes banned books (e.g., The Satanic Verses, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the Harry Potter series, and Gender Queer).

It's part of a week-long campaign for freedom of speech. But I hope they keep it up permanently.

Read a book. Join the resistance.

‘I’m leaving,’ Trump said. ‘There’s no reason to be here any more’: inside the meeting that brought Nato to the brink Former secretary general Jens Stoltenberg recalls the rollercoaster ride of dealing with Donald Trump – and how close the US president brought the alliance to the point of collapse

A somewhat fascinating read that shows how the politics of strategic alliances has become about pleasing and feeding one man's ego.

Vi har lidt over 6 kvadratmeter kvadratisk betondæk tilsat regn og vind. Det er hyggeligt at være inde og se ud på det.

Hvordan gør du det der for der står en stiv kuling med slagregn ind over vores hjørnealtan trods overdækning

S-byrådsmedlemmer i oprør over regeringens kontanthjælpsaftale: 'Presser familier som ligger ned i forvejen' Byrådsmedlemmer frygter, at kontanthjælpsreformen sender borgere på gaden. Den ansvarlige minister afviser opråbet fra partikammeraterne.

Tak til de socialdemokratiske borgmestre 🙏🙏🙏 Mens minister Kaare Dybvad lidt frisk siger at kontanthjælpsreformen ikke for alvor er trådt i kraft kan lokalpolitikerne fortælle om børnefattigdom og en bekymrende frygt for stigende hjemløshed #dkpol www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

No idea, but it would be the ones that likes Hansen ice cream after the cheese, because there had also been a raid there.

My local version looked the same 🤔

German Reunification Day invites both gratitude and reflection.
Gratitude, because the peaceful revolution of 1989 was nothing short of a miracle — a bloodless dismantling of a repressive regime.
Reflection, because the wounds of the transition still mark the country —and because

Hendes humor falder ikke langt fra stammen 😉

“…following popular demands and reacting to the political void of incapable states, the church has systematically filled a rhetorical space for political action.” - @fgenovese.bsky.social

“Politics ex cathedra: Religious authority and the Pope in modern IR”

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Har også oplevet den forsinkelse, men har ikke tænkt over den fordi jeg har kigget videre på mit ur.

Man kan reducere problemet via ‘Accessibility’ 👇🏻

Billeder som vi ikke kan se, så du kan være rolig 😉

OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

That sounds like a lot of power. I hope we’re doing useful things with ChatGPT. 🙃

Etched in Marble: Timothy Garton Ash on Writing, Freedom, and the Lost Art of Disagreement Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

New Etched in Marble post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

Timothy Garton Ash has for decades chronicled Europe’s upheavals with a historian’s depth & a journalist’s eye.

In my conversation with Garton Ash, one theme stood out: writing as a defense of democracy.

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Det her er en vild og temmelig foruroligende afdækning fra vores gravergruppe. Gennem en unik samkøring af data fra flere forskellige kilder kan de nu kortlægge, hvordan arealerne, hvor danskernes drikkevand bliver dannet, bliver sprøjtet med pesticider.

Gavelink til dagens måske mest frustrerende artikel om forurening af vores drikkevand
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Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

The idea that being a refugee is somehow a “golden ticket” is genuinely awful. These are people who the government have recognised are in need of protection. Do they think people chose that? That that’s what people wanted?

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Ja, føler selv lidt presset for sidste influenza gik videre i en addisonkrise 😬

Dame Jane Goodall - Monocle Renowned primatologist Dame Jane Goodall has spent nearly six decades researching our closest non-human relatives. Since her first trip to...

Very sorry to read of the passing of Dame Jane Goodall, who was - among many, many other things - every bit the interviewee you might have hoped she would be. This was recorded in 2018, and was a total delight. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Får vacciner næste fredag🤞🏻

Heard it in a meeting last week and have to say had the same reaction. But then again... following the EU's contract earlier this year... makes just as much sense as any other trade deal

The ideas and the infrastructure for an authoritarian regime are all there, the institutions are doing almost nothing to halt its development, there is no significant organised opposition. What am I missing?

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Apparently the UK site Bookshop.org has now expanded to provide ebooks as well as just physical (this was standard in the US but has only just reached the UK site).

It was 😊

It's International Coffee Day. A moment to put our caffeine-based differences aside and unite against our common enemy: soup.

Having the last of this one from Frukt Coffee brewed as filter coffee with the Varia Flo dripper on the older photo on the right.