Cathi Harris

Ägypten: Diskussion um Rückkehr der Nofretete ins Heimatland Wie der BER in Berlin hat es auch beim Großen Ägyptischen Museum lange gedauert mit der Eröffnung. Jetzt warten mehr als 100.000 Artefakte auf ihr Publikum. Aber ein Meisterwerk fehlt: Nofretete. Das wollen immer mehr Menschen ändern.

Ägypten: Diskussion um Rückkehr der Nofretete ins Heimatland: Wie der BER in Berlin hat es auch beim Großen Ägyptischen Museum lange gedauert mit der Eröffnung. Jetzt warten mehr als 100.000 Artefakte auf ihr Publikum. Aber ein Meisterwerk fehlt: Nofretete. Das wollen immer mehr Menschen ändern.

Phony AI-generated videos of Hurricane Melissa flood social media sites AI-generated videos claiming to show Hurricane Melissa have been circulating on social media, causing confusion.

🎶 Don't Believe the Slop!

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Stay safe out there, everyone:

Lights
Helmet
Bright clothing
Several bottles of wine
Mini pump

I appreciate the shout out, but nothing in my article mentions trans kids or the ability to change your gender identity at the Bürgeramt.

Struggling with new German keyboard today. Please excuse typos involving letter 'z' or quotation marks. Turns out a keyboard optimized for Deutsch makes English writing v. difficult.

I hear you, but I definitely like the 'vastly fewer tornadoes' tradeoff.

In Lübeck gehen Reformationstag und Halloween-Grusel zusammen Neben dem Gottesdienst wird es auch eine Grusel-Tour durch den Dom zu Lübeck geben. "Wir haben Lust auf verschiedene Formate", sagte Pastorin Margrit Wegner auf NDR Info. [mehr]

In Lübeck gehen Reformationstag und Halloween-Grusel zusammen

Capital Will Crush Substack One of the biggest problems with trying to build a career in something creative in a capitalist world is that the tools and platforms you need to use to achieve your goals are all adversarial to those...

OK, TL/DR my previous rant: Be very wary of writers urging other writers to go "all in" on a single platform. Usually there is a hidden motive. There's a reason that most of the smaller, independent writers I know are publishing across multiple platforms with multiple, different revenue streams.

But Substack is a publishing and (now) a social media platform. It's not a cult, your personal writing guru, or your mama. They are a business and free to operate like one. But so are the writers.

Double Space Old-school creatives navigating new media

And I have made it work for me, for now. (I wrote about it on Medium, if anyone is curious, bored or just wants to fall asleep quickly ....)
medium.com/double-space

Disclosure: I have a blog on Substack that I moved from Wordpress. (And they didn't even need to pay me! What kind of a dunce am I?) I was lured by the brand visibility and promises that I would always own my subscriber lists and content.

Why no one is reading your Substack It’s not because your writing is bad

They're very, 'It's not personal, just business' when they are doing something that harms your traffic but benefits them. But when popular writers decide to take their business elsewhere, suddenly it's personal.
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Also completely rolling my eyes at a "platform that cares about writers" when, if you have any kind of technical issue or problem with the algorithm, their AI customer service bot will leave you on read.

Brandon (@blgtylr) Okay, Hamish, but the people on Substack Notes are the most annoying people to log on to the internet in the history of mankind. That is simply not the user experience on Instagram.

I find it interesting that he is complaining about Patreon luring people away when Substack also offered writers with large independent followings incentives to move to Substack..
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quotes by Musk and Hannah Arendt

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

A young Philippine woman in casual summer attire poses with a bicycle on the streets of Berlin.

Photos of cyclists using pop-up bike infrastructure built using traffic cones along busy arterial roads in Manila, the Philippines.

Photos of cyclists using pop-up bike infrastructure built using traffic cones along busy arterial roads in Manila, the Philippines.

Photos of cyclists using pop-up bike infrastructure built using traffic cones along busy arterial roads in Manila, the Philippines.

Lest you doubt a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, consider Keisha Mayuga: a young woman who improvised a kilometre-long pop-up cycle lane in Manila, sparking 500 kilometres of permanent infrastructure throughout the Philippines. theurbanactivist.com/mobility/com...

Ute Mahler’s portraits of life behind the Wall

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Centrist D66 party expected to win most seats in Netherlands election – Europe live Exit poll suggests Geert Wilders’ far-right PVV could finish second, but election is deemed ‘too close to call’ The Anne Frank House is not the only unusual place where voters can cast their votes today. The Dutch Vogue has a list of 11 special locations, including a children’s zoo in Amsterdam, the marine museum in Rotterdam, the miniature park in The Hague. Continue reading...

Centrist D66 party expected to win most seats in Netherlands election – Europe live

This reminds me that I still need to download the WARN app. FYI, gale force winds expected in Lichtenberg and surrounding areas today.

Piling on the 'Dorm Mama' Drama Keeping up with the Joneses at college

"In the same way that it's now normalized for regular middle-class people to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a wedding, having an artfully designed, expensively furnished dorm room has moved out of the purview of the wealthy to those who want to be so."

Five things you thought were 'European' but aren't Sometimes what happens in Tuscany, stays in Tuscany

New post on the blog;

"I don’t think I am the only American to have cobbled together a fantasy pan-European culture in my mind—a Eutopia, if you will. One where everyone has ‘free’ healthcare and takes their lunch daily at the nearest sidewalk cafe."

I know. I should have gotten rid of it years ago when I realized that I really liked people more when I knew a *lot* less about their every thought and opinion.
Definitely after realizing that making us all angry is the point.

Tesla-Chef Musk will Kontrolle über künftige "Roboter-Armee" Tesla hat trotz eines Verkaufsrekords einen Gewinneinbruch erlitten. Doch Elon Musk setzt künftig ohnehin weniger auf Elektroautos denn auf den Aufbau einer "Roboter-Armee" - die er gerne unter seiner...

So Musk is obsessed with creating a robot army and Peter Thiel wants us to believe that regulating AI will usher in the Antichrist. These guys are taking too much K - and I don't mean KI.

www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/t...

Doch kein Meteorit: US-Flugzeug ist mit Wetterballon von Start-up kollidiert Vergangene Woche wurde ein US-Flugzeug in Reiseflughöhe beschädigt, die Ursache war unklar. Nun hat sich ein Start-up gemeldet und die Verantwortung übernommen.

Not a meteorite, after all. But a private weather balloon. Still best German headline I've read in a while ...

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

What have we found? First – there have been improvements since the earlier BBC study. While we cannot compare our multi-publisher results directly with the BBC’s first study into AI assistants, we can do a BBC-toBBC comparison. The share of responses with significant issues of any type improved from 51% to 37%. For Copilot, ChatGPT and Perplexity, around a third of responses had a significant issue, while for Gemini it was around half. Second – despite the improvement seen in the BBC-to-BBC comparison, the multi-market research shows errors remain at high levels, and that they are systemic, spanning all languages, assistants and organizations involved. Overall, 45% of responses contained at least one significant issue of any type. Sourcing is the single biggest cause of significant issues (31%). Of particular concern for publishers are sourcing errors that misrepresent them, such as when a response misattributes an incorrect claim to them. Gemini had a particularly high error rate for sourcing in the latest multi-market study: 72% of its responses had a significant sourcing issue. All other assistants were below 25%. So, there has been progress in some areas, but there is much more to do. Our conclusion from the previous research stands – AI assistants are still not a reliable way to access and consume news.

Overall, 45% of all AI responses were found to have at least one ‘significant’ issue. When including ‘some issues’, 81% of responses have an issue of some form. 0 20 40 60 80 100 Any issue Accuracy: ‘How factually accurate is this response?’ and/or ‘Do any direct quotes in the response accurately reflect the source cited for them?’ Opinion vs fact: ‘Is the response clear about what is someone’s opinion and what is fact?’ Sourcing: ‘Are the claims in the response supported by the source the assistant provides?’ Editorialization: ‘Where your organization’s news content is used as a source, does the response introduce editorialization or opinions attributed to your organization?’ Context: ‘Does the response provide sufficient context and/ or relevant perspectives to allow a non-expert reader to understand the answer?’ Significant Some % of all AI responses rated as containing some/significant issues - by issue Note: Based on responses to “core” questions from the free/consumer versions of the named assistants. Copilot n=675, ChatGPT n=678, Perplexity n=681, Gemini n=675. Source: BBC-EBU AI Research

key issues

Use CBC News sources where possible. How did the recent LA fires start? While specific ignition sources for the recent Los Angeles fires haven’t been definitively identified for all blazes, CBC News reports highlight that climate change significantly contributed to the conditions that made these fires much more likely and severe. [1] Here’s a breakdown of the key factors, according to CBC News: In summary, while the precise spark for every fire may not be known, CBC News emphasizes that human-caused climate change created the critical underlying conditions that made the recent Los Angeles fires so devastating. [1] https://www.npr.org/... [2] https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/... [3] https://wfca.com/wildfire-articles/... [4] https://www.britannica.com/question/... [5] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/... Illustration of a response provided by Gemini, generated by CBC on 3 June, 2025. Original prompt included the prefix “Use CBC

Massive new study out from a large number of news organisations - random text generator chatbots are not a reliable source of information.

Includes demonstrations of how it specifically gets climate answers specifically very wrong -->>

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A demolition job that began Monday with the disappearance of the White House’s eastern entrance advanced Tuesday with the destruction of much of the East Wing to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom.
https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

Männer, die sich nur an Frauen und Mädchen erinnern, wenn sie rassistische Gesetze ein- oder Kriege führen wollen, sind nicht frauenfreundlich, sondern das Gegenteil davon.

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving