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Die deutschen Milliardäre machen wieder, was sie am besten können: ihr Fähnchen ganz prinzipienlos in den Wind hängen

Social media screenshot: Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe. Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza. Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction. He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands. That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are: - punishing a European citizen - for doing his job in Europe - applying laws Europe officially supports - at an institution based in Europe - that Europe helped create and fund and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil. Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic [further text missing]

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wird ab Vollendung des ersten Lebensjahres des Kindes erhöht

Und das alles bei historisch schlechten Chancen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Diese Veränderungen entlasten den Haushalt nicht, aber sie bringen enormes Leid über Menschen, die ohnehin schon am Ende sind.

Zitat Zeit-Text: "Menschen mit psychischen Erkrankungen sollen künftig strenger kontrolliert werden. Sie sollen künftig persönlich beim Jobcenter vorsprechen. So soll geprüft werden, ob die Betroffenen wirklich psychisch krank sind. Diese Regelung könnte sich als problematisch erweisen."

Genial: die Jobcenter laden psychisch Kranke vor, um zu schauen, ob sie wirklich psychisch krank sind. Wenn sie nicht kommen, sind sie "Totalverweigerer*innen", wenn sie es in die Jobcenter schaffen, können sie ja nicht wirklich psychisch krank sein

Schwarz-Rot verständigt sich auf Industriestrompreis, Kraftwerkstrategie und Senkung der Luftverkehrsteuer Union und SPD haben sich in ihrem Koalitionsausschuss auf die Einführung eines Industriestrompreises geeinigt. Außerdem soll Fliegen wieder günstiger werden.

bei der bürgergeld-diskussion hat schwarz-rot die ganze zeit auf einsparungen gedrängt und jetzt schenkt die privatjet-regierung der luftverkehrslobby 350 millionen euro.

da gibt es nichts zu entschuldigen. was für ein dreck

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There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Investing in the Wrong A.I.

Jevin West and I have long argued that if OpenAI survives, it will be as 1000 squirrels in an LLM-shaped trenchcoat. A thin language layer will farm tasks out to 1000 domain-specific modules, much as Google evolved from PageRank to 1000 different systems.

Here's Gary Marcus (h/t @mehr.nz)

Save the Date: JUNE 8–12, 2026.

Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics.
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy.

Sponsored by INEM, the University of Insubria, and the University of Milan.

More information forthcoming.

@catemar.bsky.social
@rseri.me

Auf massive Entrechtung für Menschen in Armut hat sich der Koaltitionsausschuss in der Nacht geeinigt:

1. 100% Sanktion nach 3. verpassten Termin, einschl. Miete
2. 60% bei 2. verpassten Termin
3. 30% Sanktion bei 1. verpassten Termin

dunkler Tag heute für @sanktionsfrei.bsky.social

Streit mit dem Chef auf WhatsApp? Von der Leyen will mitlesen. Der Vorschlag zur Chatkontrolle bedeutet das Ende privater Kommunikation. Wir müssen uns JETZT dagegen wehren!

Ist die Infrastruktur für die Chatkontrolle erst einmal geschaffen, wird sie auch für andere Zwecke genutzt. Was heute mit Kinderschutz begründet wird, kann morgen auf andere Bereiche ausgeweitet werden.

Wir müssen uns JETZT dagegen wehren! #ChatkontrolleStoppen

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Deutsches Ja zu Chatkontrolle? CCC & Co. warnen vor Grundrechtsgefährdung Vor der entscheidenden Abstimmung im EU-Rat appellieren NGOs an die Bundesregierung, bei ihrem Nein zur Chatkontrolle zu bleiben. Sonst drohe eine Katastrophe.

Kontraproduktiv und gefährlich: Der CCC und zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure warnen eindringlich vor drohendem Beschluss zur #Chatkontrolle www.heise.de/news/Deutsch...

"Oberflächlich professionelle, aber inhaltsleere KI-Texte zwingen Mitarbeiter zu stundenlanger Nacharbeit und kosten Unternehmen Millionen Euro. Trotz Milliarden-Investitionen in KI-Technologie bleiben messbare Produktivitätssteigerungen aus. Die scheinbare Effizienz entpuppt sich als Trugschluss"

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

Gemeinsam mit 470 zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen, Gewerkschaften und Verbänden aus Europa und der Welt wenden wir uns an die EU-Kommission und EU-Mitgliedstaaten:

Unsere Rechte, unsere Gesundheit, unser Planet und unser Rechtssystem sind unverkäuflich!

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Rich­te­r:in­nen­wahl: Vereint im Kampf gegen Brosius-Gersdorf Die konzertierte Kampagne gegen die Juristin erinnert stark an einen Fall in den USA und zeigt: Die Neue Rechte folgt synchronisierten Strategien.

"Die Neue Rechte ist global aktiv und vernetzt, und sie folgt synchronisierten Strategien. Zwar war das, was hierzulande gerade auf höchster Ebene passierte, bislang einzigartig. Aber es wird sich wiederholen, an anderer Stelle, mit neuem Personal."
Patricia Hecht

Can basically pleasant bureaucrats be self-aware?

A different but somewhat parallel example: in Albuquerque, there was a statue of the conquistafor Don Oñate in Old Town until 2020. Oñate's subjugation of the Acoma pueblo was so violent that the Crown banned him from returning to New Mexico.

Or, as Sister Catherine puts it,

The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insuf ficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And, indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A method ology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that— and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own pref erences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insuffi ciently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexi ble enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.

Whoa. Spicy footnote from Justice Jackson, dissenting in the ADA case. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Has there ever been a true sexy murder poet?

Vielleicht sollten wir viel öfter ernstnehmen wenn Rechtsradikale sagen sie seien rechtsradikal idk

Also ich weiß ja nicht, warum wir uns diese unverschämte Arbeitszeit- und Faulheitsdebatte überhaupt aufdrängen lassen. Ich schlage stattdessen die Wiedereinführung der Vermögenssteuer vor, damit sich Millionäre und Milliardäre endlich wieder verhältnismäßig am Gemeinwesen beteiligen.

The Economist says that the Gaza health ministry's death toll, criticized by some as inflated and as Hamas propaganda, might actually undercount the death toll (it could be as much as double).

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Glaubt ihr als Augustiner kann der Bier brauen? Also 🦁

Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus Papam. Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum dominum, Dominum Christian, Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalem Lindner, qui sibi nomen imposuit Robert I.

Der von den Nazis verschärfte § 175 StGB, der Homosexualität kriminalisierte, währte nach 1945 unverändert fort. Einige der Verurteilten mussten nach der Befreiung am 8. Mai aus dem KZ ins Gefängnis, um ihre Strafe weiter zu verbüßen. Die BRD verurteilte in den Jahren danach nochmals 50.000 Männer.

I expected the hardliners in the early days of the administration to try to slow walk people from "why do we need to know about Harriet Tubman?" to "how bad is extrajudicial killing really?" but they have opened the bidding at "how bad is cancer really?"

Ok #fairml & algo-fairness people, what are good first sentences for papers that end this madness of "ml is more and more used to make consequential decisions"???

Why Protests Should Be Promises Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."

Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time

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