Pia Haindl

Spannend auch das Kapitel zu d Einstellungen zur Neutralität: Von allen abgefragten Funktionen d Neutralität bekommt die identitätsstiftende d meiste Zustimmung ("ist Teil der staatlichen Identität Österreichs"). Der Schutzfunktion (vor Angriffen, Kriegen) wird weit weniger Bedeutung beigemessen.

New Research: The Inherent Conflict of Interest in Carbon Markets The allure of “verified” carbon credits is obvious, but new research finds the verification process deeply flawed by the fact that auditors are hired and paid by project developers, creating a financi...

The answer to the many, many stories of shady carbon credits has been verification. Surely if these credits are audited, we can trust them, right? A new study says nope, conflict of interest abounds. @rishpardikar.bsky.social has the story for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/carbon-...

The long Journies of our Old Discarded Clothes

20 tracked discarded garments from Austria covered 81,000 km, travelled to three continents!

A team from @greenpeace.at attached trackers to old clothes disposed in collection points - and then watched as they made absurd journeys around the world. fm4.orf.at/player/20250... via @fm4.orf.at

a chart showing rising dc power consumption but flatlining renewable growth levels

Nice FT citing Ireland, where data centre power demand has massively outpaced clean power growth - meaning increased burning of fossil fuels

You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism.

www.ft.com/content/0f61...

Data centre operator successfully challenges decision to refuse it planning permission for two new centres | BreakingNews.ie EdgeConneX Ireland said that it was not within the remit of South Dublin County Council to determine whether there was sufficient capacity on the national grid.

New data centre secures planning permission in Dublin, absurdly arguing that being powered mainly by on-site gas turbines means it will “play a part in Ireland’s decarbonisation strategy” - it’s the most deceitful yet common argument thrown out there.

www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/data...

OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost

No secret that the reason companies like OpenAI intentionally hide their energy and environment metrics is because they look very, very, very, very bad and the company is more valuable if the damage they do is kept secret

Die 100 reichsten Familien besitzen 11 Prozent des Vermögens und somit 3x mehr als 2,1 Millionen Haushalte zusammen.

Das trend-Magazin hat die Vermögen der 100 Reichsten in Österreich veröffentlicht:
▪️100 Familien besitzen 11% des Gesamtvermögens
▪️51 Milliardär:innen – stehen 1.300.000 Armutsgefährdete gegenüber
▪️Den Top 5% gehören 53%
▪️Die untere Bevölkerungshälfte teilt 4%
➡️Vermögen- & Erbschaftssteuern jetzt!

A Canadian doctor explains the difference between the universal health care system in Canada, where everyone is covered and there are no out-of-pocket costs, and the American system where people go bankrupt in order to receive cancer treatment.

Women over 65 still at risk from cancer from HPV and should be offered cervical screening – study Cases of cervical cancer among older people rising globally as research finds over-65s more likely to have HPV infections than younger women Routine cervical screening should be offered to women aged 65 and over as they are still at heightened risk of cancer from human papillomavirus (HPV), according to research. Despite it being a preventable disease, there were about 660,000 cases of cervical cancer and 350,000 deaths from it worldwide in 2022, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Continue reading...

Women over 65 still at risk from cancer from HPV and should be offered cervical screening – study

A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.

Sehr interessant: Einzelne Studien deuten darauf hin, dass der Einsatz von KI eine Homogenisierung im Denken vorantreibt - das heißt zB, dass Leute sehr ähnliche Gedanken und Worte benutzen, nachdem sie zuvor die KI konsultiert haben

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Five things to remember about war:

Lest das von @juliacapulet.bsky.social und Elisabeth Hofer über das "schirchste" Ministerium Wien's. Morgen in der PamS.

Published posthumously in 2023, Pirate Enlightenment is a book by David Graeber. The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy. Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!

Published posthumously in 2023, Pirate Enlightenment is a book by David Graeber.

The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy.

Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!

#194 Der Fall Pilnacek #12: Peter Pilz über offene Fragen & Kritik | Die Dunkelkammer – Der Investigativ-Podcast Von Michael Nikbakhsh. Ausgabe #194 behandelt wieder den Fall Christian Pilnacek und die vielen offenen Fragen. Im Studio ist Peter Pilz, der Autor eines Buches, das seit Monaten für Debatten sorgt un...

„Ich stehe auf der Seite der Aufklärung und für mich ist das schlicht und einfach nicht aufgeklärt.“
Sehr klare & ruhige Worte von @mnikbakhsh.bsky.social zur Causa Pilnacek in der aktuellen Podcast Folge.

dunkelkammer.simplecast.com/episodes/194...

Billionaires are spending their fortunes building luxury bunkers to survive an anticipated societal collapse caused by the climate crisis.

What if, that wealth was used to fund the transition away from fossil fuels and destructive agricultural practices instead?
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Thank you @iwm.at @erstestiftung.org & to everyone who came to my Europe Speech on migration & borders yesterday. It was an unforgettable evening for me, one whole hour in which I felt fully at home in the square after months and months of political homelessness. Speech 👉 www.iwm.at/news/a-speec...

Ausdrucken, auswendig lernen, umgewöhnen

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

„Musk’s rampage through the bureaucracy may not have created any savings at all, and if it did, they were negligible (…)
[it is] estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year“

Heinz Fischer, Danielle Spera und Muna Duzdar über Israels Gaza Krieg - #1403 | FALTER Radio Eine Debatte zur Kriegsführung der Regierung Netanjahu und was Europa tun kann

Sehr spannende Diskussion in der es alle drei Diskussionsteilnehmer gut schaffen eine Diskussion aufrecht zu erhalten, was angesichts der Tragödie in Gaza und Israel verwundert. @falter.at @raimundloew.bsky.social @munaduzdar.bsky.social #heinzfischer #daniellespera

shows.acast.com/falter-radio...

I am so not indifferent towards receiving this book today! By the brilliant Naisargi Davé,whose ethnography on queer activism in India I read with my students. This book is on interspecies being, but I will read it rgd. #listening particularly the chapter “Can the subaltern be silent?”
#anthropology

YouTube video by Bruno Kreisky Forum für internationalen Dialog Hannes Werthner: DIGITALER HUMANISMUS

Mein Gespräch mit Hannes Werthner darüber, wie wir die Macht der Tech-Oligarchen brechen und die Infrastruktur der Demokratie zurück erobern. youtu.be/rhZ_ldWMLCM?...

Wieso hat mein WhatsApp einen Kreis? Und wie geht er weg? – Besser Leben | Newsflix.at Meta, also der Mutterkonzern von WhatsApp, Facebook und Instagram, installiert seine KI nun auf allen Smartphones. Ungefragt. Und unlöschbar. Was das soll, ob wir damit ausspioniert werden und wie Sie...

Wieso hat mein WhatsApp einen Kreis? Und wie geht er weg?
Meta installiert seine KI auf immer mehr Handys, nun auch in Österreich. Ungefragt. Und unlöschbar. Was Sie darüber wissen sollten. www.newsflix.at/s/wieso-hat-...

YouTube video by South Sider Kowloon Walled City Documentary (English Subtitles)

Das faszinierendste, was ich je auf YouTube gesehen habe: Eine österreichische(!) Doku über die Kowloon Walled City in Hongkong, wo 10.000e Menschen auf 2,5 ha „wohnten“.

Absolut dystopische Bilder, dank dem großen Hugo Portisch. 🇦🇹
youtu.be/S-rj8m7Ssow?...

Film: Totschweigen

Das Filmarchiv Austria zeigt online ausgewählte Filme gratis & diesmal eine der härtesten Dokus, die ich kenne. "Totschweigen".
Ein Filmteam fährt nach Rechnitz, um sich auf die Spuren der 180 jüdischen Zwangsarbeiter zu begeben, die hier ermordet wurden.
www.filmarchiv.at/de/filmarchi...

If you paid $1 In federal income taxes, you paid more than:

Tesla in 2024 & 2022
AT&T in 2021
Nike in 2020
FedEx in 2020
Dish Network in 2020
Amazon in 2017-2018
Elon Musk in 2018
Jeff Bezos in 2007 & 2011
Carl Icahn in 2016-2017

Yes. It’s time to tax the rich.

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.

That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.

So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

The Promise of American Higher Education No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

Harvard hält stand.
@arminwolf.at @thomasl.bsky.social #Zib2
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

Opinion | Are Embryos Property or People? Even the Courts Don’t Know. These clusters of cells are increasingly at the center of legal disputes, resulting in piecemeal decisions that have far-reaching consequences.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Are embryos people or property? A number of legal cases around IVF and its ramifications paint a messy picture that “should spur us to grapple with the current inconsistencies in our laws and ethics,” Anna Louie Sussman writes in a new series from Times Opinion.

If you don't feel like scouring my skyline for all the places I've talked about why encouraging profligate & uncritical use of "AI" in education & public life is is so so so very bad, you can read more on what makes this situation so dangerous & problematic here: afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=5899

Trump Aid Cuts End Contraception Access for Millions of Women The United States was a key supplier of contraceptives in many developing countries. The Trump administration has ended that support.

The U.S. is ending funding that provided contraception to nearly 50 million women, many in the world’s poorest countries. The change stands to have enormous implications, including more maternal deaths and an overall increase in poverty.