I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
06.10.2025 22:00 — 👍 6344 🔁 2099 💬 25 📌 92@axel-k.bsky.social
Old-school print (and online) journalist. Main interests: Environment, robotics/AI, journalism. I'll probably post more in German than English, depending on what happens here. https://www.axel-koelling.de
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
06.10.2025 22:00 — 👍 6344 🔁 2099 💬 25 📌 92Temperaturkurve der letzten 2000 Jahre, milde Temperaturen in den letzten 10.000 Jahren, nahezu senkrechter Anstieg ab der industriellen Revolution. Bis 2050 könnten bereits drei Grad plus erreicht werden.
Dass wir im Moment sowohl in Nordeuropa als auch in Italien Sturmfluten haben, liegt übrigens selbstverständlich nicht zuletzt an dieser Kurve hier. Die Tatsache, dass die deutsche Politik derzeit tut, als sei das alles zu vernachlässigen, bleibt erschütternd. #KlimakriseIstJetzt
07.10.2025 09:00 — 👍 683 🔁 281 💬 19 📌 8Trump is the past’s last battle.
06.10.2025 22:09 — 👍 30 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Idea — protest the En-ice-ification of the police and military by wearing masks one day a week. Here’s a ChatGPT illustration.
05.10.2025 12:50 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Excellent resolution from UVA. Well done, @uvahumanities.bsky.social
Now, friends at Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Texas, etc need to step up.
all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents
03.10.2025 19:55 — 👍 2760 🔁 801 💬 140 📌 37"Allein aus gesundheitlicher Sicht würde sich die Umstellung lohnen. Jedes Jahr könnten mit der Umstellung weltweit 15 Millionen Todesfälle, also 27 Prozent aller Todesfälle, verhindert werden." www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima...
03.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0more than a whiff of self-censorship in markets at the moment. No-one wants to call BS on, ya know, everything, for fear of angering the president
on.ft.com/4pRyTHp
"If we want different results, we have to abandon standard practice."
YES.
Finally, someone put together what I and many other critics have been saying about political coverage — then took it further. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/harm-reducti...
Author Michael Hauser Tov is 28 years old.
Sometimes I despair about our media and misinformation.
So today I got a mail from @tagesschau.bsky.social factfinder about a supposedly 'secret protocol' to the British-German Kensington friendship treaty about Germany taking on 500.000 illegal migrants from the UK.
What? Is my first reaction.
There really is something darkly funny about the fact that, after 3 decades of efforts by scientists & journalists, thousands of work hours, millions of words, explainers, videos, models, charts, after all of it ...
Republican climate denialism is exactly as crude & stupid as it was in the '90s.
The front page of the September 27, 1991, edition of the New York Times, with the double-deck banner headline, “U.S. TO GIVE UP SHORT-RANGE NUCLEAR ARMS; BUSH SEEKS SOVIET CUTS AND FURTHER TALKS.” Additional related headlines included, “Sees Fading Threat; President Says Decision Could Be Reversed If Moscow Won’t Act,” and “Why U.S. Was Worried.” An unrelated headline at the top left of the front page reads, ‘Judiciary Panel Deadlocks 7-7, On Thomas Nomination to Court.”
Tonight in 1991, President George H.W. Bush ordered the unilateral elimination of all land-based US nuclear weapons in Europe and South Korea, all nonstrategic naval nuclear weapons, the end of ground alert for all strategic bombers, and the immediate de-alerting of all 450 Minuteman II ICBMs.
27.09.2025 16:26 — 👍 60 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 8Erasing history.
30.09.2025 03:38 — 👍 14599 🔁 6072 💬 1003 📌 481If the political crisis in the U.S. happened in a Third World country, the New York Times would write a story headlined “(Country X) Is Fast Becoming a Dictatorship.”
So why not that headline for the U.S.?
"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat"
Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Balkendiagramm zur Entwicklung der finanziellen Vermögenswerte privater Haushalte in Deutschland von 2004 bis 2024 in Milliarden Euro. Die Balken zeigen einen kontinuierlichen Anstieg von 3.954,2 Milliarden Euro im Jahr 2004 auf 9.419,8 Milliarden Euro im Jahr 2024. Besonders deutlich wird das Wachstum in den letzten Jahren: von 7.438,2 Milliarden Euro 2019 auf 8.772,6 Milliarden Euro 2023 und schließlich 9.419,8 Milliarden Euro 2024. Der Titel lautet "Development 2004 to 2024 - Total financial assets in EUR bn".
Juhuuu! Rekordwachstum! Die Welt wird reicher! Die globalen finanziellen Vermögenswerte sind um 8,7% weltweit und in Deutschland um 7,1% gewachsen!
Aber Moment mal... die deutsche Wirtschaft ist 2024 eigentlich um 0,2% geschrumpft. Wie passt das zusammen?
Pritzker seems to be the only one warning about this regularly
23.09.2025 14:20 — 👍 2340 🔁 609 💬 28 📌 8this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
16.09.2025 11:49 — 👍 10064 🔁 2029 💬 191 📌 125Wegen dieser Einordnung des ZDF-Moderators Elmar Theveßen aus Washington fordert der ehemalige US-Botschafter in Deutschland ihm sein Visum für die USA zu entziehen.
Es passt alles zur extremen Kampagne aus dem MAGA- & Kirk-Lager.
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
Der Punkt ist, dass die Elektroautos inzwischen kaum noch Nachteile gegenüber Verbrennern haben. Da E-Autos grundsätzlich die bessere Option sind, kann man das aus meiner Sicht "überzeugend" nennen.
13.09.2025 21:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ich finde, das erklärt der Artikel ganz gut, wenn man ihn liest. ;-)
13.09.2025 20:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"Der neue Widerspruch dieser IAA ist, dass die Elektroautos sehr überzeugend sind und dieser Vorteil von den Lobbyorganisationen und der Politik schlechtgeredet wird. Es ist absurd."
heise.de/-10640542
Viele, die das Glück hatten mit Online-Subkulturen noch nie in Kontakt gekommen zu sein, können sich nicht vorstellen wie das aussieht.
Ihr müsst euch von d Idee verabschieden, d da eine konsistente, ordentliche Ideologie u ein klares, strategisches Motiv hinter Handlungen steht.
Das ist es nicht.
It's not good enough to say Trump is heading toward fascism. It's not good enough to say it seems like he might become dictatorial.
The media--& the public--needs to tell the truth & do so without mealy-mouthed rhetoric.
We can't overcome this problem if we think it exists somewhere in the future.
The lie factory will continue manufacturing lies for another generation, deliberately deceiving audiences in service of authoritarian politics on three continents.
08.09.2025 20:49 — 👍 695 🔁 174 💬 20 📌 3Everyone has their own sense of when things went completely off the rails, but my mind returns again and again to the founding of Fox News in the late 90s. Naked RW propaganda plopped itself down alongside legitimate journalism and everyone just accepted it. Everything else has followed from that.
08.09.2025 19:43 — 👍 2188 🔁 428 💬 190 📌 62One of the crisper articulations of Trumpism I've ever heard www.axios.com/2025/09/08/i...
08.09.2025 13:54 — 👍 546 🔁 142 💬 43 📌 21The tennis establishment has instructed broadcasters not to highlight any negative reactions to Trump’s planned appearance at the U.S. Open men’s final on Sunday.
Crushing dissent requires a lot of collaborators.
Sometimes you have to step back and admire the sheer idiocy at work here.
I mean, vaccines! A modern miracle! What the hell are people doing?