Tanja Domej

Eine Bundes-Krise kann jedenfalls erst beginnen, nachdem die Landeshauptleute informiert wurden (§ 3 Abs. 1 B-KSG), sonst wäre es ja keine österreichische Bundes-Krise!

Understandable. Berries are delicious.

"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."

Beim Abgesang auf die regelbasierte Weltordnung mitzuschmettern wird nicht zum Besten Europas und der Europäer sein.

"K72" passt sehr gut. Ältere mit Wienbezug werden sich an "Hot Lotion" im B72 erinnern.

To throw trans people or any other vulnerable minority under the bus "for the greater good" is to sacrifice the greater good itself.

Winterthur warnt Zürich – doch der Kanton hält an Gesichts­erkennung und Massen­überwachung fest Die Polizei soll den öffentlichen Raum überwachen und Personen identifizieren können. So will es das Parlament – trotz Protesten von Juristen und Linken.

🚨 Automatisierte Gesichtserkennung: Der Kanton Zürich ist auf dem falschen Weg. Wir brauchen rote Linien für Technologien, die mit unserer demokratischen Gesellschaft nicht vereinbar sind. In einem Brief fordern Professor*innen und Expert*innen den Kantonsrat nun auf, den Kurs zu korrigieren.

So-called 'nudify' apps. Smart glasses that secretly record video. An explosion in sexualised deepfakes.

Tech has turned against women, and it's time to regulate it properly, says author and gender equality campaigner Laura Bates.

Read more: ft.trib.al/Z3gd5bP

Trump Mocks Women's Hockey Team While Congratulating Men on Gold President Donald Trump mocked the U.S. Women's hockey team during a congratulatory call to the men's team after winning the Olympic gold medal.

The president complained to the men's Hockey team that he would also have to invite the women’s team to White House

25-170 CERTIORARI GRANTED SUNCOR ENERGY, INC., ET AL. V. COMM'RS BOULDER CTY., ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. In addition to the question presented by the petition, the parties are directed to brief and argue the following question: Whether this Court has statutory and Article III jurisdiction to hear this case.

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether federal law precludes state-law claims seeking relief for injuries allegedly caused by the effects of interstate and international greenhouse-gas emissions on the global climate.

NEW: The Supreme Court will hear a case over whether federal law precludes state-law claims over greenhouse-gas injuries — and adds a question over whether SCOTUS has jurisdiction to hear the case.

This is the only new grant in this morning’s orders: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

[standing around the ruins of my faberge egg collection with a hammer] someone could probably replace these as fast as i broke them

Kaori Sakamoto helps Alysa Liu secure her stuffie with the medal so it’s all tucked in

A Canadian hockey player fumes over being handed a stuffie while he wears a silver medal with disgust

the contrast with figure skating, where everyone was delighted and Kaori even helped Alysa secure her stuffie with the medal, is especially funny

Can confirm that everything folks have praised about my work has come from having the protections of tenure.

NEW

How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence

How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir

By me, at FT

www.ft.com/content/5207...

Translation: Gordon Brown is apocalyptically furious that as he was trying to do a good job, which he was clearly far better able to do than his opponents, Mandelson & Andrew were both actively trying to screw him over for the benefit of their rich pedo pal, & yes he will happily see them both burn

Die perverse Menschenfeindlichkeit dieses "Arguments", das man auch in "wissenschaftlichen" Beiträgen in vermeintlich seriösen Zeitschriften findet, ist unerträglich. Wer es in den Mund nimmt, ist nicht gesellschaftsfähig.

How much more of all this are we supposed to take, genuinely?

How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

Garrett Hardin Garrett Hardin was a prolific and controversial writer whose 1968 article “The Tragedy of the Commons” launched him onto the national stage as one of the intellectual leaders of the environmental move...

It's amazing how many people don't know what *else* the biologist who wrote _The Tragedy of the Commons_ did and said: www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...

Having read the Tragedy of the Commons, I am not too surprised. It is a terrible piece.

There's some material on this at pp.56-57 of the PDF, but for every reference to consumer protection there are three references to business needs: assets.gov.ie/static/docum...

Will the strategy do anything to address the difficulties that people elsewhere in Europe are facing when trying to enforce their rights against social media companies based in Ireland? There is a widespread impression in Germany & Austria that the Irish authorities are very uncooperative.

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

I am jealous.

We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing.

Die Idee, dass das "Recht" in irgendeiner Form abstrakter wäre als ein "Volk" ist, sagen wir mal, auch eine konkrete politische Aussage.

introducing EU regulations requiring Olympic figure skaters to do routines to whatever their country's entry for the most recent Eurovision was

YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest JJ – Wasted Love (LIVE) | Austria 🇦🇹 | Grand Final | Winner of Eurovision 2025

This one could work.
youtu.be/onOex2WXjbA?...

YouTube video by CNN Why this Olympic t-shirt is stirring controversy

IOC selling a 1936 Olympics t-shirt.

youtube.com/shorts/Ql-Hu...

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.