Frederik Hoedeman

YouTube video by Google DeepMind Genie 3: Creating dynamic worlds that you can navigate in real-time

GPT-5 may be slightly disappointing, Genie 3 demo blew me away... Watch it.
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YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat RANT: The West Is Sleepwalking Into Putinism

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The running total of Trump’s crippling weakness with Putin:
2 weeks deadline to observe a ceasefire
Another 2 weeks
Then an extra 50 days
Then 10 days
Now another 7 days…
…to discuss Ukraine giving up all land Putin has invaded

Why Ukraine can’t trust the White House

Me, a month ago: “Should Putin find a way to stroke the president’s ego, give him an opportunity for a grand media spectacle, and allow him to make some more headlines, another sudden U-turn might be in the offing.”

Diese Karte von Clement Molin zeigt, was die Ukraine aufgeben müsste ohne irgendetwas dafür zu bekommen.

„Progresivní Česko“? V konfrontaci s populisty je... | FORUM 24 KOMENTÁŘ / Červencový volební průzkum u sousedů vede středové hnutí Progresivní Slovensko (PS) s 22,1 % hlasů. V Česku ovšem koalici SPOLU obdobný výk...

„Progresivní Česko“? V konfrontaci s populisty je třeba pracovat na širokých demokratických koalicích www.forum24.cz/progresivni-...

It’s true Duolingo. This <is> a hard exercise…

Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland | Journal of Democracy Restoring liberalism after illiberalism is no easy task: Leaders face hard choices between acting quickly and effectively while maintaining a commitment to democratic procedure. Worse…

“This article examines the challenges facing governments aiming to restore liberal democratic institutions after illiberal rule. It uses the case study of Poland under Donald Tusk’s current government which defeated populist Law and Justice (PiS) in 2023” www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/dem...

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

Exclusive | China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies Beijing is squeezing the flow of key elements needed to make defense systems, a sign of the leverage China has over the U.S. military supply chain.

#China beschränkt den Bezug kritischer #Rohstoffe durch die westliche #Rüstungsindustrie.

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Russian-Occupied Donetsk, Mariupol Face Collapse Amid Severe Water Shortage In Russian-occupied Donetsk and Mariupol, the taps have all but run dry. What little water reaches homes comes for only a few hours every few days—often rust-colored, foul-smelling, and undrinkable.

Wherever they go Russians turn the place into a *bardak*.

First they destroy something, then try to fix it, while taking massive bribes to do so and of course, it still doesn't work.

It's the Russian way.

Welcome to Russki Mir, the Russian World.

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"The climate has always been changing" -- played a clip of himself warning about climate change in 2016, EPA chief Lee Zeldin now dismisses it

For too long, Europe has relied on China for trade, Russia for energy and the US for security.

Ekstremværsommeren 2025

Det er så lett å normalisere klimakatastrofen vi gjennomlever. Dette er en fantastisk foto-artikkel av Kristian Elster på NRK som minner oss på hvor ekstrem denne sommeren har vært, og konsekvensene det har fått www.nrk.no/klima/ekstre...

NATO’s popularity with the people we did this to remains a complete and unsolvable mystery beyond the brains of the leading luminaries of international relations such as Chomsky, Mearsheimer & DipshitBunchOfNumbers.

OTD in 1940, USSR formally annexed Lithuania. Soviets troops had been "invited in" (in accordance with absolutely nothing to do with our treaty with Nazis) & then held "elections" where 99%+ voted to join USSR.

None of this should sound familiar to you.

Global konfrontation om plastikforurening står for døren Planeten er ved at drukne i plastikaffald. De næste to uger skal verdens lande slås om en global traktat mod plastikbelastningen af miljøet. Olie- og plastproducenter kæmper imod med alt, hvad de har

Planeten er ved at drukne i plastikaffald. De næste to uger skal verdens lande slås om en global traktat mod plastikbelastningen af miljøet. Olie- og plastproducenter kæmper imod med alt, hvad de har.

How climate messaging should be done

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE Here in the USA, the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a report titled “A Critical Review of the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” It is a product of the &#8…

That's just one of many instances of distortion and misinformation in the US Department of Energy "Critical Review on the Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions".
Which in fact is a fossil fuel propaganda scam.
Let's hope Americans are not that easily fooled.
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Brooks and Capehart on Trump's firing of labor statistics head after weak jobs report New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump fires the head of the agency that produces the monthly j...

"I don't think it can cross Donald Trump's mind that there are neutral arbiters who are objective and not politicized. But this is the weakness of authoritarian or pseudo-authoritarian regimes. They create an atmosphere in which it's not possible to be honest with the executive."
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Inside The Secretive Network that Shaped the Right-Wing Media Machine Also inside: Elon Musk’s PAC gets into the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ discourse with ads, a major MAGA merch shop is making $$ off of ICE puns, and more

"You’ve probably heard of the Koch Network, but that’s for the old GOP. For the MAGA era, meet JD Vance’s Rockbridge Network," writes Scott Schuler in this week's FWIW newsletter.

Peter Thiel, Multimilliardär, libertärer Gegner der liberalen Demokratie, Fan der „dunklen Aufklärung", Viktor Orban
-Vertreter der illiberalen Demokratie und antisemitischer Propagandist (Soros) treffen auf Sebastian Kurz - und der Altkanzler nennt die beiden „alte Freunde"

Erik Åsard: Trumps välde kan bli farligare än 50-talets häxjakt Den otyglade Trumpismen är potentiellt farligare och kan ställa till med större skada än vad McCarthyismen gjorde, skriver statsvetaren Erik Åsard.

Bra text av Åsard.

Erik Åsard: Trumps välde kan bli farligare än 50-talets häxjakt
https://www.dn.se/kultur/erik-asard-trumps-valde-kan-bli-farligare-an-50-talets-haxjakt/

Lyssna på ett samtal om demokratins förgörare och försvarare, i podden Stora idéer med Sverker Sörlin. Gäst är Erik Åsard, som berättar Hitlers väg till makten och den tyska demokratins fall. Vilka likheter och skillnader finns med vår tid?

Lyssna här: storaideer.podbean.com/e/tank-om-hi...

Edvard Munch : The Rainbow, 1898

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well,

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation

“It is shop worn, decades-old, discredited climate denier talking points, dressed up in the clothing of some sensible new set of revelations”

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"Det er i mine øjne problematisk, at vestlige ledere ofte sætter Kina i bås med Rusland og Iran med en fortælling om, at de lande er ude på at forstyrre den regelbaserede verdensorden."

Noget af en kontrast når man lige har læst Anne Applebaums Autokrati A/S- Diktatorerne som vil forstyrre verden.

Alligevel overrasker det mig lidt at en af Danmarks fremmeste kinakendere, Christina Boutrup i "Den Grønne Supermagt" fra 2025 springer så let og elegant hen over Kinas fjendtlighed overfor den demokratiske del af verden, herunder EU.

Boutrup går endda så langt at hun vælger at proklamere at:

Xi Jinping Seen Through the Roadmap of 'Document 9' | JAPAN Forward A 2012 internal CCP circular known as "Document 9" provides key insights into how Xi Jinping views security and helps understand what drives his decisions.

Dokument 9 fra 2012 om de største trusler mod Kina er en noget underrapporteret kilde til at forstå, hvad der driver Kinas EU politik.

Øverst står vestlige demokratier, uafhænge medier, uafhænge domstole og borgerdeltagelse.

Siden i hvert fald 2004 har Rusland haft fokus på samme trusselbillede.