This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
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This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
“In Iran, Germany Is Helping Dismantle International Law - Again”; my latest on Substack
open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...
The support of international law by the population is more solid than politicians' statements seem to indicate.
A reminder that international law and rules of engagement are there for a reason - and if you simply dismiss them, things like these become more likely www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Apropos Laschet bei Maischberger: Das Völkerrecht hängt nicht davon ab, ob wir Debatte „anfangen“. Es gilt. Für Iran wie für USA, Israel oder Deutschland. Dass man das überhaupt ausbuchstabieren muss, zeigt doch geistige Verarmung der ganzen Debatte.
Linke Buchhandlungen vom Verfassungsschutz beobachten zu lassen – und sie anschließend von Preisen auszuschließen – hat mit Autoritarismus nichts zu tun. Alles ganz normal in der Meinungsfreiheits-Supermacht Deutschland.
Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
Warum verbreitet das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium großspurig, dass das "Habecksche Heizungsgesetz" abgeschafft werde, wenn das Gebäudeenergiegesetz aus 2020 von CDU-Wirtschaftsminister Altmaier stammt? Reiches Sprecherin hatte heute große Mühe diese PR zu verteidigen...
Not quite sure how to articulate this, but: it seems like, as AI becomes steadily more common, more & more of what you encounter in the world -- the whole world, not just online -- is going to be algorithmically selected for you. And that in turn is going to make it effectively impossible ...
Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.
Es ist ganz einfach: Wer überrascht davon ist, dass Alice Schwarzer Alice Weidel abfeiert, hat 30 Jahre lang nicht aufgepasst. Und ALLE, die ihr weiterhin eine Plattform geben um sich als "Cheffeministin Deutschlands" zu profilieren tragen eine Mitschuld an der Normalisierung rechter Propaganda.
Fun to remember that the dad of the Brontës was just a weird Irishman whose surname was actually Brunty, but he changed it up to be fancy.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Picture via a CNN reporter of a banner with Trump’s face going up on outside of DOJ building
Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, according to reports
Story to follow
These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.
*one voice altered to disguise identity
Dieser ganze Diskurs ist mittlerweile so dermaßen entgleist. Wie wäre es, wenn wir darüber reden, was die Zukunft und Gegenwart von Kindern und Jugendlichen real bedroht:
Klimakatastrophe, Armut, fehlende Ressourcen im Bildungssystem, Superreiche und die fehlende Regulierung von Techkonzernen.
Neues #USAUpdate: Rubios Rede auf der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz, die von Wadephul, Pistorius, Söder & Dobrindt mit stehenden Ovationen belohnt wurde: White Nationalist Talking Points, völkisches Denken, Geschichtsklitterung, und Anspielungen auf rechtsextreme "Schuldkult" Narrative.
Cúchullain didn't die defending Ireland from Margaret Thatcher at the Battle Of Clontarf for you to put something other than plain, Catholic sugar on your pancakes
Wow.
Es ist Zeit, Daten nicht länger als Nebenprodukt des Alltags zu betrachten, sondern als das, was sie längst sind: die politische Infrastruktur der Gegenwart. Wer das versteht, wird nicht nur anders über Digitalisierung sprechen – sondern auch über Demokratie.
materie.at/gk/datensoli...
Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech.
She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide.
They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.
Both Neil Patrick Harris and Michelle Yeoh have basically said the same thing as Wim Wenders- everyone at Berlinale looks like they are in a hostage video I swear
Die Berlinale zensiert: Als ich gerade meine Frage an die Jury zum Thema Politik und selektive Menschenrechte stelle, wird der Livestream online unterbrochen. Angeblich „technische Störung“. Weder die Antworten noch die Unruhe im Saal sind zu sehen.
Skandalös!
We should start eating the rich since they are already eating our children
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Childhood was a political project, centuries of activism carving out time and space for young people to grow and learn. It's an unfinished project, and the right wing wants it ended when it's barely even begun.
