@bormaennchen
Grown up behind the Iron Curtain, communication facilitator by profession, photographer by passion (www.thepictureangle.com), avid knitter, social media user since the noughties, intrigued by tech, anti-autocracy, pro-democracy
"While the U.S. has no permanent national repository yet, Canada, Sweden & Finland are taking innovative, consent-based approaches to create a final repository for their spent fuel inventories..." In short, NOBODY has a solution yet.
www.nuclearinnovationalliance.org/sites/defaul...
So European Commission President UvdL advocates for 'low emission' (but high-radiation) nuclear energy to secure energy supply especially in times of geopolitical tension. Genius! Why not build your enemies' nukes in your own country? They just need to hit them conventionally then!
“per seat licensing sucks if seats are hit by job losses”
I had this thought for a few years but never managed to put it quite so succinctly. Thank you, Georg Zoeller aka the Attention Economist.
www.linkedin.com/posts/georgz...
Dozens of wannabe EU translators who were forced last year to resit a grueling entry exam because of a technical blunder say they have now been incorrectly disqualified.
I may be old-fashioned but people who keep talking over everyone else are just rude.
I'm not sure that 'destroying at source' is really defensive. Words or rather their meanings have become rather elastic of late.
I like to watch Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway's Pivot podcast. That's where Scott first came up with the idea, at least that I know, and I am very glad to see it is gaining traction.
www.resistandunsubscribe.com
Only the men, though. The women dealt with it much more cleverly.
There is always a tweet.
There was a Ukrainian skeleton rider who was disqualified from competition for wearing a helmet - without comment - with pictures of his team mates who had fallen in combat because the ICO considered it a political statement. The locker room footage with your FBI director is what? You're being used!
To the US women ice hockey team: I take my hat off to your win and to the way you dealt with the Trump administration trying to use you to improve their ratings (which are the LOWEST in history, you've never seen anything like it). To the US men's ice hockey team: What were you thinking??????????
How can US ice-hockey players parading a deceased teammate's jersey be a 'beautiful gesture' and a Ukrainian skeleton rider wearing a helmet with uncommented pictures of dead teammates a 'political statement'? Did the politicisation of the helmet happen in the heads of the IOC who disqualified him?
Very powerful thread.
Nei uns im Zwischenhof schon seit ein paar Wochen. Immer noch zaghaft. Und die Forsythie auf dem Balkon hat schon eine offene Blüte.
Of course, it’s humans who are the real drain on the planet (which happens to be true), not AI. So (and this is yet unsaid but we’re halfway there) let’s replace humans.
But of course, he won’t because wearing a clearly political message as an IOC member while also doing work in Gaza (?) is more within the rules than wearing a helmet in honour of one’s fallen fellow athletes. Got it.
So happy that First Felon pleaser Infantilino may be excluded from the IOC for being and wearing a First Felon supporting hat at the Board of Peace meeting.
"The Supreme Court has been swayed by foreign interests." (Trump on tariffs decision) 🤔
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
Studie beweist: Superreiche zahlen weniger Steuern als der Mittelstand Die Zahl der Milliardäre nimmt zu. Gleichzeitig sinken die Steuersätze, die für Superreiche gelten. BMW-Erbin Susanne Klatten etwa zahlt einer Studie zufolge weniger Abgaben als der Durchschnittsbürger.
„Die Zitrone ist ziemlich ausgequetscht“ – Merz lehnt höheren Spitzensteuersatz ab
Derweil die pralle Zitrone:
Yes, pray tell.
My hometown Halberstadt has its very own Olympic Champion now! Bravo, Georg Fleischhauer of the two-man bob team with Johannes Lochner! So proud.
#MiCo2026
I am, watching the Olympics on telly.
I hope Jeff Bezos thinks the money he sunk on the leaden duck that is the Melania documentary (our French/American friends call it 'Rich housewives') was worth it, given how he single-handedly sinks an institution of respected journalism to please... whom?
“OpenAI just announced that ChatGPT receives 1 million prompts per week for local news and acknowledged that journalism is foundational infrastructure for AI systems.” Smart move culling WaPo journalists, Bezos.
I cancelled my WaPo subscription. You're welcome, Bezos.
If the UK Parliament goes on to investigate the Peter Mandelson connection through Global Counsel with the UK government contract going in direct award to Palantir, could the result change the UK government's view of AI in general or even topple the UK government?
www.theregister.com/2026/01/28/m...
There is only one Boss, and his name is not Trump.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...
Here is another gem from the @theatlantic.com article: "Politicized law enforcement. Liberals follow the law whether they like it or not; fascists, only when they like it. Nazism featured a “dual state,” where, at any moment, the protections of ordinary law could cease to apply."
