Andrea Warnecke

Sam Thorne

Mietpreise steigen.
CDU: Kann man leider nix machen, ist der Markt.

Lebensmittelpreise steigen.
CDU: Kann man nix machen, ist der Markt.

ÖPNV-Preise steigen.
CDU: Kann man nix machen, Geld ist knapp.

Spritpreise steigen.
CDU: OMG, Krisenstab, Kartellprüfung, CO2 Steuer weg, Tankrabatt her!!!!

Leute, da sterben vermutlich gerade Menschen

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

Das Wort Gespielinnen gehört ab sofort verboten. Da wird einem ja echt schlecht. Wie man nach all den Informationen nicht schlicht von minderjährigen Opfern schreiben kann, ist unbegreiflich

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.

Epstein Files: Loyalität zwischen reichen Männern, radikaler Hass auf Frauen Die Epstein Files zeugen von patriarchalen Praktiken, die weit verbreitet sind – doch oft erst dann schockieren, wenn Ausmaß und Verdichtung des Hasses auf Frauen und Mädchen schwarz auf weiß vor uns ...

"Ihre Körper werden in E-Mails verbal zerstückelt, zerlegt in "Tits", "Cunts", in junges und altes Fleisch. Ist es jung, müsse es massenhaft verfügbar sein – wie Ware."

Lest diesen Text.
Lest, wie unendlich verachtend Männer über Frauen reden.

... aber wie der Autor anmerkt, dann hätte Epstein doch wenigstens den "wegen sexueller Übergriffe aus dem Klerikerstand entlassene(n) US-Kardinal Theodore McCarrick" einladen können.. 🤮

Agreed on the irony regarding 'research'. But I wish people would focus on the simple misogyny of Chomsky's messages ('the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women') and just let that sink in for once.

Uwe Becker,antisemitism commissioner in Hesse,wants Jüdische Stimme to be banned-in the name of the fight against antisemitism.
This has nothing to do with antisemitism,and everything to do with silencing voices critical of Germany's role in the Gaza genocide

www.juedische-stimme.de/hessischer-a...

I'm sure there's lots of context and nuance that I should probably read up on first --- but it sure feels nice to see someone at least trying to push back against our tech overlords (and in the case of x at least, I doubt there's any context that will persuade me otherwise).

Forget about the AI stuff -- that picture is probably the most horrific I've seen among the JE files.

Müllermilch feiert die AfD Müllermilch & AfD – was viele nicht wissen: Mit jedem Kauf landet Geld bei einem Unternehmer, der eng mit Alice Weidel & Co. verbandelt ist. Dazu kommen Millionen-Spenden von Unternehmern, die die AfD...

Müllermilch-Gründer greift @campact.de an.
Theo Müller geht gegen Kampagne vor. Man soll nicht mehr sagen, dass er die rechtsextreme AfD unterstützt.

🤝 Teile diesen Beitrag, damit noch mehr Leute über die AfD-Unterstützung des #Müllermilch Gründers Bescheid wissen.
www.campact.de/blog/2025/09...

And this after years of endless attempts to discredit Gaza Health Ministry statistics - attempts that successfully found their way into almost all Western media reports.

Content accurate as of Jan. 28, 2026. Given evolving administrative and access conditions in Gaza/West Bank, MSF’s registration and operational context may change. This content reflects the most current information available at the time of publication.

It also claims to only contact users via email: support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...

I found this entry on the Signal support page:

"If anyone contacts you within Signal claiming to be a chat bot, security, support or representative from Signal, it is a SCAM and phishing attempt. Immediately select Report and choose to Report and Block.
See how to contact us."

seriously, who cares about anyone's remote familial 'roots'? this is about the breakdown of long-standing interdependent alliances and their strategic implications, and I can only hope this intro was written by an LLM

AI now allows propaganda campaigns to reach unprecedented scale and precision.

Our new paper in Science explains how a disruptive threat is emerging: swarms of collaborative, malicious AI agents.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Led by @daniel-thilo.bsky.social & @kunstjonas.bsky.social

Massive hats off to everyone who dedicated their energy in the months after October 7th to attacking the UNRWA, discrediting the UN, and dismissing, sanctioning, intimidating the ICJ and ICC. Amazing work.

🥳😜

Experts eisen inzicht in verkoop van DigiD-platform aan Amerikaans techbedrijf De geplande overname van het Nederlandse Solvinity door de Amerikaanse multinational Kyndryl leidt tot grote zorgen bij experts. Zij eisen transparantie over de verkoop van het platform waarop DigiD d...

Mensen, opgepast: #DigiD loopt gevaar www.volkskrant.nl/tech/experts...

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."

From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".

Heute ist der perfekte Tag, um eure Erfahrungen zu den fortlaufenden Angriffen auf die Meinungsfreiheit in Deutschland kurz zu notieren und bis morgen Abend 18:00 Uhr an die UN-Sonderberichterstatterin für Meinungsfreiheit zu senden.

Gerne beteiligen und teilen!

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Israeli forces wound 11 after opening fire at Birzeit University Israeli forces mounted an unprecedented assault on Birzeit University on Tuesday in response to a student event expressing solidarity with Palestinian detainees

There is, unsurprisingly, not a single report in western mainstream media about Israel's raid of Birzeit university yesterday. Also not a peep from universities.

www.newarab.com/news/israeli...

I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.