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Die Affäre um den Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis geht weiter: Der Beauftragte für Kultur und Medien (BKM) hat die drei ausgeschlossenen Buchhandlungen belogen. In einer E-Mail vom Februar teilte der BKM ihnen mit, die Jury hätte sich nicht für sie entschieden. Das war unwahr. (1/6)

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idk… Amodei’s “we’d give you autonomous weapons if they were working correctly” made me pretty sick to my stomach

"Forbes" - Mehr als 400 neue Milliardäre binnen eines Jahres - Elon Musk verdoppelt Vermögen Im vergangenen Jahr hat sich die Zahl der Milliardäre weltweit um mehr als 400 erhöht.

Diese Meldung präsentiert extreme Vermögenskonzentration als Wetterbericht – als würde es regnen. Während 400 neue Milliardäre entstehen, leben Millionen Menschen in Deutschland mit großem Verzicht - trotz Vollzeitjobs. Die Frage ist nicht ob, sondern wie man demokratisch über Wohlstand entscheidet.

So that’s that, right? We don’t have to put up with endless drivel about how expensive it is to save the planet abd ourselves ever again? Cool.

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

France’s former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has called for sanctions against Israel and the US over their attacks on Iran:

“We say clearly to the United States that their war against Iran is illegal, illegitimate, and dangerous.”

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Global wind turbine installations hit a record last year! 😍

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In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing

Iran War Update 5 Events from the last 24 hours

Where we are now.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

We have seen so many unexpected emergent behaviors.. Why self preservation is too far out there for people is beyond me.

So let me get this straight ...

1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil

Qatar warns war will force Gulf to stop energy exports ‘within days’ Brent crude tops $90 after gas producer says it will take ‘weeks to months’ to restore deliveries

Qatar’s energy minister has warned that war in the Middle East could “bring down the economies of the world”, predicting that all Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within days and drive oil to $150 a barrel

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I wonder if China or Russia helped them destroy that radar station. Maybe they are capable enough by themselves, I really don’t know.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

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This is why I kinda like the idea of orgmode and gptel in eMacs. Being able to fold up conversation and explore other paths comes pretty natural that way, since your chat becomes an outliner naturally.

Alle starren auf das Öl, aber durch die Straße von Hormus wird nahezu alles transportiert und ein paar Dinge, die wichtiger sind als Öl: Nahrungsmittel. Anrainerstaaten (VAE, Katar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Irak und Teile Saudi-Arabiens) importieren bis zu 80–90 % ihrer Lebensmittel. /2

Sanchez: “We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values and interests, simply because of the fear of reprisals from some.

We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional and I would also say moral strength of our country

“The Iraq War generated a drastic increase in jihadist terrorism, a serious migration crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean and a generalised increase in energy prices.”
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“But which in reality, seen in perspective, produced the opposite effect, it unleashed the greatest wave of insecurity that our continent has suffered since the fall of the Berlin Wall.”

2/3

More Sanchez: “23 years ago, another US administration dragged us into a war in the Middle East. A war that, in theory, it was said at the time, was being fought to eliminate Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, bring democracy and ensure global security.

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“And 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.”
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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

1/2

So while Merz was desperately attempting to suck up to the rapist in chief, it just made Trump fondle him.

Play fucked up games, win fucked up prices.

Man it really feels insane watching the global order break down in front of me. like is my anxiety disorder especially bad today, or am I aware of how supply chains work and able to read the news