Insightful read on impact of AI: „Anywhere a job involves language and information, this new combination of skills — part rhetoric, part systems thinking, part skepticism about a bot’s output — may become the fabric of white-collar work.“ @clivethompson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...
Women hold only 30% of professorial posts in Germany. Can funding programmes really change this? We evaluated the issue in the Berlin Programme for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching.
Read the report 👉 bit.ly/4ubD8A2
#TechnopolisGroup #TechnopolisDeutschland
„Never say never to a Deal Guy“ www.piratewires.com/p/inside-pen...
This is genuinely really bad, the kind of shit that guarantees a bad outcome. Very dodgy
NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
„Moreover, if even the Chinese Communist Party cannot force women to have children they do not want, nobody can.“ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Anthropic “spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire and slice the spines off millions of books, before scanning their pages to feed more knowledge into the AI models behind products such as its popular chatbot, Claude.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
China created their own ÉNA for AI, with its Yao Class at Tsinghua for top 30 computer science students
The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
[B] Technopolis Deutschland: Public Policy Analyst/Consultant (w/m/d) Umwelt-, Energie- und Klimapolitik, 14.12. #job @technopolis-group.com
https://technopolis-group.jobs.personio.com/job/2432863?_pc=1411138&display=de
Martin Wolf: „…the conclusion might be that Europe now suffers from a paradox of its history: the fragmentation that made its states powerful and rich is, in the new world, a barrier to their remaining so.“
on.ft.com/47LUHfy
Ein Nachruf auf Micha Brumlik:
Gegen die Relativierung von Wahrheit stellte er die Frage nach der Verantwortung
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
I still remember a time when no-one would believe that a state dept could post something like this.
It was only a year ago.
This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.
Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Müllermilch is very big in UK and other countries, so we translated our piece about Theo Müllers extravagant birthday party and his right wing friends with the help of our trusted translator Charles:
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
After making millions as a commodities trader, a job he came to hate, Jonathan Kleisner joined the Fire Department as a rookie paramedic at the age of 41. Now he’s determined to be the best rescue medic anywhere.
Just got round to watching Mario Draghi's speech in Rimini in the original Italian. It is easily the most important speech on Europe so far this year and I hope someone (@grandcontinent.bsky.social?) publishes it in English and other EU languages soon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMME...
‘David Graeber upends the familiar history of the species in which primitive societies were egalitarian and the agricultural revolution brought a new order of class and domination. He wanted to show that life wasn’t really like that.’
@leninology.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Image: Bundeswehr/Christian Schneider
Major General Maik Keller, Deputy Commander of the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine, said in an interview with the FAZ that a few months ago Russia managed to severely damage a MIM-104 Patriot radar unit in #Ukraine.
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A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.
Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system
Jamie Dimon tells Europe: ‘You’re losing’ www.ft.com/content/cccb...
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Once children start first grade, a maths gender gap appears. This likely happens because school confronts them with societal expectations and gender norms, where math is rather associated with boys than girls
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Martin Wolf: „We are at a turning point: we must choose wisely.“ www.ft.com/content/0356...
Thomas Roulleau rappelle que 85%des investissements pour la transition énergétique sont réalisés par les pays avancés et la Chine, les 15% restants étant répartis entre des pays représentant 2/3 de la pop. mondiale. Ils font notamment face à des coûts élevés du capital et au surendettement.
„Europe, which this week launched a renewed effort to invigorate its start-up industry, appears stuck on the old Silicon Valley playbook.“ www.ft.com/content/2261...
Vielleicht (sogar gewollt) BM FuTuRe als Eselsbrücke fürs BMFTR?
