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Assistant Professor Governance & Innovation @ University of Groningen | Climate Adaptation | Climate Governance | Sustainability & Digital Innovation | Energy Transition | Geopolitics I have a background in Geography and Political Science
NEW: We just published a deep dive into just how much billionaires are now dominating U.S. politics.
We found 300 billionaire families accounted for 19% of federal donations in 2024. The deluge was even larger in many state and local races.
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Bye-bye Bluesky. Time to move to a European host, e.g. www.eurosky.tech
An unholy coalition between EPP and extreme right just adopted a law enabling ICE-style structures and deportations. A step closer to a dystopian, Trump-inspired deportation policy.
A big step away from a fair, humane and efficient migration system. I urge the EPP to rethink before the plenary vote.
And the war is at 84% approval among Republican, 44% overall
Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.
"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth. None of them through the Strait of Hormuz."
—Bill McKibben
Polls have closed in the first of this year's five German state elections, in prosperous Baden-Württemberg. It's looking like a remarkable win-from-behind by the Greens under @oezdemir.de. Full results over the course of the evening.
Mit Schmutzkampagnen kennt sich die Union ja bestens aus. "Every accusation is a confession."
Hagel eben erneut behauptet, es sei eine Schmutzkampagne gegen ihn gefahren worden, die auch seine Familie sehr mitgenommen hätte.
Wow, die SWR-Wahlrunde zwischen Özdemir, Hagel und Frohnmaier dreht sich die ganze Zeit nur darum, ob die CDU nicht auch mit der AfD koalieren würde. Dabei ist das in BaWü überhaupt kein Thema, aber vollkommen journalistisches Versagen beim SWR.
The comment section is pure gold. And he seems to be quite bitter about it.
Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
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Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.
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I double checked. This is not being reported at WaPo.
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Energy transition the hard way
We are back to inflatable decoy tanks folks...
NEW: U.S. officials say Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to target American forces in the Middle East, including the locations of U.S. warships and aircraft, WaPo reports. Pete Hegseth recently said Russia is “not really a factor here.”
The Iranian regime is warning it will attack European cities in any country that joins Donald Trump’s military operation and governments across the region are stepping up security in response.
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“These are private corporations that, in many respects, have been given a lot of political deference to engage in this very accelerated behavior,” says Nicol Turner Lee of @brookings.edu. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Exzerpieren geht über Studieren
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
Seriously, if the US isn't building a true alternative to the Chinese system (presently, it isn't) but rather a sloppier, more privatized version of it, why in the world would I care if we "win" the AI race? Just so we can live under the boot? www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Oh
Habt ihr verstanden was das heisst?
Trotz all der „super-duper“ MAGA-Technik die am Golf im Einsatz ist, können Shahed Drohnen in einem EKF Umfeld fliegen, dass schlechter ist, als das EKF Umfeld in der Ukraine.
EKF Systeme MAGAstans sind schlechter, als die der Ukraine, heisst das! ‼️☝️
Das IFG Berlin würde durch die geplanten Einschnitte von einem der besten zum möglicherweise schlechtesten #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz Deutschlands fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...
The French singing La Marseillaise in a nuclear submarine base is deeply symbolic.
France built its own independent nuclear deterrent after WWII to never again have to suffer a similar humiliation. Now France is offering to ”advance” that deterrent to other European countries.
LLMs are an epistemic nightmare.
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Full answer at 13:15 -->>
"It's data centers and it's nothing but data centers. And the people who start trying to muddy the waters with EVs and electrification, that's not true. Absolutely not true. There's no data to support it. It's it's not true. Our data shows that it's data centers"
I think that is actually the biggest problem with those systems.
It's not losing some random skill that we have made superflous, it's about taking skills that are the foundation for your agency in this world and your ability to understand it.
“P.S. This post was entirely generated and posted on Substack by agentic AI using my new Claude Code (Opus 4.6) workflow. Make of that what you will.”
So he used the unethical theft machine to hype the unethical theft machine? Color me surprised.
