3 von 5 Wahlberechtigten haben laut jüngsten Umfragen mit allen Parteien gebrochen, die jemals an einer deutschen Bundesregierung beteiligt waren? Eine solche Legitimationskrise gab es nach 1949 noch nie!

3 von 5 Wahlberechtigten haben laut jüngsten Umfragen mit allen Parteien gebrochen, die jemals an einer deutschen Bundesregierung beteiligt waren? Eine solche Legitimationskrise gab es nach 1949 noch nie!

Menschen schon am 1. Krankheitstag verpflichtend zum Arzt zu schicken und die telefonische AU abzuschaffen, ist ein Fehler. Es belastet Praxen mit Bagatellfällen, entmündigt Arbeitnehmer und erhöht die Hürde, sich krankzumelden. Erwartbare Folgen u.a.: Mehr Menschen gehen krank zur Arbeit.

In any sane, political climate, this sort of thing should lead to mea culpas by anyone who's been arguing that the effects of climate change have been overstated, and emergency summits by leaders looking for ways to avoid things getting even worse www.economist.com/science-and-... @economist.com

Ich habe jede Menge wüster Flüche auf der Zunge. Es ist unglaublich Schade um diesen Sender, den ich täglich höre. Dabei ist diese Entscheidung vermutlich nur ein Vorgeschmack, was uns kulturpolitisch bevorsteht, wenn dann die AfD die alte Bürokratie und Förderlandschaft richtig zerlegt...

Vibe coding can be fun, but turning your AI slop into an echo chamber and amplifying it can get unhealthy.

"The Pope is incorrect on matters of theology" is excommunication time. H/t @jumulojimbus.bsky.social

Progress wasn’t tech. It was cognitive diversity. The regression isn’t either - it’s the collapse into one interface, one narrative, one “answer.” From apes to civilisation - to AI-assisted apes.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

The Cambridge Disinformation Summit will discuss, with global lawmakers, the effects on democracy of concentrated media ownership. “No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class.” mronline.org/2025/12/03/t...

Progress wasn’t tech. It was cognitive diversity. The regression isn’t either - it’s the collapse into one interface, one narrative, one “answer.” From apes to civilisation - to AI-assisted apes.

Why is X grok not banned yet in Germany, after it questioned openly the use of Zyklon B in Ausschwitz? What more should be posted by Musks AI grok, before X formerly Twitter gets banned in germany? Grok is responsible for content selection at X, the problem is clearly systemic! x.com/AuschwitzMus...

The global mean temperature just set some new record daily highs for this time of year, despite the emerging La Niña conditions. Wow. Track it daily here: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Just returned to bsky, escaping the AI slop timeline at X, where no more tweets are visible of people i follow, but just influencer nonsense selected by an AI that cant even solve my wordle yet. Happy new grok world.

As the CDU/CSU and SPD presented their political agenda for the current term, right-wing populists emerged as the leading party in election polls.

"Due process is the essence of democracy. That’s what’s so alarming about what's happening today, when the govt is picking someone up on the street, sending them to a prison in El Salvador, and not bothering to ask if they’re guilty. That could happen to anyone. It’s off the charts authoritarian."

Trump seems to make Europe great again

Given the recent political dynamics in Germany, a poll with the AfD on top was bound to happen. But to be there on the day the new coalition is planning to agree its coalition treaty feels omnious. Also shows the frustration and lack of patience in the public, blaming the new gov before it started.

Sonntagsfrage Ipsos zur Bundestagswahl • AfD 25 % | CDU/CSU 24 % | SPD 15 % | GRÜNE 11 % | DIE LINKE 11 % | BSW 5 % | FDP 4 % | Sonstige 5 % ➤ Übersicht: wahlrecht.de/umfragen/ ➤ Verlauf Ipsos: wahlrecht.de/umfragen/ips...

How will germany deal with the tesla factory in Brandenburg a few month into the trade wars?

The new government isn’t even in office yet, but Germany’s right-wing populists are now just 2% away from leading nationwide polls - for the first time ever.

“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.” By @andykroll.bsky.social

Lots of people flirt with fear of AI. But looking at the madness out there, I can't help but wonder if we shouldn't hand over government affairs sooner rather than later -before everything falls apart. Might even do wonders for international understanding.

Merz should bring this to the international crime court to... oh, wait

The moment Trump declared that he wants to turn crypto into reserve currency, everyone started to sell MAGA btc like hot potatos

America is not unique. Any democracy can fall to state capture by disordered discourse if there’s no systematic response. This isn’t something we can fact-check our way out of - it’s deeper than misinformation. It’s about power, identity, and the narratives that shape reality itself.

AfD scheitert bei Hamburg-Wahl, weil Menschen dort schon mal einen Ausländer gesehen haben

A WIRED investigation reveals that billion-dollar scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands are enslaved—are using Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to stay online and keep their operations running.

Elon Musk and his DOGE team are outright idiots.

Friedrich Merz hat leider nicht das Format einer Angela Merkel oder eines Helmut Kohl. Die an Netanyahu ausgesprochene Einladung unter Missachtung des internationalen Haftbefehls - ohne spätere öffentliche Schadensbegrenzung - ist nur ein Beispiel. Das dürfte der AfD schon bald in die Hände spielen.

People who want to tear down bureaucracy for more freedom might end up with even fewer rights - they should do something about financial neofeudalism instead?

2025 is making sophism great again

Bearish on socials. Bullish on offline reputation.

🚨Terrifying beyond belief Completely harrowing timelapse of the Al-Qutayfah mass grave in #Syria, where the corpses of upwards of 100,000 victims of #Assad are thought to be buried.

After the #Assad regime forces kill them and bury them in mass graves, they throw away their ID cards. You can see how many of the ID cards and passports are in just one area، All of them are missing and dead.

25 million BlueSky users in ~35 minutes from now:

Conclusions? 🤔

Was hyperinflation a symptom or rather a cause of the downfall of assad dictatorship? bsky.app/profile/amer...

The images of those freed from Syrian prisons are a stark reminder: 1 in 694 people worldwide are imprisoned, 1 in 161 live in modern slavery, 1 in 12 endure extreme poverty, and 1 in 7 live in conflict zones. We need a global spring to change this.

The future is uncertain but can we just relish this moment as prisoners reunite with families after decades?

2682 billionaeres. Billionaeres wealth doubled over last ten years. How can people still believe in performance-driven society paradigm? It is the age of neofeudalism. www.ubs.com/global/en/we...

I get the concept of sublinear staking, potentially helping ethereum to go beyond 7k p2p nodes, if incentives are well aligned to enfavor unique identity. But could you please elaborate, how are we supposed to establish a sybil-resistant eligibility check for UNIQUEID_TOKEN_ADDRESS , @vitalik.ca ?

Elon musk calling United Nations and World Health Organisation "axis of evil", what could go wrong

crypto meme vs. crypto reality

"Claude, create the worlds most annoying CAPTCHA" "Make it more annoying" "Make it REALLY annoying" (apparently this is all technically solvable)

Amazing, everyone relevant I followed on X seems to be on bsky by now, only the cringe parts of the crypto crowd stays at X, but maybe that is a good thing

Crypto twitter prefers to stay with Elon, even now, why are people so addicted to cringe leadership?

With a dozen of billionaeres each having control over wealth compareable to that of the sun king Louis XIV of versailles in todays terms, i tend to call our current markets a late form of "neofeudal capitalism". The "performance-driven" society paradigm has come to an dead end?

So it is slowly getting more crowded at bsky, is it? Let's do it. I am ready to switch when you are, ppl