Have we passed peak social media? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/a072...

This is kinda sad

“I was hesitant to accept that— and the Prime Minister of Israel just says it.” @timmiller.bsky.social & @cameronkasky.bsky.social react to Netanyahu openly admitting 🇮🇱 plans to influence the TikTok algorithm now that Trump-aligned billionaires control the app. Full: youtu.be/qxZQT-923S0?...

“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

workslop! hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Eine Folgestudie von Betterup Labs und dem Stanford Social Media Lab deckt ein Problem auf: Künstliche Intelligenz am Arbeitsplatz produziert hochwertigen Schrott in großen Mengen. KI-generierte Inhalte, die professionell aussehen, aber inhaltlich völlig wertlos sind. www.golem.de/news/produkt...

While Trump was displaying real-time cognitive decay at the UNGA, we were all cringing. Here is the Swiss Foreign Minister. We are all Ignazio Cassis today. Maybe everyday the Dolt in Chief speaks.

Das sollte auch in meiner Schweiz-TL genau zur Kenntnis genommen werden: Bei rechtbürgerlichen Parteien zeigt die Forschung seit jeher: Anbiedern an SVP &co bringt nichts. Menschen wählen lieber das Original. Nun zeigt eine ganz neue Studie: Das gilt auch für Parteien *links* der Mitte (s. Labour)

"40h pro Woche arbeiten. Das ist doch weniger als ein Viertel! Da geht doch mehr!" Man hört das Argument von Wirtschaftstreibenden, jetzt auch vom deutschen Kanzler. Das Missverständnis dahinter: Viel arbeiten ist in erster Linie ein Privileg - das für viele einfach außer Reichweite liegt (Thread)

Of course www.wsj.com/business/ene...

So you're saying there's a chance...

«Trump liebt die Schweiz.» 🤫 www.woz.ch/2515/geballt...

“There is no excuse for what is happening in Gaza. The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard – both legal and moral.” If the Red Cross is THIS outspoken you know something is terribly wrong. www.icrc.org/en/statement...

Protesters in Tel Aviv took to the streets carrying flour bags and pictures of malnourished children from Gaza, calling for the end of the war on Gaza and the hunger. #protest #TelAviv #Gaza #hunger #IsraelGazawar #Israel

I have a new paper on "The Psychology of Virality" with @steverathje.bsky.social We explain how similar psychological processes (eg preferential attention to negativity, social motives, etc.) drive the spread of information across online and offline contexts: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Brutalisierung ohne Grenzen: "Eine aktuelle Studie kommt zu dem Schluss, dass der Kahlschlag bei USAID in den kommenden fünf Jahren mehr als 14 Millionen zusätzliche Tote zur Folge haben könnte. Davon könnten rund fünf Millionen Kinder unter fünf Jahre alt sein".

Wundert Euch nicht, wenn diese Woche eine der heißesten der letzten Jahre wird: Wir tun global alles dafür. Wir verbrennen weltweit fast doppelt so viel Kohle wie 2000. Und die großen internationalen Banken haben 2024 neue fossile Projekte mit 869 Mrd. Dollar finanziert, 20 % mehr als 2023.

Musk, who think he’s humanity’s savior, will likely be remembered as the man who caused the deaths of 15 million people www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

How the next financial crisis starts https://on.ft.com/4kb3nAj

Huge implications from this: Microsoft cut off the email of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, because of his work on Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/t...

"Eine Untersuchung des MIT legt nahe, dass der Einsatz von KI-Assistenten wie ChatGPT beim Verfassen von Texten zu einer 'kognitiven Schuld' führen kann – einem Zustand, bei dem ausgelagerte Denkarbeit die eigene Lernfähigkeit und kritische Auseinandersetzung beeinträchtigt."

Wieder einmal der beste Beweis, dass der Markt sich eben nicht einfach so dekarbonisieren wird, sondern dass es davon abhängt, welche Grenzen ihm die Politik setzt. Und wenn wieder Klimaleugner gewählt werden, dann wird sich auch der Markt daran anpassen. www.ft.com/content/dbb3...

Opinion: There has been a steep and steady decline in 'task discretion' since the 1990s. This is a measure of how much influence people say they have over their day-to-day work, such as which tasks to do and how to do them. ⁠https://www.ft.com/content/45260941-711b-4742-999a-f17eeb4b5a15

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A secret experiment that turned Redditors into guinea pigs was an ethical disaster—and could undermine research that’s only getting more urgent, @tombartlett.bsky.social reports.

The zombie theory of vote switching. Only a tiny share of today's far-right voters are former social democrats. True in the UK as much as in other European countries. Yet, in politics, media and the public debate this narrative lives on. No matter how much evidence you throw at it, you can't kill it

If anything mattered, responding to almost anything these people say with "Specifically how?" or "What do you base that on?" would cause the entire right-wing movement to immediately unravel.

What are the political consequences of long-term population loss? In a new paper for German Politics @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social, Hendrik Träger and I find that East German places more affected by depopulation provided stronger support for the AfD in recent state elections.🧵👇 shorturl.at/cujwa

At least 140,000 children and 67,000 adults have died as a result of Musk, the orange, and Rubio terminating USAID support to healthcare and food aid. The lag effects of HIV/AIDs, TB and malnutrition will soon start increasing the toll more rapidly.

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

not surprising. if you own the platform, you make the rules.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

"Dazwischen geht es stark in die Richtung eines zügellosen und blinden Einkaufs von Schlangenöl – also das ganze Gerede über künstliche Intelligenz. Die soll bei nahezu allem helfen, was nicht gut läuft: Wirtschaftsaufschwung? KI. Personalmangel? KI. Verwaltungsdigitalisierung? KI."

Maddow covered the story for the masses. Great interview. Guy is clearly shaken. At times, his lawyer spoke for him because of it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=DLPL...

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."

Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.

The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just an idle thought about "winning back" right-wing populist voters. 1. Suppose some policy was certain to lead to net positive voter flows from right-wing parties to mainstream ones, e.g. some version of the accommodation-works view is correct (which is very likely not the case). 2. This

First poll on the Le Pen trial 49% say they are satisfied, 29% unhappy, 29% indifferent 57% see it as a normal outcome, 42% say there was political motivation 68% think provisional application of a sentence is in principle justified www.bfmtv.com/politique/fr...

Als Teil seines "Entlastungspakets 27" will der Bund das Budget des SNF @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social um 10% kürzen. Wäre das wirklich klug, ausgerchnet in dem Moment, wo uns die US-Regierung das Feld freimacht im internationalen Wettbewerb um Top-Talente (👇)? 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Grosse watson-Umfrage zeigt: Die Haltung zum Kampfjet F-35 kippt.

Ende letzter Woche gab es einige Einwände gegen diesen Post. Ich habe deshalb nochmals Befunde zu sozial- und wirtschaftspolitischen Einstellungen der AfD-Wählerschaft zusammengetragen. Ebenfalls habe ich zu diesem Thema Survey-Daten der GLES und des ALLBUS ausgewertet. Ein langer Thread.🧵

The list of Trump's forbidden words that will get flagged at the US National Science Foundation. Most of them are social science standard terms like polarization, socio-economic or minority. gizmodo.com/the-list-of-...

Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.