That's a win.

„Aachen zwischen Römerzeit und Karl dem Großen“ Vortrag am 7. Mai, 18 Uhr, im ALM und im Live-Stream! 👇

"But we can't use pastureland for anything else" is something I often hear when we talk about food systems, security, and plant-rich dietary change. Three different ways of thinking about this statement: 🧵

QED Garbage in Garbage out

Anthropic's new model Mythos that's going viral and freaking people out reportedly has 10 trillion parameters and a 100 million token context window. This is an absolutely absurd model size that makes it completely impractical for any sort of public release any time soon.

i'm so sorry we've sent these souls to the moon and they're using outlook?

C'est la fin de 60 millions de consommateurs 😡 ⚠️ Aujourd'hui le gouvernement acte la liquidation de l’Institut national de la consommation et de son magazine. Lors du projet de loi de finances 2026 au Sénat, notre groupe écologiste avait voté contre cette liquidation. Nous avions porté des... 1/2

To put it mildly I am *hopping mad* at the situation facing me trying to get home tomorrow "SNCF and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: a railway that has given up" jonworth.eu/sncf-and-bou...

Guess what? It's EU birthday once again! 🎉

Cerner sell off will be fun to watch. Looking forward to the statements in the Healthcare IT space. Especially the mind gymnastics of a lot of Healthcare orgs CIOs. Going against open source solutions looks even more stupid now.

Kant: “Women can’t think deeply.” Émilie du Châtelet: [Translates Newton, invents half of modern physics, gets plagiarized by two men.] Set your reminder for Tuesday. Let’s talk receipts. #womeninstem #physics #newton #womenshistory open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Trust our expertise on this one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If truth is important to you than take 17 minutes out of your day to watch the interview below between @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Robert Kagan. The world has changed and there is no going back

how far is Davos from Dignitas

Importé de X ⤵️ Merci, @souverainetech.bsky.social

“Stanford researchers would create a transparency tracker to score AI companies on whether they revealed even basic information about their large deep learning models…whether there had been any independent verification of their capabilities. All…received an F” Karen Hao, Empire of AI. #Books #AI 🧪

The "sanctions" against heads of European NGOs for simply doing there job under the law on #HateSpeech (where much was outsourced by the industry to "trusted flagers" and alike) is another level and is obviously very close to home @noyb.eu. It's urgent to support your local Digital Rights NGOs.

The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas. www.iza.org/publications... 🧵 thread—>

🎉 Some important #CrossBorderRail news! 🎉 After thinking about the idea for more than a decade (yeah, this is later than a DB train!) I am finally starting to plan building a railway organisation for lobbying work. We're soft launching the idea today Details 👇 jonworth.eu/european-rai...

Depuis ce matin, les femmes travaillent officiellement gratuitement en France… jusqu’à la fin de l’année. Gratuitement, car elles gagnent encore 14,2 % de moins que les hommes à temps de travail équivalent.

Hi everyone, I am still raising money for the Ukrainian army. We already have more than we expected (thanks everyone!), but there is no harm in trying to raise even more money. So if you can, donate, if you can't, or already did so, please help by spreading the message: 4fund.com/rbjyg4

They're pushing so hard for AI because (when hypothetically fully functional) it allows wealthy access to skill while restricting those with skill from accruing wealth. It uses theft of the past to steal the future from humanity and give its riches to the already rich

The rules of SNCF 1️⃣ We dislike running any train that goes at less than 300km/h 2️⃣ We dislike it *even more* if someone else would like to run trains instead of us (See reactions to RATP winning a contract for TERs in Normandie, today’s argument about Paris NightJet cancellation)

this exists it is called thinking

"based on its database, the market leader for metrics, Clarivate Inc., calculated in 2019 that the university with the most world-class researchers in mathematics is a university in Taiwan—where mathematics is not even offered as a subject." @philipcball.bsky.social @matthewcobb.bsky.social

Writing at 3am, having woken from nightmares based on memories this video brought back. I've lived it all before. The thing is, the English side with these confidently wicked people. Either/or, when it comes time to choose, they're for it. Take it from a shy & ineffectual Brexit protester, 2016-19

Day 0 of my new #NoFly journey from Italy to Papua New Guinea. Just collected my visa to Russia. I'll cut my CO2 emissions by ~10 & will travel with the hidden majority of the world,those who remain stuck to the ground. I'll complete my research on social cohesion+adaptation to climate change.

BREAKING: Der historische Ernstfall ist da. Eine gesichert rechtsextreme Partei ist zum ersten Mal seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wieder stärkste Partei in Deurschland (Forsa-Umfrage)! Die AfD bedankt sich bei der CDU für die gute Zusammenarbeit.

Faszinierend, mit welcher Dünnhäutigkeit die FAZ auf die berechtigte Kritik von Brosius-Gersdorf reagiert - und mit welcher Selbstgerechtigkeit da (bisher ausschließlich von Männern) nochmals nachgetreten wird.

Groove is in the heart is 35 years old this week. Remember to stretch before trying to stand up from a sitting position.

A few years ago, I aggregated all my writing on the Online Safety Act into one post, based on fighting it at various jobs from 2019-2022. You’ll find the post here. I wrote it whilst living off of £430 a month in employment benefit after two layoffs in 12 months. heatherburns.tech/2023/04/17/g...

Restitution: historic agreement between Cameroon & German Federal government dekolonial-erinnern.de/historic-bre...

"Bougainville is not just a remote spot on the Pacific map, but a powerful lens through which to observe changes in the contemporary world."🙏Francesca Puddu for recounting my 10 years of research in Bougainville,PNG,in an interview @LaMilano_it 👉lamilano.it/cultura/...

Back in 2018, Nestle pledged to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025 Well, it's 2025 How's it going, Nestle? www.nestle.com/media/pressr...

This should be much, much bigger news in Germany. It should be a lead item on the national news. "A four-year-old Black boy died in a fire in a house in Wilhelmshaven occupied exclusively by people of recent immigration background...The public prosecutor's office is now investigating the arson."

Today marks nine years since Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right extremist, a terrible loss to those who knew and loved her and to politics. Zero lessons were learned though and the far-right continues to be pandered to. With more political assassinations in the US it all feels too familiar.

Read the story behind our new study published yesterday in Nature, unfiltered straight from the scientists: 🌊 theconversation.com/unprecedente...

Looking at the European Union primarily from an economic lense is the original sin of many people in UK. Even those "pro-EU" with good intentions. Overall, the true ambition of the Union, an "ever closer union", is to turn fully into a new form of state beyond current members, and is lost on them.

So many universities that today are greenlighting intellectual property theft just years ago were punishing their own students for similar actions lsureveille.com/187594/news/...

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

For details please cf. verlag-regionalkultur.de/presse/3D/3D...

"Ihr müßt sie lieb und nett behandeln, erschreckt sie nicht – sie sind so zart! Ihr müßt mit Palmen sie umwandeln, getreulich ihrer Eigenart! Pfeift euerm Hunde, wenn er kläfft –: Küßt die Faschisten, wo ihr sie trefft!" Kurt Tucholsky, "Rosen auf den Weg gestreut", 1931

We are so fucked. So supremely fucked. Somehow academics using AI/LLMs in this way, feeding their colleagues intellectual labour into the slop machine, feels like a massive betrayal of trust, a betrayal of some unwritten academic code.

9 May 1943 | Danielle #Casanova died of typhus in the German camp #Auschwitz. She was a French communist, member of the resistance & founder of the French Girls' Union. In #Auschwitz from 27 Jan 1943 (no. 31655). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniell...

Franco-German friendship for them, not for us 🤷‍♂️ Yesterday: Merz meets Macron, all friendly and smiles Today: German coalition's extra controls bugger up the #CrossBorderRail train Strasbourg-Kehl-Offenburg

BEHOLD! A mighty model that promises to learn all the structural biases, perverse incentives, and prevention paradoxes in NHS data!