I’m 56 years old, and for my whole life we’ve been asking some version of the question “what would WE, our generation, have done to stop the Nazis, either in Germany as they were rising, or around the world to fight for freedom. Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.

man who works for company that does stuff other than AI and which will support him faffing around with AI for the next decade: AGI will take 10 years man who needs investors to pump money into his company which does nothing but AI and who'll get angry if AGI doesn't happen soon: AGI will happen soon

"He clung to the belief that his homeland would one day be redeemed—that the nation of “Dichter und Denker,” of poets and thinkers, had not “disappeared entirely beneath the dirt and mud of the Third Reich.”

Moin. Good morning. All right, everyone. Gird your loins because #Whamageddon starts today. If you heard it last week, it doesn't count. But do be more careful! May the odds always be in your favor.

What I'm doing now that it's harder to ship packages to the United States.

Mittwoch! #verkehrswende #visionzero #autokorrektur

Gen Z will be alright. Great article from @brennanbrown.bsky.social

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Battery-electric cars accounted for 16.4% of new registrations in EU in first ten months of 2025 Combined market share of petrol and diesel cars fell to 36.6%, down from 46.3% in 2024 www.acea.auto/pc-registrat...

"Listeners who wrote in to us said they were shocked to hear the leader of a platform with 151.5 million monthly users, most of them minors, express frustration and annoyance at being asked about the company's history of failures related to child safety."

"More than half of all jobs in Germany are covered by collective bargaining agreements, despite only about 16 percent of workers directly belonging to a union."

Is this new or have I just never bothered to look up? Corner of Finowstraße and Oderstraße in Friedrichshain

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Looking over the Berlin Wall into a foggy East Berlin, 1961 Photo: Heinrich Sanden Sr.

Always repost Rosa 🌹

Humans literally walked out of Africa to people the globe. You can't freeze borders unilaterally. Climate change is going to create millions more refugees. We need to treat people with compassion & meet our international obligations. Let them work immediately. The UK needs workers & the tax income.

Berlin Ostbahnhof at midday. The station looks so much better now that all the construction scaffolding is gone.

"If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank unit, says in Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening."

So cool! Prince *loved* libraries. For example, this is one donation he made from his charity a few days after 9/11 to save the Louisville Free Public Library, the first library in the community to serve African Americans.

Experience: I escaped East Berlin in the boot of a car

Remembering Toronto bike messenger Mike Rankin who was killed on the job on November 7, 2012 by a taxi driver was “clearing the light.” (i.e. trying to beat the red light or running a red light). Police threw Mike’s belongings and evidence in the garbage next to where his body lay on the road

Everything is stupid, now. www.bbc.com/news/article...

holy shit.

Below looks a lot more like Density Done Well to me. www.architectural-review.com/today/chip-o...

Ägypten: Diskussion um Rückkehr der Nofretete ins Heimatland: Wie der BER in Berlin hat es auch beim Großen Ägyptischen Museum lange gedauert mit der Eröffnung. Jetzt warten mehr als 100.000 Artefakte auf ihr Publikum. Aber ein Meisterwerk fehlt: Nofretete. Das wollen immer mehr Menschen ändern.

🎶 Don't Believe the Slop! apnews.com/article/hurr...

Stay safe out there, everyone: Lights Helmet Bright clothing Several bottles of wine Mini pump

Struggling with new German keyboard today. Please excuse typos involving letter 'z' or quotation marks. Turns out a keyboard optimized for Deutsch makes English writing v. difficult.

In Lübeck gehen Reformationstag und Halloween-Grusel zusammen

OK, TL/DR my previous rant: Be very wary of writers urging other writers to go "all in" on a single platform. Usually there is a hidden motive. There's a reason that most of the smaller, independent writers I know are publishing across multiple platforms with multiple, different revenue streams.

Disclosure: I have a blog on Substack that I moved from Wordpress. (And they didn't even need to pay me! What kind of a dunce am I?) I was lured by the brand visibility and promises that I would always own my subscriber lists and content.

I find it interesting that he is complaining about Patreon luring people away when Substack also offered writers with large independent followings incentives to move to Substack.. substack.com/@blgtylr/not...

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” - Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

Lest you doubt a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, consider Keisha Mayuga: a young woman who improvised a kilometre-long pop-up cycle lane in Manila, sparking 500 kilometres of permanent infrastructure throughout the Philippines. theurbanactivist.com/mobility/com...

Ute Mahler’s portraits of life behind the Wall www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

Centrist D66 party expected to win most seats in Netherlands election – Europe live

This reminds me that I still need to download the WARN app. FYI, gale force winds expected in Lichtenberg and surrounding areas today.

"In the same way that it's now normalized for regular middle-class people to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a wedding, having an artfully designed, expensively furnished dorm room has moved out of the purview of the wealthy to those who want to be so."

New post on the blog; "I don’t think I am the only American to have cobbled together a fantasy pan-European culture in my mind—a Eutopia, if you will. One where everyone has ‘free’ healthcare and takes their lunch daily at the nearest sidewalk cafe."

So Musk is obsessed with creating a robot army and Peter Thiel wants us to believe that regulating AI will usher in the Antichrist. These guys are taking too much K - and I don't mean KI. www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/t...

Not a meteorite, after all. But a private weather balloon. Still best German headline I've read in a while ...

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Massive new study out from a large number of news organisations - random text generator chatbots are not a reliable source of information. Includes demonstrations of how it specifically gets climate answers specifically very wrong -->> www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

A demolition job that began Monday with the disappearance of the White House’s eastern entrance advanced Tuesday with the destruction of much of the East Wing to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

Männer, die sich nur an Frauen und Mädchen erinnern, wenn sie rassistische Gesetze ein- oder Kriege führen wollen, sind nicht frauenfreundlich, sondern das Gegenteil davon.

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving