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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I mean, I'm firmly in the "Angel Reese is a defensive menace"-camp. But Jonquel Jones is 2 inches taller, and 50 pounds heavier!!!! Why don't they post her up again and again and again?

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Frederik Mallon @freddy.volksverpetzer.de · 02/10/2026

Vielleicht der wichtigste Fakten-Snack diese Woche: Kostenvergleich zwischen D-Ticket, Tankrabatten und anderen Steuervergünstigungen für den individualisierten und Flugverkehr. Grafik von @correctiv.org @sebastianhaupt.bsky.social

Säulendiagramm mit verschiedenen Verkehrssubventionen und wie viel sie kosten (durch Zahlungen oder verminderte Steuereinnahmen):

Deutschland-Ticket: 3 Mrd. Euro
Tank-Rabatt: 4,1 Mrd. Euro (Mai-Juni und Oktober-Dezember addiert)
Dienstwagenprivileg: 4,2 Mrd. Euro
Pendlerpauschale: 5 Mrd. Euro
Dieselprivileg: 7-8 Mrd. Euro
Steuerbefreiung Kerosin: etwa 8 Mrd. Euro

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

[F]our-time WNBA champion Sue Bird marveled that Lynx centerpiece Miles “is only just beginning to scratch the surface.”" A man writing about a woman athlete: "ATP legend Rafael Nadal praised 21-year-old Eala — the highest-ranked Filipino in tennis history — as “warm, approachable, and humble,”"

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

newsletter.justwomenssports.com/p/dallas-s-a... Women athletes writing about women athletes: "Soccer great Alex Morgan penned Girma’s tribute, calling her “the hardest defender I’ve ever had to play against” and noting her then-record $1 million transfer to Chelsea last year.

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Dallas's Arike Ogunbowale drops 45 to force WNBA playoff decider

No. 7 Dallas topped No. 2 Golden State in OT behind the veteran guard's record night, plus Atlanta sweeps Washington and more news to know

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RogueESR @rogueesr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#ESR #VeilleESR Un billet d'intervention sur les franchises universitaires, dans un moment d'inversion orwellienne sur le contenu juridique de cette composante de la liberté académique comme sur son origine historique. rogueesr.fr/cessatio-et-...

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

www.forever-wars.com/something-mo... "Bloomberg published on Friday a frightening piece reporting on overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI as a critical factor behind the U.S. missile strike on the Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary school in Minab, Iran."

forever-wars.com

Something More Powerful Must Replace The International Criminal Court

Once again, Donald Trump threatens Iran with 'annihilation.' That's supposed to be an actionable offense

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The entire "Superintelligence will destroy all of humanity" is a smoke-screen to distract from the ways "AI" already gets or risks getting lots of people killed: spoilsofwar.substack.com/p/nuclear-wa...

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Nuclear War could be Just Another Hallucination

Military discussing how to use AI to launch

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All of this coverage of AI Doomerism making you anxious? It's nonsense and you can go back to your more pressing concerns. If you want to learn more: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

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What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism

Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The problem is that a UBI is lacking an inflation anchor. So, to the best of my understanding, a public job guarantee would be preferable, and I honestly see non-commercial art as a public good anyway. The MMT people can make the economic argument much better than I ever could, though.

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

than by spinning out fantasy scenarios about the action movie we’ll all be starring in circa 2035. A regulatory framework not written by OpenAI and Anthropic, or by anyone Jensen Huang has ever met, would be a great place to start."

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"AI can have—is in fact having—a dreadful impact on the world, in mundane as well as terrifying ways, without performing the cartoon-villain task of destroying human life on earth. In this moment, we’re better served by talking about how to mitigate the harm AI is actively causing

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When they say “our tech could kill you all,” the correct response is not “eek!” It’s “what are you hiding behind your back?”"

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My favorite Ringer writer is at it again! "[E]xecutives fucking love this narrative. They’ve been peddling it for years, long before Coxon resigned from Anthropic and kicked off the latest media meltdown. These guys have demonstrated conclusively that nothing they say should be taken at face value.

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Everything he does in regards to the team is to make the team better and improve life for the fans."

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

all these other owners are working over their communities for either new arenas or development deals that rely on public money or tax breaks. Ballmer paid a $100 million community fee to the city that went into, along with other things, affordable housing. He paid for broadcasting the team’s games.

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"[A]t least Ballmer behaves the way we should want owners to behave. He flies the Wall to road playoff games. He privately funded, with no public money, Intuit Dome. I want to stress this because it’s something I’ve been looking into:

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There are signs and signals of rot in the name of greed all over the NBA and the fans have continuously and consistently paid for it. But I’m supposed to want Ballmer hanged as a token billionaire for spending more money to make the team better?"

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Owners have built a CBA to artificially suppress spending using the apron system as a hard cap and while the players still, collectively, received 51% percent of BRI, it impossible not to see the impacts this system is having on roster building and how it impacts the fans.

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

— even if none of them were willing to use it which is what caused the 2023 CBA in the first place⁶ — to gain an advantage. And Rule No.1 in the NBA is: You don’t fuck with the money."

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"The owners aren’t after Ballmer because he violated the spirt of competition. They’re mad he fucked with the money. Specifically, their money by taking luxury taxes off the table and using resources outside of what they were allowed to use

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

as a form of social engineering designed to convince girls to be more aggressive. It encourages camping, hiking, swimming, and other moderate forms of exercise that won’t [dusts off early 20th-century playbook] “increase infertility.”"

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Heritage Foundation, a powerful conservative think tank with significant legislative influence, recently published a paper titled “Title IX’s Failed Experiment,” which specifically cites a disproportionately high number of scholarships for women’s basketball

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Seerat Sohi is not pulling any punches. "Even though Republican legislators have invoked Title IX to enact transgender bans, they are also trying to scale back its influence.

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Alan Lewis Chambers #FBPE #RejoinEU @alanlewch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

AI AS NORMAL TECHNOLOGY AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research Early evidence from two case studies. Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan Aug 05, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/aisnakeo...

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AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research

Early evidence from two case studies

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I'm just now reading @randomwalker.bsky.social's writeup of his ICML keynote. It is very insightful. Everyone thinking about the future of work in the age of AI should read this. www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-...

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What will be left for us to work on?

My keynote at ICML 2026

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

www.forever-wars.com/first-in-gaz... "In southern Lebanon, I'm assuming [Israel] want[s] to, at least on some level, preserve the environment because it's very rich in soil[.] [...] But the one thing they have kept the same as Gaza is the targeting of medics and journalists in southern Lebanon."

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First in Gaza, Now in Lebanon, This Is The Destruction She Saw

An aid worker with recent experience in both places talks to FOREVER WARS about the similarities and differences in both Israeli assaults

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"Au terme de trois ans et demi de thèse, trois CSI contresignés par tout le monde et deux rapports de thèse autorisant la soutenance, l’Université Grenoble Alpes a interdit la soutenance[.]" rioultf.substack.com/p/candidats-...

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Candidats et lampadaires autoproclamés

Soutenance de thèse interdite à Grenoble

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

No matter how many powerful, right-wing bastards die (finally), it never gets old. That this one was an Ayn-Rand-disciple only makes things sweeter. But man, did he cause suffering to people!

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

www.miningmx.com/top-story/65... And this shit's nuts as well: the Chinese government realized early on that transitioning away from fossil fuels would require certain materials, and started locking up supplies. European leaders preferred building LNG terminals (looking at you, German "Greens").

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G7 resolves to fight China metals dominance - Miningmx

GROUP of Seven leaders have agreed to deepen co-ordination to reduce their dependence on China for critical minerals, with plans to align stockpiling strategies and launch a new monitoring platform ba...

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

www.europesays.com/europe/73123/ This shit's stunning: there are European countries that still haven't recovered from the last round of too-big-too-fail banks (looking at you, Greece) and the COMPETITION commissar comes out in favor of creating huge banks that will be even harder to regulate!

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EU competition chief backs cross-border bank mergers – report - Europe

Europe’s competition chief Teresa Ribera. Credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com

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Cléo @cleoschweyer.eurosky.social · 30/05/2026

9/ J'ajoute 3 observations un peu amères pour conclure: - l'impact environnemental n'a été cité par personne; - les invité·es côté STEM semblaient parfaitement incapables d'engager un dialogue avec les autres professionnel·les présent·es; - les enseignant·es du secondaire présent·es étaient...

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...

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Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away

Managing those AI identities will require companies to completely reassess their cybersecurity strategies.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 02/05/2026

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 06/05/2026

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The single most important thing to understand about tech futurism is that, when Anthropic’s predictions turn out to be wrong, they don’t have to give the money back.

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A very well-argued "preventing data centers from being built is left-wing, actually".

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

China is scaling renewable-based industrial heat faster in absolute terms, both systems still anchored in fossil fuels, but one beginning to bend more decisively toward something else."

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

against 56% in Europe, with a high-speed system several times larger quietly pulling passengers and freight away from planes and trucks; and in the background, in the furnaces and factories where electrification is hardest,

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Europe reaching 2.9 million but only about 24% of new sales, a transition underway yet not quite taking hold; along the rails, the contrast stretches across geography, 75% of China’s network electrified

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

while in the European Union it lingers at 24–26%, the pace slower, the momentum less certain; on the roads, the difference is even starker, China moving 11 million electric vehicles in a single year, nearly half of all new cars,

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

by @himself.bsky.social "Europe and China entered the 2010s chasing the same horizon, an economy rewired around electricity, but by the mid-2020s the landscape already looks uneven, tilted by scale and speed: in China, electricity now makes up roughly 30–32% of final energy use and is rising fast,

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I find this absolutely fascinating: an ex-Fidesz man wins a two-thirds parliamentary majority (meaning, he can pass whatever, including constitutional changes) and 2/3 of the European political scene proclaims that Democracy Has Been Saved! Would love to fast-forward two years...

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Albrecht Zimmermann @azimmermdm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

So Auriemma is a sore loser...who would have thought?! 🤔

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Pieter Robberechts @probberechts.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Our Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics (MLSA) will happen again as part of @ecmlpkdd.org! 📅 7 or 11 Sept 2026 📍 Naples, Italy 📝 Submissions due 5 June 2026 \w @hugoriosneto.bsky.social @azimmermdm.bsky.social & Maaike Van Roy dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/events/MLSA26/

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MLSA 2026

13th Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics at ECML/PKDD 2026

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