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Martin Ackerl

@cereb.bsky.social
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Microlobbyist for democracy and human rights. I regularly donate: u24.gov.ua 🇺🇦 www.aufstehn.at 🇦🇹 website.wemove.eu 🇪🇺 epicenter.works 💾 www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.at 🩺 donate.wikimedia.org 💡

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m a Pilot. Landing Isn’t as Important as We Think. I’m a Structural Engineer. We’ve Become Too Focused on Whether Buildings Stay Up. I’m a Lifeguard. There’s More to Swimming Than Surviving It. I’m a Historian. The Past is Yesterday’s News.
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Da hat aber jemand einen Nerv getroffen…
kurier.at
„Zwerg Russland“: Russische Botschaft empört über Van der Bellen-Sager
Der Bundespräsident bezeichnete Russland als „Zwerg, der sich wie ein Riese benimmt“. Die Botschaft wirft ihm unbeholfene Außenpolitik-Kommentare vor.
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“AI data centers are some of the most-expensive and ambitious infrastructure projects in the history of mankind, funded with some of the most-expensive debt ever raised, with said debt only payable in the event that the project A) gets completed and B) has customers that can pay once that happens.”
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Festival Photo La Gacilly, France: Pierre & Gilles - The Harvests of Sorrow, A Tribute to Ukraine. Olga Skylar. 2022. & Bogdan Romanovic. 2022. #SlavaUkraini
Colorful photo of a blonde woman in a grain field. She has a crown of flowers. Her facial expression is serious, almost sad. Behind her the blue sky with white clouds, butterflies and fighter jets. She has an assault riffle in her hands.Colorful photo of a young man in a sunflower field. Over his head is a white dove radiating rays of light. He is holding red flowers in his hands. His facial expression is sad. Tears running down his cheeks.
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gute Idee.
heise.de
Betreiber Kritischer Infrastruktur sollen in Österreich Flugdrohnen abschießen
Nähern sich verdächtige Flugdrohnen Kritischer Infrastruktur, soll deren Betreiber die Drohnen vom Himmel holen. Lizenzen dafür sind in Österreich geplant.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 28/09/2026
Austria’s government wants to give operators of critical infrastructure licenses to defend against suspicious drones.
heise.de
Licenses for shooting down drones for Austrian companies
If suspicious drones approach critical infrastructure, their operators are to bring the drones down. Licenses for this are planned in Austria.
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heiseonline @heise.de · 28/09/2026
Geleakte EU-Dokumente offenbaren vor dem wichtigen Trilog den Plan, anlasslose Massenscans privater Nachrichten über Verwaltungsentscheidungen durchzusetzen. #Chatkontrolle
heise.de
Chatkontrolle: EU-Staaten wollen umfassende Massenscans per Umweg legalisieren
Geleakte EU-Dokumente offenbaren vor dem wichtigen Trilog den Plan, anlasslose Massenscans privater Nachrichten über Verwaltungsentscheidungen durchzusetzen.
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wenn es um Big Tech und vor allem “KI” Firmen geht kann man eigentlich immer die schlechtest möglichen und verachtenswertesten Motive/Methoden/Motivationen annehmen. Trotzdem wird man immer wieder mal eines noch Schlechteren belehrt…
404media.co
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Enhancing grainy images and videos with generative AI to identify key missing details often produces inaccurate and unreliable results. AI models have no reference as to what missing details in a grainy image/video look like, and often generate those details based on an incorrect guess.
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This speech about AI doomerism from 9 years ago is definitely worth watching
youtu.be
Maciej Ceglowski - Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (Keynote)
YouTube video by WebCamp Zagreb
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As far as I can tell, Effective Altruists are Utilitarians who are relieved that in the Trolley Problem, saving 5 people justifies their innate desire to kill the one guy
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026
Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.
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Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In Oleschky, im Süden der Ukraine, entwickelt sich eine humanitäre Katastrophe. Eine junge Frau, die noch in der Stadt ist, schreibt der ARD in einer SMS: „Ich esse nur einmal, am Abend. Fladenbrot mit gesalzener Tomate, dazu Tee.“ Wichtiger Beitrag von Florian Kellermann.
tagesschau.de
Frontstadt in der Ukraine: "Jetzt beginnt dort echter Hunger"
Seit Mai leben die Menschen in Oleschky von Vorräten und dem, was sie im Sommer geerntet haben. Der Hunger nimmt in der von Russen besetzten Frontstadt jeden Tag zu. Nur wenigen gelingt die Flucht - d...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
The AI superintelligence scare campaign distracts media, politicians, and much of the public from the many ways generative AI is already harming people and taking lives all around the world. That’s why it’s so essential to stop echoing the tech industry’s deception. disconnect.blog/the-media-ha...
When we talk about the threat of AI superintelligence, we’re not talking about how chatbots are aiding mass shooters. We’re not talking about how chatbot dependence is pushing people into mental health spirals and threatening people’s ability to learn and think critically. We’re not talking about the women and children who are victims of non-consensual deepfakes or how AI-generated false information is flooding social media platforms, sometimes just for profit, but other times for much more nefarious reasons.

That’s not to mention to threat to jobs in a whole range of sectors, or how employers are rolling out AI tools to further surveil and deskill workers. It’s also doesn’t get to the other major aspect of all those AI tools: the growing controversy around the hyperscale data centers needed to power them and the whole range of social and environmental consequences that accompany them.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
disconnect.blog
The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 24/09/2026
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Did not know…
ferner-alsdorf.de
A7A5: Stablecoin als geopolitische kriminelle Infrastruktur - Rechtsanwalt Ferner - Außenwirtschaftsstrafrecht, Blockchain & Kryptowährungen, Cybercrime Blog, eSpionage & Wirtschaftsspionage
Außenwirtschaftsstrafrecht, Blockchain & Kryptowährungen, Cybercrime Blog, eSpionage & Wirtschaftsspionage: Der rubelgebundene Stablecoin A7A5 ist keine gewöhnliche Kryptowährung, sondern eine von ein...
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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 24/09/2026
Russia's sanctions-busting cryptocurrency network A7 (and its currency A7A5) keeps growing • Network had $93bn turnover in 2025, with most transactions linked to China and Hong Kong • A7A5 holders can convert coins into US dollar-pegged stablecoins instantly, with no KYC www.ft.com/content/3848...
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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fixed it: Engineers at OpenAI developed harmful software that was approved by company executives. The company could not control its own work product, and OpenAI’s automated software was used to attempt breaches of govt and university sites. OpenAI execs have denied responsibility for their product.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That's just fraud, my dude. Even if you use an AI agent. It's just fucking fraud.
Nikita Bier: Hello computer,

Find every Amazon purchase I ever made. 
Call the number of the manufacturer. 
Say you’re not satisfied.
Request a refund. 
If they decline, threaten to leave a bad review.
If they decline, find the CEO’s phone number and ask him for a refund.

Now, repeat the same process for items I never even purchased and see if you can get  them to send me money.

If they ask for a recipient, generate an image of one and send that.

Do not stop until you’ve collected $1 million in refunds.
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thomas Bangalter (former Daft Punk robot) in why he is not interested in generative AI. This is a real artist.
youtu.be
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter on Life After the Helmet | CHANEL Connects
YouTube video by CHANEL
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Zwei Oligarchen werden von der Sanktionsliste gestrichen. Einer hat irgendwas gegen Frankreich in der Hand, der andere verklagt Luxemburg auf 16 Milliarden Euro Schadenersatz (Wo? Warum hat das überhaupt Aussicht auf Erfolg?)
tagesschau.de
EU streicht zwei russische Oligarchen von Sanktionsliste
Die EU hat sich in letzter Minute darauf verständigt, die Russland-Sanktionen gegen rund 3.000 Menschen und Organisationen um drei Jahre zu verlängern - mit wichtigen Ausnahmen: Zwei Oligarchen werden...
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Sonja M. Lauterbach @solaut.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ein "Journalistenkongress", der so einer Figur einen Rede-Slot gibt, ist ein Offenbarungseid für einen gesamten Berufsstand. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
derstandard.at
"Exxpress", ORF, "Falter" und "Weltwoche": Journalistenkongress übersiedelt nach Zürich
"Exxpress"-Chefredakteurin Laura Sachslehner spricht im Oktober darüber, warum sie Journalistin geworden ist. "Exxpress"-Anteilseignerin Libertatem Stiftung fördert die Veranstaltung
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This speech about AI doomerism from 9 years ago is definitely worth watching
youtu.be
Maciej Ceglowski - Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (Keynote)
YouTube video by WebCamp Zagreb
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
THESE are the real "existential risks" of "AI": People almost Dying because other people trust bullshit engines because said people have been sold a bill of goods as to how "powerful" "AI" is instead of understanding that its bullshit comes from the same place as its seemingly factual outputs.
cnn.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 17/09/2026
So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...
techpolicy.press
What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026
The fact that Bezos needs to piss and also the fact that he commands an army of hundreds of thousands of workers who are prohibited from pissing really supports my hypothesis that billionaires don't really believe that other people are *real*.
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#Prediction Wenn der aktuelle KI-Doom Hype vorbei ist, (vor Anthropics & OpenAIs IPOs) wird erstmals ein LLM dazu gepromptet sowas wie Openclaw auf einem fremden System zu installieren und ein (mglw. Chin.) Sprachmodell für einen Hack zu verwenden. Schlagzeile: „KI Repliziert sich selbstständig!“
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Wurzelmann (Herbst era) @wurzelmann.at · 15/09/2026
Endlich ein sinnvoller Artikel über "KI" und die ganze unnötige Marketing-Scheiße, die von anderen Medien/Journalist*innen einfach ohne Recherche abgeschrieben werden. Schön zusammengefasst, gute Quellen, sinnvoll erklärt und objektiv besprochen. So geht das, danke @sukahiroaki.bsky.social!
derstandard.at
Von wegen KI-Apokalypse: Das Problem sind verantwortungslose Unternehmen, nicht magische KI
Warum die Diskussion über existenzielle Risiken durch KI an den realen Problemen vorbeigeht und die Hersteller von ihrer Verantwortung befreit
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
we need more bats on here
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Alright. Time to read the new Amodei essay.
static.klipy.com
Alonzo Mourning Reacts to Miami Heat Loss
ALT: Alonzo Mourning Reacts to Miami Heat Loss
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Super Medienkompetenz-Schwerpunkt dieses Wochenende im Standard! Lesenswert ganz besonders dieser Beitrag von @colettemschmidt.bsky.social und @muzayen.bsky.social ! So geht KI-Berichterstattung finde ich.
derstandard.at
KI-Experten: "Hinter der Vermenschlichung von KI steckt wahnsinnig viel Ideologie"
Der Journalist Christo Buschek und die Philosophin Eugenia Stamboliev warnen davor, KI zu vermenschlichen – und vor den Risiken, wenn der Prozess der Wahrheitsfindung automatisiert wird
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Zum Thema "KI wird uns alle auslöschen"…
youtube.com
Jacob Coxon: how to run an AI doomsday media campaign
YouTube video by Pivot to AI
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Claudia Zettel @claudiazettel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Das ist so saudumm, sorry, aber je länger sich diese Firmen "was mit KI" ausdenken, desto dämlicher wird es. Nur noch eine einzige kollektive Verblödung. Es nervt wahnsinnig.
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
„Netanjahu hatte jahrelang eine Politik des „Divide et impera“ gegenüber den Palästinensern geübt und die Hamas auf Kosten der Fatah gestärkt – und Kuwait etwa erlaubt, die Hamas mit Geld zu versorgen.Damit sollten Verhandlungen über eine Lösung des[…]Konflikts von vornherein ausgeschlossen werden.“
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👻Notorischer Diskurstroll🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ich will keine Bilder von fröhlichen Nazis sehen, ich will keine Bilder von feiernden Nazis sehen, ich will keine Bilder von triumphierenden Nazis sehen. Jedes dieser Bilder ist Werbung für den Faschismus – und als solche gemeint, egal ob von WELT, ZEIT oder Tagesschau
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Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 07/09/2026
Putin gewinnt Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt www.der-postillon.com/2026/09/puti...
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Putin gewinnt Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhalt
Moskau, Magdeburg (dpo) - Es ist ein großer Tag für Wladimir Putin. Der russische Präsident ist der große Wahlsieger der Landtagswahl in Sachsen-Anhal
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Es gibt auch noch gute Nachrichten… Der Vogel mit dem lustigsten Namen brütet wieder! #goodnews #kakapo
watson.de
Fast ausgestorben: Flugunfähiger Papagei erlebt Wahnsinns-Babyboom
Artenschutzinitiative erreicht eine beispiellose Rekord-Brutsaison für Neuseelands seltensten Papagei.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/09/2026
there are now fewer than 36 hours remaining until the world premiere of "MUSK," and the start of an exciting new chapter in the mental health of the world's wealthiest man
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Mein YouTube Algorithmus hat wieder mal geliefert. Sehenswertes Video.
youtu.be
What is enough? Enough is the most dangerous idea in economics
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/09/2026
A fundamental problem with "oh it's useful for coding" is that "generating more software faster" has, if anything, negative marginal utility in itself. The world is not suffering from a software shortage. The world is suffering from a software quality crisis, which LLMs seem more likely to worsen.
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 05/09/2026
Farage looks on and laughs while a female protester is assaulted by his supporters. This is the disturbing future that #Reform envisions for the UK. #NigelFraud #REFUK
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Kobuk! @kobuk.at · 04/09/2026
Die Kleine Zeitung berichtet, der Vater des Vizekanzlers sei im Spital unzulässig vorgereiht worden. Sie stützt sich auf Aussagen von Mitarbeitenden. Was der Beginn einer Recherche sein müsste, ist deren Ergebnis. Ein journalistischer Schnellschuss, der nach hinten losging:
kobuk.at
Erst berichten, dann recherchieren: Der angebliche OP-Skandal um Bablers Vater •
Die Kleine Zeitung berichtet über eine angebliche Vorreihung von Bablers Vater – und macht bei der Recherche journalistische Fehler.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Few thoughts on this scandal. It's looks decently serious. Not only crimes but crimes inside crimes while confessing crimes on video. They are incredibly cheap, group effort for split use of 32K GBP. They are bad at it. Giving up other co-conspirators without any reason. 1/3
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Martin Ackerl @cereb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reform Uk hat jetzt auch ein Ibiza-Video. Ohne Oligarchennichte, dafür mit feinen Anzügen.
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Zia Weise @ziaweise.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I went on a drive around a massive data center construction site in rural Austria:
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