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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 1h

"I put false quotes in my book, didn't check any of them, and put my name on it. Why aren't people yelling at OpenAI and Anthropic about it? I don't understand."

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 1h

After apparently succeeding in getting CDU votes in the election of the President of the State Parliament in Sachsen -Anhalt, the AfD pulls off another stunt 5 people from other parliamentary groups voted with the AfD for H-T Tillschneider (the guy with the Russia Flag) as Vice-President

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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 2h

Trying to explain to non germans how the biggest espionage scandal of the BND is just a subplot of the messy steakhouse franchise divorce

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Charlie Kelly's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy

ALT: Charlie Kelly's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 2h

Absolutely insane story about the arrest of August Hanning, former head of German intelligence agency BND Added gimmick is that investigators only found out because Hanning is accused of involvement in another absolutely insane story of a German millionaire trying to abduct her own children

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't think you can explain voter preferences just by the info environment they are in. Propaganda has its limits and wouldn't be successful if it couldn't exploit pre-existing opinions

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Democratic institutions can only do so much when the electorate has different preferences

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If Flávio Bolsonaro wins the second round (which seems likely), he'll be able to govern with enormous backing in Congress You can expect Brazil to be fully on board with Trump's Great War on Drugs. Amnesty for Jair Bolsonaro and the coup-mongering generals also likely www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Brazil election goes to run-off as right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro wins first round

With neither candidate getting more than 50% of the vote, the election will go to a run-off on 25 October.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Sopranos from Barra da Tijuca will do everything they can to get the coup-mongering patriarch out of jail

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Hedwig Richter @hedwigrichter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Über ein ostdeutsches Milieu, in dem NS-Verharmlosung, Putin-Liebe und Hass auf den Westen die Menschen beglückt und zusammenschweißt. Verstörende Lektüre zum Tag der deutschen Einheit von @annerabe.bsky.social www.zeit.de/feuilleton/2...

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Uwe Steimle: Und dann entfesselt Uwe Steimle die Wut

DDR-Hymne und Gewaltfantasien gegen eine ZDF-Moderatorin: Nach 36 Jahren kann die deutsche Einheit auch aussehen wie in Uwe Steimles Kabarett in Sachsen-Anhalt.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rio's military police have started the Butlerian Jihad

A Rio de Janeiro Military Police man points his rifle at computers. #DrugBust

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The "Brelieve" campaign song by Cher decisively tipped the vote against Britain's return to the EU

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Paging @dieworkwear.bsky.social for an appreciation of the choice of socks

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Florian Flade @florianflade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Scoop💥 A private mobile phone number, e-mail adress and residency of Dag Baehr, today‘s #Military Deputy of #BND, was dumped online as part of a data leak back in 2020. We called him and found out: He still uses the leaked phone number. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ... #Security #intelligence

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Exklusiv: Handynummer von BND-Vize nach Datenleak im Internet

Sensible Daten eines der Vizechefs des Bundesnachrichtendienstes kursieren seit Jahren im Internet. Kein Einzelfall, wie Recherchen von WDR und SZ zeigen. Mehrere europäische Geheimdienstchefs sind de...

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lula's first governments were much better positioned to reform the military's role conception as 'guardians of the nation', but did not succeed. All that the Brazilian (Centre-)Left can ever achieve is a peaceful co-existence with the military, whose terms are almost entirely set by the generals

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lula might be able to garner some votes by promising higher military spending, but can expect very little from the military in return They will never allow any efforts to reform military education. Lula will never achieve his previous goal of criminal prosecution of military dictatorship crimes.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The three people quoted here are likely to be Earth's only three inhabitants that think MS Teams - yes, MS Teams - is a decent software

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lula/PT governments have always invested heavily in defence, in part also to make the generals happy. Was it enough to prevent some of them actively plotting a coup? No Was it enough to make those officers disagreeing with the coup plot go to the police and denounce their criminal colleagues? No

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I would always take the voices of anonymous retired Brazilian military officers with a grain of salt, though. There's little in Brazilian history that would suggest that the country's military leaders would be seriously concerned with a far-right president

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'military officers concerned with discipline and hierarchy could see a return of the Bolsonaro family as more disruptive than a 4th Lula term, particularly if a right-wing government pursued amnesty for J. Bolsonaro and former generals convicted of plotting a coup' foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/30/b...

foreignpolicy.com

Lula Bets Big on Defense Ahead of Election

Brazil’s leftist leader has unusually put military spending at the heart of his campaign.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions. 2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%) 1 doc: 2 years (75%) Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable) Application deadline: 1 November

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 01/10/2026

y'all i'm working on this data collection project looking at dissertations & sometimes I get reminders that we are not all playing the same game (1999 edition)

not the least, I would like to thank my family: my parents, for buying me a lovely condominium at Harvard Street so that I could concentrate on my research with out worrying about paying rents,

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Someone will have to make the call if a paper is 'low-value' or not and that's the whole point of my argument: peer reviewers, editors, content moderators etc have limited capacities. If we still want humans in the loop, there needs to be a way to restrict the quantity of submissions

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"AI tools are making it easy for authors to flood arXiv and other repositories with these low-value papers (...) arXiv now limits submitters to up to two submissions per calendar month" blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...

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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My department - @ucdpolitics.bsky.social - is hiring two PERMANENT posts in any area of politics, international relations, theory, or development studies. Please apply if you are on the academic job market, and if you're not, please do us a solid & spread the word! Deadline NOV 9.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'The civilians always have the right to be wrong', they say, and US military leaders would never obey illegal orders

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Catch-22 was predicting the Musks and Palmer Luckeys of this world before they were even born

$Milo vetoed the idea brusquely. “It’s a matter of principle,” he explained firmly. “The government has no business in business, and I would be the last person in the world to ever try to involve the government in a business of mine. But the business of government is business,” he remembered alertly, and continued with elation. “Calvin Coolidge said that, and Calvin Coolidge was a President, so it must be true. And the government does have the responsibility of buying all the Egyptian cotton I’ve got that no one else wants so that I can make a profit, doesn’t it?” Milo’s face clouded almost as abruptly, and his spirits descended into a state of sad anxiety. “But how will I get the government to do it?” “Bribe it,” Yossarian said. “Bribe it!” Milo was outraged and almost lost his balance and broke his neck again. “Shame on you!” he scolded severely, breathing virtuous fire down and upward into his rusty mustache through his billowing nostrils and prim lips. “Bribery is against the law, and you know it. But it’s not against the law to make a profit, is it? So it can’t be against the law for me to bribe someone in order to make a fair profit, can it? No, of course not!” He fell to brooding again, with a meek, almost pitiable distress. “But how will I know who to bribe?” “Oh, don’t you worry about that,” Yossarian comforted him with a toneless snicker as the engines of the jeeps and ambulance fractured the drowsy silence and the vehicles in the rear began driving away backward. “You make the bribe big enough and they’ll find you. Just make sure you do everything right out in the open. Let everyone know exactly what you want and how much you’re willing to pay for it. The first time you act guilty or ashamed, you might get into trouble.”$

“I wish you’d come with me,” Milo remarked. “I won’t feel safe
among people who take bribes. They’re no better than a bunch of
crooks.”
“You’ll be all right,” Yossarian assured him with confidence. “If
you run into trouble, just tell everybody that the security of the
country requires a strong domestic Egyptian-cotton speculating
industry.”
“It does,” Milo informed him solemnly. “A strong Egyptian-cotton
speculating industry means a much stronger America.”
“Of course it does. And if that doesn’t work, point out the great
number of American families that depend on it for income.”
“A great many American families do depend on it for income.”
“You see?” said Yossarian. “You’re much better at it than I am. You
almost make it sound true.”
“It is true,” Milo exclaimed with a strong trace of old hauteur.
“That’s what I mean. You do it with just the right amount of
conviction.”
“You’re sure you won’t come with me?”
Yossarian shook his head

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 5 Reais (≈1 US-$) bill proves: Amapá Military Police have prevented the rise of the next Pablo Escobar

some small pieces of marijuana, 5 reais, and a phone on a table. #DrugBust

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, what could our military leaders learn from a bunch of civilians anyway? It's not like they're supposed to be citizen-soldiers with a well-rounded education.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So, I guess it's time for me to bring up that military adherence to constitutional norms/congressional directives is demonstrably a wasting asset (tho impossible to say to what extent) as Trump Regime continues purge of military & civilian "leadership". Military has followed illegal orders so far.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

While numerous people in the German CDU accuse Berlin's left party of antisemitism, their own fellow party members side with the Nazi party and ban a town's Holocaust remembrance

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is anyone aware of a similar quantitative overview of US military leaders' pro- and anti-Trump statements for the second Trump presidency? Asking for a paper I am writing www.newamerica.org/insights/mil... #civmilsky

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So. UKRI going the way of AI job application filtering. This of course means that we're going to have to stuff the grant application with the equivalent of LinkedIn-like buzz words in order to get past the filter. Urrgh.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The only way we can protect peer-review based academic journals against the flood of slop and Agentic AI is some sort of limitations on the number of possible article submissions per year Your Orcid-ID gets a certain number of submission tokens per year and that's it.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'The University of Chicago statistician has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers and as many as 14 books released this year (...) "Clearly AI makes a productive researcher far more productive,” he wrote in an email to The Post.' www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.

An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rare picture of Trump stepping on a Lego

Trump makes a face that looks like he's in Pain while saluting and standing next to Xi Jinping

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