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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 30/06/2025

As shown in the latest Eurobarometer results, European citizens want the EU to continue leading with ambition to mitigate climate change. We are rising to the challenge, working with EU countries to build a greener, more resilient Europe for all.

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Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug @honkhase.de · 14/06/2025

184 Millionen Logins von Google, Facebook & Co. offen im Netz "Wer Facebook, Google oder ein E-Mail-Programm nutzt, sollte über einen Passwort-Wechsel nachdenken. Denn Abermillionen Zugangsdaten lagen bis vor Kurzem ungesichert im Netz. Gefunden hat sie..." www.br.de/nachrichten/...

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184 Millionen Logins von Google, Facebook & Co. offen im Netz

Wer Facebook, Google oder ein E-Mail-Programm nutzt, sollte über einen Passwort-Wechsel nachdenken. Denn Abermillionen Zugangsdaten lagen bis vor Kurzem ungesichert im Netz. Gefunden hat sie nun ein S...

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Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann @masz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Mit großer Trauer nehme ich Abschied von Margot Friedländer. Mit Wärme, Empathie und großer Kraft erinnerte sie unermüdlich an die dunkelste Zeit unserer Geschichte. Ihr Vermächtnis bleibt: „Seid und bleibt Menschen.“ Diese Botschaft weiterzutragen, ist unsere Aufgabe. www.spiegel.de/panorama/mar...

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Holocaust-Überlebende Margot Friedländer ist tot

Margot Friedländer ist tot. Wie ihre Stiftung mitteilte, starb die Holocaust-Überlebende am Freitag im Alter von 103 Jahren in ihrer Heimatstadt Berlin.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/05/2025

Bleak. nymag.com/intelligence...

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It’ll be years before we can fully account for what all of this is doing to students’ brains. Some early research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their capacity for memory, problem-solving, and creativity could suffer. Multiple studies published within the past year have linked AI usage with a deterioration in critical-thinking skills; one found the effect to be more pronounced in younger participants. In February, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University published a study that found a person’s confidence in generative AI correlates with reduced critical-thinking effort. The net effect seems, if not quite Wall-E, at least a dramatic reorganization of a person’s efforts and abilities, away from high-effort inquiry and fact-gathering and toward integration and verification. This is all especially unnerving if you add in the reality that AI is imperfect — it might rely on something that is factually inaccurate or just make something up entirely — with the ruinous effect social media has had on Gen Z’s ability to tell fact from fiction. The problem may be much larger than generative AI. The so-called Flynn effect refers to the consistent rise in IQ scores from generation to generation going back to at least the 1930s. That rise started to slow, and in some cases reverse, around 2006. “The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence,” Robert Sternberg, a psychology professor at Cornell University, told The Guardian, “but that it already has.”

(Katie's added note: the sentences about reorganization of abilities and telling fact from fiction have been highlighted.)

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Of course, I would argue there’d be less of this if we hadn’t had a decades long cultural drive to think of education primarily as a commodity for future life advancement, rather than viewing learning as a goal in itself.

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Terry Twinspin 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stuartdj.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

And that is why I have never had a TikTok account.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Peter Stern was born in Nuremberg in 1936, a German Jew. His father died in the Holocaust; he and his brother somehow survived Bergen-Belsen. Today he's protesting what's happening in America. "I came to say that something as nasty as that can happen again, and it can, without me saying something."

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Maybe OpenAI wants to create its own social network as a source of fresh and free data. @jwherrman.bsky.social diagnoses it as a case of Silicon Valley “everythingism”: if you can make one successful or popular tech product, why not just do it all? nymag.com/intelligence...

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What Does OpenAI Want With a Social Network?

OpenAI is working on its own social network. Why?

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 14/04/2025

“For these men, they are trying to erase uncertainty for themselves and promise the perfection of solipsism to their followers: a world where no one will tell them no, make them feel bad, or make jokes about them” www.liberalcurrents.com/elon-musks-a...

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Elon Musk's Artificial God

In the vision of Musk and other lords of Silicon Valley, the purpose of AI technology is to insulate them, and only them, from any hint that they might live in a society.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14/04/2025

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Old mobile phones and keyboards. Overlaid text reads: FT Exclusive: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones to avoid espionage

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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/04/2025

BREAKING: Trump said he will put a 90-day pause on all tariffs and lower reciprocal tariffs to 10% after several days of market selling that threatened to send the US into a recession. The stock market has sharply rebounded on the news, with major averages up more than 6% reut.rs/3Ehv63p

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Trump Tariffs Live: Trump declares partial 90-day pause on some tariffs, except China

Wall Street's main indexes turned sharply higher on Wednesday after Trump said he had authorized a 90-day pause on "reciprocal" and 10% tariffs, effective immediately.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/04/2025

Shout-out Ted Chiang. thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-11-tr...

Using ChatGPT to complete assignments is like bringing a forklift into the weight room; you will never improve your cognitive fitness that way.
Ted Chiang, Why AI isn't going to make art. (2024)

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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 04/04/2025

Bauern blicken besorgt auf ihre Felder und hoffen auf Regen. Der Wetterdienst warnt vor der Waldbrandgefahr. Wer sich über den trockenen Frühling freut? Der Feldhase!

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Frühling 2025 in Deutschland extrem trocken: Welche Folgen das hat

Bauern blicken besorgt auf ihre Felder und hoffen auf Regen. Der Wetterdienst warnt vor der Waldbrandgefahr. Wer sich über den trockenen Frühling freut? Der Feldhase!

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Oliver Weber @oliverbweber.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Es gehört wohl zum heutigen akademischen Kapitalismus, dass der Abschluss eines wertvollen Riesenprojekts wie dieses weitgehend unbeachtet bleibt. Sieben Bände Sozialgeschichte der Arbeit von den Anfängen des Homo Sapiens bis in die Gegenwart. igza.org/mm2023

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Das Institut für die Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit

Die Erforschung der Geschichte und die Gestaltung der Zukunft der Arbeit sind das Anliegen unseres Instituts. Es will in diesem Transformationsprozess Impulse für die Gestaltung guter Arbeit in der...

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Laut MPG sind fast 60% der für sie arbeitenden Forscher_innen aus dem Ausland. @maxplanck.de Präsident Cramer brüstet sich im Interview mit @spiegel.de mit Internationalität der MPG & will Forschende aus USA anwerben. Die sollten dringend vorher diese Doku schauen! (2/2) #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan

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(S+) Deutschland und Donald Trump: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft wirbt um US-Spitzenforscher

Ist Deutschland am Ende Nutznießer von Trumps Feldzug gegen die Wissenschaft? Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft meldet viel mehr Bewerbungen aus den USA als früher. Präsident Patrick Cramer will dort geziel...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/03/2025

Fund managers have said that Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda has instead unleashed a Make Europe Great Again trade that is reordering global financial markets. www.ft.com/content/2e81...

A chart comparing the S&P 500 with the Cac 40 and Dax. Headline text reads: 'Trump rally fades, leaving Wall Street stocks trailing global peers'.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...

The researchers collected their first data in October 2023 and March 2024. Initially, they were struck by how inconsistently Google showed its warnings. A deep learning model they built to analyze the queries suggested that the warnings should have appeared between 29 and 58 times as often as they did in practice. For motivated conspiracy peddlers, they were easy to evade: just adding quotation marks or a single letter to a query was typically enough to make the banner disappear.

The researchers were beginning to collect additional data last September when they discovered something unexpected: Google had stopped showing low-quality banners entirely, weeks before early voting began, without disclosing it.

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Deutschland Wählt / Österreich Wählt @de.whln.eu · 23/02/2025

BUNDESTAGSWAHL: Wahlverhalten von 18- bis 24-Jährigen, laut Infratest dimap/ARD LINKE: 25% (+17) AfD: 20% (+13) Union: 13% (+3) SPD: 12% (-3) GRÜNE: 12% (-11) FDP: 6% (-15) BSW: 6% (NEU) Volt: 2% (n.a.) Tierschutzpartei: 1% (n.a.) Änderungen zu 2021 #Bundestagswahl2025 #btw25

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 16/02/2025

This is a beautiful sentiment to start with

The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject ... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them ... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate... Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.
—Seneca, Natural Questions,
Book 7, first century

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It was never about “free speech.”

A tweet from rohit (@krishnanrohit) saying "This is Orwellian" in response to a tweet by Alessandro Rigolon (@alerigolon). Rigolon shares that he was instructed to remove the word "climate" from the title of an ongoing grant to keep it and that publications from the grant cannot include the word "climate" or other forbidden words. Rigolon expresses disbelief at this situation, noting that he is writing from the United States of America. The hashtag #AcademicSky is included.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🚨🚨 Timely statement from the American Bar Association on the looming Constitutional Crisis in the US: "The ABA supports the rule of law". Well worth to read the statement in full. 🧵 www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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The ABA supports the rule of law

It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 10/02/2025

A consortium of investors led by Elon Musk has made a $97.4 billion bid to buy the non-profit that controls OpenAI, in a further escalation of his battle with the rival tech billionaire Sam Altman ⬇️

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Consortium led by Elon Musk makes $97bn bid to take over OpenAI

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Bürgerrat @buergerrat.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In der vergangenen Woche hat die @ec.europa.eu in allen 27 EU-Mitgliedstaaten eine Kampagne zur Gewinnung von Teilnehmer:innen für ein Bürgerforum zum neuen EU-Haushalt gestartet. www.buergerrat.de/aktuelles/bu... #bürgerrat

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Bürgerforum zu EU-Haushalt

Im Februar 2025 hat die Europäische Kommission in allen 27 EU-Mitgliedstaaten eine Kampagne zur Gewinnung von Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern für ein Bürgerforum zum neuen EU-Haushalt gestartet.

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Ina Hallström @killedbyproxy.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

If someone is looking for evidence-based hope regarding polarization: "But perhaps the most commonly used strategy among the 25 contenders was equally simple and effective: show that individuals from the other side are not stereotypes, but actually complex, sympathetic human beings."

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Sven Lehmann @sven-lehmann.eu · 01/02/2025

In Politik und Gesellschaft gibt es eine Tendenz zur Kompromissmüdigkeit bis hin zur Kompromissverachtung. Für das Überleben unserer Demokratie ist aber eins wichtiger als der Erfolg einer einzelnen Partei: die Fähigkeit zum Kompromiss der demokratischen Parteien untereinander.

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Ruben D. @differenzierend.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Why is chance so bad, though? Randomness, haphazardness, isn’t that what makes life interesting?

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BNO News @bnonews.com · 20/01/2025

FLASH: DONALD TRUMP BECAME THE 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AT 12 P.M. ET

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

In other news, the economic & political cycle of the Eurozone has come full circle, with the Greek PM now giving interviews to lecture Germany on economic reforms:

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European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · 17/01/2025

New platform, same mission: representing you, listening to you. Follow for updates, insights, and debates from your Parliament - and be part of the conversation about the future of democracy 💬

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This is my fear as his biographer. He is capable of causing a global crisis. Perhaps not single-handedly, but in conjunction with the network of associates he has developed and is continuing to develop both in the United States and overseas. Some in politics, some business, some simply extremists.

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Johannes Hillje @jhillje.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Das ZEW hat ausgerechnet, welche Einkommensgruppen von den Wahlprogrammen der Parteien jeweils am stärksten profitieren: www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

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Anton Rainer @antonrainer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Facebook tilgt die Regenbogen-Flagge aus seiner Messenger-App. Dazugehörige Blogposts werden gelöscht, als hätten sie nie existiert. Es wirkt, als würde man queere Menschen als Kunden bewusst vergrätzen. 🌈 Corporate America vollzieht gerade einen bemerkenswerten kulturellen Shift.

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 15/01/2025

Looking for a photo sharing social network alternative? 🤳 Then maybe the upcoming Bluesky-based @flashesapp.bsky.social might be something for you. 📷 (h/t @fmriguy.bsky.social for pointing this out 👍)

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