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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 15/10/2026

Sehr hörenswertes Interview zur GLEN-Studie der Uni Konstanz. Zentral: die vermeintliche Polarisierung bei Klima und Energie kommt von Parteien, nicht aus der Bevölkerung. Und sogar viele AfD-Wähler fürchten die Klimakrise und wollen PV. www.deutschlandfunk....

DLF: Langzeitstudie: Klimawandel polarisiert die Deutschen nicht

Eine neue Studie zeigt: Polarisierung bei Klimathemen findet in Deutschland vor allem auf Ebene der Parteien statt, bei den Bürgern selbst ist das nicht so ausgeprägt. Und: Dass Grünen-Wählende gar nicht so klimafreundlich sind, stimmt nicht.

Kühn, Kathrin | 14. Oktober 2026, 16:40 Uhr

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Markus Hofmann @markushofmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Das Potenzial einer systematischen Überprüfung staatlicher Vergünstigungen ist hoch. Mit einem «grünen Entlastungspaket 2030» könnte die Schweiz ihre Subventionspolitik ökologisch verträglicher ausgestalten und zugleich ihren Finanzhaushalt nachhaltig entlasten. www.nzz.ch/meinung/die-...

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Ökologische Subventionsreform: Der Weg zu nachhaltigerer Schweizer Politik

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Marius Brülhart @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Gerne würde ich das Thema #IWP #Luzern ausblenden. Aber es lässt einen nicht los. Was ich diese Woche erlebt habe, gehört erzählt. 🧵

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Jakub Samochowiec @jakub.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

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Jakub Samochowiec @jakub.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

Niemand will mehr Klimaschutz. So das gängige Narrativ. Schliesslich fliegen wieder alle. Im GDI-Trendupdate stelle ich das in Frage. Weil es aber alle glauben, will niemand alleine dafür verantwortlich sein. Dass die Bereitschaft doch vorhanden ist, zeigt: www.tagesanzeiger.ch/hitzesommer-...

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Climate action in tatters

Europe has just experienced its hottest summer since records began. But political debate on climate protection in Switzerland has cooled down remarkably.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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Felix Schilk @stillapossibility.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Der 🇺🇦 Außenminister Andrii Sybiha weist auf X darauf hin, dass die Bilder aus #Ceuta von (pro-)russischen Medien und Kremloutlets systematisch mit entsprechenden #Krisennarrativen verbreitet und werden, um europäische Staaten zu destabilisieren.

We have detected an intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilization.

There have been more than 1,500 publications on outlets identified by analysts as a pro-Russian network, led by Pravda and RT. Pravda Spanish has posted almost 300 of them. Every language edition of RT has pushed more than 25 news items on the issue.

For years, Moscow has used migration and other sensitive topics to stoke fear and destabilize European countries.

This is not about the situation itself, but about the way Russia tries to exploit any topic that can benefit its agenda. The only way to protect the public from this interference is to cut it off.

All Russian propaganda resources should be completely banned in every European country that takes its national security seriously.

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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · 01/08/2026

Die Klimakrise müssen wir leider ignorieren. Aber gleichzeitig verfallen wir in Panik, wegen Migranten in einer spanischen Exklave. Europas Prioritäten sind völlig verquer, das ist nur noch mit fundamentalistischem Religionswahn zu vergleichen. Ein Immigrations-Panik-Kult, der gezielt geschürt wird.

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We may hit 3.5C sea surface temperature anomaly in September. The planet you were born in no longer exists

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/07/2026

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

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The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill.

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Jakub Samochowiec @jakub.eurosky.social · 02/07/2026

No bowling alleys --> no more bowling alone. Problem solved.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 22/06/2026

Some bosses say full-time, in-person work boosts productivity or collaboration. “Our new research reveals that the objection to any work from home is more likely to be driven by something else entirely: ego,” write Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell and Courtney Elliott.

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Opinion | The Real Reason Bosses Want You Back in the Office Full Time (It’s Not Productivity)

It’s all about them.

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Patrick Seemann @nohillside.ch · 20/06/2026

Das ist diese sichere Energieversorgung, auf welche die Bürgerlichen im Schweizer Parlament jetzt wieder setzen wollen …

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/06/2026

OMFG, I can not remember the last time I read something that resonated with me more than this piece. I'm so grateful to see this perspective represented -- I was beginning to think I was the only one! TL;DR: selling out is still bad!

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Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos

OR: The Great Switcheroo

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Janoschki @janoschki.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Höcke sendet zwei Botschaften. Eine Umarmung an die Ossis: „Ihr seid die richtigen Deutschen, nicht ihr seid das Problem." Eine Einladung an die Wessis: „Ich war wie ihr, ich habe die Korrumpierung erkannt, also bin ich trotz westdeutscher Herkunft ein echter Deutscher. Ihr könnt das auch." 🧵

Screenshot eines Spiegel-Politik-Artikels vom 8. Juni 2026 mit dem Übertitel „Krudes Podcast-Interview" und der Überschrift „Björn Höcke spricht den Westdeutschen das Deutschsein ab". Der Vorspann beschreibt, dass Höcke erneut in einem Podcast radikale Thesen verbreitet, diesmal mit einer eigenwilligen Definition, wer im Land noch „echter Deutscher" sei. Das Artikelbild zeigt einen Mann am Rednerpult des Thüringer Landtags, im Hintergrund sitzen weitere Abgeordnete.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 01/05/2026

THREAD: A heat-pump tumble dryer could save households more than £700 Lots of overblown reaction to govt phasing out standard dryers – reminds me of when 2009 Mail frontpage wailed about "beloved" incandescent bulbs But heat pump dryers are just a much better technology 1/5

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Lots of rich and very interesting data from @persuasionuk.bsky.social. Shows (again) that Labour has only lost few voters to Reform and that Reform has benefitted from differential turnout. Among Labour defectors perceptions of Labour as "Tory-lite" dwarf concerns about immigration.

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

NEW: What exactly happened in the local and devolved elections in England, Scotland and Wales last week? @persuasionuk.bsky.social has some new polling out today which offers a first glimpse. Thread here on top line findings from each nation. 🧵

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is insanity on full display.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

When people use AI for writing assistance, it can shift their political attitudes by autocompleting sentences in biased ways. Yet people are often unaware of the AI bias & it's influence This is not merely about the facts presented, but how autocomplete worlds www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/04/2026

I'm worried about AI psychosis. Specifically, I'm worried about the psychosis that makes our "capital allocators" spend *$1.4T* on the money-losingest technology in the history of the human race. 1/

A line of Nazis at the Nuremburg rally, throwing Nazi salutes. Their backs are to us. Facing them is a hand-tinted group of child laborers from the early 20th century, squinting suspiciously at them.

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Jakub Samochowiec @jakub.eurosky.social · 17/04/2026

how attending a major conference 2026 feels like

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

New study: most climate models underestimate the decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC. The AMOC is on course to slow by more than 50% by the end of the century. 🌊 Very likely the AMOC will then be past the tipping point for full shutdown. 😨 us.cnn.com/2026/04/16/c...

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A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents is weakening and closer to collapse than thought, new studies find | CNN

New research provides alarming evidence this ocean circulation is slowing and could be heading toward a shutdown, which would have catastrophic impacts on the planet’s weather and climate.

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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 13/04/2026

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen: Der Irankrieg hat nicht „die Energiepreise“ erhöht, sondern die für Öl und Gas. Es werden nicht „die Autofahrer entlastet“, es werden Kosten für den Teil der Bevölkerung reduziert, der einen Verbrenner fährt. Auf Kosten aller anderen.

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Elia Blülle @bluelle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Die Zahlen sind etwas älter, doch dürfte sich nicht viel geändert haben. Mit der Subventionierung der Spritpreise entlastet man vor allem und überproportional höhere Einkommensklassen – 100% Mitnahmeeffekte, obendrein hochschädlich für Klima und Umwelt. Auch aus liberaler Perspektive: Horror!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Marathon talks? Compared to what? It took years for Obama to deliver a detailed Iran deal. The Trump admin are packing it in after 20 hours. (H/T @bgrueskin.bsky.social)

series of headlines detailing "marathon talks"

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The Fascist International: Putin gives the signal and all chime in.

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Do you support pro-solar policy? 90% say yes. What percentage of other people support this pro-solar policy? Average estimate: 58.6% Up-front cash for heat pumps? 80% support? What percentage of other people support heat pumps? Average estimate: 46.8% Incredible perception gap.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 04/04/2026

REMINDER: This is not an ENERGY crisis but a FOSSIL FUEL dependency crisis. Modern energy systems based on renewables are absolutely possible. Don’t let oil execs and autocrats tell you otherwise.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/04/2026

Crises precipitate change. That's no reason to induce a crisis, but you'd be a fool to let a crisis go to waste. Donald Trump is the greatest crisis of our young century, and the EU looks set to squander the opportunity, to its own terrible detriment. 1/

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.

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KLIMA° vor acht e.V. @klimavoracht.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Die Zahlen im Überblick: 2023: 2,20 % (Das Erste) / 1,95 % (ZDF) 2024: 1,49 % / 1,43 % 2025: 1,29 % / 1,29 % 2026 bisher: 0,80 % / 0,70 % Die Klimaberichterstattung hat sich seit 2023 mehr als halbiert. Bei beiden Sendern. 2/6

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Huge result here - the idea that social platforms can be defective products that cause harm is going to send shockwaves through an industry that has claimed essentially blanket protection from liability by saying everything is speech

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A thread -- which world leaders are calling for a shift to clean energy as a security investment in light of Iran War? First up, French President Macron: "...everything we do to more toward the transition is also about reducing our dependence.." (1/x) #cleanenergyisnationalsecurity

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

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Elia Blülle @bluelle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Der E-Mobilitätsausbau in der Schweiz ist ein monumentaler Fail.

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NZZ @nzz.ch · 11/03/2026

Der Algorithmus von X: Verschiebung der politischen Meinungen

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Wie der Algorithmus auf der Plattform X Meinungen prägt

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"There is no meaningful MAGA split on Iran...The war in Iran is unpopular, but that is the case because of opposition from a supermajority of Democrats, a majority of Independents, and a sliver of Republicans...A group that is 'split' approximately 85%-5% isn’t really split at all."

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There is No MAGA Split on Iran

And other ways the media misleads you.

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