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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For all this talk of Russian bots being defeated by the Yandex strikes I'm still getting the usual Matryoshka emails with the same fake news posts and purchased bot engagement. Seems more like wishful thinking based on misinterpreted data than reality.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 11h

More on none existent russian bot collapse via Common Consultancy whom monitors 17,000+ politicians, media and civil society accounts in 30+ countries. 50,000+ posts a day in Facebook. No visible change in activity.

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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 21h

In sozialen Netzwerken und Medien kursiert das Gerücht, dass die ukrainischen Angriffe auf russische Rechenzentren die Aktivität rechter Social Bots minimiert hätte. Dafür gibt es bislang keine Belege. netzpolitik.org/2026/angriff...

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Aus brennenden Rechenzentren in Russland wird kein Bot-Ausfall bei der AfD

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Philip Kreißel 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @pkreissel.eurosky.social · 18h

This analysis of subreddits is fake. It claims to prove a drop in reddit usage in the timespan of ukrainian attacks on datacenters, however it was made entirely with chatgpt and the AI correctly warns that the results dont survive basic checks. It literally says so, but people share it anyway.

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Kai Küstner @kuestnerk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

... und natürlich lehnt #Putin (zum 100. Mal) das Angebot einer Waffenruhe in der Ukraine ab. Und auch die Trump-Ankündigung (keine Angriffe auf Energieanlagen) hat er ignoriert. Aber morgen werden AfD und BSW wieder schreien: Europa will keinen Frieden!

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 12/10/2026

Twitter seems worse by quite a bit, but the general mechanism that works there also works here. On Twitter, pro-Trump content goes viral whether it's true or not. On Bluesky, it's anti-Trump content. People love having their views confirmed, it's human nature.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 12/10/2026

Because Dana asked, here's the statistical analysis of the last 2 weeks of AfD's posts on Twitter. It does *not* show any meaningful drop-off in engagement.

Analysis complete. Here's the full write-up.
AfD engagement statistical analysis (Sep 24 Oct 9, 2026)
Data & method
29 posts scraped from your logged-in session (~/Downloads/twitter.json), Sep 24 Oct 9, 2026.
Metrics were blank in the DOM, so I enriched every post by ID via the public fxtwitter API exact likes /retweets / replies / quotes / views / timestamp for all 29/29. (Saved to /tmp/afd_enriched.json.)
Engagement rate (likes + retweets + replies quotes) / views.
Windows: recent Oct 7-9 (final 5 posts) vs baseline = Sep 24 Oct 6 (24 posts).
Verdict: No sudden drop. If anything, a mild (non-significant) uptick.
The recent window is higher on absolute engagement and flat on engagement rate:
Metric
Recent (Oct 7-9)
Baseline (Sep 24-0ct 6)
Diff
95% CI
p (2-sided)
Mean likes
3,933
2,859
+1,074
-865 +3,162
0.30
Median likes
4,041
2,236
+1,806
-951 +5,290
0.11
Mean views
97,167
46,842
+50,325
-22k... +164k
0.09
Median interactions
4,807
2,599
+2,208
-1,068... +6,679
0.07
Mean engagement rate
8.5%
8.3%
+0.1 pp
-3.6... +4.3
0.96
Median engagement rate
7.6%
8.2%
-0.6 pp
-5.5... +7.8
0.71
Cohen's d (likes) = +0.52 (small-to-medium increase, not a drop).

Day-by-day (no downward trend)
2026-09-24 n = 1 max= 1154 #####
2026-09-25 n = 2 max= 3449 ###############
2026-09-26 n = 1 max= 4353 ###################
2026-09-28 n = 2 max= 3073 ##############
2026-09-29 n = 2 max= 3420 ###############
2026-09-30 n = 1 max= 3077 ##############
2026-10-01 n = 3 max= 9070 ########################################
2026-10-02 n = 2 max= 1470 ######
2026-10-03 n = 2 max= 2212 ##########
2026-10-04 n = 1 max= 6632 #############################
2026-10-05 n = 3 max= 5857 ##########################
2026-10-06 n = 4 max= 4042 ##################
2026-10-07 n = 2 max= 7502 #################################
2026-10-08 n = 1 max= 1421 ######
2026-10-09 n = 2 max= 4041 ##################
The only thing that looks like a "drop" is the quiet Oct 8 post (1,421 likes / 23k views) landing right after Oct 7's viral hit (7,502 likes / 314k views). But Oct 9 recovered to 4,041, so that's post-to-post noise, not a trend.
Change-point scan (is there a break at the end?)
Testing every "last-k posts vs everything before" split:
Split
Recent mean likes
Prior mean
Diff
P
last 2
3,084
3,041
+42
0.99
last 3
2,529
3,104
-574
0.70
last 4
3,772
2,928
+845
0.48
last 5
3,933
2,859
+1,074
0.31
No split is remotely significant, and none is negative except the (noisy) last-3.

Bottom line
Over the two weeks up to Oct 9, AfD's engagement shows no sudden decline absolute likes/views are slightly up and the interaction rate is statistically unchanged (8.5% vs 8.3%, p = 0.96 ) If you're reacting to a specific number that looked low, it's almost certainly the quiet Oct 8 post following the Oct 7 viral spike, which is ordinary variance.

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noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu · 12/10/2026

🔴🟢 Today, we launched gdpr-omnibus.eu/ – a website, where we ranked more than 1,000 amendments to the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive. ⁉️ This sheds light on which Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are fighting for people's privacy, and which want to reduce it.

The picture shows a ranking of the "privacy score by group" in the European Parliament. The ranking is based on an analysis of the amendments that Members of Parliament have made to the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive in the Digital Omnibus.

The picture shows a ranking of the privacy score of select Members of the European Parliament. The ranking is based on an analysis of the amendments that said Members of Parliament have made to the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive in the Digital Omnibus.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.

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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Its worth pointing out that Cloud Fare bot data is not about hostile actors that we call bots but actual mechanical bots that all search engines use for indexing, web crawlers and API access. Its good that its down but it has nothing to do with propaganda as such

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Again, none of its true. People are looking at graphs they don't understand and inventing stuff. Note the grifter language, "if confirmed" "its reported" No meta data! These graphs do not show russian propaganda bot disappearance, only normal internet information tool collapse.

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Tom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A very nice writeup from Mike Cummings at Yale News on our work finding symbolic structure inside LLM representations! Read it if you want to learn how the vectors inside LLMs are like pointillist paintings! news.yale.edu/2026/10/08/h...

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How do AI chatbots ‘reason’ like humans? A Yale-led study offers clues

The neural networks that power popular AI chatbots process data much differently than humans but capably perform tasks involving language, logic, and math. A new study sheds light on how those systems...

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Philip Kreißel 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @pkreissel.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

If intentional or not, Trump is creating a situation, where it is very obvious that Ukraine in fact wants a ceasefire on energy and Putin does not.

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Philip Kreißel 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @pkreissel.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Ukraine denies, that outside of Trumps mind anyone has agreed to an energy ceasefire. Zelenskyy has always offered to match a Russian stop of attacks on energy infrastructure.

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Mark Douglas @maritimekiwi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

FYI @michellewb.bsky.social has released a correction on LinkedIn stating that this vessel is carrying urea not diesel

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

It is becoming increasingly apparent that societies must create conditions to stop being merely spectators (and exploitation objects) of digitalisation. Instead of allowing it to further concentrate wealth, influence, and surveillance, open corporate silos and simultaneously build public capacity.

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 06/10/2026

I've long been saying it's a huge advantage for us that barely anyone abroad speaks German. If even half of Deutschland's insanity escaped German/Swiss/Austrian containment, all our remaining soft power would vanish in an instant

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citizen190.bsky.social @citizen190.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Inside the Six Wikipedia Editors Who Shaped the Palestine-Israel Topic Area - Wikipedia eventually banned a group of influential Israel–Palestine editors. It never systematically reviewed the articles they spent two decades writing. open.substack.com/pub/npov/p/i...

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Inside the Six Wikipedia Editors Who Shaped the Palestine-Israel Topic Area

Wikipedia eventually banned a group of influential Israel–Palestine editors. It never systematically reviewed the articles they spent two decades writing.

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Patrick Gruska @patrickgruska.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ohne die Arbeit von @michaelbonvalot.bsky.social und vielen anderen Journalist*innen, die stundenlang auf/von rechten Demos berichten, wären unsere FPÖ/Identitären Recherchen nur schwer(er) möglich gewesen. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

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Video zeigt Festnahme Bonvalots bei rechter Demo: "Beispiellos in der jüngeren Geschichte"

Die Szenen beim Aufmarsch der rechten Verschwörungsszene sorgen für ein rechtliches Nachspiel. Concordia-Jurist Strobl: Polizei muss Journalisten bei ihrer Arbeit schützen

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Veronika Kracher @veronikakracher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

CN Gewalt Der Betreiber des Laden M99 - eine Institution in der Berliner Linken - wurde von einer Gruppe Jugendlicher angegriffen, weil er anlässlich des 7. Oktober ein Plakat gegen Antisemitismus aufgehängt hatte. Zu sechst einen Behinderten verprügeln, das hilft den Menschen in Gaza sicher.

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Mehrere antisemitische Angriffe in Berlin: Jugendliche attackieren Kreuzberger Geschäftsinhaber, weil er sich gegen Judenhass stellt

In Berlin-Kreuzberg haben Jugendliche einen Mann in seinem Gemischtwarenladen mehrere Tage hintereinander angegriffen. Auslöser soll ein Aushang gegen Judenhass gewesen sein.

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Philip Kreißel 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @pkreissel.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Hatte Seehofer doch Recht bei den Erdkabeln für Südlink?

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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Christian Eymery @christianeymery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ich reposte das nochmal. Der Text von Eva Illouz gehört zu dem besten, das ich in letzter Zeit gelesen habe.

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 08/10/2026

👀 "Rather than viewing citizen science merely as crowdsourced data collection or computational tools as autonomous infrastructure, we advocate for human-machine systems in which citizen scientists, including distributed publics, participate as monitors, interpreters...and co-producers of knowledge."

Reimagining Scientific Discovery: Collective Intelligence Through the Convergence of Citizen Science and Computational Systems Saiph Savage Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts, USA Lea Shanley International Computer Science Institute Berkeley, California, USA Lucy Fortson University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Corey Jackson University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, Wisconsin, USA Kevin Crowston Syracuse University Syracuse, New York, USA Tanya Berger-Wolf The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, USA Haley Griffin The Computing Community Consortium Washington D.C., USA Abstract Scientific discovery is increasingly constrained not by a lack of data, but by the challenge of turning massive, diverse, and constantly evolving datasets into knowledge that is meaningful and actionable. While advances across artificial intelligence (AI), computing and data sciences have created exciting new modes for scientific inquiry, these systems alone remain insufficient because they struggle with the contextual interpretation, local knowledge, or ethical judgment that complex scientific problems require. Our work proposes that the convergence of citizen science methods with AI, distributed computing and data sciences creates a new form of collective intelligence grounded in human-machine teaming, in which human communities and computational systems are intentionally designed to complement, correct, and extend one another. Rather than viewing citizen science merely as crowdsourced data collection or computational tools as autonomous infrastructure, we advocate for human-machine scientific systems in which citizen scientists, including distributed publics, participate as monitors, interpreters, decision-makers, and co-producers of knowledge. Through reimagining how scientific work is organized and interpreted, this contribution speaks to the CI 2026 theme of Connections by showing how scientific discovery can be redesigned as a connected process of hum…

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Vincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Germany's Die Linke won last month's Berlin election on a pledge to socialize ~220k flats owned by large landlords. A thread on why housing expropriation is a successful campaign promise, how Berlin's flats became an asset class, and what expropriation would do. 🧵

Front page of die tageszeitung (taz), 21 September 2026: Die Linke supporters cheer under the headline 'CDU enteignet' ('CDU expropriated'). Photo: Jörg Carstensen/imago.

Bar chart of the 2026 Berlin state election (second votes): Linke 25.7% (2023: 12.2%), CDU 18.8% (28.2%), AfD 16.3% (9.1%), Greens 14.3% (18.4%), SPD 12.1% (18.4%), BSW 4.7%, FDP 2.5% (4.6%).

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Oliver Das Gupta @oliverdasgupta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Der Palästina Aktivist und "Genosse" Ibrahim Ibrahim feierte erst auf der Wahlparty der Linken, dann reiste er zum Treffen mit Kadern der Terrortruppe #Hamas. Wenn die #Linke #Berlin regieren will, muss sie sich ehrlich machen. Wie konsequent ist sie, wenn es um mörderische Islamistengruppen geht?

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Once again, if you are a senior researcher spreading doom to junior researchers, shut up shut up shut up. It’s your job to figure out a path forward, even in high uncertainty times. Come back when you have something constructive.

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Johannes Bebermeier @jbebermeier.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Daniel Günther bislang am deutlichsten in der CDU zu Magdeburg und der CDU Sachsen-Anhalt:

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Gestern ist im Landtag von Sachsen-Anhalt etwas geschehen, was nicht hätte passieren dürfen. Ein Vertreter eines als gesichert rechtsextremistisch eingestuften Landesverbandes einer Partei führt ein deutsches Landesparlament mit seiner Verwaltung.
Ein weiterer wurde zum Vizepräsidenten gewählt.
Ein demokratischer Kandidat der SPD ist bei der Wahl gescheitert.
Die über die mit den Stimmen von AfD und BSW hinausgehende Mehrheit der Abgeordneten des Landtages hat ein Ergebnis zu verantworten, das uns fassungslos macht und entsetzt. Sollte jemand aus den Reihen der Union daran mitgewirkt haben, hat er oder sie nicht nach den Werten der Union gehandelt.

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Für uns gilt ausnahmslos: keine Zusammenarbeit mit Rechtsextremisten. Nicht in Regierungen und nicht im Parlament. Aufrecht ist, wer auch in der Wahlkabine zu seinem Wort steht - gerade dann, wenn niemand hinsieht. Die politische Mitte hat in diesen Zeiten mehr denn je die verdammte Pflicht, die Probleme des Landes gemeinsam zu lösen.
Die Parteien der Mitte dürfen Mehrheiten nirgends mit Extremisten bilden, nicht mit rechtsextremen Menschenfeinden, nicht mit linksextremen Antisemiten.
Wir haben in Deutschland erlebt, wie Demokratien enden.
Selten mit einem lauten Knall - meist in kleinen Schritten, mit der Übernahme von immer mehr Macht durch Extremisten. Das darf sich nicht wiederholen.

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's finally publication day for this decade-in-the-making book. @noamlupu.bsky.social and I explain why working-class jobs make up 70% of the average democracy's labor force, but only 2% of the average democracy's national lawmakers had working-class jobs when they got into politics.

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 06/10/2026

Latvian authorities say armed masked men on the Belarusian border threatened Latvian soldiers while pushing 20 migrants toward Latvia. Hours later, masked men crossed into Latvia, damaged an electrical panel, stole cameras, and fled back to Belarus. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

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Latvian officials say armed masked men threatened troops while trying to push 20 migrants across from Belarus, then crossed into Latvia themselves and stole surveillance cameras — Meduza

Armed, masked people tried to lead a group of 20 migrants illegally across the border from Belarus into Latvia and threatened soldiers in Latvia’s National Armed Forces, according to Latvian Interior…

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Annika Joeres @annikajoeres.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Liebe @cducsubt.bsky.social: Es geht auch um Euer Überleben. In Frankreich lief es so: Konservative stimmten verdeckt für Le Pen, dann lokale Absprachen, einzelne Überläufer, bis der konservative Parteichef mit Le Pen paktierte. Heute sind die Republikaner verzwergt www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

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CDU und AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt: Hinweise auf erste konkrete Absprache zwischen CDU und AfD

Der AfD-Landtagspräsident bekam vier Stimmen mehr als erwartet. Nach Informationen der ZEIT beruht das Ergebnis auf einem Deal mit Vertretern der Union.

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Philip Kreißel 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @pkreissel.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Wenn wir das, was in mit 4 Stimmen in Sachsen-Anhalt passiert, auf die gesamte CDU projizieren und das damit deutschlandweite Auswirkungen bekommt, dann geben wir der AfD viel viel viel mehr Macht als sie in Wirklichkeit hat. Das wäre ein schwerer Fehler.

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Markus Kollberg @markuskollberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚨New Paper in @polbehavior.bsky.social! Julia Leschke and I ask: What works against populist rhetoric? We find: Advocating for pluralist ideals can mitigate the negative effects of populist rhetoric. link.springer.com/article/10.1... More details below ⏬

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Philip Kreißel 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @pkreissel.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

In jüngerer Vergangenheit scheinen sich die Fälle zu häufen. www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

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Yves Venedey @yvesvenedey.de · 05/10/2026

Der Typ neben Mamdani ist Curtis Sliwa, er war Bürgermeisterkandidat der Republikaner. Gemeinsam mit Mamdani wirbt er für die Grippeimpfung.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 04/10/2026

What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good breakdown of #GenAI augmentation of a process vs the human. As a learning scientist and educational psychologist, my primary interest is in how GenAI can enhance human agency, capacity, and thriving. If it doesn’t do those things, I’m not interested. jarrahi.substack.com/p/what-is-be...

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What Is Being Augmented by AI: Humans or Processes?

Why augmented performance does not necessarily mean augmented human capability?

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Jens-Christian Wagner @jcwagner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1/3 Was der „Fokus“ hier macht, ist infam. Kerkelings Vater wurde als Kommunist in das #KZ #Buchenwald eingewiesen und bekam dort den roten Winkel eines politischen Häftlings. Die NS-Justiz warf ihm zudem „kriminelle“ Delikte vor, damals seitens der politischen Justiz nicht

Artikel von Folus online, 2.10.2026. Textausschitt:

„Kerkeling inszeniert sich seit einiger Zeit schon als Nazi-Betroffener – und begründet das mit der Erfahrung seines kommunistischen Großvaters, der ein Nazi-Opfer war. So bei einer Gedenkrede in Buchenwald.

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Nun berichtete die „Münsterland“-Zeitung, der lokale Ableger der seriösen „Ruhr-Nachrichten“, über neue historische Funde zu Kerkelings Großvater. Dokumente belegten dessen „Straftaten, Vorstrafen und eine Verurteilung wegen Bandendiebstahls“, heißt es in einem Bericht von Ende August.“

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 04/10/2026

This really made something click for me. Found this extremely insightful on why liberal societies - which want to be the freest societies - struggle so much with freedom restrictions. (Translation in Alt)

What actually bothers people is a symptom of any liberal society. It liberates its citizens and then restricts them once more.
A woman born into an ultra-conservative family that envisages only the role of mother for women is protected by liberal society and can instead lead a childless life in a lesbian relationship with a Muslim woman in Berlin-Mitte. Liberal society is constantly on the lookout for people who have not yet been able to realise their full potential because the traditions, customs and morals of their social milieu prevent them from doing so. Anyone who says that something is improper, contradicts a divine plan or is contrary to public decency will find a reliable opponent in liberalism. Liberalism does not condone everything, but it permits whatever does not restrict the freedoms of others.
In this movement, liberal society challenges all communities that provide a sense of purpose. Parents no longer have as much say over what their children should do, and the churches should not dictate how long a marriage must last or what a woman does with her body. And just because things used to be done the way tradition dictated, nobody has to do them that way today. This devaluation of old institutions does not mean that the liberal state wants no churches, no families, no traditions. It merely curtails their authority. It gives them less weight. What is truly permitted and what is not is to be determined solely by the state through its laws, and not by a normative milieu. The motto is: anything that is not forbidden is permitted.

In this way, even what is good is lost. A vulgar, boorish man who, in the past, would not have dared to describe a sexual fantasy to a female politician for fear of social censure from his family and colleagues, can today feel free to do whatever he pleases. The only authority that can legitimately stop him is the law. So he need only ask whether it is forbidden and how he must phrase it so that it is sufficiently ambiguous to still be covered by freedom of expression. And if he manages to string together a series of ambiguities that make his intention obvious but do not constitute a criminal offence, he presents the liberal state with a major problem: the state cannot ban what is simply naughty, tasteless and repulsive.
This creates a vacuum. Much of what was previously curbed through dialogue, social respect, parental discipline, upbringing and moral authority is now left unregulated. Yet there is an urgent need amongst citizens for immoral behaviour to continue to be curbed. So the liberal state is called upon. It is expected to sanction thoughtless words, inappropriate physical contact, prejudiced speech, reckless driving, unbridled consumption, unhealthy eating and the infliction of discomfort. This blurs the distinction between legality and morality.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 04/10/2026

Footage captures a strike on Kyiv’s Pivnichnyi Bridge as cars crossed it, fortunately without being hit. The bridge has now come under attack for three consecutive days. #Ukraine

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My priors about chimp anti-sociality confirmed: They stole from "friends" 61% of trials, from non-friends 70% of trials. Continues to be one of the biggest puzzles about human evolution, which mechanisms and evolutionary history make humans qualitatively more cooperative than other apes.

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 01/10/2026

I recently published a column on EUobserver @euobserver.com comparing the escalating trend in Russian psychological warfare against Europe to Lord Voldemort's demand that Hogwarts hand over Harry Potter. euobserver.com/238858/what-jk-rowli… 1/5

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dame @dame.is · 30/09/2026

the fact that it’s abnormal and disincentivized to express some hope/optimism online from time to time is part of what got us in this mess

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