Förintelsens minnesdag! Lägger upp mina gamla läsanteckningar från 2020 (oredigerade!) på bokdraken från den mest intressanta Förintelsebok jag läst, Europa mot judarna 1880-1945.
https://bokdraken.se/user/laxsill/revi
A 14th century parable about agentic #AI transformation:
Tamerlane was looking for someone to teach his donkey to talk. Nobody wanted the job. Finally the wise man of the dunes, Hodja Nasreddin, took the position and promised to teach the donkey to talk in 10 years time.
- Are you crazy? his friends asked him.
- Not really, Nasreddin answered. The money is good the job is not hard and…
Dass von reaktionären Kräften Schröders Agenda 2010 als Benchmark für den erneuten Angriff der SPD gewählt wird, zeigt, wie reaktionär sie damals war und dass man die Sozialdemokratie hier zu bekommen glaubt, weil sie sich nicht von diesem Teil ihrer Geschichte distanziert hat.
The six-car ICE convoy came to a stop and instantly dozens of people swarmed it,
cellphones in hand,
while others ran out of nearby houses
—I saw a woman in gym shorts in the 20-degree weather
—and began surrounding the masked and heavily armed agents who had spilled out of their black SUVs.
The fury in the crowd felt almost like a physical force,
as real as the cacophony of whistles and honking cars and angry chants:
“ICE out! Fuck you! Go home!”
A reporter writes about a visit from the FBI in 2020, following his story about a hack, and the long-term personal impact, along with eroding press freedoms (Zack Whittaker/~this week in security~)
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/fbi-ag
The Trump administration appeared to acknowledge on Monday that its investigation into
the killing of a Veterans Affairs nurse, Alex Pretti, by federal agents this weekend
was limited to a “use of force” review meant to establish whether government employees had violated training standards.
Such a move, disclosed in court filings, would represent a much narrower inquiry
-- focused on tactics and conduct
-- than one that would examine whether federal agents shoul…
When an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in south Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026,
what happened next looked familiar, at least on the surface.
Within hours, cellphone footage spread online and eyewitness accounts contradicted official statements,
while video analysts slowed the clip down frame by frame to answer a basic question:
Did she pose the threat federal officials claimed?
What’s changed since Minneapolis became a g…