"Leo betonte, dass er keine direkte Attacke auf Trump oder andere Personen beabsichtigt habe, als er eine «Wahnvorstellung der Allmächtigkeit» kritisierte, die den Krieg gegen den Iran und andere Konflikte weltweit befeuere."
Aber wem der Schuh passt, der zieht ihn sich an. 🤭
Quelle mit Bezahlschranke:
We outnumber the pigs. By a lot.
They don't win by using force. They don't win by shooting us, or kidnapping us, or locking us up. If anything, that kind of thing backfires. They don't win by making us afraid or angry.
They win through propaganda, by making us turn on each other, by making us feel hopeless or that any of this is inevitable. They win by leading us to believe that any of their behavior is justified.
Take care of yourself and each other, and shut d…
Roman elites drank from leaded cups because it made water sweeter. Radiation was thought at one time to have healing properties, so people would add uranium to their drinking water. Glowing dishes are still a collectors item. After the discovery of x-rays, shoe stores started installing them and using them on kids feet to size shoes. Lead was added to gasoline to improve engine performance, and paint to make it whiter. We all know about asbestos and DDT.
We look back at all of this and think, "how could people have been so incompetent back then?" Some of these things caused irreparable harm in their generation, some continue to cause harm today almost 100 years later.
If you wonder that, look at the whole #LLM thing and you have your answer.
Ich verstehe, dass der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kulturkampf, ein Problem mit linken Buchhandlungen hat und wenig Probleme hat, Preisverfahren mit unabhängigen Jurys vor die Wand zu fahren, aber ich begreife die Angriff auf die DNB nicht, die ja ohnehin einen gesetzlichen Auftrag erfüllt. Geht es um Austerität?
This lady at the doctor's office just answered her phone and told her son her password...very loudly. Then proceeded to say out loud where she keeps her red password book.
🙏 Ungarn 🙏
Orban hat seine Niederlage eingestanden?
Weshalb?
Ist er froh, dass er nicht aufräumen muss, was er angerichtet hat?
Ist seine Opposition immer noch stark genug, um Peter Magyar das Leben schwer zu machen?
Wenn die EU es jetzt schafft, geeinter aufzutreten und sich allenfalls bessere Regeln zu geben, dann fällt mir so ein grosser Stein vom Herzen. 😅
#Ungarn
I spend a lot of time being worried or angry or annoyed at the way that generative ai fervor is undermining our ecosystems (environmental, cultural, epistemic, digital, etc).
But right now I'm just feeling mournful. Seeing project after project, institution after institution run enthusiastically into a future where we boil our oceans to better insulate ourselves from one another is ... tragic. We're losing a lot right now, and we're going to have to come to terms with that.…
Willem challenged us to ask ourselves what we would do if we were living under Nazi occupation. Before all of this, I doubt anyone thought they would be complicit. I doubt anyone said to themselves, "nothing. I would cower in fear and do nothing."
But for 4 years or so we all answered that question again and again with our lives. Now here we are, answering it again... Every day. But it's no longer "what would you do during the rise of Hitler?" It's now, "what would you do after the invasion of Poland," and "what would you do after you knew about the concentration camps?"
For some people, the answer is still, "nothing."
But a lot of people have been brave in the face of it all. A lot of people have died, and a lot more will die. He will die, perhaps after a ruling by some court or other but, honestly, probably not. That's just how these things work out. Lots of people die, some for no reason, some because they stood up against injustice. A whole lot of people do nothing, until it's safe to claim victory... Until it's no longer safe to be on the other side.
That's just how these things go. Fascism is self-defeating, but it causes incredible harm on it's path of self-destruction. The more people who stand up, who risk themselves, the faster it collapses and the fewer it can hurt. That's also just how these things go. It's incredibly dangerous for everyone until enough people take some extra risk and make it safe for everyone again.
But that question still stands... Which one of those groups are you in? Are you proud of what you are doing, or will you look back with shame? Some of y'all have a lot to be proud of, but, if you're not, it's never too late to earn your way into that proud group.