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Am 6. September wird in Sachsen-Anhalt gewählt.
"Im Falle einer Regierungsübernahme würde die extrem rechte Partei Sachsen-Anhalt binnen kurzem in ein Labor für den autoritären Umbau der Gesellschaft verwandeln.
Sie wird ausprobieren, wie weit man es auf Landesebene mit der Durchsetzung rechter Politik treiben kann." - David Begrich

Okay, this is a key distillation of work I've been doing for a few decades, one of the most important lessons I try to share with the people I collaborate with: They have to be able to talk about us without us. https://www.anildash.com/2025/12/05/talk-about-us-without-…

They have to be able to talk about us without us
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Over ontwepen voor wie die niet exact op de ontwerper lijkt…
“Ontwerpers en ontwikkelaars zien zichzelf als de proxy, de gevolmachtigde, voor de gebruiker, ze realiseren zich niet dat ze een heel specifieke uitsnede zijn van de gebruikers.”
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Digitalisering zorg sluit Nederlanders buiten: ‘Patiënten lopen weg bij een aanmeldzuil’
Van aanmeldzuil tot huisarts-app: de huidige digitalisering in de zorg is te ingewikkeld voor de mensen die daar het meeste baat bij zouden kunnen hebben. Dat kan zo niet langer, concluderen de hoogleraren Teun Zuiderent-Jerak en Christine Dedding na onderzoek. ‘Als zo’n zuil het niet doet, lopen mensen weg.’

This article by @… squarely hits in the feels, names and articulates what's happening in the tech industry, and points towards pragmatic things we can do.
Notably — and I cannot sufficiently underscore how crucial this is — Anil spells out that power by its very definition is fundamentally requisite to enact any influence on the direction of tech. We cannot cha…

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t

500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Sachsen-Anhalt: Mit KI und Handyüberwachung gegen Anschläge
Schon länger beschäftigt sich das Innenministerium mit automatisierter Datenauswertung für die Sicherheit. Das kommt aber nicht bei allen gut an.
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Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-t

500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Jet MHD analytical model - framework for radiative transfer
E. E. Nokhrina, I. N. Pashchenko, V. A. Frolova, R. V. Todorov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04949 https://

Jet MHD analytical model - framework for radiative transfer
We developed the full magnetohydrodynamical analytical jet model that allows accurate reproducing of a transversal and longitudinal structure for a highly collimated relativistic jets. This model can be used as a setup for convenient solution of radiative transfer equations and modelling the total intensity and polarization maps. We show that the analytical fits are in excellent agreement with the numerical solutions of full magnetohydrodynamical equations. Our approach allows setting easily di…

The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a-tech

How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Line emission search from DM annihilation in the Galactic Center with LST-1
Abhishek Abhishek (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project), Shotaro Abe (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project), Tomohiro Inada (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project), Sofia Ventura (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project), Michele Doro (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project), Masahiro Teshima (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project), Gaia Verna (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project)

Line emission search from DM annihilation in the Galactic Center with LST-1
Dark Matter remains a great mystery in modern physics. Among various candidates, the weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) scenario stands out and is under extensive study. The detection of the hypothetical gamma-ray emission from WIMP annihilation could act as a direct probe of electroweak-scale interactions, complementing DM collider searches and other direct DM detection techniques. At very high energies (VHE), WIMP self-annihilation is expected to produce gamma rays together with oth…