The last step in a long process on “arsenic life”: #arsenic Instead of phosphorus” from 2010 has now been killed (over the objections of the authors) by the journal that had published it: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu5488 (and see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/bakterien-mit-arsen-zwangsernahrt-macht-das-leben-im-all-wahrscheinlicher/ and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/zweifel-an-den-arsen-bakterien-mehren-sich/ for my reporting back then about the announcement and the swift and hard criticism).
„In Rüstungsunternehmen zu investieren lohne sich nicht nur, sondern sei sogar nachhaltig. Schließlich könne Europa nur auf diese Weise die Demokratie verteidigen, was Nachhaltigkeit überhaupt erst ermöglicht – so das Argument.“
„So hat sich etwa der Vermögensverwalter Allianz Global Investors im April dazu entschieden, Rüstungsunternehmen in Fonds aufzunehmen, die unter dem Label »Environmental, Social und Governance« (ESG) verkauft werden.“
Was mich immer wieder gleichermaßen fasziniert wie komplett hoffnungslos zurücklässt, ist die Armee an gewöhnlichen Menschen, die gegen ihre eigenen Interessen argumentieren und handeln und sich freuen ausgebeutet zu werden.
Gönnt euch mal die Kommentare unter diesem NDR Beitrag zum Mindestlohn:
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AMD CEO Lisa Su says she expects TSMC's Arizona-made chips to cost "more than 5% but less than 20%" above TSMC's Taiwan-made chips, and to arrive by 2025's end (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
An Arizona woman was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison for helping North Korean workers obtain remote jobs at U.S. companies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/25/north-korean-remote-workers-fraud-christina-chapman/
> Rather than “is this the future you want?”, the question is instead “how will you adapt to this inevitable future?”.
https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/
Turns out life doesn’t just imitate art
— sometimes it borrows the script, reboots it with National Guard checkpoints and streams it live from Los Angeles.
Case in point:
A Day Without a Mexican,
the cheeky 2004 sci-fi satire from Mexican filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi,
in which California wakes up to find every person of Latino descent has vanished into a mysterious haze,
leaving Angelenos panicking over who’s going to mow the lawns and run …
I can't believe that retraction took 15 years – and that the authors still haven't accepted their L. That study was extremely oversold from the get-go, by the author's not being self-critical enough and wanting to believe their own extraordinary claims.
«Controversial ‘arsenic life’ paper retracted after 15 years — but authors fight back»
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02325-z
CISPE files a legal complaint in the EU, arguing that the bloc's approval of Broadcom's VMware buyout failed to impose conditions to prevent market power abuse (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Sources: Walmart has opened a "dark store" warehouse in Dallas and plans to add another in Bentonville, Arkansas, as it tests ways to speed up online deliveries (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20