“Fügt sich die wortreiche Warnung vor der weltfremden Soziologie nicht allzu nahtlos in die Ressentimentkonjunktur unserer neoautoritären Zeiten?” 🔥
Alles gesagt.
https://www.zeit.de/feuilleton/2026-08/wissenschaft-soziol…
Von Armin #Nassehi habe ich noch nie besonders viel gehalten - sein Buch "Theorie der digitalen Gesellschaft" ist völlig indiskutabel. Er scheint mir ein begabter Schwafler zu sein, der gut im Selbstmarketing ist. Wie jetzt wieder. Nassehi behauptet die #Soziologie sei zu weit links.
Sofern…
Widow of airman killed in Mideast is upset she was told Iran wasn’t a war while sorting out benefits
The widow of an airman killed on a combat mission in the Middle East said
it took a viral social media post to get resolution from the Pentagon on issues related to her husband’s benefits and basic pay months after his death.
Maj. Alex Klinner, 33, was one of six crew members of a KC-135 refueling aircraft that crashed in western Iraq in March
while supporting operati…
Blockchain wordt consequent aangeduid als hype en gebakken lucht, dat is/was het ook voor een deel, tegelijk bestaan cryptocurrencies nog en heeft de rijkste Nederlander zijn geld ermee verdiend.
'Mysterieuze cryptomiljardair blijkt rijkste Nederlander ooit – maar heeft bij Tether niets meer te zeggen'
RE: #Wärmepumpe umrüsten.
Sources: US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/u-s-used-promise
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Combattimento & Jan Willem de Vriend:
🎵 Concerto armonico No 6 in E flat major (from Sei Concerti Armonici, 1740)
#UnicoWilhelmvanWassenaer
https://open.spotify.com/track/5O7QyV8tAoxMtewlVJmaWr
An ionic clock qubit inside a circular Rydberg atom
Fabian Thielemann, Aaron G\"otzelmann, Marius Thomas, Einius Pultinevicius, Armin Humi\'c, Christian H\"olzl, Florian Meinert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06988
Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 seem worse at tool calls than older models, likely due to post-training that assumes Claude Code-like harnesses as targets (Armin Ronacher/Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings)
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/4/better-models-worse-tools/…
Singapore-based Multiplier, which acquires accounting firms to boost their growth with AI tools, raised a $35M Series B led by TheGP at a $300M valuation (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.