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Aktienkurs halbiert: Immer mehr Interesse an einer PayPal-Übernahme
Innerhalb weniger Monate hat sich der Aktienkurs von PayPal fast halbiert und die Aussichten sind nicht rosig. Jetzt gibt es wohl Interesse an einer Übernahme.

Mr Rogers always said that we should look for the helpers. That's great. Unfortunately Trump's armed goon squad is also looking for the helpers.

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Die Meinungen zur Halbierungsinitiative sind gemacht.
Es wird knapp.
Jetzt entscheidet die Seite, von der mehr Menschen an die Urnen gehen.
Bittebittebitte, Schweizer Fediversianer, geht an die Urne!
Bitte helft mit, dass die Demokratie nicht eingeschränkt werden kann durch rechte Fehlinformation.
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Bitte boosten für Reichweite. 🙏

Don't forget to leave some snacks out for Krampus tonight!
Santa gets all the love but his helpers need to be fed too. Since he's part goat, you might find he's a fan of hay. Or if you're feeling generous try fresh alfalfa sprouts.

Es ist irgendwie sehr hilfreich, wenn (wie hier: https://taz.de/Trump-beim-Weltwirtschaftsforum/!6144278/) deutlich ausgesprochen wird, dass Trump nicht nur, aber eben auch durchgeknallt ist. Unterbleibt das, führt das zu Sanewashing in der Berichterstattung und zur Aufwertung…

Right, problems for today. First. #Lisp problems. I think the bug in `cond` fires when a clause succeeds but returns `nil`.
First, write a unit test which checks for that, but run that test on my laptop where it physically cannot generate millions of stack frames.
Second, rewrite `cond` to call a separate helper function, `cond_clause`, which takes one arg and returns `nil` on failure, `…

I explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.

Fehlkonfiguration: Weiter Chaos bei elektronischen Heilberufsausweisen
Ein paar tausend Ärzte und Apotheker müssen jetzt stark sein. Ihre elektronischen Heilberufsausweise von Januar 2026 werden wieder getauscht.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Fehlkonfiguration: Weiter Chaos bei elektronischen Heilberufsausweisen

„AI eats Software“: Warum SaaS-Aktien an der Wall Street crashen
Mitten in der KI-Hausse schmieren die Aktien von Softwareherstellern ab. Die Anteilsscheine von Adobe, Oracle & Co. haben sich halbiert, Microsoft schwächelt.