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Cyberangriff auf Polizei-Server in MV: Politiker diskutieren Konsequenzen
Mehr als einen Monat nach dem Angriff auf einen Polizei-Server in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern diskutieren Politiker aller Parteien Konsequenzen aus dem Vorfall.

🙈 Political parties mostly ignore existing economic inequality, large-scale analysis finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-political-parties-economic-inequality-large.html

Political parties mostly ignore existing economic inequality, large-scale analysis finds
Growing dissatisfaction among the population, loss of trust in politics, increase in crime and violence: Economic inequality leads to a variety of social consequences. Nevertheless, the issue plays a much smaller role in the election manifestos of political parties both in Germany and in other countries than researchers had previously assumed. These are the results of a current study by the Cluster of Excellence The Politics of Inequality at the University of Konstanz, recently published in the…

Het kan elke dag nog weer gekker daar in de VS. Nu wordt er een Texaans parlementslid door de republikeinen opgesloten in het parlement.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-democratic-legislato…

Texas Democratic legislator to stay in State Capitol after refusing law enforcement escort to leave
First, Texas House Democrats refused to meet in their legislative chamber in an act of resistance.

Sources: Elon Musk is quietly pumping the brakes on his plans to start a US political party, telling allies he wants to focus his attention on his companies (Brian Schwartz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-m

Free Software is inherently political. It always has been.
https://peakd.com/programming/@crell/free-software-is-political

Anthony Fantano on politics in music: “Advocating that art should avoid any topic generally speaking is just lame” https://musictech.com/news/music/anthony-fantano-music-politics/?utm_source…

Anthony Fantano on politics in music: “Advocating that art should avoid any topic generally speaking is just lame”
Should music stay out of politics? Should every protest anthem blow your mind? And is it really fair to expect a chart-topping banger to double as a political manifesto?

☯️ Political polar opposites may be more alike than they think
#psychology

Political polar opposites may be more alike than they think
The brains of politically extreme individuals, whether left- or right-leaning, appear to respond to and process political information in surprisingly similar ways, according to research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The paper is titled "Politically extreme individuals exhibit similar neural processing despite ideological differences."

An MIT report says 95% of GenAI pilots at companies have little to no financial impact, mainly due to a "learning gap" for both the tools and the companies (Sheryl Estrada/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-perc…

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.