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A few remarks on "AI" usage and the narrative surrounding it. I think it's about the difference between disconnected creating and embodied making.
(Original title: Something from nothing)
https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/

Something from nothing
I am not a talented person, I’ve never been called “gifted” or anything like that. Anything I can do, anything I achieved took a lot of work and stubbornness to achieve. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that I’m “selfmade” and that my position in society, my access to resources, etc. had nothing […]

A US judge sentences Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison; Kwon pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud charges in August (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/12/10/terraform-s-do-kwon-s…

Terra Creator Do Kwon Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
The Terraform Labs co-founder pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud in August.

One Sentence, Two Embeddings: Contrastive Learning of Explicit and Implicit Semantic Representations
Kohei Oda, Po-Min Chuang, Kiyoaki Shirai, Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09293

One Sentence, Two Embeddings: Contrastive Learning of Explicit and Implicit Semantic Representations
Sentence embedding methods have made remarkable progress, yet they still struggle to capture the implicit semantics within sentences. This can be attributed to the inherent limitations of conventional sentence embedding methods that assign only a single vector per sentence. To overcome this limitation, we propose DualCSE, a sentence embedding method that assigns two embeddings to each sentence: one representing the explicit semantics and the other representing the implicit semantics. These embe…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
BienAimer:
🎵 Something is Not Something
#BienAimer
https://bienaimermusic.bandcamp.com/track/something-is-not-something

📢 US-Repräsentantenhaus beschließt Haushalt
Nach dem US-Senat hat auch das Repräsentantenhaus einer Einigung im Haushaltsstreit zugestimmt. Das Gesetz wurde mit 222 zu 209 Stimmen angenommen. Für ein Ende des Regierungsstillstands muss Präsident Trump die Vorlage noch unterzeichnen. Seine Zustimmung gilt jedoch als sicher.
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US-Repräsentantenhaus beschließt Haushalt
Nach dem US-Senat hat auch das Repräsentantenhaus einer Einigung im Haushaltsstreit zugestimmt. Das Gesetz wurde mit 222 zu 209 Stimmen angenommen. Für ein Ende des Regierungsstillstands muss Präsident Trump die Vorlage noch unterzeichnen. Seine Zustimmung gilt jedoch als sicher.

This week I’m thinking back to this powerful quote (long-circulating, origin unclear):
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Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person”
and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “If you won’t respect me I won’t respect you,” and what they mean is “If you won’t treat me like an authority then I won’t treat you like a person.”
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Re @…: https://mas.to/@fsinn/115874975151407409

Aus unnützes Wissen / oder nicht ;
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Anke Engelke ist auch #Jahrgang65
NDR Talk Momente mit Anke Engelke | ndr.de
https://www.ndr.de/f…

NDR Talk Momente mit Anke Engelke
Der NDR feiert den 60. Geburtstag von Anke Engelke mit den schönsten Talk-Momenten aus den beliebtesten NDR Talk-Formaten.

Such an important insight:
✅ Machines get smarter by moving faster
✅ Humans get wiser by slowing down
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sometimes-most-radical-act-leadership-doing-nothing-all-murgatroyd-qq1fc

Sometimes... The Most Radical Act of Leadership is Doing Nothing at All!
Recently, I watched an entire leadership team struggle to sit in silence for sixty seconds. It wasn’t a gimmick.

What a treat: A reader send me a bunch of hand-printed cards inspired by my article "Something From Nothing" https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/

Back when I was little, kids used to freak each other out about bad guys they saw or said they saw or heard somebody say they saw: Gang members. Kidnappers. Drug dealers.
Sometimes it was just attention-seeking or scaring each other for fun. Sometimes it was genuinely scary. Sometimes it was even based in reality. Regardless, these are the boogeymen of my childhood.
I’ve had the chance to talk to some little kids this week. You know who’s the playground boogeyman now? ICE.
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