Was #Habeck während der Energiekrise machte:
- Er rief Bürger:innen, Unternehmen und den öD zum Energieeinsparung auf.
- Er senkte die Umsatzsteuer auf Solarprodukte auf 0%.
- Er kündigte einen „breiten Rettungsschirm“ für Firmen an.
- Er trieb den Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien, Wasserstoff-Forschung und den Bau von #LNG-Terminals voran, um einseitige Abhängigkeit von Gas zu beenden.
Was #Reiche während der Energiekrise macht:
- Ermutigt Bürger und Unternehmen auf #Gas und #Öl zu setzen.
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Some days, some news are better than others.
Todays news are #MMMhhh
The $340 Million Ultimatum: How Deutsche Bank’s Unprecedented Trump Severance Rewrites the Rules of American Power
To understand the sheer gravity of this moment, you must look past the partisan noise and examine the cold, hard financial mechanics. Deutsche Bank did not just freeze accounts or quietly reduce exposure. They issued an internal directive prohibiting any future business with the Trump family and immediately demanded $340 million in outstanding USD loans across properties in Miami, Chicago, and Washington. This nuclear option was triggered by a sealed January 9th federal court filing from the Southern District of New York. Investigators uncovered a staggering discrepancy: loan applications submitted to the bank contained property valuations that differed from those submitted to tax authorities by as much as 40 percent. In the unforgiving world of federal statute, this is the factual predicate for bank fraud. Faced with existential litigation risk, the bank chose self-preservation. But the sheer panic echoing through the halls of Trump Tower wasn’t just about the money; it was about a far more dangerous legal trap snapping shut.
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Sorry for posting like a doomer, but:
We are so fucked.
The available evidence suggests that frequent engagement with automation induces skill decay. Given that (a) AI is often designed to take over more advanced cognitive processes than non-AI automation, and (b) skill decay is accelerated for cognitive skills, AI-induced skill decay is a likely consequence of frequent engagement with AI assistants.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-024-00572-8
Currently, the more AI and automation uncritically replace human activity and interaction, the greater the risk that social interactions will be primarily mediated by a disembodied, intersubjective agent, undermining capacity cultivation.
[…] This is because we owe it to others to ensure that as humans, we invest in the shared valuing of the human capacities, otherwise we risk losing the ‘human’ in us.
I do not worry about being "left behind" due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about a massive dip in the quality of software that's already been moldering for years due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the FOSS maintainers who are already under-compensated for their work burning out entirely having to deal with the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the environmental impact of the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the laundering of FOSS (and non-FOSS source available!) code into projects that are now legally culpable due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the people who can no longer write code without leaning on an LLM coding agent becoming helpless without spending ridiculous (and increasing) amounts of money to companies that may or may not exist in a year due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I do not worry about being "left behind" when it all comes crashing down and people who are actually skilled have to pick up the pieces and rebuild due to the adoption of LLM coding agents.
So here's the thing about Germany…
"The former BND Deputy President Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven told SPIEGEL that he had been contacted by an alleged Signal "support" agent demanding he enter his PIN.
The trained diplomat, who served as NATO's head of intelligence cooperation until 2019, reportedly complied and entered the data."
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
Ach guck, offensichtlich verfassungswidrig tätife Strafverfolgungsbehörden sind wieder mal dem BGH aufgefallen. ❤️
Beschluss des Bundesgerichtshofs: Polizei darf nicht alle Chat-Nachrichten lesen
""Wir haben in letzter Zeit tausende Fälle gehabt, in denen die Polizei auch alte Nachrichten ausgewertet hat. Aus unserer Sicht war das immer ohne Rechtsgrundlage. Das ist so nun nicht mehr zulässig", sagt Strafverteidigerin Pinar..."
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/polizei-chat-nachrichten-bgh-100.html
Kann ich die "Dystopie" mit "die Arbeit wird uns allen von Robotern weggenommen" bitte nochmal sehen?
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Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.
No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.
This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.
So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.
I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?
#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness
blah blah blah:
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/merz-neujahrsansprache-100.html
Es gibt gute Gründe, schwarz zu sehen und Angst zu haben, und eine erhebliche Ursache dafür ist die Politik der Schwarzen aka CDU/CSU, die seit dem letzten Weltkrieg die meiste Zeit über an der Macht war in diesem Land, und die wie alle anderen auch eigentlich schon seit dem ersten Bericht des Club of Rome (1972) weiß, dass Wachstumsideologie auf die Dauer keinen Wohlstand sichert, sondern Wohlstand zerstört, und die spätestens auch seit den 90ern weiß, dass ein fossilgetriebener Wohlstand früher oder später zum Klimakollaps führt. Gleichzeitig oder um von eigentlichen Problemen abzulenken, sorgt dieser schwarze Ruß, der das Land seit Jahrzehnten einnebelt, auch noch für soziale Kälte, in der das Treten von oben nach unten die sanktionierte Regel ist.
Es gibt eine bessere Zukunft. Aber die geht nur ohne die Vorstellungen der Herren Merz und seiner Buddies!
Denkt daran, für das neue Jahr keine Vorsätze zu fassen. Wer vorsätzlich handelt, wird härter bestraft.