I am surprised at how strong I am getting in my old age. 50 years ago, I could never have carried $130 worth of groceries in two arm-loads. 🙃
Es ist seit fast 2,5 Jahren bekannt, dass #Microsoft sich beim "neuen #Outlook" ...
⚠️ die Zugangsdaten von Mailkonten, wohlgemerkt von welchen die bei anderen Providern liegen, speichert
⚠️ beim Mailabruf die Mails über die eigenen Server schleust, wobei unklar ist ob sie dabei den Inhalt "verarbeiten" (z.B. auch für KI), die Metadaten "verarbeiten", ...
... und irgendwie scheint sich das nicht herum gesprochen zu haben, oder es ist den Konteninhabern total egal, ich weiß es nicht 🤷. Aktuelle Analyse, auf einem System von #eduBW, zeigt klar die Nutzung des "neuen Outlook", trotz Schulungsunterlagen auf #Thunderbird-Basis 😟.
Liebe Kolleg:innen, stellt das ein, verbreitet dieses Wissen, schult eure Schüler:innen, ... . #DigitaleSouveränität geht anders! 🤦♂️
https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-krallt-sich-Zugangsdaten-Achtung-vorm-neuen-Outlook-9357691.html #FediLZ
Eine Sofortmaßnahme gegen hohen #Benzinpreis und gegen zunehmenden CO2 Ausstoß wäre ja ein sofortiges #Tempolimit auf Autobahnen sowie Tempo 30 in Städten, aber was weiß ich schon.
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How fast is the planet warming? Faster than we thought.
New article:
https://www.scientistrebellion.nl/index.php/en/2026/03/10/global-warming-is-accelerating/
A new study in Geophysical Research Letters finds 98% certainty that global warming is accelerating. At the current pace, the 1.5 °C Paris Agreement limit could be reached between 2026 and 2029.
The window to avoid 3 °C warming is closing fast.
Das @entropia lädt euch zur #gpn24 mit dem Motto „Gulasch at the Scale of Chaos“ ein:
https://events.ccc.de/2026/03/15/gpn24/
Die GPN24 wird vom 4.–7.6.2026 in Karlsruhe stattfinden.
Es ist, genau wie zur #gpn23, eine Anmeldung nötig (jeweils ab 23.3., 20:00 und 29.3., 15:00 unter https://join.gulas.ch/)
Und wir brauchen dringend eure Hilfe!
80.000 € Spenden benötigen wir, um diese und zukünftige GPNs finanzieren zu können. Jede Spende zählt - helft uns ab sofort unter https://donate.gulas.ch!
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You can ignore all the social context and think this is just another guy talking bullshit, but then you are part of the problem. You have to see this in a social context that is based on our patriarchal society, deep-rooted misogyny, and seeing women as something less. In this fucking case, something even less than human, maybe a little more than a pet if he cares that the pet doesn't want to be called a bot but not enough to complain about having to deal with the "feelings". 5
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."