Was bei diesem AfD-Umfragehoch anders ist: Nun steigen auch ihre Kompetenzwerte in diversen Politikbereichen deutlich an. In 4 Bereichen liegt sie auf Platz 2, bei Asyl hat sie die CDU/CSU (während der "Asylwende") auf Platz 1 abgelöst. Sehr beunruhigend für die demokratischen Kräfte!

"Tasks that once took months of manual work — from curating datasets and checking compliance to creating metadata and publishable outputs — are now completed in minutes by the AI Data Steward"

Another case of commercial publishers looking to replace library labour with their junk AI.

“We focus too much on producing more, publishing more, being everywhere. But the question is: are you saying something in your own voice, or just adding to the noise? Protect your voice, that’s what lasts.”

Inspiring interview!

Strongly worded, but 🎯

"Trump is putting Europe under pressure to water down its digital rulebook. But now more than ever, Europe should hold large US tech firms accountable"

The time is ripe to put the DSA, DMA, AI Act etc to work. Not pause or water down.

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Bitte lesen. Wer glaubt, es bliebe bei der Menschenjagd auf Migranten und Linke, sollte so langsam die Realität zur Kenntnis nehmen.

Poland never wants to be invaded by Russia again, so it has built the biggest army of any EU country. But as Putin knows, it has a different vulnerability: its split and distrustful society. That's where he's striking. Me
@financialtimes.com
after my recent visit to Poland on.ft.com/3IrSfC8

In den Niederlanden gab es am Wochenende rechtsextreme Ausschreitungen. In den 4 größten Ländern Europas führen rechtsradikale Parteien in den Umfragen. Ich verstehe den Fokus auf das Spektakel, aber der Dauerfokus auf Trump, Kimmel, Kirk scheint mir stark zu vernachlässigen was in Europa passiert.

Are you linking different data types to test your hypotheses? Thus is your ecpr network. Join us!

Coming up on Monday the @medem.bsky.social conference at @gesis.org in Cologne. Stay tuned for the future of democracy research infrastructures www.medem.eu/coming-up-th... Keynotes from @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social and @sldelange.bsky.social

Years ago, investigative journalists documented that the #AfD parliamentary party employed over a hundred staffers with ties to well-known right-wing extremist organisations. Only now are some of them having their parliamentary accreditation withdrawn #Germany #farright

Such an important tool!
@veralomazzi.bsky.social

The US right is doing everything they warned a left-wing government would do

TikTok-Übernahme vollendet die mediale Gleichschaltung der USA.

digitalpolitik.ghost.io/tiktok-ubern...

More evidence (if you need it) that the world cannot afford billionaires 👇

Looking at present Trump and Co rhetorics, I cannot bring myself to believe the Trump admin would accept a midterm outcome that is NOT in their favour. Rather, they would go into full autocracy mode and try to violently suppress all opposition. Question is, how much resistance would that meet?

AI forces existential questions upon us... "Have I actually written this"?

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

As someone who spent some time at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics, I can just say that this used to be a great place educating many excellent scholars. It will be a great loss to see polsci in Cologne defunded. Sign 👇

It’s striking how much these patterns are similar across many European counties (both the center left one and the radical right one).

And yet there’s much work to be done in shifting the discourse from competing narratives that have little empirical backing.

#DataCuration #DataQuality
Out now: Insa Bechert, Kerstin Beck, and Ivet Solanes Ros: Caring for Data’s Soul –The Development of a Curation Impact Factor to Pinpoint the Effects of Data Curation Activities on Data Quality: ijdc.net/index.php/i....

Auflösung:

März/April 2025:

45% sehr/eher positiv
51% sehr/eher negativ
4% weiß nicht/keine Angabe

Nice! Now ICE can put that spyware on your phone when they take it from you to check your social media posts upon entering the U.S.

It's as blunt as it can be: the FTC simply writes to big US tech companies that they should not comply with the EU's Digital Services Act #DSA

The 'censorship', 'freedom of speech', and 'safety of US citizens' language are tired arguments.

www.wired.com/story/big-te...