Alexander Fanta
@alexfanta.bsky.social
Journalist with Follow the Money. All things tech, EU, transparency. FOI curious.
Spannender Punkt. Freilich könnte keine Künstler*in allein von Netflix überleben - gut verdienen tut daran nur die Plattform selbst. Was sagt Trappel dazu?
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Spannender Punkt. Freilich könnte keine Künstler*in allein von Netflix überleben - gut verdienen tut daran nur die Plattform selbst. Was sagt Trappel dazu?
If you were to design a swipeable "Insta for journalism", how would it look like?
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
If you were to design a swipeable "Insta for journalism", how would it look like?
Ah, jetzt kapier ichs, danke.
November 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Ah, jetzt kapier ichs, danke.
Könnt ihr das vielleicht in normales Deutsch übersetzen, ich checks nicht. Was ist mit der Frist?
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Könnt ihr das vielleicht in normales Deutsch übersetzen, ich checks nicht. Was ist mit der Frist?
Mehr über Harald Mahrers kuriose Professorenwürde lässt sich im @derstandard.at nachlesen: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Professor Harald Mahrer und das Rätsel um seine wissenschaftlichen Verdienste
Auf Antrag des Wissenschaftsministeriums wurde Mahrer heuer vom Bundespräsidenten der Berufstitel Professor verliehen. Die Gründe sind undurchsichtig
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November 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Mehr über Harald Mahrers kuriose Professorenwürde lässt sich im @derstandard.at nachlesen: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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I will do that. But the Commission's newest, most vile trick is to proactively publish short, meaningless minutes of lobby meetings, while refusing to disclose anything about what actually went on behind closed doors.
This remarkable step has been barely noticed by the Brussels press corps.
This remarkable step has been barely noticed by the Brussels press corps.
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I will do that. But the Commission's newest, most vile trick is to proactively publish short, meaningless minutes of lobby meetings, while refusing to disclose anything about what actually went on behind closed doors.
This remarkable step has been barely noticed by the Brussels press corps.
This remarkable step has been barely noticed by the Brussels press corps.
Opposition to the city as a political space has been a staple of US conservatism for decades. Consider this diatribe by leading neoconservative Irving Kristol (father to prominent never-Trumper @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social)
![sowohl soziologischer als auch intellektueller Natur. Der zentrale Begriff zum Verständnisseiner soziologischen Konzeption der USA ist der des „Bourgeois“. Die Gründerväterhätten eine „anti-urbane Philosophie“ gehabt, schreibt Kristol (Kristol 1972: 3). Diesebeinhalte ein Verständnis von „republican morality“ und „civic virtue“, definiert als„Bereitschaft der guten demokratischen Bürger, in besonderen Momenten ihre normaleKondition der Verfolgung von Eigeninteressen aufzugeben“ und sich dem Streben nachdem „Gemeinwohl“ zu verschreiben (ebd.: 4).„Now, given these ideas on how popular government in America could survive andprosper, it is only natural that the founding fathers should have taken a suspiciousview of big cities an should have wondered whether, in the end, they could becompatible with a free and popular government. [...] The entire literature of classicalpolitical philosophy – from Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero on to Montesquieu – exhibits asimilar skepticism (Kristol 1972: 4f.).Die Gründerväter sind nach Kristol der festen Überzeugung gewesen, dass nur kleineStädte eine wahrhaft demokratische Ordnung haben können (vgl. ebd.). Der Mob dergrößeren Städte wäre zu „entwurzelt“ von der traditionellen religiösen, politischen undmoralischen Ordnung, um einen Charakter als demokratische Bürger entwickeln zukönnen (vgl. ebd.: 14).„This population [...], in its political dependency, could be exploited by unscrupulousprofiteers; it was a population which, in its political isolation, could be exploited byzealous demagogues; it was a population which, in its moral bewilderment, could beexploited by wild mystagogues; it was a population whose potential did not gobeyond riotous destructiveness [...] It was because the founding fathers did not seehow such a population could be capable of self-government that they took so dim aview of large cities (Kristol 1972: 14f.).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66ealeut54i3dvgseb4gcn3z/bafkreiap6jmvbrz2jlinlzmllzsezngnysf73mphcl5yczx6nhgxcygjby@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Opposition to the city as a political space has been a staple of US conservatism for decades. Consider this diatribe by leading neoconservative Irving Kristol (father to prominent never-Trumper @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social)
That reminds me of when James Crisp, then the Telegraph's man in Brussels, asked Clegg whether first allying with Cameron, then joining Facebook made him a 'Brexit enabler'. The look on Clegg's face was priceless.
November 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
That reminds me of when James Crisp, then the Telegraph's man in Brussels, asked Clegg whether first allying with Cameron, then joining Facebook made him a 'Brexit enabler'. The look on Clegg's face was priceless.
I think saying Android is free software might be technically correct, but as you say, they have rendered that meaningless. Kudos to Graphene and LineageOS for giving it a go, though
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I think saying Android is free software might be technically correct, but as you say, they have rendered that meaningless. Kudos to Graphene and LineageOS for giving it a go, though
The EU wants their nickel back?
October 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The EU wants their nickel back?
One top official told his staff explicitly not to write down too much, and to destroy handwritten notes after. But no public administration can function without records of important meetings. I suspect the Commission has simply created a new type of doc it pretends does not fall under FOI.
October 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
One top official told his staff explicitly not to write down too much, and to destroy handwritten notes after. But no public administration can function without records of important meetings. I suspect the Commission has simply created a new type of doc it pretends does not fall under FOI.