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RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115955257609152727

Weil ich gerade darüber sprach, dass ich den Vergleich von ICE zur Gestapo nicht sinnvoll finde, hier ein Post von @futurebird ⬇️

Wir müssen auf die Kontinuitäten in der Gewaltgeschichte der USA selbst schauen. Da gibt es einiges […]
January 25, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Deutschland und die USA: Der lange Abschied von Amerika | taz.de
https://taz.de/Deutschland-und-die-USA/!6144361/

Stefan Reinecke in der Taz:

"Vance & Co haben die liberalen Transatlantiker zum Gegner erklärt. Die AfD ist derzeit die proamerikanische Partei. ...

Kurzum: Das Ende des Westens […]
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January 25, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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"The war between humans and cars" (1976) by Lars Hillersberg (1937–2004).

#waroncars #UrbanMobility #carfreeliving #petromasculinity #CarBrain
January 24, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Heute Gartner, gestern Forrester. Bekommen wir bald einen magischen Quadranten für Digitale Souveränität 🙄 ?

"Ein kritischer Blick auf die Partner­schaft zwischen BSI und AWS" […]
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January 23, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Tech analysts alert. This is for big orgs with a lot of cloud debt

"Digital Sovereignty: Why Tech Execs Must Act Now"

https://www.forrester.com/blogs/digital-sovereignty-why-tech-execs-must-act-now/

1) identify workloads requiring sovereign controls
2) select cloud providers with enforceable […]
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January 22, 2026 at 2:47 PM
FBI’s WP Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch on You

Workplace printers ... can recall the exact contents of any file they print

https://theintercept.com/2026/01/21/fbi-washington-post-perez-lugones-natansan-classified/

...Perez-Lugones’s employer ... could also view the actual […]
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January 22, 2026 at 7:09 AM
RE: https://23.social/@thomasfricke/115775898001716910

Me: we need the #icc case to treat as we are on #digitaldefcon2

@zendis announcing tests with the most important social insurances in Germany

https://www.zendis.de/newsroom/presse/sozialversicherertestenopendesk

BTW English version […]
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Tell me how old you are without using a number

https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs 🤩

Microemacs! Linus writes

"This is a bad editor. Really. Unless you have used it since the 1980s, and have untrainable fingers, you should absolutely walk away and never look back. ...

So this is a simplistic […]
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January 21, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Heute abend könnt Ihr mich beim Neujahrsempfang von @bits_und_baeume im #weizenbaum Institut in Berlin treffen

https://bits-und-baeume.org/posts/neujahrsempfang_2026/
Bits & Bäume Neujahrsempfang - Kampagnenauftakt für eine gerechte, demokratische digitale Zukunft
Einladung zum Digitalpolitischen Bits & Bäume- Neujahrsempfang am 14.01.26 in Berlin
bits-und-baeume.org
January 21, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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European Union companies' annual purchases of cloud software services that benefit the US economy amount to €264 billion … If the EU were able to produce 15% of the cloud software services it currently purchases from the United States in 2035, this would result in 463,000 additional jobs in the […]
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January 20, 2026 at 10:44 AM
"NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books

...executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-action lawsuit that cites internal NVIDIA documents, several book authors […]
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January 20, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Next limit copper.

"The U.S. has enough copper to meet surging demand from AI data centers. But securing that supply depends on a robust, all-of-the-above strategy."

https://copper.org/copperconversations/thought-leadership/us-opper-meet-surging-demand-ai-data-centers.php

A conventional data […]
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January 20, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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In Deutschland gilt das Wasserhaushaltsgesetz und die Oberflächengewässerverordnung.

Ein Kraftwerk, das Kühlwasser in einen Fluß ausschüttet, ist auf 28ºC Flußwassertemperatur begrenzt (teilweise 25ºC), und auf eine maximale Erhöhung der Temperatur von 3º, kurzzeitig maximal und nur unter […]
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January 19, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Bank of England 'must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/aliens-financial-crisis-bank-england-helen-mccaw-b2902690.html

News you don't expect in the morning. Help is on the way!

#financialcrises #aliens
Bank of England ‘must plan for a financial crisis triggered by aliens’
Financial markets could collapse if the American government confirms the existence of alien life
www.independent.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth?

“The more you delve into the intricacies of the biological brain, the more you realize how rich and dynamic it is, compared to the dead sand of silicon.”

https://www.noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai/

Short answer: yes

The article […]
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January 19, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Google acquires Intersect Power for nearly $5 billion – pv magazine International

Google is set to acquire solar and storage developer Intersect Power, arming itself with the tools to bypass grid bottlenecks and build the projects that will power its AI data centers […]
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January 18, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Gerade gesehen, dass ich hier seit zwei Jahren auf 23.social bin

Danke an @ordnung für diesen Host
January 18, 2026 at 12:39 PM
"Digitale Erpressbarkeit kein theoretisches Risiko mehr
News

Früher undenkbar, spätestens mit den Spannungen rund um Grönland aber ein Bedrohungsszenario: Was wäre, wenn die US-Regierung Europa den Zugang zu amerikanischer Technologie kappt?" […]
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January 18, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Never thought, that these theoretical philosophical considerations would be applied by a dictator in my lifetime

Gödel's Loophole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_Loophole

Poppers paradox o tolerance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

#goedel #popper #democracy
Gödel's Loophole - Wikipedia
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January 17, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Man sagt nicht mehr "Prompt Engineer", man sagt "Sloperator" (im words unravelled podcast aufgeschnappt)
January 17, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Amazon Is Buying America’s First New Copper Output in More Than a Decade
The copper, which is being produced in Arizona by Rio Tinto with bacteria and acid, will be used for data-center construction […]
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January 16, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Kaum hat Berlin eine OpenSource Strategie, hat @stefanziller auch gleich was zu meckern

https://stefan-ziller.eu/2026/berlins-neue-open-source-strategie-ist-unambitioniert/

Er hat natürlich Recht. Für Berlin ist das ein Riesenschritt, aber notwendig wäre ein Sprung. Hier ist die Strategie […]
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January 16, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Ökonom warnt vor Hyperinflation in den USA: „Bananenrepublik“

https://www.fr.de/wirtschaft/oekonom-warnt-vor-hyperinflation-in-den-usa-bananenrepublik-zr-94124036.html

"Professor Justin Wolfers merkte an, dass Druck der Regierung auf Zentralbanken häufig großen monetären Krisen vorausging […]
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January 16, 2026 at 8:06 AM
@markus_netzpolitik heute im Rbb24 Inforadio über die neuen #aws "souveränen Cloud" Rechenzentren in Brandenburg

Der Text gibt nur einen unzureichenden Teil des Audios wieder

https://www.inforadio.de/rubriken/interviews/2026/01/15/aws-european-sovereign-cloud-potsdam-markus-beckedahl.html […]
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January 15, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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January 14, 2026 at 8:12 PM