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[Alex Kehr @alexkehr]

Since Apple Music and Spotify designs are so boring, I built an iPhone Duo app called Duoamp that is a throwback to Winamp

Shake it and a new Winamp-style skin appears

[Joana Cotar @JoanaCotar]

Null Scham.
Null Einsicht.
Es ist unfassbar.

https://t.co/QvZjWfiDyz

[Joana Cotar @JoanaCotar]

Wann sagen das mal deutsche Politiker?

[Joana Cotar @JoanaCotar]

Ähm, WAS?

"EU-Bürger können auch ohne Erwerbstätigkeit und wirtschaftliche Aktivität in Deutschland Anspruch auf Kindergeld haben."

WARUM?
Wir sind echt die Deppen vom Dienst.

https://t.co/hKRWnvGNUt

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

A good joke and a perfectly valid one

British 'justice' needs to understand that criticism of Islam is Islamoscepticism, not Islamophobia

Educated people should not be fooled by simple verbal tricks

[Anabel Schunke @ainyrockstar]

Wäre gespannt, was passieren würde, wenn man diesen Typen nach Gaza schicken würde.

#nützlicheidioten

[Simon Dedic @sjdedic]

Here's some fuel for all the Europoor haters:

Germany just told us we'd have to fire one of our 3 founders to qualify for funding.

I was in talks with a German state-backed fund of fund managing billions, with one single mandate: invest in German funds to drive innovation and economic growth in the country.

They literally told me they like us a lot and are also impressed by our track record and performance so far, and even though not everyone in their team is a fan of our thesis, they believe in it.

But they passed for a whole different reason:

Because our all-male team of 3 people isn't "diverse enough" lol.

they literally told me: hire two more female partners (impossible on the economics of a fund our size), or let one of the three of us go to make room for a quota hire. do that, and they'd strongly consider investing.

I won't even get into how discriminatory this is toward men in the first place. nobody takes that seriously anyway, and honestly I don't care.

but what actually gets me is something bigger: as a German, I have to face the fact that the whole world continuing to laugh at Germany and overall Europe is completely justified.

a system that quietly kills the smallest, hungriest teams, the exact ones this money was created to support. and then everyone acts surprised that talent and capital keep leaving the country.

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.

Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.

After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.

The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.

Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: https://t.co/iAOANQTVZ6

[Lysander @UnderCoercion]

Things are going to break.
This is unsustainable.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

In light of yesterday's electoral outcomes, let me repost this:

[Marty Bent @MartyBent]

To everybody working on Bitcoin Core, Lightning, wallets, applications, or any other part of the Bitcoin stack: thank you.

The stress is real. So is the opportunity to separate money from state and give individuals more control over their lives.

https://t.co/uxhMq04oDS

[Marty Bent @MartyBent]

This interview may come off as simply uncouth and distasteful to some people, but make no mistake; these views are seeped in a murderous envy that will be unleashed if this type of rhetoric isn’t combatted.

[Joana Cotar @JoanaCotar]

Merz: Deutschland soll bis 2030 zur führenden KI-Nation werden.

Auch CDU:

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

I took these pictures today and my heart is broken. I love Europe so much, we gave the world our culture, scientific breakthroughs, and prosperity. And now that?

We've somehow accepted concrete blocks at Christmas markets becoming the new normal. Should we really accept our beautiful cities becoming playgrounds for violent leftist migrant mobs every Saturday?

I don't accept that, do you? I want my children to grow up in the same beautiful, peaceful Europe we know from our childhoods, not this toxic mix of weird leftist ideology and zealous Middle Ages religious beliefs.

Only two options remain, democratic European parties wake up and act, or far-right parties rise promising simple solutions to complex problems. Extremism has never served Europe well. Let's hope the democratic class listens to the people before it's too late. Will they though?

[Jack David @FFS_WhatNow]

Don't go to the pub then. We didn't design them for religious minorities who don't drink alcohol. If you want to live your life to a set of rules, go for it. Just leave the rest of us alone, you fun sponge.

[Maral Salmassi @MaralSalmassi]

Diese Morddrohung erhielt ich unter meinem letzten Video, nachdem ich lediglich erwähnt hatte, dass Elif Eralp offenbar Angst vor ihrem eigenen Milieu hat. Wenn schon diese Feststellung jemanden aus ihrer Anhängerschaft zu einer Morddrohung veranlasst, ist nachvollziehbar, dass sie Angst vor ihrer eigenen Wählerschaft hat.

Link zum Video: https://t.co/TOTEopGgB7

[Ali Utlu @AliCologne]

Was Milei über den Wohnungsmarkt verstanden hat – und Deutschland nicht

Während in Deutschland die Mietpreisbremse verlängert und verschärft wurde, hat Milei sie abgeschafft und dadurch das Angebot an Wohnungen vervielfacht. via @RZitelmann

https://t.co/WVja7tSaV4

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

This chart is eye-opening, German carmakers’ market share in China has roughly halved since 2020, from nearly 24% to around 12%.

It marks the end of a business model. For years, China was the cash cow that subsidized high-cost German structures, rigid union agreements, elevated wage and energy costs, slow decision-making, and layers of bureaucracy. Profits from the world’s largest car market papered over an industry that had grown too expensive, too protected, and too slow to adapt. Those profits are now disappearing as Chinese brands dominate electric vehicles, software, and cost leadership. Not only in China, they start to dominate in other markets as well.

The response at home has been telling. Instead of accelerating new models and software platforms, German industry is stuck in union negotiations and spending a fortune on severances. Volkswagen is looking at cuts of tens of thousands (up to 100,000 across the group). BMW is offering eye-watering packages, reported well into high six figures in euros, to remove roughly 8,000 white-collar roles. Mercedes is restarting voluntary exits. Billions are going toward shrinking the existing structure rather than building the next one.

Overregulation and administrative drag hinder innovation at the speed Chinese competitors have shown. High fixed costs and protected labor frameworks reduce flexibility. Companies react rather than lead.

Arrogance played a role. German engineering excellence was long treated as a durable moat. Many underestimated how quickly Chinese firms would close the gap in battery technology, software-defined vehicles, and manufacturing scale, and how willing Chinese buyers would be to switch once local products were competitive or superior. The same pattern of underestimating focused, cost-efficient competitors has appeared in solar, batteries, and many other sectors.

The German business model is finished. With regulations, bureaucracy, and powerful unions, Germany won’t be able to react and adjust fast enough to keep its manufacturing edge and standard of living. Most Germans don’t grasp yet what is coming.

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Don't think only French taxes are insane. In Scotland the top rate is 48% on income over £125,140. Such income would be nothing spectacular in the US, but in Europe you're considered “rich”. Here's the best part, if you save for retirement or a better life for your children, you're taxed up to 49% on interest income in the UK. Yep, you read that right, 49% tax on interest income including inflation, meaning in real terms you're not saving anything and get poorer each year.

But hey, someone has to pay for those 6.9 million people on welfare benefits in the UK, right? Why should they work if watching TV and day drinking is a valid alternative?