Fräulein K. 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇮🇹🇩🇪

Happy Feminist Spinster - „Il faut cultiver son jardin“, Voltaire

[Fräulein K. 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇮🇹🇩🇪 @FruleinK1]

@Brasssneck @GermanAmbUSA 📸 @mattia_n

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

The nice thing about this administration is that, after denying they’re trying to do the things everyone suspects they’re trying to do, they eventually come right out and say it themselves.

[Rudi Bachmann @BachmannRudi]

The same type of argument can be made of the second amendment. Just show a wee bit of intellectual consistency. If you want to embrace the Constitution as a living document, let’s have this discussion, but then, to work for all Americans, it can’t be a right-wing living document.

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

AI works when output is verifiably right or wrong, functional or not functional, and can be checked through an automated process.
Most jobs don’t work like that — not surgeons, customer service, or teachers. Those need good old-fashioned human intelligence.https://t.co/13Cy6CTFjS

[Richard Bercanay ☕️☕️ @RichardBercanay]

Heute tritt die #Grundsicherung in Kraft und löst das #Bürgergeld ab - aufgrund einer Wahlkampflüge, die die CDU/CSU in die Welt gesetzt hat, nämlich die unzutreffende Behauptung, Niedriglöhner würden nun zahlreich ihre Jobs kündigen, um Bürgergeld zu empfangen. Diese ->

[Andreas Püttmann @Puettmann_Bonn]

Zu den rechtslastigen Typen einer AfD in der CDU gesellen sich nun auch Opportunisten, die ihre frühere AfD-Kritik noch als Fassade beibehalten, praktisch aber nur noch gegen pöse Linke zu Felde ziehen, hemmungslos Scharnieraccounts pushen und Mitläufertum als Dialog inszenieren.

[Das Grundgesetz ist ein Schatz! @AgainstHate2024]

Absolut krank was da unsere Bundesregierung herausgewürgt hat.

[Dr. Paula Piechotta MdB - auch auf Bluesky @PaulaPiechotta]

Der Kampf dieser Bundesregierung gegen die Hausärzte geht weiter: Die telefonische Krankschreibung wird abgeschafft. Das füllt die Praxen wieder mit infektiösen Patienten, die im Wartezimmer andere anstecken. Gesundheitspolitische Fehlentscheidung, mal wieder.

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

I found this in my own research -- mid-career women leaving their corporate jobs to go out on their own. Not bc they had always dreamt of becoming an entrepreneur but they were either fed up with the barriers they encountered, or they had no other choice.https://t.co/wrI7D33jAL

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

The Trump administration is using the Prairieland case as a test for what they can do next — and as this crackdown continues, the circle of enemies will expand to include essentially any left-leaning activist movement. Antifa is the entry point, not the endpoint.

[welcome to our trash revolution @trash_panda97]

crazy how this case and the prairieland 9 aren’t getting more attention. do people not realize what’s happening? the trump admin is rounding activists up for doing nothing except nonviolently opposing their fascism. if they can do it to these people they can do it to you too.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

I know the President is flying to North Dakota today to visit the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library… but it should be noted this visit comes only two months after he ignored Roosevelt’s descendants who asked him to save the Boundary Waters.

Roosevelt was the first American President to protect the Boundary Waters back in 1909. He was a staunch conservationist and thought of public lands as the birthright of every single American, and he was a huge Minnesota enthusiast (below you’ll see Roosevelt delivering his iconic “Speak softly and carry a big stick” speech at the 1901 Minnesota State Fair, just four days before President McKinley was assassinated and Roosevelt became Commander in Chief).

President Roosevelt’s descendants wrote: “Theodore Roosevelt was active in preserving our greatest wilderness terrain on both the East and West coasts - it became one of the greatest enduring legacies of his life. It is now time for all of you to get in the Arena with him. We implore you to do your own parts to ensure TR's common-sense approach to conservationism is as strong today as it was more than a century ago. There is no better way to do this than to preserve the greatest wilderness terrain in the middle of America's Heartland: The Boundary Waters.”

Yet Trump signed the legislation selling out the Boundary Waters two months later.

[Boris Alexander Beissner @boris_beissner]

#Reiche will Rechenzentren "überragend wichtig" priorisieren beim Netzanschluss.

Ihr eigener Gesetzentwurf hebelt gleichzeitig den Anschlussvorrang der #Erneuerbaren aus – zugunsten von Gaskraftwerken und Großverbrauchern.

Sie bremst die Erzeugung und beschleunigt den Verbrauch. Das nennt man keine Energiepolitik, das nennt man Kapitulation vor der Stromlücke, die man selbst mitverschuldet hat.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Five weeks ago, I reported the Senate gutted 20 years of protection on the Boundary Waters. 🛶

Over a million acres of pristine wilderness lakes.

The most visited canoe country in America.

Here's what happened next.

A House committee just voted to force federal agencies to reissue two mining leases that were already found to be unlawfully granted once before.

Those leases are the one thing standing between Twin Metals and permission to build a mine upstream of that same wilderness.

The plan: dig the copper-nickel ore out of Minnesota, then ship it to China. The U.S. doesn't have the smelting capacity to handle copper at this scale — and China is processing it for next to nothing, so that's where the profit is.

China processes it. Sells it on the world market. Chile keeps the profit.

Minnesota keeps the pollution risk. Minnesotans don't get the jobs.

Rep. Betty McCollum: "It makes no sense to put our waters at risk for the benefit of Chilean billionaires."

Who does Congress think these waters actually belong to?

#DemsUnited

[Robert Young Pelton @RYP__]

Something subtle missing here. Tahnoon, the spy chief for the UAE bought 49% of World Liberty as a bribe so that Trump would sell him AI chips. Tahnoon bought USD1 to launder and establish value for $2B investment in the cryptocurrency exchange Binance. https://t.co/sGZqSiFzVI

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

NBC Exclusive:

A White House task force has been gathering thousands of pages of documents from intelligence agencies — with plans to declassify some of them — so Trump can amplify new disinformation about past elections, three people familiar with the effort said. https://t.co/Bqbp8IblYi

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

The lowest paying majors are dominated by women. They are lowest paying because we live in a patriarchal capitalist society that values men and profits over societal good.
https://t.co/wm9yxoc9ze

[Lilith Wittmann @LilithWittmann]

Die AfD will auf dem Bundesparteitag ihre Propaganda-KI-Plattform #AlternitaStudio vorstellen. Wir haben sie uns vorab angeschaut und konnten auf Basis der KI-Modelle von Google/OpenAI verfassungsfeindliche Inhalte im AfD-Design kinderleicht erstellen.
https://t.co/omXcKvPMXx

[Rudi Bachmann @BachmannRudi]

Something dawning on me: Trump and his guys (Miller?) knew full well that SCOTUS would strike down the birthright citizenship EO, because they had to, given how overly broad it was written, but that it thus would deliver MAGA an engagement + mobilization point for years to come.

[Mary-Ann Russon @concertina226]

So it's starting to look like there's a concerted effort by tech companies to deliberately undermine copyright in favour of AI and they are definitely meddling with democracy.

Yesterday, the @UKHouseofLords' Communications Committee was supposed to meet at 2.30pm to grill UK ministers @leicesterliz Liz Kendall and @lisanandy live about what progress the govt has made on AI and copyright since March, particularly relating to transparency about the datasets used to train AI models, and what statutory requirements commercial AI developers will need to adhere to.

Instead, the session was cancelled without warning, and the House of Lords press office tells me that there is no date in the diary currently to reschedule the session.

This is very, very bad news.

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

It costs $87K - $122K/year to house a woman inmate vs $70K for men. Researchers found that cutting women's time by 50% had a negligible effect on crime. Often women's crimes are nonviolent "survival" crimes
https://t.co/ihPpgrADCR