Mirko Rehberg

@[email protected] father, pediatric endocrinologist, scientist. interested in politics and bone science. likely contributions to civil society.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The fine line between male and female intelligence.

[Zacki @FrankfurtZack]

Wir haben hier mit gerade einmal 84 Mio Einwohnern die drittgrößte Volkswirtschaft der Welt am laufen.

Manchmal wäre vielleicht etwas stolz und gute Laune angebracht, statt permanenter Untergangsstimmung.

[Ricarda Lang @Ricarda_Lang]

Musste er gehen, weil der Zug nicht kam?

[Ricarda Lang @Ricarda_Lang]

Woher kommt das eigentlich bei Unions-Politikern, dass sie denken, es wäre ein Flex, zu dusselig zu sein, um aus einer Flasche zu trinken?

[Karin Prien @PrienKarin]

🙏🙏🙏 Zivilcourage ist keine Frage von Herkunft oder Nationalität, sondern von Mut und Wertekompass.

[Mirko Rehberg @mirkorehberg]

@BpktGpkt @grok Schon beeindruckend, sogar die Bäume.

[Mirko Rehberg @mirkorehberg]

@BpktGpkt @grok Das ist mit deinem prompt

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The scale of the universe

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Whatever the conclusion, the math seems to be correct.

⁽ᵀʰᵉ ᵐᵃᵗʰ / ᵗʰᵉᵒʳᵉᵗᶦᶜᵃˡ ᶜᵃˡᶜᵘˡᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿ ⁿᵒᵗ ᶜᵒⁿˢᶦᵈᵉʳᶦⁿᵍ ᴾᵉᵈᶦᵍʳᵉᵉ ᶜᵒˡˡᵃᵖˢᵉ⁾

[Chris Anderson @TEDchris]

With a certain amount of trepidation, I'm posting this open letter to @elonmusk, someone I have admired, but who, right now, is causing me concern. I know I'm not alone in thinking these thoughts. Please like or repost if you're willing... And Elon, if you're listening, please know this is offered in a constructive spirit.

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Dear Elon,

A thought hit me this morning.

On top of all your achievements in technology and entrepreneurship, you have become this century's single most influential writer.  You have more than 200 million followers on a powerful platform that you yourself control. And the words that you write flow well beyond just those followers into almost every user of X and far beyond courtesy of extensive media coverage.   This makes Rupert Murdoch at his prime seem inconsequential.

It must feel exhilarating. You made a huge gamble buying Twitter and it seems to have paid off spectacularly to the point that you can use it to massively impact the world, including changing governments.  You believe that X can largely replace most mainstream media. It is the new platform for citizen journalism, and you are citizen number 1.  You don’t need the hassle of editors and fact-checkers. Every single thing you post garners millions of likes and reposts. In a heartbeat you can change the global conversation.  No one in history has had this much power.

So there’s a lot at stake here, and, as it happens, journalism is something I care deeply about. I began my career as a journalist because I believed that good journalism was essential for the healthy functioning of democracy. Today I am worried — quite deeply worried, actually — that in your triumphant seizing of the global conversation, some of the core tenets of journalism are being forgotten. Without them, I think your efforts to make X the respected home of citizen journalism will fail.

There are numerous journalistic principles that matter — Grok can summarize them quite nicely. But there’s one in particular that’s been troubling me. It’s the fairness doctrine. The one that says that before you publish savagely critical claims about an individual, or an institution, you reach out to them for their side of the story. After all, just possibly, you may have missed a key fact or two that would change how people assess what has happened. Just possibly your sources were motivated to cause damage to that individual. Just possibly there’s an alternative explanation of what happened.

So, for example, when you tell hundreds of millions of people that someone should be hanged or jailed for outrageous crimes against humanity, just possibly you should first sound out what those who know those people really well would say about them. Some of your recent posts could literally get someone killed. Do you really want to risk that? How is it possible that you can do this at the very same time that you’re calling on people to make X more positive, more beautiful?  You say you want to maximize un-regretted user-seconds on X.  By far the simplest way you could do this, Elon, is simply to thoughtfully edit what you yourself post.

I get that from your eyes the issues you are championing are unbelievably important and worthy of extreme efforts. But the way you are presenting them is not citizen journalism. It's playground bullying. It’s crass and it’s cruel, and it’s therefore not nearly as effective as it could be.  You’re hearing the cheers of your most loyal followers, but missing the fact you’re making yourself a laughing stock among many who you really want on your side. Long-term that’s going to damage X, your other businesses, and indeed your long-term dreams for humanity.  No one wants to follow a playground bully to Mars.

I miss the old Elon. You can be funny, interesting, insightful and inspiring. You've fought incredibly hard for what you've built. And you may feel you're entitled to do whatever the hell you want with it. But I also know that you understand the danger of holding too tightly to the ring of power, how it can distort someone's judgement and turn them ugly.

I’m hoping you can loosen that ring just a little. For the love of humanity that you profess, I really urge you to embrace the fairness doctrine and showcase a better face of X.

Thanks for listening.

Chris

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

BEAST GAME EPISODE 3 IS OUT NOW!

To celebrate, I'm giving away $100,000 total to 10 random people who like and retweet this post!

Go watch it here: https://t.co/Yntf9E7FTN

[Jörg @kachelmann anderswo: @realkachelmann @Kachelmann]

Es braucht ein Land mit der schrecklichen Verkommenheit seiner Geschichte in den letzten gut 100 Jahren, damit man als Mensch aus diesem Land auf die Idee kommen kann, dass #Kinderbuchautor negativ zu konnotieren sein könnte.

[Frqnk @FrqnkSt]

Der Yashi Highway in China nennt sich auch die "Skyroad". Sie ist 240km lang, führt über 270 Brücken und durch 25 Tunnel.
Bauzeit 5 Jahre. Kosten 3 Mrd $

Währenddessen sperrt Deutschland bei Lüdenscheid die A45 für 10 Jahre beidseitig... wegen einer einzigen Brücke!

[Mirko Rehberg @mirkorehberg]

@ulfposh @elonmusk Leider auf ein Fake reingefallen

[Mirko Rehberg @mirkorehberg]

@chesscom 113

[Danyal Bayaz @DerDanyal]

Man muss nicht auf pol. Linie von Bodo Ramelow liegen, um ihn als anständig & integer anzuerkennen. Dass er über lange Zeit auch von denen hart angegangen wurde, die heute beim BSW beide Augen zudrücken, zeigt, wie sehr sich die Maßstäbe im Parteiensystem gerade ändern #ltw2024

[Nurder Koch @NurderK]

„90 Prozent des Wohneigentums in Leipzig gehören Westdeutschen. In Halle 80 und in Potsdam vielleicht 100 Prozent. Das verändert die Gesellschaft, wenn man auf Grund und Boden lebt, der einem nicht gehört.“
Dirk Oschmann bei #Lanz

[Paul Ronzheimer @ronzheimer]

Wir sind ja auf x einfach an alles gewöhnt, komplett abgestumpft und lost. Aber am ekelhaftesten dieser Tage ist das, was über Walz‘ Sohn geschrieben und gehated wird aus einer bestimmten Blase (ja, es gibt auch viel Liebe, aber eben auch viel stumpfen Wahnsinn). Meine Güte, was ist die Menschheit nur verkommen und was für Monster wurden durch diese so genannten sozialen Medien erschaffen.

[Chris @RealFruitts]

Nu isses raus ...