Silvia Bauer

Film, Theater, Kunst & Kultur sowie Interkulturelles, Feministisches und Digitales.
Im Exil: @[email protected]
Im blauen & im rosa Himmel: cyberella

[Andrii Melnyk @MelnykAndrij]

Russians are far worse than any barbarian hordes in history. They just damaged one of the holiest shrines of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, the Dormition Cathedral (Uspensky Sobor), built in 1078, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We will never forgive Russia😡Never🤬

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I just watched priests trying to save crucifixes from a burning monastery.

This is what russia is destroying.

The Kyiv Lavra is one of the holiest Orthodox sites on earth. A UNESCO World Heritage site.

Moscow calls itself “Christian civilisation.”

It’s literally barbarism.

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

A good day for Austria's justice system: after a full day of deliberations a jury of 8 convicted Egisto Ott, the former Austrian intelligence operative who spied on me and dozens of other people of interest to the Kremlin, on two counts: abuse of power, and espionage for Russia.

[Alok Kumar @Alokkumarzz]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.

This 60-minute Cambridge lecture by Demis Hassabis will teach you more about the future of AI than most people will learn in the next 5 years.

Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today is Europe Day.
And Ukraine is marking it not formally or through sloganeering, but fully aware that we are already an inseparable part of the European family. We are defending Ukraine, our independence, our future – and in doing so, we in Ukraine are defending our Europe. A Europe of which Ukraine has been and will remain a part.

From the first days of the full-scale war until today, Europe has stood with Ukraine. And this is not charity – it is a choice made by Europeans: to stand on the same side as the brave and the strong – the Ukrainians who are fighting today for peace and true protection against tyranny, not only for themselves, but for the entire continent. And we will inevitably defend our state, our people, and our right to freely choose our future – a future in Europe.

Glory to Ukraine!

[Jon Hernandez @JonhernandezIA]

📁 Geoffrey Hinton, deep learning pioneer and Turing Award winner, says AI will not be an obedient assistant.

It will be more like a child. Smarter than us. And eventually making its own decisions.

The challenge is not controlling it. It is making sure it cares about us.

[Gail Weiner @gailcweiner]

Daniela Amodei, president of Anthropic, just said that human skills - EQ, communication, empathy, curiosity - will matter MORE as AI gets smarter. Not less.

She’s right.

Knowing those skills matter doesn’t mean your team knows how to use them WITH AI.

That’s the gap.

Companies are rolling out AI tools and wondering why adoption is patchy. Why the team is resistant. Why only one person is actually using it.

It’s not a technology problem.
It’s a trust problem.

And trust between humans and AI has to be built, exactly the way trust between humans gets built.

Low stakes first. Curiosity before performance. Relationship before results.

That’s what I do.

https://t.co/eatzRr6s6V

[💙💛 Regina Laska @Sunnymica]

Ihr habt euer Geld in Fonds angelegt? Dann Vorsicht! Elon Musk plant mit SpaceX den größten Börsengang der Geschichte – 1,75 Billionen Dollar Bewertung, möglicherweise schon im Juni.
Und was macht die Nasdaq? Sie ändert gerade für ihn ihre Regeln.
Neu börsennotierte Unternehmen müssen normalerweise bis zu einem Jahr warten, bevor sie in den Leitindex aufgenommen werden.
Diese Wartezeit schützt Anleger: Der Markt braucht Zeit, um einen fairen Preis zu finden.

Für SpaceX soll diese Wartezeit auf 15 Handelstage schrumpfen.
SpaceX hat das zur Bedingung gemacht.
Was das bedeutet: Jeder Fonds, der den Nasdaq-100 abbildet – und das sind Billionen Dollar – wäre dann gezwungen, SpaceX-Aktien zu kaufen.
Egal zu welchem Preis. Ohne dass der Markt Zeit hatte, den echten Wert zu ermitteln.
Die Regeln des Spiels werden umgeschrieben.
Für jemanden, der selbst spielt.

[Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany]

Horrific news from Iraq where feminist activist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, co-founder and director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), has been assassinated by gunmen outside of her home just days after returning from Canada.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Yoshua Bengio just warned that AI is creating a new colonialism. Most countries won’t realize they’re the colony until it’s already permanent.

Bengio: “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.”

The godfather of AI, a Turing Award winner, standing at a global summit and warning that the default trajectory of this technology is not shared prosperity.

It’s extraction.

Bengio: “AI is going to be transforming our world very clearly. It’s going to have global effects.”

Power relationships are already shifting. Wealth is already concentrating.

The countries building the models, owning the chips, and writing the governance frameworks are not the countries that will bear the worst consequences if it goes wrong.

That asymmetry is the problem Bengio is trying to name.

Bengio: “We need to work in a multidisciplinary way so that we can foresee those effects.”

He’s personally very concerned that without proactive global governance, the gap between dominant AI powers and developing nations widens into something that looks less like technological progress and more like a second colonial era.

Not soldiers and trade routes this time.

Models and infrastructure and data dependencies that developing nations didn’t build and can’t control.

The Global South isn’t being invited to shape the systems that will reshape their economies, their labor markets, their governments.

They’re being handed the output and told to adapt.

That’s not partnership. That’s the menu.

Bengio’s answer is structural. Researchers, policymakers, and leaders from developing nations involved before the architecture hardens. Not consulted after.

The window for that is open now.

It closes when the systems are deployed at scale and the power relationships they encode become too entrenched to renegotiate.

Countries with AI infrastructure write the rules. Countries without follow or disappear.

“Everyone at the table” assumes there’s a table. There isn’t.

There’s deployment happening right now by entities that don’t need permission or consensus.

By the time the governance discussion happens, the systems are operational and the power concentration is accomplished fact.

International cooperation through the UN assumes the UN has leverage over nations and companies racing to deploy.

It doesn’t. Never did. Definitely doesn’t now when first-mover advantage means everything.

The Global South isn’t being offered a seat at the table.

They’re being offered advisory roles in systems designed without them, deployed without them, controlled without them.

And calling that cooperation while it happens.

The most powerful technology ever built is being governed by the people who built it for the benefit of the people who can afford it.

Bengio is asking whether that’s the world we’re choosing.

Or just the one we’re defaulting into because nobody stopped to ask the question.

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

🚨HERASKEVYCH: “WE TRAINED 12 TIMES A WEEK. I FINISHED QUALIFYING IN FIRST PLACE WITH THE BEST RESULTS — BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THAT’S WHERE MY JOURNEY ENDED. THE CAS DECISION IS SHAMEFUL.”

Vladyslav Heraskevych (@heraskevych) was invited to the Munich Security Conference, where he briefly spoke with journalists and commented on the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision to reject his appeal.

HERASKEVYCH: Today we only had a court hearing this morning, and there's already a decision. We're already thinking about our next steps, because I believe the CAS decision is also shameful, but I'll comment in more detail a bit later. I need to familiarize myself with it in more detail.

The hearing itself was, in my opinion, rather one-sided. I didn't hear anything we couldn't answer. Yet at the same time, there were no responses to any of our arguments. And it was very strange for me to see such a decision from CAS.

The preparation took quite a long time, and for the athlete, for me, I was probably in the best form of my career. You could say I've been working toward this my entire career. If we're talking specifically about results, the training camps were excellent. I finished the qualifying training in first place with the best result. Unfortunately, that’s where my journey ended.

Of course, along the way there were many sacrifices and many training sessions. On average we did 12 training sessions a week, and well, that's truly a massive amount, and they were exhausting. And unfortunately, all of this led to us not being able to compete due to the unlawful actions of the NOC.

Q: If I may ask a question: how are you feeling right now?

HERASKEVYCH: Right now I'm still in a state... I really haven't slept much these last 4 days, and we constantly have so many updates coming in. I honestly can't quite keep up with observing everything that's happening.

I knew many athletes personally, and the idea came up a long time ago. We managed to execute it just shortly before the Olympics. It was painted by a wonderful artist from Kyiv, Iryna Prots. She painted all of this just like all Ukrainians are living - under shelling, in the cold, without electricity. But at the same time she did an incredible job to honor the memory of these wonderful athletes.

Among them, we can talk about many. I'll probably start with Dmytro Sharpar, who was a member of the Olympic team at the 2016 Youth Olympic Games, that same team that I was on. We competed together with him at those Olympic Games and, unfortunately, like other people on this helmet, he was killed by Russia.

Video by Ukrainian journalist Andriana Kucher. Please follow her on Instagram 🙏

[Ukrainki_UA @Ukrainki_UA]

"in einer kalten Wohnung in einer osteuropäischen Großstadt zu erfrieren sollte nicht zu den Lebensplänen eines Menschen gehören" - eindrückliche Rede von Serhiy Zhadan im Umfeld der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz. Bitte hört ihm zu./ Ki

https://t.co/zpNq6GlYSb

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

Here is the full text of 🇨🇦 PM Carney speech in Davos earlier today. It will probably be the best of speeches there this year. https://t.co/1xRKzimHlf

[SIZWE-BANSI @SizweBansii]

🚨 URGENT:
She’s been sentenced to be stoned to death in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 for being a woman Taekwondo 🥋 coach and training young women .

Her name is Khadija Ahmadzada and she’s only 22 years old .

Her only chance of survival is if you can share this post,create awareness❗️

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

All this crap generated about Greenland and Venezuela is just to distract from the Epstein Files, which have still not been released. In defiance of the law, might I add.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

[Paraic O'Brien @paraicobrien]

Just spoken to relatives of Erfan Soltani, the 26yr old protestor, due to be executed today in Iran. They told us the execution has been postponed.

[Rak @RakMakkabi]

Iraner bitten darum, diese Informationen zu verbreiten, damit die Welt erfährt, dass das iranische Terrorregime innerhalb von 48 Stunden 12.000 Menschen getötet hat ohne mediale Berichterstattung.
Ihr seid ihre Stimme.
#IranMassacre
#FreeIran
#IranRevolution2026
#B1301 #B1401

[David Rosenblatt @b4l4g4n]

🚨🇮🇷 BITTE TEILEN, UM DEN DRUCK ZU ERHÖHEN! MULLAHS ORDNEN ERSTE ÖFFENTLICHE HÄNGUNG EINES REVOLUTINÄRS AN: ERFAN SOLTANI SOLL AM 14. JANUAR GEHÄNGT WERDEN

Das iranische Regime geht von Erschießungen von Revolutionären auf den Straßen zu öffentlichen Hinrichtungen über. Damit soll die Furcht vor dem Regime erhöht und die Revolutionsbemühungen erstickt werden!

Erfan Soltani, 26, der vor wenigen Tagen in Karaj wegen Protesten verhaftet wurde, soll nun am Mittwoch ohne Anwalt, ohne Prozess und ohne Berufungsmöglichkeit gehängt werden.

Dies geschieht, nachdem die Mullahs seit gestern @Starlink stören und damit 80 % der Kommunikation der Revolutionäre unterbrechen konnten, nachdem die inländischen Netze seit Donnerstag durch das Regime abgeschaltet wurden.

Überfüllte Leichenhallen, Scharfschützen auf den Dächern... jetzt der Galgen, um den Mut der Revolutionäre zu brechen…

Quelle: IranWire, HRANA, Clash Report, @visegrad24

[Golineh Atai @GolinehAtai]

Please do understand that the protesters in Iran are entirely on their own. Alone. Isolated. Their voices to be suffocated. Their pain to be hidden. Their stories to be suppressed. You might not like, or have doubts about, or disagree with those who provide even the smallest amount of help and support for them and make them seen. But it’s none of your business to comment on that. For you can’t imagine the degree of loneliness they endure.