I wish everybody was aware of just this one obvious fact about AI.
Who pushes AI?
Fascists, authoritarians, billionaires and the trillionaire, the fossil industry, surveillance capitalists, ...
Who warns against AI?
Activist movements: climate, privacy, human rights, education, democracy, ...
If you use AI without need (only accessibility is a good reason imo) then you're choosing to support evil.
And since accessibility is important I'll post an offer next...
Citizenship revoked because of an Instagram post (The Left Berlin, 2026-06-02)
https://theleftberlin.com/citizenship-revoked-instagram/
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>> November of 2025, the Berlin State Office for Migration (LEA) revoked the citizenship of a Palestinian man over one of his Instagram stories. Though residing in Germany since he was two months old, Abdallah A. had to wait more than 30 years to be granted German citizenship. However, ⊠a slew of Zionist bloggers and right-wing pundits set a witch hunt in motion, culminating into a series of press inquiries being sent to the Berlin authorities insisting his citizenship be revoked. The story in question? A photo showing two men holding a Palestinian flag, masked, facing the sea and wearing green headbands.
>> ⊠The government based this drastic move on the dreaded 2024 reform to citizenship law, which added to the naturalization process a commitment to Germanyâs âhistorical responsibility,â ...
Francesca Albanese is trying to stop a genocide. That is her crime.The United States and Israel are trying to stop her â by destroying her life, her career, her family, and her voice.The US has sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, 8 ICC judges, 3 court officials, and Pal...
"I became definitely an Anarchist when sent to New Caledoniae, on a state ship, in order to bring me to repentance for having fought for liberty. I and my companions were kept in cages like lions or tigers during four months. We saw nothing but sky and water, with now and then the white sail of a vessel on the horizon, like a birdâs wing in the sky. This impression and the expanse were overwhelming. We had much time to think on board, and by constantly comparing things, events, and men; by having seen my friends of the Commune, who were honest, at work, and who only knew how to throw their lives into the struggle, so much they feared to act ill;
I came rapidly to the conclusion that honest men in power are incapable, and that dishonest ones are monsters; that it is impossible to ally liberty with power, and that a revolution whose aim is any form of government would be but a delusion if only a few institutions fell, because everything is bound by indestructible chains in the old world, and everything must be uprooted by the foundations for the new world to grow happy and be at liberty under a free sky."
Auszug aus Louise Michels Artikel "Why I am an Anarchist" in Liberty (London), MĂ€rz 1896, S. 26.
https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/anarchist-beginnings/louise-michel-why-i-am-an-anarchist-1896/
https://libcom.org/article/liberty-journal-anarchist-communism
I am an Anarchist because Anarchy alone, by means of liberty and justice based on equal rights, will make humanity happy, and because Anarchy is the sublimest idea conceivable by man. It is, today, the [...]
Die Bundesregierung flirtet weiter mit automatisierter Polizeiarbeit und riesigen Datenanalysen. Immer wieder taucht dabei der Name Palantir von dem rechtsextremen Peter Thiel auf. Eine Firma, die fĂŒr Ăberwachung und DatenzusammenfĂŒhrung bekannt ist. Der Traum der Innenpolitik scheint eine Maschine zu sein, die Menschen berechnet. Der Albtraum einer Demokratie beginnt genau dort.
#Palantir #Ăberwachung #SPD #CDU #CSU #GrĂŒne #Datenschutz #Dobrindt #Grundrechte #EinfacheSprache
Interview: "Will justice catch up with Israel?"
ICC prosecutor Karim Kahn ought to "make room for a prosecutor genuinely committed to the job, one who will pursue war criminals rather than appease the powerful."
~Mouin Rabbani
35 min in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I91lelvtEdA
#USPol #EUPol #israeliCrimes #GazaGenocide #news #ICC #ICJ #UN #USImperialism .
Stencils That Hit Hard (31 Photos)
Some murals cover whole buildings. These stencils hit in seconds. A stencil can land like a joke, a protest sign, a memory, or a small act of kindness. From Banksyâs Washing Zebra Stripes in Timbuktu to Blek le Ratâs Paris rats, TABBYâs mouse-hole peace offering, and Pejacâs scale tricks, these pieces show that street art does not need size to stay with you. đĄ Nerd Fact: Modern stencil graffitiâs quiet superpower is repeatability: one cut template can travel fast. Blek le [âŠ]https://streetartutopia.com/2026/05/29/stencils-that-hit-harder-than-giant-murals/
Some murals cover whole buildings. These stencils hit in seconds. A stencil can land like a joke, a protest sign, a memory, or a small act of kindness. From Banksyâs Washing Zebra Stripes in Timbuktu to Blek le Ratâs Paris rats, TABBYâs mouse-hole peace offering, and Pejacâs scale tricks, these pieces show that street art [âŠ]
What a lot of people do not understand is the fragility of supply chains.
Setup
Let us assume there is a part X that is used by a large number of other companies. It is not glamorous, it is not expensive, and nobody outside a small circle of specialists ever thinks about it. But it is needed. Without it, other products cannot be finished.
Everything is fine
Part X is made by a small company with a few dozen employees and a machine that is several decades old.
Everything runs smoothly. The company knows how to maintain the machine. They know how to operate it. They know its strange noises, its moods, its undocumented rituals. They know which lever needs a bit of persuasion on cold mornings and which replacement part must be machined by hand because nobody has made the original since 1987. They also know how to train new employees, because the knowledge still exists inside the company.
Crisis
Then, suddenly, a few large customers run into a crisis.
Orders slow down. The warehouses fill up with part X. Prices fall.
The company downsizes. Then it downsizes again. But nobody really notices, because stocks are still full. Customers are not yet affected. Purchasing departments can still get part X from inventory. Balance sheets still look fine. The problem has not yet reached the spreadsheet.
If this goes on for long enough, the company goes broke.
Again, nobody really notices. Stocks are still full. Some people may worry, but as long as no current production line is stopping and no quarterly number is visibly bleeding, nothing urgent is done.
The employees move on. They retire, change industries, start new careers. The old machine is sold for scrap. The building is repurposed. The knowledge evaporates.
Recovery
A few years later, demand picks up again.
The warehouses slowly empty. Stocks run low. People start ordering part X again, only to discover that nobody is offering it anymore.
Now someone decides to restart production.
The first thing they discover is that there is no machine. Building a new one would be prohibitively expensive, assuming anyone still knows how to build it properly. So they desperately search for an old one.
They get lucky. In a scrapyard, they find a machine that used to produce part X. It is rusted, incomplete, and dysfunctional. Naturally, they buy it.
Now they try to get it working again.
But there is another problem. There are no people left who know how to maintain it. So they hire someone who understands industrial maintenance in general, but has never worked on this specific machine. That person does their best. They improvise. They read old manuals. They reverse-engineer undocumented fixes. They keep the machine alive with skill, patience, and increasing amounts of despair.
But it breaks down every few hours. Output is abysmal.
Bottlenecks
And now that one poor maintenance person is overworked. They need help. But training help requires time, and the only person who can train others is the same person needed to keep the machine barely running. Every hour spent teaching is an hour not spent preventing the next failure.
Very few businesses survive this phase.
There is no institutional knowledge anymore. New people are hired, begin training, look at the state of the machine, the chaos of the process, and the constant emergency mode, and conclude that the business is doomed anyway. Then they quit.
Churn becomes terrible. Even if the company survives financially, it remains fragile. It is always just one or two people quitting away from disaster.
At the end the world decides it needs to get rid of part X as the supply is too fragile.
Summary
This is still very much simplified. The reality is more complex, more ugly.
And that is the part many people miss: a supply chain is not just warehouses, contracts, prices, and transport routes. It is also people, habits, obsolete machines, informal knowledge, and boring little skills that nobody values until they are gone.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
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Martin Seeger