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I'm a security analyst and freelance IT journalist with a focus on #Linux, #FLOSS and #GreenIT.

Der Weg ins Kanzleramt? Wie die AfD-Strategie funktioniert

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/afd-strategie-104.html

> Vor Kurzem wurde eine Strategie der AfD öffentlich, wie sie ins Kanzleramt kommen will - nämlich mit Kulturkampf und Spaltung. Das Auftreten der Partei zeigt: Sie hält sich auch dran. Von Benjamin Großkopff und Bianca Schwarz.

The Cost of Permanent Crisis

https://www.theindex.media/the-cost-of-permanent-crisis/

> A culture addicted to escalation can’t plan for anything else.

The Cost of Permanent Crisis

A culture addicted to escalation can’t plan for anything else.

The Index.

Increased Toxicity Risk Identified For Children With Autism, ADHD : ScienceAlert

https://www.sciencealert.com/increased-toxicity-risk-identified-for-children-with-autism-adhd

Increased Toxicity Risk Identified For Children With Autism, ADHD

The number of people being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has risen sharply in recent decades, and research continues to look at factors involved in these conditions.

ScienceAlert

Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards | Electronic Frontier Foundation

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/platforms-systematically-removed-user-because-he-made-most-wanted-ceo-playing

#eff #luigimangione #bigtech

Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards

On December 14, James Harr, the owner of an online store called ComradeWorkwear, announced on social media that he planned to sell a deck of “Most Wanted CEO” playing cards, satirizing the infamous “Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards” introduced by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency in 2003. Per the...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Interesting start of 2025... A cybertruck explodes in front of a Trump Hotel. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/us/cybertruck-fire-trump-hotel-las-vegas/index.html
Fireworks, gas tanks and camping fuel used in Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Las Vegas Trump Hotel

The Tesla Cybertruck explosion and fire at the entrance of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas Wednesday morning is being investigated as a possible terrorist act, according to a law enforcement official who has been briefed on the investigation.

CNN
A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies — by Michael Moore

I hereby give you my Oscar-nominated Documentary on the Killer Health Insurance companies like United HealthCare —SICKO — for FREE… and let’s end and replace this so-called “health care system” NOW

Michael Moore

Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours. We try out the new service | Rail travel | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/dec/24/paris-to-berlin-by-train-faster-service-via-strasbourg

> The new direct daytime route, via Strasbourg, sweeps through enchanting landscapes from vineyards to forests. But some say it needs to be quicker still if the train is to be more attractive than flying

Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours. We try out the new service

The new direct daytime route, via Strasbourg, sweeps through enchanting landscapes from vineyards to forests. But some say it needs to be quicker still if the train is to be more attractive than flying

The Guardian

Pretty interesting read on social media and political influence.

"Gabriela is an undecided voter. Here's the very different content TikTok and X showed her"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5lngzxxrvo

Gabriela is an undecided voter. Here's the very different content TikTok and X showed her

How is the battle for votes unfolding over different social media feeds this US election?

Don't look up.

UN-Bericht zu Klimawandel: CO2-Emissionen 2023 erneut gestiegen

https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima/unep-gap-report-klima-100.html

UN-Bericht zu Klimawandel: CO2-Emissionen 2023 erneut gestiegen

Die weltweiten Treibhausgasemissionen sind laut einem UN-Bericht im vergangenen Jahr auf einen Höchststand gestiegen. Wenige Wochen vor dem Beginn der Weltklimakonferenz fordern die Vereinten Nationen mehr Anstrengung gegen den Klimawandel.

tagesschau.de