Florian Alexander

Jedesmal dieser Ärger, wenn eine Serie bei @ARTEde läuft. Ich würde „Reykjavik Fusion“ gerne im Original sehen, aber es gibt nur frz. Untertitel, keine dt. oder engl. So werde ich zur deutschen Synchronversion gezwungen, die dem ganzen so viel Atmosphäre nimmt. 😡 (1/2)

Spotted in the NYC subway. “Zero screen time.” An iPod Shuffle ad in 2026. When we built the iPod, the goal was the technology disappeared and you could have your music wherever you were. 1,000 songs in your pocket. Now we’re living through a moment where people are actively looking for ways to disconnect from the infinite feed, algos, and constant notifications. That doesn’t mean technology is bad. It means the best technology understands when to step back. Not every problem needs another screen, another menu, or another layer of complexity. Constraints create freedom (read: @DavidEpstein new book Inside the Box). And often removing features creates a better product than adding them. The future of technology shouldn’t just be more engagement. It should help us be more human.

APP310 Rear Drive Unit — The VW MEB Bearing Disaster We have analyzed the APP310 in the ID.3, ID.4, and Enyaq several times. Forum users complained when we drew our conclusion after the first teardown - and once again, every subsequent unit confirms the same pattern. We are not deviating. The latest case: motor completely seized at 214,000 km. The owner had clearly been driving with audible buzzing for a long time and ignored the sound. Our conclusion was a design problem, not a quality problem. All bearing part numbers are unavailable in the supply chain. Of these, 4 bearings do not exist as serviceable parts at all. The motor had only 200 ml of oil left, burnt off by 180,000 km, and we are now seeing the exact same pattern repeating: the motor runs with insufficient oil, which is the primary cause of failure, and you can see black “carbon” residue coating the internals. The motor has no oil drain plug and was never designed for an oil change. So in summary: oil cannot be changed — it burns off — problem bearings are not available in the supply chain — problem the motor is repairable if you are not too late — problem we developed our own repair kit — excellent the motor is well-built but it leaks — problem there is no official service interval — problem Our recommendation: do not ignore buzzing or humming noises, and change the oil in both differentials every 100,000 km. Affected — APP310 Rear Drive Unit Volkswagen ID.3 (2020 – present, Pro / Pro S trims still use APP310) Volkswagen ID.4 (2021 – Q4 2023; Pure base trim ongoing) Volkswagen ID.5 (2022 – Q4 2023) Volkswagen ID. Buzz (2022 – 2024, base variants) Škoda Enyaq iV / Coupé iV (2021 – present, 50 / 60 trims still use APP310) Škoda Elroq (2024 – present, 50 / 60 trims) Audi Q4 e-tron / Q4 Sportback e-tron (2021 – 2024, RWD trims) Cupra Born (2022 – present, base trims still use APP310) OEM Part Numbers — APP310 1EA900100 1EA900100A 1EA900100B 1EA900100C 1EA900100E 1EA900100G 0CW301103 0CW301103A Not Affected — APP550 Rear Drive Unit (redesigned) Volkswagen ID.3 GTX (2024 – present) Volkswagen ID.4 Pro / Pro 4Motion / GTX (Q4 2023 – present) Volkswagen ID.5 Pro / GTX (Q4 2023 – present) Volkswagen ID.7 / ID.7 Tourer (all variants, 2023 – present) Volkswagen ID. Buzz 77 kWh variants (2024 – present) Škoda Enyaq 85 / RS (2024 – present) Škoda Elroq 85 / RS (2024 – present) Audi Q4 e-tron AWD / Q4 Sportback e-tron AWD (2024 – present) Cupra Born VZ (2024 – present) Cupra Tavascan (all variants, 2024 – present) Need Help? Visit Our EVC Service Network If you suspect APP310 issues in your vehicle, you can visit any of our EVC service locations: Sveta Nedelja (HQ, Croatia) — evclinic.eu Stupnik (Croatia) — evclinic.hr EV Clinic Velika Mlaka (Croatia) — evclinic-vg.hr Beograd (Serbia) — evclinic-beograd.rs Ljubljana (Slovenia) — evclinic-ljubljana.si Berlin (Germany) — evclinic-berlin.de Announced — opening soon: Budapest (Hungary) Innsbruck (Austria) Istanbul (Türkiye) Paris (France)

Metropolen im Jahr 2026 New York: Zohran Mamdani kommt ins Amt und baut als 1. Amtshandlungen einen geschützten Radweg Paris: Ein Bürgermeister wird gewählt, der 1000 autobefreite und begrünte Fußgängerzonen verspricht. Kopenhagen: Investiert 80 Mio. € in den Radverkehr. Das ist pro Kopf 40x mehr als in Berlin. Berlin: Baut Radwege ab, streicht Busspuren, hebt Tempo 30 auf und killt gesetzelichen Vorgaben für sichere Radwege an Hauptstraßen. Ich habe diese rückwärtsgewandte Politik so satt! Andere Städte bekommen gute Luft, Ruhe, Sicherheit und Grün. Wir bekommen Lärm, Gestank, Stau, Unfälle und Blech. So frustrierend, wie diese konservative Autopolitik uns eine lebenswerte, gesunde & gerechte Zukunft verbaut🤬

.@bild lügt. Auch bei völlig wolkenlosem Himmel sind rein rechnerisch zur Zeit nirgendwo in Deutschland 16 Stunden Sonne möglich. Ebenfalls zeigt kein Modell irgendwo die Möglichkeit einer Höchsttemperatur von 28 Grad für Passau. kachelmannwetter.com/de/vorhersage/…

Die Ausgleichszahlungen für nicht eingespeisten PV- und Windstrom kosteten den Bund 2025 rund 435 Mio. Euro. Aufgrund dieser geringen Summe will Katherina Reiche jetzt den Ausbau von PV & Wind verlangsamen, damit die Energiewende nicht „zu teuer wird” Zum Vergleich: Der Tankrabatt für zwei Monate kostet den Bund mit 1,6 Mrd. Euro, einfach das 3,6 Fache! Die Energiewende scheitert nicht am Geld. Sie scheitert an den unglaublich schiefen Prioritäten dieser Merz-Regierung!

I almost killed my company on Friday. $90,000. One Azure bill. Gone. Let me tell you what happened because I think founders need to hear this. We built an amazing document intelligence system at Whisperit. It analyzes our customers' files: PDFs, Word docs, scanned documents, using OCR. It works beautifully and user love it. But we had a bug. A small email with a zip file. Inside the zip, a PDF. Some weird edge case that created an infinite loop in our code. The virtual machine would crash, restart, and try to reprocess the same document. Again. And again. And again. We pay more than one cent per page processed. You can imagine what happened next. I saw the graph and my stomach dropped. An exponential spike. The kind of curve you want to see on your revenue chart (!!) not your cloud bill. The forecast for next month said $400,000+. I thought: this must be a mistake. Emergency 🚨. Check everything. It wasn't a mistake. The worst part? We had a warning. Back in November we had a $25K unusual spike. We fixed it. Added upload limits. I thought we were safe. But I never set a spending cap on Azure. Never set up alerts for unusual usage. I knew I should. I just didn't do it. I went through every stage: Denial → "this can't be right" Anger → screaming at myself Shame → feeling small, really small Tears → first time in a long time I cried that evening. Not because of the money, because I imagined having to close Whisperit. My team. Everything we built. Gone because of one missing setting and my stupidity. The week had been incredible. New version shipping. Lots of new users. Sales going well. Migration going well. Growing the team responsibly. And then Friday hit like a truck. Remember my last post about mistakes? Yeah. We're still making them. Bigger ones. $90,000 is the price of a NICE car. Paid for a bug and a missing checkbox. Here's what I'm doing RIGHT NOW so this never happens again: 1. Hard spending limits on every cloud service — no exceptions 2. Alerts at 50%, 80%, 100% of expected spend 3. Circuit breakers in our processing pipeline — if a document fails 3 times, it stops 4. Weekly cloud cost review — not monthly, weekly 5. Every API endpoint gets a budget ceiling If you're a founder reading this: Go set your spending limits. Today. Right now. Before your next meeting. Before your next coffee. It takes 10 minutes and it could save your company. We move fast. That's our superpower. But speed without guardrails is a bomb with a timer. I know what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really hope this one doesn't kill me. Still standing. Barely. Building. 🚀

🚨META’S SMART GLASSES ARE RECORDING YOU IN YOUR MOST INTIMATE MOMENTS.. AND SENDING ALL OF IT TO WORKERS IN KENYA WHO WATCH EVERY SECOND.. THEN META FIRED 1,108 OF THEM FOR TALKING ABOUT IT.. Swedish journalists discovered that footage from Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses is being sent to a facility in Nairobi, Kenya.. Where workers manually watch and label everything the glasses capture.. Not AI watching.. Humans watching.. Over 30 workers confirmed what they see every day.. People in intimate situations.. People on the toilet.. People undressing.. Credit card numbers.. Banking passwords.. Private messages on phone screens.. All completely visible.. One worker said.. “I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording”.. Meta marketed these glasses as “built for your privacy”.. “You’re in control of your data and content”.. The AI features cannot function without sending your footage to Meta’s servers.. There is no local option.. If you use the AI.. Your private life leaves your device.. Swedish journalists visited 10 retail stores.. Every single sales rep incorrectly told customers all data stays on the phone.. Not one knew the footage goes to Kenya.. Meta claims face-blurring protects identities.. Workers say it barely works.. Faces fully visible in low light, fast movement, complex backgrounds.. People in your bedroom.. Fully visible.. To strangers making $1.50 an hour.. Workers said the facility was “saturated with content that could trigger enormous scandals if leaked”.. So the company put them under constant camera surveillance and banned personal devices.. Workers surveilled to prevent them from leaking the surveillance footage they were watching.. Then the investigation went public.. Meta terminated the entire contract.. Claimed Sama “didn’t meet our standards”.. Sama fired back.. “At no point were we notified of any failure to meet those standards”.. 1,108 Kenyan workers.. Fired.. Six days notice.. Labor activists called it retaliation.. “The workers who trained the AI saw everything.. Owned nothing.. And lost their jobs the moment they spoke about it”.. 55% of these workers report clinical distress.. 52% meet thresholds for major depression.. They earn $1.50 an hour.. Meta made $56.3 billion last quarter.. The head of the Data Labelers Association said it best.. “It is African Intelligence powering European intelligence.. Which they are now calling Artificial Intelligence”.. Meta has sold 7 million of these glasses.. Targeting 10 million by year end.. A class-action lawsuit has been filed.. Kenya’s courts ruled Meta can be sued directly.. 200 former workers are pursuing a $1.6 billion claim.. 7 million cameras on 7 million faces.. Sending everything to the cheapest labor market they can find.. And they called it “built for your privacy.”

Alle sagen: „Warum hast du dir keine Hilfe geholt?“ Niemand fragt: „Was passiert, wenn man es tut?“ Letzte Woche war ich selbst in der psychiatrischen Notaufnahme. Nicht weil ich musste, sondern weil ich verstanden habe, dass ich Hilfe brauche. Ich habe meine Situation ruhig und klar erklärt: Ich lebe seit Jahren mit Depression, habe gelernt, mit körperlichen Symptomen umzugehen, aber die psychische Seite entgleitet mir gerade. Ich bin kein Neuling im System – ich war bereits mehrfach in Psychosomatik und geschlossener Psychiatrie. Ich weiß, wie es dort abläuft. Ich habe gesagt, dass ich Mutter und Pflegeperson eines schwerbehinderten Kindes bin, dass meine familiäre Situation angespannt ist und ein stationärer Aufenthalt nicht nur Hilfe, sondern auch das reale Risiko bedeutet, mein Kind zu verlieren. Trotzdem habe ich um Unterstützung gebeten, weil ich allein diesmal nicht mehr schaffe. Der Arzt hat verstanden, dass ich sofort Hilfe brauche, und sogar eine Tagesklinik vorgeschlagen. Ich dachte, diesmal funktioniert es. Eine Woche später kam der Anruf: Warteliste, Personalmangel, keine direkten Aufnahmen von der Straße. „Halten Sie noch ein paar Monate durch.“ Und zum Schluss: „Wenn es schlimmer wird, rufen Sie den Notdienst.“ Das ist der Moment, über den kaum jemand spricht. Denn wenn später etwas passiert, fragen alle: „Warum hast du dir keine Hilfe gesucht?“ Ich habe sie gesucht. Und gelernt: Hilfe existiert auf dem Papier, aber nicht, wenn man sie wirklich braucht. Das System ist nicht flexibel. Es verlangt, dass man funktioniert, wartet und sich anpasst. Doch genau das kann ein Mensch in einer akuten depressiven Phase nicht. Aus letzten Lebenskräften versuche ich da zu sein und zu kämpfen. Aber ich merke, wie ich wie ein sterbender Stern heller leuchte, bis ich komplett ausbrenne.

Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine. What went wrong? In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms: 1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder. 2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology. 3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it. The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress. This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does. Link to paper: michael-inzlicht.squarespace.com/s/The-psycholo…

Seid ihr völlig balablala @BILD ? Nicht nur dass der Blödsinn schäbiges Clickbait ist; er ist unverantwortlich und fachlich FALSCH! ‼️Die HPV Impfung ist keine Impfung gegen Sex-Viren! Jedes Kind zwischen 9 und 14 Jahren sollte sie unbedingt haben. HPV ist die Hauptursache für Gebärmutterhals Krebs; auch für Buben und Männer bestehen Gefahren, durch Penis-,Anal-,Mund und Rachenraum-Karzinome; ausserdem steigert diese Impfung den Gemeinschaftsschutz! Reisst euch mal am Riemen. Mit Eurer Desinformation senkt ihr die eh schwache Impfbeteiligung; statt sie zu steigern.

i went to clickup.com. opened the page source. found a hardcoded API key in the javascript. copied it. sent one GET request. got back 959 email addresses and 3,165 internal feature flags. employees from Home Depot. Fortinet. Autodesk. Tenable. Rakuten. Mayo Clinic. Permira. Akin Gump. government workers from Wyoming, Arkansas, North Carolina, Montana, Queensland Australia, and New Zealand. a Microsoft contractor. 71 clickup employees. fortinet sells enterprise firewalls. tenable makes Nessus, the vulnerability scanner half the industry runs. their employees emails are exposed because clickup hardcoded a third party API key in a javascript file that loads before you even log in. this was first reported to clickup through hackerone on January 17, 2025. its now April 2026. the key has not been rotated. i just pulled the response five minutes ago. every email is still there. clickup raised $535 million at a $4 billion valuation. claims 85% of the Fortune 500 use their platform. looks like the proof is in the page source.

#afdverbotsverfahrenjetzt 👽🤨

Aus mehreren Gründen sehr verrückt, was einer der neuen städtischen Wohnungsbaugesellschaft-Chefs hier im @SZ_Muenchen-Interview sagt zu seinem Umzug nach München.

It gives me great pleasure to share that “Patrick Stewart Performs the Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare” is available now! If you followed my Sonnet-A-Day pandemic series, you’ll know the inspiration behind this project and the wonderful community that brought this to life.  All 154 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, recorded with commentary by yours truly, are now available: bit.ly/PatrickStewart… @SimonAudio

Vance's speech in Budapest is truly outrageous: 1. The US vice president campaigns for an enemy of the EU & NATO, but a friend of Putin & China. 2. Vance attacks the EU for pressuring Hungary, but Hungary has received net about 3% of GDP a year from the EU, but it has squandered much on corruption. 3. In effect, Vance argues that the EU should promote corruption just as the Trump administration does. Trump and Vance fight freedom and the rule of law in favor of autocracy, kleptocracy and Russia. US foreign policy has hit the bottom.

@astro_reid In this image, also taken from the Orion capsule, we see the divide between night and day, known as the terminator, cutting across Earth. Whether awake or dreaming, we're all here on this planet together.

Holy shit this is AMAZING.

Claude can now prepare your presentations using the exact framework Patrick Winston taught MIT students for 40 years (for free). Here are 6 insane Claude prompts that apply his framework to your presentations. (Save before this disappears)

The whole world needs to know about this! Seriously. We all know JPG (or JPEG), the digital format that shrunk file sizes and changed how we store photos forever. It’s the reason the world fell in love with sharing images. But now, it’s being replaced by JPEG XL. And it’s time everyone realized that the mastermind behind it is Polish. This is the story of a brilliant Polish mind. Dr. Jarek Duda is arguably the only living Pole whose scientific method is embedded in billions of devices across the planet. He developed a data compression method called ANS (Asymmetric Numeral Systems), which is now a standard component in modern electronics. Because of ANS, websites load faster, devices use less energy, and our internet bandwidth is used much more efficiently. It’s already baked into products from Apple, Facebook, Google, and the Linux kernel. He could have been a billionaire. But he chose not to patent his method, and to this day, he says he has no regrets. He believes that by keeping it open, his work has changed the lives of millions, perhaps billions of people. Even so, there is a deep sense of injustice in how he’s treated, hardly anyone remembers that he is the true father of this technology. Even though companies like Google and Microsoft have tried to patent the ANS method as their own, I want to use this post to set the record straight and give credit where it’s due: to a Polish genius. I don’t think I’ve ever met someone as humble as Jarek. But this isn’t just a story about the past. For years, Jarek has been working seven days a week, starting at 7:00 AM, on a solution that could revolutionize quantum computing. Jarek, I hope you keep that incredible drive going. Thank you for your time. We cannot let this name be forgotten. A Polish scientist has fundamentally changed the course of technological history. @duda_jarek