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Das alles schreibe ich, um mich interessant zu machen. (R. Habeck)

Baden-Württemberg, Germany Katılım Mart 2012
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Captain Allen
Captain Allen@CptAllenHistory·
Let's not forget Egyptian President Nasser also had Goebbels’ literal propaganda lieutenant, Johann von Leers, on staff as his “first-ranking German” and head of his “Israel Propaganda Department” and the “Institute for the Study of Zionism.”
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If only we had recordings of what the Arabs intended to do to the Jews in the lead up to the 1967 Six Day War - maybe THAT would shut @mehdirhasan up. Oh wait ... we do have that ... they wanted to slaughter all of the Jews and throw their bodies into the Sea.

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Muhammad Ayan
Muhammad Ayan@socialwithaayan·
MIT's Nobel Prize-winning economist just published a model with one of the most alarming conclusions in the AI literature so far. If AI becomes accurate enough, it can destroy human civilization's ability to generate new knowledge entirely. Not gradually degrade it. Collapse it. The paper is called AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse. Authors: Daron Acemoglu, Dingwen Kong, and Asuman Ozdaglar. MIT. Published February 20, 2026. Acemoglu won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024. He is not a doomer blogger. He is the most cited economist of his generation, and his models tend to be taken seriously by the people who set policy. Here is the argument in plain terms. Human knowledge is not just a collection of facts stored in individuals. It is a living system that requires continuous reproduction. People learn things. They apply them. They teach others. They build on prior work to generate new work. The entire engine of science, medicine, technology, and innovation runs on this cycle of active human cognition. What happens when AI provides personalized, accurate answers to every question people would otherwise have to learn themselves? Individually, each person is better off. They get correct answers faster. They make fewer errors. Their immediate outcomes improve. But they stop doing the cognitive work that sustains the collective knowledge base. Acemoglu's model shows this produces a non-monotone welfare curve. Modest AI accuracy: net positive. AI helps at the margin, humans still do enough learning to sustain collective knowledge, everyone gains. High AI accuracy: net catastrophic. AI is accurate enough that learning yourself feels unnecessary. Human learning effort collapses. The knowledge base that AI was trained on is no longer being refreshed or extended. Innovation stalls. Then stops. The model proves the existence of two stable steady states. A high-knowledge steady state where human learning and AI assistance coexist productively. A knowledge-collapse steady state where collective human knowledge has effectively vanished, individuals still receive good personalized AI recommendations, but the shared intellectual infrastructure that enables new discoveries is gone. And the transition between them is not gradual. It is a threshold effect. Below a certain level of AI accuracy, society stays in the high-knowledge equilibrium. Above that threshold, the system tips. And once it tips, the collapse is self-reinforcing. Because the people who would have learned the things that would have pushed the frontier forward never learned them. And the AI cannot push the frontier on its own. It can only recombine what humans already knew when it was trained. The dark irony at the center of the model: The AI does not fail. It keeps giving accurate, personalized, useful answers right through the collapse. From the individual's perspective, nothing looks wrong. You ask a question, you get a correct answer. But the collective capacity to ask questions nobody has asked before, to build the frameworks that generate new knowledge rather than retrieve existing knowledge, that capacity is quietly disappearing. Acemoglu has been the most prominent mainstream economist skeptical of transformative AI productivity claims. His prior work found that AI's actual measured productivity gains were much smaller than the technology industry projected. This paper is a different kind of warning. Not that AI will fail to deliver promised gains. But that if it succeeds too completely, it will undermine the human cognitive infrastructure that makes long-run progress possible at all. The welfare effect is non-monotone. That is the sentence worth sitting with. Helpful until it is not. Beneficial until it crosses a threshold. And past that threshold, the same accuracy that made it so useful is precisely what makes it devastating. Every student who uses AI instead of working through a problem is a data point. Every researcher who uses AI instead of developing intuition is a data point. Every generation that grows up with accurate AI answers and no incentive to develop deep domain knowledge is a data point. Individually rational. Collectively catastrophic. Acemoglu proved this is not just a cultural concern or a vague anxiety about screen time. It is a mathematically coherent equilibrium that a sufficiently accurate AI system will push society toward. And there is no visible warning sign before the threshold is crossed.
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Gazelle غزاله شارمهد
Lebanon just made history. For the first time in 45 years, Lebanon’s Foreign Minister @YoussefRaggi — a seasoned Christian diplomat — declared the Islamic Regime’s ambassador persona non grata and ordered him out. Hezbollah’s response? Threats. Against his life. And sheltering the regime’s envoy on their territory — in open defiance of the Lebanese government. This is occupation behavior. Not diplomacy. But here’s where it gets historic. Dr. @WalidPhares has put forward an idea that could detonate the entire architecture of Islamic Republic influence across the region: Lebanon formally requests an ambassador from Iran’s transitional government instead. The transitional government — launched in Munich in July 2025, led by Crown Prince @PahlaviReza — is the legitimate voice of the Iranian people. Not the mullahs. Not the IRGC. Not the puppet in Beirut hiding behind Hezbollah checkpoints. If Lebanon makes this move, it isn’t just expelling a regime diplomat. It’s recognizing a Free Iran. And if one capital does it — others can follow. The regime’s entire diplomatic network rests on the world treating the “Islamic Republic” as Iran. That fiction is cracking. Lebanon may have just handed the transitional government its first embassy.
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Dr Walid Phares@WalidPhares

A transitional Iranian ambassador to Lebanon? Following the Lebanese state’s decision to end the mission of the previous regime’s ambassador—and the diplomat’s reported refusal to leave Lebanese territory while remaining under Hezbollah’s protection—the government in Beirut could consider a new course of action. One option would be to formally request that Iran’s transitional government appoint an interim representative to serve as ambassador to Lebanon. Under such a scenario, the current diplomat would effectively remain a rogue representative of the existing regime until removal is possible. While a newly appointed envoy could represent an alternative Iranian transitional government in official relations with Lebanon. @LBpresidency @YoussefRaggi @SecRubio @SenTedCruz @LindseyGrahamSC

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LilaR@LilaR·
Mein alter Grundsatz: Ich diskutiere nicht mit Menschen, die die drei NEINs von Khartoum nicht kennen. Denn dann haben sie keine Ahnung, wie die heutige Situation entstanden ist, und können nicht erwarten, mit ihrer Meinung ernst genommen zu werden. Denn wovon man keine Ahnung hat, dazu muss man schweigen.
Captain Allen@CptAllenHistory

Don’t forget just days after the 1967 War, Israel offered to withdraw from territory in return for full peace treaties with Egypt, Syria and Jordan The Arab response: The Three No’s Khartoum Resolution: “No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it.”

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LilaR@LilaR·
Wo ist die internationale Empörung darüber, dass am Vorabend des Pessach-Festes, auch für Christen ein wichtiger Termin, israelische Familien im ganzen Land unter Beschuss sind? Während sie letzte Hand an die Vorbereitung zu diesem sehr vorbereitungsintensiven Fest legen. Internationale Empörung gibt es nur, wenn sie gegen Israel mobilisiert werden kann. Beweist mir das Gegenteil, ich habe Zeit.
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Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter
Prof. Dr. Susanne Schröter@susannschroeter·
faz.net/aktuell/rhein-… Stück für Stück verschwindet jüdisches Leben aus der deutschen Öffentlichkeit. Jetzt hat der Kinobetreiber Astra Lounge seine Kooperation im Rahmen der Jüdischen Filmtage in Frankfurt beendet. Als Grund wird angeführt, dass man den eigenen Mitarbeitern die Sicherheitslage nicht zumuten könne. So etwas weckt Erinnerungen an die Frühzeit des Nationalsozialismus. #Antisemitismus ist kein Tabu mehr, sondern eine gelebte Praxis in Deutschland.
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Vadim Derksen
Vadim Derksen@realDerksen·
Der ÖRR mit Carolin Kebekus machen sich über Jesus und das letzte Abendmahl lustig, rechtzeitig zur Karwoche.
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Nav Toor
Nav Toor@heynavtoor·
🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional. And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it. The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening. This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free. A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action. So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying. Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough. Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation. Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally. The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model. What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?
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Klara@klara_sjo·
Handy little chart on how to handle your food cravings.
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Ronai Chaker@RonaiChaker·
The Turkish government is trying to ban Kurdish music and is demanding that YouTube remove songs. This artist is from Iraq and is affected by it.
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Ronai Chaker@RonaiChaker·
The German government is planning to deport Druze people and claims that Syria is safe for them. What is wrong with this government? This government can’t get anything done. They always go after persecuted groups while letting the Islamists stay in the country!
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Maissun Melhem@MaissunMelhem·
A morning salute at a private girls’ school in the new #Syria When I was at school, in the old Syria, we used to perform an identical one, but with nationalist, Ba'athist pledges and slogans like “One Arab nation with an eternal mission” and “Unity, Freedom, #Socialism.” Now it’s “Allahu Akbar” and “We believe in Allah as our Lord, in Islam as our religion, and in Muhammad (peace be upon him) as our prophet and messenger.” The attire has also changed — from a #Military one to an Islamic #Salafist one. No more changes!
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@majavonwestphal Und vor allem das gefälschte Führungszeugnis. Neben der fachlichen Qualifikation ist das in so einem sensiblen Bereich, wo man mit Kindern und Jugendlichen arbeitet ja Grundvoraussetzung.
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Theoretiker@Musenfreund·
x.com/annaninii/stat… Wendehals! Oder hat er die letzten fünf Jahre Winterschlaf gehalten...?
Anna Nina@annaninii

Giovanni di Lorenzo sitzt bei Hotel Matze und seziert in zweieinhalb Minuten den Untergang der deutschen Sozialdemokratie mit einer Präzision und Offenheit, die man sich auch von seinen eigenen ZEIT-Redakteuren wünschen würde! Sein Befund ist von brutaler Einfachheit: Die SPD hat aufgehört, ihre eigenen Leute zu verstehen. Nicht aus Versehen. Aus Verachtung. Die Partei, die einmal wusste, was einen Vorarbeiter in Gelsenkirchen nachts wach hält, hat sich in die Sprachlabore der Berliner Moralpädagogik zurückgezogen und von dort aus begonnen, ihrer Wählerschaft (Ex-Wählerschaft) zu erklären, wie sie zu reden, zu denken und sich zu verkleiden hat. Di Lorenzo bringt die Beispiele, an denen sich die ganze Erbärmlichkeit dieser Entwicklung ablesen lässt. Enkelkinder, die das Wort "Indianer" nicht mehr sagen dürfen. Eine Seniorengruppe, die bei der BUGA keinen Sombrero tragen soll, weil irgendein Befindlichkeitswächter Gefühlsverletzungen wittert. Ein ZDF, das mit seinen Nachrichtenformaten sprachlich so weit vorgeprescht ist, dass sich die Zuschauer in ihrem eigenen Sender nicht mehr wiedererkennen. Was hier stattgefunden hat, ist die feindliche Übernahme einer Volkspartei durch die Seminar-Bourgeoisie. Anpassungsdruck bei Sprache, bei Sitten, bei allem, was das Alltagsleben der Normalbürger berührt. Und das Perfide daran: Die woken Milieus leugnen bis heute, dass dieser Druck existiert. Oder sie erklären ihn für "maßlos übertrieben" 🙃 Oder beides gleichzeitig, je nach Tagesform. Di Lorenzo nennt das Ergebnis "Reaktanz". Ein psychologischer Fachbegriff für etwas, das sich viel einfacher sagen lässt: Die Leute haben die Schnauze voll. Sie gehen nicht auf die Barrikaden. Sie gehen einfach. Leise. Zur AfD. Ins Nichtwähler-Lager. Irgendwohin, wo ihnen niemand erklärt, dass ihr Sprachgebrauch eine Zumutung ist. Und die SPD steht bei 13 Prozent und betreibt Ursachenforschung wie ein Arzt, der sich weigert, den Patienten anzuschauen. Was di Lorenzo hier beschreibt, ist der Preis der Luxusverwahrlosung. Eine Partei, die den Kontakt zu ihrem eigenen Milieu für ein Distinktionsprojekt geopfert hat. Wer seine Wähler für rückständig hält, hat keine Wähler verdient.

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@Baerjew @welt Und mit dem Stereotyp wird die Position von säkularen Muslimen weiter geschwächt. „Ey Mädel, in den Medien tragen die Frauen auch alle Kopftuch, ist ganz normal. Wieso zickst du dann so rum deswegen?“
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Bärenjude@Baerjew·
@TheSwampOfTime @welt Das meine ich ja. Da wird mangelndes Differenzierungsvermögen angeprangert, um dann selbst mit einem Stereotyp zu triggern..😄
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WELT@welt·
Die 44-Prozent-Behauptung – und wie sie ein falsches Bild von Muslimen erzeugt to.welt.de/JDW90M8
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@Baerjew @welt Das ist allerdings das Dümmste an dem Artikel. Und wirklich ärgerlich, denn es bildet die Realität eben nicht ab. Unter den muslimischen Schülerinnen an meiner Schule (und auch ihren Müttern) sind die Kopftuchträgerinnen noch deutlich in der Minderheit.
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Bärenjude@Baerjew·
@welt Vier Frauen. Vier Muslima(?). Vier mal Kopftuch. So viel zu "Differenziertheit". Brüller.
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