Thomas Witzel

Alles gute Punkte, vor allem der letzte paragraph ist sehr ärgerlich. Ich wollte anmerken, dass es auch die Möglichkeit gibt, dass etwas besser situierte Eltern sich zusammen tun und da aushelfen. Das tut keinem weh, und verhindert das Fortschritt immer auf den kleinsten Nenner gebracht wird.

Das Gymnasium meiner Tochter macht ab nächstem Jahr Tablets zur Pflicht. Voraussetzungen: - es muss ein iPad sein - es muss ein Stift dabei sein - es muss mind. 10" sein Gefördert wird es mit 350 €, wenn es ab Juli gekauft wird und noch mindestens 1 Jahr Garantie hat. Selbst mit den jetzigen Rabatten ist man da bei 420 € und das Geld aus der Förderung muss beantragt werden und es dauert mehrere Wochen. Also zusätzlichen zu den 160 € (an einem staatlichen Gymnasium) für das Schuljahr muss man noch 420 € parat haben. Diebstahl und Beschädigung sind übrigens nicht von der Hausratsversicherung versichert, wenn man keine Außenversicherung abschließt. Man kann und soll eine separate Tablet-Versicherung abschließen, die laut Schule etwa 85€ im Jahr kostet. Und in ihrer Klasse sind Kinder, deren Eltern es finanziell nicht prickelnd geht. Weil das neu ist, gibt es derzeit noch keine Leihgeräte (bisher gab's Laptop-, aber keine Tabletklassen). Der Witz daran ist: Die Kids sollen im Unterricht am Tablet mitschreiben. Es wird für nichts anderes als das genutzt werden. Arbeitsblätter, Bücher und Arbeitsbücher gibt es weiterhin nur in Papierform und das Beste: die digital erstellten Einträge sollen Zuhause ausgedruckt und in Schnellheftern mitsamt den Arbeitsblättern abgeheftet werden. Digitalisierung in Deutschland 😬

Wahnsinn. Dieses Werk ist so brutal und nah am Zeitgeschehen. Ein Meisterwerk auf vielen Ebenen.

This is awesome 😎 x.com/brahma_4u/stat…

Cardiologist wins 3rd place at Anthropic's hackathon. Out of 13,000 applications. Built in 7 days by Michał Nedoszytko MD. Coded day and night - in the hospital, in the cloud, while flying from Brussels to San Francisco. A few years ago, it would have been impossible for a doctor to build this alone in just a couple of days. AI changed that. The project is called postvisit.ai. It is an AI agentic care platform for patients. Including reverse AI scribe it is a companion that guides the patient from the moment they leave the doctor's office. Powered by the massive context window of Opus 4.6, it allows patients to explore their full medical history, connected devices, Evidence Based resources and external data sources — all in one place. Today, the barrier to entry has vanished; even a practicing physician can build an application from scratch.

A free MIT course about building scalable & high-performance software systems: bit.ly/3YU0VGb (v/@MITOCW) Here, MIT prof. & CSAIL principal investigator Charles Leiserson discusses why performance matters in computing (Lecture 1).

The dark „empty“ circles are the actual plasma. It’s so hot that it radiates energy far outside the visible spectrum, mostly X-ray. All the colorful stuff around is the much cooler stuff that wouldn’t support fusion. As others commented the magnetic confinement shapes the plasma into a torus/„donut“.

@Rainmaker1973 What is / why does this effect occur? The 2 seemingly empty circles on either side of the central magnet

Plasma inside the ST40 fusion reactor, filmed in color for the first time

@pashabitz I remember the first of those coming to east Germany as well and we were all, wow almost like a western car.

Looking at it now, styling seems pretty modern, like a 90s (!) Fiat Tipo or SEAT Ibiza...

"The Nine" This was a car on a different level when I was a kid in the 80s USSR

@levelsio Ukraine shows that nuclear weapons are the only way Germany can protect itself. Countries that don't have nuclear weapons aren't real countries anymore, they are conditional countries only as long Trump or Putin (or their successors) feel like they should be.

You absolutely cannot trust Germans with nukes Did we learn anything from history? I'm Dutch so I sure as hell did when we were invaded by them French yes, British yes they can have nukes, they're trustworthy, not Germans They'll start behavior policing the entire EU with nuclear weapons as a threat Absofuckinglutely not

Actually, it's even simpler: §86a StGB (use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations) and §129a/b StGB (support of terrorist organizations) This defines a very narrow set of things you shouldn't be saying at a protest or an event designed to propagate a political agenda. You can still use the phrases in educational, journalistic, and artistic contexts.

@Herseybosluk @Partisan_12 In germany there are simple rules, it is different than america where u can insult someone and it is free speech. In germany, if you insult someone on purpose like with that phrase which means to kill all the jews from the R to to the C - ofcourse it is forbidden.

German police officer to a protester: “Please don’t say it. If you say ‘From the river to the sea,’ we have to arrest you again. The phrase is forbidden in Germany.”

@DrNeilStone Isn’t it the still current norm that former US presidents remain silent on all foreign policy matters even if they have a strong private opinion? They may make a statement at the request of the current POTUS, but I don’t know if that happened.

Nobel Prize laureate and former President Barack Obama has still not said a word about the massacre of innocent protestors in Iran. Not One Word

@EtheV77 @WarMonitor3 Russia is asking for MORE than what they occupy so for.

@WarMonitor3 Can Ukraine take it back without massive infusions of cash or troops from Europe? If not, time to settle. They’ve lost.

Territory concessions specifically the Donbas continues to be the largest contention point in peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.

@WarMonitor3 Asking that Ukraine cede territory for peace is like blaming Poland for WW2 as Hitler had offered to accept Poland‘s territory peacefully before 9/1/1939 as well. It will also establish the new rule that all countries without nukes really only have conditional sovereignty…

Yet again Russia and Ukraine have been unable to compromise over peace in UAE likely due to maximalist Russian demands-Reuters

@cathy_nichols @Verizon They don't care about you or your 18 years, they only care about their shareholders and their own comp. Do youself a favor and go to a better carrier.

@Verizon it was bad enough we endured no service all day yesterday. But now I have to figure out how to get my measly $20 credit is ridiculous. I have searched the app and online account. What do I need to do? Way to treat a customer of 18 years.

@Verizon I have not had a working phone since this morning. I patiently waited many hours before going to a Verizon store. I was immediately intercepted at the door and informed that if I have a SOS only issue with my phone that there is nothing they can or will do for me. Worst service ever.

If this is real, @Target should be in real trouble. They are required to ensure a safe workplace for all their employees, especially minors. This does not look like a proper encounter with law enforcement consistent with targets policies. Just because the harm was done by a third party, @Target is not off the hook. Let’s wait for their official statement.

DAMN : ICE grabbed a 17yo Target worker at his job, despite him saying he’s a US citizen. After confirming he was, they dumped him in a Walmart lot 8 min away. Bystanders found him sobbing, bleeding: “They slammed me on the ground.”

@WarMonitor3 It’s symbolic, though maybe the Europeans should review what happened to the small Dutch regiment in Sarajevo….

France plans to deploy 6,000 troops in Ukraine after the war ends. That’s not enough.

@elonmusk The republican house, senate and president can change the law and then that judge will enforce the new law. Don’t blame the judge, start with the house.

If the American public is unable to influence the outcome, we do not live in a democracy. The House, Senate and Presidency are Republican and yet a single activist masquerading as a judge is able to force massive fraud to continue …

@Matt_Pinner Show her pics of the 240Z. Absolute classic.

My wife says it never happened. Who remembers there’s a car called Datsun before it was renamed as Nissan?

@DrNeilStone I have, and more that I get in Germany because not available here.

Who here has had all their recommended vaccines with either no or minor side effects? 🤚

@JK_Lundblad @Object_Zero_ @IndependentRT The US can place whatever defense and security assets they want in Greenland under a 1951 treaty. It does however not allow US mining companies to exploit its natural resources for free.

@Object_Zero_ @IndependentRT So... What's the problem here?

Greenland - As viewed from a proper map Why Greenland? Well because Moscow bases almost all of their strategic military assets on the Kola Peninsula next to Finland. This is where the Russian ICBM silos, submarine bases, and their strategic bombers are. If you look at the flight path (ballistic or powered) from Kola to anywhere on the lower 48, then everything goes over Greenland. Greenland is the theatre where any strategic exchange between Washington and Moscow is contested. If you want to intercept a ballistic missile, the best point to do so is at the apogee, at the top of the flight path. The shortest route for an interceptor to get to an apogee is from directly below the apogee. That’s where Greenland is. So, without stating what should happen here, this is **why** the Trump administration says they **need** Greenland for national security. The other thing that is happening is that the Northern Passage through the Arctic is opening up, and soon there will be Chinese cargo ships sailing through the Arctic to Rotterdam. It’s faster than the Suez and the ships aren’t limited to Suezmax size so China and EU trade is going to accelerate a lot. This means Chinese submarines will also be venturing under the Arctic into the Northern Atlantic, IF THEY AREN’T ALREADY DOING SO. Hence, the North East coast of Greenland serves not 1 but 2 critical strategic security objectives of US national security. If this wasn’t clear to you, please understand that the Mercator global map projection is for children and journalists only. It is not a useful guide to where any countries or territories actually are in the real world that we live in. No self respecting adult should be using Mercator for their worldview. Anyone saying “there must be some other secret reason for Trump being interested in Greenland” is a certified ignoramus.