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I am a dishwasher, cleaner, lavatory attendant. Late at night, when the restaurant crew has left, the latrine faerie and I sing dirty duets.

Joined January 2015
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Herfried Münkler, "Israel richtig denken – der jüdische Staat ist nur einer von vielen Nationalstaaten, die als Folge der Auflösung des osmanischen Imperiums gegründet wurden" nzz.ch/meinung/israel-richti… "Siedlerkolonialismus" ist eine unzureichende, a-historische Kategorie.
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In Anlehnung an Walter Ulbricht: "Niemand hat die Absicht, die Mieten zu erhöhen."
Würde die Vergesellschaftung von Wohnungskonzernen die Berliner Mieten senken? Linkenchefin Ines Schwerdtner rechnet selbst nicht damit. Kritiker beklagen gebrochene Wahlversprechen. Link in X-Bio.
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Just to remind the jubilant voters: Your representatives are weaker than you may think. It's not nothing, but it isn't much. And if they want to achieve anything substantive, they have to work with Trump.
Useful cheat sheet to keep in mind! Don’t fall for magical thinking. Focus on the achievable.
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I don't say it would be the right decision for the U.S. to continue or escalate the war with Iran. Personally, I think it is a justified and legitimate war. But as of now there seem to be only bad options and people need to choose which bullet to bite. 1-6
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Right now the sentiment in the U.S. and (in part) in Israel seems to be to accept the gains already made and move on. But that means to allow the problem to continue, perhaps worsen, and leave its "solution" to future generations. 2-6
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Democrats want to end the war with Iran. It doesn't seem to bother them that they are abandoning the Iranians to their fate under the Revolutionary Guards, the Basij, and the Hizballahis. Just to have lower gas prices? You can do that. But then don't preach human rights.
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For the woe of the country, Trump blamed the migrants and Bernie Sanders¹ blamed the tech billionaires. Same scapegoating, same deflection, same nonsense. (¹ Taking Bernie Sanders as stand-in for many progressives and liberals.)
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Ich kürz die Diskussion mal ab: Wer Israel einen Genozid vorwirft, insbesondere ohne zu sagen, auf welche Normen und Definitionen er sich dabei bezieht, ist Antisemit. Oder anders: Der gegen Israel gerichtete Vorwurf des Genozids ist kein Faktenurteil, sondern politische Hetze.
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Over on BlueSky I wrote a longer thread why I think the success in the Midterms is a harbinger for disaster for the Democrats. bsky.app/profile/simsa0.bsky…
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I'm torn between being pleased with worldwide #peakfascism (Bulgaria a recent outlier), and, in the U.S., scoring it for the price of unbridled anti-Semitism. I cannot be happy about inflicting a defeat upon right-wing populism by rampant left-wing populism.
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El-Sayed winning Michigan is truly awful.
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One AI changes another, "smaller" AI's "brain", and makes it "smarter" — that is, applying "outwardly" what usually consciousness consists of doing "inwardly", onto itself. So, you already have it: Conscious AI.
🚨An AI just looked at another AI's brain and rewrote it in a few seconds. This is the scariest research paper of the year, and almost nobody is talking about it. Here is what happened in plain English. For the last 10 years, every AI model got built the same way. Billions of training examples. Weeks of compute. Thousands of engineers. The entire AI industry runs on that process. A paper that just dropped shows you may never need to do any of it again. Researchers took a small AI model, let a bigger AI look inside its brain, and asked it to make the small one smarter at math. The bigger AI changed 0.016% of the small one's brain. No training. No examples. No learning. The small AI's math score jumped from 7.9% to 48.1%. Then they tried it on a broken self-driving car system. The bigger AI rewrote 3.5% of its brain and the car started driving properly again. Then they asked it to build small AI brains from scratch. The ones it built beat models that were trained the normal way for weeks. Eight months ago we were worried about AI running its own research experiments. That alone caused OpenAI and Anthropic to panic for an entire summer. This paper skips the research entirely. The AI just rewrites other AI directly, like a kid editing an essay. Independent researchers already reproduced it within days. For the first time, AI can make AI better without humans or training anywhere in the loop. Nobody has a plan for what happens next. Link in the comments 👇🚨
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The Language Creation Society conlang.org/ "A conlanger is someone who creates or constructs languages or conlangs. The Language Creation Society (LCS) is a non-profit worldwide organization for conlangers ..." E.g. Toki Pona, a language with just 120 words. Wow.
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youtube.com/watch?v=WWNMXvV3… There also is a "gripping language": two people holding hand and communicating with tiny pressures and movements... Wonderful!
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Prien for President!
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The strong performance of the Arab parties feels like another October disaster. Now Israel is ambushed from within, via the use of its parliamentary system. Do connections exist between the Arab parties and Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Iran, Turkey? I wouldn't be surprised.
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The strong performance of the Arab parties in the election is a terrible outcome for Israel. Mansour Abbas, leader of Ra'am, still not calls Hamas a terrorist organisation; all Arab parties demand a Palestinian state, end of settlements, etc. You cannot govern with such people.
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"The question is what should count as winning." "Arrow’s impossibility theorem [...] extended Condorcet’s paradox beyond majority rule, establishing a fundamental limit on how individual votes can be combined into a group decision." Its geometrical form? The Klein bottle.
The French mathematician Nicolas de Condorcet identified a paradox about voting in the late 18th century: A majority can sometimes vote itself into a logical loop. quantamagazine.org/how-votin…
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Mike Wagenheim, "If Netanyahu loses, who will Democrats blame next?" i24news.tv/en/news/analysis-… "[M]ost of the policies Israel detractors abhor will remain in place, because they are necessary for Israel’s security." Exactly. This election just isn't about *that*.
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