Du hast vollkommen Recht, ich fand es hier auch eher bezeichnend, dass man ohne Logos Schwierigkeiten hätte, die Plakate einer Partei zuzuordnen. Beide setzen gleichermaßen auf stumpfe, irreführende Emotionalität.

Abgrenzung muss ja nicht nur über die Positionen stattfinden, man könnte sich ja auch durch Argumentationsstrategien distanzieren. Die CDU-Plakate wirken einfach, mal wieder, wie ein Versuch, am rechten Rand zu fischen, indem man die AfD imitiert. Und damit wird der rechte Rand durch die CDU weiter normalisiert und in die gesellschaftliche Mitte gerückt.

Nope, die ganze Heerstraße (B5) kurz nach der Grenze Berlin/Brandenburg hängt leider voll mit diesen beiden Plakaten.

Hier ein Bild mit weniger Zoom:

Nope, unless they had AI back in May 2000.

These blogs do still exist, they just lack discoverability because they‘re not focusing on SEO. You might want to give Kagi Small Web a go. It‘s their explicit goal to promote these kinds of websites.

It‘s not quite the same as the good old days, but it‘s probably as close as we can get right now.

I love my Steam Deck, but I hate that it‘s still the best gaming handheld on the market. Valve has been pretty transparent about their process of getting the Deck right. Things like working with AMD to create a mobile APU optimized for gaming, using an optimized OS and an optimized UI, balancing performance and battery life, using and iterating over the controller design, leveraging FOSS and so on.

But somehow no one else seems use all of this knowledge, trying to innovate on top of it. Sure, there are handhelds which take some of these learnings into account, but never enough of them to actually improve on the Deck as a whole. I would have expected other manufacturers to catch up with Valve four years after the Deck‘s release. I don‘t like only getting excited about gaming hardware made by a single company.

Although homophobia is definitely a plausible motive here, it's important to know that there are multiple accusations of theft and grifting against this guy.

For example, he managed someone else’s bar, threw his birthday party there, and then vanished, leaving the owner with a bill of almost €6,000. He couldn't even be found by the police. He also never repaid a loan of €3,500 to someone else. By now, about 20 people claim to have been scammed by him. After prosecutors were unable to locate him for quite a while, the investigation is currently ongoing.

He also seems to be quite manipulative, complaining to his followers about not being chosen as a referee for games because of his activism, while actually just not showing up to mandatory training and therefore being unqualified.

(Source; unfortunately German and paywalled)

So, while homophobia might be the reason for this attack, he might also have been beaten up by a victim of his alleged crimes.

Franz Reichelt, the Flying Tailor, seemed to be pretty sure he could fly when, in 1912, he tried testing a wingsuit he designed himself. By jumping from the Eiffel Tower. He could not fly.

Mich haben bei diesem Thema zwei Dinge positiv überrascht.

Erstens zeigt das Gift-und-Galle-Spucken der US-Lobbyisten, dass das in Europa wachsende Verlangen nach digitaler Unabhängigkeit inzwischen wirklich ein ernstzunehmendes Problem für die Big-Tech-Konzerne ist. Zweitens lässt sich die Schweiz von diesen aggressiven Lobbyisten offenbar größtenteils nicht beirren und arbeitet weiter auf allen Ebenen an tatsächlicher digitaler Souveränität.

Es ist wahrscheinlich einer der wenigen Verdienste der aktuellen US-Politik, dass im Rest der Welt endlich eine Sensibilisierung für problematische technologische Abhängigkeiten geschaffen wird, wenn auch komplett unbeabsichtigt.

I believe it‘s even more strict than that (insert obligatory I am not a lawyer here).

For military commands, German soldiers must not obey orders that would constitute a criminal offense (§11(2) SG). Outside of that, the respective laws for civil servants are applicable (§11(3) SG). These laws, specifically §63 BBG, contain an obligation to object to illegal orders (Remonstrationspflicht). If a civil servant doesn‘t object, they are personally responsible for their actions.

So it‘s not just an option to object to unlawful orders, it‘s an obligation.

I wonder where this 15% figure comes from. All the research I can find estimates the probability for these disorders at around 2-4% for first degree cousins. This is about the same as becoming a mother at 40 with a non-related man.

The article only talks about some NHS training documents and is very opinionated in style. Smells like a snappy headline about a controversial topic was more important than proper research.

Gut, dass Heise das Thema aufgreift. Wäre schön, wenn das in den Medien grundsätzlich auch entsprechend benannt werden würde. Etwa so:

„Wir brauchen mehr Stopp-Schilder gegen Kindesmissbrauch im Internet!!“, schrieb Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen auf der für Deepfake- und Kinderpornografie bekannten Plattform X.

Ist natürlich sehr plakativ formuliert, aber es sollte doch medial nicht einfach wegignoriert werden, dass Politiker eine Plattform mit ihrer Präsenz fördern, die eindeutig und mit voller Absicht schwerste Gesetzesbrüche begeht.

No, they didn’t dump it on the dark web. They‘ve dumped it on the regular web instead: https://okstupid.lol/