Catharina Blaauwendraad

... and a parsnip in a pear tree 🎵🎶

Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers futurism.com/future-socie...

Dieselbe Horrorgeschichten hörte ich auch von Augenzeugen an der Italienisch-Französischen Grenze.

One of the reasons I left all Meta platforms (and you might, too).

How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor youtu.be/aK2nLNiFEAQ

Today I read yet another comment about Trumps distraction tactics not working. But of course they are: Trump himself is the distraction - from the ones that are truly in power. He's just the rage bait. And in the background, Big Tech is working on the end game.

Dear #journalists, could you please investigate whether all those people who resigned, supposedly "to spend more time with their #family", actually turned out to have family-friendly jobs, say, half a year later? #KarolineLeavitt #SebastianKurz etc.

#European #legislation regarding misleading #advertising would be a good idea. Example: I'm being flooded with ads claiming that I would be better off taking snake oil for high blood pressure, than consulting a real doctor. Dangerous in times when real doctors are becoming increasingly unaffordable.

With ICC sanctions, Trump wants to make the world safe for war criminals | Kenneth Roth

"Der affektive Furor der Gekränkten", ein lesenswerter Essay von Robert Misik @misik.bsky.social taz.de/Vor-den-Land...

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Dr. Phil is coming to drill... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Meanwhile communities are left with the bill after all the destruction. This can’t be how it goes.

Russland: Los, Marokkaner, auf nach Spanien, das destabilisiert europäische Demokratie. Marokkaner: Wir dürfen nach Spanien? Yay! Spanien: Nope, husch, zurück. Europa: Ja, wirklich bitter, jetzt müssen wir offenbar doch die Faschisten wählen.

AGES: 395 Hitzetote im Juni

"If your neighbor thinks some kooky things about communists, it might make them kind of an intolerable jerk, but they don’t have the power to do anything. But when the FBI or CIA or other institutions that have power think this way, then it starts to have real implications” — @sethcotlar.bsky.social

Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:

This really is a perfect measure of the putrefaction of corporate media in the US, now heavily under the control of the tech bros.

🇬🇧🇨🇦"The 'Eco-Terrorists'... they're not the protesters who have been warning for decades about what's happening now. They're the fossil fuel industry and their corrupt friends - politicians who, with their lies and greed, are destroying the planet even further Environment protection ... (1/2)

Germany is pouring billions into militarisation while bridges and public infrastructure crumble. Elke Heydecke and Philippe Diaz explain how the left can connect war spending to the local crises people live every day- and turn outrage into organised action. Watch:

“Gödel's Loophole is a supposed "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which the AustrianAmerican logician, mathematician, & analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit America's republican structure to be legally turned into a dictatorship”

Newly revealed documents from inside the most powerful farming lobby in Europe show how it delayed, gutted and overturned some of the most sweeping farming reforms in EU history, including a plan to cut pesticide use in half. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Dank de Rode Duivels voor een goed begin van mijn dag (die meestal slecht begint met het ochtendnieuws).

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com nailed it:

Think before you link www.sat1regional.de/artikel/poli...

#reclaimhumanity

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Glad to see professional translation still matters to some people #reclaimhumanity

Message to Javanka et al.

Alarm [...] had spiralled into public outrage when [...] heavy machinery started decimating ancient dunes and Mediterranean pine forests to clear the way for access roads. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Sprachlos war gestern. „Das stimmt so nicht!“ gibt euch die Argumente, mit denen ihr Falschinformationen oder digitaler Gewalt direkt widersprechen könnt. Nicht nur bei der Familienfeier oder in der Kneipe, sondern auch im Netz. Sichert euch euer Exemplar: www.das-stimmt-so-nicht.de?utm_campaign...

“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng. Ronny understood the assignment.

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

CNN today. Nice juxtaposition: "Diet for thee, not for me". Some are more equal than others.

Okay so I read the whole of the Pope's latest encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas", the one the internet is calling the AI Encyclical, but it's about a LOT more than that (of course it is, it's over 40,000 words). Here's a thread of quotes...

Als Autor*innen können wir übrigens auch KI generierte Cover ablehnen, so meine Erfahrung. Man kann sogar erwirken, dass der Mensch, der es gestaltet hat auf dem Einband genannt wird und so mehr Sichtbarkeit für seine Kunst bekommt. Habe es ausprobiert, es geht!

“The time I find hardest of all is at night, when the house falls still, and there is nothing left to do and no one left to call. This was our time, when we talked without haste, when we discussed anything and everything” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/o...

Menschen, die behaupten, ein "gsunder Watschn" habe ihnen noch nie geschadet, sind der beste Beweis für das Gegenteil: Nur emotional verstümmelte Menschen hegen solche Ansichten.

“Climate Action Against Disinfo” is hard to say, but (46) CAAD orgs are - easy to follow Ex. UCS Ex. media matters Ex. Indivisible Ex. WWF-climate Which are your top (4) ? @caadcoalition.bsky.social

Weitgehend unbemerkt vom Tralala des medialen Establishments leisten @vbohrnmena.bsky.social und @bohrn-mena.at enorm wichtige Arbeit. Sie legen sich juristisch mit dem ganzen rechtsextremen Sumpf an, von ganz oben bis zur Meute der Mitläufer, die keine Sekunde über Konsequenzen nachdenkt, weil

There is some irony in President Trump, our modern-day Narcissus, ordering the repainting of the bottom of the Reflecting Pool.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Now this is what I call great replacement. We dreamt of a (semi)creative career and now me are mopping up after bots. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...