Stefan Berreth

sure but the burden of proof is on the people suggesting the inanimate digital object is conscious, not those suggesting it very likely isn't

Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.

Not saying that some of the sneering might not be justified in this debate, but also note what Lera Boroditsky has to share about what can be observed in english (monolingual) speakers about their bias to attribute agency, blame and punishment in ways that differ from other languages/speakers.

What I kept thinking about throughout all the Christopher Nolan Odyssey discourse.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants Canada to become the first “associate member” of the European Union, she said in her annual State of the Union address today.

Isar Aerospace réussit le premier lancement orbital privé depuis l’Europe continentale

I usually don‘t share cute animal content, but this one is actually really awesome!

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

Broke: Arguing wit trolls on social media. Woke: arguing with your frontier labs AI chat about dropping the soft-washing caveats it injects against hallucinated straw-people problems to avoid answering the actual question you've asked it.

Jack Reacher novels are the romcoms of the manosphere

Why are the Trump administration's 250th celebrations so feeble? Because it's hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Exactly this. It’s about Europe taking the initiative. Good Europe Express by @henryjfoy.ft.com “Diplomats say that … the fact the debate is happening at all reflects a growing recognition that Europe needs to either speak up or be talked over.”

Germany is the epicentre of the China Shock 2.0 reverberating in global markets In a new joint paper, CFR's Brad Setser and I show the shock is a key driver of Germany’s economic malaise. And it's accelerating Berlin needs to stop admiring the problem, and join efforts to fight back 1/many

In service of today being „national“ zipper day in remembrance of the patent for it having been issued on April 29 1913, behold a tour de horizon on polite and witty ways of letting people know that their fly is down across multiple cultures and languages.

In ihrem aktuellen FAZ-Gastbeitrag beklagt Katherina Reiche eine "Selbsttäuschunug" in der Energiepolitik. Tatsächlich fällt der Täuschungsvorwurf aber teilweise auf sie selbst zurück, denn der Text enthält diverse falsche oder irreführende Zahlen. Ein Thread. (1/17) www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

If someone on Tomorrow's World in the early 80s had told childhood me that one day I'd watch a live colour broadcast of astronauts rounding the Moon on a wireless telephone I'd never have believed them. But here we are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

TE pun of the day: „Due to levies sales of Chevys will not quickly run dry“ 🎶 China is breaking into one of the world’s weirdest car markets economist.com/asia/2026/03... from The Economist

P squared psi divided by twice the mass plus V psi equals E psi.

Strait of Hormuz transits really do seem low. From a relative mean of 7.8 ships/pass to a mean of 0.33 last week. Figure is derived from ships detected in Sentinel 1 sat-data, ie independent of the present electronic warfare in the area.

Sigmund

www.katjahoyer.uk/p/the-second...

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Would love to have a „nobody ever talks …“ trope filter in my feeds.

We recorded episode 104 of our podcast, and while our guest, Rebecca Barth on Ukraine was *truly brilliant*, I think the second part of the podcast is even better because it is exactly the seemingly-super-nerdy-but-actually-truly-relevant stuff we set out to talk about when we started this.

Inspired by @rendle.dev 's NDC talk, I open-sourced a harness structuring AI coding agents into engineering roles: Analyst → Architect → Developer → Reviewer, each consuming the last role's output. gitlab.com/stefanberreth/agentic-engineering-harness

In more Atlantic-leaning European capitals, the prospect of standing alone without America has prompted distress. In Paris, which maintains a fully independent nuclear deterrent and builds its own fighter jets, it feels like vindication

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Some thoughts from Munich www.focus.de/politik/ausl...

It looks like you can easily replace „System 1 type violence“ as described in the article with „System 1 type voting“ in an environment that is increasingly shaped - for each individual - through social media into a permanent anger laden „you or me“ situation. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Europeans have real leverage in the face of Donald Trump’s threats towards Greenland and time on their side. They must use it to raise the prospective costs of annexation. @ecfreuropeansec.bsky.social ecfr.eu/article/arct...

"The key is not technology; it is institutions," Méndez Galain said. "Once the rules are fair and predictable, the system builds itself."

Joint statement by 4 former officials in Democratic and Republican Administrations—including four NATO Ambassadors, 3 Assistant Secretaries of State for Europe, and 3 NSC Senior Directors. Excellent opening in particular.

A radical re-focus of the EU on economic growth and innovation, including concrete steps forward. Well worth reading in full, even if technical at times. 👇 constitutionofinnovation.eu

Very interesting project by @bruegel.org here. Remarkable differences still in market value across Europe.

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

www.economist.com/leaders/2025... "That leads to Europe’s last and perhaps the greatest task. Awake to the threat, its leaders need to persuade their voters that change is coming one way or another. Either Europe grabs hold of its own destiny or China and America will force crushing change upon it."

2025 in a nutshell www.ft.com/content/307c...

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

For those who care about what caused the widespread Cloudflare outage yesterday: blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

Continents xkcd.com/3159/

French police release image of the person wanted in association of the Louvre robbery: #Louvre #robbery #FeathersMcGraw

The perils of running large parts of the global economy on infrastructure controlled by a handful of big U.S. companies, part 3743

While European politicians are busy trading smears around green policy, Beijing has consistently viewed climate not as ideology, but as a lever of industrial power, writes @byfordt.bsky.social @ecfrasia.bsky.social https://bit.ly/42z4ofJ

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.