Hilarious two minute skit perfectly captures the insanity of the COVID era.
Dafür 👇könnte es tatsächlich eine Mehrheit geben - jedenfalls in Baden. 😉
Eine historische Übersicht der NYT über die Unterstützung der US-Bevölkerung für verschiedene Militäreinsätze.
"Er könne sich sogar ein Verbot für alle unter 18 vorstellen."
@welt
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Der Krieg gegen Iran hat den Ölpreis nach oben getrieben. Und dort wird er vorerst bleiben. Die Gründe liegen in der Logik des Seekriegs. https://www.nzz.ch/pro/krieg-in-iran-nach-wie-vor-droht-die-blockade-der-strasse-von-hormuz-ld.1928373?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031169ae0d81e077e55d2a047baf
„Der BND soll künftig auch häufiger die Öffentlichkeit mit seinen Erkenntnissen informieren, etwa in den sozialen Medien.“ 🤔
#Öffentlichkeitsarbeit eines Geheimdienstes ist hochproblematisch, wenn die Quellen der Information naturgemäß geheim bleiben müssen. Denn „Erkenntnisse“ des #BND können richtig sein. Oder auch falsch.
Aus gutem Grund sieht das #BNDG daher die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit nicht als Aufgabe des #BND vor.
„Es geht nicht darum, ob man links oder rechts steht. Es geht darum, dass ihr aufgehört habt, die Welt zu beschreiben, und angefangen habt, sie zu erziehen.“
Große Teile des deutschen #Journalismus mE treffend beschrieben. Leider.
Here’s Darren Jones MP telling you all the ways digital ID will be useful for citizens, all linked to 3rd party providers. Your access all areas convenience app … OR
▪️You can’t fill up your car, your permission is only on Wednesdays.
▪️You can’t enrol your child in school, she hasn’t had her vaccine.
▪️You can’t book a flight until you pay a disputed council tax bill.
▪️You can’t hire a car, you have a red flag because of a social media post.
▪️You can’t buy alcohol, you’ve reached your recommended limit.
▪️You can’t renew your passport until your outstanding parking fines are cleared.
▪️You can’t enter the city centre today, your traffic credits are exhausted.
▪️You can’t withdraw cash, your account has been temporarily flagged for review.
▪️You can’t access your bank account, facial recognition verification failed.
▪️You can’t buy a train ticket, your carbon travel allowance has been exceeded.
▪️You can’t sell your house, your property compliance certificate hasn’t been updated.
▪️You can’t access certain websites, your digital wellbeing limit has been reached.
▪️You can’t claim benefits, your activity tracker shows insufficient job-seeking hours.
▪️You can’t enter a stadium, your social trust rating is below the event threshold.
▪️You can’t purchase meat this week, you’ve reached your environmental consumption target.
▪️You can’t open a business, your digital compliance score is too low.
▪️You can’t cross the border, your travel profile has been flagged for unacceptable social media posts.
▪️You can’t vote today, identity authentication failed at digital check-in.
Digital ID will mean a permissions based life based on how well you comply to guidelines. Exactly as scoped and planned.
It’s the perfect citizen control product.
Focus 💣
"On the Demise of Species" ?
P-hacking is bad because you're giving a positive signal to something that is almost certainly false. You're actively polluting the scientific literature with mirages.
A null result isn't a failed experiment. An experiment is never a failure if it is designed and executed well. Publishing null results actively helps the scientific community by narrowing the pool of plausible alternatives to test. It makes discovering what's actually true easier.
China und die USA: The Great Bargain? Anfang April besucht US-Präsident Trump die Volksrepublik China. Ein "Great Bargain", eine große Einigung, zwischen den beiden größten Volkswirtschaften der Welt, wäre ein Fest für die Börse. @PhilippMattheis
https://www.tichyseinblick.de/podcast/tichys-boersenwecker-am-11-maerz-2026/
Er wollte ein Großserbien schaffen – um den Preis von Krieg, Vertreibung und Massakern. Slobodan #Milošević führte in den 1990er-Jahren Kriege gegen Kroatien, Bosnien und Kosovo. Nun jährt sich sein Todestag zum 20. Mal. Doch sein Erbe lebt fort. https://www.cicero.de/aussenpolitik/20-todestag-von-slobodan-milosevic-der-schlachter-des-balkans
Die politische Führung in Teheran hatte die USA für den Fall eines Krieges vor heftigen Gegenschlägen gewarnt. Sie spricht vergleichsweise offen über ihre strategischen Ziele. https://www.nzz.ch/international/irans-kriegsstrategie-druck-erhoehen-und-ueberleben-sichern-ld.1928623?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031169ae0d81e077e55d2a047bae
R to @rosenbusch_: faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/m…
„Ronzheimer – Wie geht’s, Deutschland?“
Der Influencer Yannis B. hat mehrere Sender und embedded Ronzi (ohne Helm) – darunter Sat.1, MDR/ARD und ZDF – mit einer gefälschten Story als „fröhlicher Bürgergeldempfänger“ und „Arbeitsloser des Jahres“ getäuscht.
Schade, hat doch so gut ins Narrativ gepasst :/
Question for the Labor Party and their Education Minister:
Is there a single #Trans child at a Muslim school in this country?
If not - why not?
Where's the investigation into 'diversity' and 'equity'?
Are Muslim schools adhering to the same legally-binding guidelines and aggressive trans activism that Christian schools are forced to?
Are there rainbow flags in their classrooms?
Do they allow girls to ditch their headscarves and dress as boys if they 'identify' that way?
I'm going to guess Labor does not force the issue in delicate electorates.
I'm going to further guess that Labor respects the religious preference of Muslims - but NOT Christians.
Am I wrong?
Beware of Artificial Interlligence. When I wrote “clorpromazine the first neuroleptic” on Google, this was what I got: “Chlorpromazine, introduced in 1952 as the first, truly effective antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drug, revolutionized psychiatry by allowing for the management of schizophrenia, hallucinations, and agitation, often eliminating the need for long-term institutionalization.”
It could hardly be more misleading. The effect of these drugs is so small that it is way below the least clinically relevant effect; they did not revolutionise anything as the effect is totally unspecific, which is why they were called major tranquillisers 70 years ago when psychiatrists were more honest than today; asylums were emptied because they were expensive to run, it had nothing to do with the effect of neuroleptics; and the drugs make it more difficult to function, not less difficult. What AI did was to dutifully regurgitate the psychiatric industry-inspired folklore, which is totally and utterly wrong, and very harmful, too.
Australian psychiatrist Neill McLaren has read the background papers for the upcoming DSM 6, the American Psychiatric Association’s heavy disease manual. http://bit.ly/4s5ru8i. As usual, a lot of pompous statements with no substance. Neill concludes: “What utter rubbish. Nothing has changed.” It is all about what might be found in future, but surely, won’t be found. The APA claim that “In the 45 years since the publication of DSM-III, knowledge about psychiatric disorders, the psychosocial and cultural impact on them, their treatment, and their biology has evolved tremendously.” This is a huge lie. Above all, biological psychiatry has led to absolutely nothing, apart from harming the patients tremendously.
Kaum jemand hat einen so tiefen Einblick in die europäische Aufrüstung und das derzeitige Kriegsgeschehen wie Armin Papperger. Der Manager äussert sich zum Standort Schweiz, zum drohenden Raketenmangel der USA und zum deutschen Starlink-Projekt. https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/sollte-deutschland-angegriffen-werden-wuerden-wir-wohl-aus-der-schweiz-nicht-mehr-beliefert-sagt-rheinmetall-chef-papperger-ld.1928547?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031169ae0d81e077e55d2a047bad
Der Sprecher des iranischen Parlaments antwortet US-Energieminister Chris Wright, der fälschlicherweise behauptet hatte, die Navy hätte einen Tanker durch die Straße von Hormus eskortiert.
Still waiting for a reply from @cremieuxrecueil !
Eine Nachbetrachtung zu den Parlaments- und Regierungswahlen. https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/lag-es-wirklich-an-der-srg-initiative-und-warum-ging-avdilis-plan-nicht-auf-die-wahren-gruende-fuer-den-schwarzen-sonntag-der-buergerlichen-in-der-stadt-zuerich-ld.1928589?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031169ae0d81e077e55d2a047bac
Dubai: no one is going back. 🇦🇪
Als Oberbürgermeister von Tübingen agiert Palmer pragmatisch und strahlt in konservative Wählermilieus. Er könnte Brücken bauen – auch zu AfD-Wählern. Özdemir sollte sich bei seiner Ministerauswahl nicht von Kritikern aus der eigenen Partei beirren... https://www.nzz.ch/der-andere-blick/die-distanz-zu-den-gruenen-war-richtig-cem-oezdemir-sollte-boris-palmer-in-seine-regierung-holen-ld.1928697?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031169ae0d81e077e55d2a047bab
Looks funnily like that, eh?
R to @JesslovesMJK: substacktools.com/sharex/xSw…
Observe the Economic Fallout Six Years Later https://brownstone.org/articles/observe-the-economic-fallout-six-years-later/ via @brownstoneinst
You can dump as much money as you want in to a fraud riddled program like Medicaid, and you'll just get more Learing Centers.
We spend about $10k a year on non-disabled adults in Medicaid. The problem isn't a lack of funding. It's that the money doesn't reach the patients.
Können Sie die Schäden und Opferzahlen durch Fukushima benennen?
Malthus was actually right - but only for the pre-capitalist era. Prior to 1700 in the West (and prior to mid-20th century in the East), each time humanity had a population boom, it was followed by a bust.
The problem is that Malthus was no Schumpeter. He wasn't even an Adam Smith. He simply didn't understand capitalism.
CAPITALISM CHANGED ALL RULES OF THE GAME, by (a) ensuring that even a common peasant's son could achieve high level of education and training, and (b) releasing the creative potential of billions of commoners.
As a result, food became abundant and extremely cheap - and science could tap resources for research and production.
Sadly, almost all PH textbooks are smitten by Malthus. One of my tasks in the PH textbook is to demolish not only Marx (e.g. Virchow) but Malthus.
They want to slap this fucking metallic abortion in the middle of Victoria Tower Gardens. Is it controversial to suggest we tell them to FUCK OFF?
Das jüngste Werk von Olga Neuwirth und Elfriede Jelinek ist ein schriller, bitterböser Spass mit doppeltem Boden. Allerdings hält «Monster’s Paradise» das virtuose Spiel mit Andeutungen nicht bis zum Schluss in der Schwebe. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/eine-satire-ueber-donald-trump-monsters-paradise-am-opernhaus-zuerich-ld.1928111?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031169ae0d81e077e55d2a047baa
Aus noch unklarer Ursache geriet am Dienstag ein Postauto-Bus in Kerzers im Kanton Freiburg in Brand. Die Kantonspolizei bestätigt mindestens sechs Tote und fünf Verletzte. Die Ermittler gehen von Vorsatz aus. https://www.nzz.ch/panorama/postauto-geht-in-flammen-auf-polizei-in-kerzers-spricht-von-mehreren-toten-ld.1928716?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031169ae0d81e077e55d2a047ba9
Here is yet another example of data which wasn't being shared
@Jikkyleaks
@carl_jurassic
@canceledmouse
In this case it was the v-safe free text information
The CDC kept publishing AS LITTLE v-safe data as possible, until they were forced by FOIA requests to publish the rest
As a result independent analysts were only able to get the full dataset by around April 2025
https://vaccinedatascience.substack.com/p/henry-ford-study-vs-cdc-v-safe-lancet
Die Neugierde des amerikanischen Singer-Songwriters scheint grenzenlos. Deshalb spielt er oft mit neuen Musikern zusammen. «We Are Together Again» hat er hingegen mit alten Freunden eingespielt. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/bonnie-prince-billy-neues-album-we-are-together-again-ld.1927855?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026031169ae0d81e077e55d2a047ba8
Breaking our iftaar fast with mayor Mamdani at city hall
1. A truly stunning example of what is called an "ad hoc hypothesis", i.e. a secondary hypothesis added to a theory specifically to save it from being falsified when evidence for its original version is missing or contradictory.
(in this case, the long lost intermediate host)
Finished Author's Manuscript 😎
395 pages
90,765 words
133 analyses/figures
373 footnote recitations