„Meinen Informationen zufolge ist die Entscheidung dadurch motiviert, dass der Sachverständigenrat ein Defizit in den Bereichen Makroökonomie und internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen aufweist.“ Die erste inhaltliche Begründung bei gleichzeitigem Respekt. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/konjunktur/wirtschaftsweise-malmendier-ist-politisch-keinem-lager-zuzuordnen/100203018.html
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‘According to my information, the decision is motivated by the Council of Experts having a deficit in the areas of macro-economics and international economic relations.’ The first substantive justification with simultaneous respect. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/konjunktur/economics-malmendier-ist-politic-keinem-lager-zuordnen/100203018.html
Westeuropa hatte vier Jahre, die Rüstungsproduktion so anzuwerfen, dass die Ukraine wirklich entscheidend unterstützt wird.
Und Merz hatte ein Jahr, um die versprochenen Taurus zu liefern.
Es ist halt Krieg, kein Rhetorikseminar.
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RT by @sabinedoering: Western Europe had four years to raise arms production so that Ukraine is really decisively supported.
And Merz had a year to deliver the promised Taurus.
It's war, not a rhetoric seminar.
Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.
Der @SVR_Wirtschaft ist eine große Institution. Er funktioniert nur, wenn die Politik Mut zur Repräsentation unterschiedlicher Meinungen hat. Damit hat die SPD gebrochen, als sie 2021 die Wiederwahl des Vorsitzenden@Lars_Feld verhindert hat. Nun rächt sich das. Respice finden.
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RT by @sabinedoering: The @SVR economy is a large institution. It only works if politics have courage to represent different opinions. Thus, the SPD broke when it prevented the re-election of the president@Lars Field in 2021. Now that's coming. Find Respice.
Wir dürfen selbstverständlich nie „überregulieren“. Himmel, Herrschaftszeiten: Wer produziert solchen Begriffsmüll?
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We must of course never “overregulate”. Heaven, times of rule: Who produces such term waste?
Unfortunately not, on purpose
„So kamen aus dem Gremium etwa Vorschläge für Steuererhöhungen. Malmendier zeigte sich zudem offen für Eurobonds…“.
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“This is how proposals for tax increases came from the body. Malmendier was also open to Eurobonds...’.
that's why i think any renewal of europe's innovation power must be a grass roots effort, entirely disjointed from the people currently running the show.
based on emails in my inbox, there is hunger for this, from govs, NGOs, corps, and most importantly, people.
I rarely disagree with Kaja Kallas, but on this one she's completely out in the woods.
The issue is not Iran's ballistic missiles or their nuclear program, but its totalitarian-islamist government that's killing thousands of Iranians in the streets and wants to destroy the West.
One of the fascinating cultural issues in the DACH region is that once it's moving towards acceptance, rather than going with the folks who actually spend time on something, confs and newscasters are looking at the establishment which often has no clue. https://x.com/steipete/status/2025647075086533009
That’s precisely the problem. Universalism is being abandoned by both left and right in favor of identity-based frameworks. Where universalism recedes, power replaces argument—a familiar pattern of reactionary movements.
„Die Politik müsse die Betreiber der Plattformen in die Pflicht nehmen und nicht Kindern und Jugendlichen … den Raum zur Ausbildung digitaler Fähigkeiten nehmen.“ Ein Verbot könnte leider tatsächlich zur Ersatzhandlung werden, mit der man Konflikt und Bildungsauftrag umgeht.
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“The policy must take the operators of the platforms into account and not take children and adolescents ... the space to train digital skills.” Unfortunately, a ban could actually become a substitute deal with which to deal with conflict and education.
R to @sabinedoering: The real question is not whether AI will transform society.
It already does.
The ethical question is whether that transformation unfolds under democratic agency—or structural dependency. 9/9
R to @sabinedoering: “Trustworthy AI“ must be both:
✔ normatively sound
✔ technically and economically viable
Otherwise it will simply be replaced by more competitive systems elsewhere. 8/9
R to @sabinedoering: That includes:
• Education and AI literacy
• Institutional learning
• Infrastructure
• Technological competence
Not just compliance regimes. 7/9
R to @sabinedoering: This is why we need what I call “Strategic Ethics“.
Strategic ethics asks:
What capacities must we cultivate to remain self-determining under technological acceleration? 6/9
R to @sabinedoering: If democratic societies focus only on restriction, they may lose the capacity to shape AI at all.
Ethics without capability risks becoming politically ineffective. 5/9
Der Ukraine in den vier Jahren seit dem russischen Überfall langsam, zögerlich, halbherzig und übervorsichtig zu helfen, war und ist menschlich, militärisch, wirtschaftlich und finanziell schlecht. Wer Frieden will, muss sich schnell und entschlossen durchsetzen wollen.
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RT by @sabinedoering: Ukraine has been and is human, military, economic and financially poor in the four years since the Russian invasion. Anyone who wants peace must want to go through quickly and decisively.
i did one german AI conf a month ago and they all looked at me like I’m an alien or lunatic. Pass.
you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding
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RT von @sabinedoering: Sie können Ihr Denken auslagern
Aber Sie können Ihr Verständnis nicht auslagern
Also, kombiniert mit Untergewinnsteuererstattung könnte man es auch Teil-Verstaatlichung nennen. Oder höhere Gewinnsteuer mit Abzug kalkulatorischer Eigenkapitalkosten. 😬
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RT by @sabinedoering: Well, combined with under-profit tax refunds, you could also call it partial nationalization. Or higher profit tax with deduction of imputed equity costs. 😬