Huh you can just do that???? Financial Times: "China has launched a global hunt for hundreds of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes going back decades as Beijing seeks to fill a deepening fiscal hole by targeting the ultra rich." www.ft.com/content/e179...
China launches global tax hunt going back decades
Fiscal pressure sparks retroactive campaign and tougher controls on future offshore capital flows
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New chord change day for the 639-year-long performance of John Cage’s “As Slow As Possible.” The last time the notes changed was over 900 days ago. The performance will end in 2640. www.classicfm.com/composers/ca...
A 639-year-long John Cage organ piece just changed chord, for the first time in two years
Watch a moment of music history – on Monday a single chord changed in an iconic piece of 20th-century music which ends in the year 2640.
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What in the Gil Scott-Heron is even happening anymore man?
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 9h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Apropos BASF: die haben gerade in China einen riesigen neuen Produktionsstandort in Betrieb genommen, der 100% mit Ökostrom (Windenenergie hauptsächlich) betrieben wird. Weil das eine Vorgabe der staatlichen Aufsichtsbehörden da ist, die aber auch dafür sorgen, dass Ökostrom da ist.
Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌@parentsforfuture.de · last mo.Chemie-Lobby, voran BASF, bekämpft Europäischen Emissionshandel Währenddessen #Klimakrise, #Extremhitze, Pegel sinken. #Rheinpegel Köln, wahrscheinlichkeitsbasierte 14-Tage-Vorhersage: vorhersage.bafg.de/14-Tage-Vorh... Demnächst: jammern, dass Rohstoffe & Waren nicht mehr über den Rhein kommen…😬
Die vor dem Ringlicht sitzen, von leeren Nachrichten Modernder Menschen umringt und alten Ozempic-Spritzen. Aber du scrolle vorbei, und verkleibe die Ohren der Freunde Mit dem geschmolzenen Wachse der Honigscheiben.
Here we have a pup enjoying the fruits of his labor after a hard day's work. 13/10 good for him
automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot
I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.
Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · yesterdayTurns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.
Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · yesterday❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”
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Hitze und Dürre - Europas Landwirte rechnen mit erheblichen Ernteeinbußen
Landwirte in ganz Europa haben angesichts der aktuellen Witterungsbedingungen vor einem Einbruch der Lebensmittelproduktion und steigenden Preisen gewarnt. Extreme Hitze, Dürre und Waldbrände fügten a...
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Jokes on Microsoft, I never trusted auto-save and still compulsively his ctrl + s.
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
Even if involved in narcotrafficking, this would be illegal. Due process.
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
Die Zerstörung der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BpB) schreitet voran www.rnd.de/politik/poli...
Fokus auf Linksextremismus: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung plant Kurswechsel
Der bisherige Präsident der Einrichtung, Sönke Rix, schied in der vorigen Woche auf eigenen Wunsch nach nur fünf Monaten aus. Die BpB will sich nun stärker auf ihren „Kernauftrag“ konzentrieren. Die B...
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Smooth and easy migration to European infrastructure — same identity, new home. #EuroSky #DigitalSovereignty #ATProtocol @eurosky.social @sebastian.eurosky.social
first order of business: alienate your base🫡
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Story here from late 2025 about Mozambique youth protests that, despite imprisonments and beatings, won some concessions from the govt and developed a grassroots infrastructure wagingnonviolence.org/2025/09/moza...
Meet the youth-led pro-democracy movement making gains in Mozambique
Mozambique’s autocratic regime is slowly relenting in response to steady community organizing for accountability after fraudulent elections.
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💎 deep cut from 2025
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11mo ago"3 characteristics of global risks: delocalization, uncalculability, & non- compensatability." -Ulrich Beck 2008:'World at risk: the new task of critical theory' share.google/ZCF1PERC7uPT... TY @anndlandes.bsky.social ! We too thought of Beck. Insurance -how do they get price right and risk right?
Ein sehr ausführlicher Artikel über das Desaster in Sachen Energieversorgung & Binnenschifffahrt in Südosteuropa aufgrund der großen Dürre. Am Ende der Technologieoffenheit steht halt die geschlossene Autofabrik. www.t-online.de/finanzen/ene...
Krisenstäbe aktiviert: Dürre zwingt Stromversorgung in Europa in die Knie
In Ungarn muss das Atomkraftwerk Paks, das 40 Prozent des landesweit produzierten Stroms erzeugt, abgeschaltet werden. Auch in anderen osteuropäischen Ländern wird die Lage kritisch.
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so I told the CEO it sounds like he’s just feeding tokens to Steve Yegge and then his accountant started crying
Ed@ed3d.net · 2d agoFrom Yegge's most recent extrusion: > On the side I do occasional six-figure gigs where I fly to companies and teach them my techniques, and that helps with my (considerable) token bills. Hey! I will come teach your teams actual ball, things they can actually use, for *substantially* less!
Abseits davon: Hätte man für das Geld nicht auch Leute anstellen können, die vor Ort sind? Oder mehr aufsuchende Sozialarbeit? Bin da ja tatsächlich öfters & eine Kamera hilft mir im Zweifel auch nicht. Steckt das Geld doch lieber in psychosoziale Hilfe, Suchthilfe-Einrichtungen, Housing first, etc…
With the US strategic defeat by Iran, what are the long held assumptions that must be revised? "All the foundations of the unipolar world have vanished. " @policytensor sums up what we have learned since February. Hard to disagree with any of them.
This story mentions students in Bangladesh cleaning the streets and directing traffic after Sheikh Hasina fled the country thanks to their movement, 2 years ago giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Students take charge of Bangladesh megacity after ousting Sheikh Hasina
Protesters who toppled the long-ruling prime minister now control the streets of Dhaka, but challenges loom
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Genuinely don't think we're hearing nearly enough about the effective youth/GenZ protest movements in middle and lower-middle income countries in the past couple of years foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/30/c...
How Gen Z ‘Cockroaches’ Beat Modi at His Own Game
India’s prime minister is famous for his savvy use of social media. Now he’s getting a wake-up call.
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