Btw Uber: I might be a decade too late as always but this is actually an excellent little game to procrastinate into the new week:
https://ig.ft.com/uber-game/

TIL that Tex-Mex has surpassed Italian as the most popular food genre in the United States [source, comments]

An interesting insight into the rationale of so-called decision-makers.


Companies are the number one reason why climate change is politicised nowadays. Idiots:
"There’s another reason for the so-called “greenhushing” by companies. “Company leaders may hesitate to put themselves out there because the issue of sustainability has been so politicised,” Patrick Odier, former senior partner at Swiss private bank Lombard Odier and current Chairman of Building Bridges and Swiss Sustainable Finance told SWI on the sidelines of WEF."

"Meta’s AI research director Yann LeCun also tried to moderate some of the hype around AI telling an audience at the AI House that “we are nowhere near human intelligence” and that he’ll be happy to see “something as intelligent as a cat” by the end of his career."

"Even in the context of AI, there was little talk about the use of drones or autonomous weapons and how this will change how wars are fought. One of the most terrifying warnings came from, Stuart Russell, an expert on autonomous weapon. He told an audience at the AI House, that with the help of AI a lethal weapon could be produced for under $20, “making it possible for anyone to have access to a weapon of mass destruction”.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/the-numbers-that-shaped-debate-at-wef-2024/49141492

Dass die rechten Remigrationsfantasien durchaus ernst zu nehmen sind, meint wie viele andere auch Bernd Schimmler. Der ehemalige Berliner Abgeordnete und Bezirksstadtrat war in den achtziger Jahren als Staatsanwalt zuständig für die Verfolgung von Verbrechen des Nationalsozialismus und hat sich auch wissenschaftlich mit dem NS-Regime befasst. In einer Mail an uns, in der er u.a. das Buch des völkischen AfD-Europa-Spitzenkandidaten Maximilian Krah analysiert, schreibt er:

„Wie das gehen könnte, zeigt die Geschichte. Nachdem Hitler und der Nationalsozialismus mit rechtskonservativer Unterstützung an die Macht kamen, wurden mit dem Gesetz über den Widerruf von Einbürgerungen und die Aberkennung der deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit vom 14. Juli 1933 Einbürgerungen seit 1919 zurückgenommen. Alles wurde gesetzlich abgesichert. Wer die deutsche Geschichte kennt, kann sich vorstellen, dass mancher rechtsgerichtete Politiker, wenn sich einmal solche Mehrheiten bilden sollten, auch den Arm zur Zustimmung hebt.“ Seine Mail schließt Schimmler mit einem Zitat von Emanuel Geibel: „Die Zeit zum Handeln zu verpassen, nennt ihr die Dinge sich entwickeln lassen.“

Song of the day ✊🏽👊🏼: https://open.spotify.com/track/7ao9MKmhkjeFxw0alndkdM

TIL that winning important international football games reduces civil conflict in Africa. When national teams win high-stakes matches, people are less likely to identify with their ethnic group over the nation. Teams qualifying for AFCON experience significantly less conflict in the following months [source, comments]

patriarchal bullshitpoker 1900-2018 💩

2022 - sum of worldwide military expenditure: 2 240 000 000 000 (!!) dollars (source). Theoretically, with this astronomical sum, all weapons worldwide could be scrapped and destroyed and all people working in the war industry could be paid for the rest of their lives.

#fckcapitalism

@against_militarism_and_all_wars

Since 2016 the Yenish are officialy recognised as a legal minority in Switzerland. It was a long and horrible way. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-traveller-groups-want-official-acknowledgement-of--cultural-genocide-/49148054