🎵Die Gedanken sind frei.
I'm okay with being kind of a badass.
In contrast to his tech peers like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI leader Sam Altman, who have warned about the technology’s potential risks, Bezos recently revealed that he sees a not-so-distant world in which AI-driven productivity makes it easier for people to support themselves, in turn requiring fewer working hours.
“Some people will decide, ‘I can support my family working three days a week.’ That’s what productivity in the economy means,” Bezos told Fox News this week.
Source: fortune.com
In gut zwei Dritteln der deutschen Kreise und kreisfreien Städte dürfte die Einwohnerzahl in den kommenden beiden Jahrzehnten zurückgehen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt die Studie "Demografische Lage der Nation" des Berlin-Instituts für Bevölkerung und Entwicklung und der Wüstenrot-Stiftung. Demnach könnte die Bevölkerung bundesweit bis 2045 auf rund 81,8 Millionen Menschen sinken. 2026 leben nach Angaben des Statistischen Bundesamtes rund 83,3 Millionen Menschen in Deutschland.
Source: www.tagesschau.de
“We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantès’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.”
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. And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth. Increase and multiply... This is not a precept, as some Protestant controvertists would have it, but a blessing, rendering them fruitful; for God had said the same words to the fishes, and birds, (ver. 22) who were incapable of receiving a precept.
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"It turns out the old-guard space executives who decided not to spend billions on reusable R&D weren’t all dinosaurs. Some of them may simply have understood the demand curve correctly. That’s not to say there’s no demand. Yes, there are some customers for launch, and they’re now scrambling for access to orbit. But there just aren’t enough of them to matter to a company valued in the trillions.
Which suggests that the real genius of SpaceX had nothing to do with aerodynamics or rocket telemetry but narrative rotation, as each new iteration of the company’s goals was financed by believers in the last."
Source: www.ft.com
As America turns its government into a violent mafia and terrorizes and discombobulates its trading partners, Europeans are rapidly increasing their internal trade within their continent, and with their partners across the world. Agriculture, energy, consumer goods, defense. The EU cannot go it alone. But the EU is definitely not alone. Europe is not alone. It is now the USA, not Britain, that is the real island.
Wer große private Immobilienunternehmen in öffentliches Eigentum überführen will, greift nicht nur tief in bestehende Eigentumsverhältnisse ein. Durch die Vergesellschaftung entsteht auch kein einziger neuer Quadratmeter im Wohnungsbestand. Auf den Berliner Haushalt kommen zudem Entschädigungen in Milliardenhöhe für die Wohnungsbauunternehmen hinzu. Geld, das nicht vorhanden ist.
Source: www.handelsblatt.com
Auch Chinas größter Autobauer BYD will seine Europa-Expansion durch ein eigenes Werk in Ungarn beschleunigen. Ende des Jahres soll die Produktion starten...
Noch allerdings funktioniert das Ökosystem im Osten nicht. CATL aus China, der weltgrößte Hersteller von Batterien für Elektroautos, hat 7,5 Milliarden Euro in eine Gigafabrik für Batteriezellen in Debrecen gesteckt. Der Hochlauf war längst geplant, doch es hapert wegen Umweltauflagen.
Source: www.handelsblatt.com
I suppose Dario does not understand how un-American it is to gatekeep weapons-grade LLMs. cough Second Amendment… cough
Source: pop.rdi.sh
That it writes Python is not interesting; the type of Python is interesting, and I collected some outputs for you to gloss over.
Python string splicing to edit C code
Socket codegolf
Python for agent notes patching
Using Python to run Node.js
Python to run Node.js to run PowerShell
Source: lucumr.pocoo.org
Am 25. August hat die Bafin die Zahlen einer repräsentativen Erhebung vorgestellt. Dafür wurden im April dieses Jahres 1.000 Erwachsene befragt.
13 % der Befragten gaben an, Kryptowährungen zu besitzen. Auf die Bevölkerung hochgerechnet würde dies bedeuten, dass es in Deutschland mehr als 9 Millionen Halter von Bitcoin und Co. gibt. Das deckt sich im Großen und Ganzen mit den Ergebnissen einer kürzlich veröffentlichten YouGov-Umfrage im Auftrag von BearingPoint.
Source: www.blocktrainer.de
Der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR) hat entschieden: Ein Mann, der in seinem Herkunftsland mit mehreren Frauen verheiratet ist, kann nicht von der Familienzusammenführung profitieren, um Kinder aus polygamen Ehen nach Europa zu holen. Die entsprechende Klage eines in den Niederlanden lebenden Jemeniten wurde am Dienstag abgewiesen.
Wenn ein europäischer Staat „eine Einwanderungspolitik festlegt, die familiäre Bindungen berücksichtigt“, könne er „nicht verpflichtet werden, polygame Ehen anzuerkennen, die mit seinem eigenen Rechtssystem in Konflikt stehen“, urteilten die Richter in Straßburg.
Source: www.welt.de
The Governing Council decided to raise the three key ECB interest rates by 25 basis points. Accordingly, the interest rates on the deposit facility, the main refinancing operations and the marginal lending facility will be increased to 2.50%, 2.65% and 2.90% respectively, with effect from 16 September 2026.
Source: www.ecb.europa.eu
The vulnerabilities will continue until everybody fixes their shit.
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"The excuse of the moment is AI. In April 2026, roughly a quarter of announced U.S. job cuts were blamed on it. The top stated reason two months running. But even the people building AI aren’t buying it. OpenAI’s Sam Altman has called it out as “AI washing.” They were cuts companies planned anyway. MIT’s Paul Osterman was blunter: AI is “a perfect excuse to justify big layoffs.”
The receipts back him up. In one Forrester survey, 55% of leaders who cut jobs for AI admitted it was a mistake. And AI is just the newest costume: a 2024 survey found eight in ten leaders had used “layoffs” to cut someone they wanted gone, and 54% did it to dodge paying severance. Workers can feel when they’re being lied to. They just can’t always prove it."
Source: fortune.com
Hauptkritikpunkt der Wissenschaftler ist, dass E-Autos im Gegensatz zur Annahme in der EU‑Klimaverordnung 2019/631 nicht CO2‑frei und damit auch nicht klimaneutral seien. In einer Zusammenfassung der TUM-Studie, über die „Bild am Sonntag“ berichtet, heißt es: Die „systematische Auswertung von 19 Studien und 47 Szenarien“ zeige, dass batterieelektrische Fahrzeuge im Vergleich zum Verbrenner die CO2‑Belastung in aller Regel zwar reduzierten, aber im Durchschnitt nur um 41 Prozent. Das ist weit entfernt von der Klimaneutralität, die die EU der Elektromobilität zuspricht.
Source: www.focus.de
The number of billionaires in the world hit an all-time high of 3,795 individuals in 2025, according to new data from wealth-intelligence firm Altrata.
Their collective fortune soared by 12.8% to a record $15.1 trillion, nearly a quarter of the collective market capitalization of the S&P 500. We even have 29 “superbillionaires” boasting fortunes over $50 billion. And largely, they have AI to thank; the report found that AI investments were the primary driver of billionaire wealth generation.
Source: fortune.com
Dogfooding
As one very early document on Cursor’s culture noted, “Cursor probably ranks the highest in the world in terms of the average number of hours using the company’s main product per employee per week. The only real contender might be Apple with their Macs and iPhones.” Everyone at Cursor is using Cursor all the time.
As a result, the roadmap is surprisingly bottoms-up. A perfectly good reason to work on something (arguably the best reason) is you personally want a feature to exist.
A perfectly good reason to work on something (arguably the best reason) is you personally want a feature to exist.
Source: colossus.com
Same question. Same answer. No shared methodology.
Capgemini, IBM, Bain, Accenture, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and McKinsey each ran their own AI ROI analysis across their client bases — thousands of companies, multiple continents, competing for the same work. Every one came back with the same gap.
Same gap. Same story.
The number that keeps repeating: most AI spend still cannot show a defendable return.
Not "might not." Cannot.
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Und plötzlich regt sich ein Gedanke, eine Idee, ein gewagter Einfall: es vielleicht doch mal zu versuchen, mit dem netten, stabilen, verlässlichen Mann, der ein festes Einkommen, ein Haus und einen Oxford-Abschluss vorzuweisen hat. Zwar lässt er keine Schmetterlinge im Bauch fliegen, aber er bringt Struktur in den chaotischen Alltag und die Mutter dazu, zum ersten Mal ein Foto der Tochter im Haus aufzustellen.
Hannah, die Protagonistin in Jo Cheethams Roman „Love and Rent“, ist 35 Jahre alt, als sie beschließt, Oscar eine Chance zu geben. Nicht, weil sie einen Ring will oder Kinder, sondern weil sie eine Unterkunft braucht. Bei Oscar kann sie mietfrei leben, dafür kocht sie ihm proteinreiche Diätspeisen, bügelt seine Hemden und räumt seine Klamotten in den Schrank. Hannah und Oscar, das ist keine Hollywood-Romanze, nicht die große romantische Liebe, vielleicht ist es nicht einmal irgendeine Liebe, aber es ist ein Konzept, das funktioniert. Das Sinn ergibt. An dem ja irgendetwas dran sein muss, wenn sich so viele Menschen immer wieder dafür entscheiden: Partnerschaft als ökonomisches Arrangement.
Source: www.welt.de
Jedenfalls ist es eine absurde Prioritätensetzung, gegenüber demokratischen Konservativen demonstrative Härte zu zeigen, während man beim islamischen Extremismus auffallend zurückhaltend bleibt. Konfrontation dort, wo sie gesellschaftlich weitgehend risikolos ist, und Vorsicht dort, wo die Gegnerschaft zu sexueller Selbstbestimmung besonders fundamental ausfällt. Diese selektive Empörung ist schwer erträglich.
Source: www.welt.de
Joint Statement from the Leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada and Norway on the E1 West Bank Settlement Plan
The Israeli Government’s decision to publish construction tenders for the E1 settlement project is unacceptable. The international community has long opposed this settlement expansion, and has voiced their grave concerns privately and publicly. The E1 settlement will undermine the prospect of the two-state solution by driving a wedge through the West Bank and harming the territorial contiguity of the Palestinian Territories.
International Law is clear that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal. This is the position of the international community reaffirmed by the United Nations Security Council.
At a time of grave instability in the West Bank with unprecedented levels of violence by settlers against civilians, and serious restrictions on the Palestinian economy, this decision is even more concerning.
We urge the Government of Israel to retract these plans immediately and end its expansion of settlements in the West Bank. Not only will they take us further from peace, but they further undermine Israel’s international standing.
Businesses should not consider bidding for construction tenders. They should be aware of legal and reputational consequences including the risk of involving themselves in serious breaches of international law.
We reiterate our commitment to a comprehensive, just and lasting peace based on the two-state solution. We will continue to act in its interest.
Source: www.bundesregierung.de
Luckily there are other forces at work. Entropy means that things decay to a point that they die and all that is left is the things that didn't. When I was a kid, I marveled that Europe built buildings that last, but quickly realized that it has simply been around longer and is full of the buildings that did last. Everything that didn't is built over.
„Der Silver Tsunami ist kein flächendeckendes Phänomen“, sagt Frank Schröter, Geschäftsführer der BSK Immobilien, der Maklertochter der Berliner Sparkasse. „Er ist regional.“ In Großstädten wie Berlin würde eine in den kommenden Jahren anstehende Verkaufswelle älterer Eigentümer kaum Auswirkungen auf die Marktwerte haben. „Zuzug, begrenzte Flächen und eine anhaltend hohe Nachfrage sorgen dafür, dass zusätzlicher Bestand nicht automatisch zu sinkenden Preisen führt“, sagt Schröter. „Im Gegenteil: In vielen Lagen wird das strukturelle Angebotsdefizit bestehen bleiben.“ Hingegen könne ein deutlicher Anstieg des Angebots in ländlichen Räumen „tatsächlich zu spürbaren Preisbewegungen führen“, sagt der Geschäftsführer. „Dort trifft steigendes Angebot auf eine begrenzte Nachfrage.“
Source: www.welt.de
This provocation appears to have been designed by the Moroccan regime to embarrass Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in response to his efforts to warm relations with Morocco’s longtime geopolitical rival Algeria, a key supplier of natural gas made scarce as a result of the Ukraine and Iran wars and whose president he met with the previous week. The Moroccans orchestrated a similar cross-border influx in 2021 in retaliation for Spain’s allowing Western Sahara President Brahim Ghali, whose nation Morocco claims for itself, into the country for medical treatment.
Perhaps not coincidentally, this comes at a time when the American and Israeli governments have been furious at Spain’s Socialist government over its support for Palestinian rights and opposition to the Iran War.
Trump has labeled Spain as “hopeless,” with “bad people,” in response to Sanchez’s not increasing the country’s military budget as much as he demanded and, in particular, Madrid’s refusal to allow US military bases on Spanish territory to be used in the war on Iran or to allow overflight by US military aircraft. Last month, Trump directed the secretary of the treasury to cut trade ties with Spain, despite that being impossible due to Spain’s membership in the EU, and he was looking for other ways of punishing Madrid.
Source: www.thenation.com
Die Höhe der Arbeitseinkommen hängt vor allem von Ausbildung und Berufserfahrung ab. Das monatliche Medianentgelt von Beschäftigten ohne Berufsabschluss lag 2025 bei 3133 Euro, mit abgeschlossener Berufsausbildung bei 4069 Euro, und mit Hochschulabschluss waren es 6146 Euro...
Die begrenzte Aussagefähigkeit dieser Zahlen zeigt sich auf den zweiten Blick: Der Median teilt die Beschäftigten in zwei Hälften, ist aber kein valider Indikator für steigenden Wohlstand der Beschäftigten oder gar der Volkswirtschaft. Denn wenn etwa viele Mindestlohnempfänger ihren Arbeitsplatz verlieren würden, stiege das Mediangehalt – ohne dass auch nur ein Beschäftigter mehr verdiente. Umgekehrt würde ein deutlicher Abbau gut bezahlter Arbeitsplätze den Medianlohn senken; die unteren Lohngruppen wanderten dann in der Einkommenspyramide nach oben, ohne dass sich ihre Arbeitseinkommen verändert hätten.
Hinzu kommt die Teuerung. So lag der Reallohnindex für 2025 kaum höher als für 2018. Lebenshaltungskosten und Medianentgelte legten nahezu im Gleichschritt zu. Während Geringverdiener moderate reale Zuwächse erzielten, wurden Durchschnitts- und Gutverdiener real ärmer.
Source: www.handelsblatt.com
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Source: www.biblegateway.com
Online, Millennials are declaring open revolt against their aging Boomer parents. In actual households across America, they're already doing the caregiving anyway—unpaid, exhausted, and often broke.
A three-year-old Reddit thread from r/BoomersBeingFools went viral again this month, with millions relating to a poster who wrote: "Not an issue, we refuse to take care of you. Old folks home it will be." The post was originally written in response to a Vox article warning Millennials were unprepared for a coming elder-care crisis, and its resurgence this July coincided with the symbolic milestone of the first Boomers turning 80.
Source: finance.yahoo.com
In order to precisely understand the confidentiality guarantees that MLS enjoys, we must explain the two notions of post-compromise security and forward secrecy.
To read this blog post, your web browser used the TLS protocol to establish a secure connection with my web server, which probably took less than a second. Group messaging is a different beast: the protocol runs for a long period, sometimes several years. Secure group messaging protocols must therefore account for the possibility that one of the devices is stolen or compromised during the lifetime of the conversation.
Forward Secrecy (FS) and Post-Compromise Security (PCS) refine the confidentiality property: they state what happens to confidentiality when a device is compromised by an attacker.
Forward secrecy means that even if private keys become known to an attacker, they still can’t decrypt messages that were sent in the past. In other words, confidentiality of messages you send now are not affected by future leak of private keys.
Post-compromise security is the “reverse” of forward secrecy : even if private keys become known to an attacker, they still can’t decrypt messages that will be sent in the future, after some period of healing (where those private keys will be replaced by new ones). In other words, confidentiality of messages you send now are not affected by previous leak of key material.
Source: www.twal.org
Und jetzt geschieht das, was in der Geschichte der Standards immer geschieht, wenn die Gatekeeper zu gierig werden: Das offene Format kehrt zurück. Bitcoin war der Anfang — Geld als Protokoll, das keine Zentralbank braucht. Nostr ist die Fortsetzung: soziale Medien als Protokoll, das keinen Konzern braucht. Deine Identität ist ein Schlüsselpaar. Deine Inhalte liegen auf Relays, die jeder betreiben kann. Kein Kundendienst kann dich löschen, weil es keinen Kundendienst gibt. Es gibt nur Mathematik, und Mathematik kennt keine Compliance-Abteilung.
„Software is eating the world”, schrieb Marc Andreessen 2011. Das war richtig — und unvollständig. Der zweite Akt lautet: Protokolle fressen Plattformen. Langsam, von unten, so wie die E-Mail einst die geschlossenen Mailbox-Systeme gefressen hat. Nicht durch einen großen Knall, sondern durch stille Abwanderung der Werthaltigen.
Source: die-deutsche-wirtschaft.de
Um mithalten zu können, setzt Mercedes verstärkt auf Ungarn. Kommendes Jahr will der Konzern 30 Prozent seiner Fahrzeuge in Niedriglohnländern produzieren, doppelt so viele wie 2024. Die 70 Prozent Ersparnis erklärt Mercedes mit niedrigeren Ausgaben für Arbeit und Energie. 49,50 Euro kostet eine Arbeitsstunde in der Industrie in Deutschland, zeigen Zahlen der Statistikbehörde Eurostat. In Ungarn sind es 15,60 Euro.
Source: hbapp.handelsblatt.com
Dem Vernehmen nach plante der OpenAI-Chef, ein Rechenzentrum mit einer Kapazität von bis zu einem Gigawatt zu bauen. Zum Vergleich: Nach Angaben des IT-Branchenverbands Bitkom haben die bestehenden KI-Rechenzentren in Deutschland eine Leistung von kaum mehr als 0,5 Gigawatt...
Altman, so berichten es mehrere Insider, wollte einen Standort nahe der französischen Grenze wählen, um Atomstrom aus Frankreich importieren zu können.
Source: nachrichten.handelsblatt.com
A coworker recently showed me the Dockerfile for an AI agent system he was working on. The Docker image was taking over five minutes to build and two minutes to start. At a glance, I saw the container was installing Java, Python, and Node.js, all three. That’s two managed runtimes and one interpreter (or two interpreters and one managed runtime, depending on how you count them).
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Jetzt ist die Katze aus dem Sack: In der Kabinettsvorlage für den Bundeshaushalt 2027, die mehreren Medien vorab vorlag, findet sich ein folgenreicher Passus, der Millionen Anleger in Deutschland betrifft. Demnach plant die Bundesregierung, „die Besteuerung von Kryptowerten wie Bitcoin im Privatvermögen mit konkreten und modernen Vorschriften (zu) reformieren.“ Sie sollen offenbar künftig ebenso wie Aktien besteuert werden, also der Abgeltungsteuer von 25 Prozent plus Solidaritätszuschlag unterliegen.
Source: www.welt.de
In 2025, global personal wealth rose by 10.8% in USD terms, significantly outpacing growth seen in 2024 (4.6%) and 2023 (4.2%). Wealth growth was strongest in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), at 17.5%, followed by the Americas at 8.5%. Asia‑Pacific (APAC) recorded growth of 5.9%, an acceleration from 2024. These regional differences partly reflect currency movements – most notably the depreciation of the US dollar – which amplified wealth increases outside the United States.
Source: www.ubs.com
The new CDC report shows that death rates decreased for all age groups in 2025, compared with 2024. But the smallest decline — less than half of the overall decline — was among people ages 45 to 54.
“Children are less likely to survive to adulthood, and young adults are less likely to reach middle age than they were in the past,” Woolf said.
Declines in overdose deaths are probably having an impact, but deaths from firearms, suicide, alcohol-related disease, diabetes and heart disease are all still challenges for these age groups, he said.
Source: www.cnn.com
In 2024, life expectancy at birth in the EU was 81.5 years, indicating a 0.1-year increase from 2023. Life expectancy decreased in 2020 (80.4 years) and 2021 (80.1 years) due to the COVID-19 pandemic but has since then recovered and reached values higher than in 2019 (81.3 years).
Source: www.dkfz.de
USD1, the stablecoin issued by the Trump family's crypto venture World Liberty Financial, has gone from locking retail depositors out of a DeFi lending pool to being used to pay fighters on the White House lawn.
Source: www.coindesk.com
In 2025, US workers took their smallest share of gross domestic product on record since 1947, falling to 53.8% of GDP in the third quarter...
Zucman, an economist at the University of California, Berkley, said it was unclear when or if a tipping point is reached at which democracy becomes oligarchy.
“Is it when the wealth of the ultrarich exceeds 50% of GDP, as in the US today? 100%? 200%? When they own not 80% of privately held media, but 100%?” he said. “Nobody knows the exact concentration of wealth at which the kinds of plutocratic collapse we have seen in history becomes inevitable.
Source: www.theguardian.com
Für die aktuelle Analyse werteten die Experten mehr als 28.000 Darmkrebsfälle bei Menschen im Alter von 20 bis 49 Jahren aus. Dabei fanden sie, dass die Darmkrebsinzidenz bei 20- bis 29-Jährigen sowie bei 30- bis 39-Jährigen zunahm. Besonders ausgeprägt war der Anstieg in der jüngsten Altersgruppe. Bei den 40- bis 49-Jährigen blieb die Erkrankungshäufigkeit dagegen insgesamt weitgehend stabil.
„Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass der Anstieg von Darmkrebs bei jungen Erwachsenen in Deutschland real ist, aber zumindest bislang deutlich moderater ausfällt als in den USA“, sagt Volker Arndt vom Deutschen Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) und dem Epidemiologischen Krebsregister Baden-Württemberg, einer der beiden Seniorautoren der Arbeit.
Source: www.dkfz.de
Für den neuen Wehrdienst, bei dem sich Interessenten für bis zu zwei Jahre verpflichten können, gebe es aktuell rund 10.000 Einplanungen für 2026.
Bereits im ersten Quartal des Jahres hatte die Bundeswehr ein Bewerberplus verzeichnet. Im März verkündete das Verteidigungsministerium ein Plus von 20 Prozent an Bewerbungen im Vergleich zum Vorjahreszeitraum. Mit der Steigerung auf nun 24 Prozent wächst das Interesse also weiter.
Source: www.welt.de
Sollte Minsk die Relaisstationen tatsächlich auf ukrainischen Druck hin abgeschaltet haben, wäre das ein bemerkenswerter Vorgang. Er würde zeigen, dass Belarus trotz seiner engen Bindung an Moskau eigene Risiken abwägt – insbesondere die Gefahr, selbst zum Ziel ukrainischer Angriffe zu werden.
Source: m.bild.de
The European Central Bank secured key parliamentary backing on Tuesday for the launch of a digital euro, an electronic means of payments aimed at making the euro zone less reliant on U.S. credit cards at a time of fraying transatlantic relationships.
The digital euro, essentially an electronic wallet guaranteed by the central bank but marketed by banks or fintech companies, will allow all euro zone residents to make payments online and in person...
But he added the digital euro may prove "obsolete" by the time it launches given competing initiatives by the private sector. These include instant payment service Wero, backed by a consortium of major European banks.
Source: www.reuters.com
Der zwielichtige Markt für den Handel mit Kryptowährungen wird im Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum (EWR) zum 1. Juli teilweise bereinigt. Laut Branchenbeobachtern gibt es derzeit mehr als 1.200 Anbieter, doch nur gut 200 haben eine Lizenz erworben. Prominentester Abgang ist Binance, das als weltweit größte Kryptowährungsbörse gilt...
Seit Ende 2024 gibt es EWR-weit gültige Lizenzen nach der EU-Verordnung 2023/1114 über Märkte für Kryptowerte (bekannt als MiCA, für Markets in Crypto-Assets). Anbieter müssen nur in einem Land eine Lizenz erwerben, die dann im gesamten EWR gilt.
Source: heise.de
Wer im eigenen Haus eine Photovoltaikanlage nutzt, der kann den Stromverbrauch einer Klimaanlage tagsüber relativ gelassen betrachten: Gekühlt wird, wenn die Sonne scheint, es fallen lediglich die Opportunitätskosten für entgangene Einspeisevergütung an.
Source: www.welt.de
Der KI-Bot unterrichtet kostenlos, der autonome Pflückroboter verlangt keinen Lohn
Das gab es schon mal. In den Sklavenhalter-Gesellschaften der Antike. Und trotzdem war im römischen Reich das Geld notorisch knapp.
Source: www.welt.de
Six years ago, Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now was a runaway bestseller. Though stuffed with references to figures like David Hume and Immanuel Kant, it was sold in airport bookstores along with the latest offerings from Bob Woodward and Stephen King. In a chapter on inequality, the Harvard psychologist described “the second decade of the 21st century” as a time when “economic inequality has become an obsession.” He cited Pope Francis, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump, all of whom seemed to assume in one way or another that rising inequality was a problem. Pinker was puzzled by this “obsession.” Perhaps, he speculated, these critics were mixing up inequality with some distinct concept like poverty.
If the rules of meritocratic competition are reasonably fair, and no one at the bottom is starving, wrote Pinker, what reason could there be but “spiteful envy” for caring if the gap between the top and the bottom is two to one or three to one or a million to one? Why should anyone mind if some people live in mansions, attended by small armies of servants, while others worry about how to pay the rent for their cramped apartments? So long as the best and brightest people who grow up in those apartments can make it to Harvard, and none of them ends up living under bridges, all is well with the world.
Commenting on this in his new book, The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx, David Lay Williams notes that it is “perhaps unsurprising” that “Bill Gates, one of the wealthiest men in the world,” championed Enlightenment Now as his “new favorite book of all time.” While future editions of The Greatest of All Plagues are unlikely to come with glowing quotes from the likes of Gates, Elon Musk, or Jeff Bezos, Williams’s book has several virtues. The first and most obvious is that it puts to rest the idea that concern about economic inequality is a peculiar obsession of our own century. As with Enlightenment Now, its subject matter falls within the standard Western canon of “great books.” There are chapters devoted to Plato, the New Testament, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx. There are also substantial guest appearances by everyone from Plutarch and Thucydides to Aristotle to Alexis de Tocqueville to John Rawls. The reasons these figures worried about inequality sometimes overlapped and sometimes diverged—but they all saw it as a serious problem. Inequality, they all understood, isn’t the envious complaint of petty people. It is, indeed, a plague.
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She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave thee and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where thou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
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It’s no wonder that when Socrates reflected on inequality in Plato’s “Republic,” he observed that a state characterized by significant wealth disparity is not a state at all but rather “two states, the one of poor, the other of rich men, and they are living on the same spot and always conspiring against one another.”
For Plato, the source of inequality was a disease of the soul that the Greeks called pleonexia — a kind of insatiable greed. In Plato’s “Gorgias,” Socrates likened this condition to a leaky jug: No matter how much water one pours into it, it will demand more. For some, the desire for money extends only so far as is necessary to cover their needs; for others, the desire is infinite. Plato likened those insatiable souls to slaves who are ruled by their desires.
Someone consumed with his unquenchable desires comes to love himself far beyond what he can feel for the rest of humanity. He was, for Plato, “a poor judge of what is just and good and noble,” because he would always treat his desires as more valuable even than the truth. As a consequence, Plato wrote, “it is impossible that those who become very rich also become good.”
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