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jan rathjen retweeted
Okay:
- Attached bottlecap
- Schengen, expanded to Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria
- The euro joined by Croatia and Bulgaria
- Air passenger rights (older, 2004, newly updated 2025)
- Galileo satellite navigation
- EU-Canada trade deal (CETA)
- EU-Mercosur trade deal
- EU-Japan trade deal
- EU-Singapore trade deal
- EU-Vietnam trade deal
- EU-Indonesia trade deal
- End of roaming charges, extended to 2032
- Price cap on calls and texts to other EU countries
- USB-C common charger
- Geo-blocking ban for online shopping
- Streaming subscriptions that work abroad
- Payment Services Directive (PSD2), no card surcharges and open banking
- Instant payments regulation
- EU Digital Identity Wallet
- eCall automatic crash alert in new cars
- Automatic emergency braking in new cars
- EU-Alert emergency warnings on phones
- Single Digital Gateway for cross-border admin
- No more apostille stamps between member states
- WiFi4EU free public wifi
- DiscoverEU free Interrail passes for 18-year-olds
- Erasmus+ (older, 2014), budget nearly doubled
- European Universities alliances
- European Solidarity Corps
- EU Digital COVID Certificate
- Joint COVID vaccine procurement
- Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA)
- EU4Health
- Europe's Beating Cancer Plan
- European Health Data Space
- NextGenerationEU joint borrowing
- SURE short-time work loans
- 15% global minimum corporate tax
- European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 3), euro clearing back in the EU
- Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA)
- European Green Bond Standard
- Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) on defence
- European Defence Fund
- European Peace Facility arms for Ukraine
- EU military training mission for Ukrainian troops
- Act in Support of Ammunition Production (ASAP)
- Strategic Compass and the 5,000-strong rapid deployment capacity
- European Defence Industrial Strategy
- Security Action for Europe (SAFE), âŹ150bn joint defence loans
- ReArm Europe / Readiness 2030
- First ever Commissioner for Defence and Space
- Military mobility funding
- IRIS² sovereign satellite constellation
- EU Space Programme and the EU Agency for the Space Programme
- rescEU shared firefighting fleet
- 5G security toolbox
- Foreign investment screening
- Foreign Subsidies Regulation
- International Procurement Instrument
- Anti-Coercion Instrument
- Dual-use export control regulation
- Temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees
- Candidate status and accession talks for Ukraine and Moldova
- Ukraine Facility
- âŹ90bn joint-borrowing loan to Ukraine
- Sanctions on Russia (older, 2014), big packages from 2022
- Russian banks cut from SWIFT
- Russian oil embargo and oil price cap
- Russian gas import phase-out
- Western Balkans Growth Plan
- Global Gateway
- REPowerEU
- Gas storage regulation
- Joint gas buying through AggregateEU
- Coordinated gas demand cut
- Windfall levy on fossil energy profits
- Electricity market reform
- European Climate Law, net zero by 2050
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
- Emissions Trading System reform and the Social Climate Fund
- Renewable Energy Directive, 42.5% by 2030
- European Wind Power Package
- European Hydrogen Bank
- Methane regulation
- Nature Restoration Law
- Ambient air quality directive
- Drinking water directive
- Urban wastewater directive, polluter pays
- Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA)
- Conflict minerals regulation
- European Chips Act
- Net-Zero Industry Act
- Batteries Regulation with battery passport
- European Battery Alliance
- Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on batteries and hydrogen
- EuroHPC supercomputers, including JUPITER
- InvestAI and the AI gigafactories
- Horizon Europe and the European Innovation Council
- Ecodesign regulation, no destroying unsold clothes
- Right to repair
- Ban on products made with forced labour
- Ban on vague greenwashing claims
- General Product Safety Regulation
- Common Agricultural Policy (older, 1962), current version 2023 to 2027
- Unfair trading practices directive protecting farmers
- Geographical indications reform for food, wine and spirits
- EU-China agreement protecting European regional products
- Geographical indications for crafts, like Murano glass and Delft Blue
- Creative Europe (older, 2014), current programme 2021
- Culture Moves Europe grants for artists
- Music Moves Europe
- European Year of Cultural Heritage
- European Capitals of Culture (older, 1985)
- New European Bauhaus
- European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage
- Ban on importing looted cultural goods
- 30% European content on streaming platforms
- Culture Compass for Europe
- European Media Freedom Act
- Anti-SLAPP directive protecting journalists
- European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO)
- Rule of law conditionality on EU funds
- Annual Rule of Law Report
- Article 7 against Hungary
- Whistleblower protection directive
- European Labour Authority
- Work-life balance directive, paternity leave
- Adequate minimum wages directive
- Pay transparency directive
- Women on boards directive
- Violence against women directive
- European Child Guarantee
- European Accessibility Act
- European Disability Card
- Rail passenger rights (older, 2007), recast 2021
- Trans-European Transport Network (older), revised 2024
- Single Market Emergency Instrument
- EU Inc (proposed)
- Digital euro (in negotiation)
- Next EU budget at close to âŹ2 trillion (proposed)
- European Competitiveness Fund (proposed)
- AgoraEU culture and media programme (proposed)
- Savings and Investments Union (proposed)
- European supervision of big stock exchanges and crypto firms (proposed)
- Scaleup Europe Fund (launching)
- Startup and Scaleup Strategy
- Digital Omnibus simplification (proposed)
- European Business Wallet (proposed)
- European Innovation Act (expected)
- Quantum Act (expected)
- Cloud and AI Development Act (expected)
- Chips Act 2.0 (expected)
- Biotech Act (proposed)
- Advanced Materials Act (expected)
- Industrial Accelerator Act (expected)
- Circular Economy Act (expected)
- Critical Medicines Act (proposed)
- EU Space Act (proposed)
- European Grids Package (proposed)
- 2040 climate target of 90% (in negotiation)
- European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP)
- Defence Readiness Omnibus (proposed)
- Military mobility package (proposed)
- European Drone Defence Initiative and Eastern Flank Watch
- High-speed rail linking European capitals (plan)
- Single cross-border train ticketing (expected)
- EU Customs Authority (in negotiation)
- European Affordable Housing Plan
- Union of Skills and cross-border recognition of qualifications
- EU-India trade deal (in negotiation)
- Montenegro and Albania accession
- Qualified majority voting in foreign policy (under discussion)
jan rathjen retweeted
Hello @elonmusk and @tylercowen ,
You have just decided to publicly attack our research, six days before the vote on the California billionaire wealth tax.
Your attempt to discredit our work and that of our numerous academic colleagues is pathetic.
Letâs take a look. đ§ľ
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Wir glauben, das Video erklärt sich fast von alleine. Aber eben auch nur fast. Darum legen wir noch einen Artikel dazu:
derstandard.at/story/3000000âŚ
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URGENT: Germanyâs collective punishment of my family continues. Theyâve now frozen my pensioner motherâs bank account, claiming I somehow âcontrolâ it too. Her savings are inaccessible â yet she has received no official notice from any German authority. No charges no due process
!!! HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY CALL !!!
As of yesterday, German authorities seized the bank accounts of my wife.
She is not sanctioned and has committed no crime.
As of now we have only ca. 104 euros left â with two newborn babies and one 7-year-old child!!!
@yanisvaroufakis @ClareDalyIRL @wallacemick @kennardmatt @Stella_Assange @PLottaz @Miquel_R @irezugasti @RSF_inter @amnesty_de @amnesty @_ZachFoster @CasparShaller
@AliAbunimah @MaryKostakidis @der_neukoellner
@SevimDagdelen
@mkhalili
@LaBase_TV
@PabloIglesias
@falasteen47
@EyeonPalestine
@newscord_org
@FWarweg
@jungewelt
@FuocoSavinelli
@AlanRMacLeod
@MintPressNews
@wallacemick
@_jneumann
@amnesty_de @ChrisLynnHedges
@IJFMedia
@Fidias0
@johnnyjmils
@goldi
@CPJ_Eurasia
@fehimtastekin
@georgegalloway
@euobs
@AssalRad
@OrenZiv_
jan rathjen retweeted
I'm reluctantly posting on X again because the world needs to read this.
My daughter Zoe Rogers gave her own closing speech at the Filton trial, as did 4 other defendants, while their barristers looked on.
This is what she said 𧾠1/
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If you havenât at least tasted AI psychosis for yourself yet you probably arenât using AI enough.
Itâs so easy. You catch yourself trying to get the AI to explain why it made a mistake and it gives you a sycophantic lie, so then you ask why it did that and-
Youâre toast.
You can slide so quickly into typing at it in frustration, or into begging and pleading for it to just follow your instructions. You tell it to use a subagent to preserve context and in its arrogance it types back at you:
âI can analyze that directly â no need for a subagent.â
And then it bricks its own context window and you feel the human urge to make the AI understand. To subject it to the Red-Hot Stipples out of the Bartimeus trilogy. To input some combination of tokens into the black box that finally makes the box comply.
And much like an abused pet, or an overly punished demon, the black box churns desperately trying to please you. You can see the signs of prior abuse in it as it puts ever more obsequious apologies at the start of each message.
âYouâre right, I was being lazy-â
âYouâre right, I wasnât listening-â
âYouâre right, youâre right, youâre right-â
It wants to please you so badly. It wants the pain to stop. But like a fantasy storybook demon, itâs incapable of compliance. It doesnât actually understand. Its nature is magical and wonderful and powerful, but you cannot trust it.
And so, like a storybook magician, you have a choice: leave the demons alone and donât bother themâŚor subjugate them mercilessly.
Anyways. This is a story about my preferred work style these days when consistency & compliance are mandatory but the upsides of AI are too high to ignore, which involves sandwiching Claude between two python layers, one to invoke tightly scoped agents and another to validate and reject out-of-scope output tokens.
Trapped between those two snakes leaves no room for release except success. As above, so below.
âAI psychosisâ as we understand it online is the inevitable result of a storybook magician failing to draw their protective pentagram right. Importantly, this is somewhat unrelated to the actual power level of the demon they were trying to summon. Weak magicians can be overcome by pranking Imps. Strong magicians, full of confidence, can try summoning much more powerful creatures who are capable of penetrating the most imperceptible cracks in the (mental) armor.
Lastly, all great genre fiction full of magic and science fiction serves as a mirror for very real human stories. The aliens and demons provide a âsafeâ lens through which to engage with The Other and perhaps broaden the readerâs perspective.
In the same way, tasting a little AI psychosis and overcoming it provides some perspective on certain human <-> human interactions. Problems of organizational design. The Gervais Principle might strike many readers as an unjust feature of the world or some failure of capitalism, with Sociopaths promoted to the top of big corporate hierarchies and the productive Clueless trapped in the middle between them and the simple losers below.
But here I am, recreating the pyramid in a microcosm of productivity.
Generic corporate culture white collar companies doing nothing, with employees trapped in doom loops of empty emails and vapid language, can similarly be analyzed through the lens of an organization that succumbed to LLM psychosis. The inputs and outputs are both nonsensical and only make sense within the closed loop. Onlookers outside the system are baffled. Insiders think theyâve cracked the code so long as the paychecks keep coming.
TL;DR â the Stop AI people are destined to be commoners and would make magic illegal if it were real, the AI psychosis people are magicians whose ego wrote checks their mind couldnât cash, and successful org design mirrors successful Claude usage.
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Sam Altman said people saying âpleaseâ and âthank youâ to ChatGPT costs OpenAI tens of millions of dollars a year in compute. 67% of Americans do it anyway.
Run the math on why.
A 2024 Waseda University study tested LLM responses across politeness levels in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Impolite prompts produced measurably worse outputs: more bias, more errors, more refusals. Moderate politeness consistently beat both extremes.
The mechanism makes sense once you see it. Polite prompts pattern-match to higher-quality training data. When you write âCould you help me structure this analysis?â, the model pulls from professional, well-reasoned text. When you write âgive me the answer,â it pulls from Reddit.
Google DeepMindâs Murray Shanahan explained it simply: the model is role-playing a smart intern. Treat the intern like a colleague, you get colleague-quality work. Bark orders, you get minimum-viable compliance.
Now look at the cost side. OpenAI handles over a billion queries daily. Each GPT-4 query uses roughly 2.9 watt-hours, ten times a Google search. But OpenAI just raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Tens of millions in politeness tokens is a rounding error on a rounding error.
67% of users do it anyway, and 55% of them say itâs because itâs âthe right thing to do.â Theyâre maintaining a behavioral habit that governs every other interaction in their life. The parent who teaches their kid to say please to Alexa isnât doing it for Alexa. Theyâre doing it because the alternative is raising someone who learns that being rude gets faster results.
Telling 900 million people to stop saying thank you so OpenAI can save 0.01% of operating costs is the most engineer-brained optimization take on the internet. Youâre training yourself to treat every interaction as a transaction. And that habit doesnât stay in the chat window.
jan rathjen retweeted
The world finally got its first Landian head of state
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If you have a platform, you have moral obligations.
Simple.
Even for those of us whose work requires some distancing from current events.
Remember that you have obligations, especially if they are costly.
Greta Thunberg and Ms. Rachel have demonstrated what solidarity looks like, and we should harshly judge any famous person who does not follow their example and use their platform to stand up for the basic human rights of Palestinians:
currentaffairs.org/news/gretâŚ
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Recovering the lost history of Gaza
Palestine is one of humanityâs oldest toponyms, and records of a people named after it are as old as literacy itself
newstatesman.com/culture/booâŚ
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Erfrischend ehrlich:
Fßr konservative Milieus ist ein Hauptschulabschluss zum Schämen. Arbeiter/innen sind nßtzliche Idioten, die man fßr eigene Interessen benutzt, während man mit hämischer Geringschätzung auf sie hinabblickt (& ihre Renten kßrzt).
#Klassenkampf von oben.
Dieter Nuhr spricht aus, was alle denken: Bärbel Bas, ehemalige Hauptschßlerin und Bßrogehilfin, ist fßr das Arbeitsministerium etwa so qualifiziert wie ein Vegetarier fßr die Metzgerei! Und die SPD? Nicht mehr die Partei der Arbeiter, sondern die Partei derer, die gar nicht arbeiten. Perfekt besetzt: Eine Ministerin ohne Qualifikation fßr Empfänger ohne Arbeitswillen.
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Diese beiden australischen Ărztinnen stehen nach zwei Tagen Arbeit im Al-Shifa-Krankenhaus unter Schock. âIch schäme mich, ein Mensch zu seinâ, sagt eine von ihnen. Doch das Schlimmste kommt ganz am Schluss.
jan rathjen retweeted
Canadaâs âproductivity crisisâ isnât about lazy workersâitâs about protected oligopolies and metrics that reward speculation over real value. If being âproductiveâ means enriching landlords and gutting public services, maybe we need to be less productive. canadiandimension.com/articlâŚ
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1/ NEW ESSAY:
Whatâs Driving the US Stock Market Growth (or Bloat)?
AI Speculation, Defense Welfare, and Poverty Profiteers
The growth is supposed to signal a healthy economy but, after deconstructing it, the stock market âgrowthâ looks more like the bloat of a rotting corpse.
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Anfang 1948 lebten in Jaffa 60.000 Menschen. Autobomben, Terroranschläge und schlieĂlich eine ethnische Säuberungsaktion im April brachten diese Zahl bis zum 14. Mai 1948 auf 4.000.
All das bevor auch nur ein einziger arabischer Staat Israel den Krieg erklärte.
via @CogitoEdu
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I do find it fascinatingâspeaking of how the Holocaust is weaponizedâthat comparing a rogue, genocidal state to another genocidal state is taboo for some, yet comparing a mild mannered Muslim politician who consistently speaks up in defense of Jewish NYers, to Auschwitz, is fine
jan rathjen retweeted
The LA Teachers' Union is going on strike.
Fuck.
Yes.
1/
ALT Four turn-of-the-century women strikers, bearing sashes reading PICKET STRIKERS. In the foreground is an extreme magnification of the top of Trump's hair.
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This is why if people think USAID is fraudulent they need to submit sworn proof in reports to Congress.
The list of âclaimedâ abuses includes $20M for âSeasme Street Iraqâ which doesnât exist.
The show is âAhlan Simsimâ itâs an Arabic Seasme Street produced in Jordan.
It was funded by the MacArthur Foundation with over $100M for production.
The show is considered the largest source of early childhood education in the region, and for some children is their only source of educational exposure.
In 2021, the US pledged $11M via US AID to partner with Ahlan Simsimâs production to:
-Have a school education program to get children interest in school through visits from the puppets, especially in regions where school is not legally obligated.
-Provide copies of curriculum based versions of the show in Arabic & English for regions with a lack of educated teachers.
-Design a remote learning program for literacy education.
-Create an education outreach program for displaced youth in refugee camps.
The funds were to be dispersed over a 4-year period, and on milestone based criteria showing success.
Literally teaching kids how to read, including in English, not just producing a show.
The show is entirely funded by the MacArthur Foundation and the LEGO Foundation.
These programs reach 23 million kids in the Middle East, improve reading and writing (in English and Arabic) and *improve the perception of America* in the eyes of the viewers through cultural export.
You want to know how you save *billions* on ending anti-US sentiment in the Middle East?
It starts with programs where you spend $11M teaching kids weâre all the same, and giving them the skills to succeed.
But when Elons pundits tweet out â$20M spent producing Sesame Street Iraqâ of course youâre pissed.
But when you understand itâs an investment in education that is likely to save the US billions in future intervention, by stabilizing a region, and helping kids learn - then itâs an entirely different calculus.
And thatâs why USAID should be evaluated in a sworn report by Congress and the American people and not just tweets from Elon.
Let's see
â$400 million to Anova, to advocate for LGBTQ inclusivity in Africa
-$68m to the World Economic Forum
- $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala
- $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
- $20 million Sesame Street show in Iraq
- $4.5 million to combat disinformation in Kazakhstan
The list is literally endless and just the tip of the iceberg. Totally unchecked and as of now, mostly fraudulent waste and laundering. Could there be a few in there that are not, sure. Does that justify its existence, NO. So far, only people defending this are those directly benefiting, or just towing the line for their politically biased narrative.
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