As always, Hal Faber’s newsreel wants to sharpen the eye for the details: Sunday’s newsreel is commentary, outlook and analysis. It is backward and forward at the same time.
What was.
*** Everything okay? Released exactly 10 years ago this comic strip by artist KC Green on the web. Reddit and Imgur made the dog a meme and since 2016 with one Webshop full of knick-knacks gives his master an income. Green drew the comic strip when he was being medicated for an acute depression and was amazed at how calm it made him, even as his world was crumbling around him. The cartoon gained notoriety off the internet when Republicans used the motif to denigrate Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. That failed spectacular, but caused a big debate on Twitter about art and campaigning. Now, under Elon Musk, Twitter is poised to become a platform of support for Republicans during the Question Hound in the debate about climate goals, climate deniers and climate protectors is cheerfully charged with new meaning, twisted by 1.5 degrees, so to speak. Seen in this way, Lützerath is also a meaning-shifter, if in the staged story of David versus Goliath the Greens come under the excavator wheels. In any case, the assessment of the protest went spectacularly wrong, how described here: “A couple of hippies are sitting in the trees in Lützerath and are being picked down by the police: Not nice, of course, but we live in pragmatic times. There won’t be a big outcry. So close your eyes and through.”
The cabin is on fire: “That’s fine” in Lego. Stop pragmatic times.
*** So written in a newspaper, the federal olaf a big one interview there, with the advice, if you please, to protest against the fact that it takes six years for a wind turbine to be approved. The goal must be to set up three to four large wind turbines in Germany every day, announced the top social democrat, only to travel to Lubmin the next day: “The terminals were planned, approved and built” within a few months. There are wind turbines of a completely different caliber. The real problem is not the wind turbines and those hippies over there in Lützerath, but the negotiations with RWE, which were conducted in secret by the Green Economics Ministers Habeck and Neubauer. That in combination with the alleged Huge success in these negotiations, as the party leadership puts it, is tough stuff for a party committed to protecting the environment.
*** caliber, caliber, there was something? We have a secretary of defense who obviously is about to resign. Since it’s not that easy to look inside a minister, you have to wait and see what happens or doesn’t happen in the coming week. Finally, a conference is to take place in Ramstein on Friday, at which the defense ministers will discuss the further support to Ukraine change. From a simple replacement by also with a Video known military commissioner Eva Högli up to a cabinet reshuffle, everything is possible, even that tank friendly Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann is in conversation. The Rheinmetall company is in your constituency, but that doesn’t matter if you already incorruptible in the sandbox was. Despite all the criticism from lobby control, such a good memory is a good start in such a ministry. And which politician can choose the lobby that supports him excellent?
*** Do machines have a soul? That’s what she asks time and illustrates the question with a robot holding a woman’s head. The question refers to Google researcher Blake Lemoine, who is convinced that the chatbot LaMDA has consciousness and can therefore be classified as a sentient being. The question about the soul is trickier than the question about the students who use ChatGPT to have term papers written. “AI shakes us awake here and makes us ask: Is our view of what ‘education’ and ‘performance’ mean, still up to date?” says one in the c’t interview who has to evaluate seminar papers, for example on feminist labor movements in Latin America. This can be a very practical thing if you can just fire up a chatbot: “An example: In a fairly theoretical seminar on ethics and globalization, we wanted to bring in a few case studies from the Global South – we then simply had the AI work out the first version – which then gave us examples, for example a session on feminist labor movements in Latin America. We would certainly have figured that out ourselves – but not after five seconds.” The question about the soul can actually be given to oneself. As early as 1981, journalist Tracy Kidder wrote a book about a computer. “The soul of a new machine” she answered quite extensively with the realization that the soul can just be a newly designed CPU – and a verse from Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings”:
You can’t see it, you don’t feel it
can’t hear it, nor smell it,
it lies behind star and deep ground
and fills the empty holes round.
what will.
Olaf Scholz is a busy man. He is going to Davos next week, where the World Economic Forum with 1,500 world leaders to answer the question of “working together in a fragmented world”. Maybe just ask ChatGPT to answer the question and rather have a snowball fight. But that would homo davosiensis, most recently in Switzerland as Homo globalis described, do not fit at all: “The ‘Homo globalis’, on the other hand, is an economic construct, most closely embodied by the figure of the ‘Homo davosiensis’ who is scurrying about everywhere at conferences: a member of an international mercenary system made up of managers, financial experts, consultants who have gained power and influence through globalization and are usually not committed to a country.” People meet and want to be met, 1000 private jets set off for this. Only Elon Musk is not part of the party because he is the meeting absolutely boring finds. Although that may be a tit for tat, because the World Economic Forum leave twitter For once, Musk is right this time.
The international money mercenaries meet in Davos for a strategic snowball fight with their political masters and beneficiaries.
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