cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/euro/p/1796319/seen-and-silenced-how-russian-surveillance-software-suppresses-georgian-civilians-right

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71366855

I won the Pulitzer Prize for History for Lords of Finance, my account of how four central bankers’ decisions triggered the Great Depression. I have just completed 1873, a book on America’s railroad boom of the 1870s — the last time private capital flooded into a transformative new infrastructure technology at a scale comparable to 2%–3% of GDP. That research is why, when I look at the AI buildout today, I am genuinely frightened.

I posted this because I think the AI bubble bursting would significantly affect Europe, too (as well as the current lack of indepence in AI adoption).

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/67007011

cross-posted from : https://sopuli.xyz/post/47902491

Daniel Berntsson, founder of Mullvad, gave a personal donation of 5 million SEK (roughly 450,000€) in 2025 to Örebropartiet. This enormous donation accounted for 72% of the party’s revenue in 2025.

How does this affect Mullvad’s legitimacy as a company advocating for a free and open internet, while also funding a political party whose agenda seem to contradict these values? The official party website (in Swedish) can be found via the link below.

https://orebropartiet.se/om-oss/

Abstract: Previous attribution studies of heat-related excess mortality have given limited attention to temporal trends in vulnerability and their non-climatic drivers. Here, we address this gap by combining counterfactual temperature data derived from multidecadal reanalysis series with time-varying warm-season temperature-mortality associations for the 15 most populous cities in Germany over 1993-2022. We find that declining vulnerability, associated with improvements in life expectancy, has led to decreasing trends in heat-related excess mortality in most cities despite summer warming. In contrast, if life expectancies had not improved, climate change would have induced increasing trends in the heat-related death burden. The growing anthropogenic fingerprint also emerges in the relative proportion of heat-related excess mortality attributable to climate change, which increased by 5.6% per decade (95% confidence interval: 2.6%, 8.6%), averaging 53.6 % (49.8%, 58.9%) across the study period. Our results underline the importance of accounting for evolving vulnerability when attributing human health outcomes to climate change.

Conclusion paragraph:

our study suggests that declining risks of heat-related mortality in the 15 most populous cities of Germany, associated with improvements in life expectancies, have so far overcompensated the increased heat exposure due to climate change. As a result, temporal trends in heat-related excess mortality were negative from 1993 to 2022. However, given the intense regional warming expected under current greenhouse gas emission trajectories, the trend may flip sign in the coming years. Strong efforts in adaptation, such as through heat-health action plans, urban greening, and the expansion of residential air conditioning, might lower the heat vulnerability of the population to keep up with the pace of increasing temperatures, which ultimately will depend on the stringency of mitigation undertaken.

The only non paywalled link I could find I'm not allowed to post here, but it might be interesting to know that it ends in G7iN5 after the domain name.

Volkswagen could secure jobs in Germany if it produced auto models there that it currently develops in China, the ​premier of the German state of Lower Saxony, a ‌major shareholder, was quoted as saying.