The singularity is not what I expected it to be
Opening an article on the site of a Springer journal, I was presented with this. Enough already, AI. Bloody machines, stop reading my mind.
I’m no longer a urologist
I’m happy to report that my sojourn in pay-to-play urology is over. I’m reverting to my old ways and will publish more dodgy stuff in archaeology and anthropology. Why do they have an IF? Must be all self-cites
Stabilität der Mainzer Ampelkoalition – Gespräch mit der dpa
Mit der dpa habe ich darüber gesprochen, was der Rücktritt von Innenminister Lewentz für die Mainzer Ampelkoalition bedeutet. Der Text wurde unter anderem von der Süddeutschen Zeitung übernommen – unter “Panorama”. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/katastrophen-mainz-politologe-haelt-ampel-regierung-fuer-stabil-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-221027-99-277612
I’m a urologist now
The marginal cost of spamming people is effectively zero, but fake editors have a better chance to get past the filters than Nigerian princes or Russian beauties.
Scholz and the conflict over nuclear energy: I’m speaking Portuguese now
I talked to a journalist from Portugal about the ongoing conflict between the FDP and the Greens over nuclear energy, and Scholz’s attempt to resolve it by referring to his constitutional prerogatives. https://www.publico.pt/2022/10/18/mundo/noticia/scholz-forca-acordo-centrais-nucleares-chanceler-raras-vezes-usado-2024489
A reading list: populism, euroscepticism & foreign policy attitudes
Here is the new reading list on populist, eurosceptic and foreign policy attitudes for my MA seminar
Profitiert die AfD von den aktuellen Fluchtbewegungen? Gespräch mit dem Handelsblatt
Das Handelsblatt hat einen umfangreichen Artikel zum aktuellen Streit zwischen Bund, Ländern und Gemeinden über die Versorgung der Geflüchteten. Ins letzte Drittel sind Ergebnisse aus eigenem Gespräch zwischen Dietmar Neuerer und mir eingeflossen. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/migration-so-viele-fluechtlinge-wie-2015-kommunen-fordern-europaweite-verteilung/28747116.html
Local government data & loving past me for once
Dealing with regionalised German government data is and remains a right pain, but at least past me has not been his usual idiotic self
Germany: the Identitarian Movement remains under surveillance
In 2016, Germany’s “Office for the Protection of the Constitution”, a.k.a. the spooks, put the German branch of the Identitarian Movement under surveillance. They are also listed in the Office’s yearly reports under the heading “right-wing extremist actors”. Germany being Germany, the IB in this country is organised as a registered association, which has taken…
2022 Lower Saxony election: the AfD double their 2017 result
Lower Saxony just held the last of 2022’s four state elections. The result is mostly in line with the pre-election surveys: both the SPD and the CDU (which in this state formed the last remaining Grand coalition) lost a few points, but the SPD remained stronger overall and is perceived as the winner. The Left…