Technology Demystification and a reality check on Chat GPT — The machines taking over the world aren’t called Terminators or Transformers. ChatGPT is the new demon haunting the media world. Urgent warnings are being issued by various opinion leaders, concerns are being voiced and a bleak picture of the future is being painted. The chat GPT scaremongers and artificial intelligence…

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Has everyone forgotten about the Nazis? — Cancel Culture run amuck. In some US states, books have recently ended up on prohibited lists at the instigation of right-wing populist politicians. According to PEN America, from July 2021 to June 2022, 1,648 books were banned in public schools nationwide. …

China’s communist leadership cannot increase the birth rate at the push of a button — The accelerated population decline has had massive economic consequences and is slowing down the rise of the People’s Republic. The social trauma of the one-child policy continues to have an impact today. The Beijing Statistics Office caused a double stir a few weeks ago: According to the latest economic figures…

Quantity, Frequency, and Triggers — An after-work beer here, a good bottle of wine there — not only in Austria, but a lot in Austria, people like to drink and trivialize it at the same time. People do not realize when drinking becomes problematic. The “Bierschi” or beer cute (you know, like meet cute) after…

After the Tennessee shooting, Republicans have lost their last shred of decency — Right-wing officials are seriously blaming this latest bloodbath on mental health, therapy, and drugs for transgender people. 2023 is not even three months old, but the USA has already been hit by more than 130 mass shootings this year. Which evokes little more than shrugs, a wave of the hand…

One way or another, wars end in negotiation — One way or another, wars end in negotiation. Even the terms of a capitulation would have to be negotiated. Analysts at the London Institute for International Strategic Studies (IISS) do not expect the war in Ukraine, which Russia escalated a year ago with a major attack on its neighbor, to…

A good password is unique, long, and hard to guess. Unique Never reuse passwords: make sure that all of your passwords are unique and do not be tempted to try to adapt or modify an old password (eg by putting an ! at the end of it). Please remember that…

The bottom line is that anyone who consumes sustainably for moral reasons is not always doing good. — In the future, smartphone manufacturers will have to offer spare parts for seven years and allow updates for five years. With this planned regulation, the EU is declaring war on a wasteful bad habit. Many are familiar with the problem: the mobile phone still works perfectly, but it is too…