Antje Holst

Bret: An Egyptian friend of mine, in the years when Hosni Mubarak was dictator, once explained to me that the key to running a long-term autocracy is always to take care that your immediate subordinates are even dumber and more corrupt than you are. That way, they’re too stupid to obstruct or overthrow you, and too compromised to be anything but slavishly loyal.

At the time he told me this, I didn’t expect it would describe American government to a ‘T’ in just a few years’ time.

What we’re seeing here is the same as the situation that we’ve seen in any previous episodes of rapid tech development, where the harms that emerge earliest in the deployment of new tech are harms that are perpetrated against women and girls.
Maeve Walsh, Online Safety Act Network, 12 January 2026

A quote from an article from www.the-citizens.com about how AI is enabling online violence:
“AI chatbots and deepfake technology is becoming increasingly normalised within the classroom.
{ ...} In one of our sessions, part of our education programme reaching 90,000 young people, a boy had been sexually deepfaked by his peers. Almost all of the students in the class thought that what happened to him was not harmful, and crucially, they thought it was normal.”

Wichtig nach einem Vortrag sich die Kernbotschaften nochmal vor Augen zu führen… per Hologramm oder auch per Tröt. #Clc26

Super Idee mit der Challenge, aber könnte es nicht dazu führen, dass die Leute das Buch nicht kaufen? #CLCamp26

Zum Abschied hat er gesagt:

Unser Job ist es, die Empathie um jeden Preis zu verteidigen und ein groovy Leben zu führen.

Dann ging er und verschwand im Regen.

(Jim Jarmusch im SZ Interview)