Gedankenraum » Christoph http://gedankenraum.neuerplan.org Meine Gedanken. Deine Gedanken. Unsere Gedanken Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:59:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 small thoughts 2012-01-29 (my week in twitter) http://gedankenraum.neuerplan.org/2012/01/29/small-thoughts-2012-01-29-my-week-in-twitter/ http://gedankenraum.neuerplan.org/2012/01/29/small-thoughts-2012-01-29-my-week-in-twitter/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:59:00 +0000 Christoph http://gedankenraum.neuerplan.org/2012/01/29/small-thoughts-2012-01-29-my-week-in-twitter/
  • Nötigung, der „vergeistigte Gewaltbegriff“ & Sitzblockaden http://t.co/ZgHn3XaK Ich mag unseren Rechtstaat! #
  • http://t.co/1RCBVBrx RT @Volker_Beck Ein falscher Klick und die Mailaccounts der Abgeordnetenbüros entwickeln sich zum sozialen Netzwerk #
  • Wikipedia has extensive etymology on the different names for Germany!!! http://t.co/tBCHKweD #Deutschland #Allemagne #German #Niemcy #Saksa #
  • Solidarische Landwirtschaft: Bauern und Verbraucher schließen sich zusammen http://t.co/3hR1ZhM8 auch in Freiburg: http://t.co/hE8BnXDL #
  • Drug dogs respond to handlers‘ suspicion more than actual smell, leading to racial injustice http://t.co/7FMXMekA #KlugerHans #
  • Bericht für den Bundestag über Antisemitismus: in Deutschland (noch? wieder?) weit verbreitet http://t.co/1ojBEFlA #
  • Wow did I really just read up to page 27 of „Yo, is this racist“ when I should be sleeping? http://t.co/JEnv4Utt Good stuff! #
  • Prantl kritisiert Sponsoring der Politik durch die Wirtschaft http://t.co/UvDXlvN9 nicht strafbar reicht nicht & Wulff als „Party-Politiker“ #
  • Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart *together* illustrating the Super-PAC laws http://t.co/9hkth9Re awesome! I wish I had one … #

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  • Ungleichheit wuchs seit 1990 in 14 der G20 Staaten, auch Deutschland http://t.co/Onbo1hal #
  • Ein Interview mit der damaligen Schülerin zeigt, warum der Freispruch des Lehrers wegen der „Beziehung“ falsch war http://t.co/UfWSQUPF #
  • Politics personal — story of Mitt Romney and his surprisingly different dad’s political disaster http://t.co/xqMXJgM3 „authenticity kills“? #
  • RT @StephenAtHome Wikipedia will go dark in protest of SOPA. Now where am I supposed to find inaccurate information about SOPA? #
  • Oh, and read this wikipedia-related xkcd http://t.co/sQ3BS2IS (tomorrow…) #
  • Admire the blacked-out Wikipedia-en http://t.co/oupmRW1M read a 1-page #SOPA explanation http://t.co/MS76TkuW #
  • RT @zeitonline Das Unwort des Jahres lautet Döner-Morde. (sh) #
  • Wikipedia & other websites announce „strike“ to protest pending US copyright law #SOPA http://t.co/aauNfU84 5th Estate? http://t.co/UGE3UOZB #
  • RT @pandagon „Everyone should selectively quote me as talismanic evidence that they are enlightened people.“ — Martin Luther King, Jr. #
  • Zweierlei Maß — SZ vergleicht Wulffs Verhalten mit Richtlinien für Bedienstete der Stadt München http://t.co/pdcdYTZ8 #
  • Dear American friends: learn metric reference points with xkcd http://t.co/qkSUEkes I wish there was one the other way round! #
  • Erfolgsgeschichte der gewaltfreien Erziehung in Deutschland http://t.co/PWhd2Jih Und was für eine kurze Geschichte! #
  • Transparenter in die Post-Jobs Ära: RT @zeitonline Apple hat erstmals seine weltweite Zuliefererliste offengelegt http://t.co/Xyauueld #

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  • WELT Chefredakteur berichtet über heftigen Druck von Wulff in anderer Mediengeschichte — die Einschüchterung hat System http://t.co/BmCDNxOB #

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  • Dan Savage explains why GOP candidates‘ homophobia is political suicide http://t.co/D5hxH0uz US mainstream has become way more open. hopeful #
  • The innocent racism of asking people of color the „Where are you from?“ question http://t.co/hoONYqZ9 #
  • Die Fragen der BILD-Zeitung an Wulff, die viel ins Rollen brachten http://t.co/LWDYLZEc BILD mal gut, der Präsident leider schwach #
  • Joschka Fischer preist in der SZ die vielgeschmähten Märkte dafür, den Weg zur europäischen Fiskalunion frei zu machen http://t.co/rj0yRH8R #

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  • Europäischer Gerichtshof: CO2-Emissionsscheine für alle Flüge in und aus der EU — auch ausländischer Unternehmen http://t.co/bIdfAOjO #
  • Evolution of menstruation: fetal invasiveness. Most mammals don’t menstruate! http://t.co/p6NAKo0X Interesting abortion PS #
  • After admiring graffiti in Sao Paulo and Rio (will blog pictures) I’m very impressed with this street art compilation http://t.co/wEMiCYlE #

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  • #travelinsight 80: Oh wie schön ist Panama — back home safely! #

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  • If you thought England is laughing about the Euro crisis: They will loose whatever the outcome for the Euro will be http://t.co/swNTPVI1 #
  • Obama takes up 99% / Occupy Wall Street message http://t.co/l0pdIhsJ Quite certainly good for the movement, but needs to go further #
  • Calvin and Hobbes — Dad Explains Science collection. Last one is my all-time favorite http://t.co/MTZtPXKe Oh joys of parenting and science! #
  • God save America — a frank & clear assessment of Republican candidates http://t.co/A0uunScZ (SPIEGEL english, recommended by many friends) #
  • Big Bang Theory vs. the Algorithm of dating http://t.co/OdEFHcbG Pre-selection in matchmaking services impoverishes our relationships #
  • Top 10 untranslatable relationship words http://t.co/tcjvEhZi rich language makes richness of experience #psychology #constructivism #
  • Two thirds of psychologists report using bad research practice, one third has doubts about integrity of their own work http://t.co/CNEuTlof #
  • #travelinsight 79: Portuguese must be the only language in the world where native speakers learn to conjugate their verbs in school… #

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  • Look at the center for 20 sec and never trust your eyes again http://t.co/zP6DGLM3 scariest optical illusion (http://t.co/vZGyDxmj) #
  • More „gaslighting“: Manipulating people’s (emotional) reality and silencing them http://t.co/8PSxfws3 Must-read for women and men! #feminism #
  • Gummibärchen sind nicht gut für die Gelenke, plus Wissenswertes über Verdauung von Eiweißen allgemein http://t.co/VeQ8bfh9 #ZEIT #Stimmts #
  • Political internet art: the pepper-spraying cop http://t.co/hJL08QZG I wish I could be more optimistic about how many people that reaches #
  • Fighting for atheism is not about atheists‘ rights — difference between identity (e.g. gay) and idea movements http://t.co/qnBqKeRT (#vegan) #
  • No-fault divorce laws make especially women happier, and don’t increase divorce rate http://t.co/yQqpZHMx And: opt-in „covenant marriage“ #
  • US vs International Time Magazine covers http://t.co/DoddGv1h Bible and anxiety instead of politics. US friends see what you are missing! #
  • Egypt imports tons of tear gas from US, Egyptian port officials refuse to sign for the shipment http://t.co/1VlaPOxx I wish it had worked! #
  • Freiheitsindex Deutschland — abstrakte Freiheit schätzen und konkret Verbote wollen http://t.co/rvesWd5t Oh je. #
  • Linksextrem = Rechtsextrem? http://t.co/T1YBhjkY Gefährliches konservatives Dogma, das Kampf gegen echten Extremismus erschwert #ZEIT #
  • Geschichte deutscher Entwicklungspolitik. Mit kurzen Lichtblicken schockierend http://t.co/uAFed6xZ Eine Erklärung für fehlenden Fortschritt #

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    • „the number of specialists has fallen by 90% since the 1950s, and at least 40% in the last decade alone“
    • „supermarkets […] now sell 97% of our food, with four chains accounting for 76%“

    Research is cited showing that „after the arrival of a big supermarket, participation in local charities, churches, campaign groups and even voting declines sharply“.

    The more immediate effects are a diminishing choice of products, especially in the „real“ sense of things like local varieties of produce as opposed to different toilet paper colors.

    Together with pressure on producers (called monopsony in the article) the dominance of big chains means a monopolization of business. As the „Red Tories“, a conservative UK thinktank finds, the grocery sector is largely closed to to new entrants.

    This problem seems to me apparent in all sorts of industries and areas of business — the free market naturally leads to bigger and bigger agglomeration both in terms of huge companies and geographical specialization (e.g. 90%+ of footballs (for soccer) produced in Pakistan, similar number of laptops assembled in China, …), indeed reminiscent of the worst days of Soviet planned economy and similarly damaging to the environment and vulnerable to changes in demand or geopolitical events.

    The question that frequently comes to my mind when I read this kind of thing is: we like to think of the free market in analogy to evolution. But while we can observe stunning diversity in nature, we have the opposite development in economy. I think on simple but probably central answer is: Nature has very powerful negative feedback in the form of parasites, whose role for evolution is I think widely underrated at least among non-professionals (non-biologists). With increasing population and dominance of a species in a certain area come dramatic increases in vulnerability to predation and especially parasites maintaining the balance, while business almost only knows size benefits.

    Would it help to try and implement something similar for businesses? Some sort of progressive business taxation? Should antitrust regulation be stronger and act earlier? Or is centralizing business the way after all, but in public ownership?

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  • „Gaslighting“ http://t.co/mwwktWwE sad that it happens but fascinating concept, with important implications for working with abuse survivors #
  • Glad to get good news about the #OWS library and relations with police after the crackdown at Zuccotti Park http://t.co/urbBNOMj #
  • Schlechte Nachrichten vom Strom-Kartell und Atomendlager, gute zum Ende von Kohlestrom und Ökostrom-Nutzung der Zechen http://t.co/wU2HCnHa #
  • Awesome visualization of how „Western Dance Music“ evolved, with global influences http://t.co/ZuT7Gkjl sadly US-UK-centric #

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