I have made a batch of elderflower syrup from trees in my area, and now I'm trying it in different summer drinks.

Next I want to try making booze out of the berries.

I don't think it's a matter of process vs end result. I just want to feel that a human with taste judged that it was worth my attention.

If a human put some effort into it, that's a signal.

This is mostly what it is for me too. We're all awash in an information deluge, and we need heuristics to keep from drowning. Human effort, proof-of-work if you will, is a heuristic that helps with the AI-generated part of the deluge.

Anything here: https://bearblog.dev/discover/

Is the French government more responsive than those of neighbouring countries?

Probably because we have a well established history of regularly changing regimes. Since we overthrew royalty in 1789 we've had five republics, two empires, three monarchies and a bunch of short-lived totalitarian regimes, coups and other major political events.

If anything, the longevity of the Fifth Republic is starting to become unusual (only the Third Republic and the Ancien Régime have lasted longer). Maybe we're overdue to flip the table again as per tradition.

How well did they turn out for people each time?

Health insurance, unions, paid vacation... al in all I'd say not that bad.

Plenty of other countries have those things as well. And plenty of countries that have even more frequent political upheaval don’t have those things.

I don’t know that regular political violence is positively correlated with worker protections.

> I don’t know that regular political violence is positively correlated with worker protections

In fact, it's quite easy to find examples of political violence being used to reduce worker protections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence_in_the_Uni...

also

>two empires, three monarchies and a bunch of short-lived totalitarian regimes, coups and other major political events.

Do you think you'd still have the Health insurance, unions, and paid vacation after another roll of the dice

I'm only pointing out that ever since the French revolution, we have a rich history of regime change (and also of strikes and demonstrations). Some were due to external factors (like the Vichy régime during WW2) and some were bloodless (like the end of the Fourth Republic).

Us rolling the dice whenever we have a major political crisis is a meme at this point, for better or for worse we're just not the kind of people to keep the same constitution around for 250 years.

I don’t think that addresses my question.

This would not surprise me with a German service provider, although it got much better in the last decade.

I would really like to know which museum in Germany this is from.

On the author's Flickr, the first image is in the "DASA Working World Exhibition" album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/55316837619/in/album-...

It's in Dortmund: https://www.dasa-dortmund.de/en/

The author also has a list of his favorite tech museums: https://aresluna.org/fav-tech-museums/

I am self-employed and AI is taking my job. Or at least its owners are capturing the value of my work now.

https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/death-by-ai

All about Berlin is a work of love, thank you for creating it.

LLMs stealing content and regurgitating it for money is an illegal extraction of informational value. The fact that our governments have not taken steps to seek balance of rewards for the authors is unforgivable.

I write guides for immigrants moving to Germany. I focus on the undocumented and unpredictable parts of German bureaucracy.

The stuff I document is happening offline behind closed doors. I create tools and leverage my contacts and audience to surface that information.

Then LLMs suck up that information and serves it to users without attribution or consent, and that is destroying the economics of doing my job.

But the job still needs to be done.

I had a mild version of that, and it allowed to focus on the parts of my work that I love without constantly worrying about productivity or monetisation. I could get more involved in the community and do fun things just for the sake of it.

Travel got old quickly. Consumable experiences in general did too. Making art, coding, and working with others did not.

This year especially, fashion in Berlin has converged to light blue jeans and white t-shirt. It’s as if fashion got distilled into something easily seized, but ever more rapidly rotating.