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Besonders interessant finde ich z.B. die Karte zum Thema Wohnungsleerstand https://www.deutschlandatlas.bund.de/DE/Karten/Wie-wir-wohnen/046-Wohnungsleerstand.html

Besonders interessant finde ich z.B. die Karte zum Thema Wohnungsleerstand https://www.deutschlandatlas.bund.de/DE/Karten/Wie-wir-wohnen/046-Wohnungsleerstand.html

Die Wüstenrotstiftung hat 2019 einen Teilhabeatlas herausgegeben (kostenlos), dort wurde unter anderem der immer noch heftige Kontrast West/Ost herausgearbeitet

Das Wuppertal Institut ist einer der Spitzenreiter in der Forschung im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit/Nachhaltige Entwicklung. Seit einiger Zeit veröffentlicht das Institut einen Podcast in dem Interviewmäßig die Experten des Instituts zu ihren jeweiligen Themen berichten. Wer Jung und Naiv gut findet wird dieses Format lieben, sehr aufschlussreich und informativ.

https://open.spotify.com/show/5WiBJASqkhhzxXFUkOGO05 https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/zukunftswissen-fm/id1506201566 https://www.podcast.de/podcast/790378/

Link to the article (archived): Ripping the public apart? Politicians’ dark personality and affective polarization -- [February 2025]

New research shows that dark traits of a political leader have an effect when voters feel ideologically close to the politician in question, while the personality traits of political opponents have little to no effect on the degree of polarisation.

In a new study published in the 'European Journal of Political Research,' scientists from University of Amsterdam (UvA), the University of Lausanne and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, linked the personality profiles of over 90 prominent politicians worldwide with voter attitudes in 40 national elections. The results reveal striking patterns. Politicians who score high on the so-called Dark Triad – narcissism (excessive self-focus), psychopathy (emotional coldness and lack of empathy), and Machiavellianism (a tendency toward manipulation and deception) – are associated with greater hostility toward political opponents among their followers.

[The] results suggest that the dark personality of top politicians can be associated with heightened affective polarization in the public – but only for candidates of voters’ in-party (that is, their preferred party), and only for high levels of ideological proximity between the candidate and the voter. The other personality traits have weaker effects, and the personality of out-group candidates (that is, candidates of voters’ most disliked party) seems overall rather marginal. In other terms, what our results suggest is a proximity effect for dark personality in elites.

According to the study, this is somewhat at odds with the popular idea that people might become cynical and radicalized due to how much they dislike the character of their political opponents:

What [...] results suggest is that dark traits in elites have an ‘in-house’ effect. It is ‘our’ candidate, in particular if we feel close to them, that drives our partisan animosity the most – specifically, their dark traits. In other terms, our models predict that it is in particular among very close supporters of dark candidates that we find the highest levels of affective polarization.

The trends shown in our analysis come with some notable limitations, the study says:

Allthough they stem from a large-scale analysis and should thus be more resistant towards critiques of low external validity, they nonetheless build on evidence that is essentially observational in nature, with the inherent risk of endogeneity. Specifically, our data and results cannot exclude the fact that voters self-select into being close to darker candidates because they are affectively polarized – and not the other way around. That is, we cannot prove that it is the dark personality of politicians that cause affective polarization to move upwards.

Democratic risks

The findings cast a critical light on the global rise of ‘dark’ leaders. According to the researchers, the confrontational and uncompromising personality traits of such leaders pose clear risks to democratic processes. ‘When the personal traits of leaders poison public discourse, the public’s willingness to cooperate weakens, social cohesion suffers, and ultimately democratic norms erode,’ says co-author Katjana Gattermann of the UvA.

The researchers call for greater awareness of the role (dark) personality plays in political leadership, in particular when these traits appear in strongmen. Nai concludes: ‘We have shown in previous research that dark personality traits are particularly frequent in authoritarian leaders and populists; the evidence seems thus to be piling up that narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism are important phenomena if we want to understand why politics, today, seems so confrontational.’

These limitations notwithstanding [...] the findings discussed in our article are furthermore worrisome in light of dynamics of democratic backsliding [...]. Dark traits seem to be particularly prevalent among autocrats and populist [...], suggesting a potentially nefarious intersection between uncompromising leaders, democratic deconsolidation and affective polarization. Further research should investigate these dynamics more in detail, including regarding the intervening role of (dark) communication strategies linking elites and voters directly.

Last week, Tracy and Dale McMullen sold their vacation home in Buckeye, Arizona, a property they owned for five years. The Alberta residents, who usually spend four to five months in Arizona a year, said they are not planning to come back.

“We decided to sell the property after the current POTUS took office,” said Dale, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump, who was inaugurated for the second time in January.

“It was time to leave. We felt we could not trust what he might do next to us as individuals and to our country. We no longer felt welcome nor safe.”

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/many-canadian-snowbirds-in-us-looking-to-pack-up-and-fly-north-for-good/

Swift’s powerful type system empowers us to create semantically explicit and safe data models. Yet when we move to SwiftData or Core Data, the constraints of their underlying storage mechanisms often force us to compromise on type expressiveness. Those concessions blur our domain models’ intent and plant hidden seeds of instability.

This article explores how, within the restrictions of persistence layers, we can leverage ingenious type wrappers and conversions to build data models that are simultaneously Type-safe, semantically clear, and highly efficient.

Alt text: Year is 2050. In the ruins of a city robots surround a human. One of them says "Wait, this person says thank you every time they use ChatGPT. Spare him."

Other robot says "No, by saying thank you he is wasting resources for the server to reply" and punches the human in the face.

Some rambles predicting what might be in store for open source developers who accept pull requests

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The federal election campaign has so far focused on cost of living and the trade war. Health care – an issue that touches the lives of every Canadian – was notably absent from the leaders’ debates, although the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP have made a number of promises on that front in recent days, including to add more family doctors.

Last week, The Globe and Mail hosted a webcast panel – Election 2025: Steps to heal Canada’s health care system –to discuss the current landscape, possible solutions and what to look for when casting your vote on April 28.

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From the Atlanta Journal Constitution Politics News:

The AJCs Politically Georgia podcast is available on AJC.com and wherever you get your podcasts.