The world is run by the most depressing people who have ever lived.
Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago
Arne Berger
@arneberger.bsky.social
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction • Co-Design, Smart Things, More-than-Human • Luddite • Mountainbiker • Changing the world does not come from above or from outside. private account. → http://arneberger.de
Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago
keep thinking about the evil of this. It's not just destroying the physical books, bad as that is. They are trying to remove the underpinnings of knowledge, destroy all the accumulated wisdom - and silliness, and creativity, and whatever else humans have thought worthy of writing down.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
news.com.au
In the safety engineering literature, we don't really believe in "accidents". You build a system, it does a thing, if you don't like what it does, that's on you for having built it, and you get to restructure the system to avoid such unacceptable losses in the future.
Mike Isaacson@vulgareconomics.bsky.social · last wk.I think people are very credulous to take OpenAI's claim that a major hack by their software was "accidental" at face value
Menschen im Zeitalter der Klimakrise: Symbolbilder😰
From the perspective of a cynical AI investor, the question isn't, "Can AI do your job?" The question is, "Can an AI salesman convince your boss that an AI can do your job?" 23/
This is very well done, I think: leidendeclaration.ai A few choice quotes, that should be of interest well beyond mathematics: >>
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.
leidendeclaration.ai
“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
theverge.com
“It makes me sad to think about a young person who might never cultivate the process of self-discovery that takes place in writing, which is inseparable from thinking.” Meghan O’Gieblyn's interview over at @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
How is this even possible? Why isn't this the biggest scandal in Europe? #AIEthics depends on #transparency #foi Critics fear the reforms could weaken government transparency by curbing civil society's access to official information and limiting requests. www.dw.com/en/germany-f...
Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act
Critics fear the reforms could weaken government transparency by curbing civil society's access to official information and limiting requests from foreigners.
dw.com
Queere Jugendliche & junge Erwachsene auf dem Land bzw. in Regionen mit wenig sozio-kultureller Infrastruktur sind deutlich stärker gefährdet Opfer von Diskriminierung & Gewalt zu werden bzw. entwickeln so Suizidgedanken. Lamda abzuwickeln zahlt direkt darauf ein. www.queer.de/detail.php?a...
Prien streicht Förderung für queeres Jugendnetzwerk Lambda
Das Jugendnetzwerk Lambda steht vor schwierigen Zeiten: Nach der Streichung der Förderung könnten queere Jugendliche in Krisen insbesondere auf dem Land alleine gelassen werden, so die Warnung. (Polit...
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„Als Ministerin war Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger selbst von #IFG Anfragen betroffen. Heute sagt sie: Das muss genau so bleiben. Und geht davon aus, dass der Reformvorstoß der Bundesregierung scheitern wird.“
Ex-Justizministerin zur geplanten Reform der Informationsfreiheit: „Aus meiner Erfahrung sage ich: Hände weg!“
Als Ministerin war Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger selbst von IFG-Anfragen betroffen. Heute sagt sie: Das muss genau so bleiben. Und geht davon aus, dass der Reformvorstoß der Bundesregierung schei...
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the internet I grew up with is alive. shopping for a coffee grinder with display (don't ask). screen has a known issue where it malfunctions, and the manufacturer's solution is a total replacement. Instead, here’s a blog post how rewriting the EEPROM fixes it denshaotoko.github.io/blog/2024/10...
Repairing the Eureka Mignon Brew Pro’s Touchscreen
Updated 23. March 2025 (EEPROM contents)
denshaotoko.github.io
Das Leben mit Bezahlkarte ist teuer und fremdbestimmt, berichtet Alexandra Keiner. Die Soziologin am Weizenbaum-Institut erforscht, wie Migrant*innen durch Finanzinfrastruktur kontrolliert werden. Sie sagt, die Bezahlkarte könne bald auch anderen Gruppen drohen. netzpolitik.org/2026/bezahlk...
„Das Gegenteil von Inklusion“
Kein Online-Shopping, kein Flohmarkt-Besuch: Das Leben mit Bezahlkarte ist teuer und fremdbestimmt, berichtet Alexandra Keiner. Die Soziologin am Weizenbaum-Institut erforscht, wie Migrant*innen durch...
netzpolitik.org
I live in a 90-year-old house and use a 47-year-old amplifier, a 30-year-old bicycle, and a 25-year-old immersion blender.
Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · last mo.I always like thinking about: what is the oldest object you regularly use, the oldest thing you're using in your normal everyday life
A bee analogue of Kohler's insight learning experiments
Science Magazine@science.org · 2mo agoA new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates. https://scim.ag/4vs08dC
Deskilling workers to pay them lower wages and ultimately getting rid of having to pay wages at all.
Sasha Costanza-Chock@schock.cc · 2mo agoAI deskilling AKA sklopification www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The EU is all too happy of late to frame itself as being "behind". It may be behind on billionaires and unicorns and wealth inequality, but it's streaks ahead on regulation and digital rights. When did that become something not worth shouting about? I had some thoughts on this on Inside Story.
"Die Notwendigkeit falsche Daten anzugeben ist gewachsen." Falschangaben sind der wahrscheinlich einzige Weg Privatsphäre zu wahren, in einer Welt in der persönliche Daten und Profile zum wertvollsten Gut geworden sind. Danke @ewo.name für diesen wichtigen Vortrag! media.ccc.de/v/tdf5-210-p...
Privacy by Lying
Es war ja klar, dass meine Daten irgendwann im Darknet landen, so wie eure auch. Früher oder später verliert sie der ein oder andere zwie...
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Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) collapse will have global effects. "For too long, understanding and monitoring the AMOC was viewed as an academic pursuit. Instead, it should now be treated as what it truly is: an urgent, global priority." 🧪 🌍 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Amoc collapse could change Europe’s climate 10x faster than expected. We aren’t ready
The system of ocean current that moves heat in the Atlantic Ocean plays a key role in regulating climate. Today’s monitoring of it may be discontinued
theguardian.com
Sorry kids, we couldn’t accept perfect clothes, so we had to speed up the destruction of our planet for worse ones.
Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2mo agoTeams have to wash and steam #WorldCup shirts to remove shoulder bulges. "Nike boasted about the use of 'computational design'… driven by performance data that incorporated elements of AI to work alongside the company’s designers as they crafted the kits." How could they even ship these?! Shame.
Elon Musk is a mass murderer on a scale that few are able to achieve, and he is able to achieve it because we allow people to gain that level of power and influence by amassing a soul-destroying amount of wealth. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds
The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.
bbc.com
Great to see this out there: Majority of participants reported camouflaging ADHD. Motivations: to survive in a neurotypical society. Strategies: hiding, pretending, suppression, compensation. Consequences: exhaustion, mental health problems, perpetuation of unrealistic expectations and stigma.
Rory@roryreckons.bsky.social · 2mo agoFinally masking research for ADHD. Pretty sure it's going to be thought of as super helpful. "Camouflaging in adult ADHD functions to fulfill social and safety needs at the detriment of other important psychological, relational, cognitive, and systemic outcomes." Cool. Cool cool cool.
So geht es los. TU-Präsidium verbietet AfD-kritische Vorträge, weil sie nicht "neutral" seien. Unfassbar! taz.de/Antifaschist...
Antifaschistischer Kongress in Berlin: TU streicht Vorträge gegen die AfD
Ein studentischer Kongress soll 14 Veranstaltungen aus dem Programm nehmen. Die Organisatoren vermuten, dass diese Forderung von der AfD kommt.
taz.de
Welche Möglichkeiten hat ein von Eigentlichkeit umfasster Kern, dem ja Kraft des Gehäuses Bedingungen verunmöglicht werden?
Judith Beyer@judithbeyer.bsky.social · 2mo ago30. In Germany, we don't say sich unklar ausdrücken, we say: "Morsches Holz. Treibt über die Flüsse, und die #noAfD hängt sich dran." and we say 31. "Das Gehäuse der Bürgerlichen ist die Eigentlichkeit, nicht die Möglichkeit" ... and I think that's beautiful.
