Daniel Brumund

@danbru8.bsky.social

Interested in #tech #justice #reciprocity • Day job: #AI & #Digital #Governance @giz.de • Geeky passion for #SmallAI #NLP #OpenSource #Licensing #HomeServer • Posts = personal • Reposts ≠ endorsement • 🏳️‍🌈 • 🇧🇬 • 🇿🇦 • Also on @danbru8@mastodon.world

An audio journey into the life & death of Mahmoud Almadhoun, founder of a #Gaza soup kitchen. A story of heroes in times of suffering, and destruction wreaked by #AIwarfare Thanks Yassin Musharbash @abususu.bsky.social & team for sharing Mahmoud's story & warning against the systems that killed him

Yassin Musharbash@abususu.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mahmud Almadhoun was the chef of a soup kitchen in Gaza, feeding hundreds every day - until he was killed in Nov 2024. I spent one year investigating his killing. The podcast about Mahmud's story is now out in English. You can listen to it at zeit.de/serie/the-gaza-chef or Spotify or Apple

Ohne das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz wären z.B. illegale Maskendeals nie ans Licht gekommen. Dieses Recht wollen CDU, CSU und SPD jetzt massiv einschränken. Das dürfen wir nicht zulassen. Ich habe die Petition eben unterschrieben. Du solltest das auch tun: 👇 #IFG weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

SPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!

Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder...

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“Wharton School researchers have dubbed this phenomenon ‘cognitive surrender,’ in which users shift from treating AI as a tool to treating it as an authority, accepting its answers rather than actively evaluating them.”

The hidden cost of letting AI choose your lunch

Relying on AI for decision-making could lead to "cognitive surrender," a weakening of critical thinking that makes people distrust their own judgment.

businessinsider.com

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying <> LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

theguardian.com

Stop AI-accelerated warfare! "Despite claims by their proponents that AI tools are making warfare more effective, precise, or humane, real-world deployments indicate that AI is actually facilitating more violent, dehumanizing, and destructive methods of warfare" @accessnow.org & 200+ signatories

Access Now@accessnow.org · 2mo ago

AI-accelerated warfare must stop! Together with @amnesty.org and +200 experts and civil society organizations, we are calling on governments and tech companies to ensure AI does not become a tool for accelerating death and destruction. Read our statement: www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

Wie (rechtes) Framing funktioniert: Das BKA veröffentlicht seinen Bericht zur politische motivierten Kriminalität. Botschaft: Starker Anstieg linker Kriminalität! Aber wie sieht es denn mit den Grössenordnungen aus? Da ist die rechte politische Kriminalität glatt dreimal so hoch wie die linke. 1/7

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“The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini’s Law, states that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.” Useful article. As we look at solutions though, our priority is demanding upstream leadership. #UrbanTruth

Bullshit Asymmetry Principle

&ldquo;Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.&rdquo; - George Bernard Shaw.&nbsp; Shaw&rsquo;s warning seems more pertinent than ever, as we face growing amounts of misinform...

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This is why AGI isnt happening. Sense perception, movement, and memory are chemistries coupled to each other and all coupled to direct matter exchange with the environment, like a centrifugal governor. Nothing is representation, interpretation, “info processing”, or math.

There is another, radically different way to solve this problem, that is to couple the opening of the valve to something that necessarily varies in response to steam pressure and workload in a way that results in constant flywheel speed. By ‘necessarily’ I mean that the physical properties of this thing respond to changes in steam pressure and workload in a particular way. Such a solution responds in one step and does not require measurement. Thus, there is no time lag problem or concomitant source of error. Nor does it require an executive. In our current example, the thing that responds to both steam pressure and workload is the speed of the engine itself. Hitching the valve control to the flywheel couples the thing you want to control (the valve opening) directly to the thing that embodies the relevant sources of variance (the flywheel speed). So far, so good. The remaining problem is connecting these objects with the proper relation. In this case, we want a negative relation between flywheel speed and valve opening - increased flywheel speed should close the valve, while decreased speed should open it. The solution is to attach weighted arms to flywheel-driven spindle and to link the valve control to these arms (see pic). As the spindle turns, the arms raise and lower according to the centrifugal force generated by the speed of rotation. Faster spinning raises the arms, which pulls the valve closed. Slower spinning lowers the arms, which allows the valve to open. The degree of valve opening / closing varies continuously in response to the height of the arms. The result is uniform flywheel speed linked to oscillating pistons. This beautiful solution is implemented in the Watts centrifugal governor, and 18th century piece of technology that still works brilliantly.Diagram of bacterial chemotaxis. The stimulus ligand is environmental material. The MCP is a sensory receptor that interacts/bonds with environmental material, which triggers a change in rotation of the motor and thus changes the movement behavior of the cell. The “adaptation” mechanism on the left is the memory, it modifies the sense receptor to make it less responsive over time so that it will more likely stay in the area with all the good material instead of flying right through it. All these systems have feedback mechanisms to reset the processes. All things coupled together in  an intricate dance of molecular activity, directly doing things and not measuring, interpreting, or representing.
Corey@kh0rish.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We understand a scene because we can distinguish between the molecules and electromagnetic radiation within it. We can do that because we create molecules that REACT differently to everything in it. No one feeds us “training data“ about all the matter and energy in the universe

WTF: Auf @zeit.de berichtet Frank Sauer von Gefahren KI-getriebener Kriegsführung, impliziert aber Präzision durch KI, nennt keinerlei Risiken durch verzerrte Daten & empfiehlt der Regierung mehr KI Ein Glück gibts @abususu.bsky.social's Audio-Doku "Der Koch von Gaza" 🙏 www.zeit.de/2026/24/kill...

Militärische »Kill-Chain«: Wer gibt den letzten Befehl?

Der Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz verändert die Kriegsführung. Der Militärforscher Frank Sauer über die Gefahren autonomer Waffensysteme

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Reading this gem of a #scifi novel at the moment: Rendezvous with #Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. Just now I wondered if anyone had ever turned it into a movie - only to find out that one of my fav directors, Denis #Villeneuve, is working on it (director of Arrival, Dune and Incendies). Soooo excited 🤩

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New research alert! Geographic Scale in AI Governance: Research Strengths, Gaps, and Policy Implications An extensive report co-authored with @resieber.bsky.social for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, available in English and French:

Scale + AI Governance KSG Report - AI for the Rest of Us

Scale + AI Governance KSG Report May 2026 Dr. Renée Sieber and Ana Brandusescu publish their report titled Geographic Scale […]

aifortherestofus.ca

Mich stört's eigentlich nicht, wenn die Faschisierungsthese als «linksradikal» bezeichnet wird, aber doch, wenn man glaubt, sie dadurch schon entkräftet zu haben. Linksradikale haben aus guten Gründen ein geschärftes Sensorium für Faschisierungsprozesse, gehören sie doch zu ihren ersten Opfern 1/

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

Photo showing the burning of the books looted from the Magnus Hirschfeld library.

Sogenannte Databroker verkaufen von verschiedenen Apps gesammelte Standortdaten. Betroffen sind nicht nur Privatpersonen, sondern auch Politiker*innen und hochrangige Beamte. Wir haben jahrelang über das Thema geschrieben. Jetzt gibt es eine ARD-Doku zu unseren Recherchen:

Eine Hörreise in das Leben und den Tod von Mahmoud Omar Yassin Almadhoun, Gründer einer Suppenküche in Gaza. Von Helden in der Not bis zu KI-getriebener Tötungsmaschinerie. Großen Dank an Yassin Musharbash @abususu.bsky.social & Team, dass ihr uns diesen Menschen und seine Geliebten so nahe bringt.

Yassin Musharbash@abususu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ich freue mich, dass viele (auch von euch) "Der Koch von Gaza" angehört haben. Und ich freue mich, wenn noch mehr die Geschichte vom Leben & Tod von Mahmud anhören, der in Gaza eine Suppenküche betrieb, bis er getötet wurde. Warum & von wem? Darum gehts: zeit.de/koch

Unbedingt anschauen! @annanosthoff.bsky.social zum neuen Buch 'Kybernetik und Kritik' & kybernetischen #Autoritarismus Wie dezentrale partizipative Digitalplattformen unsere Datenspuren für autoritäre Machtgebaren aufbereiten Datenbasierte Steuerung statt pluralistische deliberative Öffentlichkeit

Anna-Verena Nosthoff@annanosthoff.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Jetzt online: Mein Vortrag an der @uni-konstanz.de über Kybernetik und Kritik (@suhrkamp.de). Ich gebe einen Einblick in die Grundthesen des Buches; besonders in das letzte Kapitel über Technikfaschismus und den "kybernetischen Autoritarismus" (Musk et al.): streaming.uni-konstanz.de/paella/?tx_u...

Screenshot des Online-Vortrages "Kybernetik und Kritik." an der Uni Konstanz

"The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end" Mit Neil Youngs Zitat beginnt ein einfühlsames, tiefgründiges & sehr hörenswertes Gespräch über individuelle, zwischenmenschliche & gesellschaftliche Freiheit Danke Navid Kermani & @jagodamarinic.com 🙏 www.hr2.de/podcasts/fre...

Navid Kermani – Freiheit ist nicht nur das Helle, Unfreiheit nicht nur das Dunkle

Wie fühlt es sich an, weit weg zu sein und auf ein Lebenszeichen von seinen Lieben aus dem Iran zu warten? Das weiß der Schriftsteller und Orientalist Navid Kermani, der in der neuen Folge bei Freihei...

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