Jens Bonk-Wiltfang
@derbonk.eurosky.social
Works in higher education, somewhere between teacher support and digital anything. Studied popular culture and copyright in a former life, but still thinks about it all the time. Plays too little, types too much. Eternally too online.
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Wenn ihr ChatGPT etwas fragt, ist es recht wahrscheinlich, dass euch Ulf Poschardt antwortet. "Axel Springer hatte 2023 eine »globale Partnerschaft« mit OpenAI geschlossen. Diese Kooperation schlage sich »signifikant in der Quellenauswahl von ChatGPT nieder«, heißt es in der Auswertung."
Studie: KI-Modell Claude zitiert russisches Desinformations-Netz als Nachrichtenquelle
Immer mehr Menschen nutzen KI als Nachrichtenquelle und hoffen auf neutrale und objektive Antworten. Nun warnt eine neue Studie vor »schwer wahrnehmbaren Verzerrungen« durch die Modelle von Anthropic,...
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Middelberg meint das Regenrückhaltebecken in Belm, was zum Lern- und Naherholungsort ausgebaut wurde und so umgebaut wurde, dass nach Angaben des lokalen Wasserverbandes der Hochwasserschutz besser funktioniert und Starkregen nicht mehr in die angrenzende Wohnbebauung drückt.
Frau Büüsker@uedio.bsky.social · last mo.Unmittelbar nach einer Extremhitzewelle diskreditiert der führende Haushaltspolitiker der Union Klimaanpassungsmaßnahmen im urbanen Raum am Beispiel eines "gammeligen Ententeichs" in seinem Wahlkreis, um die Zweckentfremdung des KTF für den Haushalt zu rechtfertigen
you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help. with that said, onwards!
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
theguardian.com
I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.
The Prairieland Sentences Are a National Emergency
A federal court has punished Texas ICE demonstrators with decades in prison. This is dark news not just for them but for anyone who may want to register political dissent.
newrepublic.com
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...
Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
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NEW: A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search, new research shows.
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
404media.co
Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.
Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
arstechnica.com
NEW: 404 Media’s experimentation with Haotian AI marks the first time a journalist has managed to test this deepfake software to see how it really works. What did we learn? Haotian AI demonstrates its tool as a way to impersonate at least one US police department. And it's extremely effective.
‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World
404 Media has obtained a copy of ‘Haotian AI’, a popular piece of realtime deepfake software marketed to scammers. It can turn a fraudster's face into anyone else's on WhatsApp, Zoom, and Teams.
404media.co
Reposting this for obvious reasons. I have much more in common with any Iranian than I do with the American and Israeli pieces of shit trying to annihilate them. Any single Iranian life lost is an entire universe gone; more, a tragedy at a level I cannot personally fathom. This is all I can do.
Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · last yr.If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! We're everywhere and we're cool. Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.
The NYT reported how Dr. Oz held a meeting with Medical orgs and a anti-trans hate group to coerce those groups into backing off their support of trans youth. Jeremy Peters and the NYT framed this shakedown as a reasonable meeting about medical evidence standards. The NYT's bias is clear again.
I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them. I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoTrump: "If we didn't hit within 2 weeks, they would've had a nuclear weapon. When crazy people have nuclear weapons bad things happen."
Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
Dieser ganze Diskurs ist mittlerweile so dermaßen entgleist. Wie wäre es, wenn wir darüber reden, was die Zukunft und Gegenwart von Kindern und Jugendlichen real bedroht: Klimakatastrophe, Armut, fehlende Ressourcen im Bildungssystem, Superreiche und die fehlende Regulierung von Techkonzernen.
Social-Media-Verbot: Merz befürwortet Social-Media-Verbot für Minderjährige
Auch die CDU diskutiert, ob und wie Kinder und Jugendliche Social Media nutzen dürfen. Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz hat sich für ein Verbot ausgesprochen.
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Die SPD will Personalausweis-Pflicht für soziale Medien. Für Alle, auch Erwachsene. Soziale Medien definiert sie nicht, vielleicht meint sie damit auch YouTube, Mastodon und WhatsApp. Anbieter, die sich nicht daran halten, sollen per Netz-Sperren zensiert werden. www.spdfraktion.de/system/files...
spdfraktion.de
Wo unser Kanzler im Rentenalter Sympathien für ein Social Media Verbot für Kinder und Jugendliche zeigt - warum nicht einfach Big Tech für alle endlich konsequent regulieren anstatt nur für Jugendliche verbieten? digitalrechte.de/news/social-...
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Zentrum für Digitalrechte und Demokratie
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"Diese Furcht vor 'Shitstorms', losgetreten etwa durch Plattformen wie 'Nius', sei mittlerweile derart präsent, dass sie zu vorauseilendem Gehorsam in der Programmgestaltung führe. Ein langjähriger NDR-Mitarbeiter sagt: 'Das hat Züge von Selbstzensur angenommen, die uns das Arbeiten erschwert.'“
Appell an Caren Miosga nach Chrupalla-Einladung: „Ausdruck einer weiteren Normalisierung extrem rechter Positionen“
Die jüngste Einladung von AfD-Chef Tino Chrupalla führte zu scharfer Kritik an Moderatorin Caren Miosga. Nun fordern Medienschaffende und Forscher ein Umdenken.
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That is an incredible pull quote from Meta, jesus. Masks fully coming off.
Ben Ewen-Campen@benforward3.bsky.social · 6mo agoFacebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Springer Nature, one of the world’s largest academic publishers, has been caught using fake AI-generated citations in their textbooks
Publisher under fire after ‘fake’ citations found in AI ethics guide
A book published by Springer Nature includes dozens of questionable citations, including references to journals that do not exist
thetimes.com
If you see this, post a comics cover you love.
Evan Torner@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 8mo agoIf you see this, post a comics cover you love.
Very funny to compare this to the Valve hardware announcement video, and think back to the Amazon guy on LinkedIn who was like, “why can’t we compete with Valve??? It is a mystery!!!”
Gomi@gomizone.bsky.social · 9mo agojust saw the worst gaming ad ive ever seen
Das politische Programm der CDU: Syrien ist so sicher, dass dort niemand um sein Leben fürchten muss. Der Dortmunder Hauptbahnhof allerdings ist so gefährlich, dass dort jeder um sein Leben fürchten muss.