instead of hearing about ai more can you just punch me in the head until I pass out

Diese Massenpsychose, die gerade die deutsche Medienlandschaft bezüglich des Siegs der Linken in Berlin ereilt erinnert stark an New York und den Versuch Mamdani zu verhindern. Er ist jetzt übrigens nach ein paar Monaten der beliebteste Bürgermeister seit langem.

Menschen wollen statt Rassismus, Abschiebungen, Wohnungsnot, Sozialkürzungen, Krieg & Massenmord in Gaza eine international gerechte, soziale Politik anhand der Menschenwürde & wählen #DieLinke. Komplette Presse stürzt sich drauf & versucht einen Skandal zu konstruieren. Auch das ist #Rechtsruck.

Es gibt einige Dinge denen ich zustimmen kann in diesem Text, aber in 3 Dingen irrt der Mann. 1. Ostdeutschland die Ausnahme 2. Emotionen vs soziale Realität 3. Normalisierung Und das ist ärgerlich, zeigt es doch einen Unwillen sich mit den Realitäten außerhalb Deutschlands auseinander zu setzen.

Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk@ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Der Religionssoziologe Detlef Pollack rät, die normale, demokratieaffine AfD endlich auch zu normalisieren im Umgang. Er reiht sich damit ein in die Schlange jener, die die AfD aus einer weißen, männlichen, privilegierten Position heraus als ungefährlich für sich selbst anerkennen. (FAZ 16.9.26)

The most surprising realization I had in the last years was how important it is to be public about your refusal to participate in harmful acts therefore giving others "permission" to do so as well. It really matters.

The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...

We have more data about ourselves than ever. So why is everything converging on the same? In my new post I use data on high streets, Billboard hits, a million films and my own AI personas to expose the algorithms behind the sameness and how to regulate them. laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

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"The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model produced in response to prompting; they wanted to wrestle with difficult readings and complex ideas"

Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)

We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.

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We wanted to have an honest conversation about our newly launched membership programme. Our latest Stage Talk explores this funding model, from sustainability to editorial independence, as we discuss both the promise and the pitfalls. Search 'Stage Talks with Bellingcat' rss.com/podcasts/bel...

"Inside The Membership Model" with Bellingcat's Development Team | Podcast Episode on RSS.com

This week, we explored how our work is funded - what keeps our open-source collective's lights on? Bellingcat's Sarah Bishop Woods and Mareike Vitt, both members of our Development Team, joined us to ...

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Vielleicht brauchen wir gar nicht so viel Tech-Innovation und stattdessen mehr Menschen, die Männlichkeit kompatibel für ein Zusammenleben mit anderen machen.

Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik@blaetter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Nach Berichten über Übergriffe kündigt Meta zusätzliche Sicherheitsvorkehrungen für KI-Brillen an. Übergriffige Männer wie Stalker oder Pick-up-Artists bilden offenbar ein großes Marktsegment; Betroffene werden alleingelassen: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2026...

"I am part of multiple rapidly expanding global networks of people & communities who are resisting AI & objecting to the power of the big tech companies. Within these resistance networks, women are leading the way" a must-read from my colleague Jennie Stephens www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Do women have an AI problem?

While big tech has been strategically investing to promote a positive narrative around AI, many rapidly expanding global networks of people and communities are resisting AI tools, writes Jennie C Step...

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Das passt. Jens Spahn ist natürlich in Peter Thiels "Geheimverein". 🤮

maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · 5mo ago

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI

Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.

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Number of days where it is important that this song exists is pretty wild right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWlD...

Spiritbox - Soft Spine - Live From Toyota Ontario Arena

YouTube video by Spiritbox Official

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I am deeply ashamed at recognizing myself in the conclusion of this🧵. I spend a lot of time being outraged at what the US is doing but apparently did not care enough to find out that the EU differs mostly in messaging. This is horrible.

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.social · 9mo ago

On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.

Managed to write something after a long silence, honestly. This one is personal, about letting go of past worldviews, and vowing to refuse to fit in. Maybe some it will resonate. jksteinberger.medium.com/against-fitt...

Against fitting in

Between dissolution and crystallisation

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DFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung. Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.

Künstliche Intelligenz in der Begutachtung

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When Trump takes Greenland with no major repercussions, he won't stop there. This doesn't mean invading Europe. But it does mean destroying European social democracy. 🧵

US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military - White House

It came as European allies rallied behind Denmark after renewed US insistence it must have Greenland.

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Ich habe endlich Zeit gefunden, den Text "Donald J. Trump und der neue Cäsarismus" (www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...) in die @blaetter.bsky.social zu lesen und: es hat sich gelohnt. Der Text von @fargonaut.bsky.social ist ein Must-Read für alle #AntifaÖkonom:innen, denn er bietet... 🧵 /1

Donald J. Trump und der neue Cäsarismus

Der Kampf um die Gewaltenteilung in den USA geht in die nächste Runde. Nachdem US-Präsident Donald J. Trump die Bundespolizeibehörde ICE angewiesen hatte, die Zahl der Abschiebungen massiv auszuweiten...

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One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Zusammen für Gaza - Demo am 27.9. in Berlin www.zusammen-fuer-gaza.de

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy

Israel is perpetrating a “live-streamed genocide” in Gaza, committing illegal acts with the “specific intent” of wiping out Palestinians, Amnesty International has said. youtu.be/OOCxGiJkRXk

Israel carrying out ‘live-streamed genocide’ in Gaza, Amnesty says

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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It's here. Pit in stomach feeling. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump and Musk have ushered in a terrible era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it | Julia Steinberger

The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is dizzying, but if we organise resistance now we can stop this, says Julia Steinberger of the University of Lausanne

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism@jksteinberger.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am so apprehensive about this. 😬😬😬 At 8am UK time tomorrow, I have been told my very first Guardian opinion column, on "cataclysm capitalism," will go live. On one hand, this is a huge dream being realised. I had pretty much given up. Yay!

Can find no mention of this in any German news?

I wish I could unfollow anyone not skeeting about Gaza and Palestine right now. There is a for-real genocide going on RIGHT NOW and people are still skeeting about sandwiches and art and USians having protest signs. It makes me want to throw up.

Es ist offiziell: Ich habe ein #Berufsverbot bekommen (Auszüge⬇️). Weil ich eine marxistische Analyse der #Klimakrise vertrete. Ich stehe dazu: Die Wirtschaft muss demokratisiert werden, damit nicht einige wenige Superreiche für ihre Profite den Planeten zugrunde richten können.

The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won. What now? A 🧵. 1/ t.co/FKxxmLyfce