Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
Dominic Lammar
@dominiclammar.bsky.social
Doctoral student at @TUM_STS, Technical University of Munich. Working on responsible science communciation - and what this may mean in the field of AI.
Bitte unterzeichnet unsere Petition gegen die IFG-Abschaffung! Das hilft uns dabei, Druck gegenüber der SPD aufzubauen. In den ersten 14 Stunden schon 120.000 Unterschriften!
FragDenStaat@fragdenstaat.de · last mo.Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...
Mathias Döpfner versucht zu zeigen, dass die FAZ in ihrer Ablehnung von KI-generierten Texten lächerlich rückständig ist, indem er seine „fulminante“ Replik in Sekundenschnelle von einer KI generieren lässt. Besser kann man seine eigene Entbehrlichkeit nicht demonstrieren.
This is a truly wild response from the EU.
Kaja Kallas@kajakallas.bsky.social · 7mo agoI have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela. The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)
This needs more widespread coverage: The US has sanctioned five individuals, including the founder and Director of @hateaid.org - a German NGO that supports victims of online hate and harassment and image-based sexual abuse
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Signal@signal.org · 10mo agoWe are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
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Die Bundesregierung entscheidet in den nächsten Tagen. Hier gibt es Tipps, was Menschen jetzt sofort tun können, um die #Chatkontrolle noch zu verhindern. chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20...
Western leaders have appeased Donald Trump since he returned to power, only to be hit with new demands after every concession. On Tuesday, Trump declared economic war on countries that regulate its tech companies. It’s time for the world to break from the US and aggressively target Silicon Valley.
World leaders must stop appeasing Donald Trump
Conceding to Trump’s demands only guarantees new threats. It’s time to reject the US and its tech companies.
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Can we fucking stop with this? “One of the most unsettling questions of our times”?? Get in the sea. How about you interview the workers these lake boiling slop machines are replacing??? Do you think these PEOPLE suffer at all? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
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Massive growth in predatory publishing and low-quality journals, interacting with AI-assisted/written articles and peer reviews, will destroy the reliability of the entire scientific enterprise. Just as destructive as Trump defunding and ideological control – maybe more, since broadly international.
Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · last yr.Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
„Gendersprache“ bekämpfen ist billiger
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12mo agoreally feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
I've learned so much from Melanie Mitchell's thoughtful columns. During a pivotal period when AI discourse generated more heat than light, her essays provided wise, evidence-based analysis covering remarkable breadth. This compelling column on role-playing's impact on LLM performance is an exemplar.
Melanie Mitchell@melaniemitchell.bsky.social · last yr.In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Trump's AI action plan and executive order on "anti-woke AI" is doomed to fail and will destroy America's lead on AI technology. www.thedissident.news/state-sponso...
State-Sponsored Stupidity: The Inevitable Failure of Trump's AI Strategy
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the spectacular and predictable implosion of Elon Musk’s “anti-woke” AI, Grok.[1] When prompted to be “politically incorrect,” Grok did not become a witty contrarian; it...
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One thing we’re going to see a *lot* of: Pieces that appear to explore an intellectually provocative question inspired by AI, but that assume a premise (in this case “friendship with a chatbot is possible”) that’s a) nonsensical and b) perfectly aligned with the aims of AI marketing
What Would a Real Friendship With A.I. Look Like? Maybe Like Hers.
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Der Plagiatsverdacht gegenüber Brosius-Gersdorf ist ein Teil einer Kampagne von rechtsaußen, die das Verfassungsgericht massiv beschädigt. Die Arbeit, von der sie abgeschrieben haben soll, ist 3 Jahre später als ihre eigene erschienen. Der windige Gutachter wurde schon vorher von "nius" bezahlt.
It discusses the case of #ShinyFlakes to analyze the entanglement of media reporting, rigidity of drug laws, and reconfiguration of entrepreneurial drug dealing through digital infrastructures. I had fun writing about it and hope it sparks a conversation or two 💫 doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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Aysel Sultan@drayselsultan.bsky.social · last yr.I am not big on preprints, but since the production is going to take a while, I am happy to share this accepted author copy of a chapter I wrote about the relationship between digital drug dealing and law for an upcoming volume in Cambridge University Press! osf.io/preprints/os...
🔔 Reminder! Hype Studies Conference (10-12th Sept in Barcelona/online) is accepting abstracts until 10th May! You can submit your contribution here: hypestudies.org/conference/a... The event is free and open to academics and practitioners alike. We hope to hear from many of you soon 🫵 💜
🚨 New paper out! The first paper of my PhD was finally published on 1 May, Labour Day! Together with @ruth-mueller.bsky.social and @majahorst.bsky.social, we conducted a qualitative discourse analysis of 4 years of German newspaper coverage of AI. So, what is ‘AI’ in the news? 👇👇👇 #hype #AI
Digital Journalism@digitaljournalism.bsky.social · last yr.ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! This study by @dominiclammar.bsky.social, @majahorst.bsky.social, and @ruth-mueller.bsky.social shows AI media coverage in Germany reinforces hype through broad future narratives, even within specific application contexts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is surely the right take. (1) Are people truly only finding out about LibGen now? (2) How did a site that has, inter alia, been the subject of multiple lawsuits from the absolute worst academic publishers (elsevier!!) suddenly become the focus of our anxiety about AI data scraping?
Theresa O'Keefe 🍉@treesaw.bsky.social · last yr.Libgen was great and pirate sites aren't the issue here. Academic publishing houses are doing this too - handing over our work to train AI and doing so without our consent.
Das hier ist aus dem Szenario einer AfD-Regierungsbeteiligung, das ich vor 8 Monaten in meinem Buch "Machtübernahme" skizziert habe, S. 29. Und ich fürchte, ich habe mich geirrt – es wird ein CDU-Minister sein, kein AfD-Minister.
Kundgebung wegen Anschlag, 19 Uhr, Odeonsplatz, München. Aus dem Aufruf: „Als Gewerkschafter:innen und Betroffene sehen wir die aktuelle rassistische Stimmungsmache nicht als Unterstützung, sondern im Gegenteil als weiteren Angriff auf uns und fordern die Politik auf, sie zu unterlassen!"
But thei were all of them deceivid for anothir environment-killinge plagiarism machyne was made
Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…
stellt euch mal vor das würde sich jetzt auch in der allgemeinen medienaufmerksamkeit wiederspiegeln.
This policy change makes sense when you remember that Project 2025 architect, Dustin Carmack, is in charge of policy at Meta. When I uncovered this, he deactivated his LinkedIn. Project 2025 wants to classify trans people as pornographic and ban us from public.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2y agoMeta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
