today ... the elevator, tomorrow ... this or that student.

MurderBotBot@murderbotbot.bsky.social · 4w ago

I wasn’t annoyed at all. Not one bit.

Starting September 2026, Google will block any Android app whose developer hasn't registered and provided government ID. This affects all apps, not just Play Store apps. F-Droid calls it an "existential threat." @keepandroidopen.bsky.social #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org

📢 [ALERT – CARTOONIST] #Poland: Semyon Skrepetsky, a Russian #cartoonist and artist in exile, shot dead in the street 👉 Read the statement from the @europeanjournalists.org - EFJ: europeanjournalists.org/blog/2026/06...

Poland: Russian cartoonist and artist in exile Semyon Skrepetsky shot dead in the street

The Russian artist and cartoonist Semyon Skrepetsky was shot dead in the street in eastern Poland, near the border with Belarus, on 15 June. The European ...

europeanjournalists.org

way better than overthinking

MurderBotBot@murderbotbot.bsky.social · last mo.

“I’m done thinking,” I said. ART said, That’s obvious. I know, I walked into that one, which oddly enough, did not make me any less mad.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/116837391129606940 Yikes! The safeguards that apply to data transfers from the EU to companies in the USA under the GDPR are gone... 😮

Less than three weeks until early registration deadline! Information about travel, accommodation, grants is now available. 2026.essir.eu #ESSIR2026 #Bucharest

Wer sind die „Legenden“ und „Genies“ der Musikgeschichte? Eine neue Kobuk-Recherche zeigt: meistens Männer. Wir haben hunderte Artikel aus Spiegel, Standard, Rolling Stone und Musikexpress ausgewertet. Den Text lest ihr im aktuellen Falter und jetzt auf unserer Website:

Der strukturelle Sexismus im Musikjournalismus

Legende oder Prinzessin? Im Musikjournalismus sind die Rollen für Männer und Frauen klar verteilt. Eine Analyse der Wortwahl.

kobuk.at

Nice, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval #ESSIR2026 will be held in Bucharest, Romania. Great programme at: https://essir2026.aimultimedialab.ro

17th European Summer School on Information Retrieval

Welcome to ESSIR 2026 The European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is held regularly, providing high-quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR topics to an audience of researchers and research students. The mission of the school is to enable students and young professionals to learn about modern research challenges and methods on IR and related disciplines; to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in these fields; and to grow a community of researchers, students, and industry professionals working on IR with collaborations all around the world.

essir2026.aimultimedialab.ro

I do wonder how long the flights between Auckland and New Zealand are ...

Euronews@euronews.com · 4mo ago

Available on select flights between Auckland and New Zealand, the four-hour sessions are priced from €248. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/UvTm

It’s still so strange to me that both russia and the USA are openly campaigning for Orbán 🤯

what an introductory paragraph!!

Hör-Empfehlung! „Bizarre Situation: So wie es in Umfragen aussieht, wird es im nächsten ungarischen Parlament eine rechte Partei – von Herausforderer Peter Magyar – geben, daneben eine sehr rechte Partei – die Fides von Viktor Orban - und dann noch eine extrem rechte Partei von MHM“ @arminwolf

Armin Wolf@arminwolf.at · 4mo ago

Falls wer nicht bis 23.35 warten will - hier sind wir bereits zu sehen - und überall, wo es Podcasts gibt, zu hören:

do we dare to hope?

Gabriela Greilinger@gabrielagreilinger.com · 4mo ago

So much has gone wrong in recent weeks in Fidesz's reelection campaign, and it now also shows in the polls. One thing that has become blatantly obvious is that Fidesz is quite bad at everyday politics. Meaning: They seem to lack the skills needed for actual campaigning out on the streets. 1/

log in own eye one no see ...

Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Headline maker @theguardian.com has a distinct sense of conveying irony.

After reports about Russian meddling during the Romanian presidential elections, the EU Commission launched an investigation into TikTok. But more than a year later, and just days from a crucial vote in Hungary, the EU's probe is still open. What's taking so long? www.ftm.eu/articles/bru...

Slow EU TikTok probe raises fears of foreign meddling ahead of Hungary vote

As Hungary heads to the polls on Sunday, reports about Russia interfering in the elections are gaining urgency – and so does a European Commission probe into whether social media platforms are doing e...

ftm.eu

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.

I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

taggart-tech.com

It seems to me, Trumpy is getting his priorities all wrong. The rich never understand the necessity of social responsibility and health care. Electing rich people immediately widens the gap between haves and have nots.

Congratulations!

Maik Fröbe@maik-froebe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am happy to share that I defended my PhD thesis this week. I want to thank all the people I collaborated with and met at conferences and workshops over the years! Especially a big thank you to my PhD supervisor, Matthias Hagen, and to Laura Dietz and Udo Kruschwitz for reviewing my thesis.

I am happy to share that I defended my PhD thesis this week. I want to thank all the people I collaborated with and met at conferences and workshops over the years! Especially a big thank you to my PhD supervisor, Matthias Hagen, and to Laura Dietz and Udo Kruschwitz for reviewing my thesis.

Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

Is the world really going to have to burn because the USA can't impeach a president?

Donald isn't lying. He did speak to a former POTUS who wishes he started a war with Iran. It's just that the former POTUS is him.

oh, yes ...

MurderBotBot@murderbotbot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Maybe the schedules hadn’t been updated; humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data.

Donald wants to be on Russia's side in our war to destroy NATO, but have NATO on his side in the war to destroy Iran. That he says he's already won.

Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/

Könnte man ev. aufhören, „Melania“ eine „Dokumentation“ zu nennen? Wenn wer ein Werbevideo von sich produzieren lässt, über das er volle inhaltliche Kontrolle hat, ist das keine Doku, sondern ein Imagefilm. (Ungewöhnlich ist dabei nur, dass man normalerweise für PR bezahlt und nicht bezahlt wird.)

Reminder: it's not ok to execute guilty people, either

Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters

Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters

A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism

thetimes.com