Falls jemand im Raum #Hamburg, #Kiel, #Flensburg, #Eckernförde (oder allgemein #SchleswigHolstein) eine #Ballerina kennt, die Lust auf ein #Ballett #Fotoshooting für einen #Bildband hat, der / die darf diese #Tänzerin gerne auf meine Seite stupsen ... :-) -> www.schlicksbier.com/buchung/kost...

So, dear client, after an interruption of 2 yrs when you tried out AI solutions, and apparently fell and hit your forehead and got a bloody nose, you now regret this choice deeply, you need my #translation services again? But with your AI budget? Let me inform you about my adjusted rates. #xl8

Here's a thing: I just found an unabridged copy of Orwell's "1984," published in Moscow in English in 2023, on the street in Berlin. #bolshoibrat #bigbrother

The juxtaposition of the story about Mick Jagger being 80 and posts about elder care homes playing songs from WWII because that’s the common assumption about how old the patients living there are is breaking my brain today.

turns out the cure for male loneliness might be invasive species control

MPR News@mprnews.org · 3w ago

The Buckthorn Removal Singles Club meets every Sunday at a Minneapolis park to remove invasive plant species and create connections.

Bitte haltet eure Wohnung unter 26°. Bitte achtet darauf, nie depressiv zu werden. Bitte bekommt nie Hautkrebs. Bitte verdient mindestens 3000 netto, besser mehr. Kontrolliert diese Werte regelmäßig und passt sie an. Eure Bundesregierung ❤️

Am Kostensparendsten wird es sein, wenn wir einfach alle sterben.

fantastic sweeping article. points out 2000s war on terror as precursor for propagandistic reality production: “What existed then as political bravado has, two decades later, found its machinery: a platformed empire that literally manufactures its own reality, one prompt and one image at a time.”

Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · last mo.

«By extending the archival function into the domain of prediction and fabrication, generative AI does not merely record or recall the world, but it prefigures it. The future archive … becomes a mechanism for scripting and legitimizing futures before they unfold …» Donatella Della Ratta

Bin aktuell nachhaltig damit beschäftigt, auf Folgendes hinzuweisen: Nein, ich möchte nicht, dass meine Texte mit KI "redigiert" werden. Nein, ich will auch Fotos von mir nicht durch KI in "Illustrationen" verwandelt wissen. Ich ahne langsam, dass das alles noch sehr viel nervtötender werden wird. 😒

AI can't translate. It can give you the gist of a text, but not an accurate, well-written translation. Meanwhile, translators are being replaced by AI, and many are leaving the business. Language courses are closing down. So basically a whole profession and its skills are being wiped out.

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What the fuck is it good for? Im asking sincerely. Medical people say its shit for diagnosing, its utter garbage for creative fields, it cannot teach and hallucinates false answers, programmers have to fix its code half the time, businesses find it doesn't help productivity and it causes psychosis.

Does anyone in the 🗃️🪡 know what German periodical labeled plates "Moden Z"? Two examples attached. We have a good few handfuls of them and I'd like to combine them under the proper title.

Is anyone at the Bodleian over the next few days who would mind looking at a couple of documents for me (from special collections)? I'm trying to work out if it is possible for me to view a few letters in Oxford before I need to give a paper on Tuesday!

In spot tests I've done, I see this happen *all of the time*, such as with my own papers. The LLM would often rather hallucinate a male scientist than get my name right. 🤷‍♀️ It's kind of unsurprising that models trained unscrupulously on the entire internet are misogynistic

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Did you know that Germany has a "Phone Booth Graveyard" and that is finally closing up shop. 4000 rusting phone booths sit in a field outside Berlin, many have been auctioned off to the public as a sort of creative home shelving or garden planters. Their era peaked in 1997 with over 160,000 booths.

🧵 A whistleblower told us last week of a heinous deportation scheme prevented by one man refusing to follow orders: Last year, DOGE facilitated the handover of a list of 2.7m people from the Dept of Homeland Security to the Social Services administration with the request to mark these people dead.

I got the most amazing spam last night. So I got the first email and it’s one of these “we can help you show up better in ai searches” author spam. Then 10min later I got the second from them where they reply to themselves as me and say no. WHAT? Not like they spoofed my address they just …well, see

WICHTIG: DRINGENDE WOHNUNGSSUCHE IN UND UM MÜNCHEN Ich bitte wirklich selten um etwas, aber jetzt brauche ich dringend selbst Hilfe. Wie ihr im Bild seht, muss ich aus unserer Wohnung raus.⬇️

Genuine question for followers with two passports: When I travel from Germany to the U.K. : Can I check out in Germany with my German passport and check into the U.K. on arrival with the British one ? Trying to avoid the bloody Brexit queues in Germany…

Meine Güte, wie kaputt können Behörden eigentlich sein? Der Rentner darf also jetzt 50 Euro/Monat behalten, muss diese Einkünfte aber akribisch per Kassenbons belegen. Dazu muss er natürlich auch "eigenes Leergut" sauber vom gesammelten trennen - sozusagen "doppelte Buchführung" /x

Altersarmut in Hamburg: Rentner darf Pfandgeld behalten

Ein Hamburger Sozialamt zieht Hans S. seine Erlöse vom Flaschensammeln nicht mehr von der Grundsicherung ab. Allerdings nur bis 50 Euro.

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Die Familie Voß kaufte zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts diverse Gehöfte, die an den älteren, durch Regelmäßigkeit ausgezeichneten Garten grenzten, und gestaltete diesen Parkteil mit den Neuerwerbungen zu einem zeittypischen Landschaftsgarten, der heute noch erfreut und in dem der natürliche Lauf der

Gillian🇺🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪@gilliancarrin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p.42 and post the second sentence. "An additional problem for Wilhelm was that his son Friedrich had shown support for liberalism and thus made for a potential figurehead of future rebellions."

🗃️ anyone have an archivist contact at Nantes who is responsive? #frenchhistorians

One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.

Neubau 2012, 82qm, Gästetoilette, großer Südbalkon, Einbauküche, Fußbodenheizung, bei Bedarf können einige Möbel von uns übernommen werden. Zentral im Bezirk Bergedorf.

Nordseemädchen@nordseemaedchen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sucht jemand zufällig eine Wohnung in Hamburg? Wir suchen für unsere Wohnung eine*n Nachmieter*in ab 01.08.2026. 3 Zimmer, ~1400€ warm, weitere Details per PN, gerne Reskeet :)

Did you know? Over the last 50 years, the UK hasn't had a single Prime Minister who has both started and ended their career as PM with a general election. Not one!

@jamesgis.bsky.social

The state of England in ten wards from the local elections.