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Philipp

@phildav.bsky.social

Designing, researching and prototyping emerging HCI + ML tech @Microsoft • 🇪🇺 Berlin • https://philipp.design

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FragDenStaat@fragdenstaat.de · 2mo ago

🚨Die Bundesregierung will das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen!🚨 Die Pläne, die SPD und Union heute für das IFG angekündigt haben, bedeuten faktisch eine Abschaffung der Informationsfreiheit in Deutschland. Was geplant ist und was ihr jetzt tun könnt 👇

Arne Semsrott@arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEU: Die Bundesregierung plant den schwersten Angriff auf staatliche Transparenz in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Das IFG soll abgeschafft werden. Das ist nicht nur ein Bruch des Koalitionsvertrags, sondern beschädigt Presse- und Informationsfreiheit massiv. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/poli...

Anna E. Cook@annaecook.com · 3mo ago

At this point, we should be designing/engineering with the lowest amount of tech or code possible to meet a goal. Instead, it feels like we are forcing the highest tech solutions into problems that do not require them. It's frankly embarrassing. Sometimes the right solution is the low tech one.

M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

X2Y@x2y.tech · 6mo ago

SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

Technische Universität Berlin@tuberlin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📉 Soziale Ungleichheit ist ökonomisch riskant: Studie der #TUBerlin & @pik-potsdam.bsky.social zeigt, dass bereits wenige sehr wohlhabende Haushalte durch ihr Spar- & Konsumverhalten eine Rezession auslösen können. ➡️ Je größer die Kluft zwischen Arm & Reich, desto instabiler wird die #Wirtschaft.

Soziale Ungleichheit kann Wirtschaftskrisen auslösen

Studie zeigt: Das Risiko für Rezessionen wächst, je größer die Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich wird

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Robin Berjon@robin.berjon.com · 8mo ago

I'd like to see some coordination in the open source community to respond to this. The outcome could shape significant funding and strategic moves. Off the top of my head, there's a few things that I'd like to see in a new European open source strategy. 🧵

Maximilian Henning@maximilian-henning.eurosky.social · 8mo ago

The @ec.europa.eu will soon present “a combination of funding and policy measures” to support European open source projects in becoming commercially viable alternatives to proprietary US tech. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

Mario Sixtus@sixtus.net · 8mo ago

Floskeln, die ich 2026 nicht mehr in der Presse lesen will: "[Handlung x] spaltet die Gesellschaft." "[Person y] spricht endlich Klartext." "[irgendwas Belangloses] löst Empörungswelle aus; hier von uns cherrypickte Reaktionen auf Social Media, die diese Behauptung belegen sollen."

Philipp@phildav.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Great HCI still happens but it’s usually tugged away in (the few industrial, and academic) research labs. For reasons mentioned below, they have a crazy tough time to get their foot in the door with product orgs. Even if the ”novel” thing was already well explored in academia.

Ian Bogost@ibogost.com · 9mo ago

In Apple’s case, I think two things probably happened. First, HCI was killed by behavioral economics (see below), and nobody remembers how to do it. Second, they put a supply-chain guy in charge who can’t even see design, so there is no incentive anyway.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 9mo ago

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Jeffrey P. Bigham@jeffreybigham.com · 10mo ago

you can't make a technical contribution in HCI by just connecting an LLM to something. we need to know how it works, beyond a user study with a few people. what are the ways that it fails? how fundamental are these problems, what does it reveal about the potential of this kind of use, etc.

Maximilian Pichl@maxpichl.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"Der Publizist Michel Friedman warnt davor, dass Deutschland in zehn Jahren keine Demokratie mehr sein könnte. »Ich bin erstaunt, wie viele Menschen ihr Leben normal weiterleben (...)". www.spiegel.de/panorama/leu...

Michel Friedman über Demokratie: »Der Zeitstrahl ist kurz, es wird verdammt ernst«

Michel Friedman befürchtet, dass Deutschland in zehn Jahren keine Demokratie mehr sein könnte. Der Publizist meint, die Reaktion der Deutschen auf die derzeitige Entwicklung müsse anders ausfallen.

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Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Because of the rise of pundits and influencers and the relative extinction of professional critics and public-facing experts, we have utterly lost the distinction between matters of opinion and matters of fact. (Yeah it's not a total dichotomy)

Carlo Zottmann@zottmann.dev · 12mo ago

Good write up by Nick Heer at @pxlnv.bsky.social: > We should also not lose sight of the increasing hostility of the U.S. government making these moves to reassert its dominance in [tech]. We can stop getting steamrolled if we want to, but we *really* need to want to. pxlnv.com/blog/us-incr...

The U.S.’ Increasing State Involvement in the Tech Industry

The United States government has long had an interest in boosting its high technology sector, with manifold objectives: for soft power, espionage, and financial dominance, at least. It has accomplishe...

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Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · last yr.

Product managers tell me that you don't need UX when you can just "build measure learn" your way to product market fit. But if your sense-response mechanism is entirely built around trying new shit, and the new shit fails - what are you going to do? Continuing to tweak it only upsets users more.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last yr.

This is grim stuff. ChatGPT users are pissed off at OpenAI, and it's blatantly obvious they don't really know why and neither does OpenAI. ChatGPT is a dying MMORPG.

r/ChatGPT Join u/Littlearthquakes • 5h • :Discord: OpenAl misses the point with new "warmer" 5 and pisses everyone off as well Serious replies only :closed-ai: I'm really struggling to understand how OpenAl are missing the point so badly. While the framing of the 4o v 5 debate has been reduced to people who want a cuddly bot friend v real users - the underlying issue isn't actually that. What people who liked 4o are really saying is they want a model that thinks with them and not at them and that has contextual intelligence and strategic depth. A one size fits all "warmth" addition is going to please no one because it doesn't actually target what the real issue is and so feels insulting. It pisses off people who want a 40 type model and it pisses off people who prefer their Al to just be a tool without having to worry about stuff like 'personality. Really going forward they need to either just give users choice over the type of model they want to interact with or have an upgraded 4o type model but with the ability to easily tweak to suit preferences. They need to stop it with the trying to put a band aid on a model that doesn't work for a lot of people because of how it was designed not because it doesn't tell you "great job!".
Will Mason@willmasonmusic.com · last yr.

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · last yr.

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

Markus Reuter@markus.reuter.netzpolitik.org · last yr.

Die Bude voll mit rechtsradikalen Abgeordneten, die Identitäre und Neonazis als Mitarbeiter beschäftigen - aber die Bundestagspräsidentin macht Jagd auf Fahnen, die gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, Vielfalt und Offenheit symbolisieren. www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft...

„Jagd auf Regenbogenfahnen“: Bundestagsabgeordnete müssen Flaggen in ihren Büros abhängen – Verwaltung spricht von „Routinevorgang“

Mit Verweis auf die Hausordnung fordert die Bundestagsverwaltung Abgeordnete dazu auf, Regenbogenflaggen aus ihren Büros zu entfernen. Die Betroffenen sind empört.

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Michael Seemann@mspr0.de · last yr.

chatbots für therapiezwecke ist nicht nur deswegen gefährlich, weil es einem quatsch rät (das passiert auch), sondern weil eine llm nicht "nein" sagen kann. ich mein, sie kann schon das token "nein" generieren, aber ein wirkliches "nein" muss letztendlich notwendig materiell sein. ein widerstand.

Matthias Ott@matthiasott.com · last yr.

Figma (Sites) creating inaccessible, non-semantic div soup? I’m not surprised at all. That’s basically the main point of the talk I just gave at #btconf. Figma is for painting beautiful pictures of websites. Not for making websites.

Franziska Davies@efdavies.bsky.social · last yr.

Rolf Mützenich und Stegner verteidigen das skandalöse Treffen. „Jeder Kontakt“ zu Russland sei sinnvoll. Das ist m.E. keine Naivität mehr, das ist das alte deutsche koloniale Denken, dass Moskau und Berlin gemeinsam Weltpolitik machen. Gerade jetzt brandgefährlich für die Ukraine und Europa. 1/2

"Das, was notwendig ist": Rolf Mützenich verteidigt Stegners Russland-Kontakte

Der SPD-Politiker Ralf Stegner trifft Vertreter Russlands und erntet Kritik. Rolf Mützenich verteidigt das Vorgehen: Das sei "genau das, was immer notwendig gewesen ist".

t-online.de

Franziska Davies@efdavies.bsky.social · last yr.

Vertreter demokratischer Partei treffen sich "privat" mit Vertretern eines Regimes, das einen genozidalen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine führt und einen hybriden Krieg gegen Deutschland. Wir haben ein Problem.

Luisa Neubauer@luisaneubauer.bsky.social · last yr.

Merz stellt den Koalitionsvertrag vor und spricht von jungen Menschen & ihren Zukunftsängsten - um dann exakt kein Wort zum Klima zu sagen. Die nächste Legislatur wird die heißeste in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Aber das ist offensichtlich noch nicht bei allen angekommen.