Vor einem Monat wurden wir gebeten, den Entwurf für das neue NRW Hochschulgesetz zu kommentieren. Nun diskutiert auch der niedersächsische Landtag eine Novelle des NHG. Beide Entwürfe begegnen Machtmissbrauch, visieren aber auch eine Paralleljustiz an Hochschulen an. Wir machen uns Sorgen.
Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
Die Schauspielerin Collien Fernandes kämpft seit Jahren gegen Fake-Pornografie im Internet. Jetzt hat sie ihren Ex-Mann Christian Ulmen angezeigt.
Unsere Titelgeschichte zu einem strukturellen Problem, über das in Deutschland noch immer zu wenig gesprochen wird: digitale sexualisierte Gewalt.
In diesem Jahr ist die Reaktorkatastrophe von Fukushima 15 Jahre her, die von Tschernobyl 40 Jahre.
Deutschland hat immer noch kein Tiefenlager, der Müll steht oberirdisch über die Republik verteilt, der Rückbau von Meilern wird noch Jahrzehnte dauern.
Diese ganz spezifische Mischung aus Unwissenheit, Respekt, Mitgefühl und Faszination, mit der Leute an entscheidender Stelle den räudigsten Faschos begegnen: das ist der Sound der Gegenwart
Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.
die autor:innen der palantir-recherchen von links nach rechts: marguerite meyer, lorenz naegeli, adrienne fichter, balz oertli, jennifer steiner
🔥🔥🔥It's official: Der Krieg der Tech-Autoritären Oligarchie gegen die Medien hat eine neue Stufe erreicht: Palantir klagt gegen uns. Sie wollen ein Recht auf Gegendarstellung.
Uns, das @republik.ch-Magazin. Ein kleines unabhängiges Schweizer Medienhaus, finanziert von Leser:innen und werbefrei.
I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"
Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸"
Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."
Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Now published in print: "The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production" in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing as a part of this special issue 'Automation by Design' co-edited by @cperold.bsky.social , Gerardo Con Diaz, and @justcode.bsky.social .
It's out!🍾
I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today"
It is Open Access!
👇 You can download it here for free.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
📢 Call for Participation!
Socializing Algorithms Conference
Kiel University, Germany — 7–9 Oct 2026.
With keynotes from N. Katherine Hayles and Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social
📝 Submit abstracts by 28 Feb 2026
algorithmen-regieren.de/projects
Am Englischen Seminar der RUB ist eine unbefristete (!) Lecturer-Stelle (12 SWS) im Bereich britische Literatur plus Fremdsprachenausbildung ausgeschrieben.
Ich kann gerne Fragen zum Institut beantworten.
Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES2025) Methodological Considerations for Centering Workers’ Epistemic Authority in AIResearchMilagros Miceli1, 2, 3, Adio-Adet Dinika1, Krystal Kauffman1, Camilla Salim Wagner2, 3,Laurenz Sachenbacher2, 3, Alex Hanna1, Timnit Gebru11The Distributed AI Research Institute2Weizenbaum-Institute3Technische Universit ̈at Berlinmila@dair-institute.org, adio@dair-institute.org, krystal@dair-institute.org, camilla.salim.wagner@tu-berlin.de,l.sachenbacher@tu-berlin.de, alex@dair-institute.org, timnit@dair-institute.org
📣New paper!
Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social
👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
„Einige Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen bereiten sich bereits auf eine Zukunft vor, in der eine von der AfD kontrollierte Regierung versuchen könnte, die akademische Freiheit oder den Zugang zu Forschungsgeldern einzuschränken.“ Leider beginnt das Problem nicht erst hier:
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
Waiting for distinguished economists to notice Larry Summers is a sex pest of the teenage boy variety, but with the power to harass his own students
Neutralität, Kontroversialität - alles Begriffe, die mit genau den Akademiker:innen den Bach runtergehen, die sie die ganze Zeit gegen 'woke' Wissenschaft gerichtet bemühen. Das Ausmaß der Fördergeldaffäre ist erschreckend &
Delighted to announce that Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social agreed to talk in the realm of the lecture series "Prompting Fascism. Medien/Theorien des neuen Faschismus" -> Dec 3rd, 6pm (CET), online.
Link and more information soon to find here: medienwissenschaft-berlin.org/prompting-fa...
What a fabulous line-up!
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes: " They know that “working class” has become a powerful political totem of its own — a discursive sleight of hand used to separate out white voters’ concerns as more legitimate, more materially grounded, more important than other voters’ concerns."
Die Aussage über das Stadtbild ist eine Bankrotterklärung der deutschen Erinnerungskultur.
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„Im aktuellen politischen Klima ist Merz' Aussage keine unglückliche Wortwahl, sondern eine Ansage.“
Danke Sasha Salzmann @taz.de
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Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
Our program for the winter term with lots of events to look forward to! See you there.
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...
