Einmal mit Profis:

Letter of the Anthropic Copyright Settlement. Notice of the $1.5 Billion Class Action Settlement.

New academic business model alert! My OUP book, Angels of Efficiency: A Media History of Consulting (partly on training films), was used as training data for an anthropic AI model that the company stole from a Pirate Bay–style database of books. I will receive a share of the $1.5 billion settlement.

Join us Today and Tomorrow for the two media studies Panels „Behind the Scenes. The materiality of Images“at the Swiss History Days in Lucern.
www.geschichtstage.ch

As I said:

Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?

Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.

In December I co-organized the Harvard Frankfurt www.aftersurveillance.info conference. In our introduction, Moira Weigel and I claimed that Palanir is not a surveillance company, but something else. This claim has just been proven. www.wired.com/story/palant...

Not sure if there is anything left to improve.

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.

Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.

www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

Sleepwalking on steroids

Final Stage of remediation

deutsche akademiker:innen im völlig stellenbefreiten wissenschaftsbetrieb beim lesen der vielen hoffnungsvollen op eds, dass der brain drain aus den usa nach deutschland beginnen könnte

Palantir might go Germany, nationwide. Political Initiative that the Software should become Standard Solution for German Police.

RIP. What a legend. One of the few who was as brilliant as he was nice and generous, a genuine rarity in academia.

Smash the machine!

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

🚨to all the digital rights policy people:

Industrial applications of #AI (+the cloud) is where it’s at!

Were so hung up on social media and direct business to consumer AI, that we overlook the massive transformation that’s happening across entire industries

Germany, USA, everywhere …

unerreicht: Oeser, Max. 1935. Über den Speerwurf, München, Dissertation, 20 Seiten mit Farbtafeln. ca. 4 Literaturverweise

Palantir-Chef Alex Karp: „Wir glauben, wir machen Amerika tödlicher“ Alex Karp führt den Software- und Rüstungskonzern Palantir. Er hat in Frankfurt promoviert, heute fällt er ein vernichtendes Urteil über Deutschland. Auch das Silicon Valley kritisiert er.

@faznet.bsky.social article:

www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut How a self-described "deviant" philosopher turned Palantir into a terrorist tracking, all-seeing, multi-billion dollar data mining machine.

@forbes.com Article:

www.forbes.com/sites/andygr...

Not that I'm particularly Habermasian, but both @forbes.com and @faznet.bsky.social articles can be misinterpreted to mean that Alex C. Karp did his doctorate under Habermas. Nope. Was turned down by Habermas and (!) Luhmann; ended up with some psychoanalysts from the Sigmund Freud Institute.

Beyond surveillance…

Cybernetics aftermath…

at least they have escalators there

Ich war in den 1990ern als Weikersheimer Bürger Teilnehmer einer Jahrestagung des Studienzentrums. Grund für die Öffnung für die Weikersheimer Öffentlichkeit war die Stimmung gegen das Studienzentrum. Das Personal der Panels und deren Atmosphäre war gespenstisch, wie eben heute das der AfD.

Ich war in den 1990ern als Weikersheimer Bürger Teilnehmer einer Jahrestagung des Studienzentrums. Grund für die Öffnung für die Weikersheimer Öffentlichkeit war die Stimmung gegen das Studienzentrum. Das Personal der Panels und deren Atmosphäre war extrem gespenstisch, wie eben heute das der AfD.

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us

🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

before tiktok,
before bluesky,
before twitter,
before meta,
before it all,
there were sewers.

after all, there will be sewers.

first ever bootleg DVD purchase in my life, 2002 on a black market in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

It's only cancel culture if it originates in the Cancelle region in France. Everything else is just sparkling consequences.