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Faschistische Politik ist keine „Reaktion“ auf Diversitätspolitik, sondern im Kern gegen existierende Diversität gerichtet. Ich weiß wirklich nicht, warum man das sagen muss. Niemand ist „zu weit“ gegangen, hat „Abwehr“ hervorgerufen etc.

[R]eflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing. Marcela Suárez et al. (2025, par. 7)."

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The most socially effective measures are those that apply regardless of income, car ownership, and place of residence: free or heavily subsidized public transportation, profit caps for corporations, and targeted subsidies for low-income groups.

Ich denke das ist notwendig, weil wir auch mit Menschen arbeiten und leben müssen, die uns nicht für gleichwertig halten...

Ganz ehrlich, ich finde, es muss ok sein eben nicht mehr zu vertrauen. Den Luxus können wir uns einfach nicht leisten. Tut mir leid, wenn das jetzt die armen Männers traurig macht (nicht wirklich, räumt in euren Freundeskreisen erstmal auf).

Email from a large academic publisher (huge profit margins, no payment for authors or reviewers) helping me increase my chances to be selected as a reviewer...

I said we are skipping April Fools! #NotFunny

seeing a lot of "higher gas prices won't affect me because I don't drive very much" and unfortunately it is my sad duty to inform you that your food does not teleport to the grocery store

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf.

Full story: www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Oh, by the way, we're skipping April Fools this year because we are already living in the Black Mirror timeline.

Thanks.

I'll only join virtually and miss out on beautiful Leiden, but if you're at @ehbea2026.bsky.social do join our symposium on Thursday afternoon and chat about big data and big team science.
Looking forward to it and to representing @manybabies.org

Wenn alle Frauen, die schon einmal Opfer von Gewalt ihre Partners geworden sind, aufschreien würden, gäbe es ohrenbetäubenden Lärm. Wenn sie nicht arbeiten würden, stünde die Welt still. Nicht nur die Scham muss die Seite wechseln, auch die Wut.

Warum sind diese Beträge sowie z.B. BAföG nicht aneinander gekoppelt?

Nicht alle Männer sind harmlos, also muss frau erstmal allen misstrauen.

Wenn ich möchte, dass man mir vertraut, bin zuerst ich dran und muss dafür sorgen, dass man mir vertrauen kann. Ich habe keinen Anspruch darauf, dass jemand in Vorleistung geht, die das Risiko tragen muss, ...

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Science has never been neutral. That's clear from its history. Institutions, patrons, & practitioners of science had agendas and prejudices that shaped what they studied, how, and how they interpreted their findings. Those legacies persist, especially when denied.
That's History of Science 101.
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That makes total sense, it's just that I know many people who would not even look at a course in English

Have been lucky so far in Germany... But thanks for the warning.
Unfortunately kiddo also decided to not wear things they didn't pick out themselves

I hope it arrives promptly

Uh I would love to translate that for my colleagues...

Kiddo decided that we should already change the clocks and started getting up 1 hour early. Send coffee.

Screenshot from paper: 6.1 Coherence in the Eye of the Beholder Where traditional n-gram LMs [117] can only model relatively local dependencies, predicting each word given the preceding sequence of N words (usually 5 or fewer), the Transformer LMs capture much larger windows and can produce text that is seemingly not only fluent but also coherent even over paragraphs. For example, McGuffie and Newhouse [80] prompted GPT-3 with the text in bold in Figure 1, and it produced the rest of the text, including the Q&A format.21 This example illustrates GPT-3’s ability to produce coherent and on-topic text; the topic is connected to McGuffie and Newhouse’s study of GPT-3 in the context of extremism, discussed below. We say seemingly coherent because coherence is in fact in the eye of the beholder. Our human understanding of coherence de- rives from our ability to recognize interlocutors’ beliefs [30, 31] and intentions [23, 33] within context [32]. That is, human language use

Screenshot continued: takes place between individuals who share common ground and are mutually aware of that sharing (and its extent), who have commu- nicative intents which they use language to convey, and who model each others’ mental states as they communicate. As such, human communication relies on the interpretation of implicit meaning conveyed between individuals. The fact that human-human com- munication is a jointly constructed activity [29, 128] is most clearly true in co-situated spoken or signed communication, but we use the same facilities for producing language that is intended for au- diences not co-present with us (readers, listeners, watchers at a distance in time or space) and in interpreting such language when we encounter it. It must follow that even when we don’t know the person who generated the language we are interpreting, we build a partial model of who they are and what common ground we think they share with us, and use this in interpreting their words.

Screen shot continued Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never in- cluded sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. This can seem counter-intuitive given the increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret commu- nicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether or not they do [89, 140]. The problem is, if one side of the commu- nication does not have meaning, then the comprehension of the implicit meaning is an illusion arising from our singular human understanding of language (independent of the model).22 Contrary fn22: Controlled generation, where an LM is deployed within a larger system that guides its generation of output to certain styles or topics [e.g. 147, 151, 158], is not the same thing as communicative intent. One clear way to distinguish the two is to ask whether

Final part of screenshot to how it may seem when we observe its output, an LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning: a stochastic parrot.

Went back to Sec 6 of Stochastic Parrots today (in the context of answering a query from a journalist) and was reminded how thoroughly we grounded that part in a discussion of language use -- y'know as communication between people.

Please nobody tell my kid about shoe charms

Mehr als 1.100 Wissenschaftler:innen und Künstler:innen warnen in einem offenen Brief vor wachsendem politischem Druck auf Hochschulen und Kultureinrichtungen in Deutschland. Auch HRK-Präsident Walter Rosenthal mahnt zur Zurückhaltung der Politik.

Die Hintergründe:
www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/03...

Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.

COMMENT 02 February 2026 Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.

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

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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

also if expertise makes someone more confident, conclusive, and dogmatic in their views rather than more aware of the uncertainties, unknowns, and limitations of their knowledge, idk whether they're on the right path.

Rezepte auf der Krankenkassenkarte. Der Turnbeutel der Erwachsenen.

Vielleicht sollte ich T-Shirts verkaufen... Oder lieber Sticker und Schlüsselanhänger?

Also, you don't want a recording device that sends off data to who knows where in your child's room