Photo von der Titelseite des Buches: The Whale and the Reactor. A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, von Langson Winner
Les grad Theorie für die #Dissertation darin wirds um die Genese Digitaler Spielkulturen, deren soziale Räume, Wissenssysteme & socio-technical imaginaries gehen, aber vieles, wie dieses Buch, sind für Aktuelles un KI sehr relevant, z.bsp. Die Frage wann und inwiefern Tech Inhärent politisch ist
Wrote a blog post for @4tuethics.bsky.social on Langdon Winner and the Strait of Hormuz
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»Wir erleben ein Wettrennen um Zerstörungsfähigkeit. Vom urkapitalistischen Eigentumsversprechen bleibt dann nur noch der Extrempunkt übrig, nämlich der Umstand, dass man das, was einem gehört, auch zerstören kann.«
Eva von Redecker befragt von @fjmurau.bsky.social.
Es gibt tatsächlich Videomaterial vom Beibringen der Schmerzgriffe bei der Polizei Berlin, was die Behauptung noch absurder macht. Den „Knubbi-Finger“ hab ich nicht im Handbuch gefunden. Interessant, dass der Ausbilder Schmerzgriffe als erstes MIttel beibringt und nicht explizit androht.
„Das derzeitige "regulatorische Korsett" der Europäischen Union sei für diesen Bereich zu eng gefasst.“ 🤮
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Menschen, die Drohungen und Gewalt gegen Politiker:innen wahrnehmen und die Demokratie deshalb als bedroht sehen, demonstrieren mehr, bauen eher Kontakt zu Politiker:innen auf und beteiligen sich häufiger an Petitionen netzpolitik.org/2026/weizenb...
#Palantir ist offensichtlich #Verfassungswidrig 🔥
Automatisierte Datenanalyse in NRW: Palantir-Gesetz nicht verfassungskonform
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Wrote about Thursday's school strike against conscription in Germany. Small glimmer of hope in an otherwise pretty shitty week.
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Unser neuer Artikel ist raus 🎉 Zusammen mit @yannicvitz.bsky.social in dieser wochentaz-Ausgabe (@taz.de) oder auch online: taz.de/KI/!6168197/
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
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Neues Polizeigesetz Sachsen: Automatisierte Datenanalyse nach Art von #Palantir und »intelligente Videoüberwachung«. Linke & Grüne wollen nicht zustimmen, es steht und fällt nun mit dem BSW kreuzer-leipzig.de/2026/04/20/l...
Save the Date: «AI Politics: Slopaganda and the Archive», Frankfurt/Main, June 11/12 2026, w/ Ada Ackerman, Grégory Chatonsky, Occitane Lacurie & Barnabé Sauvage, Ania Szczepanska, Antonio Somaini, Hito Steyerl, Wolfgang Ullrich @ideenfreiheit.bsky.social & yours truly
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Tonight at 6pm!
Am 21.5. findet @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social ein Workshop zu meinem Buch Kybernetik und Kritik (@suhrkamp.de) statt, u.a. mit @olebogner.bsky.social, @vkluzik.bsky.social und Josef Barla. Mehr Infos hier, Anmeldung bis zum 7.5.: www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/newsleser/bu...
lady of sophistication @janky_jane Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty Replying to @janky_jane I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.
Matthew @MrWeir Replying to @janky jane I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'. Replying to @janky _jane My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her 15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App
was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said, "Where are we off to now. Columbo?" Eoin O Neill @eoinjoneill Replying to @janky_jane Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"
Loic Wright @dufflest Replying to @janky jane I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it. Eóin O Coileáin @L20_MTN Replying to @janky_jane I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.
nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commi
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.l. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese
Ein Softwareunternehmen ruft öffentlich zur Errichtung einer neuen Weltordnung auf, garniert mit Positionen, die man nur rechtsextrem nennen kann.
Diese Software hat in deutschen Behörden NICHTS verloren.
If you needed a twitter thread to learn that Palantir is a fascist company, that's okay with me, but you could also have read Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social already last year
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These are direct excerpts from the book The Technological Republic, by Karp and Zamiska. Guess who loved the book and recommended it last year? The Editor in Chief of NPR.
Viktor Orbán hat Ungarn in einen autoritären Staat umgebaut. Seine Abwahl zeigt, wie auch tief verankerte autoritäre Systeme besiegt werden können.
Die Relevanz dieses Ausbildungsprogramms des Instituts Iliade hebt auch Cornelia Ruhe von der Universität Mannheim hervor. Sie forscht mit ihrem Kollegen Thomas Wortmann zu Bildungsstrategien der Neuen Rechten in Deutschland und Frankreich. Im Rahmen der sogenannten Promotions werden Ruhe zufolge den Teilnehmenden in Workshops und Seminaren neben weltanschaulichen auch strategische Grundlagen vermittelt, etwa im Hinblick auf die Organisation von Kampagnen. "Das Ganze ist mit dem Nimbus versehen, die europäische Zivilisation vor angeblichen Bedrohungen zu retten – von der Migration bis hin zu Verfallserscheinungen, die man der französischen Regierung zuschreibt", sagt Ruhe.
In diesem Artikel von @sbeer.bsky.social geht es darum, wie die europäischen Rechtsextremen ihren Nachwuchs indoktrinieren.
Zu Wort kommen auch Cornelia Ruhe und Thomas Wortmann (@thomaswortmann.bsky.social), die das Thema an der Uni Mannheim erforschen:
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Foto der NANO Talk Runde mit Rainer Mühlhoff, Oliver Nachtwey, Sven Reichardt und Moderatorin Alena Buyx
Tolle - wenn auch inhaltlich teils deprimierende Runde bei @3sat.zdf.social.ap.brid.gy NANO Talk zum neuen Faschismus. Viel zu aktuell 🙈 Danke an die tollen Gäste @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social Oliver Nachtwey und Sven Reichardt
#TalkAboutHumanities
We need scholars across the humanities, because these are the fields where we study what it is to be human, to inhabit different identities, and to connect with each other, to be human together.
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Bund, Länder und Gemeinden wollen Geld sparen. Jetzt ist eine Liste mit Kürzungsvorschlägen aufgetaucht, die Menschen mit Behinderung und Kinder treffen.
The German publication of "Triggerpunkte" had a huge impact on how people in politics and broader society think about current political conflicts. I can only encourage people in the UK to engage and better understand some of the essential dynamics underpinning the ongoing political transformations.
Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, Investigate Europe reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.
»Fascism is not just the defense or counterrevolution of property but also the claiming of a right to affectively participate in the abjection of the dangerous element« @danielloick.bsky.social und @vethompson.bsky.social
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto — theonion.com/man-who-thre...
The human condition
