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Der Brandmauer-Demonteur Andreas Rödder durfte in der "SZ" einen Gastbeitrag verfassen (15.04.26). @herr.bsky.social hat einen sehr guten Artikel über ihn geschrieben: www.ruhrbarone.de/roedder-und-...
Deutschland App identity politics
Back in 2020 we published a special issue of "Critical perspectives on AI in education" in Learning, Media & Technology - now we've got a call out for a follow-up that I hope really advances fresh forms of AIed critique @lmt-journal.bsky.social think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Markus Steinmayr rezensiert heute im Freitag @imtunnel.bsky.social Buch "Digitalisierung". Ein "hervorragend geschriebenes Buch", das "zum Nachdenken fordert"!
www.freitag.de/autoren/mark...
#Interview | Sorge vor neuer Technik, Angst vor Krieg und Umweltzerstörung, Hass auf Demokratie: Wiederholt sich gerade alles? Die Historikerin & MWS-Präsidentin Ute Frevert sagt: Es ist kompliziert.
👇 open.spotify.com/episode/12uo...
I have Matthew Stewart's book “The Management Myth” on my tablet. As a graduated philosopher specializing in 19th-century German philosophy and retired consultant, Stewart wants to critique the intellectual history of management theory and education and show how ridiculous it is. It starts so well.
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
Lange hieß es, Soziolog*innen, Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftler*innen würden am Ende nur noch Taxi fahren können.
Jetzt wissen wir, die Entwertung dieser Fächer hatte oft andere, ideologische Gründe. Wir sind ein zentraler Bestandteil der Erhaltung einer Demokratie.
Amid Trump attacks and weaponized sanctions, Europeans look to rely less on US tech <and not just European govts. Many people are concerned about the implications of using US tech under an increasingly fascist US administration
techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/a...
UGent-rector Petra De Sutter gebruikte onbestaande citaten in haar speech bij de start van het academiejaar. Ze bevestigt aan Apache dat de fouten door AI veroorzaakt zijn. #technonchalance
apache.be/2026/01/08/r...
Don't blame Grok: We need to move beyond the idea that generative AI models are just data, models & prompts. That frame places AI companies as passive observers of their own products - but they're the sole deciders of how models are optimized & to what goals. From me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social:
«KI ist power-projection und zwar im militärischen, wie im psychoanalytischen Sinne des Projektionsbegriffs.»
So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
“why are women using ai less than men” bc our ideas have to actually be good
Online reaction economies are largely driven by outrage, cringe & paranoia. As #AISlop is optimized to generate engagement, its emerging genres can probably be best distinguished by the ways they prompt specific affects & trigger certain reactions (including pseudo-forensic readings) #Sloptimization
OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets (from LibGen) - Ars Technica
All that money and they still couldn't afford to buy books. #ai #ethics
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Gruppenbild Preisträger*innen
🏆Gestern wurde der Wissen der Vielen – Forschungspreis für #CitizenScience im Rahmen der #PartWiss in Leipzig feierlich verliehen. Ausgezeichnet wurden stellvertretend für ihre Teams Dirk Knoche, Sven Bittenbinder & Melike Şahinol. www.mitforschen.org/forschungspr...
Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones."
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
Virtually every digital technology of this century has been designed to feed and flatter the worst parts of yourself
"[My job as Juniorprofessorin] was created in 2021 after attempts at closing the Department [...] failed. Its purpose was to stabilise the department’s situation and ideally to develop a plan for the future. But to this day, we don’t know if we will even have a future." #IchBinHanna
To begin reclaiming control of its future, Europe must chart a path toward digital sovereignty, argues Johnny Ryan, Director of Enforce at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. He says there are three key levers to achieve this: politics, policing, and procurement.
Holy shit.
Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs.
The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds.
What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
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Reminder of why the intersection of science defunding, elite dislocation, and AI-as-solve-it-all will possibly kill the research base as we know it:
pardoguerra.org/2025/07/15/e...
This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
