I do wonder how long the flights between Auckland and New Zealand are ...

It’s still so strange to me that both russia and the USA are openly campaigning for Orbán 🤯

reads: Introduction In March 2026, an Anthropic employee released the source code of Claude Code, a wrapper around their large language model that is widely used to generate code in programming tasks. Its thousands of lines of Typescript code contained many hopeful prompts and in cantations to shape Claude’s behaviour. Here are some examples: “Report outcomes faithfully”; “Never characterize incomplete or broken work as done”; “Be careful not to introduce security vulnerabilities ” (prompts.ts in Anthropic 2026) . There is more than a passing resemblance here to the Azande witch -doctor apprentice who, while stirring the medicine, utters: “You medicine which I am cooking, mind you always speak the truth to me. Do not let anyone injure me with his witchcraft, but le t me recognize all witches. … Let me be expert at the witch -doctor’s craft so that people will give me many spears on account of my magic.” (Evans-Pritchard 1937: 93). In the case of Claude, the incantation s appeared insufficient: analysis of the codebase, which according to a company executive was “pretty much 100% written by Claude Code ”, revealed severe security vulnerabilities (Townsend 2026).

what an introductory paragraph!!

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„Bizarre Situation: So wie es in Umfragen aussieht, wird es im nächsten ungarischen Parlament eine rechte Partei – von Herausforderer Peter Magyar – geben, daneben eine sehr rechte Partei – die Fides von Viktor Orban - und dann noch eine extrem rechte Partei von MHM“ @arminwolf

do we dare to hope?

log in own eye one no see ...

Slow EU TikTok probe raises fears of foreign meddling ahead of Hungary vote As Hungary heads to the polls on Sunday, reports about Russia interfering in the elections are gaining urgency – and so does a European Commission probe into whether social media platforms are doing e...

After reports about Russian meddling during the Romanian presidential elections, the EU Commission launched an investigation into TikTok.

But more than a year later, and just days from a crucial vote in Hungary, the EU's probe is still open.

What's taking so long?

www.ftm.eu/articles/bru...

I used AI. It worked. I hated it. I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer.

This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level.

taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

It seems to me, Trumpy is getting his priorities all wrong.

The rich never understand the necessity of social responsibility and health care.

Electing rich people immediately widens the gap between haves and have nots.

Congratulations!

I am happy to share that I defended my PhD thesis this week. I want to thank all the people I collaborated with and met at conferences and workshops over the years! Especially a big thank you to my PhD supervisor, Matthias Hagen, and to Laura Dietz and Udo Kruschwitz for reviewing my thesis.

Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

Is the world really going to have to burn because the USA can't impeach a president?

Donald isn't lying. He did speak to a former POTUS who wishes he started a war with Iran. It's just that the former POTUS is him.

oh, yes ...

Donald wants to be on Russia's side in our war to destroy NATO, but have NATO on his side in the war to destroy Iran.

That he says he's already won.

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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You're not protected. You're just not targeted yet.

Könnte man ev. aufhören, „Melania“ eine „Dokumentation“ zu nennen?
Wenn wer ein Werbevideo von sich produzieren lässt, über das er volle inhaltliche Kontrolle hat, ist das keine Doku, sondern ein Imagefilm.
(Ungewöhnlich ist dabei nur, dass man normalerweise für PR bezahlt und nicht bezahlt wird.)

why do you need my e-mail address, name, function, etc, just to download the report?

Reminder: it's not ok to execute guilty people, either

Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism

Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters

... and the shocking part is: those who suffered dearly during that regime seem to have forgotten how bad it was.

I've lived in such a political system for a good part of my early life. Every single line is true. The damage of a dictatorship to generations of young minds is huge, from creativity potential to self-fulfilment to innovation spirit to courage to dare ...

🏆 Große Erfolge für die TU Wien: Stefan Rotter wird mit dem EPS-QEOD-Preis für seine Forschung an Licht geehrt, Eduard Gröller erhält den IEEE-Lifetime Award für Visualization & Graphics.

www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu...

© Stefan Rotter / Amélie Chapalain/TU Wien Informatics

How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html

#github #floss

Gruppenfoto: von links nach rechts: Marta Sabou (WU Wien), Jan Maly (WU Wien), Veronica Kaup-Hasler (Stadträtin Kultur und Wissenschaft Stadt Wien), Manuela Baccarini (Uni Wien), Peter Ertl (TU Wien), Bernadette Kamleitner (WU Wien), Sophie Lecheler (Uni Wien), Michael Strassnig (WWTF), Peter Knees (TU Wien)

Das Wiener Doktoratskolleg für digitalen Humanismus ist gestartet. Die Auftaktveranstaltung zeigte Wiens Strategie, mit Forschung & Förderung Hauptstadt des Digitalen Humanismus zu sein.

👉 www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu...

© WU Wien, C. Bachmaier

They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn’t want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little.