Schönen Dreikönigstag

Es schneit. Ich bin wieder sechs Jahre alt und seelig

this November, I reworked simple bot services for @signal.org, telegram, and threema.ch that all do rss2pn and offer simple text command interfaces, e.g. for sweepstakes, but I'm ponding to stop supporting the second.

H0 H0 H0 😂

meanwhile, people make ground against the scraping of creative work by genAI for training data at Standford panel of judges. actionnetwork.org/petitions/le... @ravenben.bsky.social that you mentioned?

This is a really interesting read and helpful in terms of considering barriers to access, culture and safety and STEM's responsibilities to fix these. If young women are warning each other off STEM because of abuse, harassment or exploitation during degrees or in work of course they won't sign up.

Wozu sind sie dann da, diese Sprachmodelle, die Kultur modellieren? Industrialisierung der Sprache. Es geht darum, die Logik der Massenproduktion in Märkte zu bringen, in denen eigentlich Einzelfertigung vorherrscht: Die Produktion von Sprachobjekten. Essays, Therapiesitzungen, Nachhilfe, usw. 1/8

After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne. So ProPublica did. Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

I was really thrilled to get to work on The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens with @aumasson.jp. I think we did a good job but also apologies in advance to the teens that we tried to make jokes and generally Be Chill. Also no paywall to make it easier to share! www.wired.com/story/digita...

the singularity

www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mo... I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people. #morrowind #thomasthetankengine

Gen AI is currently doing the tasks we feel “make us human” because the people who are selling it hate us. Art and culture are “those tasks capital hates.” link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

promises of automation have consistently produced new and more intense forms of labor exploitation at scale, displaced across time and space. It is critical to understand this because the “wrong direction” of AI implies that there is a correct site of labor displacement and ignores the fact that...

ah, fuck fedex. I wait for a parcel from hk. The address is fine, they even have my phone and email. They have the audacity to send me an invoice for customs and handling in advance, then pretend they tried to drop that parcel last Friday without any notice until Tuesday, when I get a lousy sms

In other words, traffic deaths are a policy choice

i coded a patch, but made too many commits.

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

A #CosmicVision mission, #ESALISA will be first gravitational wave detector in space. LISA will study these ripples in the fabric of space-time emitted during the most powerful events in the Universe, such as pairs of black holes coming together and merging. 1/ #CM25 🔭

Nachträgliche Kompensation durch Verbeamtung & Pensionsansprüche ist fest in das System eingepreist, nur: die allermeisten erleben sie nie. Man muss es so deutlich sagen: Wissenschaftliche "Karriere" in D ist für die meisten mit massiven finanziellen Nachteilen verbunden. Irreversibel. #IchBinHanna

worker's union and socialist history, the match girls' strike of 1888 is a known aspect and milestone. But I this drives a quite interesting new aspect of oral and family history to it in terms of occupational safety www.br.de/mediathek/po... (German only)

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

Wichteltür, IT Edition

This doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone looking into disinformation and scams on Meta's platforms but the scale is kind of incredible: "the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

apparently this is controversial even "utterly fallacious" according to some replies. reality is, relying on big tech/AI to be ethical is like asking them to self-regulate. it can never work. regulation makes clear what they are liable for & is our best chance if it can be coupled by enforcement

"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"

"According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750." #WritingCommunity

"It’s not that people actually think art is pointless. It’s that they are jealous of someone else getting paid to do it. They, too, want to be paid to make art. They find creation joyous, however small their attempts. There is art and there is work, and you only deserve money if you suffer."

My paper was turned into a comic according to their email - what????

regulations that are put in place to protect individuals from the wealthiest and most powerful corporations are apparently `out of control’

📊 We are excited to share new data on the Querdenken movement in Germany, collected by @marvinstein.bsky.social The data provides valuable insights into protest attitudes, party identification and populist or conspiracy beliefs. 👉 now available at the GESIS data archive doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

Long shot but if anyone would be keen on last minute tickets to see METAL GEAR SOLID played by an orchestra tonight at the Royal Albert Hall at 7pm, let me know? Partner can’t use his ticket tonight and if we can pass it to someone who can and can recover even some costs we’d like to

"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Zu Halloween gehe ich als unbezahlte Titellehre #ichBinHanna #PDprekaer

Zu Halloween gehe ich als abgebrochenes Berufungsverfahren. #IchBinHanna

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

Remember: Tech & Religion have *Always* influenced each other. In the West, they used to be explicitly the same thing; elsewhere in the world, they still are. Accepting & learning to parse those motivating values better equips us to understand— & counter— their resulting sociotechnical developments.

Diese Studie ist ein einziger Grusel: "We are hurtling toward climate chaos. ... The accelerating climate crisis is now a major driver of global instability. Extreme weather is causing widespread impacts and direct loss of life, while also driving resource scarcity, displacement, and civil unrest."

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

I wanted to show you #nerds: Instead of journalctl -fu nut-monitor NUT hooked up to a python script. The display refreshes every 20 mins or when a nut event occured (e.g. powerline gets disconnected). I use this to monitor three different NAS systems and their UPS 1/2 #nerdIam #linuxserver #linux

WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.” @wsj.com $NVDA $ORCL @justinhendrix.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...

My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS: During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭 Why that matters 🧵

DOE's public statements about this say that all the ad hoc committees, including HEPAP, will be replaced by a single committee. As an STS researcher, I am compelled to point out that this overlaps with the Nazi playbook for taking over German physics. My slides about how they did that:🧪⚛️🔭

Thrilled to have two years' of work out, in a pair of papers led by @gradientrider.bsky.social and @maxecharles.bsky.social. We've built a data-driven calibration of the James Webb Interferometer to near its fundamental limits for high-res imaging - explainer at @aunz.theconversation.com!

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

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Basically all the ai "value" is either investments in costly physical infrastructure or a handful of companies buying into / from each other. Bc they run on hype, one of Altman's tricks has been announcing giant costs as though they were revenue