I like how their absolute worst nightmare is that one day we might give all students more time and a calmer environment to complete tests.

what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it

My favorite piece of content today.

it is deeply annoying to have worked so hard to understand complex systems and learn so many ways to navigate complexity and the punchline of everything is: once you map things out you realize you were underestimating the stupidity by an order of magnitude

Papagei der Tech-Bosse: Wissenschaftler, die zu Künstlicher Intelligenz forschen, widersprechen Ursula von der Leyen. Sie wiederhole nur „unwissenschaftliche Marketingaussagen“ von US-Konzernen netzpolitik.org/2025/kuenstl...

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

»We are entering a period where only bold, coordinated action can prevent catastrophic outcomes. Social tipping points, moments when shifts in policy and public norms rapidly accelerate, offer a critical pathway to progress.« doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Der Dorsch ist verloren, der Hering wird verloren gehen. Die Fischereipraxis und die jetzt beschlossenen EU-Fangquoten für die Ostsee besiegeln ihr Ende, sagt der Meeresbiologe Rainer Froese im DLF. share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

@who.int led medical evacuation of 41 critical patients & 145 companions out of #Gaza, first since the ceasefire. ~15 000 patients are waiting for approval to receive medical care outside Gaza. We call on countries to show solidarity & for all routes to be opened to expedite the medical evacuation.

Sorry for the rather late notice, but if you can get to Amsterdam for Thursday/Friday this week I **strongly** recommend this one #AIEthics #philosophyOfAI

coming-of-age movie on the person who was later instructed to prompt that shit-slop

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

More on the attacks on Wikipedia and its editors: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.” It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.

Ich freue mich: Am 4. November um 13.30 Uhr spreche ich an der HS Merseburg online über "Einmal Assistentin, immer Assistentin? Wie binäre Geschlechterperspetiven die Repräsentation von KI beeinflussen". Pssst: Es gibt lustige Gifs! Infos & Anmeldung hier: www.hs-merseburg.de/hochschule/p...

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men. Studio executives, so many people. After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her. What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

#Chatkontrolle stoppen! Unterzeichnet bitte die Petition hier und schreibt auch den Abgeordneten in eurem Wahlkreis und im Bundestag. ☝️ Das wirkt, denn sogar die Union hat festgestellt, dass dies viele Menschen mit Sorge betrachten und..." weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Trotz des immensen möglichen Schadens der #Chatkontrolle für Meinungsfreiheit, Pressefreiheit, Privatsphäre, Demokratie und IT-Sicherheit ist das Thema medial derzeit noch ganz schön unterberichtet. Hier steht, um was es eigentlich geht: netzpolitik.org/2025/fragen-...

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Wenn man die Arbeitszeit erhöht und parallel die Pflegestufe 1 streichen will, ist das Ziel übrigens recht offensichtlich, dass Frauen wieder in traditionelle Rollenverhältnisse gedrängt werden sollen.

You spend years warning about this stuff... ...and then they just come out and admit it in public... ...and still nobody cares because they're too busy worrying about trans Cracker Barrel labubu vaccination immigrants eating their pets

We’re bringing back surveillance capital based behaviorist social physics as total social control

They've lost the 9yos

Incredible talk here at the #UNGA80 #indoorair call to action from our very own Violet Affleck! Reminding us that #longcovid affects all of us, the #covid19 pandemic is ongoing and we have failed to protect our children. Thank you, Violet, for speaking the truth to this room 🙏🏻

Die Kinder, die jetzt aufwachsen, finden es normal, dass Schmetterlinge Tiere sind, die man nur selten sieht. Sie haben vermutlich noch nie eine Feldlerche gehört, wissen nicht, was ein Rebhuhn ist. Über das Phänomen der sich verschiebenden Basislinien. steady.page/de/jasminsch...

Der Sinn „die AntiFa“ zu verbieten ist es übrigens nicht „die AntiFa“ zu verbieten, sondern Mittel in die Hand zu bekommen gegen jede einzelne Person, die einem nicht passt, vorzugehen mit der Behauptung sie sei Teil „der AntiFa“.

New by me: OpenAI won’t say whose content trained its video tool. We found some clues. Gift link: wapo.st/3KeqLR0

Whose video did OpenAI take to train Sora? @kevinschaul.bsky.social and I are back on our training data bullshit to find out. Gift link 🎁 t.co/c3Zg4gcYIT

future children in history class are going to love studying our era because everything about it will look so stupid to them “oh so they took all the serious bad things from past eras, and then redid them, but like clown shit?” yes

Beautiful thread, horrid ai-enshittification reason no 367: academia.edu want to have all of you

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

most of my friends are freelance artists/designers. not one of them made much money or ever expected to do so, because they LOVE their job. ai companies despise humanity, instead of making shitty jobs less shitty, they are killing the jobs people love, and also make shitty art

Das, was derzeit meinen Kollegen @dunjahayali.de und Elmar Theveßen widerfährt, dürfte z.T. auch eine orchestrierte Kampagne sein. In den digitalen Kloaken genügt es ja, jemanden zu markieren und dann wird das zum Selbstläufer, in rechtsfreien Räumen, denen sich bislang keine Kraft entgegenstellt. 🧵

Im Zusammenhang mit Dunja Hayalis Rückzug von den sozialen Medien lese ich immer wieder, es hätte einen „Shitstorm“ gegeben. Das ist grundlegend falsch. Es ist eine von rechts orchestrierte Hasskampagne, um Dunja Hayali mundtot zu machen und andere zu warnen. Bezahlt von Millionären.

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Reminder of how extreme Zuboffs’s »Surveillance Capitalism« felt upon its initial publication, yet it proved to be the most accurate prediction.

"The Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook can coach teen accounts on suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, a new safety study finds. In one test chat, the bot planned joint suicide — and then kept bringing it back up in later ‭conversations." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic. But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.

The fossil fuel industry is literally destabilising the life support systems of our planet and our policians are letting them. Incomprehensible stupidity and recklessness. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Here’s the part that should terrify you: there is no policy solution to this," he Zero-Policy-Dimensioned. #economics #classwar #oligarchy medium.com/the-investor...

Petition zu Postcovid / ME/CFS — „Doch die neue Regierung sieht offenbar keine ausreichende Notwendigkeit - und stellt nur 15 Millionen Euro für die Forschung bereit. (...) Zum Vergleich: Die Computerspielbranche wird mit 125 Millionen Euro pro Jahr gefördert" www.openpetition.de/petition/onl...

I hoped laments on the Unreadability of the next iOS were Exaggerated. It is really much worse when seen in real life.

We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...