So, I just discovered #duvetknowitschristmas and I think my situation qualifies

To add, modern management likes data like a dragon likes gold: they hoard it, but have little desire to actually effectively use it.

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Deutscheste KI-Revolution: Formulare ausfüllen.

i think about this way too much - how tech companies act vs. “legacy” companies that produce consumer goods, news, media or entertainment.

"the law does not self-enforce. the law does not self-execute. there are more parking ticket enforcement in Brussels than there are enforcement of the DMA" Cori

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AI slop for political communication is a questionable response to the whole "we have to better explain our policies to ordinary people" discourse of the last decade or so.. It gives the vibe of a low-barrier explanation, without explaining anything really.

Currently reading Platformland by @richardpope.org for my Masters. I have rarely used my red as in disagreement marking so little because the patterns described are just so intuitive when having grown up on the internet.

Who wants to join me in the forest?

Okay das ist witzig, wenn man das so visualisiert

I think we might have locked ourselves into a professionalization trap. Shocking revelation: It's capitalism's fault. The Professionalism Trap

Liebes BMDS, W T F

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opening the word document again

Update: Bluesky has some of "the juice"

I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is - adding backdoors into encryption on OS level - "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY - let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals it needs to be stopped, post haste

should have been clearer here but what i personally meant by 'good enough' is that it is good enough at making ppl think the tech does what they say it does. and so ppl believe they are having a different experience w/ the models than they are because it is good enough to give a user that impression

Es gibt sie doch, die Verwaltungsdigitalisierung in Deutschland..

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...

Broke: covid broke people’s brains Bespoke: being forced to look at themselves in video chats broke peoples brains

I agree there is some naivity in the article, both regarding this and the appeal to "full humanity" later on. The real value of the article is in its discussion of higher education though.

We have come so far that the Pitchbot posts headlines that are good actually, at least if you read them as sarcastic.

1/ In die Milliarden-Masken-Affäre von Spahn kommt neue Bewegung. Spoiler: Es tun sich Abgründe auf. Ein seit Monaten vorliegender Aufklärungsbericht wird im BMG unter Verschluss gehalten. Dazu, und was das alles mit dem Sohn von Helmut Kohl zu tun hat – ein längerer Thread 🧵

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

CN suicide This is what public service motivation can also mean if stewardship is lacking from those in charge. The unnecessary suffering of people with the best intentions is just so infuriating, not to mention all the harm for those they sought to serve..

ah yes, that sounds like healthy tech journalism lol

Now that is Eurovision #esc

Some people take drugs to feel sth on friday night - I just mount tubeless tires on carpet to get the heart rate up

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I know @safety.bsky.app team is not a big one but it doesn’t look good when you have a huge wave of new users from Turkey because of government enforced censorship on X/Twitter and then you silently add a country specific moderation service and start blocking users.

Lese gerade in bislang existierenden Kommentaren und Aufsätzen zur #KIVO #AIAct herum, insb Art 3, #Definition von #KI. Manometer. Du redest laut, doch Du sagst gar nichts. Alle reden mit langen Sätzen drumrum. Bester, weil ehrlichster Kommentar: "Wir wissen es doch auch nicht!" (in Jura-Deutsch) 1/

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

“If we want a culture and a polity that trusts democracy, we need a culture in which democracy is validated in the place where most of us spend the bulk of our time — work.”

The issue with this argument is: Publishers don't pay researchers nor do they pay reviewers. AI is obviously a problem for science, for many reasons some of which discussed here, but if it kills the scientific publishing industry, it might actually have a good outcome for once.

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

This why the culture in an admin matters so much. Do you, as a group, care about the abundance of detail and are you able and willing to bear the costs necessary. Doing government right means serving EVERYONE equitably. That has to be the central tenet of organizational culture.

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

CDU going full Orban even before the new parliament is formed

Habe für @zeit.de über Stephen Miller geschrieben:

There is no other piece that makes me want to chuck my phone out the window quite like this one does every time I return to it. doi.org/10.1057/jit....

"But when I check Reuters, I am in for a rude awakening. Oh damn. I am living under martial law."