“Ist das normal oder macht ihr das, weil alle es machen?“ (Zufällig in der Bahn gehört, sehr spannende Unterscheidung)

[Unterhaltung mit einem Freund] Ich: Naja, ich bin nicht unbedingt besonders geschickt, was so zwischenmenschliche Sachen angeht. Freund: Das würde ich nicht sagen! Ich: Echt? Freund: Ich würde sagen: Du hast viele andere Qualitäten.

Ich verurteile den bewaffneten Angriff der USA auf Venezuela. Dieser Angriff stellt eine schwere Verletzung des Gewaltverbots der UNO-Charta dar. Es ist eine Frage unserer Glaubwürdigkeit, dies auch klar zu benennen. Wir müssen die Flagge der internationalen Rechtsstaatlichkeit hochhalten.

you simply do not have to preface your statements about this with “but Maduro sucks” whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to” don’t give them cover on it

The Hague, all of them

“Empire of AI” author @karenhao.bsky.social on how Silicon Valley’s young AI companies parallel colonial empires of old.

What fresh hell?

Rachel Aviv reviewed four decades’ worth of Oliver Sack’s journals—many of which had never been read before. What she found reveals how the neurologist’s own stories shaped the ones he told about his patients.

Eisenbahnwörter die schönsten Wörter einfach #zugzielanzeiger

I'm a bit believer in treating fraud like fraud. If someone submits *anything*, *anywhere* and it contains stuff that's fabricated, you should treat it the same whether they sat down and consciously made up lies with their own keyboard or if they outsourced it to a text generation program

"AI" suffusing academia w/ a pervasive miasmatic atmosphere of mistrust by supplying an arms race btwn students (via systems which, yes, increasingly, I've been doing this for 20 fucking years, encourage them to not give a shit & just get a degree) & teachers (via surveillant copshit) sure does suck

“I’ve been amazed by the groundswell of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to this....everyone is affected by this, the opposition has been across the political spectrum. A lot of people don’t see the benefits coming from AI and feel they will be paying for it"

I assign an UnEssay to my students as a fun way to end the semester, so they can show what they've learned in the class and show off their creative talents. This year I had students turn in AI SLOP. FOR THE FUN CREATIVE ASSIGNMENT! They're so steeped in AI hype that they're outsourcing FUN itself.

Is there any university that has made a thoughtful, ethical and critical approach to AI one of their core values? That is deliberately not falling for the hype, and instead placing a premium on human creativity and thought? I feel like this could be a real USP these days, and also please hire me!

Day 1 of #marcothon : Went out for an early run, felt super smug, then later in the day promptly came down with a cold and started coughing like a chain smoker. There will be no day 2. Please congratulate me on my [checks notes] one-day running streak.

Intuit is integrating ChatGPT into their TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, & Mailchimp services, & vice versa. Which is to say, I think a SHIT TON of people are about to get audited. They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬 www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...

Customer support AI bots are their own circle of hell. This particular one just suggested I contact customer support.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

A little thread on how the crisis around GenAI in academia is also a crisis of confidence, and it makes me quite sad. [1/n]

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump “We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.” www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Ich finde auch, dass wir den Umgang mit der AfD normalisieren sollten: Normal im Sinne des Grundgesetzes wäre es, ein Verbotsverfahren gegen diese Partei einzuleiten. Das wäre die Normalität, die wir brauchen!

2021, MSFT claimed a Teams app could read emotional affect & I's like "holy shit this will fuck over so many Black & autistic & otherwise neurodivergent & women & non-binary ppl & ppl w/ chronic pain & … like Everybody at any of those intersections." This PainChek thing is that, but a doctors' tool

Einer von diesen Tagen wo man dem Wecker antwortet mit „Ja eh.“

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once: — Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — Against raising the minimum wage — Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

CLD isn't alone in this respect - there's many dubious conditions for which charlatans push expensive therapies; Adrenal Fatigue, Toxic Mould, Electromagnetic hypersensitivity. While patients might find label comforting, false diagnosis exploits them and may delay real treatment..

I would genuinely like us to build a better, more compassionate, consent-oriented, marginalized-peoples-centered, & just technosocial paradigm of "AI," & for "AI"'s current paradigm to fuck right off into the sun, reduced to its component subaatomic particles, & lost even to the mind of god. Thanks!

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

I’d very much prefer if people only collected data if there was a real chance that it leads to more insights, as opposed to more publishable units.

We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

When a former student messages you to excitedly share things they are learning in their current course 🥰

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

I am hesitant to participate in the Tylenol discourse, even to say that there is no truth to the claim, because I fear that by repeatedly using both words in a sentence, the only thing most people will remember is that there was some kind of connection.

Die Trump-Regierung hat also einen neuen Schuldigen für Autismus gefunden: Paracetamol in der Schwangerschaft. Das ist wissenschaftlich nicht haltbar. Aber es passt perfekt ins Konzept: Autismus ist ein Fehler der Frauen. Die sollen gefälligst Schmerzen erdulden, statt Schmerzmittel zu nehmen.

Super excited to be at the @fraunhofer.bsky.social Summer School on Rethinking Immunity and Disease in the Face of Gender Data Gaps. #gendermedicine #summerschool #proflife

So, meine Lieben, hilft ja nix: ich werd in einigen Tagen 50 (genau genommen am 10.10.). Vor 10 Jahren waren wir weit, sehr weit unter der Armutsgrenze. Und ich wäre es auch heute noch, hätten 2017 nicbt manche Menschen begonnen, mich zu bestärken. Mir den Glauben an meine Fähigkeiten wieder zu 1/3

I am not against translation software but I‘m against 1. it being uncritically used to just translate public facing websites instead of just paying translators cause the results are horseshit 2. AI based tools being shoved at me without alternative when are the best examples of enshittification

Universities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

Im Prinzip weiß man ja immer vorher dass Warntag ist, und dann ist man doch jedes Mal überrascht

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

„Ooooh, I love Austria! It’s like Germany, but with irony.”

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Yes, hello, I am a cis white suburban mom, and I am a single-issue voter. That issue: EVERYONE IS PEOPLE, STOP FUCKING TRYING TO UNPEOPLE PEOPLE

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

Ein Horror, dass es nötig war. Gut, dass es funktioniert hat.