"Actual scientific progress happens through theories, which explain a collection of findings, and paradigms [...] We suspect that the rapid proliferation of scientific findings based on AI has not accelerated — and might even have inhibited — these higher levels of progress."

Moment mal... ...so schnell werdet ihr uns nicht los. Zusammen Informationsfreiheit stärken: fragdenstaat.de/jetzt-spenden/

While playing around with the LangChain Framework, I figured it might be convenient to let LLM Agents access your Zotero library, so I built a retriever It should become part of the langchain_community package soon, but it in the meantime it's available via Github or pip github.com/TimBMK/langc...

The group behind the radical Project 2025 agenda is increasingly turning its attention to Europe: www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/h...

I am recruiting 2 PhD students for Fall'25 @csaudk.bsky.social to work on bleeding-edge topics in #NLProc #LLMs #AIAgents (e.g. LLM reasoning, knowledge-seeking agents, and more). Details: www.cs.au.dk/~clan/openings Deadline: May 1, 2025 Please boost! cc: @aicentre.dk @wikiresearch.bsky.social

In @zeit.de, @ewo.name's devastating report from #SXSW: Like it's 2023, "back when one could still innocently predict the future at tech conferences without taking into account burgeoning fascism." Again Zeit's coverage of our fall is better than our own.

A week ago or so I stumbled across this piece by @edzitron.com. He raises some compelling points and is asking the right question - where's the money? - but ultimately I think he is wrong. The money is there. And it's in the data centers. Let me explain. 1/10 www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)

München, Solingen, Magdeburg: Zu allen Anschlägen gab es einen Brennpunkt in der ARD. Zur gestrigen Amokfahrt in #Mannheim bisher nicht. Warum wohl? www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/ma...

Last week, I held a two-day workshop on NLP techniques, from Bag of Words to LLMs. Most materials are in English and include code and hands-on exercises. We covered static embeddings, classification with BERT/RoBERTa and LLMs, Model Evaluation, and finally built our own multi-agent and RAG systems!

Nachdem Friedrich Merz mit der AfD gestimmt hat, drängen Wirtschaftslobbyisten und CDU-nahe Akteure zum nächsten Tabubruch: Eine Minderheitsregierung. CORRECTIV deckt auf, wer die CDU nach rechts treibt.

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Wir haben die Schikanen der Polizei Berlin der letzten Wochen nicht an die große Glocke gehängt: Weil wir keine Absicht dahinter vermuteten. Seit gestern wissen wir: Die Polizei hat systematisch ALLES daran gesetzt in den letzten 30 Tagen, den Adenauer SRP+ zu verhindern! Ein Thread zum SKANDAL! 🧵

die cdu kopiert jetzt wirklich einfach nur noch afd-forderungen

Take note: The infrastructures of democratic deliberation are under attack. This may start in the US but will have fallout across the globe. One way to strengthen democracy: support and protect public information access in whatever form you can.

1/ I suspect we are days away from hearing Elon is "using AI" to “streamline” benefits programs. You should know why fully automating decisions about who gets critical assistance is a terrible idea that will have disastrous consequences. A 🧵 based on work I’ve done with the great @awhf.bsky.social

this is such a good piece

With Google removing their Responsible AI Principles, they no longer state that they will *not* engage in "Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights". Concerns about surveillance and injury are also erased. ai.google/responsibili...

ChatGPT in Shambles. • can’t properly count to 50 • sometimes forgets US states • think the letter h can be a vowel • can’t count vowels to save its electronic life • issued numerous corrections that were wrong • lied about having a subconscious At open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Ei guck`e ma! Es war gar nicht Fridays for Future, sondern die Russen. www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

Looking forward to reading this! 📚 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

"Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could buy TikTok" finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-s... There are currently 90 sovereign funds worldwide, and they are a hotbed for corruption and other governance risks. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

This is censorship, full frontal attack on academic freedom by any means.

Wir launchen den Real-O-Mat! Statt Wahlversprechen liefert der #RealOMat den Reality-Check zur #Bundestagswahl. Positionier‘ dich zu 20 politischen Forderungen und vergleiche wie die Parteien dazu tatsächlich abgestimmt haben – unabhängig von ihren Versprechen. Probier’s aus: real-o-mat.de

Wenn die AfD #Messer zieht, ist das Drama irgendwie nicht ganz so groß.

NIH study sections were paused last week, today NSF panels are pausing. And NYU sent out this email today. We all know how "temporary" these measures end up being (ahem, much like NYU put up "temporary" barriers to block access to publicly used plazas last year that are--surprise!--still there)

Soon we will learn whether the Humanities proving more difficult for AI to destroy (sorry, I mean "assist") than expected will mean that the Humanities get more respect ("Wow historians aren't just collecting facts!") or be seen as useless ("Why aren't historians just collecting facts?")...

Age verification laws are right up there with real names policies in the pantheon of "you think this is going to help people, but it's actually quite disastrously bad" ideas.

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin. – Buy a Tesla, support facism!

Der jahrelange Druck von CDU-Politiker:innen auf die EU-Kommission hat gewirkt: Sie schwächt Nichtregierungsorganisationen über Änderungen im EU-Haushalt. Die Argumente der CDU sind fadenscheinig, scheinheilig und demokratiegefährdend. www.lobbycontrol.de/lobbyismus-i... 1/7

Incredible new piece of data journalism from a crack team at Bloomberg, led by @davey.bsky.social and @leonyin.org 🔥 bloom.bg/4jnaKW1

1. Donald Trump took the oath of office yesterday — the first person to be sworn in as president while hawking an eponymous meme coin It is brazen corruption $TRUMP is effectively a "For Sale" sign on the White House, facilitating anonymous bribes in any amount Follow this 🧵 for details

Why will Meta let us search for Republican videos but not for Democrat videos?? What in the 1930’s Germany is this?!

Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute is NOWHERE on the New York Times website this morning. But we do get a story about Melania Trump's hat, so...

Das Krasse ist: Trump setzt seine Executive Orders als zynischen PR-Stunt ein Er hat nun eine Executive Order erlassen, die sich gegen jene richtet, die über Desinformation & Fehlinformation aufklären und sich dagegen einsetzen Er nennt das "Zensur", behauptet, die freie Rede würde eingeschränkt 🧵

My beef with AI isn't that it's unimpressive. It's clearly very impressive. I just don't think it ranks alongside the best general purpose technologies like electricity or internal combustion engines, for the effort. Think of what that tinkerers managed with the ICE and where that led...1/

Somehow only just became aware of LlooM, a toolkit that uses a combination of clustering and prompts to extract concepts and describe custom datasets — similar to a topic model. Looks nice, with lots of documentation and open colab notebooks! Has anyone used it? stanfordhci.github.io/lloom/about/

Five things #privacy experts know about #AI, but that might not be so obvious outside our community. desfontain.es/blog/privacy...

In case you were wondering how things are going in Germany & on X, after Elon Musk announced his support for the far-right "Alternative für Deutschland" (AfD) in the upcoming Federal election: The chart below shows sums of tweets x impressions by members of parliament over the past 7 days...🧵⤵️

Leaked documents show the highly political & inconsistent nature of Meta's new hate speech policy. "Christian men are totally useless" is NOT allowed but "Mexican immigrants are trash" is acceptable!? "Gays are freaks", "trans people are immoral" - all allowed. 👉 theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

This was published while I was at the National Assembly so I never really got a chance to promote it, which is kind of insane? It's one of the best features that The Verge has ever published. When I first read the draft I went "what the fuck did I just read??????" www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

We’re hiring a Team Lead at the GESIS Computational Social Science department 🌐 Passionate about open science & innovative methods for digital behavioral data? Join us to shape the future of CSS! 💻📊 ❓ Questions? Contact me via DM or mail 👉 Job ad: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

Deswegen fordern wir @friedrich-merz.bsky.social auf, endlich seinen eigenen Parteivorstand rechtskonform aufzustellen. Mehr als 25.000 Menschen unterstützen bereits unseren Online-Appell an ihn. Ihr noch nicht? Dann bitte hier unterzeichnen: /13 www.lobbycontrol.de/lobbyismus-u...

Classic #AISnakeOil as in @randomwalker.bsky.social 's book: an algorithm for predicting social fraud based on a def. of fraud that failed to check if it was intentional, was used without informing those flagged, and discriminated against vulnerable groups. www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Tolles Paper über Fußball, Rassismus und - vor allem - die Notwendigkeit theoretisch motivierter Fragestellungen in den Sozialwissenschaften.

You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋

Bluesky's current direction and priorities are a clear reflection of the thoughtful leadership of @jay.bsky.team and @rose.bsky.team. Their leadership not only shapes the platform but also sets an inspiring example of what’s possible when strong, capable women take the helm in tech.