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Andreas Wagner

@anwagnerdreas.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy

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I am #DigitalHumanities Coordinator at Max Planck Institute for #LegalHistory and #LegalTheory (#mpilhlt) #Frankfurt

Also collaborator of […]

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Andreas Wagner is an Austrian/US evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He is known for his work on the role of robustness and innovation in biological evolution. Wagner is professor and chairman at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zürich. .. more

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Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

today's glimpse into the Web We Lost: the adherents dot com list of religious affiliations of famous science fiction authors, online since 1999 but now vanishèd
https://web.archive.org/web/20190617075634/http://www.adherents.com/adh_sf.html

Famous Science Fiction Authors - Page 1

Religious affiliation of the 50+ most famous Science Fiction/Fantasy authors.

web.archive.org

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Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik @blaetter.bsky.social · 20h

2024 wurden weltweit 50.000 Frauen von Partnern oder Familienangehörigen getötet. Wir brauchen eine Debatte über Gewalt gegen Frauen und Kinder, über männliche Gewalt und die Folgen für Betroffene sowie unsere Gesellschaft, fordert Susanne Kaiser: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2023...

Das feministische Paradox

Frauen sind in immer höheren Machtpositionen vertreten. Und je sichtbarer sie werden, desto mehr Gewalt erfahren sie, weil sie Frauen sind: Femizide, sexuelle Übergriffe, Stalking, Hetze.

www.blaetter.de

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21h

We began day 2 of our Large Language Models (LLM) for linguistics research workshop @UniKoeln with a fascinating keynote by Charlotte Pouw on "Interpreting models for speech generation and understanding using methods from #psycholinguistics". Charlotte shared […]

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Charlotte presenting a slide with plots entitled The Role of Data Exposure

Charlotte during the Q&A after her talk

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Mirja Nicolas @privilegienschreck.bsky.social · 23h

"2024 hat Covid-19 mehr Todesfälle gefordert als die Influenza und ist vergleichbar mit der Mortalität bei Brust- oder Prostatakrebs" […]

"Hinzu kommt: Das Risiko einer nachfolgenden Long-Covid-Erkrankung besteht weiterhin – auch wenn der Verlauf der Covid-19-Infektion selbst ein milder war."

Im Vergleich zur Grippe: Wie gefährlich ist Covid-19 noch?

Schon seit Sars-CoV-2 um die Welt gegangen ist, wird Covid-19 mit der echten Grippe verglichen. Wie sich Krankheitslast und Mortalität bei diesen Erkrankungen gestalten.

www.kleinezeitung.at

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Benjamin Han @benjaminhan.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

2/n

* Context compaction: documentation vs. code.
* AI rift: part of the team doesn’t believe in AI, and the other part uses a lot. The two sides hate each other more and more.
* PR is for mental alignment (among humans).
* And Memento is the best movie for context engineering!

Human Layer CEO […]

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Benjamin Han @benjaminhan.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

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Highly recommending this talk from AIE/CODE 2025 on how to code effectively as a team with AI:

* With coding agent, 40% of your context window is “smart zone”. Once it’s passed, expect more slop.
* How do you know you should start a new context (task): when your coding agent says “You’re […]

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 1d

necessarily analog critique people want to imagine they're producing. It's really training students to produce the next benchmark (let's call it OverlookedStandpointBench). Which is a cool thing to do, imo.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 1d

It varies I'm sure, but once you've made it niche enough, you've crafted an exercise for a class ... on LLMs.

I think it would often still be possible to say "what perspectives are ~overlooked~ in this answer" — because models are so homogenized. But again, that's not producing the timeless, +

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Arseny Khakhalin @khakhalin.bsky.social · 1d

Would it still be possible if you go with extremely niche stuff where you know that training data is extremely rarified, and so any generalization is likely to be fraught? Or are they good enough at this point to say "i don't know"?

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 1d

"Ask students to explain why the chatbot is wrong" was a short-lived pedagogical fix — because it's now likely that the students will stumble more significantly than the bot.

There's a path forward for analog/offline learning, and also a path that uses AI. John Henry pedagogy is a dead end. +

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important […]

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fedi.simonwillison.net

Andreas Wagner @anwagnerdreas.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

https://weact.campact.de/petitions/brasilien-desculpe?source=rawlink&utm_medium=recommendation&utm_source=rawlink&share=51a21913-cb1b-472b-9e54-85052d883dae

#merz #belem #cop30

Brasilien: Entschuldigung für Friedrich Merz!

Friedrich Merz war nicht einmal 24 Stunden bei der COP. Über seinen Aufenthalt in der Stadt erzählte er: »Ich habe einige Journalisten, die mit mir in Brasilien waren, letzte Woche gefragt: Wer von euch würde denn gerne hierbleiben? Da hat keiner die Hand gehoben«, sagte er. »Die waren alle froh, dass wir vor allen Dingen von diesem Ort, an dem wir da waren, (..) wieder nach Deutschland zurückgekehrt sind.« Der Bürgermeister der Stadt Belém sagte dazu, die Äußerungen seien “unglücklich,...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 6d

Readers like concrete stories with human interest — especially if they’re about sex, or wackos, or kids doing bad things.

The big problem of power and inequality is *too* big to make a good story. Also it’s not news. But imo amplifying concentration of power is the biggest risk of AI.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 6d

2 kinds of news stories about AI:

1) "What happens if <0.1% of people make the tools the rest of us use to think?" No buzz. It's vague & abstract.

2) "AI is alienating a generation of kids from their parents." Picture of Nåndõ, who let an LLM choose her name & shocking hairstyle. Wow! Viral. +

Andreas Wagner @anwagnerdreas.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

I know it's more about case law and deference between European and national courts than about legal standards embodied in Directives and Regulations, but would not the Solange II decision require in some way that when the EU dissolves the protections of GDPR and AIA, national rights protections […]

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

URGENT OPPORTUNITY – Deadline November 20!

The University of #trento is looking for 10 students from conflict zones for one year of free university education!

✅ Full Foundation Year
💰 €7,200 #scholarship
🏠 Free accommodation and meals
📚 Italian courses + university preparation
🎫 Transportation […]

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digitalcourage.social

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Rob Ricci @ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Wow, *two* big outages today, in the top web frontend (CloudFlare, in front of about 25% of sites), and the top git forge (gitub, with something like 97% of public git repositories).

Stuff like this is why I built https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/ to keep an eye on how centralized some of […]

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discuss.systems

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 7d

New initiative at UW to be led by @nlpnoah.bsky.social. This comes on top of the NSF-NVIDIA $150mil investment in a national fully open AI ecosystem, led by @ai2.bsky.social and Noah. Good news for UW; imo probably good for academia more broadly.

UW joins 'first wave' of colleges focused on AI

The initiative, AI@UW, was made possible in part by a donation from Charles and Lisa Simonyi, a husband-wife pair of philanthropists linked to Microsoft.

www.seattletimes.com

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 7d

And we're back! Join us December 4–5, 2025 at Northeastern University in Boston for our 12th annual The Caribbean Digital Conference. Our schedule is packed with wonders and amazing colleagues. Check it out! As always, attendance is free, whether zoom or live. Hope to see you there!

Our twelfth conference dedicated to Caribbean digital studies. Jamaica, 2025.

thecaribbeandigital.org

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115569820207257167

One of the things we don't talk about enough is how to secure the peaceful transition of power in open source projects.

We've all seen BDFLs turn into mad kings.
There are innumerable projects which have collapsed when the founder left […]

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maría de los dolores @anarchivi.st · 8d

#OCLC has refiled its motion for default judgment against Anna's Archive: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68157923/57/oclc-online-computer-library-center-inc-v-annas-archive/

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 8d

The new features are still in alpha—but @djevans.bsky.social's contextual tools for Viral Texts data are live clusters.viraltexts.org

Click "View witness in context" to see a given reprint on the newspaper page, alongside other reprints on that page—click a cluster ID here to see its other reprints

A digital archive interface showing a newspaper text. On the left side is the OCR data for the text, while on the right side is an image clipping of the text from the original archive. At the top is metadata about the newspaper title, date, and location, with an arrow pointing to the text "View witness in context"

An image of a historical newspaper page with a yellow highlight box surrounding one small text. An arrow points to a sidebar with metadata about this reprint, with a hyperlink to 37 reprints of this text

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 8d

Very persuasive. Worth underlining that there are trade-offs. If your goal is to "improve the writing," but also "keep this accessible to the widest possible audience, and don't advocate any specific perspective," you are pulling and pushing on the same lever. Humans can't both pull & push either.

Transcribed passage: Taking a step back, this means base models show us that there can be great writing out of the models, but it’s still far from reliable. Base models aren't robust enough to variations to make great writers — we need some form of the constraints applied in post-training to make models follow Q&A. The next step would be solving the problem of how models aren’t trained with a narrow enough experience. Specific points of view nurture voice. The target should be a model that can output tokens in any area or request that is clear, compelling, and entertaining.

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heise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Europäische PayPal-Alternative: Bezahldienst Wero für Online-Einkäufe gestartet

Sparkassen, Volksbanken und etliche Händler sind schon dabei: Wero als europäische Antwort auf Dienste wie Paypal startet für Online-Shopping […]

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 8d

I just read the testimony of these 60 former DOJ attorneys in the NYT. I couldn't look away. If you have too much stuff to do today, don't start reading. Here's the tl;dr, which you already knew anyway: DOJ is gone gone. It's just the private legal army of a cruel madman.

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Amadeu Antonio Stiftung @amadeuantonio.bsky.social · 8d

Dr. Hudhaifa Al-Mashhadani, Leiter der Deutsch-Arabischen Schule Neukölln, wurde am Freitag Opfer eines mutmaßlichen Mordanschlags. Ein Mann versuchte ihn am Bahnsteig vor eine einfahrende U-Bahn zu stoßen und zeigte danach eindeutige, drohende Gesten. 1/x

Staatzschutz ermittelt: Angriff auf Leiter deutsch-arabischer Schule in Neukölln

Er setzt sich für einen arabisch-israelischen Austausch ein. Nun ermittelt die Polizei zu einem Angriff auf den Schulleiter in einem U-Bahnhof. Regierungschef Wegner ist erschüttert.

www.tagesspiegel.de

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jonny (good kind) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

So if I'm reading this right: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/11/07/whisper-leak-a-novel-side-channel-cyberattack-on-remote-language-models/

(If one forgives the sampling limitations (one question, 100 positive responses, etc.), which I'm not sure you should...)

The output […]

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neuromatch.social

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Just received the great news that the video recordings from #dh2025 have been published on the conference website https://dh2025.adho.org/. But it would be great if these were published with an explicit license and a unique URL (or DOI) for each recording to allow for re-use and distribution […]

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

The diversity of metadata provided by users uploading items to @internetarchive caused me to (again) make the most common error in API calls: making them too specific. I had been too optimistic and limited my search to items explicitly to those marked as being in Arabic. Removing this condition […]

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Can we trust general-purpose LLMs for rigorous academic work? According to @SarahOberbichler from #dhlab_ieg, research integrity demands specialized AI models, not general-purpose LLMs when using AI as an analysis tool. Join her upcoming talk online or at CESR […]

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Infoflyer for the announced event. Left: Pictures of Newspaper articles. Right: Text with announcement. The text reads: "Humanites Numeriques Tourangelles, Mercredi 26 novembre 2025, 17h-19h - Tours, CESR - Salle Rapin et en visioconférence. #9 Argument Mining in News Media: Tailoring Models and Methods for Responsible Application, Sarah Oberbichler - Digital Humanities Lab, Leibniz Institute of European History."