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Debora Weber-Wulff
@wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
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I still teach various media and software-oriented subjects at an engineering college in Berlin, Germany, although I retired in April 2023. Projects on […] [bridged from https://fediscience.org/@WiseWoman on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ] .. more

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]
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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
🇪🇺 EU diplomats discussed #chatcontrol today. Result: No majority, so the vote planned for next week will be called off. https://orf.at/stories/3407810/
A huge success in our fight for freedom!🎉💪
Next goal: No suspicionless scanning, not even on a voluntary basis!
Verhandlungen zu „Chatkontrolle“ vorerst gescheitert
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Keywan Tonekaboni @ktn.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Herzlichen Glückwunsch @Gargron, @Mastodon und das gesamte #fediverse zum #grimmeonlineaward #goa25
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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #chatcontrol must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." […]
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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d
New rules on my part for requests for peer review:

1. If you write to me on a Saturday or a Sunday it is an instant decline.
2. If you insist on having the review within 7 days, I will decline.
3. If you already set up an account for me (probably the umpteenth one) on your editorial software […]
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Alan is @cogdog @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 7d
I have not gotten yet to the chapter in ”This is for Everyone” where Tim Berners-Lee describes the creation of a hyperlink protocol that allows 2 views per month from a domain before blocking with a pay wall.
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David Ho @davidho.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 8d
There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢

https://apnews.com/article/jane-goodall-obit-78698397851bc7634717206f7eba07b2
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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 9d
Comic from Pat Bagley / Salt Lake Tribune #politics
Comic On left "the God FEARING RIGHT" showing man in Maga hat with many guns and dressed in camo on right "the RADICAL VIOLENT LEFT" showing a man with a guitar "This Machine Kills Fascists"
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 9d
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 12d
Two things NOT being covered very well in mainstream news:

1. COVID-19 surge (at least locally in my area among my social contacts... very significant)

2. Cesium-137 contamination event with origins in Indonesia, with unclear how large the contamination is. (scrap metal/shipping […]
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Alan is @cogdog @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12d
Impressive to see this fully accessible camp site at Douglas Provincial Park.

Tell me how hard it is for you to write a few words of alternative text.
Blue sign with large logo of a tent and a smaller wheel chair logo. Above is the number 314x the background is full of green shrubs a few of which are turned autumn yellow and reds. Accessible picnic table with spaces in middle of bench for wheel chairs, sitting atop a large concrete pad. This camp site is surrounded fed by mature aspen trees. A paved sidewalk from left leads off picture to the restroom.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d
'In Wales there is a legal requirement for road signs to be in both English and Welsh. In this case, the official of the Highways department emailed the English wording to the translator and, after receiving a reply, proceeded to have the sign made and […]

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 14d
Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
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wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14d
Ach ja:
"Aufgrund von Wartungsarbeiten stehen die Website des VÖBB und die dazugehörigen Services von Freitag, den 26.09.25, 17.30 Uhr bis Montag, den 29.09.25 voraussichtlich 8.00 Uhr nicht zur Verfügung. Das betrifft auch den Login bei den digitalen Angeboten."

Sag mal VÖBB Berlin, was soll […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d
It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"
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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16d
@Ruth_Mottram
VG reports:
https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/ny8vWo/politiet-eksplosjon-i-pilestredet

Apparently a hand grenade, thrown by a kid born 2012...

Indeed, we hear more about violence. But statistics for Germany show violent crime decreasing.
Eksplosjon i Oslo: Én pågrepet
Politiet jobber fortsatt på stedet etter at de tirsdag kveld fikk melding om en eksplosjon i Pilestredet i Oslo.
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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16d
@gillo
It's a great article and I'm glad PUSH is publishing a lot of good information, but the information that this article is in effect an ad for PUSH is not made clear until the bottom of the page.
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Stefan Bohacek @stefan.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · 17d
Did you know that when government officials use ChatGPT, the chat logs are considered public records?

https://www.knkx.org/government/2025-08-26/washington-city-officials-chatgpt-write-government-documents-artificial-intelligence

via @muckrock

#news #foia #chatgpt
Screenshot of a paragraph from linked website: Through a series of public records requests, Cascade PBS and KNKX obtained thousands of pages of ChatGPT conversation logs from city officials in Washington. The volume of the records suggests widespread use of the technology in local government. In addition to drafting mayoral letters, officials have asked ChatGPT to generate social media posts, policy documents, talking points, speeches, press releases, responses to audit recommendations, application materials for grants and replies to constituents’ emails.
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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18d
Well, they showed up at 9:15, only to determine that the kitchen planer may have miscalculated by 2 cm... this will be interesting!

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Spo0000opybirb :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 18d
WRITE DISNEY A LETTER.

Not email. Not social media.

WRITE DISNEY A LETTER. On PAPER. Put it in an ENVELOPE and MAIL IT.

Yeah, they'll think you're old(er). They'll also think you have 1) money and 2) maybe children, more likely grandkids.

And […]

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Post with the address to use for Disney-ABC, along with a note from a social media manager saying that 10,000 social media comments will get brushed off but a single paper letter can drive a company to panic. The address is Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-3515. My printed and signed letter, in business letter format, with my address and signature hidden.
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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18d
Our new kitchen, ordered from Möbel Höffner, is supposed to be delivered today between 7 and 18. Yes, I just called (as there is no sign of them yet), they actually expect you to sit at home for 11 hours, waiting for them to come and install the kitchen. Great customer service communication....
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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18d
If you read German, there is an excellent information document recently published by the German federal political information office:

APuZ, 38/2005 - Grönland
https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/APuZ_2025-38_online_Groenland_0.pdf

From the Viking times to the current decolonization […]
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Tommaso Gagliardoni @tomgag.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18d
LinkedIn now enables "use my data for AI training" by default. You have to go to Settings & Privacy -> Data Privacy to turn it off.

Opt-in by default should be illegal.

#linkedin #ai #privacy #ml #gdpr #eu
A screenshot from LinkedIn's newly introduced "use my data for AI training" settings, enabled by default.
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wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19d
@Ruth_Mottram
My grandmother used to make large vats of apple butter at the church that were then put into clean jars she collected all year and given to people:
https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a95440/how-to-make-apple-butter/
And of course, she kept some for herself :)
You'll Want to Spread This Homemade Apple Butter on Everything
It makes such a wonderful food gift! 🍎
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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21d
Heard at the #informatik2025 :
If data is the new oil, AI is the new plastic. Clutters the environment as garbage.
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Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d
AfD-Anhänger versuchen uns davon zu überzeugen, dass sie gar nicht gewaltbereite Rechtsextreme sind, indem sie damit drohen, uns umzubringen, wenn wir etwas anderes behaupten.
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stefan @stk.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d
Das ist präzise auf den Punkt gebracht, was bei dem „genAI wird die Verwaltung retten“ ständig unter den Tisch fällt: Viel zu viel Organisationswissen ist nicht nur in irgendwelchen Office-Dokumenten gefangen, sondern häufig nicht mal dort, sondern nur in Köpfen einzelner Menschen.

Mit ganz […]
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