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Computational linguist and citoyen, NLP, Infosec
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ronensteinke.bsky.social
Walter Lübcke steht für etwas, das größer ist als eine einzelne Person: nämlich für eine menschliche Haltung, die in der CDU inzwischen ins Hintertreffen geraten ist.

Dafür hält ihn das Zentrum für Politische Schönheit in Ehren. Zu Recht.
Die Empörung über die Kunstaktion mit Walter Lübcke ist überzogen
Das Zentrum für Politische Schönheit stellt eine Statue des ermordeten CDU-Politikers Lübcke vor die Parteizentrale in Berlin. Das ist legitim
www.sueddeutsche.de
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
We very rarely do sales at @404media.co but today is an exception so pls consider and get all this stuff:

www.404media.co/cyber-monday...
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
Start your week with Prince smoking the While My Guitar Gently Weeps solo
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
guldener.io
Merz hasst Kultur
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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stirpicus.bsky.social
Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.
People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France. So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness. There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time. Good luck, and love as always K
August 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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annaesch.bsky.social
„Nach 1945 erhielt die deutsche Wirtschaft, oft schwer belastet, eine zweite Chance. So kam sie zu großem Reichtum. Das Geturtel einiger Lobbyisten mit der AfD ist auch deshalb mehr als beschämend.“
Von @nminkmar.bsky.social
Einige Unternehmen bandeln mit der AfD an - das ist mehr als beschämend
Nach 1945 erhielt die deutsche Wirtschaft, oft schwer belastet, eine zweite Chance. So kam sie zu großem Reichtum. Das Geturtel einiger Lobbyisten mit der AfD ist auch deshalb mehr als beschämend.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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mcfaulmike.bsky.social
The United States did not start the war in Ukraine. We owe Putin nothing. Giving him concessions now, like recognizing territories he annexed, would make the US look so weak.
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Excellent blog post on the infeasibility of putting data centers in space.
taranis.ie/datacenters-...
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
taranis.ie
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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timkellogg.me
Ilya!!!!
www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutsk...
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
www.dwarkesh.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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lilyl.bsky.social
Wieder eine großartige Forscherin. Die aufgrund ihres weiblichen Geschlechts übergangen wurde.
Cecilia Payne entdeckte vor 100 Jahren, woraus Sterne bestehen – und wurde übergangen
Die unkonventionelle Britin zeigte in ihrer brillanten Doktorarbeit, dass Sterne voller Wasserstoff sind. Sie stellte damit die Sicht auf das Universum auf den Kopf. Erst 1956 wurde sie die erste Prof...
www.derstandard.de
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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noupside.bsky.social
I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.

Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13d
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
Trump: Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran "Kwame" Mamdani, has asked for a meeting. We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st. Further details to follow! 61 ReTruths 218 Likes 11/19/25, 5:29 PM
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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I agree that emotional addiction to chatbots is the number one risk of AI today. Here is a gift link to an important OpEd in the NYTimes:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | The Sad and Dangerous Reality Behind ‘Her’
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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doriantaylor.com
lol is somebody cataloguing these
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines

www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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sasastanisic.bsky.social
Interessant, wie Merz seine neuerlichen Ressentiments jeweils rahmt, indem er sie jeweils zu legitimieren sucht mit Verweis auf andere Gruppen. Beim „Stadtbild“ waren es die „Töchter“, die man fragen solle, was er meint, bei Belém die Journalisten.
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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sifu.tweety.fish
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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berthubert.bsky.social
Glad that some cooperation is still possible. A climate satellite no less.
planet4589.bsky.social Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 16d
LAUNCH at 0521 UTC Nov 17 of Falcon 9 from Vandenberg with the Sentinel-6B ocean sea level altimetry satellite, a joint EU/NASA project
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
guldener.io
My Alma Mater. It hurts
yairwallach.bsky.social Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 15d
The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up.
www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...
LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse
Statement on the Planned Event “The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia” at LMU Munich
www.lmu.de
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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404media.co
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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felixbohr.bsky.social
„Wenn ich tot bin, sollst Du gar nicht trauern, meine Liebe wird mich überdauern, und in fremden Kleidern dir begegnen und Dich segnen. Lebe, lache gut! Mache Deine Sache gut!“

Joachim Ringelnatz, gestorben am 17. November 1934 in Berlin.
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
sophiegilbert.bsky.social Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social · 17d
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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keubiko.bsky.social
Holy shit the quarter must be a train wreck.
November 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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drdougthompson.bsky.social
Reminder: current Chief Justice John Roberts was one of the WH lawyers in Bush II writing memoranda that authorized exercise of executive powers in war on terrorism. If any case makes it way to SCOTUS to challenge these claims, the chief justice has already signaled his vote for the WH
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18d
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!

It gets even darker than that. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Boat Bombings Take Dark, Unnerving Turn with Leaked Memo Stunner
A new Trump administration memo argues that those carrying out the boat attacks can’t be prosecuted. Why? Because the administration says so!
newrepublic.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM