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Ingmar Mundt
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Researcher Weizenbaum Institute Berlin | Sociology | STS | Research on genAI, algorithms, data & knowledge production | Social Theory on Future Practices and Prediction Technologies | D&D 5e Nerd | Posts in DE & EN
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zukunftsheld.bsky.social
Wir sind Astronaut.
November 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
Heute geht es los: Jetzt noch schnell anmelden oder in Berlin zum Institut am Zoologischen Garten kommen.
zukunftsheld.bsky.social Ingmar Mundt @zukunftsheld.bsky.social · 3d
Am kommenden Donnerstag startet um 16 Uhr endlich unser neues Forschungskolloquium am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social mit einem Beitrag von Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer (TU Berlin) zur neuen Agency generativer KI. Online Teilnahme per zoom möglich. Anmeldung ➡️ : www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
Am kommenden Donnerstag startet um 16 Uhr endlich unser neues Forschungskolloquium am @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social mit einem Beitrag von Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer (TU Berlin) zur neuen Agency generativer KI. Online Teilnahme per zoom möglich. Anmeldung ➡️ : www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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keanbirch.bsky.social
I'll be in Berlin on 11th December giving a talk at the @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social called "Do artefacts have political economy?"

For anyone interested in the interface of #STS & #politicaleconomy
zukunftsheld.bsky.social Ingmar Mundt @zukunftsheld.bsky.social · 25d
Save the dates: My research group at
@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social is starting a new research colloquium this term. We have 4 contributions (2 english speaking) with great scholars: Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, @keanbirch.bsky.social, Rüdiger Graf and Ruthanne Huising. Zoom participation possible. #sts
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
⚠️ AI is seen by many as a promise of salvation for humanity. But what if this technology of the future hides authoritarian fantasies of power behind its shiny facade? Join this keynote by Rainer Mühlhoff (Uni Osnabrück) 👉 Register now: buff.ly/DNNizzn
Keynote: The Power of AI: From Tech Ideologies to New Authoritarianisms. 20.11.2025, 18:300-20:00 h, Weizenbaum Institute, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
Ohne diesen Beruf schlecht machen zu wollen, aber der #Linkedin Algorithmus hat mittlerweile noch schlechtere Jobempfehlungen für mich als #ResearchGate.
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
Save the dates: My research group at
@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social is starting a new research colloquium this term. We have 4 contributions (2 english speaking) with great scholars: Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, @keanbirch.bsky.social, Rüdiger Graf and Ruthanne Huising. Zoom participation possible. #sts
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
Habe Dank der @suhrkamp.de Angebote mal meine Bibliothek mit originalverpackten Klassikern bereichert. Das Highlight ist aber der kleine Prospekt mit den neuen Büchern für das 2. Halbjahr 1999 und D-Mark Preisen. Bleibt natürlich als Belegexemplar im Buch.
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
„ICE Sprinter“ ist und bleibt ein Oxymoron.
October 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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parismarx.com
I hear there’s a new wave of Twitter people headed this way. I know we don’t talk about them much anymore, but I made a starter pack ages ago you might like if you’re into critical tech work and Luddites.
October 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
#CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by @strippel.bsky.social & Magnus Rust. Submission deadline: November 17, 2025.

More: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”
The Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society calls for papers for a special issue marking the 60th anniversary of ELIZA, one of the first chatbots developed by Joseph Weizenbaum.
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
August 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today
August 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
For some sad radicals, the Handmaid's Tale is a utopian future.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth reposts video that says women shouldn’t be allowed to vote
Progressive evangelical group says ideas shared by pastors and amplified by defense secretary are ‘very disturbing’
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
Es passiert also mit einer 20% Wahrscheinlichkeit (zu der wir keine Berechnungsgrundlage haben), dass #KI uns in irgendeinen Abgrund (den wir nicht benennen können) führt. Deutscher KI-Diskurs wieder am Limit.
July 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
Die Unionsfraktion fällt auf die Falschmeldungen und Diffamierungen rechter Presseportale und Politikern rein, aber jetzt soll #Brosius-Gersdorf wegen derer Dummheit auf die Kandidatur verzichten? Pistorius hatte recht: #Dobrindt hat kein Gewissen.

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Richterstreit: Dobrindt legt Brosius-Gersdorf Verzicht auf Kandidatur nahe
Der Streit über die Kandidatur von Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf für das Bundesverfassungsgericht scheint festgefahren. Innenminister Alexander Dobrindt gibt sich nun einfühlsam und fordert kaum verhohlen e...
www.spiegel.de
July 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
This news comes with the US government's announcement to cut funding already promised to non-profit television stations (rural stations, which are of course all far left politically). The right-wing's reorganization of the state and their culture war continues.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to end in 2026 as CBS cancels show
Cancellation comes a few days after Colbert criticised network’s parent company for settlement with Trump, which he called a ‘bribe’
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
Ich bin mir sehr sicher, dass #Dobrindt in seinem Zuhause auch noch ein Transistorradio, Röhrenmonitor und Wahlscheibentelefon in Gebrauch hat. 🙄
July 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
The end of Modernity
(this time for real!)
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/30/m...
The End of Modernity
A crisis is unfolding before our eyes—and also in our heads.
foreignpolicy.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
From David Graeber's 2013 piece called - A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse
One often hears that antiwar protests in the late sixties and early seventies were ultimately failures, since they did not appreciably speed up the U.S. withdrawal from Indochina. But afterward, those controlling U.S. foreign policy were so anxious about being met with similar popular unrest—and even more, with unrest within the military itself, which was genuinely falling apart by the early seventies—that they refused to commit U.S. forces to any major ground conflict for almost thirty years. It took 9/11, an attack that led to thousands of civil- ian deaths on U.S. soil, to fully overcome the notorious “Vietnam syndrome”—and even then, the war planners made an almost obsessive effort to ensure the wars were effectively protest-proof. Propaganda was incessant, the media was brought on board, experts provided exact calculations on body bag counts (how many U.S. casualties it would take to stir mass opposition), and the rules of engagement were carefully written to keep the count below that. The problem was that since those rules of engagement ensured that thousands of women, chil- dren, and old people would end up “collateral damage” in order to minimize deaths and injuries to U.S. soldiers, this meant that in Iraq and Afghanistan, intense hatred for the occupying forces would pretty much guarantee that the United States couldn’t obtain its military objectives. And remarkably, the war planners seemed to be aware of this. It didn’t matter. They considered it far more important to prevent effective opposition at home than to actually win the war. Clearly, an antiwar movement in the sixties that is still tying the hands of U.S. military plan- ners in 2012 can hardly be considered a failure. But it raises an intriguing question: What hap- pens when the creation of that sense of failure, of the complete ineffectiveness of political action against the system, becomes the chief objective of those in power?
July 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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parismarx.com
and elon musk has been saying a car will drive itself next year for a decade
June 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
I'm curious to know how Sam Altman would define a 'novel insight'.
June 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
Das heißt also kein #WissZeitVG und befristete Teilzeitstellen? Haben die dann überhaupt einen Anreiz zu forschen oder ruhen die sich dann auf ihren Erfolgen aus? Frage aus Gründen. #IchbinHanna

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Ministerin Bär plant »Rundum-sorglos-Paket« für ausländische Forschende
US-Präsident Trump macht ihnen das Forschen schwer, Wissenschaftsministerin Bär will nun Spitzenkräfte von US-Hochschulen nach Deutschland holen. Parteifreund Söder schwärmt bereits von einem »Exilcam...
www.spiegel.de
June 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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lionw.bsky.social
New paper out!

What impact had the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns on radicalization processes in the incel community?

Find out now, the answer may suprise you! -> doi.org/10.1177/1461...
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May 21, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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ingwarpero.bsky.social
Dass ausgerechnet die CSU-Politikerin Doro Bär, die noch vor wenigen Jahren den menschengemachten Klimawandel leugnete, jetzt neue Forschungsministerin werden soll - ein Job, bei dem es ganz besonders darauf ankommt, der Kraft der Wissenschaft zu vertrauen, ist m.E. hochproblematisch.
April 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
zukunftsheld.bsky.social
The really sad thing about Meta's justification to prevent a left bias is that they believe there are only "two sides" in a social discourse.

www.404media.co/facebook-pus...
Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”
Meta’s Llama 4 model is worried about left leaning bias in the data, and wants to be more like Elon Musk’s Grok.
www.404media.co
April 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM