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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 […]

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skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16h
it's the first day of chinese new year (and the lunar new year)! it's also ramadan!

many joyful wishes to all who celebrate.

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noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy
:youtube_logo: No Boilerplate @noboilerplate.namtao.com.ap.brid.gy · 22h
PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

This allows you to, the moment you look at a repo, immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users
A github screenshot showing a repo with the message "a user you've blocked has previous contributed to this repository"

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tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116082694984669549

I am just so tired of this "AI" shit. Truly. Not just the extra maintenance burden on my but the constant discussions that lead nowhere. I can keep making the same arguments against using "AI" for anything relevant from here till the cows […]

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cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
Alan is @cogdog @cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 3d
The Atlantic becomes The Onion ? http://archive.today/ylz9I

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brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Merz will #grundlagenforschung, #mathematik, #geisteswissenschaften etc. abschaffen […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Merz: "Forschung ist kein Selbstzweck. Forschung muss zu Wertschöpfung, Produktion und Innovation in Deutschland und in Europa führen."

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mrrp.place
m04 @mrrp.place · 5d
currently dealing with a user on wikipedia who has a username indicating they are a representative in south carolina and keeps removing criticism from the pages of south carolina politicians. in their most recent edit they included a chatgpt link in the edit summary as a citation for the […]
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petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d
A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05867v1

The authors prefer the term "mysterious citations" which they define this way: "No paper [with] a similar enough title […]
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thomas.mastodon.trueten.de.ap.brid.gy
Don Trueten :antifa: @thomas.mastodon.trueten.de.ap.brid.gy · 6d
## Postbank kündigt Konten von vier Berliner Vereinen der Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes - Bund der Antifaschist*innen (VVN-BdA)

Dem Bund der Antifaschist*innen Treptow, der Kreisvereinigung Weißensee-Hohenschönhausen der VVN-VdA (ehemals […]

[Original post on mastodon.trueten.de]
Logo der VVN-BdA: Der rote, politische Winkel vor den weiß blauen Streifen der KZ Häftlingskleidung. Darunter die Abkürzung VVN-BdA

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davemosk.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy @davemosk.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 7d
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it

An eight-month study found that these tools made productivity surge—as well as cognitive fatigue, unsustainable hours, and other problems.
人工智能不会减少工作量——反而会加剧工作强度
AI Doesn''t Reduce Work–It Intensifies It (hbr.org) 02-09  ↑ 108 HN Points
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wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d
@laaspher
Gibt es eine Quelle für das Bild! Ich habe es schon als KI-generiert gesehen.

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cathy.spectralwebservices.com.ap.brid.gy
Spectral Web Services @cathy.spectralwebservices.com.ap.brid.gy · 7d
31 years ago, I applied to Columbia University for graduate school. They were my backup school, and they didn't accept me. 8 months ago, they had a data breach. This week, my parents received a letter in the mail that my info was impacted by the breach. Leaving me to ask: Why the hell would they […]
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www.spectralwebservices.com

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philippbirken.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Philipp Birken @philippbirken.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d
And @kallekn has written an article for @sydsvenskan about this:

https://www.sydsvenskan.se/lund/enormt-intresse-for-lunds-universitet-45-toppforskare-fran-hela-varlden-pa-vag-hit/

4/3
45 toppforskare från hela världen på väg – enormt intresse för Lunds universitet
”Jag hörde om Lund redan 1999 när jag studerade i Peking.”
www.sydsvenskan.se

wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10d
Sarah Elaine Eaton: Stop wasting my time! AI agents infiltrate scholarly publishing

https://drsaraheaton.com/2026/02/06/stop-wasting-my-time-ai-agents-infiltrate-scholarly-publishing/

#academicchattter
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wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11d
"You need to stop looking for “hackers” in hoodies and start watching the quiet engineer who logs in at 2 AM and starts “backing up” his work. Trust is not a control. Trust is a vulnerability."

https://www.rockcybermusings.com/p/weekly-musings-top-10-ai-security-20260130-20260205
Weekly Musings Top 10 AI Security Wrapup: Issue 24 January 30, 2026 - February 5, 2026
Shadow AI Meltdowns, CISA’s ChatGPT Scandal, and the EU’s Liability Trap
www.rockcybermusings.com

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philippbirken.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Philipp Birken @philippbirken.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13d
Lund University had an open call for guest professors last year, and the response has been way over expectations with an extremely high quality of applications. As a result, I am very happy that Yingda Chen from Virginia Tech will be a visiting professor at the Center for Mathematical Sciences […]
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veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d
In case this is of interest...

Someone saved all of the Epstein emails from the releases and set up a Gmail clone site that you can scroll as if you were in Jeffery's Gmail.
You can search by contacts, photos and even flight history.

https://www.jmail.world/
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
www.jmail.world

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mauve.moe
Mauve 👁💜 @mauve.moe · 14d
Fuck websites that refuse to show content without JS enabled and the latest chrome browser. There's no reason that static text content needs all that BS except lazyness and apathy.

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bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Ben Curthoys @bencurthoys.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d
A modest proposal: any company or organisation that has a telephone system with a hold or queuing system, must pay as a tax an amount equal to the National Minimum Wage (approx 20p / minute) for every minute every caller is on hold.

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futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy
myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 14d
This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.

He records them and shares it with the world.

What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?

Here the […]
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wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18d
I #di_day it a few days early. I helped my husband put together his new frame.work laptop (and that is an awesome thing, heavy, a bit loud, but easy to build and swap out what you need and to upgrade as necessary).
After building we installed Ubuntu 25, easy as pie. And all his favorite apps are […]
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mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy
Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 18d
Is the Fulton County election office search warrant online (preferably the affidavit, but I'll take the order itself)?

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operations.openstreetmap.org
OpenStreetMap Ops Team @operations.openstreetmap.org · 21d
If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how […]
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newsdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy
Flipboard News Desk @newsdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 29d
"Trump's letter to Norway should be the final straw," writes Anne Applebaum for @TheAtlantic. She breaks down the bizarre document, and what it means: "Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now […]
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thetnholler.bsky.social
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29d
🔥Greenland politician: “Trump doesn’t know about Greenlandic people. We don’t value💰/Kardashian lips/fake boobs… we won’t give up free health care & education… 🇺🇸are so greedy they’re trying to shoot their friends… Trump surrounds himself with white power— our rights would probably be taken away.”

wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jan 17
@SilviaMarton
Nördlich von Kopenhagen ist Louisiana, eine Moderne Kunst-Museum. Sie haben einen Kinderparadies, wir haben unseren 7-jährigen mal dort gelassen während wir im Museum rundgingen. Der Junge wollte nicht weg, es hat ihn so viel Spaß gemach! Er hat uns ganz begeistert alles gezeigt […]
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david.prochnow.xyz
David Prochnow @david.prochnow.xyz · Jan 16
Die Medien sollten X.com Zitate immer mit Formulierungen wie: „Auf der Deep-Fake-Porno-Plattform X schrieb Merz …“, einleiten.

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lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jan 13
Okay, this must absolutely have been made with some kind of generative AI, but it's not pretending to be real, it's hella funny/deadly serious and just superb. (I especially love the tough walrus smoking a cigar while driving a fishing boat 😂 ) Kudos to the makers!

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bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Jan 15
https://hackerone.com/reports/3506159
0 days since the latest slop

wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jan 10
I called a pharmacist to see if they were still open (they were!). I admit to being surprised to have a real human answer the phone! There have gotten to be so many "support bots" out there that my normal reaction is to scream into the phone that I want to speak with a human. That actually often […]
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wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jan 10
It is that serious::

“If you’re running a vulnerable version [of n8n] and you’re reading this before patching, close this newsletter and go update. The write-up will still be here when you get back.”

https://www.rockcybermusings.com/p/weekly-musings-top-10-ai-security-20260102-20260108 […]
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