Andrej Mischerikow
@amischer.bsky.social
a) Trying to “figure out what the hell is going on” (C. Geertz)🤔
Cultural/Social Anthropology of the daily grind; what does the wetware do?
b) Supporter Communication @greenpeace.de
Cultural/Social Anthropology of the daily grind; what does the wetware do?
b) Supporter Communication @greenpeace.de
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Shel Silverstein’s short poem Homework Machine (1981) was prescient about the limitations of LLMs. “I guess it’s not as perfect / As I thought it would be.” [kottke.org]
The Imperfect Homework Machine
Shel Silverstein’s Homework Machine was one of my kids’ favorite poems of his when they were little. First published in 1981, the short poem turned out to be rather prescient about AI, especially the earlier LLMs, whic
kottke.org
December 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Shel Silverstein’s short poem Homework Machine (1981) was prescient about the limitations of LLMs. “I guess it’s not as perfect / As I thought it would be.” [kottke.org]
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Anyone with more than 25 followers is part of the class action. The lawsuit alleges cruel and unusual ignoring.
December 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Anyone with more than 25 followers is part of the class action. The lawsuit alleges cruel and unusual ignoring.
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Hate when this guy shows up in my feed
December 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hate when this guy shows up in my feed
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Dr Julia Ebner, who studies radicalisation, extremism and terrorism, discussed how trolling armies gamify harassment of "political opponents," and how harassment of academic researchers has transitioned to institutionalized and multifaceted attack methods.
m.youtube.com/watch?si=hdM...
m.youtube.com/watch?si=hdM...
Dr. Julia Ebner discusses trolling armies & new institutionally supported harassment campaigns
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
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December 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Dr Julia Ebner, who studies radicalisation, extremism and terrorism, discussed how trolling armies gamify harassment of "political opponents," and how harassment of academic researchers has transitioned to institutionalized and multifaceted attack methods.
m.youtube.com/watch?si=hdM...
m.youtube.com/watch?si=hdM...
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Die Entwicklung von Künstlicher Intelligenz schreitet schneller voran, als viele Menschen sie verstehen oder kontrollieren können. Entscheidend ist, wie sehr technische Systeme bereits heute unser Denken und Handeln formen: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2026...
Fortschrittsfalle KI
Unbemerkt von den meisten, verschiebt sich die Macht vom Menschen zur Maschine. Erste Studien bezeugen: Der Mensch wird dümmer durch KI. Je mehr er sie als Hilfsmittel nutzt, umso geringer seine…
www.blaetter.de
December 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Die Entwicklung von Künstlicher Intelligenz schreitet schneller voran, als viele Menschen sie verstehen oder kontrollieren können. Entscheidend ist, wie sehr technische Systeme bereits heute unser Denken und Handeln formen: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2026...
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This site is digitizing found cassette tapes of old dj sets, mixes & radio shows from around the world
intertapes.net
intertapes.net
December 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
This site is digitizing found cassette tapes of old dj sets, mixes & radio shows from around the world
intertapes.net
intertapes.net
Die (kroatischen/rumänischen/albanischen/bulgarischen/polnischen/slowakischen) Bauarbeiter waren Nachbarn, ihre Container-Siedlung war neben meinem Arbeitsplatz
taz.de/Weihnachten-...
taz.de/Weihnachten-...
Weihnachten im Westfield Center: Wo sind die toten Bauarbeiter?
Beim Bau der Luxus-Mall in der Hamburger Hafencity sind sechs Arbeiter gestorben. Die taz macht sich auf die Suche nach der Plakette, die an sie erinnert.
taz.de
December 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Die (kroatischen/rumänischen/albanischen/bulgarischen/polnischen/slowakischen) Bauarbeiter waren Nachbarn, ihre Container-Siedlung war neben meinem Arbeitsplatz
taz.de/Weihnachten-...
taz.de/Weihnachten-...
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This year, Grok was reprogrammed to say Elon Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This year, Grok was reprogrammed to say Elon Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
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Who owns the future of artificial intelligence? Our video of the week argues that the true struggle is not just over technological prowess, but over the capture and organization of value across a multi-layered AI “stack.”
Feat. @nsrnicek.bsky.social
buff.ly/A0doDoI
Feat. @nsrnicek.bsky.social
buff.ly/A0doDoI
December 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Who owns the future of artificial intelligence? Our video of the week argues that the true struggle is not just over technological prowess, but over the capture and organization of value across a multi-layered AI “stack.”
Feat. @nsrnicek.bsky.social
buff.ly/A0doDoI
Feat. @nsrnicek.bsky.social
buff.ly/A0doDoI
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All the takes about fake LLM citations reminded me of this very good paper, "Academic urban legends" about how "a decimal point error appears to have misled millions into believing that spinach is a good nutritional source of iron."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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December 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
All the takes about fake LLM citations reminded me of this very good paper, "Academic urban legends" about how "a decimal point error appears to have misled millions into believing that spinach is a good nutritional source of iron."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
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Can physical education be part of a totalitarian project to control and reshape the masses? Why (Is) Was Fascism Obsessed With Sports? www.worldhistory.org/article/2667...
Why Was Fascism Obsessed With Sports?
Can physical education be part of a totalitarian project to control and reshape the masses? Both the leader of Fascist Italy, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), and the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler...
www.worldhistory.org
December 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Can physical education be part of a totalitarian project to control and reshape the masses? Why (Is) Was Fascism Obsessed With Sports? www.worldhistory.org/article/2667...
„When investors are in a frenzy,
Around the corner waits a Ponzi.“
💐🌷(tulip frenzy😉)
theconversation.com/ponzi-scheme...?
Around the corner waits a Ponzi.“
💐🌷(tulip frenzy😉)
theconversation.com/ponzi-scheme...?
Ponzi schemes and financial bubbles: lessons from history
Technology bubbles have often concealed major frauds. From the railway boom to the Madoff affair, are there warning signs at the heart of the current AI frenzy?
theconversation.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
„When investors are in a frenzy,
Around the corner waits a Ponzi.“
💐🌷(tulip frenzy😉)
theconversation.com/ponzi-scheme...?
Around the corner waits a Ponzi.“
💐🌷(tulip frenzy😉)
theconversation.com/ponzi-scheme...?
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When Americans insist "it can't happen here," they’re wrong. A sociologist who studies collective memory and identity examines how the U.S. forgot its own fascist movements and what that collective amnesia means today. buff.ly/9mzgR3S
America faced domestic fascists before and buried that history
Although thousands of Americans embraced fascist ideas during the interwar years, a new study examines why the US has had little appetite to remember that past.
theconversation.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
When Americans insist "it can't happen here," they’re wrong. A sociologist who studies collective memory and identity examines how the U.S. forgot its own fascist movements and what that collective amnesia means today. buff.ly/9mzgR3S
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GenZ vs. Boomer? Gibt es wirklich Generationen-Konflikte? Das erklärt Sascha Friesike in der neuen Folge #MenschenUndMuster.
👉 Jetzt anschauen: buff.ly/58x33an
👉 Jetzt anschauen: buff.ly/58x33an
December 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
GenZ vs. Boomer? Gibt es wirklich Generationen-Konflikte? Das erklärt Sascha Friesike in der neuen Folge #MenschenUndMuster.
👉 Jetzt anschauen: buff.ly/58x33an
👉 Jetzt anschauen: buff.ly/58x33an
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Die A40 gilt als Äquator der #Ungleichheit. Entlang ihrer Strecke teilt sich das #Ruhrgebiet in Haben und Nichthaben. Die Fotoreihe von @daniel-chatard.bsky.social hält die Gegensätze fest. zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/aequ...
Äquator der Ungleichheit
Eine Fotoreportage von Daniel Chatard
zeitschrift-luxemburg.de
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Die A40 gilt als Äquator der #Ungleichheit. Entlang ihrer Strecke teilt sich das #Ruhrgebiet in Haben und Nichthaben. Die Fotoreihe von @daniel-chatard.bsky.social hält die Gegensätze fest. zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/aequ...
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#OTD 166 years ago, Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof (1859–1917) was born 🥳 He was an ophthalmologist, political activist, and translator, but is today best known for having created the international auxiliary language Esperanto. He also wrote a grammar of Yiddish.
#Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays #Esperanto
#Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays #Esperanto
December 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
#OTD 166 years ago, Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof (1859–1917) was born 🥳 He was an ophthalmologist, political activist, and translator, but is today best known for having created the international auxiliary language Esperanto. He also wrote a grammar of Yiddish.
#Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays #Esperanto
#Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays #Esperanto
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Reddit is growing because it's just a collection of forums and people like their niches. Substack is something else and I'm bored even writing this sentence about it. All I know for sure is the reporters and commenters who spend their whole day on Twitter in 2025 have to go to a hospital.
December 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Reddit is growing because it's just a collection of forums and people like their niches. Substack is something else and I'm bored even writing this sentence about it. All I know for sure is the reporters and commenters who spend their whole day on Twitter in 2025 have to go to a hospital.
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Es sind Milliardäre, Politiker und Influencer, die das Christentum neu definieren wollen - für ihren globalen Kreuzzug von rechts. Unsere #Monitor-Doku über eine extreme evangelikale Rechte, die jetzt auch in Deutschland mobil macht.
www.ardmediathek.de/film/Y3JpZDo...
www.ardmediathek.de/film/Y3JpZDo...
Radikale Christen in Deutschland: Kreuzzug von rechts - hier anschauen
Von Trump bis zur AfD – rechte Politiker instrumentalisieren das Christentum. MONITOR zeigt, wie einflussreich die radikale Bewegung in Deutschland ist.
Die Doku begibt sich dafür auf die Spur eines ...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Es sind Milliardäre, Politiker und Influencer, die das Christentum neu definieren wollen - für ihren globalen Kreuzzug von rechts. Unsere #Monitor-Doku über eine extreme evangelikale Rechte, die jetzt auch in Deutschland mobil macht.
www.ardmediathek.de/film/Y3JpZDo...
www.ardmediathek.de/film/Y3JpZDo...
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Leider mal wieder aktuell
geschichtedergegenwart.ch/das-gewicht-...
geschichtedergegenwart.ch/das-gewicht-...
Das Gewicht der Worte. Antisemitische Gewalt und Öffentlichkeit
Hannah Arendt hielt fest, dass man „sich immer nur als das wehren kann, als was man angegriffen wird.“ Um Antisemitismus in Wort und Tat wirksam zu bekämpfen, muss deshalb auch die spezifisch judenfei...
geschichtedergegenwart.ch
December 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Leider mal wieder aktuell
geschichtedergegenwart.ch/das-gewicht-...
geschichtedergegenwart.ch/das-gewicht-...
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My first knowledge of the Bondi Beach massacre was someone calling it a false flag. We skip over any sort of empathy or shock right to conspiracy theories and unhinged antisemitic ranting. We are completely lost.
December 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
My first knowledge of the Bondi Beach massacre was someone calling it a false flag. We skip over any sort of empathy or shock right to conspiracy theories and unhinged antisemitic ranting. We are completely lost.
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This Is Why Everyone Is a DJ Now. “Their true diagnosis is stage 4 individualism, a terminal condition where everyone’s on stage and there’s no one left in the audience.” [kottke.org]
This Is Why Everyone Is a DJ Now
I guess this is as good an explanation of contemporary culture as anything.
Hungover from a world that told us we could be anything, we decided to be DJs. We don’t create our own music. We curate playlists, recirculat
kottke.org
December 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This Is Why Everyone Is a DJ Now. “Their true diagnosis is stage 4 individualism, a terminal condition where everyone’s on stage and there’s no one left in the audience.” [kottke.org]
