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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/032607911/publication/GB131402A?q=pn%3DGB131402 #lastboost

Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

"auch Friedenswurst genannt"

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Fun fact #1: Before becoming the first Chancellor of West Germany, during a challenging period in German history, Konrad Adenauer invented a vegetarian sausage called the "Kölner Wurst".

Fun fact #2: More than a century later, during a challenging period in German history, the current […]

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

@tante @johl Das funktioniert aber auch nur als "Kulturkampf", wenn man die Linke die Trolle füttert und sich auf deren Niveau herablässt anstatt wirklich über Politik zu sprechen.

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Javi @javisamo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Why Prompt Engineering Should Not Be Taken Seriously. Why there are no correct and incorrect prompts

#genai #llms

https://msukhareva.substack.com/p/why-prompt-engineering-should-not

Why Prompt Engineering Should Not Be Taken Seriously

Why there are no correct and incorrect prompts

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

The EPP is getting ready to vote with the far-right against corporate sustainability due diligence. Another sign that the cordon sanitaire is coming down.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/epp-ready-to-side-with-far-right-to-strip-back-eu-sustainability-rules/

#eu #environment #ep

EPP ready to side with far right to strip back EU sustainability rules | Euractiv

EPP, Socialists and Renew leaders huddled behind closed doors this morning to find a compromise on the sustainability and due diligence laws

www.euractiv.com

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

@yoginho There are many anthropomorphisms for various software processes, including clients, servers, daemons (perhaps) where ascribing agency is less of a problem. I imagine the difference comes down to the notion that AI "agents" are so much more capable and autonomous?

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Every time you say your chatbot
"thinks, reasons, means, understands, creates"
a little kitten dies.

And every time you say
"AI agent"
a whole species of cute furry animals goes extinct.

SO. JUST. DON'T!

Algorithms have no agency,
don't think, don't […]

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Page 1 of Spotlight 1.1 of the UNDP Report 2025.

Title: Humans have agency, algorithms do not
Author: Johannes Jaeger

Page 2 of Spotlight 1.1 of the UNDP Report 2025.

Title: Humans have agency, algorithms do not
Author: Johannes Jaeger

Page 3 of Spotlight 1.1 of the UNDP Report 2025.

Title: Humans have agency, algorithms do not
Author: Johannes Jaeger

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

"Entrepreneurs" (pronounced -noors) getting excited about Stoa philosophy on LinkedIn is a bit like gourmands ("foodies") getting excited about rice waffles.

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23h

I reviewed a paper and am now trying to fill out the publisher's reviewer form and the questions are honestly baffling:

- Does the content of the manuscript justify a review given the status of the subject area? --> You've already asked me to complete the review so I'd like to think that I […]

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

2/2
But surely the Uni needs to see for another four years whether you are really a suitable candidate and a good fit. And perhaps after four years they might suddenly need to stop teaching PolSci, so the position really has to be fixed-term for some time. Totally understandable.

Anyway, here […]

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Uni Vienna is advertising three part-time (23h) lecturer positions with 8 teaching contact hours: "Foundations of Political Science", "'Quantitative Methods and the Political System of Austria", and "Qualitative Methods and Policy Studies". The positions are fixed-term (4y) but with tenure track […]

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

#CfA Postdoc position in an ERC project on the role of knowledge in (regional) parliaments at Uni Edinburgh with Marc Geddes.

"You will conduct empirical research and quantitative data analysis on your choice of the parliaments of UK/Scotland (mixed methods); Germany/Bavaria (mixed methods); UK […]

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

#lastboost @ruthpozuelo is re-implementing 100 charts in Python (matplotlib and pandas) that were originally created with Adobe Illustrator. What a great project.
#dataviz #python #data #opensource #design

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I've come down with a nasty flu and decided to take the day off work to catch up on sleep. But then someone was wrong on the internet and I had to calculate some statistics on meat consumption. https://gist.github.com/henningninneh/22280d166fc1f80ca2d93dd53e6a27b9 #beentheredonethat

Time series plot on meat consumption in Austria. Continuous increase until the early 90s to roughly 300 grams per capita per day, then mostly decline. 2022: 2011 grams.

Time series plot on meat consumption in selected EU countries. Austria and France top the chart for most of the time, but except in Poland and Italy, peak meat consumption was before the turn of the century.

Bar chart on meat consumption per day and capita across the EU 28 countries on 2022. Austria sits square in the middle. Spaniards consume most meat (close to 300 grams), Bulgarians the least, namely less than 200 grams.

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@johank76 I used to use this one. Not FOSS though. https://www.audiotranskription.de/en/

Transcribing, coding & analyzing with f4 | audiotranskription

Experience efficient transcription with audiotranskription. Discover our software, services and resources for high-quality transcripts.

www.audiotranskription.de

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Johan K Sch @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I'm trying to use an Elgato Stream Deck Pedal as a transcription pedal.

But which software – Mac OS, preferably #floss – to use?

(Tried using Whisper to auto-transcribe interview recordings, and it takes about as much time to correct the transcript afterwards as transcribing manually with a […]

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

if you use a violin plot, please take break from plots and learn to love the table.

Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Hooray for sci-hub.

Screenshot: Cambridge Core Website, Error 404, Ressource not found

Screenshot: Error 503 Backend fetch failed

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

"office artifacts"

Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

(Hearing the word "sycophant", I'll always imagine a poor elephant that's terribly I'll.)

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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 15d

I'm teaching my judicial politics module at UCL again this term which means that I'm keen on new resources for students. In particular, let me know if you published a dataset on courts/judicial politics/legal mobilization and it is not yet listed here: michalovadek.github.io/judicial-pol...

Data resources – POLS0113: Judicial Politics

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Back in the travelling coffin. #couchette

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 20d

I've had two different EU officials tell me, basically, "Back when you were at Google you guys said 'no' to us all the time and we hated it. But now we get newer platforms saying 'yes' all the time and... that kind of creeps us out."

10/

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 20d

Fox has been named Head of the Hen House in #ireland.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/09/17/ex-tech-lobbyist-named-to-data-protection-commission/

#Dataprotection #Privacy #gdpr #meta #lobbying #facebook #revolvingdoor cc @lobbyctrl_tech @corporateeurope

Ex-tech lobbyist named as Ireland’s new Data Protection Commissioner

Niamh Sweeney to take up role in October

www.irishtimes.com

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